Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-23
NATIONAL lNTELLIGENCER.


A
War seems 10 exist between ourselves and Eng
land about things at the /" Worlds Fair" Being .
war OF words as yet, it might be but fair, perhaps,
to inquire which side began i.
am in the way Of seeing English newspapers,
and at first rather made point of reading all saw
in them about the articles sent for exhibition BY the
different nations. Notices began to be taken Of
shem before the Fair formally opened on the first
Of May; and, although cannot refer by exact date
to the pieces read, / observed that none showed
hostile feeling in noticing crtcizing the articles
from the United States. On the contrary they spoke
Of them for the most part in an opposite strain, call
ing us their cousins, their Reviews OF late have
been doing, giving us reasonable commentator in
all things and rather marked praise in some things,
considering the trying competitions we had to un-
dergo,) Notwithstanding the few articles we had
sent over in proportion to the space allotted to u.s.
The fact of this large space being given up to us
showed no desire, beforehand, to underrate US. II
looked like the reverse. The newspapers chiefly
saw were the Times, Morning Chronicle, Standard,
Daily News, and the Globe; and the periods Of
time would refer to were April and the early parts
Of May.
Presently they got in England our great national
regulator, published in New York; that press Of
presses tho only one TO proclaim true public opn-
ion and policy in the United States, all The rest
being asleep, or dating back from the ark. That
press came down, sans cerem0nie, upon the" Fair.
Il spoke out with it's wonted fearlessness, no-psrty
ism, and foresight, and the law went forth. The
said Fair was nothing more nor less than cheat
played of upon nations. England, enslaved,
queen-rdden, lord-ridden, poverty as she
was, only wanted to squeeze money out of them.
Il was cunning speculation. That was what the
great Fair meant But wo to England this time !!
L. "a q Ill IL hoI
overshot itself at last. Red Republicans from
France, Socialists from Germany, Democrats from
all countries, including the United States, would,
sure enough, assemble in London under cover of
the grand humbug but it would be to take mea-
sures there, on the very spot, for blowing up the
British monarchy with all its rotten appendages
The plans were laid, all cut and dried just merely
revive the sum and substance of this dire announce
ment TO America and Europe.
was curious to know how John Bull would
take the announcement. II came from no penny
sheet, Of local spirit and wonderment; no, it was
issued BY an imperial journal Of boundless circula
ton among us, Of admitted power, and probably
having tenfold more readers abroad than any other
in rland, il not at home too.
Well, John did not like it. The Times at first
tried TO laugh it off, utrather failed; and as these
Napoleon blows were repeated by the press in
and now the war RACES hip and thigh.
It was so il originated, far as can fix the cir
cumstances. Others may have kept the account
more accurately. The case being one Of glass
house on the side Of the English. it would not have
been prudent in them to throw the 6rststone. The
question is, did they? tits a sad business. |.
makes one think Of the battle Of the kegs The
frst disparaging notice Of our articles at the Fair
that met my eye from abroad came from the emf
nent French writer, Jules Janin. ] read it in a
Paris newspaper.
tits little odd that while in the last named
capitkl our countrymen were debarred the privi-
lege Of singing the Marseilles hymn on the 4th Of
July. in the city Of The " Worlds Fair the Duke
Of Wellington and other distinguished English peo-
pie attended brilliant banquet given by gener-
ous American to the American Minister, in honor
Of that immortal anniversary, and the whole COM
pany listened TO Yankee-doodle.
JERSEY BLUE.