The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-08 00:00:00

)ntradietion
tiles, and hay
try—one farthin

ng floor; would have been faster with the same power, had
e been ten feet longer forward. We average 84 to 9 miles
autical) per hour, with 5 to 600 troops, and our crew, num-
ring 230 hands. The engines are in better working order
an when we left Liverpool. Our boilers have never yet been
mned inside, not requiring it. We opened one this morning,
d all was as clean as the day we left. I can assure you that I
ivery proud of the engines. The trip we have just run of
vas against the Brazilian Steam Company's steamer
t her 48 hours' fair steaming. She was put
Iliad but few passengers, whereas we had
---e have now been in every port of con-
iting Peru and Rio Grande de Lul. As

best trim, ant
ird 500 troops

Brazil,

is not to be beaten by any steamer afloat. H.1.8.g. does
possess a steamer of the same tonnage and power as the
niso, that is able to compete with her either in speed or any
nr qualification necessary for a man of war.
(Signed) "ROBERT GRUNDY,
" Chief Engineer of the Alfonso.
Pernambuco, Ist Dec., 1849."

THE EXHIBITION OF 1851

THE NEW COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS

Gazett,

contains a notification, dated Whitehall,
January, and signed by Sir G. Grey, that the Queen
s been pleased to appoint a commission for the promo-

tion of the Exhibitions of the Works of Industry of all
Nations in the year 1851, to consist of Prince Albert,
Duke of Buccleuch, Earl Rosse,_Lord Granville,- Earl of
_ _

Ellesmere, Lord Stanley, Lord J. Russell, Sir R. Peel, H.
Labouchere, Esq.. W. E. Gladstone, Sir A. Galloway, the
Chairman of the East India Company for the time being,
Sir R.Westmacott, Sir C. Knight, or the President of the
Geological Society for the time being, Thomas Baring,
Charles Barry, Thomas Bazley, Richard Cobden, William
Cubitt, or the President of the Institute of Civil Engi-
neers for the time being, Charles Eastlake, Thomas Field
Gibson, John Gott, Samuel Jones Lloyd, Philip Pusey,
and William Thompson, Esqrs. The following are ap•
pointed trustees of the sum of £20,000 to be awarded to
the most meritorious exhibitors :—Marquis of Northamp-
ton, Earl Clarendon, Sir J. Boileau, James Peache. The
following are appointed treasurers for all receipts :—Arthur
Barclay, William Cotton, Sir John Lubbock, Shmuel
Peto, Baron Lionel de Rothschild. The following are
appointed treasurers for payment of all executive expenses :
Peter Foster, Joseph Payne, Thomas Wirkworth. The
following are appointed an executive commission for car-
rying the exhibition into effect :—Henry Cole, Charies
Dilke, jun., George Drew, and Robt. Stevensoti ; and with
Matthew D. Whyatt as their secretary. The commis-
sioners are authorised to make full and diligent inquiry
into the best mode by which the productions of the colo-
nies and of foreign countries may be introduced into the
kingdom. As respects the most suitable site for the said
exhibition, its general conduct, and the best mode of de-
termining the nature of the prizes, and securing the most
impartial distribution of them—three or mere members of
the commission are empowered to nominate and appoint
local committees in the United Kidgdom and foreign parts,
and have full authority to call persons before them to
make inquiries with the view of obtaining information.
John Scott Russell and Stafford Northcote are appointed
joint secretaries to the commission.

INTERESTING MODEL OF ERECTIONS PRO-
POSED FOR THE EXHIBITION OF THE ARTS,
&c., OF ALL NATIONS, IN LONDON, IN 1851.

