cide upon excluding
works of such elaborate labour and beauty, and these the works of an
English artist, of the first standing, we are totally at a loss to
conjecture. We say "excluding," for it is tantamount to exclusion to
tell Mrs. Peachey that she must place such volatile work in a top
gallery, exposed to the heat of a July sun, or withdraw them,
although she had been previously allocated space on the basement of
the building. Mrs. Peachey adopted the latter alternative, feeling
it detrimental to her works, not only from the objectionable
position assigned her, but also from the impossibility of having her
cases, which are of a large size, conveyed into the gallery, without
materially injuring designs of so fragile a nature.

It is to be regretted that Mrs. Peachey should be thus compelled to
adopt a measure which has deprived the Exhibition of one of its
rarest specimens of art, specimens which we are certain would
severely test, if not outvie,--all other competitors in that
department. We are glad to know, however, that the artiste's credit
will not suffer from this harsh exclusion. The labour, skill, and
expense she has bestowed are already duly appreciated by a
discerning public, thousands of the _elite_ of the aristocracy and
gentry having already visited Mrs. Peachey at her residence in
Rathbone-place, all of whom have expressed the most unequivocal
satisfaction and delight at the beauty of the specimens, which, they
allege, are far superior to any in the Exhibition. We ourselves
strongly recommend our fair readers to inspect these inimitable
works, feeling certain that they will continue to be pronounced the
finest works of the kind ever executed.--_Observer._

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The complaints against the partiality and want of discrimination on
the part of the executive committee of the Great Exhibition in the
allotment of space to the would-be exhibitors are of daily and
hourly recurrence. Among the grievances which are more especially
injurious to the thorough development of British industry in the
more delicate and refined art in feminine accomplishments, we may
mention the case of Mrs. Peachey, of Rathbone-place, the "warranted"
wax florist to Her Most Gracious Majesty. This lady, one of the
earliest claimants for pedestal space, on the firs