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London, England, 1852-08-06 00:00:00

THE NORTH of EUROPE STEAM ' .
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N COM aNY,
Capital, 503,C00/.,NAVIGAT in 25,000 pare of 2Ol. each, with power or ? P increase.
' i..• 1,, la,
Deposit 2s. per Share, being the amount limited by the Act
• and 8 Viet.. cap. 110. \,%• ~, '
DIRECTORS. i \,,:t4f ,- ~. .''' <
'The Earl of YA R BMW UGEL Chairman.
SAMUEL MORTON PETO, Esq., M.P., Deptity.Chairmati
Charles Geach, Esq., M P., Director of the Manchester, Sheffield,
a and Lincolnshire Railway Company.----
D. Waddington, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Eastern Counties Rail-
way Company.
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Lord Alfred Paget, M.P., Director of the Eastern Counties Railway IN .LONDO
Company.
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Robert_Corn- John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the London Docks.
=_ John ecott, Esq., Director of the East and West India Dock Co_ ~.a. ~. - • .--,-..-,-..-a.a-a- e-aaa•eia....., -,,,..-ara...,-...............--ea•aaaraaar-. ...•>:
Pant', and Choi. man of the East and West India Docks and. Mr-
_ Mineharn Junction Railway Company. 1 iA RE NT WESTERN R AILWAY.
Samuel Beale,
Esq., Chairman of the hlidlant Railway Company. kfi C rIEAP EXCURSION to the WEST of ENGLAND. '
Beale, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Midland Railway On TUESDAY, August 10, an EXCURSION TRAIN will leave
J. he
Company
Paddington at 8 15 nau., for Plymouth, call ng at Weston-super
• Rlitvalie; Cobboll, Esq., M.P. Chairman of the Eastern Union Mare, Brilgewater, Taunton, Tiverton-road, Exeter, Starcro s,
irwaY CompanY.
Dawlish, feammouth Torquay, Totnee, and Plymouth ; and will
return from Plymouth at 8 15 a.m., on MONDAY, Anaust 16, calling
Captain
, d Till, Esq., Director of the,Norfolk Railway Company.
‘giZia W. S. Andrews, of Lowestoft. j at the came stations.
WinK_G*orge Gordon, Esq., Chairman of the Oriental Bank, London. , , • Fares There and Back.
ki,.,,,,,T t;nten, Esq., Banker, Rochdele. . ; . First Class. Closed
Carriages,
-1:;;Ldr Westenholz, Esq., Ae.ent to the Danish Government in Westoa-super-lfare and BrAgewater 2,5. 13s.
o, Taunton and Tiverton-road..
ei Henry John Rich, Esq., 20 Duke-street, St. James's. 303. 16s.
..
BANKERS. Starcros•, Dawlisla and Teignmouth 325. .. 17s.
3tessrs, Glyn, Mills, and Co. ; and the Union Bank of London. Torquay and Totnes. ..... .......... 3s. .. 18s.
Plymouth ..........
SOLICITORS. 3ss. .. 20s.
' . Messrs. J. C. and 11. Freslifield. I The Excursion Tict.:ets are no: transferable, and are only avaii,ible
OFFICIAL AUDITOR. far t.e Excursion Train. 'Pickets may be obtained previously at 27,
J. E Coleman, Esq. King-street, Cheapside; 269, Strand ; and at the Paddington
, .
SECRETARY. Station.
Mr. John Hervey.
