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date (rat of his desire to set a* good example by
not appearing ambitious. Either the General
here strangely deceives himself or else be aims
to deceive others. The fact was that he had not
a chance of being elected, his unpopularity having
become excessive and he only withdrew from a
i ? i ,L;.?r -.waited him but defeat,
canvass in winch nothing swsniw
. ,.?? Antonio Guzman, a
Tbe man of the people was Anton*" ^
Liberal, and their suffrages -
The electoral cofleges would J?*^^ ^
least the revxirea roajo ^ esgion of
Paez and hn> P?^ 7 control of the Judi
the Government, ana iiuvj b
ciary, trum,.e>t up against him an accusation of
conspiracy, and got him tried for it. And though
on this trial not a fact was adduced against him
except that two years before he had edited the
Venezc/ano, an anti-Paez paper, he was con?
demned to death, and put in irons in prison to
await the execution oi the sentence.
Having thus got the successful candidate out
of tbe way, these patriots cast about for a man
to have elected in his place. They sought for a
tool who would execute their designs. They
aimed to abolish the liberty of the Press; to put
an end to Universal Suffrage by requiring every
voter to know how to read and write, and to own
a certain amount of property; to organize ail
property owners as the militia, giving Paez, aa
inspector General of that body, the right to call
it under arms independently of tho Executive;
to have political offenses tried by Courts Martial,
and thus to destroy nl! the bulwarks of pop?
ular freedom. They also designed that the sen?
tence of Guzman should be executed, and that
other prominent liberals should be put to death.
Thinking to lind in Monagas a man who would
accomplish these schemes, they managed his elec?
tion, which took place early in the year 1847.
Gen. Monagas arrived at Caracas and entered
upon the duties of his ollicc. He was immediate?
ly surrounded by the members of the Oligarchic
faction, and carefully secluded from other influ?
ences. A Ministry was formed in their interest,
with Seiior Uuintero, a man of talent checlted by
no scruples, at its head. The plans of the party
were at once developed. One of them, Jose M.
jiojns, brought a bill into the Assembly for the
trial of conspirators by Courts Martial, Uuintero,
as Secretary of the Interior, introduced another
into the Senate depriving of the elective franchise
all who could not read and write. He also insist?
ed that the sentence of Guzman should be ful?
filled, ilerrern, another Minister, besought the
President to cause six or seven others, also under
sentence, to be killed, though the President had
determined to commute their punishment. Such
was the eagerness of this Minister to shed
the blood of these unfortunate persons, that he
left his office and followed the President to his
house, to urge him again to consent to their death,
as necessary to the satisfaction of the Oligarchal
party. Paez, at the same tune, strongly urged
on his own appointment as Inspector General of
the Militia, and in tine, Uuintero, Paez. Hcrrera,
Gen. Carreiio, and tho whole party, jointly and
separately, pressed forward the realization of the
designs they had in view iu securing the election
of Monagas.
But they were mistaken in their man and their
mode of treating him. The nature of their impor?
tunities revolted him, ami he became indignant at
the part they wished to force him to play. At
length one day in the Government House, when
the three Ministers were insisting on his pursuing
these measures, he rose from his chair and said to
them: "Gentlemen, what I have determined on
shall be done ; no one shull be executed during
my Administration, and you will be pleased to
rmderstand this fully." Notwithstanding this,
they still continued to hope for the death of Guz?
man and for the execution of their plans generally.
But from the conduct of the President, they at
length became convinced that he would not allow
himself to be made their instrument. Accordingly
they gave in their resignation, one after the other,
though they took < are to hold on us long as possi?
ble. Carreiio was the. lust thus to leave his post; he
left it, as did the others, from the honorable and
humane motive that they could not get Guzman
killed.
