Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-21
FROM A xgw FORK CORRESPONDENT
New YORK, May II, 1853


1 fear that the opinion ventured to you some tine
since, that the New York Crystal Palace is about to tun
out failure in all respects and such as will reflect ID
direct dlscred the country which it, will he
! too surely realized
In addition TO the nuisance Of the dans Of infsmy and
violence whicN abound, actually the amount of one
hundred and drinking shops Of the lowest order
its immediate neighborhood; in addition to the great
and think reasonable doubt of it's being ready beoie
the first Of August it appears that in size ins
fcient in locality il is painfully unfit for its purposes
few days since ! was informed by person who may
be presumed to know and who is by no means used 10
talk at random that the Crystal Palace is Of capacity in
sufficient to contain the contributions sent from Great
Britain only.
How much is truth of these rumors, how much mere
report, cannot tell you; but is very certain from
personal Inspection that there IL prospect of any
opening for the proper reception goods for weeks
not months to and in the mean time the Sardnnn
fgate has arrived with what is reported to be magn
cent cargo of Italian of and pertu and die
English ffty-gun ship, the Leanderwhich you will re-
member, played gallant part sthe Nile" under
the command of Thompson anchorng the bows of
the Franklin 80 and silencng her fremay be expected
in short time, bearing the Queens commissioners
three Of the most distinguished gentlemen in England It.
must be considered great and unusual compliment this
sending of commissioners by crowned head to the di-
rection Of private affair under action
and regret that there should be so much fear that all
the arrangements will prove worthy such remarkable
guests
The situation Of the Crystal Palace is nearly miles
up town, and there of reaching it but by
the slow, filthy overcrowded omnibusses or the yet
slower and more overcrowded lines Of the
city railroads BY neither method it be reached in
far short OF an hours tine without submitting to the
last degree of personal discomfort
The Hppodrome, the contrary, is successful and
well managed the Crystal Palace the reverse In
size is little inferior and owing its being covered
with huge sailcloth awning, rising and falling in the
breeze it is perfectly cool and comfortable the hottest
day. free from the slightest of the stables and
ter conducted, well exempt from noise rude
ness, and confusion, than any theatre with which l
acquainted.
The horses admirable, nearly all of them thorough
breds and the riding excellent The displays Of dress
and pageantry though good, less effective than had
expected but the cathencs of the Segrist brothers
and the feats of the Icaran family surpass any thing
have and the races whether sadded horses
with lady Jockeys or in charot driven with four abreast
real races centended for keeny and with visible
laton of the riders herein differing much from any
thing have observed of this kind before the hippo.
drome surpasses circus, in the absence of un
pleasant odors in nsprable atmosphere and in its total
exemption from all vugarity license, whether the
part of audience or performers 1t is vastly attended by
our best people; and heard a weknown literary man
observe the other day that he regarded the only
purely intellectual amusement in New York.
There have been two three clever and well got-up
reprints published here lately beautifully
fac-simile of an illustrated English edition of The Old
Forest Ranger which originally appeared in the United
Service Journal edited by Frank Forester and another
book of merit, An English Soldier in the United
States Army" This describes pleasantly enough
phases of the Mexican in sketchy, readable style
be sufficiently unprecedented and interesting
exhibiting those stirring campaigns in the soldiers
rather than the officers point of view Braces Home
Dip in Germany is at oil equal to his Hungarian book
His audatory the domesticity and affection
family circles OF Germany and his contrast of them
with the lack of them in American Gfe well DONE to
the point, and true but with his political views and
tsnets find myself continually at variance He
wholly unconscious and incapable of percevng that the
infdel social red republican license for which fought
the German revolutoniss 1S46 the very antpodes
of all real liberty, ours especially.
There is strange and horrible society scandal
aAoat in the city, butas know you eschew such things
only subjon that both believe aud hope it to be
true. Yours