The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-26 00:00:00

THE PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION

(FROM TIIII DAILY NM'S

PAINS, MAT 24.
The naval trophy of England continues to astonish
Parisian visitors. Every day something new, and of
inexplicable use to most bystanders, is added to the
nautical collection, amid the amusing conjectures of
people who have never seen the sea. Very popular is
the man in the crowd who can afford even a hazy
notion of the uses to which the diving dresses may be
applied, or who can appear knowing on the subject
of the suspended outrigger. Nor lees surprised are
the groups who learn before Minton and Co.'s stall
that there are designers in England not in the habit
of drawing human legs and arms twice their proper
length. The vases coloured by students at Marl-
borough-house, indeed, do infinite credit to the pro-
fessors of the Department of Science and Art. They
also admire. and with justice, Messrs. Minton's
Parian cast from the Comte de Nienwekerke's but of
the Empress of the French. When I tell you that
even the sculptor himself is contented with
this exquisite reproduction, and has been once
or twice to examine it, I may give your
readers a faint idea of the success with which the
original has been adhered to. But I propose to
devote a separate communication to the wonders
which have reached Paris from Staffordshire and
London.
Not less popular than Minton's stalls are these of
Store. sod Mortimer, Phillips, and the Goldsmiths'
Company. Storr and Mortimer's diamonds ; sod
their great testimonials (some of exquisite design, as
that presented to Lord Ellentiorough by his friends
in India) attract crowds of wondering Frenchmen
all day long. You know the excitement of French-
men when they admire ; nothing is passable—all is
ravissant, parfait, envie, or execrable, &kaiaks
There is, however, an amusing design in the case
belonging to the Goldsmiths' Company. It typifies
the benevolence of the company, where—according
to the card placed near the testimonial to themselves,
the directors, or guardians, or freemen of this com-
pany—Prudence presides. The design is pretty ;
but let me suggest one more appropriate. Let an
artist draw an allegorical figure the C.ompany,with
a nose something between a bottle and a nugget
is shape. This figure should be wildly dipping its
fingers into capacious pockets; but Prudence should
be near, and as wildly insistinAnupon buttoning up
.
the Company's pockets. But ais not aIL The
Company should hold in one hand (the five nails of moadaTmeY keltintrethelAwvifel'orottose
of
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nwa,
which might prettily represent sovereigns) a lim buried at the Plymouth Oantery. Her same was God.
trumpet, to which the lips—the golden lips of Treferneff. and Are was Bet wife of a suggest, (me of the
Company—should be placed. To complete the py- prisoners taken, at Boma resedt It appears, that she had
remittal design, a little figure of the Company's beadle been seriously ill for some months of an internal complaint,
putting an extinguiahsr over Modesty might be aad that during her ohms her husband had attended upon
her with past misi uity sad kindness. Last week she died,
happily added, bat NM awry all the woman here, a Lutheran, she had
After the gorgeous stalls of silver end gold have pnviassly manes the eseesmeat from tee Rev. W.
been palmed, the Parisians appear to halt before the Meeker, iM aimplaia albs esmetery. After her death she
beg oak ornaments of Cornelius Coggin. These are we., fa the hobs of her earn attired it ,a Rood dress,
likely to please in Paris, for the stile reason that in end VIM' isTerP=a'ald',.7.-i„,,irzglozablej::
Paris they are novelties. . were pet mesa her breast. Oa Miliaday she was taken in a
&mei time back I informed your readers that tne mem to rho reasteey. Abe of the omen were
English authorities were endeavouring to arrange for marched to the pound, all of whets were Womb in the
the exhibition of De la Rae's envelope amnia, in Raskin service, sad four of the, loaded by mate Royal
the Palace. lam now happy to tell them that this Kaipeeriasit °or" t
neeth.beesetbudelnifrimeree tterniiimg hell' to re
machine has been placed in the southern gallery. gravel
service was read by the Rev. lie. Hacker, and as
before Owen Jones's stall. he read the women stepped forward to the grave, and each
Farina has placed an Eau de Cologne fountain in of them threw ia a quantity of earth upon the coon. The
the south- western corner of the building, sear some husband of the deceased did the same. While the service
tin miniatures of Turkish warriors. Here we p7ertil lee stood at the heed of. the gee", and evinced
Ve en zee bag for the loss of his wife, eryiag all the time.
have the betas of Oltenitsa in little. We have also Be was- i las grown man, about Wenn of elk, with deeply
Chimers de Vincennes *deeming bravely against set eyes, alma*, sad strongly marked harem which
an enemy firm as tin can make a Russian—in the char **Russ of the north. After the service was
hands of a Parisian manufacturer. In the Prosaism terminated, be asked Permission to sec the Pave tilled ioi
section of the 'gallery are some carp, of queer—net :=4.Licitelirei- funeral,t e
raetTlrtZ jahtteprertnae kindly
t ?Len-
to say ugly—designing. Ladies enjoying equestrian pima hero, there was no commissioned dear of the Russian
exercise, men rowing threagh squares of Pruesusiblue, meeka present, as they take no interest whatever, or eon-
are among these strange drawings. Rut the queer can themselves about their less fortunate countrymen who
drawing is a view of the Bydenham Crystal Palace, are within the walls of the prison.
done in Berlin wool, I believe. Here the trees look ENGLISH GARDENS IN RONDA. —ln about a
like cabbages—the whole affair resembling the first meatfeeta'seotieemiars three:4:a be immense ler of fidilegtehtleigie;
water-oolour drawing of a most unpromising pupils Turkel, and is the Crimes, for the use of the sick, u well
Among the contributions from Hamburg I have Be large craps of vegetables and grasses in the neighbour-
named a bust of the French Emperor, loyally east in hood of Balaklava awl Sebastopol. Mr. Page, the seed
soap by Douglas fils • and a portrait of the Empress, washout of Souther' ptou who has been eelecied by the
worked by Mlle. Om:sperm While strolling through mermaid to MA the English possessions in the Crimea
with herbage and vegetables, dates that the whale of the
this part of the Exhibition, Imparted that a ease of hum,. stook of mid, he se:it out is Medway will be
jewellery from Genera (which mu conspicuous on pia shoat three weeks after they are planted. The
the opening day) was no longer apparent. And in of them vegetables which grow quickest were sent out
nothing this witlicinwal. I ant led to the reflection that the largest 9 entities. An:oruestt . many varieties
yet the
1 many exhibitors in various parts of the building have Ilm'isgrig!"
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etbtktemeteces. ary.
I am shut, and sowed up, althmgh .plane ""'"'""", ''''' ' i
impsraribilirkeilared the whole Exhibition open on
rad ma, =macaw, encumber, endive, leek, lettuce, cm ons,
pr. parsley, radishes, spinach, turnips, and pot Whs.
unday last. Now, as during the first fifteen days very kegs geantity of Italtin rye gram mod *ma dr e55.....t
of the Exhibition, people are compelled to pay five ti that oMag one of the wheat and most prothloovo IN
francs at the doors for the efforts's ty enjoying an , yielding enormous woes of quickly succeeding
permanent pasture were also sent Out
early view, I think they may !amenably demand The United ft 34 Government have rode*
„r
that all contributions which are in their plats should eeleoet 0:11 engineers, , wine of °anion, sad a esealr
be uncovered for their inspection. It is bad enough 1 earate, to proceed to Sebastopol, to inspect the Who
to find the galleries choked up with packing-ours, *me, and Tien the OPUS**, Of the war.

