ILLUSTRATIONS OF DUTIES BY LOCAL COMMITTEES.
placed in tho hands of tlio Secretary of the Working Men’s Committee, but no fund was esta-tdishod for the purpose. The working men, indeed, generally refused to exhibit on iindingthat mechanical inventions had no security from piracy.
On the 31st of October 1851, the demands for horizontal space were as follows :—
<ect. 7., 800 sq. ft. ; Sect. 7 /., 19,500 sq. ft. ; Sect. 777., 4,00G sq. ft. ; Sect. 71'., 04 sq. ft.
The space granted after theso returns were transmitted was as follows :—
Sect. I., 480 sq. ft.; Sect. 77., 14,000 sq. ft.; Sect. HI., 2,400 sq. ft. ; Sect. 7 l r ., 120 sq. ft.
The vertical space granted was 13,000 feet, which somowhat exceeded the demands.
In tlio beginning of January 1851 a deputation consisting of Messrs. Salis Schwabe, RalcolmRoss, W. Fairbairn, E. T. Bellhouse, attended by Mr. Thomas Worthington, the Acting Secre-tary, proceeded to London to obtain definite information on a number of points, about whichinquiries were constantly being made by local exhibitors, and which the Committee did notfeel itself in a position to answer. Some of the questions thus presented were as follows :—Whether tlio grouping would bo as to class of manufacture or as to district 1 Particulars asto tho counters, walls, passages, &c., and whether each contributor would have to provido hisown fittings, or whether they would bo provided by tho Commission 1
When would bo the latest date at which articles for exhibition must bo sent 1 Particularsas to shafting ; how far provided by Commission, &c. "Who is to bo at tho expense ofworking “ Machinery in Motion 1” As to travelling clubs, &c., &c.
About tho middle of February 1851 tho number of applications to tho local Committee forextension of time for the delivery of articles in the building, from the 1st of March to the 1stof April, was so great that the local Committee sent Mr. Worthington, their Acting Secretary,to London to confer personally with tho Executive Committee upon tho subject, the Com-mittee offering to plodge itself that tho whole of the articles to which such an extension isgranted should bo delivered in tho building on or before that day.
Early in March a portion of the Catalogue proof was sent down for correction. These woresubmitted to each exhibitor, who made his own corrections on the margin.
On the 19th of March tho Committee mot to nominate gentlemen as Jurors in the severalClasses, as requested by Her Majesty’s Commission.
Early in Juno, by tho request of tho Royal Commission, tho Committee mado a further col-lection of tho staple manufactures of the district, it being considered that the articles sentfrom Manchester did not sufficiently illustrate tho manufactures of tho district. Accordinglya collection, to which many of tho most important firms contributed, was made, and forwardedimmediately'.
Thomas Worthington, Secretary.
Statement of the Operations of tlie Maryeehone Local Committee.
Thu Marylebono Committee was formed in May, 1850, in pursuance of resolutions adopted ata public meeting convened by tho inhabitants of the borough (which comprises tho threeparishes of St. Marylebono, St. 1’micros, and Paddington), and consisted of sixty members,including Lord Portman, tho Churchwarden, the Members for tho Borough, other Membersof Parliament , Gentlemen and 'Tradesmen resident in the borough. Five gentlemen woreappointed Treasurers to tho Committee, and the bankers were authorized to honour thocheques of any two of them countersigned by tho Secretary.
In the first place, tho resolutions adopted at tho public mooting, with tho names of thoCommittee, were advertised in tho public newspapers, with a request to tho inhabitants toco-operate in forwarding the undertaking, and notifying that subscriptions would bo receivedby the bankers, all tho members of the Committeo, and the Secretary.
A Sub-Committee was also appointed to divide tho borough into districts for tho purposeof collecting subscriptions, and to report upon tho employment of collectors, which Sub-committee recommended the appointment of tho parochial collectors for tho office of collectorsto the Committeo, they being persons whom the public were acquainted with ; and thoborough was accordingly divided, and tho collectors appointed. 'Tlio remuneration to thocollectors was 5/. per cent, commission on all subscriptions received by them, and ono pennyfor each packet delivered at tho respective houses in tho district. Tho report of tho publicmeeting was printed, and 30,000 copies distributed, with a letter from tho Secretary solicitingsubscriptions, and in a few days after tho delivery thereof tho collector called for a sub-scription.
'The subscriptions announced to tho Committeo were from time to time advertised in thoseveral public papers, and further subscriptions solicited. At tho same time, advertisementswero issued for intending exhibitors to make returns of tho articles they intended to exhibit,and forms for that purpose wore furnished on application to tho Secretary, who, as thoapplications wore received, forwarded copies to tho Executive Committee. Tho Secretarycommunicated with tho manufacturers and all persons resident in tho borough likely' to