Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1878-05-17 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TROCADRRO AND THE PARIS FNIIIBITION. The distinctive feature of the present Exhibition is, says a well-inforrned writer, the palace of the Trocadaro, facing the Champs de Mars, and enthroned upon an eminence which overlooks Paris and the whole valley of the Seine. Built by M. M. Davioud and Bourdais in a composite style of architecture, half Moorish, half Renaissance, i.s d me and glitteriag minuets make it conspicuous for miles away. It will surviws the Exhibition, for the Town Council of Paris have decided to buy it as a museum. Its rotunda, which holds 7,(433 persons, ;s the place where the manituural ceremony was held and where the prizes will be distrituted in October. Flank:eg the rear of the rotunda and spreading in two shapely semicircles to right and left are the wings, occupied by exhibits of glass, porcelain wares, and statuary. Terraces with colounados front the wings, and overlook the gardens which slope down the river quay, as uiso the cascade and fountains, which descend from the font of the rotund a nil bisect Cle grounds. Eight huge basins, surrounded by smaller ones,.corupos.e the reservoirs af this ciii-eade, and each is provided with a giant water-spout That of the broadest and lowermost basin throws ups jet to the height of mrt., sphilhing the colossal statues ot the four beasts which adorn the pedeatala at the ;swim angles, viz. : A bull, by IL Cain: a horse by Rouillart ; a rhinoceros, by Jaccamenart ; and an elephant, by Fremiet. The rhinoceros, standing with his free-paws elevated on a boulder of rock. is especially remarkable. And about the gard.n of the Trocadero are scatt e red houses illustrative of Oriental architscture, and star ling amidst spruce lawns and flower.beds. There are the Ciiinese, Atipanese, Persian, Tunisian, and Algerian palaces, xatuded by the natives of those countries in picturesque costumes. Then COlllO a Spanish restaurant on a large reale, an, aquarium full of sea and river fish, a grotto v. hit.h, by a cunning arrangement of a million little sqvares of niiri or, imitates stalactite; after which we luxe more than a score of conservatories soul hothouses. bloonting with every flower that man has wrier seen—flowers of the tropics, of India and South Africa. mingling v. ith th 3 roses and csmellias of our own latitudes, and ull s show which nursery gardeners will gaze upon with samethieg more than admiration.  A despatch. from Havana announces that a terri:i earthquake has occurred I'l Clla, in Venezuela. Oat persons having been killed. A h,svy shock eas also felt at Caracas. Amongst the expressions of symparsy with Mr. Itright upon the bereavement which he has suffered through the death of his wife was one from her Majesty, ahich wag at once acknowledged by the right hon. gentleman. Her Majesty the Queen brio a drawing-room at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday afternoon. Among the Presentations were Miss Alice Add!, by her mother, Mrs. Astell ; Miss Eolith astell, hi? her mother Mrs. Aste/1: Miss Fanny Hood, by her mother, Mrs. Arthur i, Hood: Miss Wolff, by her mother, Lady Wilt. The i, following 'adios awd gentlemee, aniong others, attended Selma Bind Lady Wolff, Mrs. Mrs. Athor Hood Miss le.nily Hood. Miss Agnes Neville, Miss Ida Neville, ac., TRAGIC AFTAIR IN SCOTLAND --A labourer, named William John Dunl i op, n. the employs'', nt of Birrell, Stenhouse, and Co , shiplaulders, Dumbarton, on Tuesday morning made a dei.pt-tate attempt t., murder a man named Mclatre, the .night watchman on the premises. While 31,4;43 re a aIS sitting flUiCtly in his ,Ithie, smoking a pipe. came in with a carnentei's adze, struck hien on the back ot los head, inflicting a deep vound, and left him ior.dead. Going out Hum diately. he threw himself in the 1'11.1.r and was dross Mrlutyre is expected to recover. The whole affii.ir is veltd in mystery, and no motive can be assigned.  MR. GL.