THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF 1867.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 1945, 14 March 1867, Page 2

THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF 1 867.

(From the Paris Correspondent ofths Dml Occasionally it would seem exhibition ne» travels as slowly as Kitty Vance, the oM woman who walked from Penzance and bar* to see the Exhibition of 1851, and has ?r. repeated the feat of fifteen years ago to.!! her daughter. The old lady may die of fall from a cherry tree yet, albeit she lia 3 , Jf eighty-eight years. Messrs Spiers and Pond, and the refresb ment contractors of the Crystal Palace wh have undertaken to represent British refreih ment in the Exhibition next year, will ftto be hoped, bear '-Mugby junction" ;',! mind. Foreigners have no very decided taste for dry sandwiches or hard pork pies nor will they take kindly to captain's biscuit!' They will make but the feeblest attempt to carry a barricade of buns, whether Bath o plain. I will beseech the representatives of British refreshment to read what M Jules Lecomte wrote of our English re! freshment stalls in Hyde Park, in \u. It has been arranged that a restaurant shall be opened in the Exhibition on New Year's Day, and remain open, for the use of exhi. bitors and their assistants. Seeing the dig" tance that lies between the Pont d'Jena and * any good refreshment places, this co n . venience must be accepted as a moat welcome one. Along the eastern boundary of the Exhibition grounds a line of wine and beer shops and little hotels is drawn up, ready to catch the humble visitor. These speculators have made a brave expenditure of decoration paint, and varnish, and have adopted liieh-' sounding signs. One little restaurant jj called L'Union des Peuples. But this j sno nt t all. Against its front are placed two large oil-paintings, well drawn, I may add, and effectively coloured, The first painting represents the fraternal meeting of a swarthy Arab, a dark Brazilian, and a yellow China, man. Perhaps the second picture is the more striking of the two. The central figure is a Frenchman carefully On his right is a red-headed Highlander, and on his left is a coalblack negro. France, in Sunday best is joining the hands of the negro and the Scotchman. To our honour be it said that the Scot appears to have much more fraternal alacrity than the negro. There is a hesitating, condescending manner about darkie Close by the great jury-house is another wine-shap or little cafe, dedicated in big letters aux Peuples reunis. It is not far from a shady - looking Anglo - French " English tavern," with a notice painted upon the walls that a sandwich and a glass of ale can be bad within. By the English tavern the buUdera are at work raising a grand cafe. Most of the caterers along this line appear to hare put their faith in the bibulous capacity o£ John Bull. ,( Old Tom " rears his fiery head in many windows, and whisky is to be had and Allsopp's hand beckons to his countrymen. Some of the labelled bottles shewed a lame hand at plagiarism. On more than one that to the superficial observer was British ink and paper, the practised eye could detect the legal word Depose. There is to be a vast restaurant for visitors 1 of the working class, where good solid food a to be sold at the lowest possible price. This establishment should afford the food economists of various countries an opportunity of testing plans of economic cookery, and of bringing forward the new varieties of cheap food. I believe that the concession for this establishment i 3 still in the market, Within the building the work of installation still progresses at a rapid rate, more especially in the French department. Some of the picture galleries are completed. Those on the straight line of the building are noble, weil-lighted rooms. Alas 1 we are on the bend, and the consequence is, or the consequence that appears to threaten is, that our pictures will be exhibited under a disadvantageous lire of cross lights. I have already remarked on the forward state of the Chinese, Japanese, and Siamese departments. The forward state of China in the Exhibition seems to be due to the energy of a Frenchman. As nothing was promised by the Celestials, and as Chinese industry is always attractive, a French speculator offered to take upon himself the risk of getting up the Chinese department of the world's industry. He is said to have undertaken to spend forty thousand poundsin manufactures, &c, to be conveyed direct from the Chinese empire. As a return for his energy and courage the Imperial Commissioners have given him the right of selling the objects which he exhibits. Rumour says that this gentleman will be also permitted to opens Chinese refreshment department. We may possibly hear before long of the dog-fancier who is to be his butcher. It is, then, thii gentleman who is pushing forward the Chinese installations with a vigour that contrasts strikingly with the quiet that reigns in the British and German departments. I should not wonder if Sweden were to k ready for the opening day before any other nation. In my last! informed you of the arrival of her goods at Havre, and now I have to announce that M. Gustave de Fahnehjelm, chamberlain to the King of Sweden, has been appointed commissioner to this Exhibition, and has already entered upon his duties. The Moniteur contains a list of the name! of the forty-nine exhibitors who are ad-

mitted to exhibit under class 42 (products of fishing and hunting). 288 square metres of space are allotted to them, which will 1* occupied on a plan laid down by their committee, and accepted by the Imperial Coalmission. M. Petit, it should he understood, and particularly by exhibitors, is not the only pbotographer who enjoys rights within the Ejhioition boundary. M. Leon and J. Lc'Ji the successors of the well-known Ferrier ana Sons, whose stereoscopic Swiss and other series are in so many hnglish homes, haw obtained the exclusive right of taking stereoscopic photographs, and they are already installing themselves with M. Petit in the photographic building, which is built in the northeast of the park. M. Viot and Co., the great onyx worto will exhibit some fine art-workmanship« their costly material. Among other objects they have a clock supported by two female figures, in which bronze and onyx are combined with the happiest effect, the flesh bcinff of bronze, and the drapery of marble. IM price of this clock, with its attendant candelabra, is three thousand pound?, and tn» is only one of many articles that will be sent by M. Viot and Co. to the Exhibition. Photo-sculpture is becoming the rage' Paris. People are no longer satisfied with carte-de-visite for their album. Before l? 6/ shall have come to an end people will b , e c .°" lecting sculpture-galleries of their frienas. "I must beg the favour of P® statue for my collection" will be an nary request in polite society. Upposu the Hue Scribe, on the Boulevards, a tssi. fantastic establishment has just been opene« by Willeme and Co. for carrying out this M* development of photographic art indust j» and on the line from the principal entrap to the Exhibition the same firm have ahw built the roomy premises that are necessary to the production of a plaster or mat" statue of photography. Where is this to ena' The statuettes can of course, be matne" 181 , cally enlarged. What say the sculptor • Will heroes in the bud blossom into sculptured statues in "the good time con ing?" In a few days, I am told, ag«» photo-sculptured statue will stand opF sl the Kua Scribe. . -j. The entrance to the Exhibition, *» ' will directly communicate with the Fnutwu« Saint Germain, will be adorned with »w fine aluminium statues, by MM. "If 1 .,... the Boulevard Sebastopol. In the E* llD1 "" the same firm will exhibit some teleswp wrought in alutniuium-as light almos .* Nt roll of paper. Among other P 10 '"" French exhibitors wjiose names the. t/ 1 " the public will remember are MM- « «m famous wood-carvers. Next year they . be seen under the Swiss as well as the M * Hag. In the Swiss department they . 3ccupy thirty-six square metres, with a dm room, all furnished with Swiss.carvmg 3 i

TvmcU part they.will be exhibitors of V ood,carTi ng forarticM ?L* ™& hsi »■&»« been one. ,6 ;lhe> JJJSirf the Boulevard dea ItaHena.