From tilt' London Corre.iponJont of tlu> Buffalo f'om. Advertiser. 

 CLOSE OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION. 



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London, Oct. 17, 1851. 



The Exhibition closed pra forma on Wednesday. The 

 Prince and Uoyal Commissioners wcnl through llie dumb 

 shdw of delivering and receiving the awards in gross. Tiie 

 Bishop of London made an inaudible prayer. An anthem 

 was sung, and one verse of " God Save the Queen." From 

 dayliglii to dark tlie heavens puured down the rain in tor- 

 rents. There was somelliing in the appearance of Albert 

 and l!ie Commissioners which cast a damper upon the whole 

 audience — there was througlioui a feeling of apprehension 

 that somelliing diabolical and outrageous was in the future. 

 This feehng was fed by the article of the Times that morn- 

 ing inlimatmg what might be expected when the awards 

 should appear. So strong was the consciousness of the 

 Prince and Itoyal Commissioners that they were about to do 

 a mean and dastardly act in the face of the world, that mani- 

 fested itself in their countenances and actions, while in 

 the audience it produced a sullen silence, and the whole 

 passed otf more hke a funeral ceremony than the closing of 

 a great f€te. 



Yesterday's Times presented the list of awards, and so dif- 

 ferent were they, in nuniberlrss cases, from what had been 

 known to be the decijions of the jurors. that it was clear that 

 those decisions had undergone a garbling and tampering by 

 the Cunncil of Chairmen. This Council of Chairmen, it 

 must be borne in mind, w'ere the Chairmen of the several 

 juries, and were all Englishmeii. After the juries made their 

 Reports, it was loinid that we were decidedly ahead of all 

 the world in the new and useful, and if the original jirogram- 

 me was adliered to. we would have a large proportion of the 

 first or great medals, which would be very few in number at 

 best. Larly in the proceedings a change was made — a wi- 

 der range was made to first medals. Kvcn after the report 

 of the juries, the Coinicil of Chairmen virtually set aside the 

 entire action of the juries, altering and transposing so as to 

 (as the Times said) " take away the distinction likely to at- 

 tach to the great medal." By the published awards this has 

 been done elleetualiy, for it has been given to things entirely 

 below such- distinction, while very important — in fact, a 

 greater number of the most important things have only prize 

 medals, while the majority ol things having first medals, are 

 below mediocrity in class, and out of the proposed range of 

 first medals entirely, as for instance : the first medal named 

 in tlie whole list was a council medal, for a ''process of 

 wasiiing coals." The first great medal to the United States 

 is in class 3d, to Borden Gail, Jr., for the preparation called 

 Mzat llisriiii. " To John I'can & Son, of the United King- 

 dom of Great Britain, a large medal for two pair of Steam 

 Engines of a compactness for email vessels." A large medal 

 is awarded to David Dick, of Pennsylvania, for his "Ami- 

 Friction Press." But a snnilar medal in the same class is 

 given to Uibbet ifc Sons, of England, for a display of cotton 

 machinery, so that the greatest inventions of foreigners jire 

 put against collections of old machinery by Englishnii n. 

 So in the lOih class, St. John's (American) Self-Detcrmia- 

 ing Variation Compass after having been reported favorably 

 upon by the 8th class and 10th class, and also Burt's (Amer- 

 ican) Solar Compass,' have received prize medals equal to 

 that of A. D. Rocher, for exhibiting a balance made in the 

 government workshoj) at Washington. About ten Englisli, 

 and a dozen European, gun workers have prize med:tls, 

 in all cases for workmanship at best, while (^'olt is unnoticed. 

 Then Hobbs, who has picked all their locks, has his lock, 

 which has (/ejied them all, put upon the same fixHing, a prize 

 medal. Our Prouiy and Me.irs' plows, although they 

 have beaten in every contest, are awarded prize medals, 

 while a large medal is given to an English plow. And the 

 American churn, although it beat all others, is dropped 

 nlongside of an English and Belgian churn which it beat. 

 The fact is, our greatest inventions, our best works of art. 

 and genius, and industry, have, by the award, been placed 

 on a par w ith a pot of pickled peaches, and a Scotch snufl" 

 box of wood, cartloads of which can be bought in the stores 

 at eighteen pence each. The list of awards seem to have 

 been prepared especially to throw ns as much in the shade 

 aa po-sihle. An honest and fair list of awards would have 

 left England too far behind ; they have therefore adopted 

 the course likely to prevent distinction of merit as much as 

 fKJssible. They have smothered and covered us up by giv- 

 ing council medals, in nine cases out often, to tlie English 

 and Europeans for things no way entitled to distinction. 

 Vhile, except Dick's Presa, the cotiocil medals to the Uni- 



ted States have been given as erroneously, and to the exclu- 

 sion of more new and useful inventions, well entitled to 

 su<rh distinction ; and I doubt not their recipients will view 

 themselves as " being used" by the Council of Chairmen 

 for their own purposes. 



In short, we shall hold a meeting next week of the exhi- 

 bitors here, and very likely we shall respectfully dediue the 

 honor inlinded us by the medals awarded. If that is not a 

 unanimous vote of those now here, the great majority will 

 send a letter to the Royal Commissioners, couched in proper 

 linguacre, declining theirs, and to which their respective 

 sijjnatures will be attached. It is generally fell here hy the 

 exhibitors, that it is a studied attempt to defraud the Ameri- 

 can exhibitors of their proper position before the^vorld, 

 which it is duty to resent in a proper and dignified manner. 

 Whatever is done will be well counselled beforehand. 



