The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-28 00:00:00

THE UNIVERSAL EXIIIBITION OF 1867.

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Vacs ous srzciai. ocesuaronissr.)
We shall have a complete catalogue of the
Zuglish part of the Exhibition at any rate,
one that will be independent of M. Dente.The
Mriglish commissioners will prepare a catalogue of
Zngland's contributions to the industry of the
world fair in their own way, and to the understand-
ing of the British practical, matter-of-fact mind.
The additional catalogue information that has
transpired is to the effect that Messrs. Johnson and
Ban, of Castle-rtreet, Holborn, have bought of the
redoubtable M. Dentu the exclusive right of pro-
ducing an English edition of the official general
and group catalos, with the privilege of selling
them in the building-•. Now ,1 apprehend, all that
can be sold is sod, including the cstalogud
e
of the Billsncourt Agricultural Show,
an
an illustrated catalogue. Moreover, private
enterprise does not appear to be quite killed by the
pretensions of the publisher of the Palais Royal.
Paris will be presented to the world next year under
many aspects. Another group of literary men—
another squadron of light pens —have taken the
tield, we remised Paris "n deshabille. The
light and
pens a are p
announced are Jules Noriac, Ponson du
Terrell, Siraudin, and Eugene Chapus. No copy
will, I trust, fall into the hands of the most liberal-
minded of our great Grundy family.
Many happy ideas have marked the progress of
the Exhibition preparations. Sonic of these are
landmarks of the progress the world has made of
late years. The area of charity has broadened. A
newly awakened spirit of kindness is on ita trave
the
ls.
The wants, the unfortunate predicaments of
poorest are to be studied, it would appear, in
1867 • and a staff and a crust at least are to be
offered to all who may turn their face towards the
Rxhibition. I have already described the prepara-
tions made by M. Dimly and his committee, for the
ill-paid teachers of France. But here is
stingersranr
news. There is much spare room, I believ th
Hotel des Invalides. A wing of the great beilding,
it is reported, is to be prepared to receive the vete-
rani of foreign armies who are to be invited to the
universal tournament of peace. Shall we see some
of our Chelsea and Greenwich pensioners hob-and-
nobbing with the few wizened old men who now
represent the Old Guard in Paris, on the Empe-
Tor's birthday, and congregate about the railings
of the Vendome column, in their threadbare " war-
paint " of the great captain's days 1 There are
whispers about invitations to the English volim-
teem. Will they be lodged in the Hotel dei
.Haricuts In anticipation of the coming of the
World, the authorities are searching every nook
and corner for fresh conveniences, and are going
wild over statistics of the kilos of beef, the gallons
of milk, the number of beds and pairs of sheets,
and lastly, of the number of cabs that will be re-
quired. According to French statists, Paris has
more vehicles within its boundary even than Lon-
don. Two years ag ee more than
eleven thousand in Paris. The number has
greatly increased of late—to the extent of
nearly one thousand it is generally esti-
mated ; yet for next year the crazy conveyances of
St. Cloud and Versailles are to be brought to the
capital. These tigurds are startling ; but a people
who have calculated the annual and. fruit
consumption of their sparrows, and Taint down at
thirty millions of francs, may easily claim to be
above suspicion in the matter of vehicles.
The spread of every improvement in handicrafts,
and the consequent improvement in manufactures,
and processes, and tools, all over the world, is
assuredly the highest, because the most useful
object concerning the whole family of man,
which the promoters of international exhibitions of
industry can have in view. Next year, Stafford-
shire potters may give up their trade prejudices as
they wander through the tenth group of the Exhi-
bition, seeing with their own eyes wherein their
foreign brethren are better than themselves. In
the same way will their teachers in some t
hings
learn of them in others. The free, cheap
course of the working men of the various nations of
the globe is, in truth, more impertent than the
assembling works of their skill. Our neigh-
bours have been the first to acknowlee
d figerst and
act upon this truth, as they were he to
conceive and carry out international hospitalities.
