little girl. And very happy they were. Never was there any one yet, whether young or old, who did not feel the happier for putting self on one side, and thinking, with a benevolent spirit, of another's wishes or enjoyment.

That night the children told their mother that her plan had succeeded to admiration; and they took home with them this good lesson from the sea-side-"Let Harriet take care of Edward, and let Edward take care of Harriet;" forbearing one another in love.” P. Q.

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THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.

No. 8.

Ir seems but the other day since we were describing the busy scene of building the Crystal Palace, and now, for these three months, it has been the great attraction for thousands and tens of thousands. But, though so many have seen it, a still greater number have never had that pleasure; we shall therefore still go on to describe the wonders it contains, for the benefit of our young friends who live at a distance from London. We feel love and good-will for them, and love and good-will should be felt by all.

Oh what a blessed thing is love,
When brothers truly share

Each other's joys with willing heart,
Each other's burdens bear!

'Tis like that precious ointment sweet,
More costly far than gold,

That richly down the flowing skirts
Of Aaron's garments roll'd.

The Committee of the Great Exhibition are,

no doubt, glad that their labours have been latterly so much lightened. They have not forgotten the four bushels of letters which were delivered to them in one morning. What would some of our country friends, who receive perhaps two or three letters in the course of a year from some relation at a distance-what would they think, were they to see four bushels of letters delivered all together?

At one time it was thought there would be but one Great Coal exhibited at the Crystal Palace, but there are two. The same remark might be made of the Great Organ, for there are several Great Organs. The largest of them weighs about thirty tons, and is thought to exceed in power its great brother in Haarlem, which has long had the credit of being the most powerful in the world. He who hears the Great Organ at the Exhibition played

Will stand astonished, and remember well
Its awful thunder and its solemn swell.

The powerful Hydraulic Press employed in the erection of the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits is the product of a master-mind. This mighty curiosity is regarded with great interest, as well it may be. To say nothing of the wood-work of the frame on which it stands, the machine alone weighs nearly sixty tons. Should you ever see the Britannia Bridge, you will acknowledge it to be one of the wonders of the world.

Many are the Spinning Machines and powerlooms brought together in the Exhibition; nor must the pound of cotton be altogether unnoticed which is to be seen there, spun into a

beautiful and even thread two hundred and thirty-eight miles in length-a line that would reach from London to Leeds, and forty miles beyond. It is said that, during the last year, Manchester alone has consumed 770,000,000 pounds of cotton, or about a thousand tons a day.

The Great American Block of Zinc ore weighs eight tons, or 16,400 pounds, perhaps the largest block of zinc ore ever obtained. Zinc used to be called spelter: it is a bluish-white metal, of a high lustre, much like tin. Brass is made of copper and zinc. Of late years, zinc has been brought into general use as a substitute for lead, in forming pipes, gutters, vessels, chimney-pots, and in covering roofs. Among the natural productions and manufactured metals of the Exhibition many are very curious.

Ore, earth and coal, and wood and shell,

In different forms appear;

Silk, cotton, wool, and orient pearl,
And precious stones are there.

We have before spoken of the red-clay Ratisbon Chessmen and the exquisite workmanship; and the Tuscan Chess-board and Chessmen are also very beautiful. The board has alternate squares of mother-of-pearl and tortoise-shell, and the men are richly wrought in gold and silver, and represent different characters; the king is a portrait of Charles the Fifth, emperor of Germany. Twelve hundred guineas is the price that is talked of for this piece of elegant workmanship. We hardly suppose that any of our young friends will wish to become purchasers. When we ourselves have twelve hundred guineas to spare, we do not intend to lay it out in a chess-board.

The Astronomical Clock, which it is said will go a hundred years without winding-up, and not err a minute in a thousand years, has excited much attention. No doubt, the accuracy of this piece of mechanism is great; but how it has been calculated that it will not err a minute in a thousand years is a puzzle, which, not being able to find out ourselves, we must leave to our readers.

A thousand years! A thousand years!
What ardent hopes, what shadowy fears,
What love and hate, and smiles and tears,
Will character these thousand years!

There are many beautiful Specimens of Cutlery in the Exhibition. Very few of our readers have any conception of the very high and the very low price of cutlery goods. We have seen a pocket-knife that could not be purchased for five pounds; and it was but the other day that we were talking with a Sheffield manufac turer, who had some fine goods in the Crystal Palace, and who sadly wanted to be appointed cutler to the Queen. He told us, among other things, that thousands of grosses of scissors were sent out of Sheffield to India at three shillings and threepence a gross. What do you think of this? Scissors at threepence farthing for a dozen pairs, which is but little more than a farthing a pair. We asked him to what use they were put. "Use!" said he, "to no use at all! They are made to be sold, and not to be used; for they will cut nothing but paper."

The following description is given of the origin of a beautiful Piece of Carving in wood, which is well worth the attention of every visitor at the Crystal Palace.

"Mr. Ringham, of Ipswich, who is well known for his skill in carving, having heard of the Great Exhibition, determined on sending to it some specimen of his workmanship. When walking one day in a wheat-field, and wondering what subject he should choose for his chisel, his eye was arrested by the beauty of a natural group, consisting of a poppy root, leaves, and heads, out of which sprung three fine ears of tall fully-ripe wheat, with several blades around it. The thought instantly struck him that he would take up the group just as it was growing, and carve it in wood. Out of a solid block of limewood the group is so delicately fashioned, that, on the slightest motion, the ears and blades of corn and the poppy heads shake as if they were as fragile as vegetable life."

The miniature Model of the Crystal Palace is said to be extremely accurate in all its proportions. Within-every girder, pillar, and staircase are portrayed in silver metal, and the flooring of the galleries laid with orangecoloured glass. Without-the frame-work is of sheet brass, bronzed and pierced. The roof of the transept is formed of glass, ridged and furrowed like the original. Whether we regard the model or the Crystal Palace itself, with all its gathered throng, let us not forget,

There is a building up above

More bright than all things here;
Oh may we, through a Saviour's love,
At last be gathered there.

Our blessed Saviour said to his disciples, "In my Father's house are many mansions: I go to prepare a place for you."