Troubles At The Exposition

According to the JVew York Herald the closing of the Centennial Expotition is aocompnniüd with a good dealof vex utioii to the oxhibitors, owing to the action of the custoins departmont in respect to foreign goods. The Herald saya : Complaint is made tht goods bought by 8ome of the foreign coinmissioners for their governinents, and whioh are to be exported as sooa as the Exhibition clones, are to be inade to pay au import duty to this govuruuient on the ground that though they were not, of eoure, regularly liable to this, tbey feil under tho letter of the law, beeause they are uo lotiger in tho " original packages." Complaint is made that whilo the exhibitors were iuduced to briug goodg over on certain instructions by ïSecretary Bristow, promieing that on final entry for sale, dimmge suffered by exhibited goods would be conaidered in the Custoui House assessment, this is now refused, and goods, uo matter how much injury or deterioratiou in valuo they have suffüred through being exhibiteii, are required to pay duties on their full or original value ax new goods. Many of the goods on exhibition from abroad are not acuompanied by a consular certifícate of tha value of the variable paper currency of the country irom which thoy were sent at the time of their shipment. Where this is so our cuetoms aulhorities now refuse to allow of a rectiftcation of the neglect by the Conimissioners, and insist on exaoting duties on a valuntion calculated as though the depreciated paper were cqual to gold. Complaint is made that no general rngulations have been established for the reshipment of exhibitod goods, and that in the absence of such. the exhibitors are obligad to pay fuus to brokers and other go-betweens, wlien originally they were promised exemption from all such exaotions. Complaint is made that throughout the peiiod of exhibition the custom house interference bas been of a needIos8ly petty charaotor ; that, for instance, each building beiug regarded as a bonded warnhouse, a carpenter employcd by one of tho foreign dupartmontn was not allowed tocarry big toolsfrom one house to another to make repairs, without the leave of the customs offiuera and the company of an inspector. Complaint is made that the exhibitors and Comniissioners, whon they try to make kuown thüir troubles to the Secretary of the Treasury, are not allowed to reaoh him, but are by subordinates refcrred for redross of grievfinces to the same local otficers against whose conduct they protest. We are sorry that thore should be cause for such comjjlainta and wo trust the authorities will try at once to remedy every real griovanco. We shall take the trouble to invcs'.igatu the imtttor more iully and shall report in dutail in a few days.