Paez and the Oligarchy were furious on finding
decidedly that the President would not enter into
their iniquitous plans, but, on the contrary, would
be a great obstacle in their way. They swore to
exterminate him. In vain did he try to temporize
with them, by substituting for their Uuintero Min?
istry a moderate one, which might even be con?
sidered Oligarchical. In vain did he leave the
friends of Paez the offices they held; in vain was
it that he essayed to remain on good terms with
the latter and the Oligarchy. Paez ami all his
partisans abandoned him because ho would no*
kill Guzman. Paez and all his partisans pretended
to consider him criminal because he refused to be
their tool; and their only thought was how to
bring about his ruiu.
Shortly after this appeared certain journals,
called La Prensa, El Espectador^tXm last edited
by Uuintero himself.I Ac. iu which the Presi?
dent was reviled and calumniated by the same
pens which only a few days before had extolled
nnd lauded him. The greatest odium was stirred
up against him. An accusation of a highly ridic?
ulous nature; seeing the facts on which it was foun?
ded, was devised. Two-thirds of the House of Rep?
resentatives were gained over to agree to admit
this accusation ami to condemn him upon it; ami
JPnez wrote to all his partisans to bo in readiuess
to unite themselves at any given moment. The
central point of the conspiracy was the city of
Maraeay. When any one spoke to either of the
conspirators, suggesting that ii would be better
that the Administration should come to an under?
standing with Paez to avoid the consequences of
the struggle about to take place in Congress, they
were received with disdain, the partisans et Paez
isaying they were certain of coining oil' triuuiph
antly. The President must either be a tool or a
victim?there was [no middle course. When
any of the conspirators were asked for what the
President was to be impeached, the answer was:
"for the death of Charlemagne.''
It was then that the President's eyes were
opened. He saw that his ruin was decreed, and
began to take measures to frustrate the conspira?
cy. He suspended a Governor, named Ustaiiz,
V legal eouses. This official, though an officer of
the Executive power, had made himself the agent
of Paez and of the conspiracy. He suspended an?
other Governor, Izquierdo, who had been ap?
pointed ad interim, and refused to give up his
command. This man (Izquierdo) was another of
the conspirators, ami desired to retain his of?
fice in order to serve Paez. The President also
appointed some officers in the militia in the place
of those who were disposed to favor Pnei:. re?
moved some stores of arms and ammunition, &c.
Such was the state of affairs when Congress
met. This body from the very moment of its
opening proved clearly that it was not the Legis?
lative body of the nation, but the instrument of
Paez. Under the pretext of not being secure tho
Chamber of Representatives determined tochango
the place of its sessions, dismissed the Secretary
""?beii.ga Liberal, and authorized i:s President
to form a guard to protect the body. Iu the night i
of the 83d of January about three hundred armed
men assembled in San Francisco (as the building
in which Congress held its sittintrs wie <-r ',-7
us adoj ted by a
vote of 33 Yeas to 11 Nays, out cf 61 members
11? members absented themselves. These com
prised some at least whom the rhie.s of the con
spiracy had no: been able to bring to vote for th?
President's impeachment, but who were yet wil
because they had been intimn
this in such a case will seem str
jean reader?because they had
jdes apainst favoring or prejudt<
At this crisis the people of
formed of the plans of Paez at
On the vMth the Chambers met, and both went into
secret session. The Session of the Representa?
tives being made public, Doctor Sanavria, tho
Secretary of the Interior, presented himself with
tlie accustomed .Message from the Executive
Power. He was questioned as to the tranquillity
of the city, and the safety of the legislative body;
the replies not being deemed satisfactory, the
Chamber ordered that the other two Secretaries
should be summoned, and that the Minister of the
Interior should remain in the Chamber until the
others came. The object in view was to leave
the President, without any Constitutional organ
Humor soon spread through the city that the Sec.
retary of the Interior had been detained by the
Chamber of Representatives, and as it was uni?
versally believed that the conspirators in the
Chamber were capable of anything, the people
hastened toward San Francisco, armed with what?
ever they could jiick up, and were about to rush
into the building to liberate the Secretary ; they
were opposed by the guards, who were at the
door, and while they were urging reasons for be?
ing allowed to enter, two shots were fired from
tbe edifice, which killed the citizens Riverol and
Maldonado.
