The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-08 00:00:00

THE PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION.

(111011 SDI DAILY 11111111

PARIS, Jens 5.
The four sous day was a decided mucosa in both
buildings. The Dumber in the Palace exceeded
50,000 pereone—and that in the Fine Art building
15,000. Thus nearly 70,000 people actually paid to
see the coateuts of the Universal Exhibition—a
result which the backward state of sours of the
works gave the authorities no right to expect. I was
glad to remark in the Sunday crowd large groups el
working men with their wives or sisters, and to see
some of the towering saps of Normandy here and
there peering above the dense level of human heads.
It certainly appeared to me (sad I was in the build-
big between three and four o'clock) that there went
a great many mon people present than on the pro-
vious Sunday—ebonies that the Parisians are
willing to pay a ressonble toll foe eatryc
although they most positively refused five'
trance. Yesterday also, in spite of the counter-
attraction on the Champ de Mars, there were at
least six or seven thousand people in the Palsies dal
'lndustrie, and a good gathering in the Fine Art
building. This is good fortune : after all, the 1
venal Exhibition is to be a success; for when the
connecting gallery, the panorama building, and,
above all, the long machinery gallery, are opened
the present atwction will be doubled at least. But
there is a point to which the attention of the Impe-
rial Commissioners should be directed : it is the hawk-
ing of Exhibition medals within the Palace. Oe
Sunday a man was stationed behind a deal counter,
in the southern gallery, with a sheet of blue pare
before him, upon which a heap of medals were dis-
played. This vigorous merchant—evidently car-
rying out the commercial passions of his
employers to the letter —was tumbling the
medals about, and calling upon the passers-
by not to go away without a souvenir
of the Universal Exhibition. It is only a short time
back that the Commissioners gave the company the
power to sell these medals in the building—did they
also give their agents liberty to hawk them noisily
about in the galleries ?
I have now the pleasure of informing Intending
visitors that there are refreshment stalls opened is
varioes parts of the Palace—before which are grouped
those well-known green round tables familiar to the
coffee drinkers of the Boulevards or the Palais Royal.
Ilgaro, lately noticing curious points in connexion
with the Art Exhibition, observed that the French
might be seen before the Berman school, and the Ger-
man before the English school, the English visitors
beinglefore—the buffet! My Parisian experiences,
which are not slight, lead me to the conclusion that
the natives of the Boulevards are fully as fond of
buffets and calee as the indigenous population of
Cheapeide. But it is a French prejudice to believe
and hold that English men and women are eternally
refreshing themselves—witness the experiences of
Lecomte who states that he helped a "blonde Miss"
to six shillings worth of pastry at the Great Exhibi-
tion of 18:51 !
Although in every part of the building great pro-
gress has been made within the last five or six days
—although the British section is receiving its finish-
ing touches, thanks to the able administration of Mr.
Cole, end the indefatigable superintendence of
Brothers Thompson, and Mr. Philip Oweu—althoug.
Denmark and Sweden, and even Spain are showing
signs of life, the first-mentioned state contribuing
some of the beautiful reductions of Thorwaldsen e
works so well known in Copenhagen—although
Switzerland is giving final touches to her display
of lace, embroidery, and miscellaneous fabrics,
to say nothing of some wonderful carving by
Rietmann, and come floe straw work—still, I cannot
find a single object throughout the building that is
yet marked acoordiog to the catalogue. Now, if the
Imperial Commissioners, who have effected so many
vigorous reforms lately, would add these numbers to
the list, they would make &notable step towards the
complete organisation of their Exhibition. They
might, at the same time, rap against the barriers of
the Austrian court, and ask when the representatives
of Vienna intend to allow the public free admission to
this mysterious region. I may remark, among the
contributions res. ntly placed, a beautiful white marble
mantelpiece, by Alexandre Rossi, professor of the
Ecole Technique, of Milan, elaborately carved, the
principal ornament being, apparently, a head of the
French Empress, which a Cupid is crowning, depoaited
on the southern central staircase; another white
marble mantelpiece, delicately and gracefully
designed and sculptured by Professor Giovanni Zola,
of Carrara, upon the same staircase ; a model of the
printing office of Napoleon Chan and Company (the
Bradshawe of France), placed at the eastern ex-
tremity of the nave ; some magnificent glue
columns and vases, of colossal proportions, from
Munich, near the western exit ; a colossal white
marble mantelpiece upon the north-western gallery
staircase; and in the western nave a model of the
workshops of the Vieille Montagne Company, who,
it may be remembered, made a great show at the
Exhibition of 1851. To the above list of new
objects of attraction I may add the splendid show
of bronzes is one of the French courts ; the
beautiful stall laid out by Rueolphi, of the
Boulevards; the collection of teen cotta or-
naments near the greet northern entrance,
and the immense collection of china in
the north-western passages of the palace. Nor
should Claudet's contribution to the English gallery
be passed by without notice. It is a beautifully
carved stand in box-wood, in which are placed seven
or eight stereoscopes, displaying daguerreotypes.
These daguerreotypes can be changed by the spec-
tator by touching a spring.
Your readers may remember that some two or
three months ago a trial took place betweenethe
Palace of Industry Company and a band of art-
manufacture firms here, about the claim of the former'
to the sole right of making drawings of the exterior
of their building. The company, to the great satis-
faction of the public, lost the action ; but still, it
appears, they claim the exclusive privilege of making
drawings in the interior of the Palace. Assuming
this power, it appears that they have appointed a
photographer to take views of the Exhibition, on the
understanding that they shall receive 25 per cent.
of his receipts. It remains to be seen whether this
monopoly of an Exhibition which belongs to all
nations will be sanctioned by the government. I
expect that it will share the fate of the first claim.
The importance the company attach to this assumed
power may be gathered from the fact that they—or
their concessionaire—offered to give the proprietors
of the Illustrated Landow News the right to make
sketcher of the Exhibition for the modest sum of
100,000 f., or 4,00 W. I may add that this offer was
promptly rejected. And thus the publicity, which
is the vital part of an undertaking like the present,
lea been damaged.
It haa been said that the English press has been
very severe in dealing with the Puri. Exhibition. I
would reassert, in reply, that English correspondents
are not nearly so severe as French talkers.

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opposite the chit/ entry we gat., loading to the interior
quadruple, and eon:iguoa's to the banking oiliest, is a Tarp
spacious marquee, whis‘h Is dimension about 200 feet by 90
feet, and too been newly aikostrueted by B. Edgington for
this occasion. This is to b i.hsed with pink and white
drapery, decorated with aviation cloth, flip, tto. It
connects (by occupying the intern:edlate Vete) th°,9 newly.
built nisgaillmit Wes, the City As Gm and Queen's ATOM
GOVERNMENT APPOINTMESTR: —The office of cone-
eel to the Admiralty, ousted by lir. :rime's appointment
as second seeretari to the board, will be 'Mod by Mr.
Alberto., Q.C. The following are sots v of the arrange-
meats alroody emulated with Menne. ti' the requilanille•
lion of the military departsasata:—Mr. Thaw a_onellhila
been appointed director-general of tiontratne nal!. John
Robert Godley, now one of the inseam-tax obilmbeioners,
will be distetor-pearal of stiffs; no soppier tout bee yet
been mad, to the dike of director-general of aria) clothing,
but lir. George Dalhourie Ramsey will be nesi.otarit director-
Illfural of this department; Sir John &grim," will retain
as. deco of inspector-general of fortifloationt, Ina Mr'
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