, 1862-05-22
CIR Gtib,ttte.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Details by the Great Eastern.

Uetalls ny the Great Eastern.
OPENING OF THE GREAT lkTERKA- |
TI0kAl EXHIBITION.
FAMINE e1RELAND. |
Distress in the Manufacturing
Districts. |
THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBI-
TON.
Correspondence of the II. 7. World
LoxDos, May 2. 1862
London is not q paradise of early ri=ers. It |
may be taken TO be, as Iule, two hours be- |
hind New York in getting up and IN going to !
from Its deep slumbers betimes. How many |
thousand faces, with mouths agape, peered |
forth through windows in the gray dawn to |
see the state of the weather, am incompetent |
to calculate, bpt the number must have been
fy less than thirty thousand anxious
season ticket holders at five and three |
gufncas,. each desirous Of getting the most |
for their money, but there were very !
their minds to keep holiday, if the day were
fine, and to sec all that could be seen outside t
the building Of the great and little folks going
to the opening, or to seek in the pretty OUT |
skirts Of London q days recreation. To all |
morning must have been disappointing. It |
was dull, smoky, drizzlug. Yet "hope told |
fisttcring ta1e' Of
"Eyening rcd and morning gray
Will bring about pleasant day;''
and nothing could be grayer than the morning,
whatever might have been the condition Of
the sky on the previous evening. However,
By O'Clock the fears Of al and sundry were
set at rest by returning beams OF sunshine.
The umbrellas disappeared from the streets /;
ladies even took courage to come forth; the
dust was etfactuafly laid, the streets were not
wet enough 10 be disagreeable; every exter-
nal symptom promised the best possible cup-
lition Of VT athcr for the opening day. Aud
now toward the west end Of the town there
went streams Of carriages Of all sorts and sizes;
y ones returning For three miles saw this
stream Of vehicles in ones, in twos, and threes,
sometimes blocked, sometimes walking, some
timts making rash and furious dashes in
brief intervals Of space. AT last. within q
mile of the building, all was brought into
go Of humanity was set down ut the different
| doors of the edifice, under the civil but unre-
| lenting direction Of the police. Everywhere
t Along these three miles were policemen sta
| IL
WIS maintained. They were helped BY the
| tineness Of TIE day, which kept them and the
| crowd in good 1uuor. As I" Hanson" al
! mirably s'tooled'' amid the throng Of coaches
and peoples, carried me pleasantly along to-
! ward tile southeast corner Of the build
ing, eaw no irregularity or disturbance.
| There were lines Of on-1ookers, aud there
| we're excited groups Of pedestrians, doubt
fnl about the hour Of opening and the
hour at which admission WIS to be denied.
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Of making for one or another OF the several
entrances Here and there the shops were
Shut, and seemingly all might as well have
been shut, for those which remained open en-
ticed no customere within their doors. In
vacant places, where IN old house had been,
or where q new one was to be built, stages
were erected to accommodate sight seers
and those curious individuals who love to look
on crowds. Through the parks from Bucking-
ham Palace, whence tho Queens Commi5-
formally, the same crowds lined the roads.
From Platforms from chairs, from benches,
even from the branches Of trees, men, women
and children looked with outstrctched necka
on the "goings on" Imagine the crowds
that awaited the Prince Of Wales in New York
| thereto another double line such as mi gut
huye stretched from Chatham street to the
Cooper Institute, and you can form an idea o1
the multitude that saw in some part some.
II1UE Oh Inc opening OI LIE 0lI14l 11tG1ut4LIOuA
Exhibition ycst sterday.
entered the building by the southeast cor.
pcr, which happened to be the part allotted te
America 1t is very Small. and in ordinary
times would be discrcditab1e to the manufac
turing rival Of Great Britain. Switzerland oc
cupies Us much space So does Holland Sc
, does Denmark. When the last exhibition
opened, and the great space taken By th.
