New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-18

since the early days may be realized by
comparing the account in the follow
ing letter with the summary con-
tanned in the cable dispatch appended.
| The Paris Exhibition is regarded with great
favor by the Republican press of that city,
which carried its good Will so far as to over
look the incOmpleteness Of the display on the
opening day. The reactionary journals mainly
! oppose and ridicule the project.
SEQUELS TO TIE OPENING CEREMONIES.
RANK DIsREGARDED ~ TIE GENERAL CONFUSION
4 UNBORN OR A BRTBE THE ONLY PASSPORT RE-
spECrED-TnE FRENCH PRESS on THE EXiiIBI-
TIoN-THE BOCTINE ATTENDING ADMiss!oN-iN-
COMPLETENESS STILL MANIFEST
IFEou A STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBusEI
PARIS May 3-There was, after all. a certain mag
niicent mpartiality in the arrogance and incompe-
tence of the ceremonial management. Very great
people indeed came to grief in with the less
great. 81 have already told yOu what befcl the
Duchess of Manchester Others OF her country
women suffered indmiies less in degree but hardly
less astonishing. II was matter of chance whether
any man or woman not actually iii the suite Of
prince found his or her way to the place intended
for them Lady Granville, wife of the eX-Eoreign
Minister Of Great Britain, in company
with Lady Emma Barring, was discovered
BIZ an English friend in the midst of mob
Of people on the lower floor Of the Ir1cadGro Palace,
quite lost and helpless. They asked only to get
away, but il was impossible 70 lind their car
ragcs TO ud Their places up stairs. Finally they
dove of in q cab winch stroke of luck offered
them. Some of the very officials who were response
BE for the confusion suffered their full share of il
which nobody need lament. The police having
hi, HAT OH
ncomprcheu,iblc, fell back, some on a policy Of
letting everybody do as they liked others of pre-
venting everybody from doing anything they
wanted 10. The tendency Of the police mind is
much more strongly to the latter. Thus, while it
happened. as 1 have before related, that | found
myself free To 20 wherever ! liked without being
once asked for ticket. an English correspondent
declares that hc was stopped NJ every turn and for
hidden 10 go where his tickets gave Inn right to
co. Many of the foreign commissioners were
stopped; and more than one. foreign diplomatist.
The only sure passport a uniform or. perhaps,
n twenty franc piece; which last seems TO have
been freely employed in emergencies.
may add a word to what have already said
about the facilities gwen 10 the press for the Diff
cult work Of the opening ceremony. The French
papers complained loudly of the way in which they
were treated. The English correspondents were
looked after by the English Embassy and Lord
Lyons took care, or somebody took care, that at
least one recognized representative Of each Of the
chief London journals should be- present in the yesti
bulc Of honor. where the Marshal received his
guests; and whence there VAS access TO the
gallery Of the Duchess and the tribune in
which the speeches were made. ] doubt
whether any American Journalistic mean as
ionrnalist-was similarly taken care Of. ] heard
~ -ole such who had gilt ticket. .brt then We
don't always proclaim these things the street
neTs especially 20 colleagues on other journals,
and cases may have occurred Of which knew moth
ing Practically we did not suffer in consequence
Of this neglect. II only put ~ 10 little more
trouble and obliged 10 get part Of our work done
for MS hy some Of the more favored mortals, who
had an Official right to be present in these places
The same sort OF thing has occurred often before
that even French official or an American Minister
Plenpotcntiary might at last come to perceive that
it would be simple 10 accept the situation, and
let the journalist choose his own place and his own
way uf doing his work. Thecase are few indeed where
official obstruction or indifference really prevents
correspondent from getting what he wants, IN one
way or another. Our Commissoner-General, Gov
crnor Mccormick, did what he could IN the matter
and took good deal of trouble which hardly be-
lonpcd 10 him. But he not and could not be in
position TO 10 what Lord Lyons did. 1t is to ms
Legation and not TO any temporary headquarters
that the American any other foreigner looks nat
uray aud properly for such help a. he needs in his
intercourse with the authorities of the country.
The way in which the Paris papers have dealt
with the Exhibition is only too characteristic Of
French journalism. great part of the reactIonary
press Bonapartst, Lcgitmist, and Clerical, has
opposed and rldiculed the project. On the other
hand one OF the sef-styled Conservative journals
alleges this morning that not a single Republican
paper has dared to admit that the Exhibition was
in an unfinished state. The journal from which
quote is one of those which. though ant-Republi-
can has abstained from attacks against what prom
iscd to De n Republican success; content with
claiming what success there is for France aud dis
tincuishing as they all do between France and the
form of government which il in power at the mo
mcnt. ! have not read ali the Republican papers
carefully enough 10 say whether the charge against
them is true, hut il is more than true OF some of
them One of the best, certainly the most authori-
tative Of all NJ Gambetta's journal, says TINS
1.-The doors of the Exhibition have been opened on
the day fixed, aud spite Of the calculated cxaggcr-
ations Of certain critics with their minds made mp
beforehand the public has seen for itself that ITS
deficiencies are by no means striking, and that
neither the sight-secr nor the student can
complain OF having been deceived" One is
at loss TO Imagine what use there can
BE- IN persistng in the pretence that
the Exhibition is substantially complete, when
anybody who has franc and a half hour to spare
can convince himself of the contrary. You NAV
think tina. such disngenuousness as this can only
injuge those who practice it but don't know that
it does. The Republican papers are read by Repub-
leans only the success Of the Exposition Is nj
present of the chief articles OF Republican fath
and the Republican reader does not expect nor de-
sire his Republican journal TO tell any more truth
than is conducive to the interests of the Republican
party. remark on this with the more freedom be-