A list of the exhibitors in three departments of the
Industrial Exposi- tion, to whom prizes have been awarded, has been forwarded to the Daily News, by a correspondent." The departments are those of pot- tery, paper, and cotton.
In pottery, the great royal medal for excelling in Farm% rich English porcelain, stone china, and l'arian biscuit porcelain, is awarded to Messrs. H. Minton and Co., of Stoke-upon-Trent—especially for their vases and Parian statuettes. Messrs. Conelaud and Messrs. Wedgewood, obtain the second prizes—for excellency m the finer porcelains, and for goodness and cheapness of the coarser articles.
To the Royal porcelain manufacture of Berlin has been adjudged the great medal for excelling in porcelain vases, statuettes, &c., and for the spotless purity and whiteness of its products, and its excellent paintings on porcelain. The Imperial manufacture of Vienna has also been thought worthy of a prize for its rich flower-paintings and gilding. Prizes have also been ad- judged to the Royal manufacture of Meissen, and of Nympheinburg near Munich; and to Yileroy and Bach, Frankfort-on-the Order ; Otto Sirahl, of the same place; .1. G. Altmann, ]lunzlau; L. and C. Hardmuth, Bud- weir' in Bohemia ; Moritz Fischer, liorend, in Hungary. In paper manufactures, Messrs. Venables, Wilson, and Taylor, of London, obtain the great medal for first excellence in nearly every 'branch of their manufacture. Prizes are also awarded to Mesas. Cowan of Edinbtugh, Be- lame of London Lamb of Newcastle, Saunders of Dartford, and Larivoix of Angouleine. Inferior prizes are given to many foreign houses in Switzer- land, Prussia, Denmark, and one in Asiatic Turkey—Duzouglan, of Smyrna.
In cotton goods, the first prize for fine cotton yarn is gained by Messrs. Houldsworth of Manchester; that for knitting-yarns, by Messrs. Panza and Hausehild of Chemnitz. Foreign firms obtain the prizes for ducks, fine cam- brics, sailcloths, &c. ; many foreign houses preceding the well-known names of English and Scotch firms. The prizes for printed, cottons are also carried off by Germans and Frenchmen—the names of Schwarz, Chapuis, Hart- mann, Dolfur, &c., standing before those of Potter, Hoyle, Black, Sale, (late Cobden,) and Bannerman.
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