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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. 14 [JANUARY 11, 1867. his intention, and of the probable size of his case, before the end of the present month. On forwarding the goods, a letter of advice should be sent to Mr. Elliott; and it is desirable that this letter should contain the official labels which will be issued by the Exhibition Commissioners, that he may affix them, as if affixed when sent from the photo grapher they might mislead the carrier, and delay the delivery to Mr. Elliott. It should be distinctly understood that the packages must be delivered to Mr. Elliott without any charges for carriage whatever upon them ; that the fee of ten shillings for each fifty-pounds’ weight should be paid in advance; and that all unnecessary correspondence and trouble should be avoided. We feel ourselves concerned to make this request, for having asked Mr. Elliott to under take the task, which will be at best onerous and without profit, it should not be made more so by neglect of proper thought and attention. When the cases are returned to Mr. Elliott’s warehouse at the close of the Exhibition, each owner can make his own arrangements with Mr. Elliott for obtaining possession of his case of pictures. We believe that these arrangements will be considered satisfactory by all contributors, and we hope that they will aid in securing a satisfactory representation of British photography in Paris. We now subjoin extracts from the latest issued instruc tions to exhibitors. Transport of Goods. 1. The time has now arrived when it is expedient that exhibitors should consider the best course to adopt for the transport of their goods to the Exhibition Palace in the Champ de Mars. It is therefore necessary that you inform the British Executive, on or before 15th January, 1867, what arrangements you have entered into for the transmission of your goods. 2. The following points are indispensable:—That you appear yourself to receive and arrange your goods, or, that you send the name of the agent you appoint to represent you. 3. That all charges upon the carriage of your goods into the building in the Champ de Mars be prepaid. If this be omitted, the goods cannot be delivered at the Exhibition building. 4. Official labels will be issued by the British Executive, and, in accordance with the regulations of the Imperial Commission, must be attached to each package. You are recommended to be careful in attaching the label, and also to paint the same address on one or more sides of your packages. For the security of the empty packages a label should be attached to the bottom of the inside of the package. 5. To save exhibitors the trouble of the Customs arrangements, M. Moreno Henriques, the Traffic Manager of the Chamber of Commerce at the Paris Custom House, has been appointed Custom House Agent to the British Executive. It is therefore indispen sable that upon each separate despatch of goods, whether of one or more cases, you should fill up in duplicate the accompanying form, one copy to be forwarded with the goods, and the other for the information of M. Moreno Henriques, addressed to the Secretary British Commission, 71, Avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris. A supply of these forms, with official labels, will be sent to you upon demand. fl 6. The expenses connected with the clearance of the goods in the building by the Custom House Agent are defrayed by the British Executive. 7. In 1855, the goods were sent to Paris by the French authorities through Dunkerque and other ports, received at the goods stations of the Paris railways, and carted to the Exhibition buildings. In 1867, the French Imperial Commission leave to exhibitors the cost of transporting their own goods. It seems almost like a touch of satire that the British executive should devote a paragraph to the statement of the fact that in 1855 the authorities conveyed the goods of exhibitors to Paris free, but that in 1867 they must pay for them themselves. Several paragraphs are then devoted to a statement of the various routes by which goods may be sent; after which we have the following:— 13. The British Executive, having thus furnished the informa tion in their possession, leave it to exhibitors to consider and notify before the 15th January, 1867, the mode selected for the transmission of their goods, and to state the probable weight of the packages to be sent. Upon the receipt of this information, the British Executive will exert any influence they may possess to expedite the delivery of the goods. According to the experience obtained at the Paris Exhibition of 1855, it was found that at least twelve days were occupied in the transmission of goods, even by the 1 quickest route. Then follows a notification which will be of interest to any exhibitor who may choose to send his goods direct to the charge of the British Executive, without availing him self of the opportunity we have indicated :— STOWAGE of Empty Packing Cases. 14. The Paris Chamber of Commerce, wishing to assist foreign I exhibitors as much as possible, have permitted their Customs | Traffic Manager, M. Moreno Henriques, 17, Rue de la Douane, 1 Paris, to make, under their authority, the following proposal for | the care of empty cases. M. Moreno Henriques will have a staff 1 in the building, a’nd the Chamber of Commerce have secured a site I in the neighbourhood of it. 15. Extract from the Tariff of the Traffic Manager, approved by I the Chamber of Commerce at Paris, on the 18th October, 1866 ;—■ stowage of empty cases. 16. Closing, numbering, removing, and conveying the empties I to the warehouse (including men’s time), classing, stowing, and 1 keeping of the empties with all their appendages, and insuring 1 the same against fire during the Exhibition, and taking the 1 empties back to the Exhibition, will be charged at the following 1 rates:— Per case of one cubic metre, and under . 2 francs For every metre above, or part of a metro. 50 centimes. Each exhibitor will receive a form which he must fill up for the Custom House authorities according to instructions. IS SWAN’S CARBON PROCESS PRACTICABLE ? One of the most interesting incidents of the past year, in our estimation, was the issue to two photographic societies j of presentation pictures printed in permanent pigments. In, I one case upwards of a hundred, and in the other, half that number, of perfect prints with exquisite gradation of half tone, fine in colour, and very vigorous as we 1 ! as soft, were j issued to what may fairly be assumed to be competent ( critics, produced by a process which, as it existed half-a- I dozen years ago, was regarded as quite incapable of yielding ’ either gradation or delicacy in any way comparable to silver prints. Is this process practicable? That it is so on a large scale, Mr. Swan has demonstrated. How far it will be equally so in the hands of the portraitist or amateur re- ' quiring only a few prints from each negative, remains to be tried; and a definite answer can only be given after a fair trial. Our own impression is, that using the plain tissue । prepared by Messrs. Mawson and Swan, and sensitizing it 1 when required, it will be found perfectly practicable under 1 all circumstances ; that when once arrangements are made in an establishment, and the details of the manipula tion mastered, it will be found as simple and easy as any ] other method of printing. Nay, further, we have a convic- | tion that if this method of printing had been first dis- I covered and practised, and that of silver printing been a subsequent discovery, the latter would have been regarded I as a complicated, uncertain, and imperfect substitute for a process at once simple, certain, and philosophical. Carbon printing now, however, for the first time comes before the ‘ public in a practical form, and challenges competition with silver printing on the ground of equal beauty, simpli- ■ city, practicability, economy, and of greater permanency. It may be interesting briefly to examine its claims to prefer- j ence, and in doing so we shall, to some extent, quote words we have written elsewhere. The first consideration is pictorial beauty. Whatever i claims a process might possess on the score of simplicity, economy, or permanency, if its results were inferior in | beauty to those already obtained, it would receive but a cold welcome from photographers and the public, and its application would bo confined to matters in which the mere ) record of fact, and not the embodiment of beauty, was necessary. No jot of pictorial excellence must bo wanting in a process which aspires to supersede silver-printing in its present perfect state. Fortunately, in the new carbon pro-
