Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-19


pher il will instruct the Of genius it Is sure to inspire
civ .. nor,.n, instruction respecting the various disnc-
tive of the different national industries Il exhibits.
rrh, ;xpn.xY under its most comprehensive term
ao,hdlv takes the lead in sculpture although PowERss
L slave NAV be- as many think Il is the FIRST and highest
ecimsn We, il is not sufficient 10 give rank to the nation,
bstsyer II does 10 the artist EssLAsD, certainly far
,h b;b,ion evidences takes the lead In machinery but
has produced much that 10 good, and has BKI-
and so has the United States, allowing for the dis
.nce and numerous other disadvantages; but GERMASr
ncudne AUSTRIA and the North, with its SO, ,0OO OOO and
Russia with her sixty seventy Millions and the of
the great family of mankind have produced comparatively
nothing in this department In FaAScE find the famous
productions Of the Sees and the Gobens manufactures the
richest carpets the respendent silks every thing in
short connected with what may be called the fine arts Of
manufacture and but little that is connected with the sene
ally useful branches and still less with agriculture and rural
pursuits EssLASD, without neslecng the former stands
very high in the latter and she does this by carrying her
nearly perfected system Of dvsioa Of labor. All her
featuring machinery from the counties, all her
agricultural implements from the In Russia
we find little machiney, many valuable products, and
some splendid The Malachite exhibition
magnificent but the show is rather Imperial than popular
Some persons have drawn comparison between the compa
ravey empty departments Of Russia and the United States
We cannot think that any comparison is ought to be
made but hold that there is remarkable contrast between
them 1t is true both exhibit great abundance Of raw mate
huge of hemp and fax in one, and ofcoton bales
in the other indicating exensve and yet spsrsey settled
SOIL and power of supplying other nations with their pro-
ducts. But when this is said, the contrast commences
Nothing in the Exhibition exceeds the spendor of the Empe
rors hall; no part of the vast building has homey
and unpretending appearance as that which has
become known the AMERIcAN PRAIRIE In the Russian
department. however, there much regal show than
for popular In the American department nearly every
article has practical application supply the wants Of
the people. The which eaouchoUc is put
bounded There the saving machine the soaps the locks
the agricultural implements the TOOLS and many other spec
Of the industry and ingenuity of the people Of the United
States Their daguereoypes and other applications Of mo-
den discoveries in science are, say the least not behind
their Eastern competitors The United States will suffer
either comparison with Russs, any other
country, although she has not produced ornamental
material, furnished Maachie DOORS Sievres china
Brussels lace Lyons silk, knife with Of
blades like Sheffield, paper nache like Birmingham,
jewelry and plate like London
Various scientific bodies holding their annual
meetings The Society Of Mechanical Engineers held theirs
Monday last The frs. paper read machine
for blooming iron, by Mr. Joseph Beasey, Of Smsthwick
Birmingham The object Of this machine is super
sede the process Of hammeng, by which the bloom gener
ally converted into wrought iron. This machine consists Of
three solid cams which worked simultaneously together
the bloom dropped the top cam, aRd then it into
with projections each of the cams which squeeze
the bloom together forcing out the dross and cnders After
this first has been performed the bloom converted
into wrough. iron, by being rolled by the into
round bar of iron. In fact the process compared
A. - Il A.
the sponge it supposed that the process would
kindly the iron than hammerng Mr. Adams represent
ed that the central portion Of the bar Of iron was subjected
to the kneadng process Of the cams and that the iron would
be improved by being after having passed through
the machine Mr. s. RUSSELL however, said that it
pecng much from this machine, and the subject de-
ferred for further experiments be tried between the
process of hammeng and this machines was however,
shown tina, some advantages be gained by this
chine Another pepper American locks by Mr. Paul
R. Hodge, Of London He stated that he wished treat
simply mechanical question; that al locks previous
774 bad been constructed principles known amongst the
Egyptians from the earliest dae which in fact could be traced
back some four thousand years. Mr. Hodge explained the
principle of the tumber-ock. Not only could Mr.. Hobbs
the inventor Of the American lock- investigate tumber-
lock BY daylight by Of small Mirror but supposing
it was dark he could illuminate by Of gavanic
pauey and 30 get at the main secrets which would enable
him TO pick the lock- Mr.. Hodge remarked that the only
senses required to bring into action for picking lock
seeing and feeling, and this frustrated by the principle Of
the American lock. We into any mechanical
details here, but he principle Of the American lock is this
that throws the responsibility from the chamber in which
key enters into another chamber into which is possi
bic to see feel and thus renders Mr. Hensman
remarked that engineer (and from what he had seen)
picking tumbler-ock seemed TO him straightforward ope-
ration.
The British Association for the advancement of Science
now holding is twenty first anniversary at Ipswich The
most eminent Of the literary and scientific men of England
as well as those the Continent and several from the United
States including neghbor, Professor WALTER JOHNSON
and Professor ELTON and Mr. WHrxEY are there assembled
great many new books announced the forthcoming
Quarterly Reuie'o contains dsqusions upon the following
subjects Gardening Scotland before the Reformation; Tra
velers IN North Ameca-Annexation Free Trade Sayery
Dukes Of Urbno Wslpole and Mason Origen-The E.rly
Papscy; badhams Euripides; Rubric versus Usage
Mr. WARREN, the author of q Ten thousand a Yea-
has in the press The Lily and the Bee" romance Of the
Crystal Palace. Mr. SIMPsoS announces The Literature
of Haly to the death Of Boccaeo" The following are also
in the press: BoDEssrEDrs Morning Land or Thou
sand and Days in the East y " The Goth and the
Hun !" and "Ihe Mamalukes, by Mr. PAroS and WINS
Search for SIR John Frankin. number of new novels BY
almost all the popular writers of the day announced
I"Nk Notes." American work, has been reprinted here
\ by BENTLEY, and is very highly spoken Of.