400 PAEIS UNINEKSAL 
from the girders that supported the over-arching roof of 
crystal. 
Such, simply described, was the place destined to become 
the scene of a royal pageant and ceremonial, whose brilliancy 
has had no parallel in history. 
The day was beautiful, and the people, multitudes of whom 
thronged the great avenue to witness the coming and going of 
the Emperor and his royal guests, were equally in harmony with 
the occasion. At 2 o’clock, the twenty-two thousand fortunate 
holders of tickets having long been in their places and looking 
with anxious expectancy for the moment of their corning, the 
royal and imperial company, heralded by the thunder of can- 
nan, the clangor of bells, a flourish of trumpets, and the shouts ' 
of more than a hundred thousand voices, entered the vestibule 
of the Palace, where they were received by the Imperial Com- 
mioners, and in due time ushered into the midst of the grand 
arena, greeted by the spontaneous uprising of the vast throng 
within, and by universally enthusiastic shouts of “ Vive I’Em- 
pereur I” Their Imperial and Eoyal Highnesses being seated be¬ 
neath the golden and crimson canopy, and the Inaugural Hymn 
of Peace—the words by Pacini, the music by the illustrious 
Kossini—having been performed by the grand orchestra of 1200 
musicians, Mr. Eouher, Minister of State and Acting Presi¬ 
dent of the ^Imperial Commission, delivered on its behalf the 
formal address to the Emperor, reviewing the labors of those 
who had been officially connected with the Exposition, and pre¬ 
senting in general terms the results of the examinations made 
by the International Juries, with a rapid survey of the advan¬ 
tages that must flow from the Exposition, as a whole. 
The length of the address precludes its incorporation entire 
in this report, and I have accordingly limited my translation 
to the following instructive and highly interesting passages : 
ADDRESS OF MINISTER ROUHER TO THE EMPEROR. 
* * * “ The surface occupied by the Palace and the dependences 
in 1865 was 87 acres ; in 1862 34 acres ; in 186'7, it is more that 108 acres, 
of which the Palace covers more than 32 acres. 
“the exhibitors, of whom the number was 22,000 in 1856, and 28,000 in 
1862, have to-day reached the number of 00,000. 
