New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-16
FRANCE.
F.on Our Own Correspondent

F.on Our Own Correspondent
PARIS, Thursday, Nov. /, 1855.
As it approaches its close the great Exposition
attracts more attention and more visitors than ever
Ii is long since any one las talked, as many at
irst talked, of its being failure, excepting in
pecuniary point of view TO the stock company who
own the building. For all the better purposes OF
such an exposition-as grand congress of the
representative productions Ofthe industrial aud fine
arts-it is triumpbantly successful. Aud it surely
is an impressive index of the vital strength of
France that such triumph ould be gained coin
cidentally with the carrying on Of an expensive
war, ana With short harvest Government, in
deed, could well afford to pstronize in all ways
thiANords Fair, for it has brought money to Paris,
and encouraged labor 10 an amount and degree far
beyond any possible result of treasury aid and i'm
\perial decree. Hotel keepers, theatrical managers
and the thousand and one other classes of walters
upon the wants and whims ofpasSing strangers will
soon have gathered up the last spears of their rich
harvest but the immediate benefit of the Fair will
continue somewhat longer to other classes. The
resident partner of one of the largest if not the
largest, American houses dealing in jewery and
elegant fancy articles, assures me that the work
men OF those trades with which his business makes
him cOnyersant will be occupied till New Years in
filling orders already on hand. The political sgni-
6cance OF all this is too evident to require comment.
A strong desire to have the Fair re opened next
Spring for the display and sale of goods has been
expressed in the form Of petition to Government
by several thousand exhibitors and Others. Ii is
not as vet decided whether the Crystal Palace
shall in this way be changed into a magnificent
bazssr.
The opening of the Palace was somewhat lame
Of newspaper and other imaginative trumpets zone
of them perhaps too loudly blown by your CORE
spOndtnt) by which it was preceded. Any lack of
brillancy on that occasion is like to be thrown
into the shade of forgetfulness by the impressive
closing ceremonial of the 18th, preparations
for which are making on scale OF rare magnlf-
cenee In the distribution of medals on that oc-
casiOn, II seems that our exhibitors are likely 10
receive an allotment which, considering their
c0mparsti rely small number, is equally honorable
TO their inventive genius aud TO French liberality
May IL be hoped that our rather thin skinned coun
trymen at home will be mOdestly mindful of this
consideration. The ceremony of the 18th is to be
held in the circular building that connects the
main palace with the long Annexe' ON the quail
II 10 10 be followed on the 10th by concert
whose novel grandeur of proportions the old ad
jected metaphors of mammoth and COLOSSAL are all
toe feeble 30 compass; it, ia fine, should say
that il was 10 be q megatherian, a sea-serpentlne
concert, | should but family typify its heralded
greatness. They tell us there are TO be twelve
some say fifteen-hundred musicians OF all nations
striving in one sweet accord, with symPataetlc
tntrails on all manner Of stringed instruments,
and with cOnspiring lungs on all manner OF wind
ir,truments. and with consOnant tapping, beating,
clsshing tinkling, on all manner OF keyed nstru-
neuts, on drums aud cymbals and trlanGles' to
produce in the distracted air harmonious EN-
elem Of that peaceful cooperative uaity among
The nations of the world, the promotion OF which
supposed to be one of the chief enis of the
Exposition When think Of the space to be oc-
eapei By the numerous performers at this mu.
seal fete as they are psraded in the non official