The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1849.

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WINDeoa, Ocr. 17.—Her Royal Ifighneet the
Duchess of Kent diaed with the Queen and ►is ftlyal High-
ness. The Bul of Carlisle arrived at the castle to day, and
had the honour of joining the royal piny ►t dinner.

Ho Majesty the Queen Dowager remained yester-
day mash is the same state.
12:Spateires *ere tkoitired yeatertuiv aftarmaa at
the Oatoatel-aatee from the governor or °igniter.

mission to be medals, with money prime. It was pro-
posed that the first prise should be +5,0001, and that one at
least of 1,0001. should be given In each of the four sections.
Msdah con'erred by the Queen would very much enhance
the v-lue of the pf see. The +thieve received would net be
craw, productions, bat the best masks in all the classes that'
the work could show, the first specimens of the most useful
productions that natal gave lc man is every quarter of the
globs. lie was wet happy to state that in the promotion of
this object the sJeiety_would have the hearty cooperation of
t;a: titainaaa of the Stet LAI& Company, who is a letter to
sad:

_
I beg to inform yen that I communkated to the court of
directors the conversatiee which 1 had with you ou the sub-
ject of the proposed exhibition of the work. of Industry,
which his Royal Highness the Prince Albert is desirous to
institute in tee year 1831. I have the satisfaction tf
acquainting you, for the information of his Royal Highness,
that the Court expired their entire concurrence in the
views which I then suggested, and that they will be pre-
pared to give their ourdial cooperation in carrying out the
wishes of his Royal Highness, by obtaining from India such
specimens of the products and manufactures of that country
as may tend to illustrate its resooron, sad to add to the in.
treat of the great national exhibition of which his Royal
Highness is the patrol. (Signed) A. GALLOWAY.
It was fully expected that the governors of the Austra-
lian, North West American, and other great colonial eom•
ponies of the metropolis would co-operate with the
chairman of the But India Company in this object. (Hear,
hear.) As an example of the eon of products that would be
exhibited, he would mention corn from the so to freak virgin
roil of Connemara, adding the when in Ireland the deputa-
tion had it pointed out to them by Lord Clarendcn that
there were diggings in Cork far /debar, if properly worked,
than the diggings of California. It was proposed that the
amount to be given in prises should be 20,00 W. The appor-
tionment of the sum would be matter of future sad very
mature consideration by a commission to be arpointed
for this purpose, pe-haps by the government. As to U.
funds, the Prince entirely concurred with the society in eau
dieting that for such a purpose the amount raised shwa/
be the result of voluntary subscriptions, and not come oat
of the compulsory taxation of the country. (Hur, hear.)
i
Is other countries governments were, no doubt, in the habit I
of aiding such enterprises as these, but it was felt that in Eng-
land it would bs far better to leave the matter wholly in the
private heads of the people themselves. (Hear, hear.) There
were no government works saywhere abroad which could
vie in completeness, in mageifieence, in perfection with the
private establishments and manufactorise in this country.
(Hear.) The funds, theeelere, it was thought, should be
tee result of sceuntary subscriptions, from half-a-crown up.i
wards. (Hear, hear.) On this point he had, indeed, found
a little nerd feeling in Scotland—(laughter)—an (spree-
sine of opaion haring been given at Paisley, for example,
that as this was a great natioeal work, for national purpose.,
one moiety of the expense should be met by the government ;
but no such application had been made, and he felt
that the general public would probably concur with the
s misty and its president that the far nobler and far mere
effective thing would be to leave the matter entizely in the
hands of the public, and to seek no pecuniary aid from the
aovernment. (Hear, bear.) Let It not be supposed that is
Scotland there was a general feeling that the arrangement
should be otherwise. At Glasgow Mr. Hammond said, "The
I as you have to do with government money the better."
One venerable lady of SO, at the same place said to the depu-
tation, "I'll give a crown towards the expenses, if the
aorernment is not asked to give anything." The provost of
Glasgow expensed the opinion that the enterprise would be
far more popular if the government had nothing
to do with it pecuniarily; and at Canterbury
Mr. Stepeen Lushington observed that if the I
public taxes were charged with any portion of the expense, I
the public would feel reluctant to add any proportion of
voluntary gifts. There could be little doubt that the patilie
would cheerfully supply all the requisite funds by voluntary
subscriptions. (Hear, hear.) At Dublin, the feeling was
that 160,0001. or 200,0004. would be immediately forth-
coming for the purpose if required; this was somewhat, per.
hips, en over enthusiastic calculatios, but at all events
enough money would, he was satisfied, be given. (Hear,
hear.) The money was the least part of the difficulty ; a
very great difficulty, as had been pointed out
by cue of the longest beads and richest pockets
in the City, would be to keep the exhibition
from being engulphed in its own magnitude. It was pro.
posed that the government should be asked to appoint a
toyed commission, so constituted as to be above all suspicion
of partiality, to regulate the distribution of prizes, But
all these details had to be settled. Let him add, that of
all the places in the world, the place the most iuterestel in
this proposal was London : the society expected hundreds
of thousands of periods to come by railway and Steam from
all parts of the kingdom, of the world, to this great exhibi-
tion in London, tonal greatest festival of intellectual industry
that the world ever witaessed. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. PRESCOTT moved the first resolution
" That this meeting tenders its best thanks to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, President of the Society of Arts, for
his propose' to establish dB exhibition of the works of Indus-
' try of all nations in 1851, and expresses its cordial readiness
to cs operate with his Royal Highness in carrying the same
into effect."
