III. SUBJECTS ILLUSTRATING MANUFACTURES AND HAND LABOUR.-1. Bricklaying, D. Maclise, R.A.; 2. Carpentry, R. Burchett; 3. China Painting, H. A. Bowler; 4. Glass Blowing; 5. Iron Forging, Godfrey Sykes; 6. Jewellery, D. G. Rossetti; 7. Lace Making, R. Redgrave, R.A.; 8. Metal Casting, A. Elmore, R.A.; 9. Printing, R. Redgrave, R.A.; 10. Straw Plaiting, C. W. Cope, R.A.; 11. Weaving, Octavius Hudson; 12. Pottery, Godfrey Sykes.

IV. SUBJECTS ILLUSTRATING FINE ARTS.-1. Architecture, W. Mulready, R.A.; 2. Painting, W. Mulready, R.A.; 3. Sculpture, W. Mulready, R.A.; 4. Music, J. C. Horsley, A.R.A.

The designs before they are executed will be approved by a committee of the artists; the Marquess of Salisbury, K.G., Mr. Layard, M.P., and Mr. Cole, C.B., act as a committee of management for carrying out the experiments.

Alcock and Co. having recently passed into the hands of Sir James Duke and Nephews, it was to be expected that the show made by these gentlemen would be unique and excellent. Nor has this expectation been disappointed; for among the various cases in the Pottery Court, those from which we have selected our illustrations certainly rank with the first in attraction and value.

The chief object exhibited by Sir J. Duke and Nephews is a dessert service, designed and executed under the superintendence of George Eyre, the head artist of the establishment. The principal pieces for the centre of the table are intricately perforated baskets of exquisitely painted and elegantly decorated porcelain, supported by Parian groups, representing the Grecian attendants upon Marriage-Peace, Commerce, and Industry; and a group of boys bird-nesting. The plates pertaining to this set have painted landscapes, illustrative of "The Task" of Cowper. In the same case as the above are several vases,

material. The greatest speciality of this firm, however, consists in their numerous and faithful copies of antique Etruscan and Grecian vases; and under this head is to be noticed a very novel and striking mode of decorating black vases, by giving to the whole ground of the vase an oxidised appearance, and placing the figures in high relief, by means of their being highly glazed. The china dinner, dessert, and tea-service patterns, also, are very numerous, and many of them evince much originality. Especially graceful is the "Marmion" group, illustrative of that well-known passage from Sir Walter Scott's celebrated poem:

"With dying hand above his head
He shook the fragment of his blade,
And shouted, "Victory!""

Mr. Bayley's idea has been very faithfully rendered.

In the large group, "Cupid Captive," by W. Calder Marshall;