The Republican journal., 1873-05-08
Opening of the Vienna EXPOSITION.
LONDON, Thursday, May 1.

LONDON, Thursday, May 1.
The international industrial exhibition
at Vienna opened to-day, with imposing
ceremonies. The weather was unfavor-
able. The attendance comprised a large
number OF princes, potentates and dis
tlnguished persons from all parts OF the
globe. special, dated Wednesday eve
ming, giving an account of the arrange
ments, says: Immense progress has
been made on the great industrial palace
building during the past week. For sew
eral days past there have been at least ten
thousand at work on it during the day,
while four thousand others have been kept
steadily at work on it throughout the night,
thus keeping up a perfect pandemoniu m
OF noise and rattle from morning till night
and from sunset to sunrise. 1t will be
the end OF June before the exhibition can
be seen in full blast and as the authorities
intend to make it appear. To show the
immense quantity of goods as yet packed
in the exhibitors cases, | will state there
are now 1000 laden baggage trucks be-
tween Vienna and the frontier, which, at
the utmost, can only be unladed at the
rate of 200 cars day. From this the
visitor can better Judge how soon to visit
the exhibition. The principal towns of
Austria have offered invitations to numer
Gus distinguished strangers to be present
when the emperor shall formally open the
building tomorrow.
lie FUTURE OF IRON, Coal AND SHIPS
Hon Ellis H. Roberts, now in England,
writes to his paper, the Utica Herald, in
terestlng letters respecting matters which
attract his observing mind. Upon one
very important topic he writes:
"a member OF the government in the
Board OF Trade informs me that the coal
commission will soon make a new report,
and present startling facts and figures
showing that the production Of coal can
not increase hereafter as it has done, and
cannot keep pace with the present growth
OF consumption. In Il word, the ratio of
the supply of coal to the demand has
reached its maximum in Britain The
bearing of this on manufactures can not
be exaggerated. With present processes
the cost OF manufacturing every article to
which fuel is requisite, and this covers
practically the whole list, must advance.
A representative man, familiar with bust
ness and production, and conscious and
well-informed thinker, comedies that the
hope OF British manufactures is upon some
new device for utalzing petroleum or
other new form OF fuel. Great as is the
present prosperity of Britain, the supre-
macy in manufactures, based as it has
been on cheap and abundant coal, can not
much longer be maintained against the
United States. Said gentleman who has
studied this problem closely Undoubtedly
the United States must soon lead in max
inc iron and steel for the world | am
told that the cost of iron ships at Belfast
and on the Clyde, has increased nearly
fifty per cent. in five years. That change
will ncite to ship-buiiding on the Hudson
and the Delaware. 1t is not an absolute
deficiency OF fuel here, that is to be antici-
pated, but such an advance in cost as vast
consumption compels. This Island is
ablaze with furnaces and manufactures :;
their smoke settles down aman. The
hour has come for America not only to
make AL OF its own iron and steel, but to
ship it to Liverpool and Glasgow and Bel
fast And here and now, circumstances
invite the return OF the American flag to
the ocean not only in wooden ships, but
in iron hulls built of American ore in
American yards"