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that they be informed in sufficient time what proportion of that space will be required for Raw Materials, what proportion for Machinery, what proportion for Manufactured Articles, and what proportion for objects of Fine Art. This information should be sent on or before the days which will be communicated to each country.

The Commissioners annex a Memorandum by the Commissioners of Customs, on the subject of Custom House arrangements.

A Statement will shortly be published on the subject of the Adjudication and Distribution of Prizes. It may, however, be desirable at once to state that, in all cases in which the competition is between Exhibitors of different nations, the Prizes will be adjudged by mixed Juries of English and Foreigners.

And a statement will also be published of the arrangements to be made for the protection of articles which may be exhibited, from piracy.

J. SCOTT RUSSELL,
STAFFORD H. NORTHCOTE,
Secretaries.

CIRCULAR.

Downing Street,
18th April, 1850.

Sir,—With reference to my Circular Despatch of the 12th instant, I have the honour to inform you that Her Majesty’s Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, have taken into consideration the question of the amount of space which can be allotted in the building to be erected in this metropolis to the articles sent for Exhibition from the various dependencies of the British Crown, and that they have decided on apportioning 1000 square feet to New Zealand.

It is to be observed that of the whole gross space thus allotted to the Colonies, about one half will be reserved for passages and other purposes, and therefore the proper allowance must be made on this account in your calculation of the quantity to be sent.

As it is indispensably necessary that the Commissioners should, at as early a date as possible, receive information as to the extent to which the colony under your government is prepared to avail itself of the space reserved for it, you will take every means in your power for procuring such information and transmit the same to me, distinguishing the proportion of space which will be required, under each of the four main divisions of Raw Materials, Machinery, Manufactured Articles, and objects of Fine Art, into which, as you are already aware, it is proposed to classify the Exhibition.

If any opportunity should offer of forwarding despatches from New Zealand, so as to meet the mail steamers from China or India to this country, you will not fail to avail yourself of it, to send me a duplicate of your reply to this despatch.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

GREY.

Governor Sir George Grey.

Arrangements made by the Board of Customs for the admission of Foreign and Colonial Productions, for the purposes of the Exhibition of 1851, without duty.

It is proposed that all works from Foreign Countries intended for exhibition, shall be imported into some one or other of the following ports:

London, Liverpool,
Bristol, Hull,
Newcastle, Dover,
Plymouth, Southampton.

That the packages, when unaccompanied by the Proprietors, shall be addressed to Agents, who will be appointed at each Port by the Royal Commissioners to receive and take charge of all such packages, and whose names will be communicated to the Central Authorities in each country, and from among whom the several parties intending to send over articles for exhibition, may select the agent he proposes to employ.

The Agents will take all the needful steps for forwarding, under the directions of the Commissioners of the Customs, the packages unopened to London, (where they are not imported direct into the Port of London,) and for their delivery unopened at the building in which they are to be exhibited.

In the case of packages imported into the Port of London, the agent to whom they will be addressed will take charge of them on their arrival, and forward them unopened to the building for exhibition.

To secure the arrival of all the packages unopened and unexamined at the place of exhibition, they will be sealed at the Port of landing, with the official seal of the Board of Customs; which will afford a guarantee at the same time to the party and to the Revenue.

The whole of the goods will be admitted in the first instance, without payment of any duty; and if they are not disposed of in England, they will be delivered up for re-exportation, free of all charge for duty. If, however, they shall be disposed of in England, the duty chargeable thereon must in that case be paid before they are removed from the place of exhibition, but they cannot be removed until the exhibition is finally closed.

When the packages have been duly deposited in the building in which they are to be exhibited, they will be opened and examined in the presence of the Proprietor, or of the Agent in his behalf, and will then be in custody of the Commission, without whose authority they cannot be removed from the Exhibition.

All goods which are forwarded to England will remain deposited in charge of the Customs, until claimed by an agent of the party sending them, who will have to establish his right to remove them to the building, by producing the bill of lading, and the certificate given to the Exhibitor by the Central Authorities in each country, that such goods are intended for exposition.