He congratulated the country that an undertaking of so
gigantic an extent, and not less gigantic in the benefits it was
calculated to produce, came before them under the immedi-
ate end earnest sanction of Prince Albert, a man not more
illustrietts In his emlted positing, than in his exalted excel-
lence of character—(hem, hear)--and in his usweal led en. I
deavours to promote the most useful iastitutions of his
adopted country. (Hsu, hear.) The suggestion that the
exhibition should be open to the whole world was
due to kis Royal highness. To the adoption of this
principle, there could be no doubt, the exhibition
would owe its chief value and interest in the
eyes of the public at large. (Hear, hear.) Every Dalin
would be invited to contribute its productions; the arena
would be open to the whole world. This comparison of
various objects, this jultapssition of the productions
of different countries, could not be otherwise
than highly advautageow, not only to this country but
to the whets world.
11. r. DILLON seconded the resolution. On such en cm-
canon as this all party and political references would clearly
be misplaced; but there was one high point of poli'iosl
I science which treated of the true somas of the wealth of
tattoos, which taught that It was the true interest of the'
nations of the earth, to remain at peace one with the other,
asd this great maxim should never be lost sight of. (Hear, I
.hear.) We investigate the commodities of each country,
and to diffuse the knowledge thus obtained was for the be-
nefit of all. (Hear, hear.) That maxim inculcated the
competition of arts, not of arms ; it taught to leave to all
the peaceful enjoyment of the blessings of science, of nit, of
!immature. (Hear, hear.) To institute this competition, to
effect these Meetings, the Prince Consort had invited the co-
operation of the citizens of London, and he was sure that the
citizens of London would nobly respond to so noble an invi-
tation. (Hear, hear.) It was a high distinction for a man
of noble, of repel birth, to cultivate the arts of peace—to
promote by his own great example and his assiduous nom-
trapment, knowledge and virtue. Such was the distinction
awarded by all to Prince Albert ; such were his works—
Imperial works
And worthy kings.
(Hier, hear.) He believed that out of any competition Eng-
aed would proceed triumphant, and if not triumphant in all
Wags in the first instance, triumphant hereafter by means of
the very competition which had disclosed her temperer, in-
feriority, as the result of that generous rivalry which contri-
buted the best source of improvement, net less with nations
than with individuals.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
J. HUME, Esq., M.P., moved the second resolution
That this meeting is of opinion that the cost of the proposed
exhibition should be provided by voluntary sucseriptiems,
and not by the general taxation of the country ; and that a
royal cm: mission is necessary to invest the undertaking with
a national sanction, and to give the world the utmost coed
dente that the prizes will be awarded impartially.
The hon. gentleman said that he had only arrived a few
hoar? in London when he received the Lord Mayor's invitee
tion to attend this meeting, but he had not hesitated a mo-
ment in accepting it. (Hear, hear.) He had for twenty-
five years been a vice president of the Society of Art', and
he hid only retired from that office when the great pressure
of other business induced him to yield his place to younger
men with more inure. (Hear, hear.) He rejoiced to find
the society employing itself io labows calculated so mate-
rially to benefit the community of man. He entirely con-
curred in the opinion that no pecuniary aid should be sought
from the government. He had for forty years paid pill-
niter attention to these matters and he had always found
that cuts interference on the plait of the state was decidedly
mischievous. (Hear, Lear.) It was only necessary to
compare the 'magnificent and gigantic establishments
of private capitalists in this country with state-
fostered
establishments abroad to arrive at the result I
that all such things should be left to private
energy and private Wee. Let them proceed under the
ruction and with the assistance of government in all other
mattere, but let them keep clear of pvernnont money and
government superintend ince. He was heartily delighted
with the proposed exhibition, considering that it would meet
materially rub off the sharp corner, of nations, as it had
been expgesesd, and tend graduals) to Terse,* then miser-
able prejudices which had been kept up amongst Lateens
against each other, solely from the Ignorance of each of
wnet the other could do or not do—produce or rot pro-
duce. (Hear, hear.) As for the result to currilveo, let but
British capital nod enterprise and energy have a clear stage
and fair play, and he was not amid of any competition iu the
world. (Hear, hear.) He believed there was nut a man of
eminence in manufactures in any part of the world who
would not gladly avail himself of the occasion to come for-
weed and; display that in which he believed himself
slimier, or seek that in which he felt himself to be
wanting. He did not °Ducar in the propositiou that large
prima should be given, considering that men re ally interested
in the honour of their craft, and in their own pusitiun in it,
needed no such incentive to emulation. (Hear, hear.) 111
did not conceive that much boomed the expenses, perhaps,
and met of transit, would be desired. As to the proposition
that the government should appoint the commission contem-
plated, he entirely disapproved of it. He was happy to hem the
announcement that the Bost India Company had promised to
exhibit the finest attainable specimens of all the preductions
and manufactures of India. This exhibition alone would,
he was satisfied, be of inestimable advantage—certain as he
was that we were sot yet aware of one-half the mean. which
the East Indies could supply, in the shape of raw mate/isle,
for the manufacturers of England to work epee. He
hoped that his hon. friend the Cbaii man of the ILude•it's
Bay Company would adopt the laudable example of :he Esst
India C. mpany. (Hear, he.r.)
Mr. Alderman SALOMONS esesonded the residuLiun. He
regarded this exhibition as the best parable Peace C 'agrees.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
AN, Esq., moved the third re-

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