This treacherous attack enraged the people, and
from that moment they believed themselves au?
thorized to attack in turn: however, when tie;,
seemed about to enter the building?and under the
first impulse of their fury they might have left no
one living in it,?they paused and contented them
selves with merely tiring from the streets, and on
being called to order, obeyed the voice of the
authorities. Some lew iudiciduals were killed,
but it was either from their own imprudence or
from their contempt of the mass bclbre whose
muskets they presented themselves. The Pres
ident, the very man whom the conspirators had
wished to depose and sacrifice, interposed in per?
son, and with his friends placed himself between
the people and the conspirators. To this many of
the latter owe their lives; and it is this President
whom these very men so atrociously calumniate,
though they even acknowledge what they
owe to his merciful disposition. Had General
Monngas wished the death of any of them,
all be had to do was to point them out to pop
ultir vengeance ; and it is well known that his
worst enemies might then have been sacrificed,
but wore actuaily saved by his friends.
On the 26th the Chambers again assembled, not
as we have reason to believe, because the Sena?
tors and Represent atives were compelled to meet
by force, but because they were convinced that
Congress ought to continue its sittings, in the
first place, to pass a measure of clemency which
should exonerate its own members who had partici?
pated in tbe bootless conspiracy, and to determine
on other measures demanded by tbe actual state of
circumstances. It is true that in a few day6 af?
terward the Sessions were suspended, liecau.se
these very conspirators, believing themselves to
be ulrendy perfectly safe, thought to favor the
cause of Paez, which was their own, by the disso?
lution of the Legislative body- But their project
wns frustrated, and after an interval of some days
the Congress resumed its labors, calling in the
supplementary members in place of those who
b;id abandoned the country. When some of the
latter protested from Curncoa against the violence
which had been employed against them in order
to compel them to assomble on the 25th, they were
contradicted by some o! their own companions,
who stated that they had attended the Chamber
of Representatives freely and spontaneously.?
This was also proved by numbers of other persons
who had seen them go to the Chamber without
any species of compulsion being used toward them.
We say then, that this affair of January ji grew
primarily out of the conspiracy of the Paez party
to overthrow the President whom they could not
make recreant to his duty. The people of Ca?
racas hated that party as much as they had he
come attached to the President, and accordingly
rose in spontaneous opposition to their outrageous
intentions. It is said that Monagas or his friends
stirred them up and set them onto murder the
opposition Members of Congress. Now in the en.
tire melooonly three Representatives were shot
one of them, Senor Salas of Maracaibo, was c.
friend of the President, and had voted steadily in
his favor; he was killed near the outer door; but
had the attack been designed and executed under
the direction of Monagas, he certainly would have
taken care that his adherents should not perish
in it.
The other Representatives killed in the firing
were Garcia ami Argote, a colored barber of Carac.
patty was in the habit of nominating illiterate
men of the laboring class on its ticket in order to
strengthen itself at the ballot box. If this man
were not killed by mere accident, which we have
no doubt was the case, be must have perished
from the indignation tbe people felt toward him
personally, !or having betrayed their cause.
One mi
jpresentative only tell a victim o:i
""i universally regretted,
lichelena. On the tirst
of the windows of tho
and was badiy hurt
uck the ground a party
ol citizens charged down the streets with fixed
bayonets, and one of them wounded hin, ?Hn?-h
this occasion, and hi
We mean Sonor Sai
Representatives'
by the fall. Just
bad
whi
era
V. 111
act of desperate vengeance. Beside, th<
in cjual danger with the others from the
is proved by what happened to Salus a^.i
lena. In the excitement ami exasperatio,
moment the mass of people could not disi
between friends ami foes, and had the li.ii
exposed so many cf his friends to dancer of sncfa
conspiracy against the Government and Constitu?
tion, is found in the declaration of Seiior J. V.
