THE WISOON91N FARM6k.



   Above us, in the gallery, there is a fine show
 of philosophical, chemical and surgical appa-
 ratus, which we shall hardly have time to ex.
 amine just now.
   Entirely outside the visible interior court o1
 Great Britain, and immediately under the Gal.
 lery of Paintings, on the south side of the
 Palace, we shall find a large collection of all
 sorts of wheeled vehicles--wagons, car.s, om-
 nibuses, coaches, carriages, cabs, &o. Weight,
 strength and clumsiness are the characteris-
 tics. Of these again, at some future time.
            TEXTILE FABRICS, &C.,
   Including flax and hemp, woolen and mixed,
cotton and silk fabrics, with carpets and laces
of every description, manufactured in the
British Isles, are found in the galleries. Let
us climb the stairs and take a hasty glance at
the vast display of articles in this class.
  Here are the woolen manufactures of the
west of England and the West Riding, the Nor-
wich fabrics, the poplins of Dublin, the rich
shawls of Paisley, the coarse woolens and mix-
tures of Scotland, the flannels and blankets of
Rochdale and Witney, the fine prints of Man-
chester and Glasgow, the printed table covers
and bandannas of London, the sewing threads
of Leicester, Paisley and Hudders6eld; Lon-
don, Mfacclesfield and Manchester silks, the
ribands of Coventry, and all the varieties of
Eiglish and Irish lace.
  The muslins, cheap prints, plain heavy
cloths, flannels and blankets, are, probably,
without a rival; the heavier silks, velvets, and
ribands are following hard after the French
manufactures of the same class; and some of
the laces are unsurpassed.  One lace shawl,
(point) marked seven hundred guineas, ($3500)
was good enough for almost anybody to wear.
          uRITISot WORKS OF ART.
  The paintings, drawings, &c., are found in
the eastern and a part of the southern gallery;
occupying in the aggregate some 60,000 square
feet of wall surface. Many of them are very
fine, and challenge the admiration of connois-
seurs of all countries.  Landseer, Hogarth,
Turner, West, and many others long famous,
are well represented.



   The Statuary is partly exhibited in the cor-
ner apartment of the Art Gallery and in part
promiscuously along the stairway and the
aisles below. The most striking work in this
branch of Eaglish Art is Gibson's tinted statue
of Venus, which, if the artist had not bedeck-
ed it with bracelets, ear-rings, and other tawd-
ry ornaments, would have been almost perfect.
A veritable goddess, of faultless form and
beauty, standing nude before your ravished
vision, yet with rings of gold in her ears and
jewelled bands about her arms!  Who ever
conceived of such an absurdity before

  Well, we have, at last, completed our hurried
survey of the British Department of the Great
Exhibition. What it promised, at first glance,
has been more than realized in the more de-
tailed examination, and the United Kingdom
stands out upon the stage of the great work-
ing world vaster in her resources, mightier in
her ability to accomplish, and grander in her
wonderful achievments. than she has ever
seemed to us before.  God make her as pure
and noble in her ambitions and as beneficent
in her deeds as she is physically anil intellec-
tually great and powerful.

             Hints for August.
  This month is crowded so full of work of
one kind-the winding up of havesting and
haying-almost to the necessary exclusion of
everything else, that we came near letting our
regular " suggestions" go for once. But then,
on thinking the matter over, so many things,
outside of the important work named, occur as
very important to be attended to that we can-
not forbear, at least, to urge them upon our
readers. If the hints we give do no good, we
rust they wiiU do no harm.
Your Grain and Grass-See that they al e
rell cured and carefully put up. Ventilation
s important to both. In the stack it may be
secured by building round a pole, to be drawn
)at when the stack is finished-hole to be cov-
ered over in case of storm, and entirely after
he stack is thoroughly cured.  In the barn,
proper curing may be facilitated by leaving the



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