Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-11-01
AMERICAN AWARDS AT THE WORLDS INDUS
TRIAL EXHIBITION IN LONDON.

can Contributors to the Industrial Exhibition at
London" This interesting report was received
from the agent Mr.. RIDDLE, by the steamer which
arrived at New York on Sunday, and, through the
politeness of Mr.. KENNEDY, Secretary of the Cen
trail Committee, we are enabled thus promptly to
make it public.
LONDON, OcroBER l3, 1851.
Sir beg leave hand you my report from the Great Ex
hbion The commission with which was honored by the
Executive Committee Of the Central Authority Of the United
States bears date the of January, 1851. arrived in
London, pursuance Of the instructions you had given me-
on the 9Th Of March The contributions shipped from
country the ST. Lawrence had been deposited in the build
ing few days BEFORE and other conbuons feghted by
private vessels, daily arriving. No preparation Of the
division allotted to counymen bad been made beyond
that of shelter for themselves and their goods In
mon with other foreign nations it expected that all
penses necessary for properly arranging and displaying
contributions 10 the Exhibition, and for securing and
safety to them while should continue, be borne by
ourselves Neither counters tables fixtures, platforms
neither coverings, standards raings, decorations had
been provided. Our goods in the building under the
seals Of the customs contributors many Of them
present. anxious for step be taken which would
to them the purpose for which they had crossed the
neighbors, the French Russians and inhabitants
Of the different countries of the Zo Veren, busy
gagged in forwarding the work within their respective dysons
and the Executive Committee Of the Royal Commission
urging speed upon all foreigners in order that every thing
should be in readiness the day of opening the ls of May
Under these circumstances after receiving the advice Of the
American Minister, and with the full appreciation Of the
tibutor expressed 10 formal resolution public meetng
negotiated loan from GIoReE PEABoDY, Esq, Ameri
merchant residing in London, for fifteen thousand dollars
The whole expenses to which the Commission from the
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No report of the Great Exhibition can do full justice
No aggregate of reports though that aggregate should
prise the reports Of every local commissioner the body
which appointed him. of every foreign commissioner his
Government Of every sauant in Europe TO the society which
furnished bis credentials Of the ures to the council Of chair
men, Of these latter the executive committee, of the
tive committee the royal commissioners, and of these
her Majesty the Queen, together with all the documents sub
mtted to scientific associations, agricultural societies. and
literary institutions by the ables men living, could altogether
though such volume would contain extraordinary
OF useful information convey any adequate idea Of the almost
exhausess Of this storehouse Of the worlds indus
trial products Least Of all this report prepared in the
midst of constant claims the most adverse scientific nves
tgaton upon my time and thoughts present you any
exponent Of what the Great Exhibition really was Indeed
docs not claim any thing more than synopsis such
information could be gathered from portions of the
Exhibition in which, seemed my countryme would
be most interested.
II Is to be regretted that interest in the Great Exhibition
did not take earlier hold Of public sentiment in our
Try Of what did sendwhich, according to the testi
mony Of every vste from the United Staes adequate
representation Of industrial condon-we stood second
the three and thirty nations assembled there either
in articles of utility, labor-saving Inventions perfect
chinery What might have accomplished had every
branch of labor, and every variety of interest
widespread country, been fty represented The contribu
tors from every other country without solitary exception,
came to the Exhibition under Governmental patronage
Every facility for preparation had been given them home
every stimulus to excellence in their manufactures which
profit and public honor and rivalry could give had been ap
piled every expense for outfit transit and the avora
BILE exhibition of their goods within the palace had been paid
from the public purses and in many cases the favor Of the
Government towards the forward of its exhibitors had
amounted to absolute bonus the articles transmitted
And yet in the face Of these odd according the reports
the Jurors Of Awards to the testimony Of English journals
for the last six weeks Of the Exhibition and universal op
Jon every where expressed there division in the foreign
department Of the building from which had been taken for
the benefit Of Great Britain and Continental Europe SO much
that novel, ingenious and practical in its application to
the useful from that which displayed the con-
rbuons from the United States.
In its reflex influence upon industrial condition. re-
SdIu dS OeuG lar rom useless Uredt num-
bers of people have congregaed n London during
the past n vain. Unlike what has been the fact
tooe, the majority who visited England practical men,
Our agrculuss there to compare the farm implements
which with those in in Europe to study the
by which the waste of England have been
made gardens to test the experiments and learn the results
OF chemical agrcuure and to introduce home that which
had proved itself peemnenty successful abroad Our
chancs have not studied in vain the and products of
mechanical skill they exhibited in that great
house Of the world and while they have had occasion to
be ashamed Of the show from their woikshops-save in
paucy of pecmensthey have learned much to encourage
and improve their industry home. Our manufacturers
have compared processes of labor Investigated new ntrouc
tons in machinery, famazed themselves with recent in
venons learned much designs and higher style Of pat
terms and prepared themselves better for future competition
In the market with foreign fabrics II would not perhaps be
safe to say that to every practical scientific man. month
spent at the Great Exhibition was source of more improve
ent at large than year Of foreign travel would have been
but is safe and quite within the bounds of fact to assert
that an agricultural mechanical and manufacturing peo-
pie, we have gained more stimulus that will be felt and more
knowledge that will be useful and more science that will be
applied in our onward industrial progress from what has
been the last six months London than we should have
attained otherwise in twice that number of years
Agreeably in my last letter herewith
enclose you the list Of American awards.
have received any reply you up to this date
,f he of the of