Gonzales, Editor of La Prensa, a representative
and one of the chief plotters. He was taken into
the presence of the President by the friends of
the latter, who had saved him from the fury of
the people. He confessed that the conspiracy
had been planned for many months, in the lirst
place for the purpose of intimidating Monagas
and inducing him to resign the Presidency, and
afterward with the object of carrying out the
threats they had made. He also said that'they
all counted mi the cooperation of Paez, who had
offered by the Government an important mission
to Europe and had declined it. As the epoch ap?
proached for the conspiracy to come to a head, he
asked and obtained leave of absence on the pre?
tense of going to New-Granada- The elements
of the plot all being duly organized, and the sup?
port of Congress being, as the Oligarchists sup?
posed, ensured, he set out in the direction of New
Granada, but evidently with no design ol going
there. The following facts are conclusive on this
point. He left Maraeay on the 3d of January,
1848; ami went to the Plains, in order, as he gave
(jut, to visit a cattle farm of his called San Pablo,
which required Ids personal inspection. 'I iiere he
already had assembled his horses, his guards and
with the most prominent persons in Calabozo, the
Capital of the Plains. With them we have ample
reason to believe he negotiated for aid in the rising
soon to take place against the Government. And
w hy should he take to New-Granada a route h ail
ing through dense forests, and nn uninhabited
country where difficulty and privations of every
sort must be met on the way, when he might have
reached Marncniho by sea in an easy voyage of
three or four days, and thence have gone, without
any inconvenience, to ."fan Jose deCiicuta? It.
would seem as if there were ouly one reason,
namely, the conspiracy. Apparently his purpose
wns to remain in the plains, where he already hud
some preparations made, where he could find
among the inhabitants the most serviceable sol?
diers in Venezuela, and whence he could best
strike an unexpected blow in any direction.
For Eome time l'aez remained at San Pablo,
with a considerable number of followers, waiting
the news that Monagas had fallen so that he might
return in triumph to Caracas. Hut instend ol
this he learned that the plot had signally failed.
Now but one resource remained ; he had con?
spired to overthrow (lie Government through the
Congress ; now he could only hope to overthrow it
by open rebellion. Intrigue and hidden treason had
lost their potency. He at once unfurled the stan?
dard of revolt. His headquarters were at a place
J named El Rastro. He succeeded in inducing the
population of Calabozo, Orituco and other por?
tions of the neighborhoood, where he had parti?
sans, to revolt also,
i At the same time some of the conspirators who
after the 24th January und left Caracas for Mara
caibo, deceived the inhabitants of that city by
false accounts of the events which had taken
j place, and as, unfortunately, Seiior Salas, the re?
presentative of that province had fallen on that
day, they managed to excite the minds of the in?
habitants against the government, to which they
attributed all the evils which had occurred. Ma
racaibo having declared itself, they induced the
provinces of Merida and Truxillo to imitate its
j example.
! They also contrived to cause the rising of some
districts in the province of Cumana. Paez had
presented himself to the Republic as the restorer
of the constitution and the laws, which, he said,
had been destroyed by the President. He employ?
ed even- means, within his own reach or that of his
partisans, to induce the people to follow him, but it
was in vain. He succeeded in dcoeiving only
those portions of the country above indicated,
while nil the remainder rose in one mass to sus?
tain the government and defend the institutions
of the country. And they rose so spontaneously
and with such enthusiasm that had theExeeutive
desired it, it could have placed 50,000 men under
arms.