Miss STABBACH'B CONCEHT.—This rising young
singer gave her annual concert last evening at the
Hanover-square Rooms. It consisted chiefly of
vocal music, interspersed with several instrumental
pieces. The singers were—Madame Fiorentini,
Miss Fanny Huddart, Miss Stabbach herself, Signor
Salvi, Mr. Bodda, and Signor Belletti. Bolos were
performed on the pianoforte by Mr. Lindsay Sloper
and Signor Li Cali; on the concertina, by Signor
Regondi ; on the trumpet, by Mr. Distin ; and on the
contrabasso, by Signor Bottesini. The music was
well selected, and well performed; Miss Stabbach
distinguishing herself b' the excellent manner in
which she sang several pieces in various styles, espe-
cially the brilliant and effective air " Non fu sogno,"
from the Lombardi, and the pretty Irish ballad,
" Kathleen Mavourneen." The room was tilled by
a large and fashionable ',dime.

IRELAND.

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_ _ _ DUBLIN, MAY 26.

His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle returned yes-
terday afternoon from his visit to Cork, and imme-
diately after his arrival held a Privy Council, which
was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Muter of
the Rolls, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and
Judges Blackburne, Ball, and Keating,.
We had a very copious and seasonable fall of rain
during last night. A considerable quantity also fell
yesterday, and the weather is altogether most favour-
able for the growing crops. All our agricultural re-
ports are of the most satisfactory character.