Our Commissioner, Mr. Riddell, who has been Commis- 

 sioner, agent, exhibitor, owner, and u good while absent, is 

 presenting the bills of exhibitors, which are very heavy, and 

 continues to refuse to give any statement of his expendi- 

 tures, so that our meeting, when held, w ill be to deal with 

 not only our enemies, Inu our friends. One thing may be 

 relied on, the whole will be attended to properly. 



SoNSION. 

 LIST OF AWARDS TO UNITED ST.A.TES CONTRIBUTORS 

 AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF ALL NATIONS. 

 Class \. — Prize Medals — Adirondac Manufacturing Company, 

 New \ ork. forstet-I and iron; Morris. Jones, & I'oinpiiuy. for plate 

 iron; New Jersey Exploring and Mining Co., for zinc ores, iron 

 [Franklinite) ore, smelting process; Trenton iron Co., for iron of 

 fine quiility. ores. &c. ^ 



Ilonurahle M(■)^^l'o»s— Adirondac Manufacturing Co., N, Y., for 

 ca-'t iron; .Morrill. Stewart, & Co., for sheet iron ; Morris, Jones, 

 & ('o.. for boiler plate iron. 



Ct-.iss \\.— Council Medal — Goel Borden, Jr., for preparation 

 called meat bi.'cuit. 



Prize Meda's—W. Barnes, maple sugar; T. Bell, foft wheat 

 from Genesee; L. Dean, maple sugar; Dill & Mulcliahey. Caven- 

 dish tobacco; J. H. Grant, do ; P. Robinson, do.: C. Duffield, 

 ham ; Ileckir & Brother. Genesee flour; E. T. Heriot, Carolina 

 rice; B. B. Kirtland. collection of maize, 35 varieties; N. Y. State 

 Ag. Society, collection of wheats: Kay;: ond & Schuyler, flour, 

 thirds ; Schooley & Hough, hara, Cincinnati. 



Honoraltle Mentions — John Bridge, oil cake; George Dominick, 

 lard; Hecker &. Brother. Farina; \\'. Hotchkiss. wheat; Leu isc Co., 

 oil cake; Mookler & Chiles. Cavendsh tobacco: Tyler & Ander.son, 

 do.; James Thomas, do.; Thomas & Co., do.; Oswego Starch Fac- 

 tory, fecula of maize; M. White. Muscovada sugar. 



Class HI. — Prize ilferfrt/— Power Sc Weightmau. chemicals. 



Ilonoiab e M('>i/(0» — Wetherill & brother, various salts. 



Class IV. — Prize Medals— S. Bond, cotton; Cockerill. wool; W. 

 Colegate & Co.. starch; J. Ewing. wool; II. Hampton, cotton; 

 Geo. Hicks, tiliandsia usnoides; G. L. Holme.«. cotton; H. G. & 

 L. Hotchkiss, oil of peppermint; J. R. Jones, cotton; J. V. Jones, 

 cotton; A. .\I. Rimber ic Co.. wool; W. W. fllacleod, cotton; the 

 State of Maryland, collection of products; J. B. Merriewether, 

 cotton; Perkins & Brown, wool; J. Pope, cotton; W. Seabiook, 

 cotton; Rev. Z. Thompson, woods; J. Nailer, cotton; Oswego 

 Starch Factory. starch. 



llnvorable Mentions— 'E.. R. Dix. hemp, flax guano; O. Domi- 

 nick. lard oil; K. Keuchtwanger. bleached shellac; F. Frank, laid 

 oil; L. Godd.ard, whalebone ; Holbrook & Stanley, lard oil; F. O, 

 Ketteridge, corn-husk fibre; B. J. Pell, woods; Trucsdale. Jacobs, 

 St Co.. cotton. 



Class V. (a)— Prize Medals — C. Childs, for ."^lide t( p buggy or 

 phaeton, enamelled ajiron of leather of very superior quality. J'ho 

 whole well got up and neatly finished; G. W. Watsou. for a sport- 

 ing wagon, very neatly finished in all respects. 



Class VI. — Council Medal— D. Dick, various engineer's tools 

 and presses. 



Prize ^/edu/s— Blodgett & Lorow. sewing machine; T. K. Earl 

 &. Co.. card clothing; W. Hapden, drawing regulator for cotton; 

 Lowell .Machine Shopp. self-acting lathe and a power lo(nii; C. 

 Starr, bookbinding machine; J. P. Woodbury, wood planing, 

 tonguing auJ grooving machine. 



Cuss Vil.— Pn2« Medal — \ron Bridge Manufactory, New York, 

 model for Ryder's patent iron bridge. 



Class VII I.— i-'itse .^/frfa/s— National Institution of Washing- 

 ton, models of ships of war and large merchant ves.-els; J. R St. 

 .)ohn. nautical compass, purporting to show the pres.'nte of any 

 disturbing forces upon the needle, and al.'O to show the amount 

 of the deflection resulting from these causes. 



Honorable .'Vfriifi'ons— Samuel Colt, revolving rifles and pistols; 

 W. R. Palmer, target rifles; Rob'-ins & LawrencH. military rifles. 



Class \K. — Council Medal— L. II. McCormick. reaping machine. 



Pure Medal -Prouty St Mcars. idow. 



Cla-is K — Council .Ucrfa/— William Bond St Son. invention of a 

 new mode of obserfing astronomical phenomena. See. 



i'litif .UfcJa/»— A. D. Bache, balance; M. B. Brady, daguerreo- 

 types; W.A Burt, solar compass, surveying instruments; J Erics- 

 son, sea-lend, promoter. (Sic ; M. M. Lawrence, daguerreotypes; 

 John R. .St. John, detector compass; J. A. Whipple, (Ittguerrtotype 

 of the mooQ. 



Honorable Mtnlion-J. E. Mayell, photographs. 



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