The times of stopping at the different stations, and other partica-
Offices, 84, King Willi •m-street. lars, will be given is handbills, which tray be had at any of the
neobject of this Company is to give to the publ e, In its inter- ollic.s of the Company.
course with the North of Europe, the full benefit of the improved
:intern of transit for mails, passengers, and goo 's, which the great ,
1 GRE A.T IVESTERN RAILWAY sPeed and combined arrangement of the railway system now render
Practicable. 'r V Notice is hereby given, that the next RALF-YEARLY GE-
An,a EItAL MEET ENG' of the Prop letors of this Company will beheld,
immediate eaten ion of exi3'i"`ar means of transit is nec,ssary
'to meet' the large and in greasing importation of cattle, fruit, and all pursuant to the Act of Parliament. is; Bristol, at the Bristol Station,
' agriceltbral products, from she North of Europe, to supply the vast on THURSDAY, the 12th day of. August next, for general purposes of
business ; and the said meeting will be niad, Special to consider the
consumption of the central and manufacturing districts of England ;
propriety of authorising the Di ectors to reduce the rate of fixed
While t.,e great and increasing export trade in mana:actußd goods
i
and materials from these districts, which are sent down by railway interest on certain unissued Stock, created at a former meeting of
to the coast, requires the same impraved facilities for its transport the Company, and to alter or vary the conditions upon which it may
across the North Sea. be issued. The Chair will be taken at One o'clock precisely.
To meet these demands, it is intended to combine and establish a
rapid and more f equent communl :ellen between London, stanches-
C. RUSSELL, Chairman.
• ter. Liverpool, and all the principal parts ot England, and the wind BARRINGTON, Deputy-Chairman.- ‘
Pal ports and cities of the north of Europe, by means of express The Tranefer Books will be Closed on the 2d day ofAugust, and
teanse a running in connexion with express trains. will not be Opened until after the said Half-yearly General Meeting
• The ports on the east coast of England, to arid from which the on the 12th August.
Company's steamers will, in the first instance, arrive and depart, are London Terminus, Paddington, July 15, 1852.
Harwich, Lowestoft, and Great Grimsby. The two former situate
nearthe entrance of the Thames, and on the extreme eastern coast MIDL AND R AILWAY.
of Great Britain, and in direct communication, by railways, with Notice is hereby given, that the next ORDINARY HALF-
London and all the south and east parts of England, the_latter more YE aItLY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the Midland
Conveniently situate for Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, and all Railway Company, under their Act of Incorporation, will be held at
Places in the n. Rh and west. the Railway Stati. n at Derby, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th da • of
Other ports of departure will be added to these as the public con- August instant, at One o'clock in the Afternoon precisely. 3
'sentence may require. And notice is hereby further given, that the said Meeting will be
From these ports express steamers will run in combination with made Seecial, in order to consider and determine upon the expe-
, express trains, by which will be conveyed mails, passengers, specie, diency of enterin jointly with the London and North-Western Reil-
and merchandise, from London and the south-eastern parts of Eng- way , ompany into an agreeme
• net Wiela.,the., laanchester, Buxton,
Lend, , and from Manchester, Liver, 001, and all parts of the north an t Matlock, and Midlands Junction Railway Company for leasing, and
.4.,, , west of Great Britain, for Rotterdam, ..Antweip, Ostend, Hamburgh, I' so determined, to lease the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and
. -". 'Bremen, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Copenhagen, St. Peters- Midlands Junction Railway and Cromford Can,,l for such period and
'burgh, and all ports of the north of Euroae.
. B upon such terms and conditions as shall be decided upon
y combining express trains with tea steamers, passenaers will be Dated this 4th day of August, 1852. *
• onveyed-
, JOHN •ELLIS, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
FROM LONDON VIA HARWICH. SAMUEL BEALE, Deputy-Chairman.
To Rotterdam in . . .... ..
By order,
Antwerp in..
J. F. BELL, Secretary.
Ostend in .. .
FRO3I LONDON VIA LOWESTOFT.
To Toning in . • 2B hours. TH E CHIRIQUI - ROID CO VIPANY.•
Christiansand in ......... .......
Chr stiania ......... • •
Gottenburg in ..... • •• • •
Copenhagen ........ ••••-••• • • • • • • • 46 „ n Council, to grant a Churter of Incorporation for incorporating
FROM LONDON VIA GREAT GRIMSBY. the above Company under the name of " • HE CHI RIQU-ROaD
. .
