THE INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS.


  The VASE OF FOWuns is a well-executed        On this and the two succeeding
pages we en- Belfast. The first two examples are styled the
specimen of wood-carving, by Mr. PERRY, of grave some beautiful specimens
of DAMAsK       "Clarendon Pattern," having been made for
Taunton. The contents of the vase, so to speak, TABLE LINEN, from the extensive
and far-famed  presentation to the Earl of Clarendon by the
is a bunch of roses only, but the vase itself is  manufactory of Mr. ML ANDREwS,
Ardoyne, Royal Society for the Promotion and Improve-
ornamented with an allegorical composition, in
which the artist's idea has been to show the
probable effects of the Great Exhibition upon
the whole world. In this Mr. Perry has evinced
considerable ingenuitybut it would far exceed
the limits of our space to enter upon any
lengthened descriptive explanation. The design






































upon the stand is a circle of flowers and plants,
emblematical of various countries of the globe. ment of the Growth of Flax
in Ireland. Both  wreath and inscription, with an elegant floriated
We think the artist's intention in his allegorical the NAPKIN and TABLE-CLOTH
bear appropriate border; the centre of the latter shows the star
design would have told better, if done on a  designs and ornaments; the former
contains the of the Order of the Garter, in a garland of the
larger scale; it is too full of subject for its size. arms of the Lord Lieutenant,
encircled by a rose, shamrock, and thistle, with other devices.































   That o Ur American friends, with all their insensible to the luxuries
and conveniences of exhibit. The one engraved'is mnufcuein
                    apparen d f po d paade, are not |life, is evident from
the elegant CARRIAGES they  exhibited by Messrs. CLAPP & SON, of Boston.


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