The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-08 00:00:00

as they are, but, as we have stated, they are not
sufficiently substantiated by the documentary evi-
dence.

The little that is said in the hook of Juarez and
Porfirio Diaz betrays, if it does not display, the
writer's antipathy to the former and esteem for the
latter. He detests most of the Mexican leaders la
both camps, unveils the corruption and treachery
that doomed the Imperial Government to bar-
renness and precocious decay, excuses the crimes
of one party only by those of the other, and
finds the Mexican people, with their bandit
warriors and ignorant and profligate clergy, " ut-
terly demoralized by a civil war of forty years dura-
tion, which has broken all the springs of the ma'
chine of State, distracted all minds, and adulterated
every sentiment of duty, honour, and social inte-
grity." lle considers the Conservative party, bath
in Mexico and Central America, as doomed, finallYl
to succumb to the Liberal, and that—the IstB
Mexican Imperial officer acknowledges it without
hesitation—on account of its greater rottenness.
and yet h is convinced that Maximilian under-
took the gigantic task of regenerating such a
nation with the aid of such a party in good
conscience and from noble motives, and that 103
victory alone could have secured to the distracted
country the blessings of peace, order, and civilizi.
tion. But was this victory possible after the down' .
fall of the Southern Confederacy, even if Baza,ine and
the Mexican Imperialists remained faithful ? Wras
it still possible in the latter part of 1866, when the
French commenced their retrogade movements,
preparatory to their return to France ? Was I.t
still possible when Maximilian returned from ON'
zlba to the capital to continue the struggle sidgle"
handed? Was not the gallant stand made at
Queretaro as useless a waste of blood—for honour's
sake, perhaps—as was the post Imperial tic'
fence of Mexico by Marquez, from less honour'
able personal motives? Did princely or military
honour command the leader and his enthusiastic
Austrian followers to cling to the last to a cause
which was already known to them to have bee°
conceived in treason, and, if not criminal from tlf,),
beginning, had certainly become a " lost cause?
To none of these questions does our author attempt
to give an answer. We can certainly find no el-
planation strong enough to exculpate his hero froio
the guilt of reckless adventurousness—a guilt winch
he may have nobly expiated with his blood, thongb
without repentance. It was a strange Nemesis that
carried a scion of the house of Austria, three bun'
dred years after the death of Charles V. to the
shores deluged with Aztec blood by that monarch's
conquistadores, to perish by a bullet at the hand 01
an Aztec chief !

THE EXHIBITION IN THE PACIFIC

STA7ES.

The Pacific States have had a grand Exhibition
called the Mechanics' Institute's Fair, held in e
Pavilion built for the occasion, lately completed at
San Francisco. The structure is a parallelogram l°
form, with its greatest length running east and west.
Its entire length is 337 f t. by a width of 205, exclusili°,
of boiler room. The number of square feet of
ground floor is 72,000, against 55,000, occupied
by the pavilion of 1865-6. It is built entirely °f
wood, and the chief points aimed at have been
lightness, strength, and economy of cost and space'
The main hall is 272 feet long and 180 feet Wide;
with a central arched nave of the same length, 80
feet wide and 68 feet high. Around the entire nave
runs a gallery nine feet wicle, with twenty feet
width at the end connections, which is used mairtif
for walking. It is reached by four wide staircases, twe
upon either side, and a steam hoist-way near the
entrance, after the style of the most approved hoist;
ways in use at the hotels in the Atlantic States ant;
Europe. The Pavilion is lighted by contiunoa,.
windows along both sides, while the front consists
of one semi-circular window, of forty feet radius;
The whole is brilliantly illuminated in the evening
by upwards of 1,200 gas burners. The main ea'
trance is from Stockton-street, and is flanked by Ore
towers 80 feet high, surmounted by flagstaffs. The
grand vestibule is 50 feet wide, and leads direct t°
the body of the building. As the visitor enters O°
door he finds on his right hand machinery 3°'A
hardware in general, and on his left textile fabrics
and lighter manufactures. The front wings are
occupied by musical instruments, drawings, a°
liquors (esthetics !) on the right hand, and by
restaurant on the left. The long traverse wig;
at the rear, opposite the entrance, is devoted
to art. In the galleries are wines, confer'
tionery, bookbinders productions, &c. The Art
Gallery is placed across the rear of the main
It
building, and is 205 feet long by 30 in width. t
receives abundant light from above, by a contittly
ous line of perpendicular sash, placed upon thet
roof. Easy access and egress to and frOm the Al'
Gallery is obtained by five passage-ways—one frl
the nave, and two from each of the wings or aisles °d
the main hall. The walls of the gallery are tinted
so as to subdue the sharpness of the light, and
relieve the paintings, photographs, &c., which are
placed upon the walls. This will form a most ill;
teresting feature of the exhibition, far exceedilit'
anything of the kind hitherto witnessed on that
coast. The various artists of San Francis°
have largely engaged space—so that a 1)°,1.,,
tion, if not all the photographs have to '
placed across one of the ends of the gallery
in the main building, which is made of extra width'
and equally well arranged and lighted for such purl"
pose as the Art Gallery. The building cost, ill all' t
$30,000. The quantity of lumber used was abut
600,000 feet,and 700,000 shingles have been expended
in roofing. In the centre of the nave a founta";
is erected in an open space, the spray from the water
rising nearly to the roof, while along the middle'
east and west from the centre, flowers are exhibited'
The goods and manufactures are divided into thirty
classes, and ores, as might be expected, have a PI;
minent place. The Fair was opened on the 8t
August, when the Hon. Newton Booth of Sacra
mento delivered an impressive address.

At Arreton, in the Isle of Wight, there is a hone
chestnut tree a hich is now in full bloom ; at Bally';
ca,rrett, Ireland, there is a pear tree covered with blossii
as luxuriant as if in early summer; and at Ballynabinef
there is an apple tree covered with a luxuriant crop °,
blossoms, while a considerable quantity of this season°
fruit still remains upon the branches.

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