The National Register.
London, England, 1814-07-03 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

JUBILEE.

The Grand Jubilee now preparing in the Parks is to take place
upon the Regent's birth-day. It is his Royal Highness's intention
-that-every possible variety of amuseMeht shall be produced that may
be arreable to every clas4 of society. The distribution., it-is said,
is to be as follows :—A Grand fair is to be held in Hyde Park
which, with the Green Park, is to he thrown open to the people, and
will, in fact, conveniently accommodate the whole population of the
metropolis and its environs. To this fair all the best shows and
booths in the country are to be admitted, mid placed in the most
beautiful and perfect symmetry possible. Licences arc to !re grant-
ed to respectable Victuallers for the est;',6lisln»ent of tei-porary
buildings for the refre-lonent of the people. A naamachia, oraslunn
naval fight. upon a gra 'd scale, will he exhibited. Dancing- tints
and music will be provided. A balloon wir ascend, and the eve w-
ing will close with tire works on the terrace of Keesington C t, dens,
• and another in the Green Park, disphyed from a magnificent il.u-
, initiated temple, which will undergo varimv metamorphoses At
the same time, St. lames': Pork, with :l rtgatta on the Canal fir
the ila 's amusements, and a pi omenade with an encampment, mill
be open to all person; who, in (mhr to avoid a (P.m', may choose
to par:base tickets of admisoitai. In this park ...I, o refreshments
will be provided, and tl:c day, will coneltute with a Vanl,likll and fire
work displayed limit a Chinese hi idge awl pa:-;-oda on the c;:nal.
The amusements in cash park will be of eqm.l variety and extent,
only differing somewhat in character. The w-lifde will, by this ar-
rangement, be visible to all the people assembled : lint fir the accom-
modation of all sorb as wish to avoid a vencral mixture with the
crowd they may be separated, so that no disappointment of any kind
can be experienced—no partiality can bi: complained of; the wi •lirs
of all will be provided for ; the poor will, in the true vitit of a
national festival, have every possible amusement gratis.. ; the rich
may pnrehase the ac: nimmtlation of a less oceurievl space, while the
amusements of all *ill he equal, and indeed universal ; and the fund
raised by the sale of the tickets (issued only, it is mitler.too-1, for
the due accommodation of certain classes) will he appropri.ited to
some great and benevolent endowment, suited to the occasion and
commemorative of it.--Every department of the Government w ill
contribute by loan to the general effect certain stores noenow hi
immediate demand, owing to the present happy state of public
I i affairs ; the cost, therefore, of this splendid jubilee will be as it wile
little more than nontimal, while the fund thus to be raised for a great
I benevolent object will be an iteltial guilt to the public.

HYDF PARR.-Of forty two ?mats, which have been building at
Woolwich, five were on ‘Vednesday morning brought to the Park
cn caravans, and launched into the Serpentine River, preparatory
to the Review. The vessels are about forty feet keel, and in
breadth almut twelve feet —we mean their bearings; they appear to
be pierced for ten guns eaf.ll; but the upper works are formed of
canvas, which represent the ports for the guns. The vessels are
tiat•lmttomed, and of a very light texture—they are flush, fore and
aft, and rigged in ship fa4iion, but ithout tops or cross•trecs, which
make thrill appear like Greek polaeres. We understand there are
to he thirty men attached to each vessel. They are moored on the
west side of the river. About ten riggers are employed during the
course of the day.

ST JAmEs's P aRK.—The Inidge is thrown over the Canal, nearly
in line with St. James's Palace. The frame work is complete, and
all ready for Homing. Four or five temples, some of them with
eieht windows, are to be erected in different parts, on the north
side of the Park ; one of them stands near the bridge ; they ate to
he illuminated itt the most splendid manner.
The workmen employed on the Chinese Temple, now erecting on
the lawn of Carlten-hoie-e gardens, have been unremitting in than
'Alias; during the last month taey have worked by torch-sight;
that is, the men employed Flom nearly sun-rise to son-set have bet!)
relieved by another set of men at night. All, however, would not
do. 'the undertaking was too gigantic to be completed in time; we
mean berrire the departure of the Allied Sovereigns, in compliment
,vhont a variety of arrangements were intended, that are now
Al:ld:med. Although the temple is called a Chinese one, at present
It is not known whether it will be such ; on the contrary, it is sup-

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