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London, England, 1855-05-16 00:00:00

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LATEST FROM ABROAD.

OPENING OF THE FRENCH
EXHIBITION.

BNB BRITISH TZLIGRATIII
PARIS. THUM.

The Universal Exhibition at the Palace of
Iduetry was inaugurated at a quarter pest ea
o'clock to-day by the Emperor and Empress, in 61
presence of about 8,000 persons. The weather ve
heavy.

The eemonony much resembled that at the opening
of the Hyde Park Exhibition of 185 L

Prince Napoleon, President of the Imperial
Commission of the Exhibition, received their M.
jesties at the chief entrance of the building, and
afterwards read an address netting forth the origin,
progress. and character of the undertaking.
The Emperor, after some complimentary words,
said—" My dear Cousin,—ln placing you at the bead
of a Commission that bad so many difficulties to
overcome, I wished to give you a particular proof
of my confidence. I am happy to find that you
have so fully justified it. I beg of you to thank the
Commission in my name for the enlightened care and
indefatigable seal it has displayed.
" I open with happiness this Temple of Peace,
which invites all nations to concord."

Their Majesties afterwards, followed by Prince
Napolima and the Princess Mathilde, placed them-
selves at the head of the procession and walked
through the building.
The applause was considerable. The Empress
wore a low green ball dress of surpassing beauty.
The ceremony lasted only an hour. Their Majes-
ties left the Palace, the band playing " Pedant pour
la Eyrie." There was an immense crowd in the
Champs Elystes. The imperial cortege was mega.
fluent. The Emperor's carriage, which contained,
bean his Majesty and the Empress, Prince Jerome
and the Princess Mathilde, was quite new, and was
drawn by eight horses.
The Gaieties des Arts were opened at two o'clock.
—Daily News.

RUSSIAN MANIFESTO.
(IT lIIIDUARINE AND BRITISH TILIGILAPIL)

A new Imperial manifesto has been issued at
St. Petersburg.
The Czar orders a new levy of troops, in the
proportion of twelve in a thousand.

The measure, which is to have effect in the
seventeen western governments of the empire, is
to receive its complete execution by the end of July.
—Daily News.

THE CRIMEA.

Oar Paris correspondent writes :

Telegrsphio despatches (not published) have been
received by the government, from which it appear,
that the extremely wet weather of the last two or
three days extends to the Crimea. The roads and
trenches are in a deplorable state, and no operation

is ramble for the moment.
waited for.—Daily Newt.

an *till

The Times correspondent at Constantinople his
sent the following despatch, dated May 12 :
6,000 Sardinians have gone to Sebastopol.
Bussaively hoary firing takes place between the
French and the Illuminati every night.
The British are within 50 yards of the Russian entries.
The British are °mistreating new batteries.
The Sultan reviews the French Imperial Guard to-day.

TURKEY.

The 7Tmss hu received the following telegraphic
despatch from a Vienna correspondent :

VIENNA, TUESDAY EVENING. MAT 15.
The Osstar. Correspoodess publishes the following, under
date of Constantinople, 10th instant :
" The capitation-tan on Christians is abolished.
" Christians are to sander military service, and to form
somata seeps.

•S
The departure of Iledehid Paella for Vienna it filed for
aturday, the 12th.

4. The flat Piedmont's, division went straight to ths
Centro."

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

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MID BRITUR TILWIPAPIL)

OP TIM DAILY NEMO
TRIESTE. TVINDAY.
The steamer Calcutta arrived at half-post four
a". in 131 hams frees Alexandria.
.Ths India Mail brings intelligence from Calcutta,
April 10 ; Bombay, April 17.
A treaty was signed with Hyder Khan at Pesha-
war on the 30th of March, by Mr. Lawrence, con-
taining three articles. 1. Perpetual peace between
Dart Mahomed and the English. 2. The English
to respect the territories of Dort Mohamed. 3. Dot
Maimed to recognise the territories of the East
India Company.