To Hamburgb in.
Copenhagen in ....•••.••• . • • • • • • • • • • 46 „ the Province of Chiriqui, situate lin Terra Firma Proper, in the
St. Petersburgh in ..... ..... ••• • • • • 120 •• Republic of New Grenada, to connect the Atlantic amid Pacific
•
,
FROM MANCHESTER VIA, GREAT GRIMSBY. Oceans, and to ca-ry on the bu bless and matters connected there-
, To Antwerp...
Rotterdam . .. • to the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations.
Amsterdam : ...... 21 „ JOHN OWENS, Solicitor,
Hamburgh ...• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
•• • • 30
"
Bremen ..
Copenhagen .... -•••• • • • • • •..
The
basis of arrangements to effect these objects has been settled ‘-.71
is. 2d'
With the railwa companies interested therein, and the adva tage of oor from faraveaend and r,0nd0n.......... 10c1. ...
there
,arrangements to merchants and travellers will be the follow- ~ Gravesend and Blackwell and Woolwich Bd. .... Os. 10d.
letween Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d, „ „ Os. Bd.
eslg. viz.:-
Daily Communications. N aaeioi racitets call at tae Grays, Greenhithe, and Purdeet eters,
xPeilition combined with comfort, safety, and convenience. Pee Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting),
. ,
. The shortest sea voyage possible between England and the various
, FROM TERRACE PIER, ,3RAVESEND
Places in the North of Europe.
. Booking through from all the principal towns in England, to all
Principal YV , ...&Ell Dale. iUND al' ti he places in the North of Europe.
_ At all their ports the Company's steam-vessels will receive and a . I
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deliver passeng• rs, &c., in the railway stations alongside the train, .._ . ;a ... ~...{9 = a
.4
7: ~ -.1 1 •:-. 3-..
,1111c1 travellers will be only one night at sea to Hamburgn and „ale t.., 14.,•,. -• , It. a Time. 5, 4
,a-
,t-
,i,...y.
0 .3 ..) 3.. k
'net:nark, and a few hours only to Rotterdam, Antwerp, and ' • ai . a "4 0 „q a a e.s
Ostend, . •„:, o 2, 1 o
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'S' I 00 4
0 .. P A:: p
4,trrangernentB will be made for return tickets available for a given 04 .a ri
'ee. The telegraph for the whole of the traffic of this Company to - ---- ---- --- - - -
tnerchants and passengers using its lines of communication will be t T - 7 - - 7 -
tree of charge. "814 — 8 -5% I _
__ The actual steam traffic now existing between Lowestoft and '9 - -••-• - I i
-
Denmark England
yields a very remunerative return. The vast trade of 11 e - - -3% - _ _
the
with Holland and Belgium awaits only the completion of 1V --7 -- 5 -•- - -
_,'"e railway to Harwich (now in progress) to follow that route, and 31.6 - - - -6% __ -
Lolls insure a profitable trade. 5 - - - - 7 -
The large docks of Grimsby are now opened, and arrangements 6% - - -7% - -- -
have,... been made with the railroad companies terminating in that as 7 - - 8 -
^tll as the other ports to secure at once a large traffic at remunera- 8 - 1 1 _ - -
live rates and the Directors have satisfied themselves that the cx-
tksedtatlon to all parte of Loudon
tension of trade vt•hicia must necessarily follow the
rimappirdolyeeidnearrertasnigneg- 3.irieiciLi,sreains
asofmromFetnlaceburßocahtustmreear
LP•AeCniCcitlAchrtire°ent
Merit, ',OW contemplate I, will yield an ample a
return on the capital embarked in the undertaking, 5 ',Tv quarter of an hour.
the arrival of
Arrangements have also been made for immediately transferring rßOteetenfoftllgloNwSintgVlTCrKai-nWs IlfrAnTußF,thl3B
to this Company the whole of the steam traffic now existing between
these porta, and for making over to this Company the boats now
running ~_between them, so as to enable it to commence operations WEEK Dais, i
.umediately. hiriND•TS.
