making bricks and tiles, so
that people may, if they like, form those materials for building
houses cheaper and better than in the usual way. But here is a useful
machine. It is a measuring machine, by which you could measure to the
smallest size, even to the hundred-thousandth part of an inch!

Here is a very pretty contribution; it is a model of the house of the
great play-writer, Shakspeare,--of whom, perhaps, you may have
heard,--and it is surrounded by figures representing different
beautiful scenes from Shakspeare's plays. It was made by a workman in
his leisure time: and it certainly does him credit. It is called the
Shakspeare Jubilee.

Yonder is another piece of ingenious industry; it is a group of
figures showing all the various Scotch games; there is one figure
dancing the Highland fling, another throwing the beam, and all the
others engaged in similar sports. That came from Scotland, of course.

Let us now go on to look at that splendid design embroidered in gold,
and intended for a communion cloth. Oh! here it is; does it not look
beautiful? But here are several lovely specimens of china, and
earthenware, which would grace the sideboards of the richest house in
the land, I think. Here is a fine marble font, made of Devonshire
marble, which is very nicely carved, as well as I can judge. Further
on, we have some less showy, but more solidly useful articles. Various
kinds of iron, copper, zinc, lead, silver, and gold ores are
displayed, with oils, quartz, stones, coal, &c. There are lanterns on
a new plan, microscopes, barometers, optical and philosophical
instruments, farming implements, machines for melting metals;--besides
hundreds of other articles which we cannot stop to notice more
particularly. There are two or three very interesting models of mines,
with mining machinery, and plans for improving the air of the mines,
so as to make the poor miners more comfortable. And there are other
models of ships, printing presses, looms, and machines for making gas,
which deserve some degree of attention. There is also a new machine
for printing cotton on both sides, which will be very useful, as the
cotton printed with it will be as ornamental on one side as the other.

There are four splendid and very powerful organs, and several
beautiful piano fortes, in the Exhibition; and there is an accurate
model of Plymouth Breakwater, with a very very little ship attached to
it, and all complete, even to the smallest