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

INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN MAILS.

MARSEILLES, April 3.
The Messageries Imperiales steamer Said arrived
here at 8.30 a.m. to-day with the homeward India,
China, and Japan mails.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, April 2, Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows:-
44 per Cents 98
Do. end month..,,
3 per Cents 68 65
Do. end month 68 67
Credit Mobilier ~ 400
Do. end month 402 50
Credit I' oneier
Do. end month 1420 -
B.A.11; •

Bank Shares 3530
Italian Loan 53 GO
Do. end month 53 80
Mexican Loan —

Do. Bonds _
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
'AU.

For Account.
Orleans
910
Northern .. .io • 1160
.
Lyons anandditerranean 916 25
Southern ... .
Westoni
..................... Sardinian , _
Austrian
Lombard 405
North of Spain —
Ditto
Saragosea
... 108 75
to Barcelona —
Homan. —

STRIKE OF TIIE PARIS TAILORS.—At a meeting ,
of the journeymen tailors of Paris, held on Sunday
last, which was attended by 2,500 persons, it was decided
to strike for higher wages. Notice was to be given to the
masters on Monday, and if the conditions demanded were
not complied with, the strike was to commence forthwith.
In the course of the proceedings M. Doguergue read the
following telegram from the London Trades' Union, signed
ty Mr. Matthews :—" Your telegram received. Having
entire confidence in your success we promise you our moral
and material support." The meeting, after several salvos
of applause, telegraphed the following reply :—" The
Paris tailors assembled in tho Hall of the Elysee Mont-
martre have received your. despatch ; they accept your
generous offer cf assistance, and thank you in the name of
humanity and fraternity."
THE TomAitatvic.—A new " satirical" weekly
paper is announced to appear shortly. We have reason
to believe that its proprietors are the members of the
Savage Club, whence, of course, its comic inspiration will
be derived.-7'he English Mail.
A SERIOUS ACCIDENT, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.—Some
time back a gentleman residing at Woitham, in Nodoik,
named Balls, on returning from Harieston Market, fell from
his horse, and sustained so serious an illness in co sequence
that alt his hair came off. He was perfectly bald. His
friend, the Rev. Mr. Daniel, offered him a wig as a tempo-
rary substitute; and in the meantime he tried very fortu-
nwely the (fleets of Rowlands' Macassar 011. What was
the consequence ? Part of a bottle produced the re-growth
of a thick and luxuriant head of hair, with (what the first or
original growth had NOT) a beautiful tendency to curL This
is; a very striking instance of eWoacy from the fact of the
debility which preceded the reatorattiNl,

OPENING OF THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)
PARIS, April 1.

The nominal opening of what is still for the
greater part an almost nominal exhibition took
place to-day. There• was no ceremony or pageant
of any kind, no address or replies, no official cos-
tumes. The Emperor and Empress merely visited
the building, walked round the most presentable
parts of it, spoke a few words to the representatives
of the various foreign Commissions, who wore even-
ing dress in honour of the occasion, and left as they
came, in their open carriages. It was little more
than a mere formal visit, except that the building
was cleaner, and certainly much emptier• than it
has often been before. For some days past it has
been known that the opening would not be made a
great public ceremony, and the knowledge of this
fact has told most seriously on the sale of season
tickets. Up to the last it was believed that M.
Play would yield, and allow foreign countries, and
France itself, a little grace in point of time, to
gA themselves into tolerable order. Not until
Friday last was it for an instant
,believed that the
building was really meant to open to-day, and when
the fiat was given out on Saturday it produced
.only the sort of indifference induced by the absolute
despair of being ready. With the exception of Russia,
England, Sweden, and perhaps, also, Denmark,
absolutely none were prepared. By far the greater
part of the French side was not only unfurnished,
but even unfinished. Austria and Prussia were
quite as bad. Italy had only just got her packing-
cases in, while Spain, Portugal, Turkey, and a mass
of smaller States, have scarcely yet got a case into
the building at all. With such awful gaps in the
display, it was considered up to the very last that a
postponement of at least a fortnight would be al-
lowed, but the Imperial Commissioners were firm,
and on Saturday it was known that the building,
finished or unfinished, would be opened to the pub-
lic to-day. Opened, therefore, it has been, though,
to do the public justice, they have by no means
sought to avail themselves of the privilege so unex-
pectedly offered to, them, for it is perfectly well
known in Paris that what will really be in time one
of the best and most varied collections ever brought.
together cannot possibly be arranged so as to be
worth inspection for nearly a month to come. The
positive announcement, therefore, that the opening
to the public would really be made this day was
received with not a little gloom by all but the Rus-
sian, English, and some few French Courts, though
of the latter only a very few were even tolerably
ready. By far the great majority of the foreign
Commissions simply contented themselves with
closing their entrances and affixing the notice "En-
trée interdite," for not only were the Courts them-
selves unfinished, but even the small number of
the goods which had yet arrived were not un-
packed. With such a state of things, of course any-
thing like a ceremonial was out of the question.
Even for the Emperor and Empress themselves
it would have been impossible to clear a fair
passage through the mass cf balesl'which in heavy
stacks, like piles of rough deals, cumber the spaces
reserved for most foreign nations. Sunday was
the last thy allowed for work—in fact, it was most
decisively announced at first that no work would be
allowed on that day at all, as it was to be given up
entirely- to cleaning the interior. Of course, how-
ever, this rule was relaxed, and such a scene of con-
fusion as the building presented yesterday was pro-
bably never witnessedevenby those most conversant
with the horrible uproar and hurry of the last day's
work in these huge shops. To make matters worse,
not less than from 50,000 to 60,000 people had re-
ceived tickets of admission, so that in some parts
the radial avenues were literally blocked up with
dense crowds of loungers, who only congregated
where the work was busiest, and where, therefore,
as a matter of course, their presence was least de-
sired and most obstructive. It was not till towards
the evening that these throngs gradually abated,
and the sweepers and labourers got a fair chance to
make things look, if not in disorder, at least in less
disarray than usual. Scaffoldings were pulled down,
screens broken away with hammers or beams,
benches dragged out en masse, and the last efforts
only ceased when darkness came on. All, however,
was in vain, and half the foreign countries and more
than half of France was still blocked up with lad-
ders, poles, and frameworks of every shape and
kind.

