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AUGUST 6, 1852.

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amongst mankinct—(Cheers.)
therefore, eho
He had,-
-'greatest satisfaction in announcing the adherence of
' -
'Chevalier Mansell, M. Van de Weyer, end Mr. Abbott
Lawrence to their project. As all present were tourer.
sant with the history
of the Great Exhibitio of 1851,
it would he idle to detain thett with any retrospect, end
n
he would sin3ply.
tap that the idea of that Exhibition
e)riginated'l v
n t 4 noble end philosophic eceptiott of
tiln tighest"t)craonage in the yeale rt St to the Sove-
reizn, and was developed• in to' e;orld's Wand= and at-
-(l:tadcehgerrs.)
tract.ion without
He cAild not
refrain from tit'ention;eo the-alcaost providential
circunistanccs which had ce-oPer'ated'iti leainging about
that Magnificent result. The accidental cliao feri cf a
i
VVE, ter lily of gigantic diatere,ons in ano'tht,:r hemisphere
,had set his frifoad Sir Joseph 20-xton about auis'oa;.-;
means of household accommodation for the Victoria-
regia; onctibe pl‘Ru he cleviAeff fcr that accoraciod&non
erspc9ded into the vdca of affording accomModatian u,n.der
a crystal reef for the 5530M1,1 .?.d nations of tor; universe.
—(L.Siad Cheera.) Mtn that uativalled exhibition had
done its work, when the timid. lid' Come, as in' the case
of all sublunary grandeur, that it must die, a bitter feel-
ing of regret was felt that the.t which had been a great
opportunity for the instruction of -thee people should pass
away without an enduring record.—(Chters.) That idea
took a variety of shapes. In the first place, it took the
shape of pressure) from without übon the Legislature
of this country, 'to preserve- the Crystal Palace on its
original site. That attempt' did not succeed, and for
geed reason. He had regretted the failure at the
time; and had been somewhat disposed to reproach
the Legislature for their eat indifference to the
wants of the people. Bat experince had corrected that
short sighted nation, and taught biM 'that the Legis-
ture; had- done quite right in -leaving the people
of England'to their own resenrces. The consequence of
the vote negativing the maintenance of the old Crystal
Palape had 'been:lo give theth a new and more beautiful
crystal palace at Sydenhate.—(Loud cheers.) The old
Crystal Palace would rise, like a phMaix more beautiful
than: ever- and, not to waste the models
seala,4l- had'_been .bsted words, after
urea adjoins Ittrtterailt
repeat his belief that on the of would
st Ally, 1853 they
have-a crystel palace far
superior to that which hid
passed away.—(pear, hear.) He would now proceed to
deeeribe as briefly as email
inteaded to carry out in that e, the `'objects which they
hoped to See cotopleted gloriousd building, which he
ob-
jects might be brief' y enham Park. Those oh-
tion,-instruotion; classedanieem under_ the head of recrea-
to the question of recreation,r.ercialutility. th respect
strongly that there were some they could not but feel
often- addressed' to Englishm° grounds for the reproach
better than moat men how to
wconp, that foil© they ltnevr
industry, they lnew *vorse than any and create objects of
ow to amuse them-
seteos.—(Cheers' and laughter.). : lt
that in that respect they 'were' inferior
be admitted
foreign nations,o whom in other respects they many
su-
perior. must be admitted thit amidst th
ye
strikinge
and noble qualities of the labouring men of England
there was a slight deficiency in that polieb, and those
eaithetic qualifications which ',refined the character of
some nations of the continent: It was not true accord-
iog.to the representation of Englishmen in the French
vaudeville, that they went about with bull-dogs at their
h.:els and halters round their wives' necks—(Lend
laughter)—but -still they must 'admit that the popular
exaggeration was founded upon some feint and remote
degree of verisimilitude.—(Hear, hear.) It must be ad-
mitted, then, that if they could furnish the masses of the
people with a 'rather more ennobling recreation than
they could feud on Windmill-hill or at Greenwich fair, or
woree than either, in the gin palace, they would have
gone a great way towards advancing to perfection the
character of the English nation.—(Hear, hear.) The
character of the- nation had even in his recollection made
great advances, more especially among the labouring
clasies, and he- believed • the time had now come when
the gentlemen -of England must look to themselves it
they wished to keep their placesi(Hear, hear)—if they
wanted to keep in advance in all the qualities that
went to . make the perfect Englishmen.—(Cheers.)
