The southern press., 1851-04-01

fair SCENE TO have been managed with excellent
order, and indeed 70 ~ to set an example, al
compared With our own manner, of conducting
such entertainments. The number pregynt was
about five hundred. A remarkable am njnous
feature showing the most powerful reniF.| oGence
that now dwells in tie u ind of the German
Democrats consisted in the fact that the only ads
ditional decoration in the room was large black
cloth hung on the wall behind the chair, with the
name in red letters Of Robert Blum.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
At home, apart from political matters, there
has been nothing to excite attention. Ever1u
thing goes on favorably with the exposition,
and goods continue to pour in. According to
the last statements, the package received were
2,l86 from our people, 444 from the colonies,
and 2,808 from foreigners, and to-day we have
accounts of the arrival of the ST. Lawrence, altar
a passage of twenty-five days, " .th between
1000 and 1000. The King of Naples has rcil-
sed to allow any of his subjects to visit Eng
land during the occasion.
Advices nearly month later were received
yesterday from the Cape Of Good Hope. The
war in Cafffeland has assumed less unfavora-
bic appearance.
Ship-buldng is actively going on, and the
proportion of screw steamers is rapidly increas-
ing. A remarkable instance of despa sh has
been mentioned. A screw steamer called the
Arabian, eight hundred tons and one hundred
and thirty horse power, wus laid down in Mr.
Napiers yard at Glasgow on the l2th of Dsce,n-
Der, and was completed, ready for starting, OH
the 28th February. She is engaged in the Liy-
erpool and Constantinople trade.
MONEY MARKET, &c.
There is nothing new in commercial matters.
Money remains in good supply.
The Irish Peat Company have received the
grant of a royal charter, and it is expected that
within three or four months they will bring their
produce to market. The question Of their sue.
cess will therefore soon be decided, and if their
hopes should be fulfilled, it will be impossible
to over-estimate the moral and social changes
that must result from their operations.
| There is a strong disposition to speculation in
London, which, for want of any new outlet, is
expending itself once more in the railway share
market. Mr.. Hudson is one of the principal
operators, and is believed to have made enor.
nous profits. He still retains his seat in Para-
ment as member for Sunderland.
| The government stocks have scarcely expert
enced any alteration. At the last date, consols
were quoted at 964, and they have closed this
afternoon at the same price.
| The grain market has been steady. In cot.
ton there has been decline of Id per h.,
owing to the adyices from your side, but the
market is firmer- now than at the beginning of
the week.
Our last dates from New York are to the 26th
February SPECTATOR.
LONDON, March l4th, 1851
The industrial exhibition is the topic of con-
ver tion in all circles. Much rs has been an
tcipated in re gard to the interest it would ex-
cite, the crowds of foreigners it would draw
togethe and the competition it would call forth
from the artizans of the world, the reality PROM
ises to surpass it. From morning till night,
Hyde Park in the immediate ncighborhood Of
the Crystal Palace, is one unending throng of
gazers and visitors, though the former far sur
passes the latter class, from the rigid rules of
admission, and the constant surveillance of the
police and soldery, thnt have been adopted.
The building is beyond all description
| Neither picture, nor scientific description nor
measurement detailed upon paper with utmost
accuracy, can give anything like a correct idea
of it. Its vast extent, its fragile texture, its
fairy outlines, its airy reach, its perfect propor-
tons, u internal symmetry, and its thorough
ness oY work in every part, can scarcely be
fully embraced by the mind after repeated OBJ
servatons from every point of view. The arch
arch in the world, and one whose mind is filled
with amazement as the eye runs over and around
its webbed tracery, lost in the complexity Of lines
and curves, can we'll believe it,
The work of completion is now match
against time, twenty-seven hundred workmen
being constantly employed upon it, for the day
| fixed for the last delivery of articles has long
since gone by. This decision, however, was re-
versed several weeks ago. and no W, instead Of the
first of Marchthe first of April is appointed as the
last day when articles for competition will be re-
ceived within the building Even this late date
will hardly be adhered to in regard to the United
States Col. Reid the chairman Of the Royal
committee, assured me in conversation to-day
that every possible latitude of time would be ad-
lowed 10 the goods coming from the United
States, in consideration of the very great dis
tance Of transportation, AMI think none Of the
contributors from there, let their articles come
ever so late, will fail of finding admission
and requisite space and display. Eighty thousand
square feet of room are allowed US. There
has been some question whether our goods
would require 80 much room, and an attempt
was made yesterday, on the part of some dis
appointed British exhibitors, to induce the
committee to appropriate portion of it TO other
| purposes; but it failed.
| The portion of the building assigned to the
United States, one sixteenth Of the whole space,
| is at the West end. Next this is the Russian
department, then the Zolvereip, then Spain, then
Prussia, then Denmark and Norway and then
France, the most earnest competitor of the world.
In fact, France means to outdo England in the
beauty skill, extent, perfection and completeness
Of her fabrics. Already jeaouses and strifes
hase arison between the two feud-rememberng
nations, and the French commissioner threatened
to send all French articles for competition back
across the channel, unless some exception was
made to the rigid adherence to the regulations
Much uneasiness is felt among the foreign CON-
missioners in regard to the want Of protection
from invasion of patent rights, which will be felt
the moment those rights nre upon English soil
The subject has been up before Parliament, and
at a meeting of the commissioners, this evening"
it has been agreed to petition in behalf of all the
foreign nations represented, thatn bill llprotecting
foreign patents may be passed at once. Then
too, it is said that the juries of awards are un-