New-York tribune., 1878-05-01

than for the desire he implanted ID him 10 Visit
British settlements They might trust In MN 10 90
all in bis power to facilitate their relations WIN 'he
French Government and to render their stay In
Paris profitable and pleasant house was to DE
built in the Exhibition for himself and the
Princess of Wales. Another close to II
should be erected for the convenience OF the
Colonial Commissioners. IN order that he ana
the Princess might often see them. These softly
spoken words were well taken and bore fruit
THE EAST INDIAN COLLECTION.
In the Indian section VIII be exhibited the gifts
the Prince of Wales received in his Eastern tour,
the money value of which is computed at about
$500 900. Mr. PurdOn c. Clarke, the architect OF
the Indian Department, has designed wooden
stru ire in which the Princes collection IS TO DO
displayed IN the lofty transept it appears
small, but were it in the garden IL
might be taken for Moorish palace. Sir
Charles Laird the Persian, Cngalesc and Buddhist
antiquarianB has been busy unpacking curl0slties
which he brought from CeylOn, including painted
wooden masks worn at Cngalcse carnival ana
ancient idols queer and ugly, but beautifully dec
Grated From CeylOn you may pass to Persian
tomb in porcelain the ground white, the pattern
conventionazed ivy, worked into scrolls of deep
sky ue. The main characteristics are grace and
elegance Near by is bronze statue OF Buddha.
contempative in attitude, in the cup of silver lily
picked out with gold. The hundreds OF other won
ders must wait for less hurried day.
If you pass INTO the main British section you are
struck at once with the tidy, quiet. buslness-lke
way in which work is DONE Iron rails are every
where laid down for trucks and wheelbarrows.
Rubbish is not allowed to accumulate. Gangs oil
workmen somehow manage not to get In each
others way. The horses empoyedar for the greater
part pure British, and very good specimens. The
worlmen have restaurants and Teading-roOms Tor
themselves The horses nave distinct stables, which
are in charge of superintendent from the estaD-
hshment Of Pickford the great London carrier.
Five detached houses built by the English Commits
sion, behind the British transept, fill the greater
part Of tleir avenue-spaCe.
THE PRINCE OF wALEs's PAVILION.
The pavilion of the Prince and Princess of Wales
is an Elizabethan villa, erected, at cost OF
800 coo, by Mr.. Gilbert Redgrave. On the ground
floor there are two rooms office and two pariors
for Nh Cunlfe Owen, an ante-room for the gentle
men in attendance the Prince, another Tor the
ladies in the suite of the Ptncess mornlngroom,
dnnp-room. drawing-room. two large dressing
rooms a kitchen fitted up with gas apparatus ana
corridor leading directly ito the British transept'
If the Prince and Princess Like, they may
come here 10 live. Their villa will stand III
smiling garden, rallied off from the grounds OF the
other tour houses by light wrought-iron pallng'
fount Il of MintOn porcelain, already sold to
Lord Dudley for $500, plays over the turf before
the villa. The table linen from Belfast was shown
to a patriotic EnglishwOman who pronounces 1t in-
ferior TO a Compiegne service, manufactured for
Napolcon III at cost of nearly 50 600, which she
afterward bought for about $14 at civil list sale.
The ,se thistle and shamrock are woven with
scrolls and sprigs IN the Wales tablecloths and nap
kins, while medalliOns at the corners contain Welsh
and Irish harps The historical three feathers taken
by the Black Prince from the blind King of Bohemia,
with q t. motto "Ich Dien" form the central orna-
ment. Damask brOcadcs are also to be
seen. which will be used in the hang
irgs Of the morning and drawngrooms,
and may b, compared with the products of tho
Lyons il'. looms, though manufactured as FAR
north as Glasgow. Those for the drawing-room are
in sky-blue Bands of embroidery, in which renais-
sance d,,. ms of remarkable delcacy are executed
in blues Of various shades pale yellow and white, will
border hc curtains and be applied to the easy and
otLer chairs and sofas. They correspond to the Car
tonucrre moudings and enrchments III the Adams
styeof the drawiugroom. and were furnished by the
Princess Christians School of Art-Ncedcwork In
London The tables, bullets, desks, and
the like, of the morning and diningrooms,
are initiated from Elizabethan and Henri
III. caDiuet-worll of massive unpublished rosewood.
Some are inlaid in white bone and ebony, and others
enliyeued with slabs of ivory lacqncred IN tie
Japaucse taste Nothing is yet in its place except
portIat of the Queen in Windsor Gobellns tapestry,
which stands over the Chmney-pece III the morn
ipp-room. Vacant panels are to be filled in with
other tapestries illustrative of scenes from lhe
Merry Wives OF. Windsor" A polychrOme cornice,
representing fruits and flowers on dark ground,
was furnished by the South Kensington School
for Needlework founded by Princess Louise.
The greater part of the upper floor will be placed at
the disposal of the British Commission 1t Is antici-
mated that the cost Of the pavilion will be more than
covered by the sale of the mosaic floor OF the dress
ing rooms, the treplaces, furniture ana hahRlhgs'
An Fnglishman residing in France has already
offered to buy the house. with the view OF recon-
struc citing it III the neighborhoOd Of Paris. There
will be no great difficulty in taking it to pieces and
setting it up again.
The Queen Anne villa for the British juries stands
near. The peculiarity of this house, apart from
ITS architectural style, lies in its wooden frame
work walls faced with slabs Of Portland
cement-coucrete and smaller slabs of red concrete,
screwed on to the frame and having surface-sizeOf
ordinary bricks. Mr.. Lascellcs is the inventor OF
this system, which he thinks adapted for country
villas and cottages All the materials being nOn-con-
ductofs of heat house so constructed Is warm III
Winter and cool i'll Summer; whilst the expense OF
bulldine one is much less than with solid brick or
stone. Messrs. Cubitt, the London firm who
planned and built the Queens marine residence III
the Isle of Wight are the architects and builders of
the villa that will DO occupied by the
Colonial Commissioners. 1t Is constructed In
the hall-timbored fashion, much employed In Eng
land about the time of Shakespeare's- birth.
The materials are pitch pine, enriched with quaint
caryir q and filed in with plaster panels. The wood
enployed was ne wn in Canada, and the first floor is
to be placed at the disposal of the gentlemen repre-
sentinR the Dominion. At Tours and VitTy in France,