Paez seeing the inutility of his efforts to unite
sufficient forces in Calaboza, and those of the
government having advanced toward that citv,
withdrew into the province of Apure, with tbe
the W
nigh
the
A.-nu'uatt
it wiii be remembered by those who have paid
attention to these details, that the Paez party for
a iong time held the Castle of San Carlos, in the
Lake of Maracnibo, and that thev besieged the
tow:
strengt
party 1
trance,
few st
steame
13th D
together with the steamer Genera! Jackson, j
then called the Buena Vista, on board which they
took TO prisoners, mostly officers. At the same
time they routed the land forces, which had taken
pt s-scssior. of the small town of San Carlos, and
thirstujessof the President j
assassinate the President. A party of men, in?
stigated by and belonging to the Oligarchical party,
came frr.m Chnguaramas, rode up, favored by the
darkness of the night, to the President's residence,
and attacked the guard, attempting to force their
way into the house, crying " Muera Monagas !"
Fortunately, at the very outset the horse of the
'leader of this party, Belisario, was shot down,
and the confu sion created by this gave the guards
time to rally to the defense of their general. The
assassins were instantly repulsed and took to
flight. On the 22d the towns of Guarenas, Santa
Lucia, Calabozo, with others of minor importance,
took up arms against the Government, imagining
that the President had fallen a victim to this
treacherous plot, and showing clearly that the
whole ad'air had been regularly combined and or?
ganized. Had any one in Venezuela before
doubted the popularity of Monagas, he would at
i'rovmces were also sent to the Government
House.
In the month of July, 18-19, Paez resolved on
again trying his fortune on the soil of Venezuela.
He landed at Coro, where his adherents raised
about 1,200 men, surprised the authorities ami
took the town, and then advanced into the interior
of the country, spreading desolation wherever he
passed. The country people fled at his approach,
till at last they assembled in numbers, arming
themselves as they could, and together with the
militia surrounded him in a place called Campo
Monagas. where, finding his position desperate, ha
surrendered at discretion, throwing himself upon
the clemency of the Government. Paez was tak'
en to Caracas, where the President, with the con?
sent of the Council of Government?the Con?
gress not being then in session?instead of band?
ing him over to tbe reeular tribunals to be tried (
him from its territory. In the meantime addresses
poured in from the provinces urging the Govern?
ment to allow I'aez to be tried by the common
tribunals?not as a conspirator merely, but for tbe
excesses, murders, incendiarisms and rapine al?
leged to have been committed by him and his fol?
lowers during his lust expedition. The President
fearing some outbreak of the people, who, stirred
led into some excess fata! to Paez, had him re?
moved from Caracas to tiie Castle of San Antonio
in Cumana, where he remained until the Congress
bis way to New-York by way o! Philadelphia.
Among the officers who surrendered at Campo
Monagas were many ol those who had been tak?
en at dan Carlos de Zulia, and liberated on their
parole. In most countries such a breach of faith
would have been punished with death.; but Mon
agas, true to tbe principles which he had adopted
on assuming the reins ol Government, merely ex?
iled the most prominent among them. During the
whole of his Presidency there has not been a sin?
gle execution throughout Venezuela for political
Such, briefly told, is the history of this affair,
as we have carefully obtained it from sources on
which we have every reason to place reliance.
There are several points on which we have not
touched, but we have gone through what is most
important in seme detail, not merely for the pur
pose of vindicating our protest against the unde
served honors which the friends of Gen. Paez had
managed to have conferred upon him, and our
but also f
uela,
who
has been abominably and industriously rain
mated in this country and Europe. We belie
that he is every way "superior to the common n
critical struggle, ii
lous minority empli
the permanent cont
they might enjoy
wealth, seems to u:
wise, and, therefore
owes it to him. men
ami
ternal peace maintained, and the way of national
improvement kept open. And while we cherish
no illusions as to the immediate destiny of any
Republic in South America, we are convinced
that the triumph of the Liberal party in Vene?
zuela and the administration of Monagas will
hereafter be generally recognized as highly ai
vantageous to that country.
Gen. Paez concludes his Defense with a very
guarded denial that he is now intriguing with a
view to his return to Venezuela. Wo should
like to believe that he has sincerely submitted to
the severe lesson he has received; but his past
actions forbid it. We have no wish to bring him
more than any other exile residing in this country
inconveniently before the public. But we shall
not be deterred from denouncing any movement
which may seem to us to contemplate the perpet?
uation ofthat anarchy and that exploitation of the
South American people from which Liberty and
Progress have already so severely suffered on
that Continent.