He bad no doubt but that they would do so, and that,
while elevating the character of -the masses, they should
see The aristocracy elevating themselves to still greeter
heights and more intellectual refinements.—(Cheers.)
It appeared to him that the true doctrine of equality
was, not dragging down the high to the level of the low,
but elevating the low to the level of the high.—(Loud
cheers.) He did say, epeaking; from a pretty intimate
acquaintance with the hatkits and character of the
working classes, and he believed his friend, Mr. Peto,,
who sat on hiEright hand, would bear him out in the ,
assertion, that in all the sterling qualities of English-
men they found no deficiency in the labouring man—
that in integrity, and even the more chivalrous feelings
of honour and self-denial, there was no deficiency it
that class of people, and that nil they wanted to raise
them to the level of their more fortunate and refined
countrymen was the application of that maxim which
they all remembered in the Latin Grammar:

" Ingenuas didieisse fideliter artes
Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros."

A little refinement, a little polish, such as he hoped
would be communicated by the marvels of the Crystal
Palace, would, he honestly believed, render the mass of
our working population as near piriaction as it was pea-
siblo to look for anything in this sublunary sphere.—
(Hear, hear.) As the means of recreation, the whole
question depended on the temptation they could hold
cut' to those classes to visit the palace. As regarded
the temptation to visit, he thought that the experience
of the ExhibitiOn of +B5l fatly confuted the notion that
-
the people cf England were unworthy of enlightened re
creation, and that to offer it to them was only throwing
pearls to swine. They saw three millions of visitors, it,
a period of less than six mouths, conducting themselves
wiih the greatest decorum, and such conduct was the
best refutation of the calumny to which he had adverted,,
and the best proof that if they made a place worthy of
the people of England, they would flock to it in myriads.
as they had done belore.—(Chiers.) As to the means
of instruction, it must be understood that they proposed
in this building to combine instruction with amassment:
and' as to the means of instruction which they proposed
to offer, he could not illustrate the generel principle bet-
ter than by referring to thenotorious fact, that the ten-
dency of the present age was no longer to appeal to the
intellect by dryabstractions, or mere words, but to appeal
to all the senses of the human being, man, offering to
hini, as it-were; illustrated editions of the works of na-
ture and of science.—(Cheersa Their great object was
to present illustrated editions of all the marvels which
art' and science had created in this nineteenth century.
He would give them one instance. They proposed co
give, an ethnological series of. the • whole human family,
in Which the young DIM who had not means to purchase
lar6 works, or who had been studying Dr. Pritchard,
might come there and for a shilling got a comprehensive
notion of the subject.—(Scar, hear.) Another iilustra-
rain might be found in their process of the cotton manu-
facture, in which, without reading crabbed books, or in-
volving themselves in the dust and whirl of a Manchester
cotton-mill, they might see themanufacture at a glance,
from the moment the raw material went in until it emerged .
in the beautifu4gatiae and muslin with which so many of
the-fair ladies Vound ,him_ were decorated. As far,
then, as instruction was concerned there would be no
deficiency in the new Crystal Palace. But to descend
to commonplatie objects of commercial utility, ht; would
ask what was another great principle of the present
day? What stared them in the face at every turning?.
Cotossal advertising vans and Brobdignagian boots.
compare
of
The
principle was the principle of advertisina.—gtear.
hear.) It was in our commercial age e,
first-rate necessity, enabling people to
value they obtained in one place with theo value nipare
the iu
another.—(Hear, hear.) Great and unrivalledlBsl, great as
unrivalled Es
the'xglories of the Great Exhibition were
were the exertions of the patriots who promoted it, he
could tell them that after all it was the principle
he Principle of ad-
vertising that J started that
wonder.—(gear, hear.)
And let him further tell them, that a place like that
would be frequented by numerous classes whom an ad-
vertis
ter
wouldt
..like
to attract. All foreigners would
resort to them, so that li
inevitably visi them, all e9untry visitors to town would
them
palace
and hugest advertising van that had ever been 'exhibited. would be the best
—( Hear, hear.) It would supply
which had been often felt another great .want;
bazaar. They all knew 9 in being a great national
merce there were largefthat in the early ages of nomof
people, and having enormousaus attracting great massesaaore
meats had superseded these,btraffie. ModernE.on
of
1851
showed that a world's fair w suttiltlhe
corneurel io pees-
-8:it1"; Let them only imaginee when atheir arrangeoart of
the tyrstal Palace was carried out, -tvhat e new °lele:
lapment would be given to another subie°4 whs
peek-enea it would have on the business of sboPPir; mast say '
inges he did inlhe presence of the fairateepriment carried
that the way in which shopping I:l7,,„ting to the -lords
on 'es by no Means agreeable.,lthay could bring all the'
of the oreation.,—(Laugliter:LLll )_ truer' tastes - would be
master pieces .of art to.gel7e,;
m of dress would be este-
fored, true aesthetic prlnniP
would be conferred _ on -a,y-
blished, and great benefits of which the ---
wee a ankle°
ciety. Thisimportance
but as many 1
gentlemen were
could not be overrated'o_
old not detain them further
than by
to fallow him, b ej Success to the Crystal Pal
agath propos—a. '
ve ssuLL said he' had nee."
