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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1865,

It is most satisfactory to notice that all connected
with the visit of the French fleet to our shores
should be so happily accomplished. It is one of
those striking events which peace has to record, and
which in true excellence and real significance far
surpass all the achievements of war. The magnifi-
cence and splendour that graced the event were
befitting the occasion when the banquet took place
on Wednesday, when the Admiralty entertained the
officers of the French fleet. The Duke of SOMERSET
delivered an appropriate speech on the occasion,
when he proposed " The healths of the EMPEROR,
the EMPRESS, and the Prince IMPERIAL." After
tendering the thanks of the British Admiralty to
the Minister of Marine and the authorities at Brest
and Cherbourg, his Grace said that the satisfaction
they experienced during their recent visit to France
was enhanced by the warm welcome they received
from the French people, who thronged to greet their
arrival. It is a delightful contrast to mark the
exchange of these flattering remarks, in lieu of the
fierce menace and bitter jealousy that too often have
excited and irritated the rival services of the two coun-
tries that are the leading ones of the civilised world.
As the Duke truly observed, it is of great importance
that the officers of the two services should meet
occasionally, for such intercourse strengthens the
bonds of amity, and leads to promote kindly feelings
and mutual good-will. The effect of such reunions
does not pass away when the transient excitement
and enthusiasm of the affair are over, but remain
to influence the future. This idea was ably illus-
trated in the following passage : " Hereafter when
they meet, in whatever part of the world it may be,
they will be able to look back with satisfaction to
their visits to the harbours of Cherbourg and Ports-
mouth, which I trust will tend to strengthen those
feelings of cordial friendship which subsist between
the two Governments and the two nations." In
many ways have we lately had occasion to remark
the many advantages that may be derived from the
mutual good will that exists between the two
countries. The Duke of SOMERSET adroitly availed
himself of the opportunity then before him to thank
the Admiral and officers of the French navy for the
great kindness which they showed to the sufferers
on board the Bombay when that ship was destroyed
by fire.

M. DE CHASSELOUP LAUBAT proposed the health
of our QUEEN, and adverted to the happy days which
had arrived when the naval officers of Great Britain
and of France were enabled to appreciate and make
acquaintance with each other. lie declared that
these visits reciprocally made were a new guarantee
for the duration of the entente cordiale which now
so fortunately flourished. Without any conceal-
ment both sides exhibited the last experiments tak-
ing place in naval constructions, and each have
learnt from the other something new of a beneficial
nature.

M. LA BIT remarked that humanity had little to
dread from the exhibition of the great and terrible
instruments of war which the genius of the present
day constructed, because there was little or no
likelihood of their being employed at present, and
also one felt convinced for civilised nations " force
meant moderation and respect for right." He con-
cluded by an eloquent allusion to the bond of sym-
pathy which exists among the sailors of everynation,
and declared that the most admirable quality that
distinguished the sailor was that devotion that self-
denial, which even at the cost of his life always
led him to assist his fellow-men. Sir
M.SEYMOUPt,
in proposing the French Navy, took occasion
to
observe that we had had better opportunities than
most naval officers of forming a judgment as to
the skill and gallantry that the French have displayed
in various climes, and he had al ways felt the greatest
respect and esteem for their heroism and gallantry.
A most brilliant scene was exhibited on this
festive occasion. When the rocket from the Victory
gave the sigual, a magic scene presented itself to
the wondering eyes of the delighted beholders. The
sea was a blaze of light, and every vessel was illu-
minated. Fortunately the night was beautiful
and thus no contre-temps occurred to mar the
effect of the beauty and brilliancy of the
affair. This splendid scene will long live in
the recollection of all fortunate enough to be pre-
sent, and may truly be reckoned as a landmark of
progress and an earnest of civilised friendship be-
tween two mighty peoples.
The municipal banquet last night was also a
brilliant affair, and passed off most successfully.
The Mayor, to whom fell the honour of entertaining
the distinguished company, expressed in an earnest
manner the satisfaction which the people of Ports-
mouth experienced in thus welcoming their guests,

generally felt in these exhibitions proves that we are
not so entirely a material nation as our detractors

have tried to believe. The middle classes—who

have been styled a nation of shopkeepers—have
long ago shown that they know how to appreciate
science and art and literature, and that the same capa-
cities exist in the minds of our intelligent artisan class
is amply demonstrated on all occasions like the pre-
sent, by the contributors to the Exhibition and by
the visitors. Such assemblies do good in many
ways. They refine and cultivate the taste of the
visitors, they break in on the routine of the eternal

work, and enlarge the minds of those who are ordi.
narily too much absorbed in their own materia

occupation. They give to the patient and indus-
triousra him an craftsmen so willing to interest his leisure
thoughts and to occupy his leisure hours ; they
thing more than
perform ono
they serve
panportunity for showing he is some-
kind an automaton constructed to
as
in f
swork and no other, and
degree a rotec-
emptations common to
his position. The model church
or steam-engine,
the carving or cabinet work, the Painting or glass
work, which has nothing whatever to do with the
daily work, is a powerful antagonist to the tap-
room and the beer shop. Men of all ranks are apt
to become too much absorbed in their daily routine,

and when their routine is merely mechanical it is

especially desirable that it should be broken in upon
now and then. The opportunity of displaying that