I 1 ,
It was intended to constitute the Comoeny in the first instance ,a 1 0
Time. ;',44ts.4''' ciTi.l !,; I
litodYnisrcr
earter of Incorporation, and application 1511. It, ' ..5 t si '41,.
was made to the
:21 i:is r.. ....i , 4,1 ''''' ' 0
wf Trade with that view, but after a delay of three months, rime. 1a• ,ti i ,a ce
..a,-
my-,Z;e.h eh the i's-ms of a Charter were settled with that Boa d, ►
.4 2,1 a 3 a g .3. B'l. 4 t
sits
ted difficulty has arisen in consequence of 0 g
*wit urged I as g I. g
interested Oppo-
enteat„ et a erit eel period. Tne Directors, however, do not I
Cornpial_aar d übt of obtaining a Charter in a future sta,e of the -•"' ---- - - --"'"- -- - --" - ----
sh The
depos"Deit rations. 94 - . _ - 9 - - -
4be paid on the allotment of shares will be 2s. per 9% - - -9% - - -_
A deed a• 10% - - I - 10% -
- '
- II
finorytthelve rwegit4llb°abtdt:aing Such provisions as may be considered proper 1114 - I ——— _ _
as the arrangetn
0' the Company, and for carrying out the objects 1'44 - - - - - I% -
, - .
e Prepared
ietwe:h the sanction of the Directors, so soon
Shareholders a comprlecescary for securing the interests of the 414 -
-1- 6 - -
the Dlrectorws
re ea -6% 1 - -i - - - 1
to the for I I
ret7e,rtClabzoeibwevme,ade in the annexed form addressed
of th • to menr,, Lae Company, 84, King William-street, City ; or
tholomew 1 and Pearce, Auction Matt, Bar- Passages marked si are ran direct.
- lane, BOAT TICKETS.-Twelve Months, 54.05.; Six Months, W. Os.; 3
To Fonsf
Three Mouths, 21. Os.: to be had of the Collectors on board the
the Di i OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
*1
centienrLetors of the North of•EuroPe Steam Navigation Company, packets; or Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend.
Gentlemen,- -Be
8 1852. 13 , undertakin ' ing desirous of becoming a subscriber in the above July ,
20/,
be allotted 4t.:, I,,Le:i: ef t th tt you will allot to me --- Shares of a
each therein, the whole of which or any less number that may RUMMEL'S HYGIENIC PERFUMERY, cer- -Tree to accept, ant on demand to pay the re- titled by the celebrated chemist, Dr. Ure, F.R.S., &c., to be of a.
caked deposit of 2s. per share • I also undertake to execute the deed
of settl the purest and most innocuous quality, and incapable of injuring the
ement of the Compan ,10 be prepared by the Directors, when most delicate skin Or complexion, au effec too often produced by a
called u.,„
vom m 3
Top eert,
Vine.
a- r ,
event
ado
by advertisement In the Times newspaper ; or in the u No. 1 and 2, Toilet
Hygienic 6d. and Is. ; '
such _,` tn 9 failing to do so for one month after the publication of ~2s. 61. ; No. 4,Pomade, Is. 6d. ; No.
de.--.41-" ertisement I agree that the Shares allotted to me with the 5, .H.Ygieffic Hair Wash, Is, 6d. : No. 6, Hygienic Dentin ice, Is. ;
deposits Paid thereon, shall be forfeited to the use of the Compan •
y• No. 7, Cosmetic Lotion, 2s. Sold by all Perfumers and Chemists, i
I sin, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Sole Proprietor, E. RIMMEL, 39, Gerrard street, Soho.
