opment of the full beauty of fountains. Won-ness of Colonel Fleury and Count Bacciocchi derful as Versailles is, we may perhaps be per- we should have been unable to procure admitted to observe that one misses there the mission. The Emperor's box was erected in fresh turf, kept like a drawing-room carpet, the grand tier, directly opposite the stage, and and the perfect order of the approaches, which on either side of it stood, like a statue, a soldistinguish the landscape gardening of Eng-dier of the Cent-Garde, en grande tenue-suland. On the other hand, our neighbors do perb looking fellows, as superbly dressed and not hesitate to use the best materials they can equipped. Two others stood sentry on the obtain for decorative purposes. The balus stage at either wing. The pit was entirely trades on the terraces at Versailles are con- filled with gentlemen in full evening costume, structed of marble; not only the statues, but and the stalls and tiers of boxes resembled so the sculptured pedestals on which they stand many parterres of rare flowers from the amount in the open air are made of the same substance. of beauty exalted by the highest triumphs of While the Emperor took his guests through the toilette with which they overflowed. When the apartments and grounds military bands the Emperor and Empress, with their guests, stationed at different points filled the air with entered, the whole House rose to receive music. There were also large numbers of them, and from that brilliant assemblage our people present, so that the spectacle altogeth- Queen met with a reception worthy of those er was exceedingly gay and splendid. After who gave and of her who was the object of it. examining every object of interest in the im- The enthusiastic plaudits had hardly subsided mediate neighborhood of the palace, the illus- when the orchestra began to play the National trious party proceeded to the Trianon, and ex- Anthem, and at its close the cheering was plored that also. There they were joined by renewed and long sustained. Her Majesty Her Majesty the Empress, whose delicate gracefully acknowledged these tokens of the state of health does not permit her to take any high favor with which she is regarded by the very prominent part in the present festivities upper classes in Paris. She was tastefully, but of the Court. She and the Emperor, accom- simply dressed, and wore the riband of the panied by their Royal guests, now withdrew Garter, and on her head a tiara of diamonds. to the chalet behind the Trianon, where in She sat on the right hand of the Empress, perfect retirement they had coffee served to having the Emperor on her right, and looked them on the grass. The pretty chalet, with remarkably well. On the right hand of the its adjoining sheet of water and mill wheel, Emperor was the Prince Napoleon, and on appeared to take the Queen completely by the left of the Empress Prince Albert, who surprise, and her gratification and that of the again had the Princess Mathilde on his left. Prince were still greater when the splendid The Emperor wore the riband of the Garter band of the Guides made the air of this sweet spot also, and, as usual, appeared in the uniform resound with the choicest music. The cortege of a General of Division. Prince Albert disreturned to St. Cloud about 4 o'clock, and, played the insignia of the Legion of Honor having dined there en famille at half-past 6, over his Field Marshal's uniform. Her Mathe Royal party went at 9 in state to the jesty the Empress wore a magnificent tiara Opera. The Boulevards and other streets of diamonds, and her delicate, but beautiful along which they passed were brilliantly features were the theme of general admirailluminated, and it is impossible to do justice tion. The Royal and Imperial personages to the fairy-like appearance of that part of seated in front, with the Maids of Honor Paris, lit up by thousands of variegated lamps. standing behind them, formed together a group The whole thing put one in mind of the des- which was at once historical and dramatic. It criptions in the "Arabian Nights" rather is unnecessary to enter into any details as to than of sober reality, and one was never tired the performance, beyond stating that it was of admiring the coup d'œil thus produced. of a miscellaneous character, including both From the centre of the triumphal arch at the opera and ballet, and that Alboni and CruvelRue Lepelletier an immense chandelier of li were among the vocalists. They sang " God colored lamps was suspended. The principal save the Queen," with the English words, befaçades of the Opera-house were a blaze of fore her Majesty retired, and the House again light, and from the long succession of crowded renewed its plaudits as at the commencement, cafes on the Boulevards the bright effulgence insisting upon an encore; and thus ended anof the illumination found its way into the other busy day in this memorable visit. darkness outside, bringing out in fine relief the The Queen, the Emperor, and Prince Algigantic gendarmerie à cheval who patrolled bert will visit the Exhibition Palace to-morbackwards and forwards, watching over pub-row (Wednesday) at 11 o'clock, and on Friday lic order in the thoroughfares. Nor was the at 3. Prince Albert will also proceed there spectacle within the Opera-house less impos- on Thursday, but alone. In order to avoid ing. Not a seat has for days been obtainable the inconveniences caused by too great an ineither for love or money, and but for the kind- flux of the public, it has been decided that

during those three days only the members of > the Imperial Commission, the foreign commissioners, the members of the juries, the exhibitors, and the holders of season-tickets shall be admitted.

