one was assigned her upon the
ground-floor of the building, near the fountains. Upon her work
being complete, she was directed to place it in the gallery. This,
Mrs. Peachey considered would be to jeopardise it, from the danger
so fragile a production would probably sustain in being taken up
stairs, and still more from the heat of the sun, to which the wax
would in that situation be exposed, and which would speedily produce
Icarian results destructive to the work.--_Bell's Weekly Messenger._

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Two groups of flowers and fruit most tastefully and elaborately
executed in wax by Mrs. Peachey, of Rathbone Place, have, we regret
to say, been withdrawn from the Crystal Palace in consequence of an
inappropriate position having been assigned them by the Committee.
Mrs. Peachey, who stands unrivalled in this class of ornamental art,
feeling herself aggrieved by the decision of the committee, has
appealed from it to the judgment of the public, and with that view
has placed her works in an apartment of her residence, 35, Rathbone
Place, for inspection. The taste, the labour, the time bestowed on
these magnificent works, must have been very great, and we fancy the
visitors to the Crystal Palace will be greater losers by their
absence from that repository than even the fair artiste herself, for
they are deemed by all who have seen them the finest works of the
kind ever executed.--_Morning Herald._

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We have several times during the past week inspected, with much
gratification a magnificent bouquet of the most rare exotics, as
also a large collection of grouped fruits, modelled entirely in wax,
by Mrs. Peachey, Her Majesty's artiste in ordinary in that
department of feminine accomplishment, and intended by that lady for
competition in "the World's Fair." We have often had occasion to
witness the extraordinary skill displayed by this lady in imitating
the beauties of nature from her kindly materials, but we must
confess (although previously informed that the present works outvied
all the previous attempts of the artiste) that we were unprepared
for designs and executions so exquisitely chaste and artistic, and
true in the imitation of nature. What could have induced the
executive committee of the Great Exhibition to de