winding, &c., it,) which will test the success of the recent experiments which have been made in Jersey and Hampshire to cultivate the silkworm.

Specimens of Ivory, from the Tusks of Elephants, Hippopotami, Walrus, Tapir, &c.; Horns of Elk and various Deer, of the Buffaloe from the Cape, and Bison of America: Tortoiseshell, Pearls, Coral, Mother of Pearl, &c., will all be shown under this department. We have dwelt upon the section of Raw Materials and Produce, because it is on the success of their excellence that all industry in machinery and manufactures so greatly depends.

SECTION II.

MACHINERY-for Agricultural, Manufacturing, Engineering, and other purposes, and Mechanical Inventions,-illustrative of the agents which human ingenuity brings to bear upon the products of nature.

1. Machines for direct use, including Carriages, Railway and Naval Mechanism.

2. Manufacturing

Ma

chines and Tools. 3. Mechanical, Civil Engineering, Architectural and Building Contrivances.

4. Naval Architecture, Military Engineering and Structure, Ord

nance, Armour, and Accoutrements.

5. Agricultural and Horticultural Machines and Implements.

6. Philosophical Instruments and Miscellaneous Contrivances including processes depending upon their use, Musical, Horological, and Acoustical Instruments. This great section of the Exhibition will contain MACHINERY of all kinds for Agricultural, Manufacturing, Engineering, and other purposes, and Mechanical Inventions; and here it may be expected that Englishmen will bear a most important share. There will be shown all varieties of steam-engines, both for sea and land; waterwheels, windmills, and all the

separate parts of such mechanism; pumps, fire-engines, cranes, screw-jacks, pile-drivers, carriages of all kinds; all the machinery used on a railway, in a dock-yard, in a farm-yard, in a garden, and on a builder's premises; weighing, counting, and measuring machines; clocks, watches, and every description of mathematical and philosophical instruments; drawing and engraving instruments, musical instruments, surgical instruments; all kinds of locks, firearms, and swords; manufacturing machines of all kinds,-looms which weave the cotton, and the cylinders which print the pattern upon it; the machinery for making paper and weaving silk, stockings, flannels, broadcloths, cambrics, calicoes, &c., brought from all parts of the world; machines which cut, stamp, press, plane, drill, bore, rivet, and punch and polish metal; all the tools used by makers of gold, silver, and plated goods, cutlery, ironmongery, and locksmiths; machines and tools for preparing and working all kinds of stone, clays, wood, horn, bone, ivory, leather; all the machinery of mills, &c., and all the apparatus employed by the brewer, distiller, and chemist.

In a word, every one may be able to see how cloth is made for his clothes, leather for boots, linen for shirts, silk for gowns, ribbons, and hankerchiefs; how lace is made; how a pin and needle, a button, a knife, a sheet of paper, a ball of thread, a nail, a screw, a pair of stockings, are made; how a carpet is woven; how a jug, cup and saucer, and plate is turned and pressed, and a spoon is beaten or cast.

Machinery will be exhibited in motion, and thus for the first time thousands will see a printing-press in action, and every process by which a lump of ore is made into watch-springs or into pins and needles.

The models of engineering structures may place before the spectator the Britannia Bridge, the plan of the Barage of the Nile, the Liverpool Docks, &c.

SECTION III.

MANUFACTURES-illustrative of the result produced

by the operation of human industry upon natural produce:

This great Division will present the results of that machinery already described, and of handicraft ingenuity, namely MANUFACTURES IN THEIR FINISHED

STATE; not ordinary productions, but the most perfect specimens of all articles used for clothing, building, furniture, and human enjoyments. The best and cheapest specimens of the most useful fabrics, such as printed calicoes, to be sold, perhaps, at twopence a yard, exemplifying the peculiar taste of the damsels of South America, and of the emancipated negress, &c., which our cotton printers have to gratify; blankets; cloth from Belgium, Yorkshire, Gloucester-the fine woollen rattoos of Rampore; shawls from Paris, from Paisley, Norwich, &c.; silks of Lyons, and the Kimkhabs of Moorshedabad; satins, linens, and damasks from Belfast and Halifax competing against the ancient favourite sorts of Germany: the fanciful and wondrous productions of the looms of the East-its carpets, shawls, silks, crapes, muslins, brocades, in comparison with those from France, Belgium, Ireland, England, &c., paper in all its uses, the papier-maché from Birmingham measured by its prototype from Japan, and the Burmese black lacquered work; gold and silver plate; the Mosaic jewellery of the Delhi and Paris workmen; rings, brooches, chains, bracelets, and ornaments in every description of metal work, illustrating the skill of the chasers both of Trichinopoly and Paris, &c. All kinds of ironmongery, grates, &c., cutlery of every kind, and every variety of pattern, Sheffield and Germany exhibiting their best. In Glass, mirrors, bottles, jugs, chandeliers, &c., the Bohemian, the Frenchmen, the Italian, and the Englishman, comparing their skill together. In China and Earthenware vessels of all kinds from all quarters of the globe. kinds of cabinet work and furniture, in which we may expect the display from Paris to be great. All utensils carved out of wood, horn, ivory, and bone; inlaid ivory work of the Malabar coast; toys of all sorts; beads, umbrellas, harness of all kinds, &c.

SECTION IV.

All

FINE ARTS-Sculpture, Models, and the Plastic Arts generally-illustrative of the taste and skill displayed in such applications of human industry.

1. Sculpture, Models, and Plastic Art, Mosaics, Enamels, &c.

This last division will consist of all productions which exemplify Fine Art, such as the most beautiful WORKS SCULPTURED IN MARBLE, Stone, carved in Wood, and cast or stamped in Metal; Medals, Cut Gems, &c.; Architectural Decorations, such as Stained Glass, Gobelin Tapestry, Mosaics and Inlaid Work; Fine Art in Pottery, Glass, Metal, or Wood; Enamels on Metals, China and Glass; and all works which illustrate new processes applicable to the Fine Arts generally, together with every variety of Models useful to the Surgeon, the Architect, &c.

Articles belonging to one Section, may be admitted to another, where they may be considered necessary; but in such cases for illustration only.

Under RAW MATERIALS and PRODUCE in Section I. are to be included all products of the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, either in an entirely Raw State, or in any stage of preparation previous to arriving at the state of a finished manufacture (as in Section III.)

The following SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS IN SECTIONS were issued by Her Majesty's Commissioners :

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"§ I.-RAW MATERIALS AND PRODUCE.

"Division (A.)-Mineral Kingdom.

"It is desirable that the Raw Materials should be shown in connexion with the produce of the Mineral Kingdom so as to form a history and explanation of the processes employed to fit them for the useful and ornamental purposes of life. The Exhibition would thus comprehend,

"Illustrations of the various modes of extracting and preparing the Raw Materials for Produce;

"Illustrations of methods of reducing, working, or combining Raw Materials, so as to obtain Products which may afterwards receive applications to the useful or ornamental purposes of life.

"The Specimens fitted for exhibition should include only those remarkable for their excellence, for novelty in their occurrence