We may judge of the care and taste and good feel-
ing with which foreigners will be received in
Paris next year, by the splendour and com-
pleteneas with which the city of Paris en-
tertained tha guests whom she invited over during
the Exhibition of 1831. As national hosts we are
an awkward race. I see that the leading volunteers
confess their awkwardness. They wish to return
the generous hospitality they received last autumn
in Belgium ; hut they look in vain for the official
help and recognition—in fa fact,which for that national
cache! fur their entertainm their Be
welcome Lore. In 1851 we showed no attentions to
foreigners. In 1d62 we positively neglected even
the most distinguished among them. They were
free to come awl go, and there was the end of our
invitation. lb body listened to Mr. Ce's idea
feria
f
a national ii.vitation in 1851.
nor thought
moment of adopting it in 1862. Crowds of fo-
reigners left London saying that the English had
made the Exhibition a shop, and nothing morend
that it was covered with puffs and placards, a
crammed by pushing tradesmen—but few retired
irupres .ed a ith our grace or courtesy.
We way profit by the French example of next
year. The plan of 1867 is a radical reform of all
the exhi'dtion systetna which have preceded it. It
is to be mainly the proletaire's Exhibition. So far
as I can get news of preparations among the leading
Paris manufacturers, 1 tind that torins
will not ho so remarkable for costly magnificence,
for niece extravagant money—spending on sin glee
articles of furniture or decoration ; but tha he
exhibitors will rely on the perfect make and sound
design of their ordinary objects of manufacture.
Thus Derriere will occupy his space with the
ordinary articles of furniture he manufactures,
the centre-pita-vs of his show being a highly orna-
mented mantelpiece and chandelier.
Thu Working Man's Club and Institute Union
bas formed a committee with the object of arranging
excursions of working men to Paris next year to
sec the Exhibition. I believe the basis of the com-
mittee is, that each excursionist's board and lodging
in Paris for one week shall not cost more than 30s.
I see no reason why ample and good board and bed
should not he haul within this price. All will
depend on the skill and local knowledge of
the committoe. They whose only idea of Faris
is that it is merely a spendthrift place, where it
is well-nigh impossible to lead a frugal, saving life,
and who never been out of the beaten
tourist's tracks, will, of course, laugh at board and
bed in l'aria for thirty shillings a week. It is to
be done, and done well at this price only the
caterers must know their Paris well, and must be
enthusiasts at their work. The difficulty is this—
that English Exhibition excursionists of the work-
ing class, not understanding the language, man-
ners, or habits of life of their neighbours, must
depend wholly on those who cater for them. If
these caterers prove inefficient, it will be difficult,
at the last moment, to repair their shortcoming. I
dwell on the importance of great cam in the organi-
zation of workmen's excursions from London to
Paris, because now is the time to watch them, and
to make sure that they are in good hands. The
unprotected excursionist will be at the mercy of a
horde of greedy touters and extortionate hotel or
tavern keepers.
On the Idth of this month the Royal Italian
Commission for the Exhibition had received
demands for space from 2,241 exhibitors.
Front Stockholm it is reported that the govern-
ment will send to the Exhibition a rifled cannon,
five needle-guns on the Hagatroem model, and a
variety of ancient weapons. The Prince Oscar,
moreover, has promised to send the magnificent
ivory cup which was presented to him in Denmark.
An item of news from Spain. According to the
Madrid tiaulte, among the Spanish contributiens
will be a magnificent skeleton of an adder found
on the mountain of Pardo. It was dissected by
Don Manuel Sanchez. The skeleton consists of
1,045 rings—all perfect.
Dupont, of the Rue Nerve, St. Augustin's, lawn-
structing a bed on some new principle. Is it a
feed for the sleepless ; a bed for the uneasy eon-

exibiti igrat inititay.
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PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 27.
A court-martial was held on board the Victory
to-day. for the trial of D
ry
who
G. Boys, acting_ sub-
lieutenant on board the Pylades, who was charged with
deserting from a
tender belmVntto that ship at Cornwall,
Canada West, on the Gth September. The court was
Eom•
of Captains Tatham (president), the lion. F. F.ger-
ton, Chamberlain., Folkway Gommerell, Burgoyne, Hire,
and Henderson ; Mr. E. HoaU. na officiating as judgoudvo-
este ; Lieutenant Vidal, of the Pylades, prosecuted. The
prisoner admitted the desertion, and his defence was that,
owing to pecuniary embarrassments, he had deserted to
avoid arrest, a writ having been issued by one of his credi-
tors just before the ship was ordered home. The prisoner
produced several certificates of charectei, and the court,
taking into consideration the extenuating circumstances
of the case, adjudged him to be dismissed front her Ma-
, jesty's service.

