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300 piece of red tape, to mark the extent of each. Clusters of small, but elegant banners, in silk, bearing appropriate inscriptions, depend from the columns supporting the roof, and from the front of the upper boxes. The central stalls are to be occupied, principally, by ladies from distant towns. The upper boxes are to be devoted to the exhibition of the Pottery contribution, which will be placed on shelves rising above each other in about the same degree as the seats do, and thus an excellent view of it will be obtained from every part of the theatre."

The great building, thus brilliantly decorated, gained additional grandeur and beauty when filled with an almost endless variety of elegant contributions, which gave the scene rather the character of a great Art Exposition than of a mere Bazaar. It was an approach to the greater exhibitions that were to follow—the Covent Garden League Bazaar—the Exposition in Paris of 1849, and the Crystal Palace Exhibition for the Arts of all Nations of 1851. The attraction and the success are shown by the following statement:—