New-York tribune., 1878-11-26
THE EXHIBITION HONORs.

ATELY GREATER THAN THOSE WON BY ESGL4>t-,
TIRE AMERICAN MARINEs coNMENDFD--c
OWEN HONoRED-A LONDON JOURNAL OK mn
CIPHER DISPATCHES.
rrRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TGBusy1
LONDON Oct 23.-Tbe large share of prizes witch
American exhibitors in Paris have carried off has
not passed unnotIced in England English mann.
facturers stand amazed at some of the defeats they
have endured. 1t Is nothing that the total Of Brit
ish prizes is 80 much greater than the total OF Amer
lean. In proportion to the number of exhil.
Its, which is the tue test, the Umted
States are mournfuly admitted to be
far ahead of their cousins The Success
of Messrs. Tiffany with their silver work has per.
haps caused more surprise than anything else. Our
plougbs and sewing machines had been heard OF be-
fore, but who supposed that America was capable Of
| producing art work in the precious metals that
should surpass not England only, but France herself
which for years has been mistress OF the art wordi
Note. Also the prominence given to over thirty
American marines in the great festival of Mondayst
the Paais dc pIndustrie. They are mentioned in all
ornearly all the English reports of the ceremony. In
| one or two they are very highly praised Tor their
solderly bearing and excellent drill. L heard the
same sort of thing said dozen times In Paris last
| Summer. Once, at least, the praise came from
singuarly competent judge an officer in the Prince
|
have any reason for being surprised to hear that
American ships are well manned. The marines. IN
fact were generally taken to be troops OF the regu-
/ lar army.
| Il is understood that Mr.. Cunliffe Owen is Dir.
| Cunife Owen no longer-that only for day or two
at most can he be addressed as plain Nr. He Is TO
be made Knight Commander of the Order OF st.
Michael and st. George, and to be known to the
world henceforth Sir Philip Owen. Nobody VIII
think the honor too great for the services he has DONE
To him and TO the Prince of Wales may be fairly as
cbed the very remarkable of the British sec
ton of the great Exhibition OF 1S78 The Prince has
repeatedly acknowledged how much of the credit
was due my friend Mr.. Owen" The exhibitors
have marked their sense of Mr.. Owens efforts by
subscrip ption which amounts already to something
like $15,OO0--no mere empty compliment or
tainly. Next after the Prince, Mr. Owen is
reckoned the most popular Englishman in
Paris. / can testify from my own expe-
rence last Summer that his was name
to conjure with-that card which bore
his name opened all doors and was
passport everywhere. The quantity of work he got
through, his accessibility, his readiness to obhge
everybody with without claim ON him, his zeal
in promoting tho interests Of other sections, the
amount of actual help he gave Others-us especially,
by wise counsel, by mediation with stlf-necked
French otnclaiS, Dy Ienullg DflJisu "OiAh0h S'o"'
when occasion arose-all these and many
more of his good qualities and good
deeds were familiar long since to every
body whose duties took HIN to the Exposition.
At the risk of saying thing that Mr.. Owen will be
the first to call ungracioUs, | shall add that II.
c. NJ c.. brilliant as it may be, Is not an adequate
reward for his 'twO-years' work; or an adequate
recognition OF since reward is out of the question:
lie was already a c. B.-what would have been
more natural than to promote him in the Bath, In
stea(LOf comforting "a Knight COmmandership in an
order of inferior raDki But the granting
of British orders is a mystery winch no one lex
cept possibly the grantors processes to understand
OF the six British orders of knIghthOod, five stand
before the st. Michael. The very adjectives which
describe them are curiously graded First is The
Most Noble Order of the Garter; second, The Most
Ancient aud Most Noble Order of the Thistle third,
| The Most nlustrious Order Of ST. Patrick; fourth,
| The Most Honorable Order of the Bath, far
the most numerous of all; fifth, The Most
Exalted Order of the Star OF India sixth ana
last The Most Distinguished Order OF st, Michael
and st. George. The Garter is the Oldest,
dating from the creation of Edward Ill. IN l34S
and incomparaby the most splendid of all, reek-
onIng 10 less than fifteen reigning soyereigns
among its fifty members. St. Michael was inSti-
tuted i'll 1918, enlarged and extended in 1868. aud
is essentially Colonial order; on IN oneial phrase
is to be conferred upon such natural born subjects
OF the Crown of the United Kingdom as may have
held or shall hold high and confidential offices
within Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions. The
sovereign is the head of it, as of all other or
ters; the Duke OF Cambridge is Grand
Master; it numbers twenty Knights Grand
Cross. sixty Knights Commanders, hundred Com
panions. Nearly every name recognize on the list
is the name of man who has held Colonial Office.
Mr. Owens titles 20 distinction are not, so far AS
know, of a Colonial kind. They are precisely sueh
as X. C.. b. would most aptly adorn.
All this IS vanity, admit, but it is vanity which
still counts for much in Europe; and in England
not less than elsewhere. AT this moment, English
men are complaining with much energy
that they are not permitted to accept tho
seventy or eighty Crosses OF the Legion
of Honor which the French Government
desired to offer them No medal or other honor de-
creed for distinction in the Exhibition Is valued so
much as this. But there is a rule that no English
man may accept foreign decoration without leave
of his own sovereign. The rule being known, Lord
LYONS British Ambassador in Paris, was consulted
on the matter He. in turn, applied for instructions
to the Foreign Office, and | presume Lord Balls
bury took the opinion-that Is TO say, tlo
command-of the Queen In reference 10
the proposed decorations. The Queens
jealousy in the matter is known. though the
reasons for It can only be eonieotured 1t surprised
nobody that she refused to grant the permission So
hclted ami SO left the British exhibitors alone
among foreigners unless Americans also be an ex-
cepton) to go without the coveted crosses. co EN-
Inent man as Mr.. Bessemer, the great inventor
has publicly protested against the prohibition
There is little reason to suppose his protest will be
needed, but il shows you how deep the feeling IS,
.,d bovv universally the Court view is resented
The writer of the clever review in The Horld Of
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