The mere unceremonious opening created very
little stir in Paris, and the approaches to the build-
ing were never less crowded than this morning. A
few patrols of cavalry were there to keep the car-
riage ways clear and see that everything kept
44 moving on ;" but beyond this there was very
little unusual. Along the road leading from the
Pont de Jena, where the Emperor and Empress
were to pass, there were thick groups of people;
but by the' Pont de l'Alma, one of the main en-
trances into the building, the footways were al-
most deserted compared with what they have
been when admissions were hitherto given freely.
By the road leading from the E3ole Militaire a
very handsomely draped avenue had been hung
across between lofty flagstaffs, and this entrance
was well filled with spectators. It gave access
to the Hall or Vestibule in which their Imperial
Majesties were to alight. Beyond these prepara-
tions there was not very much to distinguish the
af:rsonrlatml eonptes of opening
from other days. The usual
pink and blue and white tickets
and the usual mistakes of people with white
tickets wanting to get into pink galleries, and people
wanting to get into galleries without any tickets at
all, and a strong cordon of French gendarmes and
sergens-de-ville who utterly ignored all tickets of
any shape or colour, made up the usual routine of
difficulties always co be expected on an even in-
formal opening like that of to-day. The main
avenues through which the Emperor and Empress
were to pass were kept railed off, but beyond this
very little difference was made. In the English
machinery court a few of the easiest moved ma-
chines were kept going in spite of an accident to one-
of the steam pipes, and in the French section also a
few of the smalleft engines were set to work ; but
beyond this there was nothing in motion or even
very much arranged. Most of the visitors went to
the picture galleries, through which their Majesties
were to pass after making the circuit of the ma-
chinery annexe. The English and Russian courts,
with most-of the picture galleries, were fully open ;
and the glass courts, and those of Sevres, and a few
others of less importance on the French side, were
also ready, and nearly quite arranged; so also were
some sections illustrative of the history of industrial
works of art of all periods completed on the French
quarter ; but little more than this can be said.

At least another month will be necessary to get

the building into proper exhibiting order, and at
least two months to make th,3 park presentable.
Just now it is in most cases a mere litter of
planks and poles and excavated paths about to
to be filled in with gravel, and parterres wanting
both their soil and flowers. The attendance of

visitors to-day was, as I have said, not very large,
arid except in the seats in the picture galleries,
there were very few ladies. Indeed, of the who!e
assemblage, there were scarcely more than a
fourth of the fairer sox present, and a by no means
small percentage was made up of workmen who
were employed in the building till the last moment,
and who managed to remain and see what was
the formal opening. Two o'clock was the hour
fixed for the arrival of the Imperial family, and

almost to the very second the. Emperor and Em-
press alighted at the entrance to the Vestibule.
They came to the building in the private style
in which they, as a rule, drive about Paris, in an
open carriage and four. Following that of the Em-
peror were tle carriages of the chief members of the
corps diplomatique, M. Rouher, M. Arles Dufour,
Count Walewski, the Prince of Orange, the Count
of Flanders, and the Baron James Rothschild. The
Prince Imperial was not with their Majesties, as his
health is not yet sufficiently re-established to allow
him to take even a formal part in any public cere-
mony. In plain truth, he is still very far from well
and as yet does not leave the Palace, nor is he ex-

pected to do so for some few days to come. Every
where thelmperial cortege was received with marks
of the most profound deference and respect, but
there was very little cheering. A few stray cries of

