The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-11-12

days, coming up from Windsor for the pur'
pose. She examined the Manchester gools.
the service of gold from New York, the Cal
ifornia gold ore, and other articles which
have arrived since she last visited The Exhi>
biion, with much attention. Purchasers
were found during these days for u great
number of the articles, including some Of
the most costly. II is imagined that great
proportion Of the property will find home
lin this country. Wednesday, when the
awards Of tho juries and the names of the
fortunate exhibitors were TO be declared, and
when only the royal and foreign commission
ers, the jurors, the local committees, and the
exhibitors were to be admitted, was thor
oughly rainy and uncomfortable day abou,
% 900 persons were, however, collected.
The proceedings, with the exception Of the
singing of the national anthem and the halle
lujnh chorus by the Sacred Harmonic So
ciciy, and prayer of thanksgiving by the
Bishop of London, were of a dry business
nature, and consisted of the presentation Of
the report of the jurics, which was road by
their chairman, Viscount CANNING, and the
reply of Prince ALBERT.
The report states that the number of ex-
hibiiers was about 900, and that the mum
Der Of prizo medals awarded WAS 29lS;
also, that the number Of great medals award
4 L., ,Io r h.. e
was 10. We shall have some observations
10 make at future time with respect 10 the
principle upon which these larger medals
wero awarded. 1t must suffice for the pres
ent to say that, Notwithstanding all the dis
advantage under which the United States
exhibitors have abored, us has been well
known here, they have come of tingularly
well, and have obtained their iHll share OF
honorable distinction. Thus, ont Of the l 20
great medals, twcnty-ihree of which were
given 10 foreign Governments, such as Egypt,
Spain, Tunis, and Turkey, 10 the East India
Company, and various other companies and
bodies, supported by imperial and royal re-
sources nnd aid. and therefore not to be
considered as fairly in competition with in
livilual exhibitors, the contributors fiom
| the United States were awarded five; and
calculating the number OF exhibitors at L.
900, and The number of medals fairly to be
competed for lI7, this was rather above the
average proportion, the number of United
States exnibiters being stated in the cata-
logue at 566. Again, the number of prize
medals awarded was 2,9I5, of which the
United States exhibitors have been decreed
l iO4 their proportion woul,. have been 96
Aud it must be remembered, a'so, that in
several clusses, such as those of clocks and
watches, woollen, silk, and linen manufac
lures, paper lace, tapestry, china and porcc-
lain, ornamental furniture, canoes and mos
saics, and slaluary, in which as many as nine
hundred prizes were accorded, the United
States can scarcely be said 10 have entered
as competitor, although four medals were
awarded TO her in these classes Now, if
these nine hundred prizes are dedussed il,
will be found that the United States gained
ninety-seven prizes out OF the remainin 2
1000; greater proportion than was OBJ
tanned by any other 566 exhibitors, calcula-
ting according to the average awarded in
the classes in which they respectively COM
peted. We do not profess to be judges Of
subjects Of what is called, in fashionable Ian.
guage, "high arts" but we join in the al,
most universally asked question, Why was
PowER's Greek Stare awarded only prize
medal, when Pardier's " "Phryne" and
WyatI's Giycerd " received the larger
council medals. Nor can we divine why
CoLT's revolvers, after receiving the und-
minshed attention and admiration OF the
public for five months, are not in any way
whatever included in the prize list =? But
so it Is. The United States exhibitors have
right to be abuhdantly satisfied, however,
they have done enough in the Exhibition,
and have received enough in The award Of
prizes to satisfy the honor Of their country
and to secure their own fame. They were
placed in peculiar circumstances and encoun.
tered peculiar difficulties; they had to over
come the disadvantage Of distance and tc
struggle under the want of Governmental
assistance and central organization. We
believe, however, that the Royal Commis-
sioners and the Executive Committee af
forded every facility in their power, and VIC
know that your Commissioner, Mr. RIDDLE
and his able assistant, Mr.. DoDGE, were very
efficient agents after the first difficulties were
removed The Exhibition is now over
packing. eases, ard sawdusi, and straw, anl
cranes, and levers, and pulIeys now Gil the
space which few days ago was occupied by
rank aud beauty, by men of science, by
skiful artists, and by connosseurs and am.
sieurs in every branch Of human sk'l and
every pursuit of human genius. We csnno'
apply the tric phrase sic transit" &c, TO
the Exhibition for we believe that It's t7ur
''glory is only now commencing, its real
value 10 be felt, lis permanent benefits 10 he
appreciated. We ough, to add that the five
council medals obtained for articles exhibited
by citizens of tho United States were for the
preparation called meat biscuit" exhib-
fitted by Mr.. G. Borden, Of Galveston, Texas
for various engineers tools AMI presses, ex
hibited by Mr.. Holmes, of New York to
Mr.. Mccormick, of Chicago, for his reapine
macbnei to Messrs. Bond & Son, Of Bos-
ton. for the invention Of new mode Of OBJ