Date ....... - -
Name (in lull) ..... - -
PATRON-H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT.
Address in (full) - - - - - - 4
Business or profession - - - - YAL kOLYTECH Nle INSTITUTION. /'
. R O
Whether holder of shares in any 5
and which of the railway d°m" - LECTURES, '
- BY J. H. Pepper, 7.15 q., on Testing Gold, and on the Australian Gold :
panics named in the Prospectus Districts ; and also on the Alleged Adulteration of the Burton Bitter d
•Reference • - - - - - - - Ale with Strychnine. _ _ _ v

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LONDON FRIDAY
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AUGUST 6, 1852.

_Now ready,'ln3 vols. Bvo., with fine Portraits, d2s. bound,
LIFE OF MAKIE DE MEDICI'S.
By Mi.s PAPDOE.

still speak so magnificently of the grandeur of Imperial
Rome. But what were all these palaces, and how
we
ore they constructed? They were raised by the
spoils of ca
ptaive nations, and the forced labour
of myriads of slaves, to gratify the caprice or vanity
of some solitary despot.—(Hear, hear, hear.) To our
own age has been reserved the privilege of raising a
palace for the people.—(Load cheers.) Yes, the structure of which the first column has just raised its head into
the air, is emphatically and distinctly the possession of
the British people, as it is the production of their own
unaided and independent enterprise.—(gear, hear.) On
us, to whom circumstances have entrusted the direction
of this great popular undertaking, devolves the duty of
seeing that it is carried out in a manner worthy of the
public spirit of the age in which we live, and of the mag-
nitude of our high mission. I assure you we all feel very
deeply the responsibility of our position; and although,
for the reasons to which I have already adverted, we
have judged it premature and unseemly to make any
formal religious ceremonial on the present occasion, we
feel not the less .profoundly that, in carrying out this
Undertaking, as we hope to do, to a successful issue, we
Ire but acting as the instruments of that beneficent and
ever-ruling Providence which is guiding our great
British race along the paths of peaceful progress. I
trust that the assurance that we are all deeply and inti-
mately impressed with what I may almost venture to
call a religious policy of our duties and responsi-
bilities, will be 'accepted as a guarantee that to
be best of our judgment and ability this great under-
eating shall be constructed in a proper spirit and with a
view to noble and elevating objects.—(Hear, hear ) As
regards the material portion of the enterprise, words are
but feeble instruments, in which to paint the triumphs of
art and the beauties of nature. It is better. to ask you
,0 look aroundyou and say for yourselves whether the
site is worthy of the ,people's palace and the
to yourselves' surrounding the. people's
:lark. Figure area
which b
is now defined by a circle of beauty, converted
into a crystal dome, and raised aloft under the blue vault
if heaven, and you will form some indistinct image of
he new central transept as it exists in the genius of a
Paxton, and as it will' hortly exist as a tangible reality
for the wonder and admiration of millions.—(Cheers.).—(Cheers.)
But I will not detain you longer by attempting to de-
no words can adequately represent,
ind I will conclude
scribe that which
by the expression of another senti-
merit to which lara
sure you will heartily respond. In
peculiarly and emphatically on the fact that
this is to be t
iooking so
bs
palace of the peopl-, the time was
shen I should leave risked calling forth some antago-
iistic feeling as if the cause of the people were placed
contradistinction to that of the Crown
• '
a invidious racy. Thank heaven the time
end the
arietsCiections can be drawn in England has
ellen such dis i_
ea (Bear, hear.) It is the grand characte-
laaffear---- f our present gracious Sovereign to
' of the reign o
Bog
be most rapid progress in the material,
lave witnessed t
intellectual improvement of the mass of the
noral, and inted,
es a consequence, a corresponding in-
topulation; a
°social importance and political power, not
!me se in their
poly without any
outbreak of democratic passions, but,
n the contrary, withanEqually marked increase in the
attachment of those very classes to the institutions of
sod to the -
person of their Sovereign.—
(Loud and
heir country
tontinee cheering.) The feeling of loyalty,
which had dvi .
n
dle into a faint dilettante speculation or
Vague historical reminiscence, has in our days been most
an
derfully revived, and exists now as a
IaPPiIY, a," w pervading all classes of society, and binding
he highest and
pow
drn lowest in the land together by one co-
non and ennobling
tie of reasonable and intelligent, yet
ievoted and affectionate veneration for the character and
person of our beloved Queen and her illustrious consorttad family.—
(Cheers.)