" Vive l'Empereur" were raised at times, but as a
rule the French do not cheer, and the carriages
moved on amid the waving of handkerchiefs and
uncovered heads only.
At the Vestibule their Majesties were received by
M. Le Play and the other members of the Imperial
Commission, and almost instantly ascended the
staircase which led to the raised gallery running
round the machinery annexe, or rather circle. The
Emperor wore plain evening dress, with the Grand
Cordon and Star of the Legion of Honour. The
Empress was attired in the simplest of walking
costumes, and wore a dark veil, which she never
raised while in the building. The course of the
Imperial party through the Exhibition may easily
be followed. The building is arranged in a series
of concentric rings, or galleries, each of which is
devoted to a certain class of subjects. Thus the
outermost ring of all is allotted to the display of
machinery, at rest and in motion, while one of the
innermost rings forms a succession of picture galle-
ries. The Emperor and his party went round the
edifice twice—namely, in those two rings which
may be said to represent all that is most fine and
all that is most useful in the arts. Entering at any
door of the building the visitor will at once find
himself in the midst of machinery, but the arrange-
ment at the chief door of all is such that on the
one hand he will find the French and on the other
the British show. Down, indeed, the whole
length of the great hall, which leads from the
chief doorway to the central garden, and cuts a
passage through the concentric galleries, the same
arrangement holds. Turn to the left, and go into
any gallery, you find yourself in France; follow it
in its course round the building, and you pass
through a succession of countries until at last when
you complete the circle you find yourself among
the products of Great Britain. The gallery set
apart for machinery has a peculiarity ; it has a
raised continuous gangway from end to end that
goes over all the machines, so that a visitor can see
them from above. Arm in arm the Emperor and
Empress ascended the gangway on the French side,
the Imperial Commissioners preceding them.
Crowds collected among the machines below to see
them as they passed, and at various recesses along
the gallery bands of regiments were ready to strike
up the national air as they came in sight—the band-
masters gesticulating in all a Frenchman's anxiety
that the first combination of notes should not come
one moment too late, not one moment too soon. At
fixed points along the gangway the Emperor came
upon the Commissioners of the various countries,
who were presented to him and to the Empress. In
passing over the French section of the gallery their
Majesties had the satisfaction of seeing a consider-
able number of the machines in motion, but they
could scarcely find a similar proficiency in any other
region of the department until they came to the
British end of the gallery, where the roar of machi-
nery might again be heard, mingling this time with
loud English cheers. The Austrian and some of
the Prussian machineryis also pretty well advanced,
but in the sections allotted to numerous minor coun-
tries (minor in the manufacture of machinery) there
was little to be seen.

