The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-23 00:00:00

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THE AMERICAN .E. 2111131
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NEW YORK, JUNE 9.—lt is the boast le)very Loaf;
from a small beginning, it advances with As
with reference
" World's Fair"—and speaking say
co 5 brh
its American successor—this boast be La
dwindled
a more perfect development But wthe enterP- eon
of the " tallest rO.
a snow-ball; and the country proud ,
The glittering avalanche of Hyde
11 probahlY
racts," and the "loudest thunder,' wl being held
.park has „st
ifl
duce an Exhibition inferior to that ;sow
socc.
the Irish metropolis. • the
An undertaking so vast seemed
tion and support of something- more thaaelico politl
prise. Nevertheless the form of the ioesedth°
system, and the constitutional restriction" t
e that
tne Federal Executive, rendered it impetbs
rough by
'
matter should be taken up and carried _ eempini;
ad
the -Atl
Government.aud i
ts but
just lt t
ot therefore devolved
thatd
rican " Association for an Exhibition of the
ril_tawith ar!.'
to re
etvhoelvdeidreucptoovlin °
all Nations" have laboured energetically*, if „ 0,101
to
very brilliant success, to carry out the imraeus'le
beneficial design. quire
ee.,„
the Difficultiess
outset,
localal l
jealousiesnds beset them s
refused
dt
topeeveri ttnnos :1;1
city to usurp the importance of a nationatTcohlp
Boston demanded that it should be the favour em,' hisr,
and so with Philadelphia, Baltimore, itce:_4ol,o
ever, a display of European products was
i,?cei pre-0:;
the commercial, financial, and geegrarweld,a ; and
nence of New York was reluctantly cone
oted °to;
the 11th of March, 1852, the Legislature gr
aioe.
Provisional directors a charter of lucerne'. fsq,
the 17th of the same month, Theodore Sedg.Teet '
oftill
a lawyer of some celebrity, was elected reel
trees
association, and Mr. William Whetter, treas
secretary.
The company was chartered for five Yreargsoif s'l`
liberty to raise a capital of $300,000, in shady slisri;
each, no one subscriber to hold more than
tithe The City Corporation granted a site for the the
Reservoir-square, and it was announced by JO"'
tors, without reserve, that the Exhibition shell
mence upon the Ist of May, 1853." eget'
Mr. Charles Buschek, of London (wile ° k
as Austrian Commissioner at the Hyde Pile
recommended him), was now appointed to are foiro
Foreign Department of the enterprise ; and stiPp
Ministers at Washington promised the cordia
of their respective Governments. Mr. C. rtieg
and Mr. Horatio Allen were appointed coon
chitects and engineers ; and it now only rain'
find a proper plan for the building.
guSlairr to deck
rican" Exhibition of it induced the directors
4oita,'
Jbeoasueptyh, Pbauxtttobnegrpaaltturyitoduesslyirefutornmisakhecel onne,o,fA
his offer. Finally, however, they were n rchjedo
to adopt the design of two German
/.ostell'o
but recently settled in the country, Messrs. re t,,4
and Gildezneister. The masonry contracts vreooo.44i
by Messrs. Smith and Stewart and Mr. Leref „tit lo s
while the iron works required were portioned ;Ter"
less than eleven contractors. According to ,fr part
the foundations were to be laid, and the gren""
the iron delivered, by the 21st of last October' e 111:40
It is now the Bth day of June, and the reLested
the Palace—that was to be finished and freig.• ou,
Ist of May—is not yet completed ! About or the Jo-
-07
it requires to be glazed, and the rounding e` ineeo4
is more a matter of ingenious experiment thariaibT4
cal skill. True, the directors state that the
will commence on the 16th of next month Oti 'one;
having failed so egregiously in their first ogled
which failure, by the way, they left unaunLetorert
unexplained up to the last moment--the Pli"413110
far from satisfied that they will prove mere
ofsu4
0;
their present promise. t
The original idea of this edifice was tba., tsecid
cross 365 feet in each diameter, each arm of #o
149 feet broad and 75 feet high, the afld
mounted by a central dome 100 feet in diameter 00;4
feet up to the crown, a ball 31 feet higher thateris,,
of the dome surmounting the whole. The fa 0,5,5
24 feet from the floor, and octagonal iron tove stse'l
whole
in diameter, and containing winding staircases'ciesi.j
each corner. In view, however, of the delesetirov
space, the angles of the cross were finally en,,e„„ 01,0
roofed in to where the galleries strike the OIuAL gro::4
building ; so that we have an octagon our-rticilvo4
floor, while the galleries retain their origins', ce°)
design. Each arm of the cross is divided nef-oete'o
nave, 41 feet wide, with two side aisles °I 'OO ti
covered by galleries of a similar width; ras(l,°,6
Crystal Palace contains a total area, on '
leries, of some inconsiderable fraction less ""
acres. •
This building of glass and iron is placed Witilst,ov:'
yards of the great reservoir, from which Croton
served out to the city, and there is a harsh. eye,
contrast between the brilliant lightness of the
the massive granite buttresses of the °tie
neighbourhood of the palace has been oceur-def?
culators of all sorts ; there at least fifty gregg-
drinking saloons within a stone's throw of the
or,
of Industry ; and half-a-dozen menageries, PlocliP
and petty theatres have likewise sprung up are-040
All the space in the American department tied
allotted to exhibitors ; but it is to be regve._l"llo.
many of the first manufacturing and commerenv4o
have held aloof from, or, at best, given but a e".
port to the concern. /
The newspapers--except those directly paid t°
Use the palace—have abused the association `" [..<001
pany of " jobbers," who seek to make mono,' ofi
calculated to injure domestic trade ; and ne'lehste ti
public men of the country (the late Daniel We'eiiit,
cepted) ever gave any efficient countenance erc;r 1:"
the directors in their attempts to place the un'jts,r
on a national basis.
bes
In spite of all obstacles, the palace a,pprose,,.„,
pletion, and, unless something unforeseen coo?
certainly open on the 16th of July next. The II
and English departments are expected to be Welort.
but of these I must postpone a description to. 're,
letter. I thought it best, in my first letter, to glf,(
(even at the risk of being a little wearisome)t`Alpe'
count of the embarrassments through which tile.
aPi
can " World's Fair" has struggled ; you will theeir.ee
ciate more keenly the triumphs, or condemn lesg,-
the reverses I may hereafter have to chronicle'
pondent of the Morning Chronicle.