On Saturday, Mr. Turner, the constructor of the ele-
gant new iron roof of the Lime-street Railway Station,
in this town, exhibited, at that station, to a number of
gentlemen invited by note from Mr. Grantham, secretary
of the Liverpool committee of the above important
exhibition, a large and beautiful model, from his
works in Dublin, of his proposed plan of erections for
the great exhibition of the arts, manufactures, and
inventions of all nations, to be held in London next year.
Amongst those who attended were his Worship the
Mayor, the late Mayor, and several engineers, architects,
and others interested in the great " coming event," in-
cluding some members of the Liverpool committee.
The model, which is on its way to be submitted to
Prince Albert, and represents iron in tote, is built of wood,
and is exteriorly carried out in the minutest details with
great neatness and accuracy, being the scale adopted one inch
to represent ten feet in the proposed real structure. The
buildings form in their outer portions a quadrangle, and,
including ample surrounding space for shrubberies and
parterres, the whole is comprised within three sides of
a square, with a frontage embayed in a segmental form.
This frontage consists of a double row of Doric columns,
surmounted by balustrading. In the centre of the seg-
ment is a grand arched entrance of the same order, with
two decorative external lodges, and at each side (near the
angles) there is another corresponding but smaller en-
trance, each with its lodge. This façade, from its great
extent, and the multiplicity of columns in a sweep (960
in all) has a very rich and imposing appearance. It is
proposed that the whole structure should be in the Green
Park, and that the present marble arch, erected by George
IV„ and which cost £70,000, should be appropriated, as
it stands, as the " Royal Entrance Gate " from Piccadilly.
The area within the boundary line of the proposed
works comprises 25 acres, and the centre or main buildings
would cover 9 acres ; in addition to which there are two
flanking buildings, covering 2 acres more. These latter
buildings (forming two parallel sides of the outer quad-
rangle,) are each 1020 feet long, by 40 feet wide, and
two stories high—the upper parts for the fine arts, the
lower parts for committee-rooms, &c. Midway in each
of these flanks stands a circular building, dome roofed,
and intended for refreshment rooms. The diameter of
each of these is 150 feet. The roofs are all of corrugated
iron and glass.
The main central building consists of several oblong
ranges, disposed in nearly a square, and are peculiarised
by segmatical roofs of corrugated iron and huge sheets of
glass, forming continuous openings, and by four circular
corner buildings, rising to a great height, and one large
building of the same form in the centre of the whole: all of

them with cupola roofs. The centre one is (to the top of the
dome), 200 feet in height, and with a colossal statueof Atlas,
with the world on his back, at the top, the whole elevation
is26o feet ! The other four correspond, and being 220 feet,
bear figures and flags, representing respectively Europe,
Asia, Africa, and America. The diameter of the centre
dome is 200 feet ! and, (as are the others,) it is outwardly
surrounded at its base by a ballustraded walk, from which
extensive views may be obtained. The main central
buildings are ranged parallel, and across the frontage sides,
with a wide space between them. The central range is
60 feet by 200 feet; and the other two lateral ranges are
160 feet by 175 feet. Each of these is 600 feet in
length, and the surface of superficial glass in the
roof of one of them will be three acres ! The first range
of building is proposed for engine-work and machinery ;
the centre one (600 feet long and 200 wide, which is di-
vided into two by the central circular building), for mis-
cellaneous articles ; and the further one for agricultural
specimens, implements, &c. From the central dome a
comprehensive view of all that is to be seen or done below
may be obtained. In the rear of the quadrangle there are
two square object towers, for working steam-engines,
consuming or preventing the smoke front the buildings,
supplying steam for working models, &c.
A temporary and very rude building for the exhibition
would probably cost at least £50,000. A few yearly ex-
hibitions would bring a succession of the same expendi-
ture on each occasion. Mr. Turner, therefore, proposes
a permanent establishment, such as the model represents,
which, though it would cost about £350,000, would be a
lasting monument of art, and the interegnums between na-
tional exhibitions might he profitably appropriated as
botanical gardens, theatres, lecture-rooms, museums, &c.
Should his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and those who
are acting with him in the magnificent project now before
the public, decline to order such a structure, Mr. Turner
purposes to propose its being built (after being duly con-
sidered, and, if need be, improved in its details) by a
public company.