The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-09-02

seen at least ono Commissioners card which, IL
frsmed and hung up In the State Capitol would be
as conspicuous memento n the Exhibition medal
itsef IL would make precious copy" II paid for
as an advertisement in the HERALD.
The American Board OF Foreign Commissioners
has gradually diminished to number which can be
accommodated at the Friday soirtes Of the Commits
aioner General in the Paias de Lndus,ie aud per-
haps At the Hotel de FiAe, at the ball in honor OF
Queen Victories approaching, visit The first of
and for the first time oil the American Commission.
have been officially invited to share in the enter
taiDments which the Exhibition has occasioned.
The list OF American exhibitors having increased
as that OF American Commissioners has diminished.
the disprororton between them will be less striking
thnn might have been expected In the new cata-
iogue, which Mr. Gilman, Of Connecticut, Secretary
OF the Central Committee is preparing for the press
Tie letter OF NJ Vattemaie, recently published in
the Moniftur, relative to the American department
In genei End his avorite scheme Of international
exchanges In particular was well enough so far "a
the latter subject was concerncd but as an apology
tor the fewness of American exhibitors, it
was, in some respects, work OF supcreroga-
ton, and will perhaps elicit another communi.
cation to the M1nittur from another source Few
as the American articles are. the quality Of most Of
them IL such as not only 10 require no apology, but
to challenge the admiration of the world. Tho
members Of the International jury will be likely to
confirm The i'm Iession "the sccc nd sober thought"
Of all who have examined the American articles
and especially the .'pa,hine since laughing at
the waste space Ia the American department. The
first catalogue was iecessafiiy incomplete, and
Prince Napoleon, who inspects to-day the articles
OF The Sd class agricultural implements, &c.,) will
find something more to see than the single spade
and the single harrow set down in the catalogue,
rived to be put in the Exhibition Mccormick
yphg machine would alone suffice to maintain the
- which American industrial skill has won.
The prices Of admission tn the Exhibition have
Teen changed as follows = On Monday Ohe work
mans sunday twenty centimcs or four sous Tues
day wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. franc;
Friday. two flares had occasion 10 enter the Palace
OF Industry to-day, when this modification irot took
effect, and was surprii ed TO find as few viiters as
found last Friday at five francs. Last Sunday the
u, OF visiters ut four sous, was les.l3l. Com
pletc and splendid as the Universal Exhibition has
at length become, il has disappointed SO many ex
pectations to be consider ed still magnificent fail
ure. II Is hoped, however, that the Queens visit
to Paris will revive its dropping fortunes.
Is the assault Of Sebastopol again postponed in
order to avoid the risk Of spelling the effect Of the
Qreen's visit, by disastrous news from the Crmca
However this may turn out to be- II doubtless was
postponed among other reasons for the sake OF not
disturbing the prodigiOus success which the recent
loan promised TO offer and which has been actually
secured, even II we make all allowances for the ex-
aggeration in the official figures OF about three mil
lizards six bundled millions" and discard the moral
and patriotic conclusions which M. Magnc in his
report, Chat reads like hymn OF trinmph,) draws
quite llogically from exclusively financial premises.
The total result Of the loan is estimated at 5000,
100000, the subscriptions for so francs at 100000,
000 foreign subscriptions NJ 600 900 900. and those
OF Paris represent the balance - that Is, abont
900. II u ust be remembered that most of
The subscribers, in view OF the Anticipated reduc-
tions, set down their names for larger sums than
they actually wanted but this only swes the sum
to finer figure.
While my pen is busy with setting down these
round Numbers, LEI il indulge in the hgnratve style
throughout another paragraph, and add an in.
stance Of the kind OF fnancierng which fourishes
Just new in these re Qosncampoix times at Paris.
Emile Perciic, the law rediyivus OF our day, pur-
chased week before last the whole capital stock Of
the gas companies which at present supply Paris.
lie raid 80 900 GOO francs and after consolidating
the companies ard getting the signature OF Napoleon
10 the concession, he transferred IL TO the Credit
Mobilier Company for $4,000 900, thus clearing at
one stroke q the pen the comfortable sum Of i5ooo
600 francs.
only 60 goo 0C0 and to-day has property in its posses
sion amounting to 500 900 0OO OF which there are in
its vaults nearly 200 900 900 In cash and cash values.
Without the name Of Periere at it, head, it, stock
to-day would fall probably to onc-hat it, present.
value
To turn flom the jews to the Christians. a Catho
lie bishop &Omewherc IL Germany has, IN c0nsc
qnenee OF the establishment Of the dogma OF imma
ctlate Conception, prohibited christening any babe
" iib that sweet name, Mary, which crlsty old bach
olorphilclogists derive from Hebrew word, mean
ing bitter Twelve manuscript sermons OF the
Protestant, Martin Luther, have been discovered nj
Rakfau. In the conIitat of Thurock In Hungary.
Tie Russian telegraph thus quantity communi.
Gated To the German press the rim0r that Gen. To
dieben, the celebrated chief engineer Of Sebastopo
vas dead
{" TodlfLsn istf hbs 7odiebsn.'
A literal transation Of this is
Mort vis rif vide mort ris.'
la EnglisL--
Deaf h-lifc lives live death-liic.
The earthquakes which were fclt so widely during
the last week Of June. ut Colmar, Bale. Bcrne aud
Zurich. and in the eastern part Of France have not
disturbed Paris II is singular fact that Paris has
scarcely ever il ever, been visited by an earthquake
But il has had revolutions instead.
The Emperor and Empress Of the French have re-
turned from Biarritz.
Rachel will leave for New York il IL positively
announced, on the ll'h. The Parisians console
Themselves for her absence by going into raptures-
we'll they may-oyer the acting Of the celebrated
tragcdian and comedian, Rstoh. This Rachel OF
Italy has inspired an admirable ode from Lamar
inc. FIGARO.