The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-24 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EXHIBITION.

(From Friday night's Ga:ette.)

BOARD OF TRADE DEPIRTMENT OP SCIENCE AND ART.
Marlborough House, Pall-mall, April 17, 1854.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Com-
mittee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations-
have received, through the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, a copy of the General Regulations
for the Management of the Universal Exhibition at
Paris, in 1855.
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NAPOLEON, by the grace of God, and the national will,
Emperor of the French,
To all whom it may concern, greeting :
Having considered the project proposed by the Imperial
Commission for the Regulation of the Universal Exhibi-
tion of Industrial and Agricultural Products and of the
Fine Arts.
We have decreed and do decree, as follows :
The rules for the general, regulation of the Universal
Exhibition, herewith annexed, are approved.
Palace of the Tuileries, 6th April, 1851.
By the Emperor : NAPOLEON.
ACHILLE FOULD, Minister of State.
P. MAGNE, Minister, Secretary of State for Agricul-
ture, Commerce, and Public Works.

GENERAL RULES.
Art. I. The Universal Exhibition to be held at Paris, in
the year 1855, will receive Agricultural and Industrial
Products, and Works of Art, front all nations.
It will be opened on the Ist May, and will be closed on
the 31st October of the same year.
Art. 11. The Exhibition of 1855 is placed under the
direction of the Imperial Commission, nominated by the
Decree of the 24th December, 1853.
Art. 111. In every department a committee, nominated
by the Prefect, in accordance with the instructions of the
Imperial Commission, will be charged with the necessary
measures for the snecess of the Exhibition, and with
pre-
sented.
the
rejection and selection, at proper times, of
Local sub-committees or special agents will also be esta-
blished, should. the Imperial Commission deers it neces-
sary in every town and centre of industry where the
necessity may be felt.
Art. IV. Special instructions will be addressed in the
name of the Imperial Commission to the Ministers of War
and Marine, for the exhibition of the products of -Algiers
and the French colonies.
Art. V. Foreign Governments are invited to appoint,
for the selection, examination, and transmission of their
national products, committees, whose formation and com-
position should be notified as soon as possible to the Im-
perial Commission, in order that the Imperial Commission
may immediately place itself in communication with such
committees.
. VI. The departmental committees, as well as fo-
reign. committees, authorised by their respective Govern-
ments, will correspond directly with the Imperial Com-
missioners, who will hold no correspondence whatever
with single exhibitors, either French or foreign.
Art. VII. Frenchmen or foreigners who propose-ex-
hibiting must address themselves to the committee of the
department, cc.lony, or country which they inhabit.
Foreigners, resident in France may address the official
committee of their respective countries.
Art. VIII. No article will be admitted to the Exhibi-
tion which is not sent with the authorisation and under
the seal of the departmental or foreign committees.
Art. IX. Foreign and departmental committees should
make known as soon as possible the probable number of
' exhibitors in their division and the space they consider
they will require.
Art. X. On receipt of this communication, the Imperial
Commission will, without delay, proceed to the division of
the space, between France and the other countries, pro rata
to the demands made.
Art. XI. When this division is completed notification
will immediately be sent to the foreign and French com-
mittees, who will themselves have to subdivide the space
thus allotted to them, amongst the exhibitors of their
divisions.
Art. XII. The lists of exhibitors admitted must be sent
to the Imperial Commission, by the latest, 30th Novem-
ber, 1854.
These lists must indicate :-
1. The names, Christian names (or name of firm), pro-
fession, and residence of intended exhibitors.
2. The nature and the number or quantity of the articles
they wish to exhibit.
3. The space which they will occupy in height, breadth,
and depth.
These lists, as well as any other documents, coming from
foreign countries, should whenever possible, be accom-
panied by a translation in the French language.
ADMISSION AND CLASSIFICATION OF PRODFCTS.
Art. XIII. All articles, the products of agriculture, in-
dustry or art, except those mentioned below, are admissi-
ble to the Universal Exhibition :-
1. Living animals and plants.
2. Animal and vegetable substance in a fresh state, and
susceptible of alteration.
3. Explosive substances, and generally those substances
which are acknowledged as dangerous.
4. Those articles which from their bulk do not come
within the scope of the Exhibition.
Art. XI V. Spirits or alcohols, oils and essences, acids
and corrosive salts, and generally those bodies easily in-
flammable, or which from their nature are likely to pro-
duce combustion, will only be admitted to the Exhibition
when contained in strong vessels, perfectly closed ; the
proprietors of these products will in addition, be bound to
submit to any conditions of safety that may be prescribed
to them.
Art. XV. The Imperial Commission will have the right
of excluding from the building, on the proposition of com-
petent agents, such French products as may appear to
them hurtful and incompatible with the objects of the Ex-
hibition, and those which are in excess of the requirements
or wants of the Exhibition.
Art. XVI. The Exhibition will be divided into two dis-
tinct divisions—tke products of industry and works of
art ; in every country they will be distributed into eight
groups, comprising 30 classes—namely,
IsT DIVISION.—PRODUCTS OF INDUSTRY.
EST GROUP.—INDUSTRIAL PURSUITS HAVING FOB THEIR
PRINCIPAL OBJECT THE EXTRACTION OR PRODUCTION
OF RAW MATERIALS.
Ist Class.—Mining and metallurgical products.
2d Class.—The art of managing forests, the produce of
the chase, fishing, and products obtained without cultiva-
tion.

