OCR Text |
Show FOREIGN. The l'arl Exhibition Opening Paris, 19. Arrangements for the opening of tbe exhibition on the 1st of May were settled at a cabinet council on Wednesday night. Shortly before 2 o'clock, M. Leiaserenc de Bort, minister of commerce, will receive in the grand vestibule of the Trocadero the foreign princes present on the occasion, namely, the .Prince of WaleB, Don Francois D. Assise, the Duke Aosta, Prince Frederic, Crown Priuce of Denmark, the Prince of Orange and the Duke de Leuchien-berg. Leuchien-berg. Alter conducting them to the prince's saloon, he will receive the ambassadors, foreign commissioners, presidents and vice-presidents of the chambers, ministers, deputations, senators and deputies. Troops are being drawn up all along the route from the lyBee. Marshal MacMahon will first repair to the prince's saloon, and a procession will then be formed, which will march from the grand arcade to the platform overlooking the fountain and commanding a view of all the buildings and grounds. Here M. Leisserence de Bort will welcome wel-come the marshal in a short speech, and the marshal will then declare the exhibition opened. A hundred and one rounds from the guns at the Invalidca. on Mont Valerien and on an island in the Seine will follow the announcement. an-nouncement. Military bands will strike up; all the fountains will play, and tbe oldiers stationed by the flags tafia will hoist the flags of all naiions on the roofs of tho two palaces and tho annexes. The marshal mar-shal will then reaacend to the Trocadero Troca-dero palace, the precession reforming, and, afier completing the round ot the building, will cross over tbe river to the Champ de Mars. Tho troops will be drawn up on or near ttie bridge. Tbe terrace of Champ de Mars palace will be occupied by the senators, deputies, tne council of state, magistrates, academicians, the military stall, and French commis-sionerB. commis-sionerB. Eutering by the central door, the procession will go through the grand vestibule decorated with the crown jewels, Sevres porcelain, gobelins, I tapestries and the Prince of Wales' Indian collection. It will then pass through all the sections, the commissioners com-missioners of each country greoting it at the door, and will next inspect the military school, where all the exhibition ex-hibition workmen will be Btatiuned, und will liifatly traverse ihe machinery annexes. Arriving at the gttes, the marshal will take leave of the princes and other distinguished personages and return to tbe Elyaee. Madame MacMahon and the wives of the ambassadors and ministers will be assigned stations behind the Trocadero Tro-cadero platform. The exhibition will be open to the public immediately on the close of the ceremony. Marshal MacMaWon will hold a grand reception at the Elysee on the opening day, and also give a dinner in honor of the Prince of Walts and Duke Aosta. The Journal des Debalg states that in view of the decision of the German emperor to exclude from the German flue art section of the exhibition any picture recalling the war of 1870, the French government has resolvod to exclude tbe Freucb pictures commemorating com-memorating that war. |