PARIS, Wednesday Night.

part of the administration prevents much confusion or blocking. The semi-circular arch of the nave, without a covering of some kind to moderate the sun's rays, would have made the heat inside intolerable; but, instead of the calico being put outside, and one monotonous mudcolor used, it has been placed underneath the To-day at 11 o'clock the Emperor took Her glass, and the alternation of stripes possessing Majesty and the members of the Royal family varieties of shading has given to the roof the who accompany her to visit the Palais de l'In- aspect of a huge semi-transparent mosaic. dustrie. They were received at the entrance Again, the temporary structure which connects by Prince Napoleon and the members of the the Palace with the Annexe is so ingeniously Imperial Commission, by the foreign Commis- hung with draperies and planned in such good sioners, and the jurors. Nearly three hours proportion, as to have an exceedingly bandwere occupied in their progress through the some and furnished aspect, and to be well Exhibition, and the amount of space traversed adapted for exhibition purposes. By a judiand the magnificent products of industry ex- cious use of flags and other decorative reamined must have conveyed to the minds of the sources, brilliant effect is secured where Engillustrious strangers a vivid and powerful im- lishmen would have despaired of obtaining it; pression as to the merits of this extraordinary and in the huge rotunda of the Pavillon de display. To those who were here during the Panorama and at points of the Annexe we first weeks after the opening, the changes have even an approach to those sensations of which have been effected are so great as to bewildering astonishment which the building make one almost doubt whether it can be the of 1851, with its fairy-like archetecture, exsame undertaking; and some conception of the cited. The nave of the Palais de l'Industrie difficulties overcome may be formed when we certainly still remains overcrowded with obunhesitatingly state that, as an illustration of jects, and the view of it from the galleries is the existing condition of the peaceful arts, this sadly deformed by the ugly square tops of stalls Exhibition is, in most respects, decidedly supe- protruding far into it, and covered with dust; rior to our own in 1851. Though serious er- but even here the coup d'œil from the groundrors have been committed in the classification | floor is very striking, and has been greatly imand arrangement of objects; and though the proved by the variegated canvas lining of the delay which took place at the outset has intro- roof. It will be borne in mind that the Impeduced some elements of unfairness into the rial Commissioners have followed the example competition between rival manufacturers, no of our Royal Commission in having the pringreater mistake can be made in England than cipal trophies of the Exhibition arranged along to undervalue the importance of the present the centre of the nave, with the main avenues display. It has not the comprehensive unity for visitors on either side of them. In other which characterized so remarkably its precur- respects, no material alteration has taken place sor in Hyde Park, nor the facilities for con- in the arrangements of the Palace and Annexe, trast which then existed in such extraordinary as described at the period of the opening. In abundance; but each specialty is admirably the former, France still occupies the north half set forth, and, from the plan upon which the of the building- the foreign countries, with space has been distributed, can be examined Great Britain, the southern half. Here, and in with concentrated attention. This in itself is a the Pavillon de Panorama, the products of the great advantage, and the result is that the vis- higher and more elaborate departments of initor returns, on each occasion, from the place dustry are exhibited, while the Annexe is dewith definite notions of what he has seen. If voted chiefly to raw materials, machinery, and he saw the Exhibition in May, he will be for- the larger and more important, but less sightly, cibly struck with the clever and effectual man- products of human labor. Hence it arises that ner in which the Imperial Commission have the colonies of England and France are found overcome most of the difficulties by which they in this section of the Exhibition, and that in it were then, to all appearances, hopelessly sur- also are to be sought out many of the most rounded. Though little provision had been valuable results which the collection yields to then made for keeping down dust by inter- the sum of our industrial knowledge. The exstices between the floor-boards, the inconve- traordinary progress shown to have taken place nience that might have been expected to result was not realized. Though the ventilation was overlooked, the evil consequences of that want of forethought have been reduced to a point at which they are endurable. Though the passages were not made wide enough at the commencement, a little management on the

in art-manufactures since 1851, makes the Annexe less frequented or admired than other portions of the Exhibition; but the chief interest and value of the display as a whole are, nevertheless, mainly concentrated in that shed, 5,000 feet long; and there are principally to be gathered those precious glimpses which such

