ABSTRACT
The scheme of an Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, resisted by successive administrations, has, at length, been foisted upon the public by a court intrigue, carried on with some five or six members of the Society of Arts in the Adelphi, – of which society Prince Albert is president – who in Prince Albert’s name, and under his especial patronage, have succeeded in launching this unwieldy project on the vast ocean of British gullibility, and, at the same time, have thrust themselves into lucrative appointments on this Royal Commission – ever a fertile source of jobbing and corruption. The productive classes will be the first to suffer by this forced reduction in the price of all manufactured commodities; the difference must be paid by the working man, by a reduction of his wages, unless relieved by a proportionate reduction of taxation.
