The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-07-03
A French View of the Great Exhibition.
Translated from the apharo,n of New York;


French View of the Great Exhibition.
Translated from the 'Pharp,' of New York;
''This exhibition is not only the great in
dustrial event of the age, but it is also =
great event in human affairs From Eng
land to China, from the United States to
Russia, every people, of every religion, eli
mate and color, here display to each other
their discoveries, their inventions and their
works 1t is an immense fact! They arc
now beginning to communicate with each
other, through the agency of material things;
they will arrive next at an intercommunica-
ton of mind. That common language
which addresses the sight, will prepare them
for that language which speaks to the intel
lect This is the road which must conduct
us to that heaven of dreams; the universal
ity of peace, in the liberty of mankind
The Chrystal Palace is perhaps the re-
verse of the Tower of Babel
At the moment of entering, the frs i'm
preston is dazzling to giddinesss. Imagine
the "NYinter Garden" of Paris, two st0rYs
high, and fifty times larger From the four
great avenues, as wide as the Rue de Ii PAX,
Iconverging from the centre, run numerous.
branches from the enormous trunk hun
dred galleries with two hundred halls and
eight staircascs. And along all these ways,
and over every portion of this city Of glass,
come and 90 without confusion embarFass-
ment, or restraint a multitude of,,all nations,
in which the English predominant, but
where oriental costumes amalgamatc char
easily find interpreters of every idiola IN the
world
There ne have mass of human beings,
of labor and of wealth accumulated togcth-
Ter Hero have been congregated the etForts
and the genius of 5000 years. What does
it show? 1t verifes the material results Of
the past and the present. Men promenade
among their own works; an ever moving
crowd circulates among immovable things,
which it has created, and which it Will re-
create as actively again as ever. Life y hich
passes away, admires itself in the life that
lasts; and the universal suffrage Of the work
ing men of two continents come here to tell
and know what o'clock it is in the mar-h of
industry.
At each corner of the upper gallery We
can embrace at a view the whole interior
first we distinguish the immense crowd
: then four lines of the most beautiful stalls,
and the most precious works of ari-and
!, lastly the statues, the mirrors, the glasses,
$ the rich stuffs, the diamonds and the carpets
s The great jet of water in the centre spreads
I its crystal liquid from the shaft Of seiid crys-
5 tal-here and there organs are playing the
national airs Of every people; the penetra-
I ting perfumes of exotic flowers recall the
senses to absent countries; and in order that
divine nature, which has never varied, or
changed since the deluge, should be repre-
}; scented, three immense trees of HYDE Park
spread their massive branches with ease un-
: der the crystal; and little birds, caught unex-
u tpeetedly in this snare, like men fancying
IS themselves free because their PRISON. great,
: sing gaily amidst the din and hun Of many
!, voices
J 1t is the grandest Of spectacles TO Eng
q land is due the honor Of having presented il
: to the world; and We are not among those
: who think, that it was France which should
- have preceded her IN the realization of tho
= = idea We shall say later what We thinl
= France ought to do in her turn.
e In the meantime, England has lie right
"a land probably had alone the power to holC
IL the first industrial jubilee Let it he born
q. IN mind that it required year 10 eonstrue
4 this marvellous crystal cathedral. Let
n not be forgotten that one single foundry fur
n nished the metal, and ono single establish
ed lment, the glass-and then consider, tina
twenty thousand persons crowd there ever.
day, paying 1t least dye franks each TO enter
It will be acknowledged that. withou
Boosting, NC accord to England all that 81
bo deserves of riches and power Aow, IN til;
friendly duel IN which every nation is cor
Y tending with its best arms, aud is reprcscn
~ ed by its best productions where Amerie
en- sends railway bridge, Spain her nantella
'ilI Portugal tobacco, and Austria state of RAJ
If kin the battle of peace, which Of I'll
two principal soldiers Of civilization, at th
present moment, France or England seen
$ e nave borne away the pala u victory
THERE'S the true question
'hel AeYill reply with simplicity, and accorl
o ling 70 the dictates OF our conscience, d
IL tll0ugh eonbattaIts ne ire 81 judges
~ re have been iltorsaed that tie Erenc
-. coanaissio out Of eeheaey wished % refu
Il proneuncing ludgment and lillsis Itself to
n mere port githeut conclusions 81 Cha
10 Dupin insisted however, dat traHce sholl
,nf give its vote, and we praise hin 1orit
rlx IS necessary to bejust. even IN clle elEni
vei- or Gur sincere and pfefouAs Nsells
sTesaltof the first geaeF pfcsslon
nd the eShibltien, Ye giltof oassce.
lies kngland has advantage in all that /
the quires wi Teranee, pailenee, indomit
4 bic labor. material force.
be superiority Of France is so ince
pc u eyorg thing that demands geni'