Towards the creation of this
w believe no incident has contributed in a
-Wore marked degree than the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Montt of us will ever forget to whose comprehensive and
philosophic mind we are indebted for the original idea
O that transeendan te
Exhibition, and to whose courage,
resolution, and business aptitude we owe the prosecution
if that idea to a successful
conclusion amidst all manner
s
condescending
Nor shall we hastily forget
if doubts and difficultiending
manner in which our gra-
iioushe affable and
surroundedc by
her family, mixed there day
titter day in free and
Queen,
unreserved intercourse with her
example by which all from high to
subjects, setting
ofan example
enlightened interest in worthy ob-
jects and unaffectedlow might profit,
sympathy with the tastes and enjoy-
meats of her people.
With these recollections fresh in
our minds, I must confess it has been an inspiriting
ides with us that in perpetuating an enduring memorial
et that great and glorious ' Exhibition, and in expanding
the noble and philanthropic idea of Prince Albert into
Testi developments, we should be at the same time rear-
ing a monument, perhaps not altogether inappropriate or
unworthy.of the reign under which we have the happy
privilege
to live. I feel that you all respond to this sen-
timent, and join with
that in calling on you now to me
in celebrating the act of laying the foundation-stone of
he People's Palace, I cannot suggest a better mode of
expressing our common feeling than by asking you to
unite in one loud and hearty acclamation of " God save
the People's Queen."—(Loud cheering.)
The external ceremonies having been thus brought to
a satisfactory conclusion, upwards of 500 ladles and
zentlemen who had received invitations from Messrs.
Fox and Henderson, proceeded with considerable alacrity
co the large pavilion, in which a magnificent cold colla-
tion,
with wines of every description in abundance, had
been tastefully spread out by Mr. Higginbotham, of the
British Hotel, for their refection. We believe that this
was Mr. Higginbotham's delnit as caterer for so large a
company, and certainly it could hardly be possible for a
first attempt to come off with greater éclat. The com-
pany showed their deep appreciation of his exertions by
the energy with which they devoted themselves to the
demolition of the good cheer, giving striking proofs of
(he healthfulness of the Sydenham air in the marked
improvement of their appetites. The chair was taken by
Mr. Laing, and amongst the distinguished company
present (in the majority of instances accompanied by
ladies) were:—Lord Stratford de Redchffe Lord Er-
nest Bruce and Lady Cardigan, Lord F. liallyburton,
the Right Honourable Mr. Walpole, M.P.; Mr. Low,
M.P., Mr. Pellatt, M,P., Mr. G. C. Lewis and
Lady Theresa Lewis, Sir James Duke, 'al.P.; Mr. De-
lane, Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P.; the Honourable Mr.
Strange; Professors Ansted, Forbes, Say, and Wheat-
stone, Dra. Faraday, Latham, Forbes, Boyle, Lindley,
and Marshall Hall, Sir John Lubbock, Mr. Charles
Knight, Mr. Waterhouse, Mr. Glaisher, Mr. Fairbairn,
Sir Charles Barry, R.A., Sir Charles Lyell, Mr. Dyce,
R.A., Mr. Stanfield, R.A., Mr. Creewick, R.A., Mr.
Cruikshank, Mr. H. Weigel!, Mr. Mowbray Morris, Mr.
