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THE PARIS EXHIBITION, 1867. 
[Nature and Art, February 1, 1867. 
Galloway & Son, of Manchester, for the supply of 
steam to the engines which are to drive the 
machinery in the British department. This will be 
the largest boiler-house in the grounds ; and the 
design for it is derived from a Mohammedan 
temple. The Emperor of the French sets up his 
standard over a Turkish Kiosk, and Great Britain 
places her steam boilers in the mosque of Syeed 
Oosman ! What is the mixture of half-a-dozen styles 
in a model church after this % 
Not far from these Imperial tents, over which the 
standards of France and England will float as 
bravely as did those of Francis and Henry on the 
Field of the Cloth of Gold four centuries ago, 
stands a building, presenting a further contrast ; it 
is an odd-looking structure, and is to be occupied 
as a Swiss refreshment-room, the attendants to be 
dressed in their national costume. The Swedish 
Commission will have a smaller establishment in 
their quarter of the park. 
This portion of the ground is crowded with 
buildings ; there are three jfliotographic establish- 
ments all of considerable extent, and one very 
large ; the International Club-house will be ready 
in a few weeks to receive its subscribers ; and the 
theatre, after two reverses of fortune — theatres are 
Avell accustomed, however, to ups and downs, — has 
its outer walls nearly completed. 
The buildings of the Egyptian and Tunisian 
Commissions make a great feature in the grounds ; 
the former have already been described in Nature 
and Art, and the latter must wait another oppor- 
tunity. Russia has conceived a happy idea and is 
carrying it out on a grand scale and with re- 
markable skill ; three buildings are being erected 
in a group, two of these are dwelling-houses, and 
the third and the largest a model stable, all con- 
structed of round timber, prepared in Russia, and 
put together like a puzzle by Russian workmen, 
who themselves are picturesque objects, with their 
red guernseys, woolly waistcoats, showing the lower 
part of a shirt or tunic of striped stuff beneath, 
knickerbockers, and round fur caps. The stractures, 
besides exhibiting the style which has been used 
for centuries down to the present time, show the 
peculiar arrangement of Russian dwellings and 
establishments. The ground-floor of the house is 
devoted to the housing of cattle during the winter 
months, the door is just large enough to admit the 
beasts, the windows are small and square, and the 
apartment low, having more the appearance of a 
cabin in the stern of a ship, with three lights at 
one end, than anything else ; the room above the 
cattle layer is the general living-room of the peasant 
farmer and his family. In one part of the latter 
will be erected a great stove to illustrate the 
Russian mode of heating their houses, and in 
another will be the rousse corner, the little chapel, 
or place of the household gods. The stable is a 
building two hundred and fifty feet long, and aboitt 
twenty-four feet wide, and will contain ten horses, 
types of the various breeds of Russia, and fourteen 
choice animals of different origin. The arrangement 
of the stalls, so that the animals may show their 
sides, instead of their tails, to the public, those for 
ventilation and for the complete surveillance of the 
whole of the stable by the men who sleep, like the 
palefreniers of the great Paris omnibus establish- 
ments, in niches six or eight feet from the ground, 
will be examined with great interest by English 
visitors. The decoration of the buildings is also 
interesting, the false roof of the stable and other 
parts are carved and pierced in the peculiar semi- 
oriental style in vogue in Russia, and the gables of 
the houses are decorated in like manner. The 
method of construction, for which the axe alone is 
used, and the system of corking and stopping the 
seams, deserve the serioirs attention of colonists 
and emigrants. The exhibition of the malachite 
products of the Imperial factories gave great 
interest to the Russian department in the Exhi- 
bition of 1851 ; but the admirable illustrations to 
which we have referred of the buildings and habits 
of the Russian people should, and doubtless will, 
attract at least as much attention. 
The Swedish Commission is also erecting similar 
model buildings illustrative of the architecture, 
mode of construction and habits of the country, in 
times past as well as in the present day, including 
a complete reproduction of the house occupied by 
Gustavus Vasa, at Ornacs, in Dalecarlia, with all 
the furniture, some of which is authentic. But the 
Swedish portion of the 'pare will demand further 
notice, at a future period, when the works are more 
advanced. A small steamer, model of those used 
on the Swedish lakes, brought to Havre by the 
frigate Oroedd , is now on its way up the Seine to 
Paris. But it is dangerous to touch on what is 
expected, while every day brings some new object 
of interest bodily before the visitor to the Champ 
de Mars. 
Before quitting the limits of the Exhibition, it 
is but fair to say a few words on the admirable 
arrangements made by the Imperial Commission 
for the convenience of visitors, whether they arrive 
by road, rail, or river. First, for those who arrive 
in carriages, a long covered way is now being con- 
structed at the outer edge of one side of the park, 
beneath which half a dozen vehicles may set down 
their occupants at the same moment, and from this 
three other passages lead to side doors of the 
building ; those avIio arrive by rail Avill simply haA r e 
to cross a road, over which a roof is to be thrown, 
and make their way into the building by means of 
a long promenoir , or covered passage for pedestrians, 
which skirts the grounds and ends in a large vesti- 
bule at • one of the principal side entrances of the 
building; lastly, for those avIio are borne on the 
bosom of the flowing Seine, a spacious landing- 
place is being constructed, from Avhich visitors may 
either ascend to the quay and there enter Exhi- 
bition Park by the front gate, or they may pass 
directly into the grounds by a gate beneath the 
pretty steel bridge lately throw® across the quay.* 
* On the quay, or rather over the strip of land at the side 
of the river, two very large building’s have been erected : 
these are to be used as restaurants, and one of them, it is 
said, is to be managed by English caterers. 
