•±78 The Architectural Review and American Banders' Journal. [Jan., MANUFACTURES REVIEWED. FOREIGN. IT is pleasing to know, that our Re- view meets with a warm recognition in the Motherland, as is most practical]}' shown in the letters from England and Ireland, with reference to advertising with ns, by some of the leading manu- facturers. This is as it should be. The Telegraph has cabled together the great countries, hitherto so distantly related to each other; and now we can chat, with pleasant fluency, as though we were next neighbors. The products of each continent are transmitted, from shore to shore, in the same time that it took, some years ago, to transport goods over one-tenth of the distance on land. Let the reciprocity of national skill be fostered ; and the interchange of ideas be free, for our mutual advantage. The pages of the Review are open to the use of our European, as well as our American friends, and we shall welcome both, with equal warmth. The Seyssel Aspiialte Company, 5 Parliament Street, S. W. London, is in the full tide of successful operation ; and lias executed numerous highly creditable works, of which we maj^ name Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, Guy's Hos- pital, Woolwich Barracks, and the prison at Holloway. This remarkable material, so well known in England as Pyrimont Seyssel Asphalle, was established as far back as the 3'ear 1838 ; and bore the trade title of ,; Claridge's Patent." It is used for foundations, terraces, sidewalks, platforms, flooring, roofing, cisterns, &c. We would claim the attention of our professional men for its many merits : the chief of which is the perfect preven- tion of damp in walls and cellars. There is no more trying subject to the archi- tect, than these present ; and we are su;e a material, that has stood the severe test of so many j'ears, cannot but be desirable, on this side of the Atlantic. The manner in which it is used is highly suggestive of its perfect utility, as a preventive of wall-damp, as may be noted in the following: illustrations: — And again, we see its advantages clearly indicated in this cut :— We will conclude this notice with an interesting extract from the letter of a practical man : — " In 1839, I superin- tended the construction of a house of three stories on the Lac d'Enghien.
