EXHIBITION OF THE INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS. To be held in London, in 1851.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 448, 31 July 1850, Page 3

EXHIBITION OF THE INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS. To be held in London, in 1851.

OBJECTS ADMISSIBLC TO THE EXHIBITION. A classified list of the objects which may be admitted to the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations to be opened in London, the Ist of May, 1851, appeared in Tuesday's Gazette. The objects are ditided into four sections :—-[, Raw Materials and Produce — illustrative of the natural production! on which human industry is employed. 11. Machinery for Agricultural, Manufacturing, Engineering, and other purposes, and Mechanical Inventions — illustrative of the agents which human ingenuity brings to hear upon the produce of nature. 111. Manufactures — il- ' lusrative of the result produced by the operation of human industry upon natural produce. IV. Sculpture, Models, and the Plastic Art generally— illustrative of the taste and skill displayed in such applications of human indubtry.

Section I.— Raw Materials and Produce. — Under raw material* in this section are to be included all products of the Minural, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, either in an entirely raw itate, or in any stage of preparation, previous to arriving at the state ot finished manufacture. The products of the Mineral Kingdom are subdivided j into Ores, with illustrations of that mode of dressing ; substances of metallurgical processes, such as the various method* of roasting and bmelting ores ; alloys, including bronzes, Britannia metal, &c, ; metals in process of adaptation to finished manufactures, as rolled, drawn in sheets, wires, &c, cast in jugs, bars, &c.,; chemicalsubstances, such at c»rbonintits various states for the purpose of fuel ; alkalies, earths, and their compounds ; metals proper and their compounds, as iron and its salts, iron pyrites ; copper, acetate and sulphate of copper as mcd for colours and dyeing, for electrotyping, &c, goll, platinum, silver, and other noble metals, their preparations for electrotyping, giving of metallic lustre*, &c , ; mixed chemical man* ufactures used in medicine, materials used in the manulactuies of glass and porcelain; various kinds of q lass used for manufactures ; stones and mineral substances for building ; gems and all variety of mineral substances used for personal decoration. The Vegetable; Kingdom is subdivided into substances used chiefly as foo d or in its preparation, as cereals, pulses, oilseeds, dued fruits, spices, starch, sugar, &.;. &«., and fermented liquors and distilled spirits from unusual sources ; materials used chiefly in the chemical arts or in medicine, as gums, resins, oils, acids, dyes and colours, tanning substances, medical substances, &c. &c. ; materials used for bnild.n£, clothing, &c. ; and miscellaneous substances of which a catalogue it promised. The Animal Kingdom is divided into substa?ices used for food, with a note that " almost every part of almost every species of animal serves as food to some variety or other of the human race ;" substances used for medical pu> poses, as animal oils, unguenti, musk and other anti spasmodies, ammonia, ioJine from zo* opnytes, &c. &c ; substance* ui>cd in manufactures as woo], hair, silk, skins, bone, horn, ivory, pearls, coal, sponge, &c, &c. ; and substances used for pigments and dues.

bEcnoN If. — Machinery. — In this section are included specimens of machinery of every kind, for all purposes, from the prime movers, as boilers, furnaces, steam engines, water-wheels, Sic, through the parts ot mechanism, and gearing by which the motion is conveyed, on (o the machines used in manufacture! of every description, including tools, implements, and insliuments used in the most delicate operations of science, art, and medicine.

Section 111. — Manufactures. — This division comprises all manufactures in their finished state ;— Fabrics, 8< r un, woven, filted, or laid., subdivided into linens, canvas, as floor-cloths, calicoes, &c, oil-cloths of all kinds, also lace, bobbinet, figured lace, needlework, embroidery, tambouring, &c. ; Broadcloths, us blankets, carpets, shawls, damasks, satins, velvets, st.uffd, poplins tabinets, crapts ; felts, hats, and felted floor cloths and felted fabrics generally, plain or printed coulouied and embossed ; papers of all kinds ; Manufactures in metals, as gold and silver plate, and jewellers' work, metal ornaments, metal, mountings, buttons, locksmiths' work, wire work, general ironmongery, fender*, and grates and fire-irons, bronza lamps, britaunia metal wares, German failver and white metal, cutlery and steel ornaments; Manufactures in glass, porcelain, terra coita, earthenware, <$-c ; subdivided into manqfactures from vegetable substances as cabinet work and household furniture, turnery, baskets, mats, and matting, cordage and cablet, straw plait, utensili of etery kind in caoutchouc and gutt» percha, coopers' work, &c; Manufactures from animal snbstances, as handles and utensils of horn, ivory, and bone, bookbinding, leather, cases, irunki, harness, boots and shoes, brushes, &c. ; Small ware and chemical compounds, as umbiellas, garment!, artificial flowers, fringes, gimps, beads an( J toys; confectionary, soap, cindles, sealing wax, waferi, &c.

