undertakings afford into what the future pro- would have been surprising indeed had they mises or is capable of accomplishing for the not shown, during their present visit to Paris, great cause of human labor. In the new world a strong interest in that now open here. If their of information which international exhibitions feelings can be at all estimated by the extent are opening to us, men of acute minds and re- of the survey which they took to-day, the exflective powers are only yet beginning to spell hibitors must be highly gratified that so much their way; but no one who has paid any at- respect for industry should be entertained by tention to these subjects, can fail to observe personages so illustrious. It is no ordinary ef that the defects of the display of 1851 are now fort, in the present intensely hot weather, even being steadily made up. Other countries, on for a man to traverse for three hours the boarded that occasion, felt their short-comings in ma- floors of an immense building, and to notice a chinery; and, accordingly, in that department great variety of objects which, however remarkvast and striking progress has been made. able singly, become oppressive in the aggregate Not only do the chief industrial nations of the from the strain to which they put the attenContinent grapple with the difficulties of per- tion. But Her Majesty went through this fecting their workmanship, and endeavor to great exertion without resting more than once imitate, however roughly, the triumphs of our by the way. She evinced an earnest desire best mechanics; they also exhibit a number of to see everything that was worth seeing, and machines having considerable pretensions to it was evident that time alone prevented her novelty of design, and likely to be extremely from making that minute inspection of the useful. Belgium, it is said, bears away the wonders of the French Exhibition which palm, even from England, for the best made marked her numerous visits to the display in locomotives. The magnificent display of Prus- Hyde Park. The Prince showed even more sian steel shown by Krupp, has excited gene- curiosity, and rushed about from object to obral admiration; and among the French makers, ject with the eagerness of an enthusiast. He Cail's and other houses contribute works of a took with him the Prince of Wales and the kind very superior to anything shown in Eng- Princess Royal, while the Queen leant on the land, from abroad, four years ago. Our engi- arm of the Emperor, and Prince Napoleon neers, pre-occupied by Government contracts, acted as a cicerone. On entering the interior exhibit a comparatively small quantity of ma- they first visited the series of courts devoted chinery, and that, though excellent of its kind, to French bronzes, and which comprise conshowing no very marked progress. There are tributions from all the most celebrated manuonly one or two marine engines of British facturers. Thence, returning, they proceeded manufacture in the Exhibition, and these by to the eastern end of the nave, and, crossing no means remarkable for their merit in design. to the south side, passed in front of the PrusOn the other hand, the great want of taste so sian, Austrian, Belgian, and other foreign depainfully visible in Hyde Park, in 1851, in all partments, the more showy and elaborate prothose departments of manufacture where beauty ductions of which divided their attention with of form and color are essential, has evidently the trophies along the centre. Arrived at the attracted great attention during the interval English space they entered the court of Messrs. which has since elapsed. Strenuous efforts Elkington, and were for some time occuhave been made to redeem these defects, and pied in admiring the splendid examples of with corresponding success. In our furniture, electroplating in different metals with which our pottery, our carpets, and in textile fabrics this court is furnished; thence their progress generally this is very conspicuous; nor can was directed to the collection of pottery, to any one go carefully through the British de- Minton's unrivalled display, and to those of partment of the Paris Exhibition without be- Daniel Rose, Wedgewood, Copeland, and ing strongly impressed by the progress thus other exhibitors. This may not be quite the made. Nearly all those monstrosities which strongest feature of the British section, but disfigured the British display of 1851 have dis- for extraordinary and varied excellence it appeared, and instead we find the best materi- ranks with any other, and our neighbors are als admirably wrought up into shapes nearly never tired of praising it. Having completed always unobjectionable, and sometimes highly their survey at this point, the Emperor and artistic and refined. Thus it would appear his guests, with their retinue of commissioners that the tendency of these great illustrations and jurors, again betook themselves to the of industry is to diffuse productive excellence nave, doubling its western extremity, and exover the widest possible field, to enable each nation to bring up its manufactures to the highest known standard of excellence, and to make the progress of industry and of genius instructively available to all.

