disobedience of orders will subject the offender, after inquiry, to immediate dismissal. No fees or payments of any kind to any Officers or Servants of the Exhibition are permitted, and any person receiving the same will be dismissed."

The Regulations adopted by the Executive Committee relative to the mode of passing the Goods into the Exhibition, are equally strict and judicious.

The following are the SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO CoLONIAL AND FOREIGN EXHIBITORS issued by Her Majesty's Commissioners :

"Colonial and Foreign productions will be admitted without paying duty, for the purposes of exhibition, but not for internal consumption. Her Majesty's Commissioners of Customs will consider all such articles as Bonded Goods.

"Arrangements made by the Board of Customs.

"That all Works intended for the Exhibition will, in the first instance, be admitted into this country without payment of duty; the goods will not be subject to examination at the waterside, but be conveyed to the place of Exhibition, at the expense of the importer, under charge of proper officers of the Customs, to be there opened by the importer or his agent, and examined in the presence, of the proper officer of the Customs, in order to ascertain the rate of duty which they would be liable to if sold in this country, and to have such marks attached thereto as may be considered necessary to maintain the identity of the goods.

"The goods brought for Exhibition will be considered as warehoused, under the Warehousing Regulations, in the premises appointed for the Exhibition; and security must be given in each case for the due re-exportation of the goods, or payment of the duty at the close of the Exhibition.

"No Goods liable to duty to be on any account removed from the premises until the termination of the Exhibition, and then only on payment of the duty, or for re-exportation. "That Goods intended for Exhibition should be imported into one of the following ports, viz. :—

LONDON,
LIVERPOOL,

BRISTOL,

HULL,

NEWCASTLE,
DOVER,

FOLKESTONE, and
SOUTHAMPTON ;

and the Board of Customs to make such regulations, and appoint such officers of the Department for taking charge of the Goods at the place of Exhibition, in communication with the Commission for conducting the proceedings, as may be deemed essential for the security of the interests of the Revenue.

"All Goods which are forwarded to England will remain deposited in charge of the Customs, until claimed by an agent of the party sending them, who will have to establish his right to remove them to the Building by producing the bill of lading, and the certificate given by the Central Authorities in each country that such Goods are for the Exhibition.

"Goods placed in the charge of the officers of the Royal Commission by a Custom House Agent, for which Goods he has given bond, will not be permitted to be removed from the Exhibition by any person but the agent through whom they are exhibited."

The following Custom House Agents were recommended by the Royal Commission as fit persons to be employed by Foreigners in passing articles for the Exhibition through the Custom Houses, and who agreed to do so on terms below those charged in ordinary mercantile transactions :

LONDON.

Messrs. Lightly and Simon, 123, Fenchurch Street.
(Appointed exclusive Agents for France by the French
Government.)

Mr. Chinnery, 67, Lower Thames Street.
Messrs. McCracken, 7, Old Jewry.

Mr. D. Maclean, Lobby, Custom House.

Mr. C. T. Major, 21, Billiter Street.

Messrs. Phillips and Rowell, 11, Water Lane, Thames Street.

Messrs. Stalschmidt and Co., 14, Mark Lane.

Messrs. Fords and Canning.

BRISTOL.

HULL.

Messrs. Good, Todman and Co.

PROTECTION OF ARTICLES EXHIBITED FROM PIRACY.

An act was passed in the last Session of Parliament which enables Exhibitors, with the view to obtain a protection from piracy for special classes of articles which they may exhibit, to secure a provisional registration of them, which is to last a year, or even eighteen months, if so extended by the Board of Trade. After the necessary forms and conditions have been observed, the right of the Proprietor of the Design is protected from piracy by a Penalty of from £5 to £30 for each offence, each individual illegal publication or sale of a Design constituting a separate offence. The Penalty may be recovered by the aggrieved party, either by action in the Superior Courts, or by a summary proceeding before two Magistrates.

Designs applicable to the following classes of Articles of Manufacture or Substances may be the subjects of provisional registration.