hECTTON IV.— SCULPTUBB, JVIODEtS, AND Plastic Art. — Objects formed in any kind of maleriil, if i hey exhibit such a degree of tn-.te and skill as to come under the denomination or Fine Art, may be admitted into this Section, Those enumerated aio works of sculpture' and in die sinking, intaglios, arcli iiectural decoiations, mosaics and inlaid work, enamels models in architectuie, topography, and anatomy, and matciiali and processes ajiplicah c to the fine arts generally, including fine art printing, printing incolonr,&c. Conditions and Limitauons. — The following conditions, limitations, and directions have been frarmdfor the guidance of exhibitors ; and additional legulntiom will hi publibhed hereafter :—: — All spirits, wines and fermented liquon, unles derrived from unusal sources, are in admusible, except in spec al cases, and under special restrictions ; and wben oils, spirit!, &c, are exhibited, to present accidents thpy matt be shown jn well-secured glast vessels. All highly inflammable articles, euch as gunpowdci

detonating powders, lucifer matches, &c, ami all live stock, and article* periihdble within the duration of the exhibition, are inadmissuble, unleis sr-ecially cx» cepted.

Section I — Raw Materials and Produce, DIVISION (A.) MINKHAL KINGDiM. It is desirable that the law materials should be shown in connection with the produre of '^^jS^cSfM kingdom so bs to form a history ami explanatiojagHwie procc-i employed to fit them for the use.ul anfl^,^^6^"" mental purpoies of life The exhibition woqldgpttUß comprehend (1) illustrations of the various moaei of extracting and preparing the raw raateri«ls for produce illustrations of methods of reducing working, or combining raw materials, so as to obtain product which may afterwards receive applications to the useful or ornamental purpoies of life. The specimens fitted for exhibition should include (1) only those remarkable for their excellence, for novelity in their occuirence or application- or economy of their extraction or prepaiation ; or (2) those remarkable, as illustrations of some further processes of manufacture*

DIVISION (n). VEGETABLE KINGDOM. The objects which the Commission is most desirous of receiving, among the products of the veeetable kingdom, are such as from their utility, novelty, or practical interett, may appear especially deserving public attention. Peculiarly fine samples of substances in common use; authenticated samples of substances having similar propcitico, but derived from different sources such as atiowroor, sago, iv-c Dyeing materials, accompanied by specimens exhibiting the effects of such materials. Fancy wood both in the polished, rough, and manufactuicd article. All sorts of materials which are applicable to the manufacture of linen cordage, wickeiworU, pnper, and the like. Nothing* however, appears suitable to this exhibition except such results of humun industry as are capable o£ being preserved without injury through srveial month?.

DIVISION (c.) ANIMAL KINGDOM. As illustrations in tins division, the various processes of prepa'a'ion ituy lie exhibited in connection with the raw materials : mid in some cases a finished article may be introduced as the termination of a series of preparatory stages of preparation. Nothing, however, apperin suitable to this exhibition except fauch results of human industry as are capable of being preseivei without injury through several months.

Section II. — Machinerydivision (a).— MACHINRS TOR DIRECT USE. Machines will be exhibited in- motion whenever it may be desirable so to do, and it may be found practicable to provide the necessary arrangements for that purpose. DIVISION (fl). — MANUFACTURING MACHINES. Although in arranging this class for exhibition it will generally be found advisable to separate the products from the producing mechanism, yet the latter should always be accompanied with sufficient spedmeni of raw material, in its several stages of manufacture, and of the finished produce, to make the operation of the machiuvry intelligible. The complete series of tools and machinery that belongs to the manufacture of any object of common use, gnch as a watch, a button, or a needle, accompanied by specimens of the object and its parts, in their various stages of progress, is so instructive and interesting, that it is very desirable to obtain several 6uch for the proposed exhibition.