Mr. ScoTT ...ri to address a few
who were more especial! d with
words to those . he y connected with
/dot', for was about to
thelanderts
d embrace nearly all propose a toast
which weal
that they should- I Present. He _intended
to pros. fie urink to the health of th
He had the greater
pleasureiu this, because e
felt proud that, as one of the humblest beginners ho
ndert4king h of this
great u , e saw present 11Q large '
-oats disticguished b-e • • • . a body of
k. 4 POSItiOn In society, by personal
character, and by erntensive influence. He'
presence sometting like aguarantee- saw in their
goodwill towards t' of their cordial
Lig undertaking, and of their
coneurrerc, 'i cordial
• t, lit accomplishing its great .:c.
Everything they had done up to this moment,.ia advantages.
pronouncedh by everybody, except thenr el had been
wt)
la. knew their..sineerity, impossible. it ves and those
Then
ivied that the Crystal Palace could be was at first
hen the thing was so grand that it was
perpetuated,
man could be got to buy the Crystal Palace.Pilpossible any
the impossibility existed, ten Etwii,„h
else„, were buying the Crystal' m Ltd nobody
Palace. These ten,
Englishuien believed in each ether.
more—
they belicved in the people 0 They did
Thtfr betievePthat..the Crystal
stay in theEngland.—(Cheers.)l
hearts
of
common_ Pakce- had its
_main 1
in the cowmen sense
v of Common Englishmen would

found its maintena,
?y (the projectors) ht. hi
Id Crystal Palace. They I
chaistoteristics which :had
I. It. had been denied 10 t
n a very rt:4o time, that`
the'preserfation and the e
of art, as bad long been done t
was denied that refined enjoy=
suited to their taste—it was der
ring, the tavern, and the gin-
sports, had any charms for Eag
denied that Englishmen had an
was the result of the Great ExE
that six millions of the people
stal Palace.—(Hear.) Did El
that ought to pass away? On!
impossible;
meat
st
sht
ioeb
further
I e.
lei . perpetuated?
he
u; a tn eadu ?t. e s
seThisd
th
that a body of not more than .whenit had bees
achieved he looked it
tawn,ni7 oirt:E:ribiltiotyoktocarrs
One fins moreitio he remembered
posses-
sion of the Crystal Palace; and Whuoni they raid so ho
eonfessed that he felt very ranch lil-o *he in:di aidual who
had the present of an el,phar't made They
would remember it seas a custom wcto him'
sovereign wanted to rain one 'of his snurreer saua madelndian
presenten I) h
at
noo
of
eadn Theyhi elephant.
° 1bi;11-°'t eh: 05.71)17:21: ::1 in
him
leant then, were theehruet theuut
heli
which he was pasturing was taken am ay.
yet faith in one another and in Englishrn;n:o.u:lge.tlhioeef}:Esb::i,dd.
to each other "We have no fears for our elephant! We
will give it food." And we applied to the
land whether the elephant shoeld be fed or not, the
people of England raid the elephant should be fed, and
the meeting might depend upon it that when the people
of England put down 500,0001. to perpetuate the Crystal
Palace, the projectors of it had not reckoned in vain.
—Some persons said that the new Crystal
nPeaEcsal lucree:rdh iede hear.)anu
soti
t deservew aa so well of the
e peopleunder t aa
ks itsing.
p r ed
Bute-
it was because we were a nation of shopkeepers, and be-
cause it was a commercial undertaking, that we were
proud of it. We were proud of it because we did not be-
g
ulineedoertthaaktin, and which did not stand upon its ownanything not of the nature of a commercial
bottom, would last. They believed that this would be a
self-supporting institution; and he spoke the words of so-
berness when he said that they had as much the public ad-
vantage as their own pecuniary profit in view when they
invested their money in the Crystal Palace. He believed
this to be the feeling of every shareholder, and that
it would pay a handsome dividend in addition; but the
Crystal Palace and its menagerie would not descend from
the high moral and social objects they had in view to
Tender either tcralower taste or to a lower morality in
order to make it pay. There was not one of the pro-
prietors who would not consign every halfpenny he had
in the undertaking rather than that the people should
suffer in the character of the undertaking for the mere
purpose that it should pay 5 per cent.—(Hear, hear.)
