The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-24 00:00:00

prepared to give an equitable price, according to the
provisions of the act of 1844.

At Rathfriland sessions to-day 11 persons were
charged with complicity in the late riots. Mr. Magee,
the Crown solicitor, prosecuted, and Mr. Frazer,
barrister, defended the accused. He complained
that Protestants only were prosecuted. Mr. Magee
said he wished that both parties should be made
amenable. He applied for a postponement for a week,
and consented to give copies of the informations.
The cases were accordingly adjourned. At Granard
Fleming obtained a postponement to September 18
in order to forward informations. The Attorney-
General will receive fresh instructions. The magis-
trates were equally divided as to informations. The
Rev. Mr. Campbell's counsel admitting that there
is no evidence of assault the defendants were bailed.

Miscellaneous Fore►g,t News.

(From CorreTondents ,f tht; .Invlo-American Tiincs.)
PA I:IS, Aug. 22.
The Universal Exposition here, even before its
commencement, has been for so long the piece de
resistance of sketchers and writers of every de-
scription that I fear my experience of a day will
tend little either to the amusement or instruction
of my readers. Nevertheless, I trust so much to
their uniform indulgence that I venture to invite
them to visit with me the interior of the world in
miniature, whose eternal portals we passed together
recently in our walk through Paris. Let us sup-
pose ourselves landed by some means or Other of
the thousandand one available, at the Grand Porte.
On entering, the visitor finds himself sheltered from
the heat and dust which the month of August—the
noblest in the year—sheds over Paris, the thermo-
meter marking perhaps 36 in the shade beneath
a broad canopy of green velvet powdered with
gold bees, which forms, as it were, a kind of avenue
in that part of the park up to the building itself,
whilst the spray thrown in a thousand refreshing
jets from two gigantic bronze fountains adds a de-
licious coolness to the atmosphere thoroughly ap-
preciated by the voyageur. But we must not pass
the aforesaid fountains without regarding them,
for they are chefs d'eeuvre of their kind ; one which
comes from the forges of Barbezut and Company,
Val d'Osne, . presents to the view four gigantic
statues, typical of the four quarters of the world,
leaning against the massive mainshaft of the
fountain, with two cupids lying at the feet of
each ; these in turn support an immense shield
in four compartments, which brought to my
recollection the far-famed one of the Grecian hero
Achilles ; the shaft continued above this shield, and
adorned, as to its fluted sides, with antique head,
supports a smaller shield, the whole completed by a
cupola, and pouring forth sheets of spray from
every imaginable opening. The other, as nearly as
possible of the same size, differs in regard to the
principal group of statues, being upright instead of
in a reclining posture, whilst a very beautiful effect
is produced at the base by a circle of cupids, who,
standing each in the middle of a shell, pour water
from an urn in a basin, whilst numberless lions'
heads, forming the bosses of a similar shield, pour
forth streams of water in the style of the celebrated
fountains of the Alhambra. The latter comes from
the foundries of the Haute Marne.
The nark, or general enclosure of the Exposition,
which presents the same analogy as compared with
the building itself as an immense wholesale ware-
house would to a shop in which the same merchan-
dise is arranged for the inspection of the purchaser,
puzzles and perplexes the visitor a good deal. He
sees an immense number of buildings and erections
of every kind in the most admired confusion. Royal
pavilions, Egyptian temples, Dutch farmhouses,
Nomade tent, &c., intermixed with large sheds for
the exhibition of machinery at work. Kiosks in-
numerable, cum multis aliis pie 71201 C describere
lougtan erit. Giving him merely our advice to pass
through this heterogeneous affair as nearly as
possible in a circle with the Palace itself
as a radius, I shall proceed to divert his
attention to those principally worthy of notice. It
is greatly to be regretted, however, that from the
scarcity of sufficiently well-arranged guide books,
as well as from the want of interpreters, some of the
most interesting exhibiti)ns are not, and cannot be,
lucidly explained to the visitor, especially should he
happen to be American or English, the French
having a better chance from their language being
more commonly known in the various parts of the
European and Eastern World. Thus he would not
for some time at least, fully comprehend, simply
from the panorama itself, the progress which has
been already made, as well as the difficulties
which remain to be overcome in the important
and interesting undertaking now going on for
the purpose of connecting the Mediterranean
with the Red Sea by means of a maritime
canal cut through the Isthmus of Suez. The
panorama, however, which transports the visitor
from the warm climate of France to the burning soil
of Egypt, shows that commencing from Port Saide,
a port established on the borders of the Mediter-
ranean, and already occupied by about 8,000 in-
habitants, the undertaking has advanced as far as
Lake Timesah, having stations at Cantara, a
point taken by the caravans of the desert, en route
for Syria—at Elfardane, El Guin, and Imailia,
the capital of the Isthmus and residence of the
Viceroy, from which place a river canal will connect
le maritime one with Cairo, whilst the latter will

be continued to Suez. It is estimated that this un-
dertaking, one of the greatest of modern times, will
be completed within the space of two years,
the remaining portion of the work being to conduct
the canal across what we termed the Bitter Salt
Lake, which, being in a great measure dried up,
will form an admirable means for the reception of
the canal. One or two immense blocks of salt in
crystal are exhibited at the entrance of the building.
This panorama is exceedingly interesting, and great
credit is due to the enterprising company by whom
it is carried on for the manner in which they are
accomplishing their stupendous work. But we
must not linger too long in one place. Advancing,
we pass what at first sight appears to be only an
ordinary block of bronze, bearing the inscription,
" Galvanoplastre ;" but let not the vieitor pass that
block too hastily, for on one of its sides he will
find a reproduction of one of the most exquisite
specimens of wood carving that it has ever been his
fortune to behold, the door of the sacristy of the
Church of St. Mark, Venice, the chef trceutrre of the
renowned sculptor Sansovini; the two middle panels
represent—the one the Saviour, who has just been
taken down from the Cross, and whom his disciples
are placing in a coffin ; the bodies of the two Thieves
are yet suspended on their crosses, but the middle
cross is vacant, the Roman Guard are defiling
slowly through the mountain tops ; whilst the pea-
sants are seated about in various projections of the
vine-covered rocks, a group of females stand
by the coffin, two supporting in their arms
a third, whose finely depicted anguish ren-
ders easy of recognition she who loves her Lord
so well. The other panel depicts Our Lord rising
from the grave, and standing upright on the coffin,
bearing in his hand the banner of Salvation ; above
his bead myriads of angels and cherbuims -are
descending, whilst at the foot of the panel Roman
soldiers are recoiling in various attitudes of terror.
The small aide panels, though equally beautiful as
specimens of carving, do not possess any remark-
ably distinctive features. As a work of art, the
reproduction of this door is a chef d'ouvre, and we
must not forget due praise to the inventor of the
beautiful process by which it has been so admirably

preserved.
The limits, however, of a letter intended for the
general reader will not permit me to dilate too long
upon a special subject, for there are readers whom
political news attracts most; there are fair dames
who love to search for news of the Court and the
gossip ; and there are venerable ones whose tender
haarts thrill with horror and compassion at the
recital of all the various moving accidents by flood,
and field, and fireside, announced weekly in Paris,
even as the heart cf the fair Venetian of old thrilled
at those of the interesting Moor, who afterwards so
ruthlessly bolstered her—a fate which some of
my American friends would say with the
Welsh jury who sat on Mrs. David Price,
Sarved her right, for taking up with a tarna-
, tion nigger." So that with a promise to recom-
mence next week my interrupted experience of the