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58 THE GREAT EXHIBITION
We are not afraid, however, of challenging comparison between these lines and the
following, to the same august lady, from the fair friend who has already more than once
enriched our pages with her poetic effusions :—
When first I gazed upon that beauteous brow,
And thought how early it was doomed to wear
, That " polished perturbation, golden care,"
' Men call a crown, I only wept—but now
• Far other feelings bid my bosom glow; •
For thy sweet soul-enthralling smiles declare,
O regal lady, excellent as fair,
The varied blessings which around thee flow.
In virgin bloom beloved, as queen revered,
As wife, as mother, more, still more endeared.
Long for thy happy people may*st thou live I
As long thy gifted graceful consort prove
How rich a boon thy pure, thy generous love,
The choicest treasure even thou, couldst give.
CHAPTER IX.
LETTERS OF M. BLAKQUI— concluded
LETTER Tin, : AUSTRIA—IMPERIAL PRINTING OFFICE—MAPS—BOHEMIAS' GLASS—THE CRYSTAL
FOUNTAIN—AUSTRIAN TYRANNY. LETTER IX.. : LYONS—GREAT VARIETY AND RICHNESS OF ITS
DISPLAY — GOLD CLOTH—CHURCH ORNAMENTS—CRAPES—CRAVATS—PORTRAITS . WOVEN IN
SILK—TASTE OE THE LYONNESE. LETTER S.: MTJLHOTJSE—MUSLINS, JACCONETS, ETC.—BRIL-
LIANT DYES—ENGLISH AND EOREIGN FACTORIES COMPARED—MACHINERY VERSUS WORKMEN—
GOLD AND SILVER WORKMANSHIP — ENGLISH AND EEENCH COMPARED — VARIOUS STYLES
DESCRIBED—BRONZE CHASING.
Let us now once more turn to the agreeable lucubrations'of our learned friend, M.
Blanoui.—I cease for a while, he writes, my studies upon French industry, in order to
treat of Austria and her exhibition. Austria occupies the third rank of this universal
congress; and she has appeared with a display of resources which has surprised the whole
world, except those who do not form their opinion from public report, and who do not
judge of great states from pot-house prejudices. Austria has taken the Exhibition in
earnest. She has appeared armed at all points, and every day the interest excited by
her various products, which betoken an industrial progress worthy of the attention of
manufacturing nations, is increasing. Commencing with the most liberal branch of
industry---printing—I am glad to say, that the imperial printing-office of Vienna has
exhibited the most complete collection of specimens of all known types. This collec-
tion, which contains no less than two hundred and six languages or dialects, from Phoe-
nician characters, the most ancient in the world, down to Japanese, is the most beautiful
in Europe. It is of itself a sufficient answer to the charge of love of darkness, so often
brought against Austria, and which for a long time has only been deserved by her new
government. Austria has now entered upon a new path, and although the statue of
Marshal Hadetzki. which seems to watch, leaning on a sword, over the deposits of Aus-
trian wealth, may appear an emblem little in conformity with the industrial progress of
that country, there is no other, after France and England, which merits in the same
We are not afraid, however, of challenging comparison between these lines and the
following, to the same august lady, from the fair friend who has already more than once
enriched our pages with her poetic effusions :—
When first I gazed upon that beauteous brow,
And thought how early it was doomed to wear
, That " polished perturbation, golden care,"
' Men call a crown, I only wept—but now
• Far other feelings bid my bosom glow; •
For thy sweet soul-enthralling smiles declare,
O regal lady, excellent as fair,
The varied blessings which around thee flow.
In virgin bloom beloved, as queen revered,
As wife, as mother, more, still more endeared.
Long for thy happy people may*st thou live I
As long thy gifted graceful consort prove
How rich a boon thy pure, thy generous love,
The choicest treasure even thou, couldst give.
CHAPTER IX.
LETTERS OF M. BLAKQUI— concluded
LETTER Tin, : AUSTRIA—IMPERIAL PRINTING OFFICE—MAPS—BOHEMIAS' GLASS—THE CRYSTAL
FOUNTAIN—AUSTRIAN TYRANNY. LETTER IX.. : LYONS—GREAT VARIETY AND RICHNESS OF ITS
DISPLAY — GOLD CLOTH—CHURCH ORNAMENTS—CRAPES—CRAVATS—PORTRAITS . WOVEN IN
SILK—TASTE OE THE LYONNESE. LETTER S.: MTJLHOTJSE—MUSLINS, JACCONETS, ETC.—BRIL-
LIANT DYES—ENGLISH AND EOREIGN FACTORIES COMPARED—MACHINERY VERSUS WORKMEN—
GOLD AND SILVER WORKMANSHIP — ENGLISH AND EEENCH COMPARED — VARIOUS STYLES
DESCRIBED—BRONZE CHASING.
Let us now once more turn to the agreeable lucubrations'of our learned friend, M.
Blanoui.—I cease for a while, he writes, my studies upon French industry, in order to
treat of Austria and her exhibition. Austria occupies the third rank of this universal
congress; and she has appeared with a display of resources which has surprised the whole
world, except those who do not form their opinion from public report, and who do not
judge of great states from pot-house prejudices. Austria has taken the Exhibition in
earnest. She has appeared armed at all points, and every day the interest excited by
her various products, which betoken an industrial progress worthy of the attention of
manufacturing nations, is increasing. Commencing with the most liberal branch of
industry---printing—I am glad to say, that the imperial printing-office of Vienna has
exhibited the most complete collection of specimens of all known types. This collec-
tion, which contains no less than two hundred and six languages or dialects, from Phoe-
nician characters, the most ancient in the world, down to Japanese, is the most beautiful
in Europe. It is of itself a sufficient answer to the charge of love of darkness, so often
brought against Austria, and which for a long time has only been deserved by her new
government. Austria has now entered upon a new path, and although the statue of
Marshal Hadetzki. which seems to watch, leaning on a sword, over the deposits of Aus-
trian wealth, may appear an emblem little in conformity with the industrial progress of
that country, there is no other, after France and England, which merits in the same