But the directors believed it would pay, simply em,"
they believed in the character of the millions, and that
the millions with their shillings would be the support of
the undertaking; They believed, therefore, they were
after t
htehiery had
money, been
all
n
merely the guardians of the public property by com-
mencing
remuneratedthi w
s undertaking,
had
risked
that remained over should be consigned to the improve-
and national industry.—(Hear, hear.) The first task,
ment and elevation of the great schools of national art
eadudthtehalo that
s a
us he had intimated, was the getting of the money to
feed the elephant, and the next to find a place where to
keep him. This they had almost failed to accomplish,
and would have done bat for an enlightened and disin-
terested gentleman connected with the Brighton
liwnnal ndi:cuelyty,
_Railway,,.e the proprietor of the beautiful park in
came forward in the last emergency, when they were
"althoughassembled.
madegen tulepmma ny
mind to spend the remainder of
would
rather give it up,'
than- youshould my days here, I
be without a she, and
you shall have the park.' (e heers.) The directors
were willing to pay him a large—
price for the land, bur.
he was unwilling to accept it, preferring to have the
amount
amount as fixed by an arbitrator, and n
more.—(Hear.) Thus tee company had
dt one farthing
phant into the park. But this waa not all. ot
The
elephantthe ele-
was old—they wanted a new one—and a miller
was re-
quired to grind the old animal into a new one.—(weaugh:
ter.) *They found such a miller in the person of their
old friend Sir Joseph Paxton, and at once they threw
themselves upon the resources of his genius. When the
old Crystal Palace stood, in all its beauty, in Hyde-
park, everybody said it was impossible to go farther,
and that if they tried to produce anything finer they
would fail. He felt of that opinion too, when the Crys-
tal Palace was in Hyde-park; but as soon as Sir Joseph
Paxton had shown the new creations of his genius, and
that they were grander and more perfect than the old
one, as the old one was grander and more perfect
than our ideas of such structures before, then he
did not regret the removal of the old palace from
Hyde-park. Thus another impossibility was accom-
plished. The genius of Sir Joseph Paxton showed they
were not wrong in placing confidence in each other, and,
having that confidence, in going on and prospering„—
(Hear, hear.) Another impossibility was said to lie in
the re-erection of the building. But their old friends,
Messrs. Fox and Henderson, assured them that as cer-
tain as the old Crystal Palace in tlydeepark was opened
by the day named, the let of May, 1851, so surely
would the new Crystal Palace, in nil its glory, be
opened in that park on the Ist of May, 1853.—(Hear,
hear.) Titus another impossibility Ras accomplished.
Under such circumstances he felt they. were not wrong
in trusting to each other, to the enterprise of British
commercial men, and to the British people, to prcducse a
far more glorious structure than that of 1851.—(Hear,
bear.) What they wished to have believed was, that no
man ever entered upon any duty more eincerelidesirous
of accomplishing the highest aims—moral, religious,
social, and mithetical—than the promoters of this under-
taking.—(Hear.) After a few wore observations, Mr.
Russell concluded by proposing the health of " The Visi-
tors," which was received with load cheers.
Sir C. LTELL was called upon, and returned thanks
for the toast in a few observations, which were but im-
perfectly beard. Sir Charles expressed his conviction
that this Exhibition might biensade, with regard to all
matters of art and science, what the British Museum, tho
Geological. Museum, and Kew-gardens were with regard
to the arrangement of animals, plants, and minerals. No
attempt had yet been made, geographically, to arrange
the various manufacturing and other products of the
world; but in the building about to be erected this would
be done, and it would be attended with most important
practical resnltN.—(lieur.)
Mr. PETO had the permission of the chairman to pro-
pose a toast, which would be received with great plea-
sure—" The health of the Chairman and Directors of the
Crystal Palace Company."—(Lond cheers.) After the
eloquent speech of the chairman it would not be neces-
sary for him to detain them an instant, for all would ap-
preciate the sentiments to which he had given utterance.
