ABSTRACT
It is a settled matter that the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations shall take place in the year 1851. The estimates for the framework of the huge glass house to be reared in Hyde Park have been agreed to, and we may confidently assert that the main obstacles have been got over by the Royal Commissioners. Considerable excitement has been manifested in the metropolis regarding the site chosen by the Royal Commissioners for their pet scheme. At first little was said against the appropriation of Hyde Park, but as these wonderful men composing the “building committee” unfolded their intentions, the West-end gentry got alarmed. If the object of the Royal Commissioners had been to improve art, they could have established schools of design, conducted by the ablest artists of this and other countries, and the process, although slow, would have been sure.