The Opera.
Manager Maretzek has played trumps. Parodi's
Lucrczia on Wednesday evening was another sig.
nal success, and it requires no shrewdness to see
that she will be a great favorite with the audience
at the Opera. We are most sincerely glad at tnis
result, and congratulate the Manager heartily upon
bis good fortune. This we do all the more sincerely,
that, while we trust not to be blind to the real merits
of this artist, we do not accord her that voca. ami
dramatic rank which is awardeu her by many
others. It was certainly a pleasure to see the
bouse,both Monday and Wednesday?even fuller
and more brilliant on Wednesday, the usual seats
not sufficing for tbe audience, for whose accom
modotion chairs had to be placed, filling the pas?
sage ways o! tbe second tier, lbe f
frequent and given with an energy v.
tbe touching of an intimate co d of
and sj mpatby.
wed
in the
elicate
peri
deti
whi
The
ueti
whi
Prima Donna in -/ due boscarx am; ?Marino Fa
Hero"?operas not too hacknied?that she might
continue to oeserve her success.
censure cf the audience, was in better tune than
on Monday, and Signora Patti was encored in "M
Parodi again and Fitz James in "La
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mornim? concert of-Jenny Lind on Wed?
nesday met witt
expressed that i
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overflowing. Fi
the rainbow: lor the sprinkling of men in the
audience scarcely caused dark specks to appear
in the sea of bonnets. The fair songstress sang
from the Messiah, "I know that my Redeemer
livetb," magnificently; and the succeeding one
from the Creation carried the admiration of the
audience to rapturous delights, Belletti did his
part splendidly it was a rich feast of sacred
music, and w.is deeply emoyed bv all wno iieard
Her wonderful powers were perhaps better dis?
played in this song than any other: volumes of
melody, like rich waves, poured from i^r throat,
ami her delicious trilling enchanted ali into ac?
knowledging that such melody never came from
mcrtal lips before. Her unrivaled "Bird Soni\ '
and the " Echo Song." followed, and closed the
entertainment. Just before these were sung.one
of the officials announced that a telegraphic dis?
patch had arrived for a gentleman in the audience;
his name was called, and he was requested to
step to the door. General sympathy was ex
opportunity will be afforded to those who wish
to r.tter.d in the morning. Many dread the crowd
and heat of an evenins concert, and many aged
persons are uuaLe to go out at night; beside
that the number of ladies obii"ed to go alone or
remain at Lome, cannot yet have been exhausted. ,
These should all enjoy a chance ol listening to
ti e peerless Nightingale before she wings her
flight.
The examination of Henry C. Dorsey,
charged with having, sometime during the Win
ter of l-i- ami '-?9, stolen from the oliice of
I errr-'?. A Co N ' 1 Nassau M. Mexican, Bonds
for Bl? 000 took place yesterday morning before
iusti ' Rlagkely and resulted i:: his being com
mittea to'r riscn'fer trial, in de&ull of i-"/,?uO bail,
F'oin rh? I..x*lo.i Vors^ Utttltl
THE CRYSTAL PALACE
Not too icasr wondertui part ol toe Lxiiottioa
which is to be opened next year wul be the edi
tice within which the specimens of the industry
of ail nations are to he collected. Its magnitude,
the celerity with which it is to be constructed*
and the materials of which it is to be eotnnow^
ail combine to insure for it a large share of tbM
attention which the Exhibition is likely toattrto^
and to render its progress a matter ofc;v:>: public
interest. A building designed to cover 75'A.$3S
superficial feet, and to have an exhibiting surface
ol ab?ut 21 acres, to he roofed in and handed over
to the Commissioners within little more then three
months from its commencement, to be constructed
almost entirely (,f glass and iron, the most fragil?
ami^ the strongest of working materials, to CO?
