The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-06-27

ne consequences OF TINS new conultlon OF
affairs we may calculate at our leisure. Sufficient
for the day is the evil thereof.
The Worlds Fair In London-Opening of the
Large Commission Warehouse, by Prince
Albert, In Hyde Park.
The London press is very properly and naturally
sarcastic, as the American press is unnecessarily
and unphilosophcally sensitive, with respect to
the American department of the Worries Fair
The English journalists may be wishing to pay
off for the terrible fright into which
they were recently thrown by the apprehen-
sions of revolutionary disturbances; but we sus-
pect that the origin ofso much spirit against our Anne
rican exhibitors lies crcumscribed rather more
within the limits of business tact and considerations
of various commercial kinds. However, we are not
at all ehagrned at the of censure produced
by the American portion of the exhibition 1t is
all quite right and easily to be explained.
When Napoleon said that England was a" nation
of shopkeepers," he very the truth, and it
was evidence of his foresight to indulge in such
an observation. All that was wanted, however.
was for royalty itself to go into business, to make
the remark the very cpitome of the nations cha
racter This has now become certainty Prince
Albert and Queen Victoria have opened shop, and
started in business, in Hyde Park, extensive
scale Prince Albert invested fifty thousand pounds
of his funds in the speculation, and Queen Vic
toria the royal shop-woman, contributed the whole
stock Of her influence towards drawing customers,
and if reports are true has been in the great shop
daily, TO help the trade along. The Medic family,
their day, were royal merchants, but the firm of
Prince Albert, Victoria s. Co. are more majestic
shopksepers still. Their business establishment
the profits of which ought to be applied to the pay
ing of the national debts a great commission
warehouse for the whole world, and may be deemed
brilliant business thought, at the same time that
it is used as great barrier to any revolution.
Within the last ten years preparations have been
made for this Great Fair though the English people
were little aware Of it. They have had, one by
one, the old fairs Of Bartlemy Greenwich, and the
like, taken away from them. Indeed, as early as
George the Fourths reign, statutes were made to
abridge the enjoyment Of the inhabitants of Lon.
don, in their lavore booths, at the fairs, within ten
miles Of the city-and, step by step, Entertainments
have beea made on the old festive days, till, for
securitys sake, and to appease the people, the big
booth in Hyde Park has been erected-as magnif-
cent sop to Cerbcrus as was ever invented Any
thing less business like would have been a failure
and as England is an empire only held together by
the common sense Of the shopkeepers, it was ne
cessary for Prince Albert and Queen Victoria to
shopkeepers too, in order to show the doctrine
Of equality, in the virtual condition Of the most ele
waited percentages in the nation.
This is the phioso phical view Of the World Fair
to carry out which, mercantile principles,
every nation the face of the earth has been placed
under contribution. How the people will be ap
peased in future years, for the loss of their
tomary fairs Of which they have been most
handsomely deprived, Of eourse viii remain deli
cate question for those connected with the English
government. Something, every philosopher will
concedc, will be necessary, in the shape Of an exct
ing display, to keep down those sponta aeous exhi-
billions Of the people, which are more dangerous
than profitable to the government. We trust that
all will be wen, for revolution at Manchester, Sal
ford Leeds, Or Birmingham, would be disastrous to
the poor inhabitants whose average wages, in good
and peaceful times, Is only eighteen pence two
shillings day, without board from thirty-six
to fjrty-eight cents. American workmen are better
of. The con forts and luxuries Of life are cheap
here. and workmen receive from one hundred to one
hundred and twenty-five cents per diem for their
services. OF course, discomfort is a more IA .ional
emotion in England than it can be in tho United
States, where industry can make itself happy and
respected
Now, with regard to the American department
Of the Worlds Fair, we have word for our
friends across the water. The contents Of that
section Of the show Is the refuse and rubbish
Of few Of our less fortunate artizans, shop
keepers, and manufacturers, who have not had
too great a plenty of custom and employment
At home Whatever has been sent there, was
sent for the purpose Of advertising, precisely a.
our shopkccpcrs here have made use Of the Anne
rican Institute at Castle Garden, for the last fifteen
years This Institute Is organized on the same sys
tenn a. the Worlds Fair, and those who wish noto.
ricty deposit their in the annual exhibition
which Is only an advertising machne-and hunt out
reporters and editors for tho purpose Of getting adj
vcrtiscmehs gratis in the public journals, in some
other than the ordinary channel. II IL precisely
with those Americans who have appeared in the
Worlds Fair They hoped to get their advertising
done gratis, and 10 gain some Fictitious importance
from European IufIs Thiss the sole reason why any
thing American Is in the Exhibition. Our artisans,
manufacturers, and traders, have had demand for
everything that they could produce for the California
market, and all that has been left hand Is rub
bish some Ct which has found ts way into the large
shop in Hyde Park-we mean the Crystal Palace
We are sorry that Prince Albert, Vi,toria s Co.,
in their fret business season, should not have de-
rived more advantage from their cousin shopkeepers
in the United States, in the way Of per ccntages
Il would have been but kind to have added 20 the
pleasure Of the royal shopkecpcrs We should
have been glad 70 have known more respectable
sr,cmtns Il our arts sent out. and better samples
q our live stock than philosophers 81 the socialist
and Fourier school, distinguished in white coats,
Old boots. ard dog cared literature.
Il i 70 he regretted that the London press can
find nothing in the American department to praise
The English journals, Of course, are bound to puir
the wares ofihc royal shopkecpcrs-princc Albert,
Victoria 4 Co.-and to speak handsomely ofcycry-
thing except cur rubbish, saved from the rush Of
ports 20 Calfo,iaT Il Is quite right that new