Holding, Mrs. Maryanne, late of Scarborough, designer and maker. Pair of wax figures, fancy costume; groups of flowers; and shells in wax. King, T. Morpeth. The Earl of Carlisle's coat of arms, cut in free stone from a quarry belonging to the said Earl, at Hartford Bridge, Northumberland. Middleton, J. Darlington, producer. Model of York Minster, to a scale of 15 feet to the inch. Peel, J. Pudsey, near Leeds, producer. Specimens of ornamental turning, cut in relief in wood and marble, copied from coins, medals, and flowers, by automatic machinery. Roebuck, Brothers, Huddersfield, proprietors. Specimen of carving in mahogany; subject,-"The Fine Arts." Carved by J. W. Moore. A. D. 1851 PRIZES. MINING AND MINERAL PRODUCTS. THE PRIZE MEDAL. Bowling Iron Company, Bradford. The quality of iron. Blundell, Spence, and Company, Hull.-(Chemical Products.)- Buck, Peter, and Son, Bedale.-(Substances used as Food.)Oatmeal and wheat flour. VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL SUBSTANCES. Harrison, R. and J. Hull. Collection of woods. Wood and Bedford, Leeds. Lichens and dyes. MACHINES FOR DIRECT USE. Beecroft, Butler, and Company, Leeds. Railway wheels and axles. Kitson, Thompson, and Hewitson, Leeds. Locomotive tank engine. MANUFACTURING MACHINES AND TOOLS. Berry, B. and Sons, Bradford. Machinery for manufacturing worsted. Perry, John, Leeds. Wool comb. Self-acting slide lathe. Self-acting slide lathe, A. D. Shepherd, Hill, and Spink, Leeds. 1851 drilling and planing machines. Taylor, J. Leeds. Heckles. NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. Carte, A. G. Hull. Self-acting] Life-Buoy. An instrument by which, since 1838, nearly four hundred persons' lives have been saved. Hopkinson, J. and J. Leeds. A horizontal grand piano forte, with new patent action. Brook, Jonas, and Brothers, Huddersfield. Two to nine cord sewing thread. This firm, who have long been pre-eminent for their manufacture of thread, obtained the only prize for sewing threads in all cords, though there were several other competitors. WOOLLEN AND WORSTED. Akroyd, J. and Son, Halifax. Damasks, including also the award for carded Genappe yarns. Salt, Titus, Bradford. Alpaca and mohair fabrics, also their yarns; moreens for furniture hangings. Schwann, Kell, and Company, Bradford. Fabrics of various descriptions, and all adapted for foreign markets. Milligan, W. and Son, Bradford. Embroidered alpaca goods, under a patented process of the exhibitors. Armitage, Brothers, Huddersfield. fur. Woollen cloths. The Astorian Company, Huddersfield. Articles made of hair Barnicot and Hirst, Huddersfield. Woollen cloths. Beardsell, Isaac, and Company, Huddersfield. Woollen cloths. Beardsell, C. and Company, Huddersfield. Woollen cloths. Bennett, I. and A. Huddersfield. Woollen cloths of new materials. Bottomley, M. and Son, Halifax. Figured goods. Brooke, J. and Sons, Huddersfield. Woollen cloths. Brown, W. Halifax. Damasks made of wool, silk, and cotton. Eyres, William, and Son, Leeds. Woollen cloths. Firth, E. and Sons, Leeds. Blankets and cotton warp. Foster, J. and Son, Bradford. Worsted stuff goods, including also the award for alpaca, mohair, and lustre yarns. Gott and Sons, Leeds. Wollen cloths, for exportation. Woollen cloths. Gray, S. Leeds. Blankets for various A. D. markets; also travelling rugs, including the award for Spanish 1851 stripes. Hargreave and Nussey, Leeds. materials. Woollen cloths from new Henry A. and S. and Company, Leeds. Woollen cloths. Holdsworth, J. and Company, Halifax. Damasks and other furniture cloths. The colours were the production of Messrs. Holroyd and Company, dyers, Leeds. Horsfall, J. G. and Company, Bradford. Light cloths. Jowett, T. and Company, Bradford. Fabrics from alpaca weft and silk and cotton warps; also of silk warp and linen weft. Lockwood and Keighley, Huddersfield. Woollen cord and vel veteens. M'Crea, H. C. and Company, Halifax. Damasks. Pawson, T. Son, and Martin, Leeds. Woollen cloths. Pease, H. and Company, Bradford. Cobourg cloths, single and double twill, worsted weft and cotton warp, including also the award for yarns. Rand, John, and Sons, Bradford. Fabrics of wool, and wool combined with cotton and silk, including the award for yarns. Firth, E. and Sons, Heckmondwike. Blankets with cotton warp, with good workmanship and cheapness combined. Rogers, G. Bradford. Cobourg cloths of worsted and cotton. Smith, J. and Sons, Saddleworth. Flannels. Snell, John, Leeds. Beauty of finish in woollen cloth. Sugden, J. and Brothers, Bradford. Genappe, mohair, and poplin yarns, including an award for fabrics of English wool combined with cotton. Sykes, D. and Company, Leeds. Woollen cloths. Sykes, John, and Son, Leeds. Woollen cloths. Thornton, Firth, Ramsden, and Company, Leeds. Woollen cloth. yarns. Tremel, A. and Company, Bradford. Fabrics of worsted, alpaca, mohair, shot with cotton, silk, and linen. Walker, J. and Company, Leeds. Mohair cloths. Walker, J. and Sons, Leeds. Woollen cloths. Wilkinson, John, Leeds. Felt cloth for ship sheathing and other purposes. Wrigley, J. and T. C. and Company, Huddersfield. Woollen cloths. York and Sheepshanks, Leeds. Woollen cloths. A. D. 1851 THE COUNCIL MEDAL. MANUFACTURING MACHINES AND TOOLS. Donisthorpe, G. E. Leeds. Wool combing