The Queen and Prince Albert took so active a part in the Exhibition of 1851, that it

amining with delighted curiosity the exquisite productions which here embellish it. Arrived at the point whence they had started, they now crossed over to the south side, and enter ed the series of outer courts which surrounded the Pavillon de Panorama, and which are filled with an immense and splendid display of

French manufactures. Here the show of in candor be admitted that he has been disfurniture and of musical instruments appeared tanced. His consolation will be that he has chiefly to attract their attention, but they also approached so near to so great and overwhelmseemed much interested by the buffet for the ing a rival. He has also the commercial view supply of refreshments, and a series of beau- of the question entirely on his side, for his tiful designs was not passed unnoticed. When prices do not take even his most expensive the examination of the outer courts had been works out of the market, a great consideration completed, the Emperor and his guests passed to be borne in mind, and which must be his into the magnificent Pavillon de Panorama, encouragement to persevere in a path of imwith its unrivalled collection from the great provement and enterprise honorable not only national establishments of Sévres, Gobelin, to himself but to the industry of his country. and Beauvais, its carpets, hangings, and tapes- When the survey of the pavilion had been try from the looms of Aubusson-its gold and completed, Her Majesty rested for some time, silver work, the masterpieces of the most skil- and partook of refreshments brought from the ful Parisian workmen, and, above all, the buffet. The illustrious party now proceeded Crown jewels of France, placed in the very to the Annexe, the greater portion of which centre of the pavilion, and having the Imperial they traversed, examining attentively the diadem, surmounted by the Regent Diamond splendid display of machinery and raw proas their culminating point. There was no duce with which it is filled. Their special nopart of the Exhibition of 1851, there is notice was directed to several objects in this part of the present display, nor have we ever course of their progress by the Prince Naposeen anything the splendor of which at all ap-leon, but otherwise it was impossible to linger proaches that accumulated in this apartment. much over the many valuable and important It is certainly calculated to give every foreign- features of this portion of the Exhibition.__It er a magnificent idea of the encouragement must have been with extreme regret that Her which it is the system of the French Govern- Majesty and Prince Albert passed through the ment to extend to the highest and most diffi- Canadian collection without being able to look cult branches of manufactures. We do not more closely into it. Had Her Majesty's time say, nor do we believe, that the results produc- and strength, exhausted by so long a promeed are an aquivalent for the expense incurred. nade, permitted her to do so, she could scarceIt seems to us an unsound and dangerous pol- ly fail to have been gratified by its contents. icy in the State thus to interfere with the na- Throughout the huge mass of objects which tural development and tendencies of certain the Paris Exhibition contains there is not a branches of industry; but apart from such single display so practical, complete, and considerations, it is impossible to speak too strictly industrial in its character as that constrongly in praise of the exquisite taste and tributed by the Government of our North refined execution which the majority of the America possessions. It completely distances objects in the pavilion exhibit. Here Her Majesty and the Prince had submitted to their inspection the new and interesting metal, aluminum, both in bars and made into spoons, forks, tankards, and other articles of domestic use. The lightness, elasticity and ductility of this substance are very remarkable, and confident hopes are entertained that it may be produced at a rate and applied to uses upon On leaving the Palace the Emperor and his which to found results important to industry. guests proceeded to the Tuileries, where they The Queen examined for a long time and with had luncheon. At half-past 4 o'clock they rethe liveliest curiosity the Imperial crown and turned to St. Cloud, where at 8 a grand banquet the immense number of splendid jewels by was given. The festivities of the day termiwhich it is surrounded. The former is of ex-nate by a theatrical performance, for which quisite design and workmanship-a diadem in the artistes of the Gymnase are engaged, the the true sense of the word, and surmounted play being Le Fils de Famille. at the apex by the Regent Diamond, which, though somewhat smaller, seems to be a far more brilliant stone than its rival, the Koh-inoor. Her Majesty and the Prince spent a considerable time also in examining the manufactures of Sèvres, which, in splendor, far PARIS, Friday Morning. surpass all past efforts of that establishment, On Wednesday afternoon, after their lengthand leave France in undoubted possession of ened survey of the Exhibition, the Queen the supremacy in the practice of the ceramic and Prince Albert, accompanied only by the art. Wonderful as Minton's pottery is, it must | Royal children, went incognito in a hired car

the collection forwarded from the United States, and bears within it most convincing evidences of the resources and the productive energy of these self-governed dependencies of the Crown. The details of this Exhibition it is impossible for us to dilate upon now, but they are full of interest, and will amply repay all who study them.

