The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-30 00:00:00

OUTSIDE THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

The Exhibition correspondent of the Times
writes ;—" The great novelty of the Exhibition is to be
found outside the Palace, in the surrounding park, where
the splendours of the day will be followed by the still more
attractive brilliance of the night. Nothing like what is
now in preparation has yet been seen ; the fame of it when
it is ready will ring across the world; and it is
reckoned here that throngs will come to enjoy
it such as never were gathered together at any previous
Exhibition. When we enter the park we find ourselves
amid a confusion of structures, the purpose of which it is
difficult at first to understand—temples, churches, light-
houses, palaces, cottages, museum., tents, windmills,
aquariums, stables, dens for wild beasts, hothouses,
greenhouses, summerhouses, theatres, lakes, cascades, faun-
taim, hustings, barracks, caves, grottoes, model farm',
letter-boxes, gardens, kiosks, cutlets, statues, pante
rams., restaurants numberless, clubs, shops, cloak
rooms, telegraph offices, money-changing office% and
an infinity of others. It is proposed that this great
park should combine within itself the attractions of
Cremorue, of the Zoological Gardens, of the Botanic
Garden, of the Polytechnic Institution and of the
Crystal Palace at Sydenham. As day draws to a close,
the crowds who are engaged in the building will come out
of it to dine in some of the restaurants. A pretty pair et
turtle doves may be cooing in some sacred bower, and find
their cooing rendered more musical by the growling of
lions and tigers under the palace of the Bey of Tunis. Or
a man may walk out of a theatre where be has been
amused with all the revelry of the Parisian notion of life,
and he will find another show hard by, the model of a
church, where he can gloat upon the wounds of saints and
martyrs in wax, and prepare himself by a momentary
calmness for another rush into the whirl of pleasure ; or
he moves about the circle of an open air concert, smoking
a cigar, or playing with an ice, while he listens to farcical
song. from the mouths of much bepainted women, and, as
he quite this musical region, humming a refrain in the
patois of Alsace, • grave looking gentleman will put into
his hands a little blue brochure, and beg of him to smelt
• copy of the Epistles to the Corinthians. There is
to be an international theatre, in which per-
formances will be given of the dramas of all nations. Be-
sides this, the Chinese are to have a theatre of their own is
connexion with a Chinese place of refreshment, where we
are promised tea to be served in truly celestial fashion.
There is a grand ballet being organised, in which we shall
see the dances of all nations. There is to be • cafe con-
cert ; there are to be bands of music in different parts of
the grounds ; there are to be fireworks and illuminations;
here you drink beer, and there you ask for a dewieipbon
of aerated water ; three paces further on a man is ready
to weigh you wits French weights ; in the next alley •
man is ready to tell you the exact quantity of sir which
you can exhale from your kings ; of course, there is a
billiard-room somewhere ; in the neighbourhood there
will be • magnificent stud of wooden horses on
rounds ; there are shooting saloons in great number
outside the park ; if you wish for a ride on a white camel
here are two at your service ; and if you prefer an eke
phant, here are two white elephants. If the evening it
warm here are fountain, and cascades, and cool grottoes,
and elaborately prepared stalactite caves. If one wished
to escape from the din of the orgies around, there is an
immense lighthouse, with the electric light at the top of
it, which one can for • consideration ascend, and from
which one can look down calmly on the brilliant turmoil
beneath. It will take some time before all these outdoor
preparations will be anything like complete—fully a fort-
night."

The church of St. Hedvige, at Berlin, where the
marriage of the Count of Flanders and the Princess of
Hohenzollern was celebrated on the 25th inst., is a build•
ing of modest dimensions and of but little pretence. It
evinces pretty clearly that the Roman catholic worship is
not fashionable at Berlin, and that its devotees are by so
means numerous. At the nuptial banquet of the Count of
Flanders and the Princess Mary, his Majesty the King 01
Prussia drank to " the health of the King, Queen. "4
royal family of Belgium, and to the handily.. of the bride
and bridegroom." The King of the Belgians replied h 7
drinking " the health of the King, Queen, and royal family
of Pruuia and of the House of Hohenzollern." Conn*
Bismarck WAS present at the banquet.
The Corriere /Mercantile, one of the oldest
journals in Italy, asks what should be the conduct of that
country in the event of hostilities betweeu I'cunx and
Prussia. It says :—" The French and Prusaian evero•
meats are perhaps about to engage in war ; on which 10°
is despotism, and which liberty! If the question of
nationality only is at stake, we do not see in what way it
is infringed on by Prussia ; as to liberty, it do?.s not ar
pear to us to be more triumphant at Paris than at Berlin.
Principles are absolute things ; they may be accepted*,
denied, but they cannot be severed or eluded." The cor
elusion arrived at by the Corriere is that Italy should
maintain a perfect neutrality. .

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Advices from Italy state that Admiral Permit°
has sent challenges to an admiral and two captains wee
gave evidence at his trial.
COFFEE FOR AtBTRALIA.—A shipment of Costa
Rica coffee has been made from ritll.llll.t to Austmlie
bf
the steamer Kaikoura, which sailed yesterday. As the
is the first lot sent to that market, it can hardly er
he
petted to realise its real value, but we trust it lead to
making known there the merits of the coffee of Central
America which now ranks next to Java in places where
it has been already introduced. —AMMAN{ Skr.
ARRIVAL OF A GOLD SHIP.—PENZANcS. APRIL
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scary. arrived off here this afternoon. After reporting
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