The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-06-29

history, and must have heard the shock OF more
than one revolution in the boisrous past OF Paris
We CHANGED to reach the city in the midst OF
crowd of distinguished strangers from various quar-
tiers. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred
came on with us from London. A sister OF the
Emperor of Austria we found squeezing herself and
her extensive plumage into the limited space OF
tooenty-tsree rooms at our hotel. The King and
Queen of Belgium temporarily located themselves
near by. And in the evening of our arrival we
CHANGED to meet an extraordinary figure in passage
leading to the Grand Cafe. 1t proved, ultimately,
to be that of younger brother of the Pascha,who
is youth of seventeen and reported "gay and
festve"; but in his limited array of petticoats and
shaws he looked alarmingly like a female in dis
habe, and disposed us to turn unaccustomed
eyes away for very modesty. An object somewhat
similarly draped we encountered in an Oriental de-
partment of the Exposition on the occasion of our
introductory visit. They called him for 1T the
Grand Moguz of something or other, but he was an
uneasy creature, and, in light untidy robes, with
flowing sleeves that like wings, his incessant
tapping about suggested a sea- gull as much as any
thing else. The King and Queen of Prussia
expected soon, and representatives of royalty are
flowing towards this attractive centre in regu-
lar flood tide of grandeur and magnifcence.
Even China and Japan have numerous curious
specimens circulating about the Grand Hotel and
the Exposition, and Africa exhibits an occasional
member so fresh from some fashionable tailoring
establishment of Paris that Arlington in the char
acter of dandy jim" would find himself nowhere
by comparison. But, as Mrs. Darlington says,
comparisons are odorous"; and so are these black
birds in spite of their fine feathers.
"What Of the Exposition itself?" hear you ex-
claim All there's the rub. With the exception
of day passed in carriage doing" the delight
full Bots de Boulogae day in the galleries OF the
Louvre, and portion of day spent at the Z'~ite-
ries we have thus far devoted our time exclusively
and perseverngly to the great show Of the Champ
de Mars, and still do not yet feel that are famil-
lar enough with it's bewdering labyrinths to ven
ture upon anything like fair description. Besides,
the Exposition it presents itself in an artistic
scientific agricultural, manufacturing and general
commercial aspect, is to be written to DEATH
for the benefit of the American people by an army
of matteroffact correspondents, who are here bent
solely on the desperate undertaking, whilst [ may
hope, at best, only to i've you it's more striking
views and incidents, with an occasional glimpse of
the comic side such monstrous affairs some
times to present to the watchful eye. For the
present let it suffice that our first explorations in
and around that immense structure which holds the
worlds wonders, has impressed us with utter as
tonishment and almost speechless admiration. The
mind that could conceive and the genius which
could execute such miraculous work deserve the
homage of mankind, and we are lost in conjecture
at the causes which could have induced "our own
correspondents" universally, to cry down the mar
velous undertaking, and promise it only an igno-
minious failure. We may confess now to having
been so far influenced by these false statements that
the Exposition was last thought on entering Eu
rope, and would not have turned our steps towards
p r;s atn hut for other conscientious. 1t