In the course of the afternoon his Royal Highness Prince Albert paid a visit to Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, who is staying at Meurice's Hotel.

riage to the Jardin des Plantes. This has al- quenlty to examine the splendid design and ways been considered one of the principal exquisite effects of color in many of these prosights of Paris, and the illustrious strangers ductions. It was his intention here to have were much gratified by all that they saw there. witnessed several experiments illustrative of The programme of yesterday's movements in- recent discoveries in chymistry, which possess cluded a lengthened visit paid by Prince Al- high scientific interest, and may lead to imbert to the Palais d'Industrie, and which lasted portant practical results; but Dumas, who was from half-past 10 o'clock till half-past 1; lunch to have conducted the experiments, was unat the Tuileries, followed by the Emperor and fortunately absent, and, in consequence, they his guests going through the picture galleries were not shown. One is a new mechanical of the Louvre; dinner en famille at the Tui- pump for creating a more perfect vacuum leries, and at 9 o'clock a grand ball at the than has ever hitherto been produced, and Hotel de Ville. among the effects obtained from it is the solidifying of liquid laughing gas by evaporation.

The Prince was accompanied through the Exhibition by Prince Napoleon and many of the commissioners and jurors. His inspection Another is a beautiful chymical process for appeared to be guided by no particular plan, extracting the plumbago from Ceylon blackand to be for the purpose of making purchases lead in such a state as to be at once fit for on his own behalf and that of Her Majesty, as compression into lead pencils. There was well as to gratify his curiosity. It may be found also exhibited here the new and beautiful interesting to mark some at least of the dye, alizarine, obtained from the extract of objects which chiefly attracted his attention, for madder, and yielding a series of madder lacs, even in the disconnected form due to their asso- remarkable for the purity of their colors. ciation with such a visit they may help to Our most eminent scientific authorities concur awaken in the minds of the English people in stating that so wonderful a collection of nosome approach to a proper appreciation of the velties in chymistry has never previously been Paris Exhibition, of its extraordinary value as seen together, and they were much disapan industrial display, and of the importance pointed that his Royal Highness was unable to that all who can spare the time and money witness the proposed experiments, and to reshould cross the Channel to examine it. His ceive the explanations of M. Dumas. While Royal Highness began with the ground floor, in the north gallery the Prince visited the on the north side of the Palace, which is ap beautiful suite of apartments fitted up there propriated exclusively to French manufac- by M. Cruchet for the Empress. He also tures. This he went through from end to end paid marked attention to the stalls filled with with great care, stopping for a long time be-jewellery,the enamels, the imitations of precious fore the furniture of Barbedienne Tahan; the jewellery and precious metal cases of Froment-Meurice, Rudolphi, Lebrun, Callot, Marrel, and other eminent makers. The display in zinc of the Vieille Montagne Company, Boy, and Miroy also attracted his marked attention; nor is it surprising that it should, when one considers the extraordinary improvements which are visible in this branch of production since 1851. In that portion of the building the porcelain turned out by the private establishments of France is displayed; and the contrast which it suggests with our makers on the one hand, and the ceramic triumphs of Sèvres on the other, is sufficiently striking. Ascending the staircase at the east end of the Palais the Prince took particular notice of Foucault's remarkable pendulum experiment, showing the diurnal rotation of the earth, which is exhibited there. By the action of an electro magnet, which has a voltaic battery underneath it, a fresh impulse is given to the pendulum at very oscillation, without manufacturers, whatever want of enterprise causing any divergence, and thus the accuracy of the apparatus is said to be increased to a degree which enables it to mark the flight of time like a clock. The great display of textile fabrics from Lyons was next passed in review, and his Royal Highness paused fre

stones, and other articles of personal ornament which overlook the nave on that side of the building, and which afford so curious an insight into the manufacturing tastes of the Parisians. Descending to the ground floor and entering the Courts which surround the Pavillon de Panorama, the collections of furniture and arms displayed there were carefully examined. In the former department of industry our neighbors greatly outshone us in 1851, but our best London makers have greatly improved since then, and the result is that we now hold a much more satisfactory position. Messrs. Jackson and Graham, of Oxford-street, have especially distinguished themselves by at least one work, a cabinet in the French style, superior to anything of the kind in the Exhibition. In arms there is a small but brilliant and beautifully arranged display, the effect of which is considerably increased by the care which the gunmakers of France pay to external ornamentation. Our

they may have shown, at least concentrate their attention upon essential points of finish, and when they have learnt to consult the mechanical engineers a little more than hitherto will astonish the world by the effectiveness of the weapons they will turn out. As an illus

design.