Douglas Jerrold, Mr. Peter Cunningham Mr. Crace,
air. Collard, Mr. Delarue, Mr. Nicholay, M'r. Osier, Mr.
Garrard, the Messrs. Clowes, Mr. Ruskell, Mr. Thacke-
ray, Mrs. Chisholm.
The following had written, expressing a warm interest
in the undertaking, but stating that by the electiotni and
other causes they were prevented from attending:—
Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of Oxford, Duke
of Bucc!euoh, Duke of Manchester, Duke of Newcastle,
E krl of Carlisle, Earl Ducie. Earl of Clarendon,
Viscount, Palmerston, Earl of Derby, lord Chancellor,
Right Honourable B. Disraeli, M.P., Right Honourable
J. J. Henley, M.P.; Right Honourable Lord Juhn
Manners, M.P., Attorney-General, Lord Mayor, Lord
Mayor of Dublin, Lord Provost of Glasgow, Mayor of
Manchester, Mayor of Birmingham, Mayor of Li-
verpool, the Astronomer Royal, Lord Rosse, Sir
John Herschel, Bart., Dr. Hooker. Professor Owen,
Sir Henry Delabeche, Sir David Brewster, Sir James
Clark, Bart., Sir William Cubitt, G. P. Bidder, Sir
Gardner Wilkinson, Sir Charles L. Eastlake, P.R.A.,
Sir R. Westmacott, R.A., R. Redgrave, R.A., C. R.
Cockerill, R.A., John Gibson, R.A., Chevalier Bunsen,
M. Van de Weyer, Mr. Abbott Lawrence, Lord J.
Russell, M.P., Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr.
Walter, M.P., Mr. Justice Erle, Mr. Longman, Mr.
John Murray, Mr. W. Chambers, Mr. R. Chambers, Sir
John Musgrove, Bart., Mr. Edward L. Betts, Captain
Huish, Mr. Thomas Carlyle, Mr. Alfred Tennyson, Mr.
Albert Smith, Mr. Ford, Mr. G. Grow, Dr. Empson,
Rev. F. D. Maurice, Rev. C. Kingsley, Rev. J. D. Bald-
win Brown, Rev. Dr. Cumming, Mr. Hardman,
Mr. Elkington, Mr. Winfield, of Birmingham ; Mr.
Forbes, Mr. Milligan, M.P., Mr. Titus Salt, of Bradford;
Mr. Crosly, of Halifax; Mr. Jobson Smith, Mr. Rod-
gers, of Sheffield; Mr. Minton, Mr. Copeland, of the •
Potteries; Mr. Wilson, of Price's Candle Company; Mr.
Maudslay, of Lambeth; Mr. Cubitt, Belgravia; Messrs.
Broadwood; Mr. R. Napier, of Glasgow; Sir J. Potter,
Mr. Thomas Bazley, of Manchester.
The toasts of "The Queen," "Prince Albert and the
rest of the Royal Family" having been duly honoured,
The CHAIRMAN proceeded to give the toast of the
evening. He said that in proposing the toast of " Suc-
cess to the Crystal Palace," he should be obliged to
trespass a little longer on their time than was usual in
occasions of that description. But be did so with a full
conviction that all who were assembled there felt a warm
and deep interest in the project to initiate which they
were then assembled. That was no mere festive comme-
moration in which all but complimentary remarks would
be out of place, but a meeting for business as well as
pleasure, and one part of the business of the day was to
explain as shortly as he could the objects which ho had
already told them at the inauguration the company had
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no
pen_
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Pre"n(Cheers.)
