Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-19
VOL. XXXIY. q &.
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RRcEPTIoN OF THE EMpRRoR. :


bers of the Imperial Commissions, and Al
most instantly ascended the staircase which
led 70 the raised gallery running round the
machinery annexed, or rather circle The
Emperor wore plain evening dress, with
the grand Gordon and the star OF the Leoion
| kdsHoMleaTss The Empress attired ih'rhe
simplest of walking costumes, and wore q
daE kveils Whichs she never raised while in
the building. The course of the Imperial
party through the exhibition may be easily
followed. ThesbpiIding lis arranged in
series of concentrIc rings or galleries, each
1 OF which is devoted to certain class Of
subjects. Thus the butermost ring Of all
/ Is allotted to the display Of machinery. at
rest and Ia motion, while one of the inner
most rings forms succession of picture
| galleries. The Emperor and his party went
ronnd Lne edllnee twlcs.na9ely, nan s ln snose
all that Is most fine and all thatis most use
ftll in the arts, Eutering atHny door of the
building, the visitor will at once find him
self in the midst of machinery, but the. ar
rangement of the chief door of all is such
that on the one hand he will find the French
and on the other the British show. Down,
indeed, the whole length Of the great hall,
which leads from the chief doorway to the
central garden, and cuts passage through
the concentric galleries, the same arrange
nent holds. Turn to the left, and go into
any gallery. you lind yourself in France
follow it in its course round the building,
and you pass through a succession of coun-
Tries, until at -last when you complete the
lcircle, you find yourself among the products i
of Great Britain. Ehe gallery set apart for
machinery has popularity; it has raised
| continuous gangway from end to end that
goes over all the machines, so that a visitor
can see them from above: Arm-in-arm the
Emperor and Empress ascended the gang
| way on the French side, the Imperial Com
missioners preceding them. Crowds col
Ilected among the machines below to see
them as they, passed, and at various recesses
along the gallery bands of regiments were
ready to strike up the national air as they
came in sight, the band-masters vesticula-
| ting in all a Frenchman's anxiety that the
| first combination of notes should come not
one moment too late not one moment too
soon. At fixed points along the gangway
the Emperor came upon the commissioners
! of the various countries, who were present.
ed to him and the Empress. In passing
over the French section of the gallery their
! Msjesties had the satisfaction of seeing a
considerable number OF the machines in
motion. but they could scarcely lind SINH
| lar proficiency in any other region of the
department until they came to the British
end OF the gallery, where the roar of ma
Ichinery might again be heard mingling,
/ this time, with loud English cheers. The
| Austrian and some of the Prussian ma
chinery is also pretty well advanced, but
countries (minor in the manufacture of
machinery there was little to be seen.
lrssy tr.-)r THE PROCESSION 81 sagt45f4
| The procession along this gallery took
about thIee-quarters of an5hour.o The EN-
peror and the Empress had a little word or
bow for scores of Commissioners as they
passed along; and the wonder is that they
travelled through the gallery in so short a
space of time. They stayed longest with a
little party Of japanese, most of. whom to
the barbarian eyes of any Londener,
would seem identical with the troop of
ljugglers, who lately performed the butter
] fy, trick in st. Martins Hall. They were,
ilhoweYer; Commissioners from the Tycoon,
and from Prince Satsuma, AMI were pre-
sented to the Emperor and the Empress
with a good deal of formality. Opposite
Ito. Them, on the ganway, were ranged
small band of gaily-dressed Tumsian mu-
tsicians, who played on a sort of hurdy-
gurdy and on tam5orine. 1t was little
bit of comedy introduced into rather dull
fceremonial. On the one side of the plat
form, in dark solemn robes, the japanese
were bending with thermost awful gravity,
some of them reyerently falling on their
knees to the Empress; on the other side,
| in the gayest of dresses and with the jaun-
tiest air, the Tunisian musicians seemed to
make mirth of the sombre Japanese with
jingle, jingle, jingle. The Emperor looked
whether he was, to be grave with the Jap
-anese or merry with the Tunisans. He
tidid his best to courteous to BOTH and so
passed on to the American Commissioners,
and finally to thoseof England, stationed at
the end of the circle. AS he descended the
staircase he was greeted with loud hur-
rahs which one rarely hears out of Eng
land ! Two sailors seemed to be foremost
in cheering, and were conspicuous In the
Ecrowd. The Empress smiled upon them,
and smote their hearts, "Ah, Bill,p said
the one TO the other, !" she guv me sechia
look" In the great crowd, rushing and
! tossing about, and filling the ear wiih-a
rattle of French phrases, "Viue rEnlpe-
reur!" "Pdr ici!" ''Attendez!'' ''Msieat,"
i one heard with sort of bewilderment in
i lterpolated7in all tleir genuiueness, g All,
Bill, she guu me sech a look sTEIT
f1ieaa - THE PICTURE GALLERY. ~ TO- 'ls5
i Along the gangway of the machinery de-
i Epartment the procession wa, comparative
i ly quiet and orderly, for few persons were
/ admitted to it; but when the Imperial par
i ty descended to the great hall OF entrance
and proceeded to the picture galleries, the
i spirit of the scene was changed. Before
4 the Emperor and his party all was clear and
/ starelysto make his passage free. Behind
zhim was the deluge.H The crowd rushed
and crushed into galleries which had hith-
i erto been denied to their view. The i'm
Ii
led the Emperor were seen agoniZing on the
mob which swayed to and 1fro--an enor-
Il nous confusion of ladies and gentlemen,
4 and policemen, and soldiers, and three gilt
4 tering Turks, and one white-headed negro.
II The crowd was too great, and l did not fol-
illow' the procession through the complete
1 circle of the picture galleries, but turned
II back to wait for it in the last gallery of all,
II the British. The Emperor passed through
n a magnificent show of pictures and mar
4 bles. The picture galleries, with the ex-
4 cef5tion of the Italian section, may be de-
4 seribedr as complete. In the Italian gallery
I,only the pictures on the line are fixed. In
i the British, as in the French gallery,
! Everything is ready, and in each of
! these great saloons hundreds of persons
were ranged in double lines, waiting for the
2 Emperor to pass. He came into the Brit
: ish territory about half-past 3, preceded by
} the Imperial Commission, among whom,
Il however, no one seemed to recognize we'll
: known London face. Surely, that is Lord
1 Houghton? Is it possible that, in disgust
! at the iniquities of a Tory Government, he
9 has left his country and taken service un-
der the Emperor, so that we now see him
in the very centre of the Imperial Commits
sion, marching before his Majesty /? The
Emperor follows and passes rapidly
q through the gallery. The only incidents
! of his progress through the room are two
q According tosthe style of royal personages
! 1t is portrait of the Prince of Wales
f good. portrait, though nothing very re-
markable as picture, by Watson Gordon,
Z of the Prince when he was at Oxford. His
: Majesty points it out to the Empress and
passes on. Mr.. Cole Immediately after
|, wards presents him with a complete eata-
: logue,5 printed in four languages, of the
D whole of the British department. of the Ex-
+ hibition-a department which has some
j thing to boast of in being the most punctual