The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 4 1867.

-THI4 NEXT EXHIBITION,

All accounts agree that the Great Exhibition
Building to be opened in a month in Paris, is by no
means a handsome structure. Indeed, it is said to
be the fac-simile of a huge gasometer; and, how-
ever admirably constructed for the objects in view,
not calculated to impress the beholder favourably
as regards its appearance. We anticipate that the
next " Great Exhibition" will be held in New York ;
and it is possible that American taste and ingenuity
will solve the problem, which old countries have
attempted in vain, of constructing at one and the
same time a building that will answer the ends in-
tended, and present a sightly aspect. A few years
more will work a great change in the tide of travel.
New York will become a central city on the way to
great nations, and the means of reaching it from
Europe, are day by day becoming more numerous
and less expensive. It is hard to tell what the
turn of events will be, but we are safe in
prophesying this change in the direction of travel.
It would probably have occurred earlier, had it not
been for the civil war. Much will depend on the
speed with which the Union Pacific Railway is
completed, when business and the conveniences of-
fered by the route will force passenger traffic into
this channel. Travel in Europe has become too
commonplace and easy for young and energetic men.
The ascent of Mont Blanc has lost its novelty,
though not all its danger, and the enterprising, weary
of first-class carriages and first-class hotels. The foot
of the English traveller will soon be imprinted on the
slopes and valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Few
have seen the romantic beauty and grandeur of the
Great Falls of the Yosemite, or its dell of matchless
cliffs and cascades, where water bounds over moun-
tain heights, and falls in feathery streams of
2,000 feet. This Californian landscape has formed
the subject of an American artist's picture, and its
merits have raised him at once to fame. The treeless
prairies and the great sierras are objects that will
soon attract more general travel, not to mention the
natural desire so rapidly growing of forming from
personal observation some knowledge of the mighty
nation which is now exercising such an influence on
the world. It is probable that many Americans who
visit the Paris Exhibition, will use the opportunity
for obtaining information to be utilised here-
after, when the " World's Show" will be held in
their own country. At some not distant day
there will be a gathering of nations in New
York, and the sooner the idea is conceived
and entertained as probable—the sooner will
action be taken for its accomplishment. These
" World's Fairs" are productive of more good
than is shown on the surface. They tend to
make man cosmopolitan. We would like to
see a number of Crowned heads, the guests of the
great commercial city of the Republic, and these
English aristocrats, pronounced by Mr. MOTLEY as
models of human perfection, there to be judged on
the spot by their own bearings as gentlemen. Had
Mr. M'CRACKEN known as much of these men
as the Minister at Vienna, he would hardly
have described his celebrated countryman as a
" thorough flunkey" for enunciating this opinion.
Such proceedings as those of Mr. M'CRACKEN
are simply the result of ignorance for which
the best remedy is in these universal gatherings
of nations. A New York rowdy's idea of an
English nobleman is a person with a haughty and
presumptuous manner while the first principle of
the nobleman himself is, that an unassuming,
courteous, and quiet manner is the marked attribute
of a gentleman. It is thus that in their ignorance
these rowdies cannot comprehend the influence the
" bloated aristocrats" exercise on all around
them. But let them come in contact

with them themselves, and they will begin to
understand the reason why. The popular idea
of a Chinaman is the very reverse of what a China-
man really is, and so it is with many people and
classes with whom contact alone can set the igno-
rant aright. No World's Fair can properly repre-
sent America unless held in America, and it is time
that the third city of the Universe should assert its
position, and claim for itself the next invitation to
the world, for the display of its industry, science,
and art.—A nglo-American Times.

their studies, preparatory to the ministry, and will
do the same for the present year. Mr. Thompson
is from New Haven, Connecticut.
The contest for the Boston collectorship is nar-
rowed down to Deputy-Collector Kingsbury and
John H. Clifford. Secretary M'Culloch favours
Kingsbury, who is his nephew.
Gen. Dix does not take the salary of naval
officer of New York, as reported, and has never
taken any portion of it ; but, on the contrary,
positively declined to do so.
Mr. Morrell, of the Ways and Means Committee,
has gone back to Vermont on account of the ill-
ness of his mother. This will delay the Tariff Bill
a little, though the committee will go on.with its
daily sessions upon it.

Harvey S. Deming and Andrew Fitzgerald, both
formerly dry goods salesmen at Boston, were killed
in the recent Indian massacre at Fort Phil Kearney,
in Dacotah territory. Young Deming fought
bravely, and shot seven Indians before receiving
his fatal wound.

John Prentiss, who is in his ninetieth year, and
edited the Keene Sentinel when John Adams was
President of the United States, is the oldest member
of the profession in the country.
Sanford Conover, who gave the " testimony" that
led to the publication of President Johnson's pro-
clamation against Jefferson Davis, has been con-
victed of perjury.

The well-known Professor A. D. Bache, superin-
tendent of the American Coast Survey, is dying.
The Committee on Foreign Relations have re-
ported adversely on the nomination of Senator
Cowan as Minister to Austria.
It is reported that the President has offered the
Postmaster-Generalship to Horace Greeley.
The President has nominated General Joseph J.
Bartlett as Alinister Resident to Sweden, vice J.
M‘Ginnis, jun. He has also pardoned John Let-
cher, of Virginia, and that gentleman is a candidate
for Governor of the State.
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Who hez bin Alderman uv his native village,
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And likewise of the Senit,
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POSTMASTER GENERAL,
HIS most devoted Servant,
Whose autograph adorns my Commishn ez Postmaster,
This Volume
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