Dine the lightness of a conservatory with tbe sta?
bility ol our most permanent structures?such %
building wth naturally excite much curiosity asto
the mode in which the works connected with it
are conducted, ami the advances which are made
towards its completion.
Enchanted palaces that grow up in a nicht sro
confined to lain land, and in this material world
of ours the labors of the bricklayer and the carpen?
ter nre never ending. It took 300 years to build
St. Peter's at Home, and 30 to complete oar own
St. Paul's. The new palace of Westminster has
already been 15 years in hand, and is still unrin
ished. We run up houses, it is true, quickly
enough in this country, but i; there be a touch of
magic in the time occupied there is none in the ap?
pearance of so much stucco and brickwork as oar
streets exhibit. Something very different from
this is promised for,the great edifice in.Hyde Park.
Not only is it to rise with, extraordinary rapidity,
hut in every other respect is to be suggestive of
"Arabian Nights'" remembrances. In its favor
the window law is to be ignored, and 900,000tra
perlicial feet of class, weighing upward of 100 tuns, ?
nre to be used in its construction. N'ot a stone nor
n brick will he employed throughout the spacious
structure, which is to rest upon 3,300 cast iron col
umtis. and to be strengthened and kept together
by 2,284 girders of the same material, fhe plan
of it which has been published represents an edifice
in every respect qualified to become the repotitcry
of specimens of the world's industry ; the basement
and two upper tiers diminishing in area as they
ascend, and thus securing a graceful variety of
outline, while the monotonous effect of a '.re*/*
1,848 feet long is broken by a spacious t.iuisept.
This transept, 40?' feet long'and 72 feet wide, will
be arched, am! will rise to :he bight of 10 ? feet, in?
closing within it. as in a class case, n row ol t.-ees,
which respect for the Park timber has mdu ted the
Commissioners to spare.
The roof of the entire building, resting on the cast
iron girders, w ill be what is technically called "ridge
and valley,'' and will look like an undulating sea,
the n hole being cover'd with canvass to exclude the
rays of the summer sun and prevent any inconven?
ience arising from excessive heat. This will be
the case in every part of the structure except the
transept, where the presence of trees render light
necessary, nnd where, therefore, the arched glass
roof will "remain uncovered. When closed in and
completed, the view presented by theintorlorw4IL
it is anticipated, be wonderfully graceful and
splendid. The ceiitr.il avenue, 1,S4S feet long, 73
feet broad, and 66 feet high, with rows of pillars
shooting off from it on either side, and so arr.tinged
that the eye can traverse freely to every part of
the building, must have a very grand appear
ance. Care has been taken to have the ' oltunns
upon ? hieb the whole fabric rests distributed with
such regularity that no confusion or forest like
? licet can be proposed by them. It will be tho
same iu all the avenues as tho centra! one, sl
i! i ugh there, from its proportions and the entire
absence ol galleries or upper flooring to break
the perspective, the view presented w ill be most
imposing.
Beside the immense space thus devoted to the
general purposes of the Exhibition, there will be
on the north side of the building n room set apart
for the reception of machinery. This apartment
will be 246 ieet long, 18 feet broad, and 24 feet
high. Another feature of the building will bo tho
Refreshment Courts, which are to be divided into
three classes. Those whose means and taste in?
cline them to patronise the first will discuss the
delicacies of the season under the branches of the
trees which occupy the north end of the transept;
those w hose habits of life are less ambitious, or
whose palates nre less discriminating must move
westward; while for the crowd ol humble visitors
the requisite accommodation will be provided on
the north east side of the building.
