EXPOSITIOI^ OF 1867. 
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The weight of objects exhibited can not be less than 56,000 tons. The com¬ 
munication established between the Palace and the continent have barely 
been able to provide the means for carrying and delivering with care and 
necessary despatch this enormous amount of material, arrived for the most 
part during the last days of the month of March. 
The motive power intsalled for putting in motion the machinery repre¬ 
sents more than a thousand nominal horsepower. The hydraulic service is 
established upon the basis of a distribution of water sufficient to meet abun¬ 
dantly the wants of a city of a hundred thousand souls. 
“ Notwithstanding the gigantic labors which such necessities have re¬ 
quired, the work was found ready at the appointed time. But success, has it 
not crowned the enterprise ? and those united efforts, have they not merited 
the two-fold and precious rewards that have been accorded them—the ap¬ 
probation of Your Majesty, and the cordial approval of public opinion. Judge¬ 
ment is to-day pronounced. The whole world has been struck with the con¬ 
ception of the general plan and facilities it offers for comparison and study. 
Every one approves that law of unity which brings together, in the Champ 
de Mars, the works of art, of industry", of agriculture and horticulture, here¬ 
tofore presented in different places, but which here present in the same en¬ 
closure all the manifestations of human activity. * * * 
“ Thanks to an activity that has overcome all fatigues and embarrassments, 
the decisions required bf the Jury by the 1st of July have all been rendered 
and the result can be proclaimed to-day before Your Majesty. 
“The Jury has awarded to exhibitors: 
64 Grand Prizes, , 
883 Gold Medals, 
3,653 Silver Medals, 
6,565 Bronze Medals, 
5,801 Honorable Mentions. 
“Notwithstanding the great number of recompenses, the Jury has been 
compelled to limit its choice, and to leave without mention, even, many inte¬ 
resting exhibitions, distinguished deserts, and industrial efforts worthy of the 
most serious encouragement. 
“ The Jury of the New Order of Recompenses have performed their duty 
none the less worthily, complicated as that duty has been, since it was not 
required of them to examine industrial products, but to analyze and com¬ 
pare social facts. It has accorded twelve prizes, twenty honorable mentions, 
and four citations 
“This solemnity finds its climax in certain higher recompenses still. Your 
Majesty has deigned to confer on the most eminent competitors in this pa¬ 
cific contest, his Order Imperial of the Legion of Honor. The Imperial Com¬ 
mission lay at the feet of the Throne its most humble thanks for such evi¬ 
dences of an august sympathy. -k- *****■}{■# 
“Thus the Universal Exposition reveals new industrial results and inven¬ 
tions which, without it, would have remained impotent or unknown ; places 
before the world the law of the division of labor as fruitful among nations 
as among individuals; gives a shining consecration to those principles of 
commercial freedom fearlessly inaugurated in France by Your Majesty; mul¬ 
tiplies economical relations among the people and marks for a date near at 
hand the fruitful solution of the problem of the unification of weights and 
measures and of monies. 
“The International Exposition produces fruits yet more important: it dis¬ 
sipates inveterate prejudices, overturns long-established enmities and causes 
sentiments of reciprocal esteem to spring up in their stead. The people 
drawn hither by this extraordinary spectacle in this splendid capital, vainly 
seek the traces of past revolutions and find everywhere that grandeur and 
that prosperity which produce the security of the present and just confidence in 
the future. Princes and sovereigns, attracted by a noble hospitalit}’-, come 
one after another, to exchange in this temple of civilization their friendly 
words which open calm horizons to all human activities and establish the 
pqace of the world. 
26 Ag. Trans. 
