The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-12

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portevas that the five franc day to be reduced to
two francs. Indeed, some device must be hit upon,
Tor at the hanger price nobody will go, and on Sun
day 1t Ii uncommon thing to see elegant equipa.
ges standing at the door, while their owners avail
themselves of that amount for abundance which mas
been especially reduced for the working classes No
wonder the five franc scale on Friday fails On the one
franc day it is very respectfully filed, but never IN
the same proportion as was witnessed In London,
though the superiority Of the French exhibition u
now established beyond doubt The annexe, when
the machinery is in constant operation and which,
as practical exhibition of the ingenuity OF man for
the comfort and well being Of his Species Is the most
unique and beautiful sight the world ever witnessed,
is beginning to carry away the palm even from she
. thousand manufactures Of u thousand diff
ferent articles are seen under one roof,
all plying their ayocations in manner
and compass ineligible to the meanest capacity.
Printing, photography, engraving on steel spinning
weaving cloth making, calico printing, lace making,
every thing in fact, that electricity steam, or my
plicaton OF forces, can effect is there papably done
before your eyes; intelligent agents are also there
patiently to explain the nature and property Of these
nintesimal wheels they control, and their effect on
he industrial market; and the most careless locker
on cannot leave the spot without feeling his mind
occupied by new ideas and q desire to return for
nither Improvement. A shaft half mile in length,
in the roof sets the whole machinery in motion, and
when all the thousand wheels begin to whiz round
at once the effect is at first literally c0nfounding
It is now, however, SO managed, that only portion
of the machines make their evolutions at the same
time, that the spectator may not be quite deaened
and bewildered.
A machine for making chocolate attracts an
overwhelming crowd Of spectators The pate being
placed in species of funnel, the wheels begin to
move and perform the following operations. They
eject the pate in the form Of soft ROLL and place
it in an oblong tin, the bottom Of which is ribbed
ton fat circular surface, holding on its border
some twenty Of these tins, which commences its
operations by slow tremulous motion, gradu-
ally moving rounds and by the time the pate
out of its rolllkc form, and becomes thin cake,
completely filing its receptacle. Each tin aa it ar
rives, is by some mysterious agency shaken Oft on to
pivot, from which it is again displaced and handed
anghable manner to fold it up in clean paper turn
ing up the edges Of the paper after the most i'm
proved fashion Of perfect packing, and then, by
sudden lurch, to fling out two tongues Of red hot
ready for expectation to the farthest ends Of the
earth. The ingenuity of the thing is admirable,
though perhaps, it causes the philosopher to muse
on the litteness and poverty Of mans invention in
with those tiny fingers he has given to his creatures
enables them so readily to perform what, after oil,
ia but clumsily brought about by 10 great weight
of metal and complication of motive power.
The panorama sacred to the crown jewels, Aubus-
son carpets Of peculiar. rarity, Gobelin needle
work, and Sevres porcelain, remains the same /;
and highly attractive as it u.s. would be still
more so were the light from the roof more
panorama every day increases its stock Of wonderful
products and the whole is now grouped 80 artist
cay that wherever the eye turns there are beauties
which none but Inner can depict. Take as an
depot devoted to ornaments in cast iron. The
back ground is covered with carpeting of such sur
passing richness in design and color that no Ian
guage can convey it, assisted by andscapepaper in
4.I~1n ss~ fpiII nd
frames suspended against the wall, @ species Of
paper which ! shall have another occasion OF
reverting to. In front, rises q forest Of lamps,
efulgent with gold and beautiful painting the forms
and classical. The visiter might verify believe him
self in the palace of Aladdin Then the statues and
satuettes OF that group in cast iron, many OF them
painted to resemble MARBLE and by their sharp
rather of the chse than the furnace! 1t is cluster
which would cast no indignty upon the museum at
Versailles, admirably is each article disposed in
relation to the other and yet 1t is only set OF cast
afford to buy marble or bronze. 1t is thus that tc
cal taste OF the French ont There is artistic
design in everything; whereas the English mannfac-
urer sets up his most elaborate workmanship as
Immediately beside this group is the colossal organ
Of st. Eustache But my letter is already too long.
BERTHE.
PARIS, July 26, 1856.
The European TVar the Tomb Of Political and
Military Reputatioms-7A The Ne,p French Loan--
Entl..siasts and Croakers-P Preparations for the
Reception Of Queen Tictoria- Coalitions among
the French Workmsn-- Uneasiness Of the Gocera-
dais Rerired, &C., &c.
No news from the seat of war, the belligerent
parties being much in the position Of two chess
players who have brought the game to a statenate;
for until one or the other makes such mistake as
renders the game alive again, perhaps the less we
trouble ourselves about them the better. The st.
Petersburg letters lament bitterly the loss Of Admi
raj Machimof, the hero Of Sinope, who was great
ly beloved by his sailors, and whose peculiar quail
ties for command thought irreparable. It is In
structive to remark how one after another, all the
chief actors of this terrible drama are removed from
the scene, and give way to fresh crop Of agents
only itself perhaps to be laid low before even the
first fruits Of this bloody harvest are gathered II
ia not in the Crimea only that this occurs the Eng
lish parliamentary roll is swollen with the of
those who, having flung themselves into the fore
front Of the battle are now civiiy dead; and such
Is the disgust in France, that l only speak well
known fact in asserting that half dozen persons
cannot meet together without five of them uttering
the btterest complaints. The worst Of it is, that,
as in the case of individuals who have
joined together in an unlucky enterprise, who
afterwards strive to mend the matter by turning
against each other the weapons they have fashioned
for exterior purposes, is It with natops and there
Is in France, and from what see Of private letters.
suspect in England, also, much heart-burning
that despite the demolition of many Of those par
ttion walls which interfere with the reciprocity of
eommerce-despite the advent OF the Queen Of Eng
landtbe entente cordiaie suffers in reputation, and
may one day have to bear the brunt of the Russian
failure These debates in England on the Turkish
loan, in which many home truths have been ut
tered touching the proverbial uncertainty of all hu
man alliances-the admiration, which not even
state Of war prevents the French from expressing
at the splendid resistance made by the Russians and
their popularity generally in their social intercourse
with France-are, go where you will the constant
topic Of conversation; and, as have more than once