.010°
AQUATICS.—The Teignmouth Regatta takee
Tuesday, the 26th, and the Torbay Royal t'
Thursday, the 28th, July. 61;
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF AN AUSTNO—
DIGGER.—Yesterday afternoon information vissofs':,;.
by the police on the Surrey side of the water ,i; grit Yi
bery of some magnitude from a person receun.'
by the Queenstown, from Port Philip. The nr.,o rtv
party robbed is Frank Evylyn Frank, who I
ago left England for the gold diggings in Allst7,4etv
succeeded, after a great deal of labour, in realis"-t1)1,4,
2,0001., and left Port Philip in January 1351-sth':(4
Queenstown, which arrived in London on the,'Tye
On Wednesday night he went to the Victor's ieg
with a fellow-passenger, having at the time
vereigns, besides some silver, in his possessielliostl.t
he left the theatre he entered a public-house 51 bo,tf
Blackman-street, Southwark, and all of a suddeplio
his senses, and on his recovery he found lailnt li4;;,t/
street minus his money. He informed the poll"-, I:'ei
the recollection he had was of a tall man of ;d
hat, who sat next him in the public-house and lW
about the diggings, and he was missed suddeelo is
the house. The police have received some clued
thief, and most likely he will soon be apprehend ye s`(
robbery was, no doubt, effected by a class of thie
look out for fresh arrivals from Australia. 001 eat
LAUNCH OF AN IRON SCHOONER YACHT.- of tP".,
day last we had the pleasure of witnessing 00001)013,
gratifying spectacles, the launch of an iron !steP:iJ
yacht, built by Mr. J. Scott Russell for Robert r 0
son, Esq., M.P. This yacht is named thel-nr,bictty
is intended to replace the other of that name, Loa 'O,
our readers are aware, was destroyed by fire „"a tsdr
competing with the famed America. We 'IL; '1".„4
that the Sverige, belonging to Vice Corn
lett, R.L.Y.C., will meet the Titania at theft-, sisi
regatta at Lowestoft, when a spirited contest'
Fyit
anticipated. The. I
THE FRUIT SEASON ON THE CONTINENT.- VP
tAbli
season on the Continent appears to be reinar'-`4,hooriteu
ward. A fortnight before this time last Year -
of baskets of cherries, besides other fruits, were
eety
into Southampton from France. Up to this tirnieeds
hardly but hothouse fruit from the Channel D0'31001;0'
been imported into the above-named port. into Pot,
tity of potatoes which have been imported olls Pot,
ampton from Lisbon has been unusually large eye"
Latterly the potatoes from Lisbon have betra erf
toms of the now perpetual disease which ev
affects that root. el tv
INTRAMURAL INTERMENTS.—The abonsinatieroecl ie
tramural interments, which has so long disgoeler's,l
metropolis, is about to be abated. Several ;, in ,Of
Council were issued on Tuesday week, requir„lo,Nict,e
suance of powers given by the 15th and 16',ihen:1,i
that at and after certain dates therein sPfie
less than 93 burial grounds in and about "
London are to be closed. The fearful andde, byes 4
disclosures relative to these receptacles Ina roler
George Alfred Walker, whose indefatigable elts
worthy of all praise, and the continued assautiFliellto°
posures of the press, have at length aeeernrivari fer'
desirable result. We trust this is only preiiinwbere 4
more widely extended measure ; and thatiorefeg,
whether in town or country, graveyards ,e oindecto'
situated are to be found, speedy efforts will Li offs 0i
their abolition. This we hoped to haves etehe prei
before this time in our own town, where derive
general burying ground has been long on,tbe d bye
utterly insufficient for the decent interment er'eressii,
and as a probable source of disease. Some P ,r,roP
been made towards the provision of a more
Tit ly
place, but the works proceed languidly, and w„,
expected would be done in a few months at
rate of progress, will require years to
Banbury Guardian. row
SCOTLAND.—On Saturday next, at the cou A, A,
THE NEW ACT ON COUNTY Etnerriorl elec
for Edinburgh, the new act, which receivead ,yeeff rofol
",0
assent a few days back, will, if contested, tat5,;,1,5,1
The object of the act is to restrict the co goot,lot,
of the polling at any contested election in or 11
to one day, and to provide for the increase pAPTO
ration of polling places. By this statute, s'urstl
the act 2 and 3 Wm. IV., C. 65, relating to the
" vierofcl,
of polls, &c., at elections, is repealed, and ee'
now given to the sheriff, with the consent of they
grop
Advocate, to increase or alter the number an that) I,le
ment of polling places, so that net more .0 to t
electors shall poll at one place. No alteration ter, tater;
place until notice shall be advertised. fete
claim to vote in other districts, and non-Tear tej
with island qualification may vote at the eetin_lasT
The poll is to be kept open one day, and for to,
Orkney and Shetland,