The Austrian International Exhibition was opened at Vienna on May
Day, beneath skies not so bright as those of England on Thursday, but there was the usual amount of pageant in the ceremonial. The Emperor was accompanied by the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, by the Prince of \Vales and Prince Arthur, and by various German princes, on the occasion ; nor was there anything very remarkable in the felicitations exchanged. Dr. Felder, the Mayor of Vienna, of course spoke of the Exhi- bition, in the municipal address to the Emperor, in the same kind of exaggerated language to which we have been accustomed in England on these occasions. "In this solemn hour," he said, "your Majesty bestows the highest sanction upon an under- taking which has the noble object of showing," &c., &c. "This glorious creation of your Majesty will mark an epoch," &c., &c. Why is it that human language seems to find so much difficulty in expressing that a good many interests and pleasures concentre in a particular event, without magnifying that event into something 'solemn' and 'glorious,' when it is neither the one northe other?
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