MELANCHOLY OCCERREfiCZ AT SEA.—About three
months ago a barque named the Ruby, fill tons register,
commanded by Captain Merrill, arrived in Cork harbour
leaky and with other damage. She bad a cargo
of iron
from St. Petersburg for Boston. On her arrival the cargo
WAS discharged into the stores of Meurs. Brown and
Craige docks, Passage West, with the object of baying the
vessel repaired. Au estimate of the cost ofu nde the r
epairs,
the ship's carpenter having refused to work rel.
a day, was furnished to the owners, in
nd they
Liverpool
, finding that
the repairs could be done cheaper , had the
vessel towed into one of the docks there.
on The Rub
let of
November. The cargo was re-shipped, end the vessel left
the harbour on the 16th of November for her desti-
nation. From the time of her departure the moat
unfavourable weather was eeperienced, particularly
about the Ist of the present month. On the
6th, 7th, and Bib a terrific gale blew from the 1
southward, accompanied by exceedingly turbulent seas,
the decks of the ship being repeatedly swept, which
rendered it very dangerous to remain there. On the nth
instant, at noon, the ship was 1,500 miles to the westward
of this ooast, and the captain, his first and second mate.
were standing near the wheel on the starboard side of the
deckhouse, when a tremendous sea struck the ship, s
his
weep-
ing away the deckhouse, together with the
captain,
first mate, whose name was Thompson, and the m
entiaan at
the wheeL The second mate had a most providl
escape, he being dashed against the bulwarks,
just at
a pair where the deckhouse did not project. Both his
legs were broken, and he wee badly injured about the
body. The weather was very thick at the time,
and nothing was seen of those who were washed
overboard after it occurred. The crew state that
from the violence with which the unfortunate men
were dashed sgaiust the bulwarks they must have i
been instantly killed, and that at the time of
the occurrence no boat could live in th see. The deck-
house contented all the ship's were, chronometer, bin-
nacle competes, and signal flap—in fact, everything for
navigating the ship was in it, and all was carried
away. TT
mace was so badly injured that he was utterly
unable to take charge of the ship, but, acting on occasional
suggestions from him, the boatswain succeeded in bringing
bauk the ship as far as Cape Clear.
notHee, on Wednes-
day, they sighted a vessel, and having other means of
signalling her, they hoisted ad
to
on the main-
mut. The vessel, which proved to be a Russian barque
named the Petrie, from Falmouth, came to, and the
captain, being informed of the circumstances, at the re-
quest of the man in charge, put his chief mate, John Her-
mann Youghal, on board the Ruby, to take her to a port.
The vessel arrived in the harbour on Friday, in charge
of liermanu. The Ruby il much damaged She belongs
to a Boston merchant, teal his agent has. een COMUIUDI-
cated with at Liverpool, but what will be done with the
ship is not yet decided. Capt. Merrill had many friends in
Queenstown, and the intelligence of his loss WAS received
by them with very
_great repet.—Cork Erma Ayr.
THE ItEcENT FATAL COLLISIoN AT THE 31OUTH
or THE 31 s;nenv.—An inquest was held yesterday before
Mr. Deputy-Coroner Devey, at Liverpool,
. upon the body
of Andrew Jessop, a seaman, and lamp trimmer, who Lad
been employed on board he Whitebaven and Liverpool
packet steamer Queen, and who was killed during a col-
lision between that vessel and the sailing ship Hannibal.
at the mouth of the Mersey, on the night of the 14th of
December. Several witnesses were examiner!, and it was
proved that the ship Hannibal, at the time when she came
into collision with the Queen, was in tow of the Retriever
steam tug ; that the Queen's helm was put hard report„
and her engines reversed, to prevent the collision, but '
without avail, and that the deceased, whose duty required
hint to be heaving the lug at the time of the collision, head
by .:one means got between the peddle-boxes of the Queen
aud the side of the Hannibal, and in all volubility had
been crushed between the two. His leg was severely
e
lacerated and he had received a severe injury to
the head., The @elicitors ngaged in the case raised
as
o point of lawto whether the
of rulelB62 of the 14th clause
of the Merchant Shipping Act
that, when two vessels meet, each shall put its hello i
a-port applied in such a case as this. It was cortended 1
for one side that the 15th clause, which provided that a '
steamer should always getout of theway of a sailing veeeel.
really applied to the case ; but against this it was urged
that in this cue the sailing Seat' WAR not depending ou
her own power, but was in tow. The jury intcrpoge.l,
and ',aid they were not concerned in this .luestiou, bet
merely had to inquire into the cause of death. It was
then contended that, according to the evidence, the only
conclusion to be arrived Attu was that the deceased, by at-
, tempting to get on board Hannibal, loul been conti i-
I butory to his own death, and the jury found, " That de-
, ceased came to his death through an accident, Luc how
received there was no evidence to show."
