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WESTMINSTR,-Mr. J. Brown, of 236 Regent Street (Gold Lae Embroidery and th
Manufacture of Plate Glass), Mr. J. G. Crace, of 14 Wigmore Street (Trade
of 
Decorator), Mr. S. Lewis, of 193 Regent Street (Silk Trade), Mr. P. Graham,
of 
37 Oxford Street (Carpet Manufacture), Mr. T. J. Miller, of 7 Millbank Street
(Manufacture of Refined Spermaceti and Oil), Mr. W. G. Rogers, of 10 Carlisle
Street, Soho (Ornamental Carving), Mr. E. Snell, of 27 lbemarle Street (Cabinet
Making and Upholstery Trade). 
WE IORD,-G. Le Hunte, Esq., 3. P. (Agricultural Interest), R. Sparrow, Esq,
(Ship 
Building Interest), W. Lewis, Esq. (Manufacture of Calico). 
WHiTBY,-W. Moberly and Henry Belcher, Esqs. 
The Royal Academy has given 5001. to the Exhibition. The gift is a noble
one, and contrasts well with other donations, which positively and relatively
ought to have been larger than they have been. We are glad to hear on all
sides that the aspect of the subscriptions is promising, and that they are
likely to be sufficient to carry out the Exhibition with credit to the country.
Up to the present time, the amount reported to the Commissioners we believe
to be about 48,000 ; but about half the local committees have not yet reported
even their first list of subscriptions. 
THE EXHIBITION OF MEDLEVAL ART AT T       SOCIETY OF ARTS. 
BmoR   we proceed to our promised analysis of this collection, our readers
will probably forgive our saying a few words on the general principles, an
attention to or oblivion of which it is, that respectively characterises
ancient 
and modern art-workmanship. It is always well for the traveller, before com-
mencing even a ramble, to take with him a good stout walking-stick with 
(Bronze Mortar, date 1640, in the possession of Mr. . Utting.) 
a serviceable crook, one likely to be useful to him all his journey through,
and 
it is with just such a mental staff that we mean to try to accommodate him.
It is a sad pity that when our industrious though somewhat cloudy 
neighbeurs, the Germans, propounded their admirable systems of objec- 
tive and subjective criticism, they confined their canons to so great an
extent to the abstract, instead of applying their scale to the arts of