Section lll.— Manufactures. Manufactures to be exhibited in this section must be in their finished slate. All articles to be admitted in this section, must exhibit one or more of the follow* ing qualifications:—!. Increased usefulness, such as permanency in dyes ; improved forms and arrangements in articles of utility, &c. 2. Superior skill in workmanthip, ad in block printing, chasing, &c. 3. New use of known materials. 4. Use of new materials. 5. New combinations of materials, as in metal and pottery. 6. Beauty of design, in form or colour, or both, with refeience to utility. 7. Cheapnen, rela. tively to excellence of production.

Section IV. — Sculpture, Models, and the Plastic Art. Objects formed in any kind of material, if they exhibit such a degree of taife and skill as to come under the denomination of Fine Arts, may he admitted into thii tection. The ipeciniens exhibited shall be works of living artists. Oil paintings and water-colour paintingi, drawings and engiavings, are not to be admitted except as illustration! or examples of materials and processes, and portrait busts are not to b ; admitted. All foreign and colonial productions intended for exhibition will be passed through our Cuntoin-huuse without payment of duty. Such goods will not be subject to examination ut the waterside, but will be at once conveyed to the place of exhibition, where an officer will examine them, and assess the amount of of duty payable if the articles should be sold in this country ; and security will be talieu for tlu payiueut of the duty or re-expurfation. The following nobl men and gentlemen have been appointed members ot committed of sections :— Section J. — Raw ivlaierials and Produce.— Mineral Kingdom: Sir diaries Ljell, F.RS., Pr. of G.S. ; Sir Henry T. Be la Beche, 'C.8., F.R S. ; Sir Roderick Murchuon, JVI.A., F.R S ; Dr. Lyon Play* fair, F. 11.5 .; Richard Philips, Esq., F.R.S.—Vegetable Kingdom. Philip Pusey, Esq., M.P., F.R.S.; Sir William Hooker, L. L. D , F.R.S. ; Professor Royle, F.R.S. ; Professor Lindley, F.R.S. ; Professor Faraday, D.C.L., F.R.S. ; Professor Solly, F.R.S. ; Humphrey Brandreth, Esq.; W. Fisher Hobbs, Esq. —Animal Kingdom : Right Honuiable Lord Stanley; Prolessor Owen, F.R.S. ; Professor Braude, F.R.S. ; Profesior Hotmann. Section ll— Machineiiv.— Right Hon. the Earl of Rosse, K.P., Pr. R.S. ; Sir John Rennie, F.R.S; Sir J. Herschel, Bart., F.R.S. ; William Cubitt, Eiq., F.R.S.; Robert Stephenson, Eg., M.P., F.R.S ; The Astronomer Royal, F.R.S. ; Philip Puiey, E s q , M.P,, F.R.S. ; Professor Walker, F R.S. ; Professor Willis, F.R.S. ; I. K. Brunei, E,q , F.R.S. Sectoin lll.— Manufactures. — Right Hon. W. Gludstone, M.P. ; Mr. Alderman Thompson/ M.P. ; R. Cobden, Esq., M.P. ; Ttioinai Field Gibson, Esq.; T. Bdzltry, Esq ; John Gott, Esq. ; Herbert Minton r Esq. ; Apsley Pellat, Esq. ; R. Redgrave, Esq., A.H.A. ; J. R. Herbert, Esq., R.A. ; W. Liddard, Eiq. ; H. J. Townsend, Esq. ; J. Jjbson Smith, Esq. Section IV.~- culphjrb, Models, and Tim Plastic Attr,— Rijit Hun. the Earl of .Aberdeen, K.T., F.R.b., Pr. a A.; Right Hon. VWount Cunning; Right Hon. Lord Ashbuitou ; Su- Richard We«tmacjlt, R.A. ; Clu'le* Lock Eabtlake, Esq, , R.A., F R.S. i Charles Barry, B»q , R.A , F.R.b. ; Charl'S Baring Wall, M.P, YAi.b ; Wilndw Wyon, Esq., R A.; Edwaid Hodges Baily, Esq., R.A, F.R.S ; D. N. Machse, E g., R.A. ; Thomas Uwms, Eiq , R.A. 5 George Vivian, Esq. Committee Appointed for all Matters Relaiing to the Building. — His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G. ; Right Hon. the E-»rl of Ellesmere, F.S.A. ; Charles Barry, E^q., R.A., F.R.S.; William Cubitt, E*q., F.RS. ; R. .Stephenson, Esq-, M.P., F.R.S. ;C. R. Cockerell, R.A. ; I. K. Brunei, Esq., F.RS.; Thomas L. Donaldson, Esq., Hoa, andfui. bs<;,,l,li,A.