about the industry of all nations, and we have gone through the
World's Show together. We have seen nearly all the useful and splendid
things sent to the Great Exhibition from all parts of the world. I
have told you about Europe, and Asia, Africa, and America; and I must
soon leave you. But before I go, we must have another look at the
Exhibition, and one more glance at those few things which we have not
as yet seen.

We forgot to examine this magnificent chess-board, worth one thousand
two hundred guineas. You will doubtless wonder why it is such a dear
board, but your surprise will cease when you observe that the
"checks," as they are called, are of mother-of-pearl and
tortoiseshell, while the rim is of beautifully burnished gold, and the
chessmen are of gold and silver, elaborately wrought, and ornamented
with the portraits of celebrated historical characters; one of them
represents the Emperor, Charles the Fifth. I dare say you would like
to play a game with me on this chess-board. As a companion to this
beautiful chess-board, is a very elegant colour box, fit for the
Queen, or the most noble young lady in the land, to use for painting
with. And here is a model of the town of Liverpool, with several
thousand little people in the streets; and these figures are so
exceedingly small, that a thousand of them would fit into an ordinary
sized pill box.

In contrast to this specimen of a great town in a minute space, we
have in front of the transept a wonderful clock, which is kept in
motion by a set of powerful electro magnets, eight in number, on which
is wound a length of twenty-five thousand feet of copper wire. This
gigantic time-keeper sets in motion the immense hands on the principal
dial, which is twenty-four feet in diameter, besides two smaller ones