SEVERE tiALE AT LIVERPOOL.—OH Wetbiesthe
night awl up to an early hour yesterday morning a fearful
gale from the W.N.W. swept over Liverpool ; end doubt-
lees hall it not been for notice in one of the local papers
that a storm was imminent many
vessels would have put
to sea, and peweibly some of them would have come to
grief. The captain of the steamer St. Colombo, which
arrived at Liverpool yesterday morning, reports terrific
weather in the Channel, having encountered a severe gale
from the W.N.W. during the whole night. A telegram
front Galway states that the coast near e.;lo free
iimbe s covered
with wreck and large quantities of pine tr. Some
wreckage had also been washed ashore during the night
on the Welch coast- The schooner Harriett Wild dragged
her anchors in the river yesterday morning,
schooner into
collision anti emire into
collision with the steamer Bailet. he k
almost immediately ; the Bailee; lest an anchor ; uo lives
were lost. The Montreal mail steamer St. David, which
arrived at Lough Foyle 'yesterday morning, reports v
severe weather. On the '26th she experienced a very heavy
gale, accompanied with tremendous seas, but the ship sus-
tained no damage. Previous to meeting with the gale the
St. David experienced very bad weather, and pasted
It is feared
through several large fields of ice and icebergs.
that the storm has not yet abated, as up
to the despatch
of our parcel yesterday evening then were indica-
tions of a fresh outbreak of the gale.
or Only two vessels
sailed yesterday, viz.. the Saladin (ss.), f Bahia,7ad
Eel inn (Ks.), for Portland.
THE NEW VAGRAN r WARDS FOR
eve, het
l'SlON.—Thia building, which is, we believe, the first of
ite class erected in London, is now completed and occu-
pied. It is 'Austell in Vine-street, Liquorpond-street, the
ground on which it stands having been cleared
of bul-
ines for the purpose. Externally it presenhe; appentar-
ance of four ordime y dwelling-houses, the architect being
instructed so to plan the structure that in the event of
its not being required for the uses to which it is now
appropriated it could be readily converted into dwelling-
houses with a range of workshops in the rear.
The Plan of the interior may be thus described. There
is au entrance hall, on admission to which the division of
the sexes is at once effected, the females passing to the
with
then males to the left. Immediately in connexion
with the receiving wards are the baths, water-closets, and
urinals, as also store-reoins, in which the clothes of the
inmates are locked up during the night, care
exterminator
which has been provided. The sleeping wards, containing
ninety-six beds, are in the rear on the ground and one pair
storeys, the whole being both lighted and ventilated from
the roof, large well boles having been formed The t
heca he floor
of the one pair storey for the purpose. The
tion is effected by means of a number of hooded cowls
fixed in the roof with rings of gas placed below the same
to produce an upward current, the fresh air being intro-
duced at the level of the floors. As the building will only
be occupied at night the plan of ventilation adopted
would seem to be specially designed to meet that circum-
, stance, depending upon the use of the gas rings in the
roof for complete development. No doubt the fact of the
front wall being the only one of the external boundaries
available for lighting and ventilating the building, had
considerable weight in determining the use of the roof the
site purposes. Be that as it may, the difficulties of the
site in this respect seem to have been effectually over-
come by the means we have described. Complete super-
vision over the inmates is obtained by the attendants' room
being glazed on all seise, and their being so located as to
command a full view of the wards. The labour test would
seem to consist of oakum picking for the females, and
stone breaking for the males, accommodation for both
being furnished. Open fireplaces have been provided in
all the wards, but this apparently has been done to meet
any further requirements arising out of the conversion of
the building, since the whole is now heated by means of
hot writer. A residence for the superintendent and his
wife his been erected immediately adjoining the male
wards, with a private staircue and entrance from the
street. The contract price for the whole was 2,6621.
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