The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-05 00:00:00

Only 86 exhibitors are mentioned in this depart-
ment.

Section IV. is allotted to specimens of •: :' kinds of
wood and timber used for shipbuiklin4 and other
purposes ; to a large assortment of railway sleepers
impregnated with different chemic tl übstances to
prevent dry rot ; to bark, planks, and carved furni-
ture ; to fowling guns and rifles ; and, in fact, to
everything coming under the head of the " forest
science," as German scientific terminology has it.
In Class V. is collected a vast variety of agricultural
produce, such as corn and flour, flax and hemp, hops
and oil seeds, wool, wine, beer, spirits, cheese, but-
ter, ham, sausages, sugar, chocolate, manure, &c.
There are 367 exhibitors enumerated in these two
classes, for which a low structure of great length,
consisting of a single narrow chamber, and lighted
from the top, has been built in the Flora Gardens.
Class VI. is to include mining produce of all sorts,
but, as we learn from the catalogue, as yet confined
to coal samples from Rhineland and Westphalia.
The entries under this head amount to 52.

The General Committee, which consists of 30
members, among whom are many of the most distin-
guished names of the town, is assisted for working
purposes by seven special committees, six of them
attending to the various divisions of the show, and
the seventh acting as grand master of ceremonies on
this popular and festal occasion. The General Com-
mittee is presided over by Herr Bachem, the Burgo-
master of Cologne, and Herr Edward Oppenheim,
the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Flora
Horticultural Society, with which the chief merit
and responsibility of the affair seems to rest. Of
German and foreign Government representatives
who, I believe, will be all present at the opening
ceremony, I will only mention Herr von Nathusius
and Herr von Salviati (secretary to the Board of
Agriculture at Berlin) for Prussia ; Baron Hohen-
bruck and Herr Wotitz for Austria ; Colonel Scott
for England ; Mr. Tappan for the United States of
America ; M. Tisserand, chef de division des etablisse-
nzentsagricoles de la Couronne, for France ; and M.
Consul Engels for Italy.
From a commercial point of view the Exhibition,
it is to be presumed, will also prove a success. The
costs cannot be very heavy. The greater part of
the articles allowing of being exhibited in open
sheds, there have been two buildings only, and these
of moderate size and most unpretending style, run up
for the occasion. The grounds, too, were placed at
the disposal of the Committee gratuitously, partly by
the Flora Society, partly by Herr Kauffmann. A
lottery will be got up in connexion with the expo-
sition, and a considerable influx of strangers is ex-
pected shortly.
The Exhibition will be open a month only, at
prices varying between ls. and 6s. Season tickets
are to be had at 15fl. The prizes—to be awarded by
nine special committees, already appointed for the
purpose—consist of eight silver medals and two
large silver medals given by the Prussian Ministry
of Agriculture ; of 150 fredericks d'or for the best
steam plough, presented by Geheimrath Oppen-
helm ; of 500 thalers for the best fire engine, and
500 thalers for the best street locomotive, offered by
the Concordia Fire Insurance Company ; and 18
gold medals, 100 silver medals, and 150 bronze
medals, the gift of the committee. The committee
medal shows on the reverse the portraits of the
Crown Prince and Princess, who have graciously
accepted the patronage of the Exhibition. It is
said to be an exquisite little piece of art in itself,
and worthy of the society distributing it. Honour-
able mention will be made of other persons coming
under the favourable notice of the adjudicating
committees.

6 O'CLOCK.

Two hours ago the inauguration of the Inter-
national Exhibition of Agriculture took place with
all the solemnity befitting the occasion. It drew
together a greater assemblage of people than could
be expected from the quiet and everyday aspect of
the town. Upon the whole the day was beautiful ;
one passing shower, which fell shortly before the
Prince made his appearance, served but to lay the
dust and to give greater freshness to the air. With
that punctuality which is the courtesy of Kings, his
Royal Highness drove up to the principal entrance
at the appointed hour. He was received by Herr
Earbom, the burgomaster, and tho members of the
General Committee, and, amid the cheers of the
assembled multitude and the spirited strains of a
Prussian popular song, proceeded to an open tent
erected in the engine ground. The ladies and gen-
tlemen who had been waiting there saluted the Prince
respectfully, and the Prince acknowledged the com-
pliment with an air of natural and good-natured
dignity which became him exceedingly well. The
proceedings began with the delivery of an appro-
priate address by the burgomaster, which recorded
the benefits and emphatically dwelt upon the many
and manifest advantages the province enjoyed under
the Prussian rule. It was owing to the facilities
offered by an enlightened Government, he said that
the resources of the province had been so rapidly
developed, and the sterling qualities of the Rhenish
race so splendidly come out. Further progress, how-
ever, was necessary here, as everywhere else. There
was, perhaps, not everything as it ought to be on the
Rhine, too. Upon him it devolved to return to his
Royal Highness the thanks of the Committee for
having graciously allowed himself to be created Pro-
tector of the Exhibition, and come to open it in per-
son. Here the burgomaster ended. The steam en-
gines in the adjoining field, which had been inconve-
niently noisy during the first part of the ceremony,
were silent at length, and his Royal Highness pro-
ceeded to read his reply. From beginning to end it
was a panegyric of peace. Peace was the great pro-
moter of industry, the cement of nations, the gua-
rantee of steady and prosperous progreis. They
had just celebrated another festival in this ancient
and time-honoured city to commemorate the bles-
sings of 50 years of continuous peace. This was
the only allusion his royal highness made to the
late anniversary of the embodiment of the Rhine
provinces with Prussia. It was natural for them to
follow up that celebration by another, showing the
actual results and exhibiting the tangible products
of peace, and they had acted in the spirit of him
who had been the first to start these useful exposi-
tions by making it an international one. His royal
highness never opens an exhibition without availing
himself of the opportunity of acknowledging with
pious gratitude the merits of the late Prince Con-
sort. His royal mother took the most lively in-
terest in this enterprise, and, being unable to accept
the protectorate they had offered her, had charged
him to accept it in her stead. He was to find him-
self once more in their midst, and declared the ex-
hibition open. Three cheers for the king closed the
oration. His royal highness, who had come alone,
unattended by any of the Ministers, Generals, or
high dignitaries of State, and wore the uniform of
a Rhenish regiment, then shook hands with Colonel
Scott, the British Commissary, and conversed with
the gallant officer and the other Commissaries
for upwards of an hour. His affability and cordial
frankness of manner and speech easily won him the
hearts of the spectators, who crowded into the tent
and evidently felt quite at home in the immediate
vicinity of the heir to the Throne. A loose sort of
procession having been formed, his royal high-
ness next went the round of the grounds, es-
corted by Herr Muller, the head of the Civil Service
at Cologne, the foreign Commissaries, the members
of the Committee, and the cheering and loving
public generally. There was an air of familiarity
spread over the scene which suited well the rural
surroundings and provincial character of the cere-
mony. Part of the machinery was closely inspected
by the Royal visitor. Looking at one of the new
Prussian cast-steel grenades, 2201 b. in weight, the
Crown Prince smilingly observed that " that, at
any rate, would shorten one's sufferings." The
grounds looked wonderfully improved since yester-
day. The Exhibition is not in a finished state even
now, but the arrangements are being completed
rapidly.

lArb:en your correspondent left to jot down a few
hasty lines in time for post, his Royal Highness
was just sitting down for dinner with a party of 150
ladies and gentlemen in the beautiful conservatory
of the Flora Gardens.

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