The judges met at Ironmongers’ Hall on Tuesday last to inspect the exhibits, and were in several instances sorely tried, for most of the work sent in was, as we stated, very creditable. The Blacksmiths called to their aid skilled practical craftsmen outside their own body, so that the decisions arrived at must be considered eminently satisfactory. The general public viewed the exhibits on Wednesday and Thursday, and on Friday (yesterday) afternoon the prizes were awarded to the successful competitors in the fine Hall of the Ironmongers in the presence of a numerous company. The following were the successful recipients:— APPRENTICES AND YOUTHS. 1.—A. Harvey, 33 Marsham Street, Westminster, gas-bracket. First prize, first section, 3_l._ 2.—Arthur Beaver, 4 Victoria Terrace, Kilburn, electric table-lamp. Second prize, first section, 2_l._ 3.—J. B. Imison, 31 Rowena Crescent, Battersea, suspending-lamps. First prize, second section, 4_l._ and medal. 4.—C. Baker, 17 South Wharf Road, Paddington, three-candle bracket. Second prize, second section, 3_l._ 5.—A. W. Elwood, 9 Kennington Park Gardens, two panels, 40 × 10½. First prize, third section, 5_l._ 6.—F. Burkitt, 4 Great Suffolk Street, Southwark, three-candle stand. Second prize, third section, 4_l._ and medal. JOURNEYMEN. 1.—G. Snailum, 66 Clarendon Road, Hornsey, panel, 36 × 13½. First prize, 10_l._ 2.—H. Ross, 13 Melton Street, N.W., bracket and oil-lamp. Second prize, 7_l._ 10_s._ 3.—T. R. Kendall, 11 Haymerle Road, Peckham, suspending-lamp holder, third prize, 5_l._ In the preface to their list of exhibits the Company (through their energetic clerk, Mr. W. B. Garrett) appeal to exhibitors: The Blacksmiths’ Company initiate this exhibition in the hope that British workmen will once more come to the front, and show that they can make as good and as elegant articles, both for use and ornament, as can the foreign artisan. Many persons who visited the Italian Exhibition last year saw what that country could produce, and must have been struck by the number of articles in ornamental ironwork sold, and, in many instances, in which copies were ordered. Why does not the English workman endeavour to follow—shall I not say lead?—in such work, and so retain in this country a growing and profitable industry? We can endorse this appeal, and hope that the first exhibition may be but the forerunner of many others, each to be more successful than its predecessor. The Blacksmiths expressed their best thanks to the Ironmongers for so kindly lending their hall, as also to Sir P. C. Owen and his staff at the South Kensington Museum for sending on loan a most interesting and valuable collection of ancient ironwork, chiefly of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth century. Among the articles exhibited were:—