tration of this it may be mentioned that Mr. | thing to be learned. Over the Indian collec19 Westley Richards has already found the shoot- tion, which surpasses considerably in value and ing of the Minié rifle improved from 50 to instructiveness that of Hyde-park, his Royal 100 per cent. by the use of Whitworth's dif- Highness was conducted by Captain Shepherd, ference gauges in perfecting the bore and the the deputy-chairman of the Court of Direc size of the ball used. After satisfying his cu- tors, and by Dr. Royle. This department riosity as to the French contributions in the excited the unbounded admiration of the neighborhood of the Pavillon de Panorama, French, who are always assembled there in the Prince returned to the Palais d'Industrie great numbers, and whose predilections for and proceeded to examine the English display. ornamental production make them confess He could not have failed to observe with re- that they can study in no finer school. How gret how inadequately some of our great ma- curious it is that with all our efforts after the nufacturing towns - Birmingham, Wolver- beautiful as applied to industry, the poor hampton, and Bradford especially presented, and he must have remarked the skill through a descending experience of are re- Hindoo artist, who traces his unprogressive fine shows made by Manchester, Glasgow, many centuries, should still be our master in Sheffield, Leeds, Nottingham, Dundee, and other centres of industry. The different spirit which has actuated different com- gold and silver work, the Prince seemed most Among the English display of jewellery and munities in exhibiting may be due in some struck by the stalls of Hunt and Roskell and degree to the operation of the protective sys- of Hancock. The former show a magnificent tem in France, but other causes have been at shield, a noble effort of repousse work, and work also causes which are to be much re- intended to portray the contest between Jupigretted considering the extension and im- ter and the Titans. The latter exhibits in his portance which the Paris Exhibition has as- case, among several other objects of interest, sumed, and the attention which, though long- Mr. Hope's celebrated blue diamond and Miss deferred, it is certain to excite among the in- Burdett Coutts's magnificent set of sapphires. dustrial classes of all civilized nations. After Mr. Hancock also shows a fine oxidized silthe Prince had completed his survey of British ver cup, representing the interview between manufactures on the ground floor he ascended Henry VIII. and Francis I., designed and to the gallery, and there his attention was im- modelled by Armstead, a young English artmediately riveted by the wonderful collection ist of rising merit. The jewels in his case, of minerals, of agricultural produce, and of including the emerald and collar of the young rising industries sent from our Australian pos- Maharajah Duleep Sing, are valued at the sessions. It is impossible to speak too highly enormous sum of £250,000. In his progress of these, or to exaggerate the interest which along the English gallery the Prince's attenattaches to them. French visitors to the Palais d'Industrie do jects, but it is impossible at present to do Curiously enough, the tion was arrested by a large number of obnot appear to bestow the notice which would more than allude to some of the more conspicertainly have been excited in England on cuous. Among these may be mentioned the the golden treasures of Victoria, but probably excellent dressing-cases by Mechi and Leuchthis arises from the out-of-the-way place allot- ars, the admirable show of fancy stationery ted to them, for one can hardly bring himself by Delarue and Co., the display of Irish popto believe that the universal passion for the lins and lace, the cromolithographic and the most precious and beautiful of all metals is photographic exhibitions, in which we surpass less strongly felt here than elsewhere. There all other countries, and the new ordnance surare nuggets here big enough to make every-vey of Scotland, which it is whispered about body who sees them wish himself a digger, has been recommended for a gold medal by but the mineral wealth of these remote Eng- the jury to whose class it belongs. From the lish possessions does not appear to have with- English department the Prince worked steaddrawn the minds of the colonists from seek-ily through those of other foreign countries, ing fortune in those channels of labor most taking their gallery space first, and then exfamiliar to the experience of the world, and amining their ground-floor space. He saw the visitor hangs with undivided interest over enough to enable him to estimate their the first steps of such young communities in ral character, but some of their most striking developing for themselves all the leading ra- and important specialties escaped his observagenemifications of industry. From the Australian tion. For example, Gintel's, of Vienna, disexhibition the Prince passed to look at those covery, by which two messages can be sent at of Tunis and Turkey, Greece, Persia, and the the same moment in opposite directions along Italian States. These upon the whole are not one telegraphic wire; the perfect calculating so characteristic or distinctive as they were machine, so long sought for, and which stereo1851, but they are, nevertheless, well worthy types its results, exhibited from Sweden; the of a visit, and from all of them there is some-beautiful and admirably-working composing

