New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-14

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day at Mnchers admirable new Nap OF the Uni
ted States and their Territories, a. no" exist
ing, which wor;hily fills an honorable place IN
tie Exhibition, with several but 100 f." others
ofthe same class, could no, bat regret iha' =
/ &c, Of Karpcrs Common School hitranes, WIN
/ A bnef account Of tie origin and progress o. oIf
! School Library system had not been contributed
and wish had myself spent hiiy doHa's J.
necessary 20 place IN the Exhibition 2 good c"'-
lection Of American School Books. II theis
shall ever be another Worlds Exhibition, be-
sneak conspicuous place IN It for a model
American country School. House, with is Libra
~. Globes. Maps, Black Board, C.ass-BooAs
&c. and succinct account Of our Common
School system printed in the five or SIX principal
languages Of Europe for graluitous distribution
10 ali who may apply for II. With this got mp a.
II should be. would not mind admitting thai IN
Porcelain and Laces. Ormolu, and Trnke's, Eu-
rope Is vet several years ahead OF US.
Mr.. : Gwynne OF our State, whose Ba-
lanced Centrifugal Pump made sensation and
obtained Gold medal at our Institute Far lasl
October Is here with II, and proposes pubic
trial Of it's qualities in competition with the r.
val ENGLISH pumps of Appold and Bess!mer for
81 coo. to be paid by the loser to The Mechanic
Society. Mr. Gwynne claims that these Eng
bsh Pnmps (Which have been among the chief
attractions OF the department OF British ha-
chinery,) are pa pable plagIansms Tom ms IN
| venilon and not well done al that ne OF
| course does not claim the idea OF CeniThugal
| Pump a. his Own for It Is much older than any
of them but he does claim that adaptation o.
the idea which has rendered It effective and
valuable am reliably informed that he has
ust sold his Scotch patent only for the comfort
able sum of flOCG0 sterling, or nearly $4,000
and this Is bu, one OF several Inventions which
he has found a ready market for here AZ lloeral
prices cite his case Nor he is one o. several
Americans who have recently sold their Euro
pean patents here at high figures as final an
swer to those who croak that our country IS dis
graced. and regret that any American ever came
near the Exhibition Had these Discerning
and patriotic gentlemen been Interested IN these
patents. they might have taken different view
of the matter. Even ny New-Hork trend,
whose toadylsln in exhibiting capital PAIR OF
Oars inscribed A present for the Prince OF
Wales have already characterized as II de
serves Yesterday informed me that he had sold
$4,000 worth OF Oars here since the Fair
opened am sure rejoice IN his good fortune
and hope it may insure the improvement OF his
taste also
There are many articles IN the American de-
partment Of which ! would gladly speak, that
have attracted no public notice. Since len for
the Continent, Mrs A. Nicholson, formerly Of
our city. has sent IN Table-Cover worked IN
Berlin Wool from the center outward SO as TO
form a perfect circle. or succession of crcief'
from center to circumference. with a great va
rcty of brilliant colors impcrcepubly shading
into each other This having been made entirely
by hand, with no implement but a common cot
nail. the process Is Of course too slow to be ya'u-
able but the result attained may very probably
afford useful hints and suggestions to inventors
| of weaving machinery think the display OF
| Film, Glass bv the BROOKLYN Company j. equal IN
purity and finones, to any other plain Glass ~ the
Exhibition, and only regret that The quantity sent
had not been larger ! regret far more that the
'Hillotype,' fer giving sun-plctures with the CO
! lors of life has not yet made It's appearance mere
while the Galore Engine, (using compre cd
and heated air instead of water for the genera
I g
a decision on ITS merits by the jury oi rs Class ;
and so with other recent American inventions Of
which high hopes are entertained We ought to
| have had here a show merely of inventions, Ma.
chimes and implements exceeding the entire con
tents of the American DcpaTtmcnt-Ought to
have had apart from any question OF Nauon,l
credit, If only because the inventors interests
would have been subsorved thereby-and We
should have he'd much more than we actually
have had the state of the British Patent Laws
| been less outrageous than 1t Is \ patent here
costs ten times as much as IN the United STATES.
| and is worth little when YOU have It-tha Is II
is not even an opinion that the patentee has really
invented ANYTHING. hut merely an evidence that
| he claimed to have done so at such date, and a
permission to prove that he actually did, II he can
In other words patent gives permission and
an opportunity to contend legally for your rights
and II the holder is known to have money enough,
II generally sufiices ii not, he can and Will be
not only plundered with rmpunity, but dehed
and laughed at 4 bill radically revising the
! British Patent-Laws Is now on ITS way through
! Parliament, but IN It's abSenc. many American
inventors refused to expose themselves TO loss
OF then inventions by exposing them al the FAIR
and who can blame them
The succession OF fttcs to be given 10y the
Municipality OF Paris to the Royal Commission
ers, Jurors, &c, in honor of the Worlds Exhi-
biuon, opens this week, and Will be brilliant and
gratifying as no other city but Paris could make
IT. The number invited IS nearly One Thousand,
and all are taken from the British shore IN French
National vessels, and thenceiorth Will be the
| guests OF their mvltorS until they shall again
be landed at an English port paying nothing
themselves for travel. entertainment. balls. &c.