3d Class.—Agriculture.
2D GROUP.—INDUSTRY HAVING FOR ITS SPECIAL OB-
JECT THE EMPLOYMENT OF MECHANICAL POWERS.
4th Class.—Machinery in general, as applied to industry.
sth Class.—Special machinery and apparatus for rail-
roads, and other modes of transport.
6th Class.—Special machinery and apparatus for work-
shops.
7th Class.—Special machinery and apparatus for the
manufacture of woven fabrics.
3D GROUP.—MANUFACTURES, SPECIALLY BASED ON THE
EMPLOYMENT OF PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL AGENTS,
OR. RELATING TO THE SCIENCES AND TO INSTRUCTION.
Bth Class.—Exact sciences. Industry applied to the
sciences and to instruction.
9th Class.—Manufactures relating to the economical
production and employment of heat, light, and electricity.
10th Class.—Chemical manufactures, dyeing, and print-
ing paper, leather, india-rubber, &c.
11th asa—Preparation and preservation of substances
used as food.
4TH GROUP.—INDUSTRY SPECIALLY RELATING TO LEARNED
PROFESSIONS.
12th Class.—Hygiene, pharmacy, medicine and surgery.
73th Class.—Naval and military art.
14th Class.—Civil engineering and building.
STH GROUP.—MANUFACTURES OF MINERAL PRODUCTS.
15th Class.—Steel and its products.
16th Class.—General metal works.
17th Class.—G-oldsmiths' work, jewellery, and bronzes.
18th Class.—Glass and pottery.
6TH GROUP.—WOVEN EA.BRICS.
19th Class.—Cotton manufactures.
20th Class.—Wool manufactures.
21st Class.—Silk manufactures.
• 22d Class.—Flax and hemp manufactures.
234 Class.—Hosiery, hats and caps, carpets, gold aria
silver lace fringes, embroidery, lace, &c.
7TH GROUT.—FURNITURE AND DECORATION, FASHIONS,
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, PRINTING, MUSIC.
24th Class.—lndustry applied to furniture and decora-
tiou.
25th Class.—Articles of clothing, objects of fashion and
' fancy.
26th Class.—Drawing and modelling'applied to industry.
Letter-press and copperplate printing, photography.
_ 27th Class.—Manufacture of musical instruments.

2n DIVISION.—WORKS OF ART.
BTH GROUP.—FINE ARTS.
28th Class.—Painting, engraving, and lithography.
29th Class.—Sculpture and die sinking.
30th Class.—Architecture.
Art. XVII. Goods, both foreign and French, will be
received at the Exhibition Briilding from the 15th January
to the 15th March, 1855, inclusive.
:Nevertheless in the case of manufactured articles which
are likely to suffer fro-in being kept too lonc, packed, a sup-
plemental delay will be allowed, which, 'however, in no
case moat extend beyond the 15th April, on the condition
that every arrangement necessary for their proper display
and exhibition is prepared beforehand.
All heavy and cumbersome objects, and any others
which require much labour for their fixing, must be sent
before the end of February.
Art. XVIII. The committee of each ut- and of each
French department are requested n ly
send in one consignment the, whenever possible, to
products of their divisions.
Art. XIX. The consignment of each exhibitor, whether
sent with that of other exhibitors or alone, must e accom-
panied by the-bulletin of admission, delivered by the com-
petent authority. This bulletin in triplicate, drawn up in
-the farm prescribed in Art. XII., will bear, in addition,
the number and weight of the different Packages belonging
to the same eXhibitor, as well as the particulars and -price
of every article composing the consignment. A
copy of the form in which this bulletin is tote made
out
will be sent to every French and foreignpocionnatem:totioelt.
by
Art. XX. French products destined for the Universal
Exhibition will be forwarded
the departmental and from places
colonial committees, and tak enback
at the expense of the State.
to the same places,
Foreign products, having the same destination, will be
equally brought to Paris,
but only from the French fron-
tier, and will be sent back under the same conditions.
Art. XXI. Thep ackages must be addressed to the coin-
i '
missioner for classifying n the Exhibition Building.
Art. XXII. The address o. each package destined for
the Exhibition mus
t bear in legible characters—
The place from which it is sent.
The name of the exhibitor.
The nature of the contents.
FOR 4 OF ADDRESS.
d l'Exposition
Monsieur le CommiBsaire du Classemeat e

Universelle.

Au Palais de l'Exposition,
Consignment of [name and Christian names of exhibitor
or firm], residing at [residence or situation of establish-
ment], exhibitor of [nature of product exhibited].
Art. XXIII. Packages containing the products of seve-
ral exhibitors must bear on them the names of each exhibi-
tor, and be accompanied by a separate bulletin of admis-
sion for each of them.
Art. XXIV. Exhibitors are invited not to send sepa-
rately packages of less dimensions than half-metro cube,
and to place in the same packing-case with other packages
of the same class those which come within these dimen-
sions.
Art xXV. The admission of products to the Exhibition
will be gratuitous.
Art. XXVI. Exhibitors will not be subject to any kind
of payment, either for space or entrance, or on any other
pretence whatever, during the time of the Exhibition.
Art. XXVII. The Imperial Commission will provide for
the custody, placing, and arrangement of products in the

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