Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-08-31
The Paris Exhibition.

The Paris correspondent of the London Times
the first inst gives the following account of the lid
of visitors to the French metropolis and to the Pari
exhibition
Paris is, and has been for some weeks past, crowd
ed with strangers and, the exorbtant price still
demanded for lodgings in the more elegant parts o
the town still keeps many houses untenanted, it i
by no means easy to find room in the largest hotels
The majority of the English visitors are not as yei
however, those who are accustomed to engage apart
ments in the hotels for any length of time, but rathe
those who come over for week or ten days TO sec
the exhibition, and then hasten away again. The
great concourse will be when parliament is proroguec
and the full tide of friendly invasion will dash upon
US at the period of The queens visit which will &C
lncide with the conclusion of Legislative business -
tfow all this mass Of people will find accommodation
II IS difficult to say. Fancy family comprising tall
men and stately DANES enclosed, in weather like this
in boxes on the sixth seventh story, with the i'm
possibility OF adapting themselves, on any telescope
principle of lenghening or shortening at pleasure.
to low ceilings and without the convenient elasticity
OF caout"houc TO suit the narrowest space
The exhibition seems at last completed, or, at
least completed far as il is likely 10 be- for
suppose to the last moment the stroke of the ham,
mer will be heard. The building wants, of course,
the magnificent sweep of the Crystal Palace and the
Annex, seen from the outside. is rather deformity
and effects completely the fine quay on which it is
erected but, by general CONSENT the spectacle s, ON
the whole admitted to be fine one. The visitors
are still numerous every day, and am assured
age $4,000, not including Friday and Sunday. On
this last day more than 10000 of the population
gratlty their curiosity, and admire those exquisite
specimens of human art of many kinds which
spread out before them. On Fridays the attendance
has been always thin and is becoming more evanes-
cent, The idea was bad one OF increasing by five
times the price of admission on Friday, or, indeed,
increasing it at ALL The French are accustomed to
gTatutous admission TO their national establishments,
and they feel repuguance to visit place where
different system prevails. On the high-priced day
the building is always deserted This feeling per.
vades all classes, whether rich poor. In other
countries it would perhaps be considered '' vulgar
to be seen at such place on low-prced days; and
the fewer or more select the numbers the more gen
teel " 1t is. Here the contrary is the Nothing
gives more delight TO a Frenchman than crowd, and
the sight of multitude of people amusing them
selves, pleased or mparting pleasure, has for him
the greatest interest OF all. | do not believe
all that said about the senat tors and other high
tunctlonares of State waiting for the four day
to visit the exhibition for the first time but it is
tain that on Sundays when the lowest price prevails,
and the greatest numbers attend, carriages and liver
les are even more numerous, perhaps than on any
other day of the week and they certainly seldom
to be seen on Fridays, when the hghe price is Ia
ken. 1t is believed that change will be made in
this respect and indeed unless is so The exhibition
people may without any injury TO the establishment,
enjoy their holiday on Friday.
That part Of tho exhibition, Cailod .ho rotuudu,
which comprises the 1900 metres of the old pano-
rama, seems to be object OF special attraction
There the beautiful tapestries of the Gobe
Inns and of Beauvais, which excite wonder how, with
such Materials all the delicate colors of the pencil
can be so exquisey inflated. In the centre Of the
rotundo, and raised on platform, encrced with rail-
ings, stands the cagevtrie, the glass where the
crown diamonds are exposed. From morning to ev-
enng train of people, like the queue at the doors of
a theatre when new piece from popular author
is to be represented winds round and round in sp
raj fold, the base of the PLATFORM each waiting his
or her turn to behold the jewel which believed
TO be myth, and which many suppose to have unac-
countably disappeared long since.