The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-30 00:00:00

A NEW YORK HOTEL.

The rise, progress, and partial results of the system re-
cently introduced, upon which the large hotels of this
city have been conducted, are illustrated in the success
of the Metropolitan Hotel, under the management of the
Messrs. Leland. After more than two years, occupied
in the construction of that immense edifice, it was
opened to the travelling public on the Ist day of Sep-
tember, 1852. It was finished and furnished through-
out with a degree of magnificence which, up to that
time, had never been attempted in any city in the
world, and has not been surpassed since. From
the first hour of its opening the house has literally
been crowded with guests, and the enterprise of
its proprietors has been richly rewarded. The arrivals
and departures have averaged more than one thousand
per week ; and such has been the desire to secure even
a temporary habitation at the Metropolitan, that fre-
quently more than one hundred cots have been spread
for weeks in succession. The public parlours, reception-
rooms, reading-rooms, bath-rooms, and, in fact, every
available spot has been in requisition for sleeping places.
To make room for this rush of travellers, the proprietors
have leased two large houses in their immediate vicinity,
for the accommodation of their employa, and they have
been compelled to provide lodgings in neighbouring
houses for many of their regular boarders. The
Metropolitan Hotel proper will comfortably accommo-
date six hundred, and it has had, from the start, more
than that number within its walls. Three hundred per-
sons are employed in different capacities about the esta-
blishment, averaging one employe to every two visitors.
Experience has proved that anything short of this pre-
vents a proper and prompt administration of internal and
external affairs. The wages of employes range from two
shillings to five dollars per day. This will give a pretty
good idea of the expenditures under this head alone. The
laundry of the house is, probably the most complete and
extensive of any in the world, four thousand pieces are
washed daily, and in an emergency 15 minutes suffice to
wash, dry, iron, and deliver linen for occupants at the
house.

There is one continual round of feasting from morning
till night, or rather from morning till morning again.
The first breakfast table is spread at five o'clock in the
morning, and until one o'clock the next morning the
different meals are served ; at every hour of the day and
and night the travellers arriving or departing can supply
the inner man with every luxury the market affords.
The frequent arrival and departure of the trains and
steamers makes this indispensable. The consumption of
solids and liquids at this establishment, during the year
ending September 1, 1853, shows that the proprietors
must have had a small army to provide for. It also
shows that they have given them all the luxuries as well
as the necessaries of life. Among the leading articles of
consumption, we notice—

Beef, 418;0001bs. ; lamb and mutton, 3,500 head ;
veal, 150 head; fish and lobster, 110,0001bs. ; oysters
and olams, 629,000; poultry and game, 171,000 head;
ham and pork, 91,0001bs.; butter and cheese, 65,000111 s.;
eggs, 780,000 ; milk and cream, 204,000 quarts ; flour
and corn meal, 2,800 brls. ' • fruits and vegetables, value
4,000/. ; brandy and other liquors, 6,322 gallons; cham-
pagne, 21,160 bottles; sherry, Madeira, &c., 22,912
bottles ; claret and white wines, 18,942 bottles. This
is independent of malt liquors, cordials, cooking wines,
&c. The beef consumed last year in this house required
a drove of 1,000 head to supply it.
The enumeration of these items, although comprising
but a small portion of the articles consumed, shows that
the annual expenditures must be immense, and that
large receipts are necessary to furnish means to meet
such an outlay. This luxury and extravagance cannot
be supported without great cost, and guests who pay bills
with alarming totals must not suppose for a moment that
it all goes into the proprietors' pockets.
The gross cash receipts of the Metropolitan Hotel for
the year ending Sept. 1, 1853, were 110,0001., of which
about 20 per cent. were profits. This is independent of
wear and tear, which is by no means a small item, par-
ticularly with such splendid and expensive furniture and
appointments. The eost of heating the house and
the gas consumed, during the year, was 3,000/. Croton
water rent 2001. Six stages and twenty carriages are
constantly employed in transporting passengers to and
from the hotel. During the year several public dinners
were given at this house, the last of which was the Cry-
stal Palace banquet. Two splendid balls were given,
one by the proprietors and one by the guests ; besides
this a hop has been given on Wednesday evening of
each week throughout the dancing season. It requires
men of no ordinary talent, and pockets of no ordinary
depth, to put into operation and carry out successfully
such an immense establishment, and we are glad to
learn that the Messrs. Leland, in every particular, have
realised their most sanguine anticipations.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM-HOUSE-Sm. 29.

ENTERED INWARDS.—The Salisbury, American Con-
gress, Ceoro Gordo, Jessy, from Antigua ; Christiaue,
Quebec ; Zento, Canton ; Orion, Bathurst, R.G. ; Kent,
Calcutta ; Cape Circassian, Gibraltar ; Headitz Laura,
Port Moro ; Euterpe, Calcutta ; Violet, Denia ; Emilie,
Terceira ; Sarah Lucy, Wallace, N.S. ; Petrel, Denia ;
Richmond, New York ; Tadousac, Quebec ; Felicity,
Dunkirk.

ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Delia Chnpin,
New Orleans ; Hydra, New York ; John Oldham, Con-
stantinople ; Catharine, Amsterdam and Odessa ; Hen-
drika Catharine, do. ; Alice, Jamaica ; Orion, Bathurst,
R.G. ; Garland, Jamaica ; Graham, Port Philip and Syd-
ney ; Maid of Auckland, Cape of Good Hope ; Iris, St.
Petersburgh, Simon's Bay ; Lilly of the Valley, Dun-
kirk ; Britannia, Geelong.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Eastern State,
for Port Philip ; Claret, Charente ; Oden, Gothenberg ;
Susan and Ellen, Treport ; Jane Sawyer, Elsinore and
Riga ; Kleine Bernhard Voss, Leer ; Agenoria, Buckham,
Monte Video ; Ascendant, Bombay and Buenos Ayres ;
Kaffer Greetje, Amsterdam; Egerton, Cronstadt.