and distributing machine, produced by a Dane. were they with the highly explosive and comA few realized results like these soon com- bustible materials developed by what they pensate for the cost of international Exhibi- consider to be diplomatic superciliousness. tions. Yet there are many equally valuable How the matter will end it is impossible to distributed all over this mighty collection, tell, but the exasperation deserves to be rewhich even the experienced eyes of jurors corded. If carried much further some of our slowly pick out from the mass, and of which most eminent men in science and the arts therefore Royalty, with the best intentions, will be bursting like so many Disney shells, cannot be expected to take notice. The and it will be positively dangerous to go to Prince was accompanied in his survey of the Galignani's or the courtyard of Meurice's. exhibition yesterday by M. Fould, whose Barring disappointment, the ball last night at strong resemblance to Mr. Cobden struck the Hotel de Ville was certainly one of the several of the Englishmen in the procession. most magnificent entertainments ever given Mr. Dilke, who so ably performed his duty as by the inhabitants of a capital to a Sovereign one of the executive committee of 1851, was in friendly alliance with its ruler. The extealso present; and here it may be mentioned rior was profusely and most tastefully decothat the exclusion of that gentleman from any rated with flags, and illuminated by a row of share in the management of the British col- gas jets running along the entire façade. Imlection here has excited general surprise and mense pyramids of colored lamps were also regret. That distinguished officer, Colonel Gordon, R. A., who has arrived in Paris, on his way home from the Crimea, was in the building yesterday during the Prince's visit.

placed around the entrance. The company began to assemble at the doors before 8 o'clock. At half-past 9 the Imperial and Royal cortège arrived. The Emperor, giving his arm to the The Royal party went through the picture Queen, led her into the court of Louis Quagalleries of the Louvre in strict privacy, and torze, which had been enclosed by a temporapublic curiosity, deprived of the opportunity ry roof, and converted into a vast vestibule. of gratifying its promptings there, concentrat- An immense chandelier hung from the roof, ed itself with extraordinary eagerness upon the windows looking into the courtyard were the evening festivities at the Hotel de Ville. draped with red curtains and illuminated by All Paris was not only anxious, but madden- numerous small chandeliers, and beneath a ed to go, and not only all Paris, but every-grand double staircase ran a cascade of clear body of importance from the provinces or water which gave a delightful freshness to the from foreign countries now sojourning in the air. The floor of the court was richly carpetcapital. How small is the proportion of that ed, and a profusion of rare exotics was placed mighty aggregate likely to measure their dig- upon the staircase. The marble pillars of the nity by our modest scale on such an occasion court were newly polished, and the capitals one may readily conceive, but one thing was picked out with white and gold. Her Majes quite certain, large as the accommodation ty, leaning upon the Emperor's arm, ascended of the Hotel de Ville is, it has its limits, and the grand staircase, followed by Prince Albeyond these the city of Paris would not be bert, who conducted the Princess Mathilde. justified in going with their invitations. It Prince Napoleon and Prince Adalbert of Bawas requisite" to draw the line somewhere," varia were also of the Royal party. The Royand the consequence was that many who either al visitors passed into the Hall of the Carywere or believed themselves entitled to be atides, where fauteuils were placed, and where present never received their cards. Among the Ministers of State and their families passthem, from some unexplained cause, which ed before their Majesties. From this beautiwill probably increase very much the feelings ful hall the illustrious party proceeded into of irritation with which they regard their the grand salle de danse, which presented a treatment by the ambassador, were a large scene of dazzling magnificence. Here chairs number of the British jurors-men whose po- of State were placed under a crimson velvet sition at the head of great branches of indus- canopy, surmounted by an Imperial crown, try and whose claims in connection with the the walls of the salle being covered with white Exhibition beyond all question entitled them satin embroidered with gold. Her Majesty to be asked. Even Lord Cowley may find opened the ball with the Emperor, Prince AIthat he has acted unwisely in establishing a bert giving his hand to the Princess Mathilde, law of wounded dignity among such a body. and the remaining dancers in the quadrille They had hardly recovered from his neglect being Prince Napoleon, Lady Cowley, Prince of them in the presence-chamber of the Em- Adalbert and Mademoiselle Hausmann, grandperor the other day, when this fresh cause of daughter of the Prefect of the Seine. After annoyance has broken forth, and in some way the quadrille some Arab chiefs were presentor other they are pretty certain to find their ed, whose picturesque bournous, cool white revenge. Last night it was rather a serious robes, black beards, and piercing dark eyes affair to encounter any of them, so charged excited a lively degree of interest among the