There are rumours of hostile preparations at Ava
against the English.
There has been fighting between Golub Singh, in
Coalmen and his nephew.
The Aired's§ have been chastised by Colonel
I POO%
I Lord Dalhousie's health at Ootammund has been
greatly improved.
The Eve per Cent. Loin fills slowly. owing to the
scarcity of money.

MARJABILLES, WEDNESDAY.
The steam-packet Vs sti@ arrived here at ten o'clock
this morning with the Indian mail.

Ram, MAT 4.—The wind being at B.W. ratev
day. ideal* elms& the ke is the ftead got if Intim,
sad the fairway ea far as this harbour is ow free
Yesterday sa Bndisb frigate was gen off Naive, hat she
won mesa est of dgiß

THI PROPLWR WAR.

Smut is as usdhiguieed attempt, at this time,
mom certain Moms, to get up an agitation for
pease at any pie,. Elegised, they would tell
is, is utterly inespable of carrying ea a peat
Mr. Her Wales position is easiest it. The
Missal character is of the eseamesial sod paella
Mad. We tea haggle about prises, sake pre/table,
bargains, amass askosal fortunes, rather better tlisa
our asighbours. Bet, es for war—that requires
spool qualities whisk nature has denied as.
Bevis's, sad all mammy of 'military spats-
ifs., are quite lost upon as. We like thous
well 'mash on a holiday, MIMI then is settling
she to do, bat we very soon go oar way, and :emu
with all the greater nest to oar desks sad our besi-
eges. We are, is short, an altogether grovel/lag
people, lovers of money. ever greedy of pia, of the
.arch earthy. Only look at the war in which we are
missed : we did not undertake it of our owe
accord ; we were driven into it, against oar will, by
the load-voiced SWIM of the press, or the faults of
short sighted and insompeteet rulers.
Certainly, lf this were a true description of the
national character, or an ad/goats tepresentatioo of
the present condition of public feeling, we might
Mall despair of seems. We take leave, however, to
in the politest possible degree, from Mr.
lituran Meson tied Lord Ow. We believe
that the English people. far from *Die' is the cry
be pease at any price, is in favour of the most vigo-
rous prosecution of the war, in ceder that we may ob-
tain a peace that a tree English abdomen need not
Mesh to sign. We do not think that the masses of oar
matrpassi have repented forme momenta: the policy
which they upheld, with one voice, in the early part
el lid year. Is It not called the people's war? Is
it Dot the fact that until the people same forward our
rulers were all too doggish, all too ready to yield in
tame submission to a man who was deaf to reasons-
Mesa, and would listen to no arguments unless they
were backed by swords and muskets? Well, now,

bare we repented that we drew the sword I'

The war, iocised, has been disastrous, oar
ebb:ties have been no victories, scarcely more than
exhibitions of ianyieldiog valour purchased at a
terrible cost of life and treasure. Nay, more than this,
the war has opened oar eyes to the nakednue of the
Lad. It has taught us—is the pries too great ?—that
ear hones must be set in order. It has torn away the
veil hoe many an idol, and shown us bow they,
whom we had long worshipped u guides, are, after
all, blind leaders of the blind. Bo far, indeed, the
results of our first year's campaigning are anything
but agreeable. But we maintain* that, in spite
of this, the British natio* is more deter-
mined, even than at first, to spare no
darts which• may be required for attaining
the objects we have in view. Only at this
haw have oar eyes been opened to the gigantic
nature of the contest. Only at this hour do we fully
know the sacrifices which we may be called upon to
asks. To have beams alive, however, to these
Sete is worth all the blood that *as shed at Alma,
Balsklava, and Inkerniann. The question now it—are
all of us, from high to low, prepared to hoe the
mosequenoes of our own premeditated deeds? If
we are not so prepared, it were well to
'bath the sword at once, and to confess
in the eyes of Europe that, in the heyday
of her power, at the height of her eivilisstieo,
with her ships on every sea, her Undue working
_ _ _ _

oat their destinies in every land, England hsa under:.
taken a task beyond her stroagth. This would be a
sublime and proud osafession far the deeeendants of
those bravo men, our Di*ua, oar RALICIOIII, our
MAILLIMILOUGHIS, oar Nmeons, whose stoat hearts

and strong hand' made th• same of Englishmen
synonymous with all that is grand in karma
nature.