machine. Lawson, Samuel, and Sons, Leeds. Numerous machines employed for the preparation of flax. AGRICULTURAL MACHINES, &c. Busby, W. Bedale. Two or four horse plough, horse hoe on the ridge, ribbing corn drill, and cart. Croskill, W. Beverley. Norwegian harrow, meal mill cart, clodcrusher, and gorse bruiser. Her Majesty commanded that patterns of the splendid cloths exhibited in the case of Messrs. Benjamin Gott and Sons, should be sent to the palace. The Jury prefaced the List of Exhibitors with a short account of the different processes employed at home and on the Continent. The principal difference relates to the method of producing the face on the cloth, which in this country is effected by the "roll-boiling" process, first brought into general use by Messrs. Daniell and Wilkins, of Tiverton, in 1824. The Continental mode of producing a face is cheaper than the English, but the effect is inferior; although it is not objected to abroad, and it is adopted in our own manufactures for the foreign market, With reference to the dyeing of woollen cloths, the report states, that the finer fabrics "are all equally well and permanently in the different countries, though the inferior qualities have not a permanent dye." The Report next treats of the various seats of the Woollen Cloth trade, beginning with Leeds; Huddersfield and its neighbourhood being second in importance. After this, the West of England is referred to, then Scotland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Zollverein, Austria, and the remaining foreign countries. The number of West of England, Scotch, and other British manufacturers, to whom medals were awarded by the jury, amount to seventeen. The foreign exhibitors have also been largely successful, the report awarding medals to fourteen Zollverein; seven French; five Saxony; four Russian; two Belgian; and two Australian houses. "Honourable mention" is made of two Austrian houses, and also of three pieces of weed from Sydney, "of great merit for so young a Colony." The Jury, in adjudicating upon yarns, excluded from their consideration all Berlin or embroidery yarns, dividing those which they took cognizance of into worsted, woollen, alpaca, mohair, and cashmere yarns, and mixture yarns, white and coloured. The worsted yarns were again subdivided into Merino Yarns, Lustre 86 Yarns, and Genappe and Small Ware Yarns. The largest proportion exhibited was of the Worsted Merino Yarns, supplied chiefly by France, Austria, and the Zollverein. The Report stated that there were also one or two samples deserving of note shown by English spinners, and one sample by a Russian establishment. The samples of 160 weft, shown by J. Rand and Sons, and of 144, shown by A. Pease and Company, were very good indeed; but although deserving of great credit as specimens of throstle-spun yarn, yet the jury were of opinion that the same yarn, had it been prepared on the French principle, spun on the mule, and equally well managed, would have been improved in character. The mule, which is in all but universal use, both in France and on the Continent, for spinning short stapled wools, is (combined with the French mode of preparation) better than the throstle for the production of yarns adapted to the manufacture of Merino cloths; and this circumstance, no doubt, has been the chief cause why the French have been able to take the lead through the world in Merinos and mousselin-de-laine fabrics. The best specimen of yarn, both as to softness, evenness, and fulness of thread for the number, belonged to Paturle and Company; computed by the English number it was No. 178, or 200 mille metre. A more perfect specimen of weft yarn was never seen. The term "Worsted Stuffs" is applied to fabrics made from combed wool, including also those in which combed wool is combined with cotton and with silk. These fabrics are thus distin guished from woollen cloths, in which the wool is not combed, but only carded, and which are subjected also to the process of fulling. The rapid progress of the trade may be illustrated by a reference to the town of Bradford, the centre of the manufacture, and the great market in which its productions are disposed of. At the commencement of the present century there were only three mills in Bradford; there are now in the parish upwards of 160. The total number of Worsted Factories in Great Britain and Ireland is 501; with 875,830 spindles, and 32,617 power looms. The amount of moving power is 9,890 steam, and 1,625 water. The total number of persons employed, including children, is 27,117 males, and 52,620 females. Nearly seven-eighths of these factories are in the West-riding of Yorkshire. The classification of the Worsted Stuffs is five-fold, including fabrics entirely of wool; fabrics of wool and cotton; of wool and silk; of wool, silk, and cotton; and of alpaca and mohair mixed with cotton and silk. Merinos are comprehended in the first division; and in reference to this class of goods the "unquestionable superiority" of the French was declared to be fully maintained in the Exhibition; though it is also asserted, that there were goods in the Bradford department "but little inferior to them." The Halifax goods, in the aggregate, were highly commended, and also were A.D. 1851 |