Articles composed wholly or chiefly of Metal.
Articles composed wholly or chiefly of Wood.
Articles composed wholly or chiefly of Glass.

Articles composed wholly or chiefly of Earthenware, Ivory, Bone, Papier Maché, and other solid substances. Paper Hangings.

Carpets, Floor-cloths, and Oil-cloths.

Shawls (patterns printed and not printed).

Yarn, Thread, or Warp (printed).

Woven Fabrics (patterns printed and patterns not printed.)

Lace and all other articles.

NEW and ORIGINAL DESIGNS for the SHAPE or CONFIGURATION, either of the whole or of part of any article of Manufacture, such new shape or configuration having reference to some purpose of utility, whether such articles be made in Metal or any other substance.

Exhibitors will be enabled to effect the Registration at the Building of the Exhibition in Hyde Park, without payment of any Fees whatever.

The protection from Piracy of Designs which is conferred by Provisional Registration, applies only to the form or configuration of new manufactures and not to principles; but it is hoped that even this desirable privilege may yet be granted to Exhibitors, by an act to be passed in the present session of Parliament, prior, we trust, to a complete measure of legislative recognition of the rights of inventors.

THE CATALOGUE.

The privilege of preparing and printing the Official Catalogue was submitted to public competition, and the joint tender of Messrs. Spicer, Brothers, stationers, and Messrs. Wm. Clowes and Sons, the eminent printers, was accepted by the Royal Commissioners. In addition to a sum of about £3,600 for purchase-money, the Contractors have undertaken to pay a royalty of twopence for each copy sold, so that on a moderate calculation a sum varying from £8,000 to £10,000 may be expected to accrue to the exchequer of the Commissioners from this source alone!! The Catalogues will be marvels of cheapness even in these days of cheap literature; 320 pages of foolscap quarto, double columns, produced in the very best style for one shilling!! There are to be translations of this Catalogue in French and German, which will be sold for half-a-crown in each language. In addition to these catalogues for the million, there is to be an

Official Illustrated Catalogue, likely to be a superb work, which it is proposed to make of permanent value, and a complete record of the Exhibition. It will be a work in appearance something like "Knight's Pictorial Shakspere." It will be printed in super-royal octavo, forming two or three volumes, containing from 1,000 to 1,500 pages, and will be annotated throughout by gentlemen of the highest scientific and commercial eminence, comprising the names of Professor Ansted, Drs. Lindley, Royle, Lyon Playfair, Professor Cowper, Mr. H. T. Hope, M.P., Mr. J. Bell, (sculptor), Mr. H. Maudslay, Mr. Nicholay, Mr. Robert Hunt, (author of "the Poetry of Science," Mr. Henry Cole, Mr. M. Digby Wyatt, Capt. Boscawen Ibbetson, F.R.S., Mr. Richard Redgrave, R. A., Mr. Samuel Morley, Mr. Robert Ellis, &c., &c. All the Catalogues are to be out on the day of the opening of the Exhibition,-the first of May, and will contain plans, views, alphabetical index of Exhibitors, with addresses, and references to their productions in the Exhibition, &c. The compilation of the Catalogue has been confided to Mr.G.W.Yapp, who has had considerable experience in such matters. The French translation has been undertaken by Mr. F. G. Duncombe and Mr. F. M. Harman, employés of the Executive Committee, and the German by Mr. E. A. Moriarty, of the "Morning Chronicle.”

THE REFRESHMENTS.

Whilst there will be such abundant stores of intellectual food, her Majesty's Commissioners have not been disregardful of the "creature comforts" of their anticipated innumerable guests, and are likely to cater in a manner to suit all tastes and all pockets. The right of sale of refreshments was put up to competition in one, two, or three separate contracts to the highest bidder, subject, however, to certain judicious regulations. The Commissioners very properly think that "it would be inconsistent with the nature of the Exhibition to allow the building to assume the character of an hotel, tavern, or dining-room.' There is one condition for which the Commissioners