No, indeed. We shall not bon to wait many days
before we have convincing proof that the spirit
which impelled the early English navigators
to cross unknown seas, in their frail barques,
bee not deserted as. In the calmness of certain
strewth, this people is working slowly to the end of
which at first it was sanely eseseious. London sets
an example which the other towns will not be tardy
to follow, and saes, from one end of the land to the
other, the English people will have called upon their
rulers to effect those changes ia oar whole administra-
tive system, without which the war an never be
brought to a sesessefal terminatioa. This thing is does
with a fall fora-knowledge of the necessary sareillse.
la the lint place, the war mu t be earned on VIA
all oar heart, and soul, and strength. It must be the
chief dint of every man's thinkable. Oar purpose
is sew skier. Buda has aboolandy refined to lists'
to implied" even when tams were offered which
would scarcely, we think, have bees deemed honour.
able for this witiatry by say bat such perms as Lard
Out and Mr. Mums Glum Jest as, in days
gone by, oar forefathers left home and friends to
hand a aew empire in distant lands, so most we go
forth with the tams unflinching purpose, the same in-
vincible will. Then, again, we moon be Prilinnoff
to make all manner of seerillem—eye, sad
with a willing heart. True, there is no femme
battering at our gates. The wide seas still flow
bourses our sassy and ouresivas. Ent it is not a
light thing, in these days, for England to be checked.
It needs bat an idle rumour fri shake the credit of
the wealthiest of oar merchant princes, and this
country, in the plenitude of her strewth, cannot yet
afford to suffer reverses. Therefore, it becomes every
Englishman—that is, Wass he wishes the war
to be dragged on through weary years of
petty victories, or petty dieocatkures—to pat
forth all his might at ems. Let some aka
themsekes. The rub of the army and militia OM
still incomplete, and we do sot think that those whoa
last year, were clamouring for war will new Al*
to go forth to battle at their country's
those who mum 'go eat to fight' beware hew MO
grumbleat the ,edifice of sue, comfort, or money,
which they may now have to make. We don't waif
to causal the truth. Many a man will this you
have to spend cm war the wimp whisk, at other
time*, be weald spend on' blemnlL ' We thin
most of as lave to phalli', in waij
another, and the more this le 'Sine
—the more rigour--and due net
the more mosey.?—we tbsvirbito
sooner we shall come to an 111111 of the whole
The country is ill tors nag* is ibomail
man who is overtaksa by in ankle sip
calstelod monetary pressen. BMW or
ourselves to pistols or poison we melt '
difficulty, and by dint of hard work and
obeli presently Ito relieved.. The oonsolation
this proem is felt by all annecnt !rib efters
classes do not bear it with equipeAuswasid -serely
the cause is a noble one. Ne arganssat wlll
as that the real muse which nand the sr
British nation wan anything bat a moo c
;Pt** bff the Uta X**
upon an auffeeding neighbour. The assiery
mnefiag has 'grouted is *minas
EnglWitese by the obstinacy with whisk the
TIMPZIOI holds eat against say pesticides.
Osseo i aisfl-wo anted that the ass, fast "
makbig samtilile la a noble eases-the
oppressed—is not only a grand
'WU, bat has duo molt to arms

lon of truth and *doe, sad dist inedestir
desire to do battle tor tho weak against dr drag,
which bad berme somewhat cooled and weakred
drift the forty pen of pesos. Par be it !tor r
to biled or readers to the horrors and selfsrisip of
war. We would willingly bail the return of pair
so lag sa that pesos was honourable; bet the War
has come open as, and it become se to fight it or
trimly to the wed, not grambliag berm we do not
at oar asesmplish all we desks. sot too boastful in
the boar of nooses, bat priestly performing a mani.
fees act of duty.—Daily Now.