undertakings afford into what the future pro- would have been surprising indeed had they
mises or is capable of accomplishing for the not shown; during their present visit to Paris,
great cause of human labor. In the new world a strong interest in that now open here. If their
of information which international exhibitions feelings can be at all estimated by the extent
are opening to us, men of acute minds and re- of the survey which they took to-day, the ex-
flective powers are only yet beginning to spell hibitors must be highly gratified that so much
their way; but no one who has paid any at- respect for industry should be entertained by
tention to these subjects, can fail to observe personages so illustrious. It is no ordinary ef-
that the defects of the display of 1851 are now fort, in the present intensely hot weather, even
being steadily made up. Other countries, on for a man to traverse for three hours the boarded
that occasion, felt their short-comings in ma- floors of an immense building, and to notice a
chinery; and, accordingly, in that department great variety of objects which, however remark-
vast and striking progress has been made. able singly, become oppressive in the aggregate
Not only do the chief industrial nations of the from the strain to which they put the atten-
Continent grapple with the difficulties of per- tion. But Her Majesty went through this
fecting their workmanship, and endeavor to great exertion without resting more than once
imitate, however roughly, the triumphs of our by the way. She evinced an earnest desire
best mechanics; they also exhibit a number of to see everything that was worth seeing, and
machines having considerable pretensions to it was evident that time alone prevented her
novelty of design, and likely to be extremely from making that minute inspection of the
useful. Belgium, it is said, bears away the wonders of the French Exhibition which
palm, even from England, for the best made marked her numerous visits to the display in
locomotives. The magnificent display of Prus- Hyde Park. The Prince showed even more
sian steel shown by Krupp, has excited gene- curiosity, and rushed about from object to ob-
ral admiration; and among the French makers, ject with the eagerness of an enthusiast. He
Cail's and other houses contribute works of a took with him the Prince of Wales and the
kind very superior to anything shown in Eng- Princess Royal, while the Queen leant on the
land, from abroad, four years ago. Our engi- arm of the Emperor, and Prince Napoleon
neers, pre-occupied by Government contracts, acted as a cicerone. On entering the interior
exhibit a comparatively small quantity of ma- they first visited the series of courts devoted
chinery, and that, though excellent of its kind, to French bronzes, and which comprise con-
showing no very marked progress. There are tributions from all the most celebrated manu-
only one or two marine engines of British facturers. Thence, returning, they proceeded
manufacture in the Exhibition, and these by to the eastern end of the nave, and, crossing
no means remarkable for their merit in design. to the south side, passed in front of the Prus-
On the other hand, the great want of taste so sian, Austrian, Belgian, and other foreign de-
painfully visible in Hyde Park, in 1851, in all partments, the more showy and elaborate pro-
those departments of manufacture where beauty ductions of which divided their attention with
of form and color are essential, has evidently the trophies along the centre. Arrived at the
attracted great attention during the interval English space they entered the court of Messrs.
which has since elapsed. Strenuous efforts Elkington, and were for some time occu-
have been made to redeem these defects, and pied in admiring the splendid examples of
with corresponding success. In our furniture, electroplating in different metals with which
our pottery, our carpets, and in textile fabrics this court is furnished; thence their progress
generally this is very conspicuous; nor can was directed to the collection of pottery, to
any one go carefully through the British de- Minton's unrivalled display, and to those of
partment of the Paris Exhibition without be- Daniel Rose, Wedgewood, Copeland, and
ing strongly impressed by the progress thus other exhibitors. This may not be quite the
made. Nearly all those monstrosities which strongest feature of the British section, but
disfigured the British display of 1851 have dis- for extraordinary and varied excellence it
appeared, and instead we find the best materi- ranks with any other, and our neighbors are
als admirably wrought up into shapes nearly never tired of praising it. Having completed
always unobjectionable, and sometimes highly their survey at this point, the Emperor and
artistic and refined. Thus it would appear his guests, with their retinue of commissioners
that the tendency of these great illustrations and jurors, again betook themselves to the
of industry is to diffuse productive excellence nave, doubling its western extremity, and ex-
over the widest possible field, to enable each
nation to bring up its manufactures to the
highest known standard of excellence, and to
make the progress of industry and of genius
instructively available to all.

