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THE AMERICAN EXHIBITION.

This Exhibition will be formally inaugurated to-day [as?] 3.30 p.m., the doors being opened to invited guests at two o'clock. The proceedings will be of a simple and unostentatious description. "Hail Columbia" will be performed by the Grenadier Guards band, Mr. Dan Godfrey (conductor), and this will be follower by prayer. "God Save the Queen" will next be performed, and Lord Ronald Gower will then read and address on behalf of the committee of "Welcome" which will be replied to by the PResident of the Exhibition, Colonel Henry L. Russell. The "Star-spangled Bannd" and "Rule Britannia" will then be sung by Maddle Lilian Nodica, and Mr. John Robinson Whitely, Director-General of the Exhibition, having delivered an address, the machinery in the main gallery will be started by Colonel Russell. At 4.30 p.m. will be the first grand public performance of Buffalo Bill's "Wild West" Entertainment. The Exhibition is rapidly assuming a finished appearance. The Art Gallery is almost completed, and will be, it is hoped, entirely so to-day. The buildings in the gardens, the sodawater stand, the club-houses, and the parnorama of New York are also nearly ready, and, in short, everything bids gair to be in complete working order before the close of the week. Admission to the Exhibition will be up to five o'clock by way of the Lillie-bridge entrance only.