Mr. COWAN. That is his own lookout. Ifhe cannot get ground on the 30,000 feet allotted to us, that shows the folly of France in inviting us to such a small space. I do not knowthat there will be room enough for us all. I do not care about that, however. The regress of the world does not depend on worlg’s fairs and exhibitions of this kind. The progress of the world in arts and sciences and everything else depends upon the wants of the world; and as it discovers its wants its genius will supply them. I have no objection to the Exhibition, and I have no objection to those who desire to do so engaging in it; but let them pay for it. What I object to is, that the people should be taxed to pay for this, and that the people should be taxed under these circumstances. I beg gentlemen to remember that our finances are not in such a condition that we can afford to run out into expenditures of this kind. If there is any cry that comes up from the country that is more to be heeded than any other, it is the cry for retrenchment and reform and saving in all these things. There was a time when the nation cared but little about such an expenditure as this; but now, when it behooves as to save every dollar, when our credit is at stake, and when the slightest jostle, the slight est panic, the least difficulty may cause us in tolerable suffering and wrong I say that under such circumstances, I look upon this as wholly imprudent, and I protest againstit in the name and in behalf of those who pay the taxes wrung out of thcin under adverse circumstances every where all over the country. It is well enough for rich people, well enough for those who have heretofore accumulated their 100s of 1,000s and their millions to go to world’s fairs and shows of this kind; but if they do, let them pay. There is no reason why the laboring men, the poor and the toiling whom we tax everywhere and tax upon almost everything, even the prime necessaries of life, should be made to pay for this. I have nothing to say about the Monroe doctrine, nothing to say about the conduct of France toward the people of the U.S. during the late struggle, nothing to say about the Emperor, nothing to say about. his son. France is an independent realm of the earth, and if she chooses to be ruled by Napoleon, I have no objection, none in the world: and if she chooses to consecrate the young Comte deParis as successor to Napoleon HI, that is her right and her privilege. If a republican government is better than the one she has now adopted I have no doubt whenever she is ready for it she will find it out. I have no sympathy. either, for republican Mexico, socalled. Fmust confess. For the last 30 years of my life, I think, I have been a student of the history of Mexico, and I believe that in that time she has had at least 40 different Governments. laccept the invnation. ASsxAi oit. 37.