The Queen and Prince Albert took so active a part in the Exhibition of 1851, that it

amining with delighted curiosity the exquisite
productions which here embellish it. Arrived
at the point whence they had started, they
now crossed over to the south side, and enter
ed the series of outer courts which surrounded
the Pavillon de Panorama, and which are fill-
ed with an immense and splendid display of

French manufactures. Here the show of in candor be admitted that he has been disfurniture and of musical instruments appeared tanced. His consolation will be that he has chiefly to attract their attention, but they also approached so near to so great and overwhelmseemed much interested by the buffet for the ing a rival. He has also the commercial view supply of refreshments, and a series of beau- of the question entirely on his side, for his tiful designs was not passed unnoticed. When prices do not take even his most expensive the examination of the outer courts had been works out of the market, a great consideration completed, the Emperor and his guests passed to be borne in mind, and which must be his into the magnificent Pavillon de Panorama, encouragement to persevere in a path of imwith its unrivalled collection from the great provement and enterprise honorable not only national establishments of Sévres, Gobelin, to himself but to the industry of his country. and Beauvais, its carpets, hangings, and tapes- When the survey of the pavilion had been try from the looms of Aubusson-its gold and completed, Her Majesty rested for some time, silver work, the masterpieces of the most skil- and partook of refreshments brought from the ful Parisian workmen, and, above all, the buffet. The illustrious party now proceeded Crown jewels of France, placed in the very to the Annexe, the greater portion of which centre of the pavilion, and having the Imperial they traversed, examining attentively the diadem, surmounted by the Regent Diamond splendid display of machinery and raw proas their culminating point. There was no duce with which it is filled. Their special nopart of the Exhibition of 1851, there is no tice was directed to several objects in this part of the present display, nor have we ever course of their progress by the Prince Naposeen anything the splendor of which at all ap- leon, but otherwise it was impossible to linger proaches that accumulated in this apartment. much over the many valuable and important It is certainly calculated to give every foreign- features of this portion of the Exhibition. It er a magnificent idea of the encouragement must have been with extreme regret that Her which it is the system of the French Govern- Majesty and Prince Albert passed through the ment to extend to the highest and most diffi- Canadian collection without being able to look cult branches of manufactures. We do not more closely into it. Had Her Majesty's time say, nor do we believe, that the results produc- and strength, exhausted by so long a promeed are an aquivalent for the expense incurred. nade, permitted her to do so, she could scarceIt seems to us an unsound and dangerous pol-ly fail to have been gratified by its contents. icy in the State thus to interfere with the na- Throughout the huge mass of objects which tural development and tendencies of certain the Paris Exhibition contains there is not a branches of industry; but apart from such single display so practical, complete, and considerations, it is impossible to speak too strictly industrial in its character as that constrongly in praise of the exquisite taste and tributed by the Government of our North refined execution which the majority of the America possessions. It completely distances objects in the pavilion exhibit. Here Her the collection forwarded from the United Majesty and the Prince had submitted to their inspection the new and interesting metal, aluminum, both in bars and made into spoons, forks, tankards, and other articles of domestic use. The lightness, elasticity and ductility of this substance are very remarkable, and confident hopes are entertained that it may be produced at a rate and applied to uses upon On leaving the Palace the Emperor and his which to found results important to industry. guests proceeded to the Tuileries, where they The Queen examined for a long time and with had luncheon. At half-past 4 o'clock they rethe liveliest curiosity the Imperial crown and turned to St. Cloud, where at 8 a grand banquet the immense number of splendid jewels by was given. The festivities of the day termiwhich it is surrounded. The former is of ex-nate by a theatrical performance, for which quisite design and workmanship-a diadem in the artistes of the Gymnase are engaged, the the true sense of the word, and surmounted play being Le Fils de Famille. at the apex by the Regent Diamond, which, though somewhat smaller, seems to be a far more brilliant stone than its rival, the Koh-inoor. Her Majesty and the Prince spent a considerable time also in examining the manufactures of Sèvres, which, in splendor, far PARIS, Friday Morning. surpass all past efforts of that establishment, On Wednesday afternoon, after their lengthand leave France in undoubted possession of ened survey of the Exhibition, the Queen the supremacy in the practice of the ceramic and Prince Albert, accompanied only by the art. Wonderful as Minton's pottery is, it must Royal children, went incognito in a hired carDXCIII. LIVING AGE,

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States, and bears within it most convincing evidences of the resources and the productive energy of these self-governed dependencies of the Crown. The details of this Exhibition it is impossible for us to dilate upon now, but they are full of interest, and will amply repay all who study them.

