Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1851-05-15
o., According to previous announce

men,, we presume that the Worlds
FAIR was opened on Thursday week,
by the Queen in person. A stage was
to be erected in the centre aisle Of the
Crystal Palace, upon which chair Of
State would be placed. Her Majesty
would occupy this, while around her the
Archbishop of Canterbury and oil the
dignitares of the State and Church
would occupy positions. After very
short religious ceremony, she would
pronounce the Fair duly opened, when
grand Artillery salute, outside, was to
be fired. The Queen would then retire
to her Palace, and the Fair be opened
to the public, at the fixed rates Of ad.
mission.
London is already densely crowded
with strangers, yet thousands are daily
arriving,-and they will continue to
pour in, FIR several weeks TO come.
1t seems to be generally admitted
that the United States will not appear
TO any very decided advantage in The
exhibition. The rules and regulations
Of ihe Royal Commissioners are such
that many Americans, who had their in
ventions in London and ready TO be de-
posted in the Crystal Palace, when they
found that they could not have adequate
protection for their rights from the
British Government, refused 10 place
their articles in The Fair. The Com
missoners have had shed erected out
side the Palace for the exhibition of
steam-engines and other machinery Of
the kind and under no circumstances
would they permit these inventions to
be taken into the main building. Sew
eraI American gentlemen who are the
owners ola new and very perfect steam
engine, upon which the inventor has
been experimenting for the last eighteen
years, and which he has brought to
the greatest state Of perfection, refused
to place il on exhibition. They had an
engine constructed expressly for this
purpose, Of the very best materials and
in the highest style Of workmanship (;
it can be operated in a parlor, without
even soiling the carpet, or emitting the
slightest smell ofany kind, like ordina-
ry engines. they would not subject
themselves or their invention to the rig
id and, in this respect, unfair regula--
tions Of the Royal Commissioners. We
know ofmany other instances similar TO
this.
The English, of course, with their
characteristic avarice, will endeavor to
monopolze all the honor and glory Of
this exhibition and as it is upon their
own soil, and at their own door-steps,
they will possess eminent advantages
over every other nation.-and they will
manifest tavors to all other nations in
preference TO the Unit, d States, be-
cause there is no nation which the En-
glish SO much fear and dread, as the
United States.
After all, England is to be the only
great gamer by this exhibition of the in
dustry and genius ofthe nations Of the
earth and nearly all that is TO be made
out OF it, pecuniarily or otherwise, she
will make. She ever has monopolzed
rything which came within her
grasp, and she certainly will not fail to
carry out her peculiarly selfish poicS
OH the present occasion. All the val
liable inventions which 90 from this
country, unless they have been previ-
ousIy patented in England. will be cop
led, Or in other words, appropriated by
John Bulls subjects, and thus the gen
JUS and labors OF American artisans will
be flched by crafty EnglIshmen, who
have originated this great Exhibition for
the exclusive purpose OF benefting
themselves, and no one else. We have
always been Of this opinion, and we
have already expressed il ; and we have
every reason to believe that the future
will prove it to be correct one.