Again, some beautiful damasked fabric is exhibited; the only merit consists in its being made entirely of flax. This statement must be appended, or there is no use in exhibiting it; but if stated, the _Commissioners are responsible_ that there is no silk intermixed: multitudes of similar cases might be adduced. But the truth is, that no such responsibility as that which they have assumed, ought to be placed on the Commissioners; their duty is sufficiently arduous, and their previous experience very limited. A certain per centage of error and accident, will necessarily occur, even to the most highly informed, and if they industriously exercise the knowledge they may acquire in carrying on this undertaking, the public ought to be grateful for their labours—to assist them in carrying out their regulations, and remonstrate strongly only when their rules violate the very foundations of those principles on which the whole advantage of the Exposition rests. § Nothing could have been more simple than to have repudiated any such guarantee, and to have left the public to trust to the integrity and honour of the exhibitors, which, considering the danger and facility of detection, would have been a sufficient security. The Royal, and almost all other scientific Societies, place at the head of each volume a distinct declaration that their authors alone are responsible, both for the facts as well as for the reasonings contained in their respective memoirs. § If the alternative were proposed, Shall the rule rigidly laid down be?— “No article shall have its price marked on it”—or, “Every article must have its price marked upon it,”—the disadvantages would be far less under the latter rule. The essential principle of the Exposition being the increase of commerce and the exchange of commodities, it might even be contended that sales should be permitted on the premises. The chief objection to this arises from the impediments it might offer to the free access of visitors to the examination of the articles exhibited. Means, however, might be suggested by which that objection would be considerably removed. It might, for instance, be permitted to all those exhibitors of articles of moderate size, that they should bring in with them each morning a sufficient number of such articles, done up in paper ready to be delivered to the purchaser on his handing over the money price. This would apply to a large number of articles, as shawls, dresses, &c. In other articles, sold by weight, packets might be previously made up of various weights, as one pound, three pounds, six pounds, &c. In those sold by length, parcels of fixed numbers of yards might be prepared. If this system were still thought to be inconvenient from causing crowds in particular spots, it might be permitted to the attendants to take orders for articles to be sent home in the evening, and paid for either at the time or on delivery.