While from north to south, and across the
breadth of the structure, the flooring will be per?
fectly level, from west to east it will be slightly
inclined, like the stage of a theater, though not
of course to the same extent. This, it is be?
lieved, will add much to the effect of the interior,
by enabling visitors at the lower end to see al?
most at a glance over the w hole edifice Though
from north to south the flooring will be quite bor
izontal, the land slopes a little, and this enables
the architect to give the building on that side, the
appearance ol a raised foundation, which will he
fin ed with green sod. A light iron railing will
inclose the building at a distance of eight feet
from its exterior, and beyond that there will be a
loot path. The grand entrance will be nearly op?
posite the Prince's gateway, and will have seven
pairs of doors. Amide arrangements have beon
made, however, lor the entry ami exit of visitors,
at other points. The exterior surfaces of the
first or ground tier will not be of glass, bat ol j
wood, for the purpose of creator security, and
also to allord a wuil space for such articles as re- j
quire tobe hunc up in order to be seen toad-,
vantage. Some conception of the work to be j
performed mat be gathered from this, that the
cab stations of Messrs. Pox, Henderson Jc Co. the
contractors, estimate, among other requisites, ii
miles of gutters. 202 miles of sash bars, and ** 1
miles ol table for exhibiting.
It is now only a month since the actual work of
construction commenced. In that time the fbun* '
dation pieces on which the. columns rest bavo
nearly all been fixer! upon their beds of concrete,
and the earth filled in around therm The columns
required for a large section ol the southern sad
central parts oi the building have been put up and
connected together by girders. The frame work
begins to indicate the form oi the future structure,
just as the ribs and hones of the mammoth at the
Utitisrn Museum shadow forth what tiie animsl
roust have been when alive. The graduated oat
I i es ol the structure ascending tier above tier,
the cathedral-like effect oi the transept, and the
1? ng extei dl d avi nut s and rows of slender pil?
lars, branching off svmetrically on cither side of
thi in. can already be discerned. Sleepers and
Ol'etB lor the flooring above have been laid in one
II two parts, and one small piece of window***"
u g has been fixed in its place. The external ft
mmoao?a\ aud
ne-third of the
rly every detail
while the framework of about on
Structure is in a forward state near!
ol the work has been begun.
Messrs. Fox and Henderson have already one
small crane established on the girders for hoisting
up materials, and m a few davs they will b?va
sei t ml more. The rapidity with which the baud
ing progresses may be estimated from the act
that two columns and three girders can Im fexed
in about 10 minutes. While'the actual labor ol
construction proceeds, a vast amount ol prepart
torv work coes on simultaneously. -Nearly W
ti e wooden arches required to span the transept
are completed Sash bars, window frames, inter
cotters, are got ready Vf
hundreds of workmen under sheds, formed hast?
of floor plaiikinc. The hydraulic press is at wort
testing the street!, c f gifeers, and a lew nresg
lie) ted to prepare the wrought tron bolts by vths*
' i s are n ade fast to the connects*
.',' ?' i etween them Piles of material of every
fc; d ,r "? llei ted i i every part of the gnwgj
?nd! it is believed that three-fourths of all that**
be required are already deposited wi????
, ri i, - There is a stable lor 20 bones, ?**
. , mWdbdrawing. Atpresent*eboatg
i ?" '.."-t w<ek w iti :n the enclosed S3ace,*?
? " i mated tl at the number mast yet M rn*?
n in.ham, where it is prepared by
Henderson, assisted by two other booses
t; m furnished the whole anioin.t of^as?-?i
?I! - timber used is from tue Baltic, and oi tf
cellent quah'ty, A portion ol it ? P'^ tbe
mills taken tor the purpose at Uieisca,
cnthecro.ii.iis. When the weatner i?*?
this part ol the work, which is carriedon an
Sikpnshed forward. W*>*^Zf?.
ing ol columns and girders ,s proceed*'
Gas ha. been laid on m the grounds, Jj
oi ,l.e dnv are continued frequently as .ate.
o'clock at nicht. A con iderable port - ? s
V:? ,!??? be the niece, and no "i--c[1"/
fiu S L rocur& any amount of hands *tWjl
n n eS b.' required. Ever;
? numbers at the entr*nc<|