Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-12-20
FOREIGN.
FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

LONDON, NOVEMBER p, 1851.
The great Exhibition has closed, LOUIS KossUTH
has departed, the gloom and the depressing infu-
ence of an English November is upon US, and Lon
don is literally without lion to excite and inspirt
u.s. Our streets are dirty, dark, and dismal; our
atmosphere pleasant compound of fog and coal
smoke; gas-lights are the order Of the day, and
abundant mud embellishments upon the lower gar
ments the costume of our peripatetic nonBloomers.
Amidst these and other rather depreciatng circum-
stances, we have lately heard young American
lady exclam enthusiastically, !" dear, damp, dark,
and dirty London" and we assure you the first cpl
tibet had no reference to the prices of bonnets or
shawls. We are also strongly inclined to think that
an English November may be spent as comfortably
in London as in any part Of the British islands.
There is cosey quiet snugness about long winter
evening in London which we have rarely enjoyed
elsewhere The curtains are closely drawn, and the
fire burns brightly, the table is covered with the
newest literature, and friends drop in to tell and
hear the The evening papers inform US what was
doing in Parstwo hours ago, and what the prices
of stocks and produce BeHn and Hamburger when we
sat down to dinner and the state of public feeling at
Vienna and Venice when Quilted pillow We have
news from friends at Washington and New York,
which has reached in less time than gandsires
quircd travel from Edinburgh London century ago.
we could not ENJOY al heSe advantages IN any otner spOt
the earhs surface could any where else feel
ourselves closely connected with the universal human
family, Immediately acquainted with their actual
condition and their recent sayings and dongs and there
FORE have great relish for snug seat at London
winters evening family circle And if we desire to par
tcipate in wider intercourse with felow-men than
the domestic circle furnishes all of amusements and
recreatons offered to choice Lectures every
and science and branch Of literature delivered
worldwide reputation, accessible To We can pass
from home to the place Of attraction in comfortable
carriage at any reasonable speed under the Of
skful, civil, but too often extoronate driver if
prefer walking, guided object by hundreds
Of brilliant lamps and pass along at all hours of the
night under the faithful but almost unperceived protec-
ton of excellent police securely though certainly
not pleasantly could wander along green lane
in the country on a summers
Some statements have lately been published respecting
the great Exhibition which show that the entire number
Of honorary distinctions conferred by the Commissioners
and Juries were ,084
Of these the British exhibitors took 2,02s
Foreign exhibitsr 1906
Three-ffhs Of the goods exhibited were British and
two-6fths exhibited by foreigners.
OF the Council medals, British exhi-
biters received 10
Foreign exhibitors received 81
Of the Jury medals, British exhibitors
Foreign exhibitors received 1852
--2,s76
Of those exhibitors who were honorably
mentioned the number Of British ex-
hibiters Was ZIG
OF foreign exhibitors 1926
--2,042