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Show PAniS-VlCTOR MUC ANO LOUIS EJL4NC - T Ht CENTENNIAL. CENTEN-NIAL. Victor Hugo and Louis Blanc, ad-drea. ad-drea. d a I'arHiau audience nniiihtir-ing nniiihtir-ing 0,0110 on Sunday. Half the pin-ci-ida of the meeting are to be devoted to sending a delegation of workmen lo I'hihulelphia, and ball to the fam-iliei fam-iliei of Ihe communist convicU. Tie UniKtl Sut- s received warm eulogies fr m the Kp'-akcrs. lllnm-'s discouret on the J'hihuh-lphia exhibition wan exceedingly line. It sketched the history of I'hiladclphia and made an appeal for anine.-ty which was received re-ceived wilh the iilmo.it enthusiasm. Blanc believed iho Centennial exhibition exhi-bition would complete tin; reconciliation reconcilia-tion of the north and s-mtli. American Ameri-can ftUtesmen had exerted themuelvew to prevent h.itred Hiicceeding defeat. They understood that onler never would be permanently re-ealablished when it was not restored in tlie heart, of the vanijuiahed. He slated that l-'niuce would Im represented at Philadelphia Phil-adelphia by '2.000 exhibitors. H was i also desired that one hundred and twenty delegates of thu workingmen, representing s-ixt v corporations, should h(j aent tliere. The sum voted by Die municipality of Paris was barely fiut-ticient fiut-ticient to defray lh expensea. The expenses of each workman delegate lo the Centennial would be about .U0 hundred dollars, ami it would be necessary to raise ?Kl,UO0 in addition to loo (turn votrd by Die municipulily and Die mthseription whiclj would probably hcgranUd hy the eliambers. Blanc described tho part France had taken in American colonization and American liberation, and declared de-clared that the Centennial was in consequence thereof a French fete ol human intellect, which could not fail to advance education and humanity. Victor Hugo made an extravagant ipeerh in t-ulogy of America. He declm O that us Aim-rid was indebted to Frame for Die abolition of slavery, France would be indebtid to America lor amnesty. The twentieth century wnu'd witness Die United States of America ela-piog the United States of Kuropo in brullu-rly embrace. He was enthusiastically applauded. |