The procession along this gallery took about
three quarters of an hour. The Emperor and the
Empress had a little word or a bow for scores of
Commissioners as they passed along, and the won-
der is that they travelled through the gallery in so
short a space of time. They stayed longest with
a little party of Japanese, most of whom to the
barbarian eyes of any Londoner would seem
identical with the troop of jugglers who lately
performed the butterfly trick in St. Martin's-
hall. They were, however, Commissioners from
the Tycoon and from Prince Satsuma, and were
presented to the Emperor and the Empress with a
good deal of formality. Opposite to them, on the
gangway, were ranged a small band of gaily dressed
Tunisian musicians, who played on a sort of hurdy-
gurdy and on a tambourine. It was a little bit of
comedy introduced into a rather dull ceremonial.
On the one side of the platform, in dark solemn
robes, the Japanese were bending with the most
awful gravity, some of them reverently falling on
their knees to the Empress ; on the other side, in
the gayest of dresses and with the jauntiest air, the
Tunisian musicians seemed to make mirth of the
sombre Japanese with a jingle, jingle, jingle. The
Emperor looked from one side to the other, per-
plexed whether he was to be grave with the Ja-
panese, or merry with the Tunisians. He did his
best to be courteous to both, and so passed on to
the American Commissioners, and finally to those
of England, stationed at the end of the circle. As
he descended the staircase he was greeted with
loud hurrahs which one rarely hears out of England.
Two sailors seemed to be foremost in cheering, and
were conspicuous in the crowd. The Empress smiled
upon them, and smote their hearts. " Ah, Bill,"
said the one to the other, " she guy me sech a look."
In the great crowd, rushing and tossing about, and
filling the ear with a rattle of French phrases.
" Vive l'Empereur !" " Par ici !" " Attendez !"
" M'sieu," one heard with a sort of bewilderment
interpolated in all their genuineness, " Ah, Bill, she
guy me sech a look."
Along the gangway of the machinery department
the procession was comparatively quiet and orderly,
for few persons were admitted to it; but when the
Imperial party descended to the Great Hall of En-
trance and
.proceeded to the picture galleries the
spirit of the scene was changed. Before the Empe-
ror and his party all was clear and stately to make
his passage free. Behind him was the deluge. The
crowd rushed and crushed into galleries which
had hitherto been denied to their view. The
immense footmen in green livery who followed the
Emperor were seen agonising in the mob which
swayed to and fro—an enormous confusion of
ladies and gentlemen, and policemen, and soldiers,
and three glittering Turks, and one white-headed
negro. The crowd was too great, and I did not
follow the procession through the complete circle of
the picture galleries, but turned back to wait for
it in the last gallery of all—the British. The
Emperor passed through a magnificent show of
pictures and marbles. The picture galleries, with
the exception of the Italian section, may be de-
scribed as complete. In the Italian gallery only
the pictures on the line are fixed. In the British,
as in the French gallery, everything is ready, andin
each of these great saloons .hundreds of persons
were ranged in double lines, waiting for the
Emperor to pass. He came into the British terri-
tory about half-past three, preceded by the Imperial
Commission, among whom, however, no one seemed
to recognise a well-known London face. Surely,
that is Lord Houghton ? Is it possible that, in
disgust at the iniquities of a Tory Government, he
has left his country and taken service under the
Emperor, so that we now see him iu the very centre
of the Imperial Commission, marching before his
Majesty ? The Emperor follows and passes rapidly
through the gallery. The only incidents of his
progress through the room are two. According to
the style of Royal personages, the Emperor selects
one picture for remark. It is a portrait of the
Prince of Wales—a good portrait, though nothing
very remarkable as a picture—by Watson Gordon,
of the Prince when he was at Oxford. His Majesty
points it out to the Empress, and passes on. Mr.
Cole immediately afterwards presents him with a
complete catalogue, printed in four languages, of
the whole of the British department of the Exhibi-
tion —a department which has something to boast
of in being the most punctual of all.
From this point a visit was made down the Rue

de Russia,_and thence into the central garden, over
the surface of which an immense number of plants
had been stuck in the ground the night before, and
which then looked by no means the better for their
translation. On this picture, however, their Impe-
rial Majesties did not dwell, nor did they traverse
more of the building than I have mentioned, but,
avoiding the routes which led to the tiers of
packing-cases and unfinished courts, came back at

once to the Hall or Vestibule, and so on across
the unfinished Park into the Imperial Pavi-
lion. The whole visit—for ceremony it could
not be called—was over in an hour and a half. Ex-

cept in the Russian and English Courts, there is
really very little to see as yet. The Emperor left

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the building about half-past 3, and went for refresh-
ment to a pavilion which had been prepared for hini
near the grand entrace, and which is likely to forUl

one of the chief sights connected with the Exhibi-
tion. The arrangement of this little structure is a
merely private enterprise, the speculation of about
a dozen French tradesmen ; but they have set about
their work with spirit, and having spent an immense
sum on its preparation, the Emperor hasbeen pleased
to accept it for his own use. It consists of three
small apartments, each of which is most elaborately
decorated—one called after the Empress, in the style
known as that of Louis XVI. ; another named after
the Emperor, in the fashion of Louis XIV. ; and the
third allotted to the Prince, in a sort of Alham-
bresque decoration. Besides these apartments there
are ante-rooms, in which the ornaments are of Pom-
peian character. The juxtaposition of so many styles
detracts somewhat from the harmony of the build-
ing- as a whole, which, however, is to be regarded as
in itself a miniature Exhibition, and in all its details
perfect. The door of entrance alone, adorned in its
arch with beautiful serollvvork of hammered steel,
has cost about £I,OOO. Iu this elaborate little pavi-
lion a short stay was made, and the Imperial cortege
left the Champ de Mars in the same quiet and un-
ostentatious manner with which it had entered it,
but welcomed everywhere with the same earnest,
deep respect.
The instant their Majesties had left the building
every one was allowed to pass freely through all its
galleries. It was only, however, in the picture circle,
the Russian and the English Courts, that visitors,
as a rule, assembled. In most other places little
more than empty benches or dreary piles of cases
were to be seen. The Paris Exhibition will be one
of the finest of its kind the world has yet beheld,
but most assuredly such of the world as visit it now
are only fated to the disappointment of guessing at
what it will be, and lamenting their misfortune in
having come a month too soon.