In the course of the afternoon his Royal Highness Prince Albert paid a visit to Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, who is staying at Menrice's Hotel.

riage to the Jardin des Plantes. This has al- quenlty to examine the splendid design and ways been considered one of the principal exquisite effects of color in many of these prosights of Paris, and the illustrious strangers ductions. It was his intention here to have were much gratified by all that they saw there. witnessed several experiments illustrative of The programme of yesterday's movements in- recent discoveries in chymistry, which possess cluded a lengthened visit paid by Prince Al- high scientific interest, and may lead to imbert to the Palais d'Industrie, and which lasted portant practical results; but Dumas, who was from half-past 10 o'clock till half-past 1; lunch to have conducted the experiments, was unat the Tuileries, followed by the Emperor and fortunately absent, and, in consequence, they his guests going through the picture galleries of the Louvre; dinner en famille at the Tuileries, and at 9 o'clock a grand ball at the Hotel de Ville.

were not shown. One is a new mechanical pump for creating a more perfect vacuum than has ever hitherto been produced, and among the effects obtained from it is the solidifying of liquid laughing gas by evapora tion.

There was

The Prince was accompanied through the Exhibition by Prince Napoleon and many of the commissioners and jurors. His inspection Another is a beautiful chymical process for appeared to be guided by no particular plan, extracting the plumbago from Ceylon blackand to be for the purpose of making purchases lead in such a state as to be at once fit for on his own behalf and that of Her Majesty, as compression into lead pencils. well as to gratify his curiosity. It may be found also exhibited here the new and beautiful interesting to mark some at least of the dye, alizarine, obtained from the extract of objects which chiefly attracted his attention, for madder, and yielding a series of madder lacs, even in the disconnected form due to their asso- remarkable for the purity of their colors. ciation with such a visit they may help to Our most eminent scientific authorities concur awaken in the minds of the English people in stating that so wonderful a collection of nosome approach to a proper appreciation of the velties in chymistry has never previously been Paris Exhibition, of its extraordinary value as seen together, and they were much disapan industrial display, and of the importance pointed that his Royal Highness was unable to that all who can spare the time and money witness the proposed experiments, and to reshould cross the Channel to examine it. His ceive the explanations of M. Dumas. While Royal Highness began with the ground floor, in the north gallery the Prince visited the on the north side of the Palace, which is ap- beautiful suite of apartments fitted up there propriated exclusively to French manufac- by M. Cruchet for the Empress. He also tures. This he went through from end to end paid marked attention to the stalls filled with with great care, stopping for a long time be- jewellery,the enamels, the imitations of precious fore the furniture of Barbedienne Tahan; the stones, and other articles of personal ornajewellery and precious metal cases of Fro- ment which overlook the nave on that side of ment-Meurice, Rudolphi, Lebrun, Callot, Mar- the building, and which afford so curious an rel, and other eminent makers. The display insight into the manufacturing tastes of the in zinc of the Vieille Montagne Company, Parisians. Descending to the ground floor Boy, and Miroy also attracted his marked at- and entering the Courts which surround the tention; nor is it surprising that it should, Pavillon de Panorama, the collections of furwhen one considers the extraordinary improve- niture and arms displayed there were carements which are visible in this branch of fully examined. In the former department production since 1851. In that portion of the of industry our neighbors greatly outshone us building the porcelain turned out by the pri- in 1851, but our best London makers have vate establishments of France is displayed; greatly improved since then, and the result is and the contrast which it suggests with our that we now hold a much more satisfactory makers on the one hand, and the ceramic position. Messrs. Jackson and Graham, of triumphs of Sèvres on the other, is sufficiently Oxford-street, have especially distinguished striking. Ascending the staircase at the east themselves by at least one work, a cabinet in end of the Palais the Prince took particular the French style, superior to anything of the notice of Foucault's remarkable pendulum ex- kind in the Exhibition. In arms there is periment, showing the diurnal rotation of the small but brilliant and beautifully arranged earth, which is exhibited there. By the ac- display, the effect of which is considerably intion of an electro magnet, which has a voltaic creased by the care which the gunmakers of battery underneath it, a fresh impulse is given France pay to external ornamentation. Our to the pendulum at very oscillation, without manufacturers, whatever want of enterprise causing any divergence, and thus the accuracy of the apparatus is said to be increased to a degree which enables it to mark the flight of time like a clock. The great display of textile fabrics from Lyons was next passed in review, and his Royal Highness paused fre

they may have shown, at least concentrate their attention upon essential points of finish, and when they have learnt to consult the mechanical engineers a little more than hitherto will astonish the world by the effectiveness of the weapons they will turn out. As an illus