The southern press., 1851-07-29
CoyvsspossdsNss n ths .Nsse Ysrk Sun
Letter fren Gel. SheTburne,
i0xpon, June 2b, l6bl.

l0xDos. June 70, 1851.
MEssRs. BEACH BRornERs All the world's
stage, and men and women merely player"
&c. Such would stranger excalm, on COM
ing to London, and for the first time visiting the
Crystal Palace and it's immediate vicinity. Here,
then, are people congregated and representing
nearly all the Christian nations of the world,
with sprinkling Of Turks aud heathens all In
the strict costume Of their own country, each
playing their several characters to the very letter.
A close observer would suppose they had all re-
ceived lessons in the rehearsal of their parts,
before the curtain was drawn up to public crti-
cism The digniied London Times, takes the
part of prompter, on this great occasion, taking
everv opportunity offering to amuse the worlds
audience and bring ridcuIe on the Yankee show
men, as it terms those from the United States,
amusing its patrons at the expense Of propriety
aud hospitality to those who have been invited
to foreign land to take parts merely ANA
teurs for season, to assist with their talents
and pocket-change to fill the golfers Of the almost
broken down establishment, and prevent the high
chancellor of the exchequer from closing doors
and posting on its ponderous gates, bankruptcy,
before the close of the present season. This
Worlds Fair" as it is termed, (concocted as it
was by the railway stock -jobbers, tradesmer,
manufacturers, and others in England, to save
them from destitution and run) was managed
by that noted, speculator in railway shares,
Hudson, who, from mere retail shop-keeper
in few short years comes out a millionaire and
president of all the railway companies, and at
last was charged with deep fraud, so as to be
expelled from all respectable society. With n
| good round sum at his private disposal, he pri-
vately, with few other spectators in rail stock,
backed by some men of rank and influence,
although bankrupt in purse, contrived to get this
hobby Of Crystal Palace, to see which, all the
world was invited to be taxed according to their
means; and to make it succeed, the name of
Prince Albert, with her Majesty's patronage was
secured The railways are coming money,
stocks have greatly advanced, and King Hud-
son, the first protector, has amassed second
fortune in few months on the rise OF his stock,
to the tune of half million pounds sterling /;
and his other friends have gained in like pro-
portion, while the shop keepe 3, tradesmen,
lodging houses, theatres, operas, and all other
exhibitions are daily losing all they made here
tofore The journals throughout the Kingdom
are doubtless well paid for putting up the palace
fund.
The Times steadily insists that nothing worth
examining has arrived yet, from America, and
goes on, as you have perceived, to excite ridi-
cue among the strangers, relative to the Yankee
tending to make the feeling of envy and jealousy
between young Jonathan and old Bull still
greater as the youthful giant grows in strength,
some future day. fearlessly to take Ball by the
horns once more, and teach him to respect the
Younger branch Of the family, or to take the
consequences which may arise from vain boast
ing. For myself, | feel proud of the produc-
tons from my native land-to behold, while all
the nations of the earth are invited to bring to
London the products of their nation, young,
powerful, free nation, not out Of its teens, send
it's wares and merchandise to compete with ma
tons of thousand years or more, and astonish
J the old dotards with wares and machinery they
never dreamt of as being in existence--for in
tance, metallic coffins, India rubber goods, cook
: ing stoves, sewing machines, revolvers, sculp-
ture. daguerreotyPes, musical instruments, book
3 binding, harness and saddery trunks cut. glass,
soaps, perfumery, carriages, ploughs edge-tools,
l wood ware, minerals, moving and harvest ma
: chimes, floor planning steam mill, and stone cut
9 ting, carpetings, grain to supply the world
= which, of ITSELF is an offset against all the Eng
ish, French. Italian, and German gemgaDs and
useless tinsel wares which crowd the Fair and
have been seen for centuries past through out
s the christian world The shops of all their old
: notions have been ransacked and emptied, as
7 we'll as their numerous factories, TO make, and
c show, and I'll up the immense building. why,
the English department Of carriages alone, take
up nearly if not quite rs much space as is allot-
ted TO the United States, for they have even
drawn in whole trains of railway carriages with
locomotives attached, and painted wooden
horses attached to their other vehicles, all, all
for show and filling up certain space. All the
adjacent nations around have followed the ex-
, ample set by England The mere birthplace and
t grounds with the hundreds Of dancing wooden
, figures, exhibited AS model of Prince Alberts
birthplace, in Belgium, to please the Queen,)
} takes up as much room at the Fair, as all the
3 American agricultural implements, and without
any use, but to amuse the aristocracy, Queen
Victoria, and her brood of little princes and
princesses The New York Sun, is another
, wonder of the Fair, because the Queen and
; court expressed their surprise how so large and
: well printed sheet could be published and sold
} for half penny, giving so much information to
J the people, and 10000 copies struck off in one
hour, as stated in large characters on its hand
!, some glass case. The Queen, suppose would
like to pick at the brain of its editors as she at
tempted to pick at the soap bust of Washington.
The Times says France most certainly ex-
cells, and is pre-eminent in all articles of luxures
to feed the sight In reply to that, took the
: liberty to say that the United States excels and
ls pTOeUlbent III lnose Pfouu0uV"' w 'yo an"
usefulness.
1t is not generally known Mt home or abroad
that all the British navy is supplied, by contract
with American beef and has been since lS47.
!, The sample of corned beef at the Worlds
. Fairs is fair specimen, and is allowed by the
, most preudced to be put up superior to any
! beef in Europe, and to keep sweet much longer
, NOT that we have superior beef--by no means
but the way of curing in the United States
strikes the trade with surprise, that so young a
nation should compete with old England in the
way of beef, and obtain such large contract
from the English government. So with the
article of cheese; the United States have driven
the Dutch cheese completely out of the London
market, and ia hard pressing on the Englisf
! farmers in the article. All the first people in
London now have the American cheese on then
tables ! not only have my information from