. ; United States was found ill-flled, loud Wa
. the laughter at the slowness Of the go.aheat
nation. Now there is no laughter Little wa
expected from AnaeIica, and less has been ro
| ceiyed than many expected; but it ia not witt
| malicious pleasure that the conspicuous ab
I eencc Of American manufactures is noted
Tie unhappy cause is too we'll known. AM
! as walked beneath O solitary flag of tn
: United States, and nnted that for every sta
= and stripe there were not even two articles Q
| American manufacture exhibited, 1half wishea
that the miserable collection had been sunk i,
the deep ocean it had crossed rather than haV
. tions the sorrowful truth that the fseest inst
d tutions are not safeguard against civil strif
/ and unhalloWed ambition.
T Such as it ie, will speak Of the America
!. | department in another letter. had conc t
| a festival, not funeral. did not stop to d
= already been done in 4 great variety OF termt
I It is essentially ugly; as ugly as ilatness an
bilious looking bricks eau make it. And tn!
uelincEs is rather Increased than diminishe
|
ends Of the building. IN excuse for thcs
r, monstrositics it is said the extent OF tn
II building, covering near twenty-five acre
ii dwaris llem into insignifcance. Probabl,
: But why allow feature, or TINT which vi
" Intended to be feature Of the build.n|
d dwarfcd into ineigni6cances As came do@
Fleet street In the evening and compared Il
wontirons elegance Of the dome OF st. Paul
with the ugly glass erections Of the Exhit
u- tion, could not help thinking Of what G
if, instead Of the finely .proportiont
! crown which surmounts the Londe
, cathedral. he had set squat In Il
" centre Of the roof one Of the little G
polas which crown the western towers. N
fsit necessary to redcscribe the interior Of Il
Il. its predecessor, That was full of angles, t
light was glaring, and the painting. if 4
tastcless, was comparatively rude. This Is
NJ. composition Of swelling lines, the light is 50
e, e. beautiful 10 the tye. When, in The course
+ two Or three weeks, al the Temporary. obstrt
- tions shall be cleared away, and all The goo
shall he arranged, the appearance OF the In
II. rior must be very magnificent. Even no
very incomplete a. it appears from almost (
cry point Of view, its beauty and grandeur
snp very striking. The decorations consisted
, most entirely Of banner Of different natio,
= and for this occasion the line Of the proc
IT, sion was laid with red carpeting. But
l
/. beautifully dressed and leautitnl women, y,
in q less degree, Of welldressed men. q
forms, thopgh In considerable numbers, n
81. lost in the crowds.
III It was about half past one before the o16r
I'm Eersonages began to assemble, and it was
before The procession Was formed. l.
PolmeIston vas there, and was cheered y
faF. unanimously. loudly. and continuously.
Duke Of Cambridge WAS the text most po
lar MAJ. Both these noble personsges "
= ~ beaming with good humor- E ri Russell !
nth more sedate, and Eo was Earl Derby Fore
D. politics and the gout, each in its way, is cal
- lated to reduce the merriment Of those c
~ ccrIcd With or By it. The mere form Of
w procession it is scarcely worth while to e
On Among the foreign commissions walking til
@o with, e. j. Holmes, Esq, represented
United 6tstes while Col Johnstone '
u among the presidents Of foreign commissl
e1s, Jour representative Gladstone, Mi
slio Gibson, The Duke Of Newcastle, the DUKE
r1st- Somerset, were, beside those have alre
mentioned, among the more promiuet Of
Queens mfnietry. Prince Oscar Of Sweden
CIT thcre,a the Grown PriUco OF PIussfa. The
'saM ~ panese ambassadors, less snowy persouages
fSs partntly, than those who visited New Yor
data and some stout. sta1waFt aud very bi
IN o Haytiaos, ambassadors Of that land, y
among those who attracted most public not
at. When the procession had reached . dais
der one of the great domes it paused, aud
Cu | Dnke Of Cambridge took his scat In q chai