sympathy between-rlass and class, which Justice

TALFOURD declared with his dying breath to

be the great want of our social system,

is another great merit and a vantage of
these Exhibitions, and the sound sense and

kindly feelings displayed by the Epeakers at the
inauguration at Wakefield show that_ this purpose

rFOLTSES.—Messrs. TOPLIS and ROBERTS
and trusted that this " cordiality" might long con-
have numerous furnished and unfurnished TOWN, tinue, and, amid loud cheers, observed that "stropg
Suburban, and Country RESIDEINCES to LET or SELL.
as l'aniculars forwarded for three stamps, upon stating exact our arms had been when they were at enmity
requirements and rental. Offices, 2, Conduit-street, Regent-
street, and South Kennington, facing the Museum. . with each other, surely they can be equally strong

in the grasp of friendship." The Minister of Marine
was greatly applauded in his address, wherein he
proposed the health of the QUEEN ; and, after de-
livering his discourse in French, he exclaimed in
L English—" Peace and good-will !" Taking all
things into consideration, it may fairly be said that
this meeting of the naval authorities in France and
in England has been a complete success ; and it is
to be trusted that the ceremonies will terminate as
auspiciously as they have begun, and no cloud of
disappointment obscure their mightiness and mar
their felicity. It will be a source of satisfaction to
our national vanity if the French can return home and
tell their compatriots that they have enjoyed bright
days and brilliant weather in England. It has be-
come almost a proverb in France that over here we
live in clouds and murkiness of atmosphere, and
therefore it is the more fortunate that a turn should
be given to their thoughts in this direction, and a
better impression prevail of our belongings. It
may be considered a good earnest of the friendly
feelings that animate the two countries when re-
unions of this kind take place, and are celebrated
in so cordial and unanimous a spirit. It outshines
the memory of the past in historic chronicles of the
glories of war and the achievements of naval and
military prowess when we behold the peaceful
appearance of the meeting of the two services,
so long the heralds of defiance and the harbingers
of destruction, but now the delegates of tranquillity
and the champions of progress. It is some time
since the French Emperor exclaimed, " L'Empire
c'est la paix," and his words have been considered
enigmatical by some, but most assuredly they were
realised in the spirit and the letter in the celebrations
that have just taken place among the navies of the
two countries, and ratified by the acclamation that
resounded from the seaports and the shores of
France and England.

It is one of the most characteristic features of
English society in the present day that men can
oppose each other with the utmost vigour and
determination on public questions, and yet can
freely meet and shake hznds in their private capa-
city. The heat and fury of an election contest is
no sooner over than we see Whig and Tory, Con-
servative and Radical, all joining heartily in some
national demonstration or aiding in the celebration
of some local festivity. Such has just been the
case in one of the most noted of our northern
counties, where the opening of the Wakefield In-
dustrial and Fine Art Exhibition has been kept up
as a general holiday throughout the West Riding.
No pomp or ceremony was wanting to the occa-
sion. There were present Yeomanry and Volun-
teers, Foresters and Oddfellows, and every avail-
able body in grand procession. There, too, were
of course the Mayor and the Corporation, the
architect, the contractor, and everybody who had
taken any part whatever in the erection or furnish-
ing of the Exhibition itself from the President and
Vice-presidents downwards. There were bishops
and M.P.'s, lords and ladies, politicians :and artists,
all gathered together to celebrate the inauguration
of what is really an honour and a credit to Wake-
field and its neighbourhood. Art and Industry
divided the honours of the Exhibition between
them, and in both departments Yorkshire men
have shown their wonted energy. Many noblemen
and gentlemen have lent valuable paintings for the
adornment of the Fine Art Gallery, and thus the
artisans of the town will have an opportunity of
improving their tastes by the inspection of REY-
NOLDS, ETTY, and GAINSBOROUGH. Thß works of
art and ingenuity contributed by amateurs, made
by working men out of working hours, form not the
least interesting portion of the exhibition. Lord
HOUGHTON, the accomplished president of the exhi-
bition, referred to this department especially in his
eloquent and impressive address. It is, he said, a
peculiar feature of these exhibitions that they give
the working class the opportunity of exhibiting
works not peculiar to their trades. "Itis a great
thing for a man to feel that he is not a mere machine,
or part'of a machine, but that there is something
divine in him, which gives him the power of under-
standing and appreciating other things besides his
mechanical work, and which thus places him in con-
junction and sympathy with higher minds than
his own." All industries, as Lord HOUGH-
TON finely said, are, in one sense, really
arts. There was art in the levelling of
the first canal, and in the shaping of the first canoe,
and it is a great thing for the toiling artisan to be
able to realise, by the aid of exhibitions like the pre-
sent, that his work is really a great and noble thing,
to see the beautiful and scientific whole of which his
department forms, perhaps, only one of the com-
ponent parts, for, as the Archbishop of YORK ob-
served at Wakefield, many of our working-classes
never see the completion of the beautiful things
which they have helped in creating. In an exhibi-
tion like the one now open a man may stand and
admire the machinery, the designs, the pottery
which he has worked at through many weary
hours, without ever realising the strength
and beauty, the utility and elegance of what they
were working at. Like the workers of the old
tapestry, which was the admiration of the world,
they never see the figures they are working, but in
the interest and approval that they now hear ex-
pressed regarding their works they will be able to
appreciate its dignity and importance. The interest