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Class 1.—MINING- AND MINERAL PRODUCTS.South Side—Areas S. 1 to S. 27.

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110 Michell, Sarah, St. Austel /— Producer.

White china-clay, for manufacturing china and earth-enware, also for bleaching paper, calico, &c.

111 Wandesforde, Hon. Charles, Castlccomer —

Proprietor.

Specimens of anthracite coal. Iron-stone. Fire-clayfor fire-bricks. Slate-clay, for flooring-tiles,_ milk-pans,flower-pots, &c. Clay for making draining-tiles. Sand ,for fire'bricks and moulding.

111a Specimens of china-stone and china-clay.

112 Beamish, —.

Carbonate of barytes in lump and powdered.

112a Specimens of fire-clay.

113 Phippard, Thomas, Wareham —Proprietor.Potters’, and pipe or brown clay, from Carey pits, with

ware and tobacco pipes made from them; also silicioussand, for the manufacture of glass.

115 King, George, Demidge Lodge, Cazelcy , nearNewmarket —Manufacturer.

Red brick earth as dug from the pit. Red buildingbricks, pamment bricks, and coping bricks made fromthe earth.

110 Enniskillen, the Earl of, Florence Court.

Two kinds of clay, and drain pipes and tiles made ofthem.

117 Squires & Sons, Stourbridge —Producer.

Model of a glass-house furnace, with pots of Stourbridge

fire-clay, showing one in a working state; and of a pot, inwhich the glass is melted.

118 Anstey, S., 10 Devonshire Street , Iloxton Fields

—Manufacturers.

Pots for melting iron, brass, gold, silver, antimony, &c.

110 Fisher, Frederick, Woolpit, Suffolk —

Manufacturer.

Specimens of Woolpit brick-earth.

"YVhit^ building bricks.

Pamment bricks and draining pipes.

120 Walker, R., Victoria Works , Beverley —

Manufacturer.

Carbonate of lime, from the quarry, Victoria Works,Beverley; and Paris white, manufactured from it.

121 Deering, James, Middleton, Cork.Ireland —

Producer.

Various materials obtained at Rostellan, county of Cork ,Ireland , adapted for use in the manufacture of the betterkinds of porcelain and earthenware. These include sam-ples as raised from the mine,'- which was opened in 1850,and the different substances as used in the arts, and arti-cles of earthenware and glass, manufactured from them.

122 Pease, Joseph, Darlington —Producer.

Coal, from Pease’s West Collieries, used for generalpurposes.

Coke manufactured from the coal.

Fire-clay, from above and below the coal. The samematerial in different stages of manufacture.

Ware produced from the fire-clay.

Fire-bricks, pipes for sewerage and agricultural drains,coping ridge-tiles, paving quarries, &c.

123 Hodson, Sir G., Bart., Ilollybrooke Bray , County

Wicklow , Ireland — Proprietor.

Silicious sand formed by the decomposition of thequartz rock of the Sugar-loaf Mountain in County Wick-low . It is found in all shades of colour, from pure whiteto dark orange, the latter being acquired by its admixturewith a metallic substance. It is used in the manufactureof porcelain.

123a Long, John E. E., County Roscommon —Producer.Specimens of drain pipes.

124 Smedley, Thomas, Well Street, Holywell—Producer.

Sand for glass making, and clay from Lanclidno.

124a Johnstone, William, County Leitrim —Producer.Specimens of drain pipes.

125 Lee, John, LL.D., Hartwell, near Aylesbury —

Proprietor.

Samples of fine washed sand, from a sandhill in theparish of Stone, near Aylesbury.

White, yellow, blue, and green glass prisms, made fromthe same.

Two spheres of white glass, made from the same sand.[These sands are from soft beds of the lower green-sand series, of which there is a considerable thickness,forming a knoll at Stone . There is about 8 feet of whitishsand below 7 feet of sand and sandy clay, containingimpure fuller’s earth. The lower green-sand terminatesa little to the west, and is succeeded by the beds of Port-land stone, forming a distinct ridge nea Hartwell, butcovered and obscured by beds of gravel.—D. T. A.]

126 Methven, David, & Sons, Kirkaldy , Scotland —

Manufacturers.

Drain-pipes, with collars; registered drain-pipes, withimproved methods of joining, to save collars. Drain-pipes, showing a new method of joining the leading drainswith the main. Sewer or water pipes.

Ventilating roof-tiles, for stables or granaries.

Vandyke border edgings.

Mugs; a new method of dipped turning; a cheap imita-tion of printing.

127 North Devon Pottery Company, Anncry, near

B ideford —Manufacturers.

Raw clay as raised from the pit.

Gravel or sand, from the bed of the River Torridge,near Bideford.

Mixture of clay and sand, prepared for manufacturing.Sewerage pipes of different dimensions and forms.Strong and cheap water-closet pan, for cottages, &c.Hollow brick, ornamental ridge and garden tiles, &c.made from the same.

127a

Pipe-clay pipes, and sand for glassmaking.

128 Buller, T. W., Bovey Tracey Pottery, Devon —Producer.

Specimens of lignite or Bovey coal.

Specimens of earthenware fired with Bovey coal, andshowing the colour of the Kiugsteignton clays. This isthe only instance in which lignite has been successfullyapplied to the firing of earthenware in England. Exten-sive deposits of lignite exist both in France and Germany ;but De Brogniart (Traitd des Arts Ceramiques, vol. i.,p. 222) says, that no one has yet succeeded in the manu-facture of earthenware with this fuel except at Elbogen,where it is used mixed with other coal.

Patent stilts and cockspurs used in the manufacture ofearthenware.

[The Bovey coal is a thick bed of lignite, of compara-tively modern date, and existing in the state of bituim-nized wood, generally coniferous. It is brittle, andleaves a considerable' quantity of white ash when burned.It seems a lacustrine deposit, and extends seven or eightmiles, having in some places eighteen or twenty beds oflignite, varying in thickness from one to three feet. •D. T. A.]

128a Gore, Charles William, Moreton-in-Marsh—Proprietor.

Brown ochre, in its raw state, used for staining and