Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-07-06
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT
I,oNpoS. JUNE Ia. 1850,

tIemen who interest themselves in the business,
there appears TO be growing feeling entertained
that the eighty thousand square feet of ground
which have been allotted for the display of the pro-
ducts Of the United States at the great Industrial
Exhibition of 1850 will be found quite inadequate
for that purpose, unless great care is taken in the
selection of the articles and discretionary power
exercised on your side of the water in the determi-
nation of what descriptions of products are most
desirable 10 exhibit as promotive of the great OBJ
jects of the Exhibition, and-conducive TO the credit
of the country where they were produced. The
Royal Commissioners have been applied to for an
extension of the space allotted to the products OF
the United States. This they have stated their
inability to grant, nor they leave the amount of
space indefinite, or stake upon themselves the
delicate task of selecting those articles which
would best represent the industry and resources OF
any country. The Royal Commissioners feel it
to be matter of great importance that the arri-
val in this country of greater quantity of objects
than can be admitted into the Exhibition should,
if possible, be prevented" and they recommend
10 the citizens of the United States the adoption
of the same rule as has been applied to the Con-
tinental States of Europe to Africa, Asia, and the
9 other parts of America, as well as to the British
Colonies; = namely, the appointment of Central
authorized Committee to select the articles to be
sent, and to limit that selection and the quantity to
the amount of space allotted. The Commissioners
propose to receive such articles only as shall be
tiled as being approved of by the Central Com
mlltee appointed to select them in each country
1t is evident that no power exists in the Govern
eminent of the United States to appoint such
Committee of Selection as is here alluded to and
it is to be feared unless some selecting authority
can be appointed to act for the entire country, with
unity of purpose, and upon well-arranged
plan, that much disappointment and vexation may
be the consequence. The question then occurs,
and must be answered, how is such Central
General Committee to be appointed as may prevent
the difficulties which, unless it is appointed, may
be apprehended! The extent and great variety of
the products of the United States place that country
in position different from that of any other. 1t
very desirable that the natural products of each State
in the Union should be seen here, as we'll as all
kinds of inventions and manufactures, models, ma
chinery, &c. To bring these various articles fairly
into the exhibition here, upon the plan and regula-
tons established by the Royal Commissioners, you
must have some active intelligent, and controlling
committee. Ii has been suggested by your energetic
and popular Minister here, in letter which he has
addressed to the American Institute at New York,
and also TO the New York State Agricultural Socie-
ty at Albany, that representatives from the New
England States, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- |
vana, Maryland, Virginia, and all other States that
wish 10 join in the measure, and exhibit their pro-
ducts here in 1851, should assemble at some cen
trail city, New York is proposed,) to determine the
course TO be pursued, and mature plan by which !
the resources of all parts of the Union should be
developed at the exhibition. If at this Con
yention Central Committee were appointed,
they could form the whole Union into dis.
tricts, having reference to the most convenient
shipping ports, and appoint committee in each, |
who should exercise supervision over the guam
tity and kinds of articles to be shipped and cor
respond with them, so as to proportion the eighty
thousand square feet allotted for the whole Union
among the several States intending to Join in the
exhibition. Unless some plan like this is devised,
there may be great confusion and disappointment
in the arrangement of the articles when they arrive
here. Whatever is to be done should be done
quickly; the time for action is short-scarcely
more than six months. Some organization is es-
sentia; and it is earnestly hoped that the matter
will be taken up and determined without delay. 1t
is believed that the people of the United States in
common with those of all the other civilized ma
tons on the earth, may derive lasting benefits from
the proposed exhibition. We have no doub, but
that you will contribute to it largely, and send
persons from all parts Of the Union competent to
avail themselves of the knowledge to be acquired
from an examination of the articles exhibited and
from association with the producers of them from
different parts of the world.
Two things are necessary to ensure the ad-
vantages to be derived from this exhibition; that
Is to say, prompt exerton and perfect con-
cert of action. These are more necessary in
the United States than in any other country. The
hrst account of the vast extent of territory the
last from the peculiar circumstances of its social
and political organization. We have no doubt
that both will be attended to; and we antici-
pate an exhibition from your side of the Atlantic,
of products, inventions, and manufactures, which
will convince elder brothers here that although
we may have much to learn, we have vet some
things to show, by which even they may be in
structed.
The tone of the press has a good deal altered
with respect to the character OF the late descent
upon Cuba by General LOPEZ, and there is an al
most general admission Of the possibility tina, the
United States Government was not party to it,
The reduction Of the numbers of the division which
sailed from New Orleans from fifteen hundred to
SIX hundred, and that of the entire organized force
from twelve thousand to two thousand, has much
tended to produce this result The Economist
very justly observes: " With such an extended
seaboard as that of the United States, with nume-
rous keys and islands, we are not sure that even
"a system of passports and a waichful police like
the one in France, could at all times prevent
when the temptation was great, piratcal expedi-
tons. Our Government, with the best intentions.
was unable to proven, Louis Bonapare's Bou-
iogne expedition. Even if such system could
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