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important to our Yorkshire woolleQ trade, had our manufacturers been able, side 

 by side, to have contrasted the productions of France, Belgium, Vienna, Saxony, 

 Aix-la-Chapelle, and Prussia, with the cloth and mixed goods produced at Leeds, 

 Bradford, Stroud, and Dublin. What labour and fatigue would have been saved, 

 had we been able to view the metal-work and jewellery of France, Belgium, 

 Holland, and Spain, with that of England in a court by itself. How will those 

 attending the next exhibition divide themselves into groups under such an arrange- 

 ment? There will be the Swiss side by side with the man of Coventry and 

 Clerkenwell, discussing each the merits of his competitor for the trade in watches ; 

 the silk manufacturers of Lyons, Spitalfields, and Manchester, comparing their 

 silks; and chemists and dyers, the effects resulting from the discovery of new 

 sources of supply of colour, and new methods of applying those already known. 

 How interesting will it be to juxtapose the wood-carvings of Switzerland and 

 Italy with the productions of Rogers in England, or the results of the application 

 of machinery in that direction ; the inlaid wood of Austria with that of other 

 countries. A court of the cabinet marqueterie and buhl work of the world, how 

 instructive may it be made ; and the same principle, if applied to the paper ■ 

 hangings of France, London, and Manchester, the agricultural machines of America 

 and England, the steel of Germany, Sweden, America and Sheffield, will tend to 

 render the Exhibition of 1861, not merely a monster bazaar, but a book, well 

 digested and arranged for ready reference, affording at once the information so 

 frequently sought for, and oftimes in vain, in its predecessor. 



The Exhibition of 1861 should also comprise well-arranged series of raw pro- 

 ducts, with the prices at which they can be obtained in our markets : the mineral 

 products of our colonies and foreign countries — the cottons of Africa, India, 

 America, and Australia— the oils of the Polar regions — the tallow of Russia — the 

 vegetable oils of India, and of the forests of British Honduras, America, and 

 Australia — the mineral oils of Trinidad, and those obtained from the coal fields of 

 England. Nor must our machinery be excluded from the great gathering of 1861. 

 It is of vast importance to the engineers of this country, that they should know 

 what is being produced in the great workshops of Belgium, France, and America. 

 But it is not desirable that the vast blocks of coal and masses of stone should 

 again be produced for exhibition as they were presented to the public in 1851 ; 

 nor is it necessary that the world should be searched to produce in our next exhi- 

 bition building a competitor for the great Koh-i-noor, or masses of gold quartz 

 from California. 



It must be a Progressive Exhibition, and should include specimens of articles 

 for which prizes were awarded in 1851, in order that the improvements effected 

 and advances made since that date may be more readily seen. It must be an 

 Industrial and Art-fostering Exhibition, because an increased knowledge of art in- 

 volves an increased love for art, and gives a higher moral tone to the community em- 

 ployed in its production, and a higher appreciation of it by those who purchase its 

 productions. The greater extent to which art and skilled labour is employed in 

 connection with our manufactures, the larger will be the amount of capital created 

 by labor in the country for future use. It is well known that the value of the metal 

 used in the construction of the hair-spring of a watch can scarcely be estimated, 