—(skar, hear.) He felt sure, too, that however attrac-
tive the palace of Versailles might be to our &Alio
neighbours, it would yield beforestill '
the greater
charms of our new Crystal Palace ; for while
the beauties of the - ono
were clouded with
dark associations of suffering and woe, the
other could suggest nothing but that which
would promote °' peace on earth and gocd-will towards
men."—(Loud cheers.) In the name
of the industrial
classes he begged to convey to the chairman and the di-
rectors that tribute of heartfelt gratitude which be
trusted they would also manifest by their own conduct
and by that moral and mental elevation which all would
rejoice to see effected.
Tee toast was drunk with nine times nine.
i
The CRAIRMAN, in returning thanks, disclaimed all
bumble
badman
s
praise but that which beloeged to :the
who furnished the materials for raising
the structure.—
(Laughter.) The most exalted
element of air did genius,not
exist however, could
not soar in the air if the material faiore—(Hear, hear.)
exist to sustain his fluttering P Mr. Owen Jones,
It was to Sir Joseph Paltocecci isee, Digby Wyatt
Messrs. Fox and Ilendehaelte'eadigoe. The board
that they would oweardr
carrying out the de-
could do nothing ,Thwireg the pounds. shillings, and
sign except by "Pr All the credit they claimed.—
pence; and that wae hter ) He would now conclude
and Illug s b '
(Hear, hear, y
the Exhibition f
cheers) one more toast. What would
the present proceeding
1851 have been without the ladies?—
of would the present proceedings be
(Load .
if they [dotted out the fairer half of creation?—(Cheers.)
ew Crystal Palace be if they were not
whet would theatnrona
age of the ladies of England?—
to receive thep
cheers.) He never wished to see the day when
(Loud dof England would wish to go abroad with-
outthe husbands
wives' when the brothers of England would
their . .
regard their sisters as their dearest
not companions; and
when the lads of this country would not find the most
perfect attraction in looking upon the comely feces of
the lasses who were dear to them.—(Cheers.)
In answer to loud cries of " Paxton,"
The Csenterate briefly, and with elands°
compli-
ment, proposed Sir Joseph's health.—(Loud handsome
cheers.)
Sir J. PAXTON thanked the assembly for the kind re-
ception which they had given to the -
andhaid that he felt before this mention of his name,
great work was ended
he should require all their indulgence
It was a work of great magnitude,
and good feeling.
and care and attention in its progress. 'requiring
thought
fleeting months a very large extent of Within a few
undergo an almost magical change.—(g
elit
of
ground was to
he was full of hope, and of Conede•—(Hear, hear.) But
count would be rendered on thence that a good ac-
e
(Cheers.) He felt that he hard to dolst of May next.
spi-
rited body of directors, who had gone wilile intoa
very-
tbestet
with a heartinesi he had nevenseeticocelted--(Cheere)
—and furthermore that he bad for his coadjutors his
old friends of the Crystal' p la- measrs. .7 slid
Henderson with. their a ce—
la" excellent
- numerous staff-- la eeted
friend Mr. 'Owen Jones and all the gentleinenete.
and
with the Exhibition and all hearty and
unanimouscountry.
determined to produce a palace worthy 0- -ben and all
--(Cheers.) He ire, ly forgave Lord COOP
.ric was not a
his ether friends who thought flYcleZlit they would
position for it—Laughter —Pad nod ".
so, .. This is a
come to Sydeeham, and smile pad 'say,
did you and the
beautiful place; what a service he (Sir J. Fax.
counzry!"—(Laughter.) Bah. a beautiful site—(Hear,
ten) we,. satisfied that this -',.
Iv
regret that the palace
hear)—he should alhhanyde.park.—(Cries of " No,
was - ever removed ,11.% p, bear.) But it was decided
no !") Yee, yesl—sh dee- Lord Campbell and those gen-
otherwise. He
in
to say that they treated him with
tlearen the .IF_scliness, though the oosed having the
nothing but Wen.
_Tic. Here, he wasps rry to say, he
palace in HyidffePa
a tent reception. The wife of a gentlernau,
mat 'with miles from that spot, was in a great rage
not a hundred and when he asked if he could see
Witli'hirn personally, would be ' •
~. was told it be went
impossible unless
ber,".— f,4 M s • rOWn•
name 0 r• 1111th "or e Mr.
in the, ,r ) He did not like '
that and be had not had
(I'l'l'l' eof an introduction' bat he was.told_
too Flegattr to her; .
_f
all perms
1 she was present nowo--(Cheers.) As sn° v

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