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be found its maintenance and perpetuity.—(Cheers. )
They (the projectors) had seen the
people of England in
the old Crystal Palace. They had seen them there dis-
play characteristics which had hitherto been denied to
them. It had been denied to their, year after year, and
up to a very late time, that they could be entrusted
with the preservation and the enjoyment of the treasures
of art, as had long (teen done upon the continent. It
was denied that refined enjoyments and that nature were
suited to their taste—it was denied that anything but the
ring, the tavern, and the gin-palace, and the rougher
sports, had any charms for Englishmen. In fact, it was
denied that Englishmen had any taste for art. But what
fwas the result of the Great Exhibition of 1851? Why,
that six millions of the people passed through the Cry-
stal Palace —(Hear.) Did Englishmen believe that
that ought to pass away? Ought not such an induce-
aitfuiejheedr. he_ (a lookedear.
.) uponon ei t a
fines
induce-
ment to he perpetuated?" Thie was at first believed to
impossible; and he confessed that when it had been
ch
manorinzninpeosshie remembered
biliy
to
carry
that a body of
sion of the Crystal Palace; and when they did so he
confessed that he felt very much like the individual who
had the present of an elephant made to him. They
would remember it was a custom whenever an Indian
sovereign wanted to rain one of his subjects ho made
him the present of an elephant. Tne company,
then, were the elephant. They had got a crystal ele-
phant, but nothing to feed him with, for the park in
which he was pasturing was taken away. But they had
yet faith in one another and iii Englishmen. They said
to each other "We have no tears for our elephant. We
will give it food." And we applied to the people of Eng-
land whether the elephant should be fed or not, the
people of England said 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.
—(Hear, hear.) Some persons said that the new Crystal
Palace did not deserve so well of the people as its prede-
cessor, because it was a commercial undertaking. But
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-
lieve that anything not of the nature of a commercial
undertaking, and which did not stand upon its own
bottom, would last. They believed that this would be a
,el'-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 audits managers would not descend from
the high moral and social objects they had in view to
pander either to a lower 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 because
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
merely the guardians of the public property by com-
mencing this undertaking, and that after they had been
remunerated who had risked the lots of their money, all
that remained over should be consigned to the improve-
ment and elevation of the great schools of national art
and national industry.—(Hear, hear.) The first task,
as 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 but for an enlightened and disin-
terested gentleman connected with the Brighton
Railway, the proprietor of the beautiful park in
which they were now assembled. That gentleman
came forward in the last
emergency, when they were
in a difficulty, and said,
"although I had made up my
mind to spend the remainder of my days here, I would
rather h give it up than you s,
you shall have the park."
ould be without a site, and
(Chee.rs.) The directors
were willing to pay him a large
he was unwilling to accept preferringit,, for the land, but
amount as fixed by as arbitrator, rand to have the
not farthing
more.—(Hear.) Thus the comp snyhad
ele-
phant into the park. But this was not all. Rot
ethiee
hn
was old—they wanted a new one—and a miller was at
re-
quired to grind the old animal into a new one.—(Laugh-
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
ald Crystal Palace stood, in all its beauty, in Hyde-
park, everybody said it was impossible to go fu'rther,
Ind 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
ene, as the old one was grander and more perfect
than our ideas of such structures before, then he
lid not regret the removal of the old palace from
Llyde-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. Bat their old friends,
Messrs. Fox and Henderson, assured them that as cer-
'ein as the old Crystal Palace in Hyde. park was opened
by the day named, the Ist of May, 1851, so surely
would the new Crystal Palace, in all its glory, be
opened in that park on the Ist of May, 1853.—(Hear,
hear.) Thus another impossibility was 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 produce a
far more glorious structure than that of 1851.—(Hear,
hear.) What they wished to have believed was, that no
man ever entered upon any duty more sincerely desirous
of accomplishing the highest aims—moral, religious,
social, and mithetical—than the promoters of this under-
taking.—(Hear.) After a few more observations, Mr.
Russell concluded by proposing the health of " The Visi-
tors," which was received with loud cheers.
Sir C. LYELL was called upon,. and returned tthanks
for the toast in a few observations, which were but im-
perfectly heard. Sir Charles expressed his conviction
that this Exhibition might be made, with regard to all
matters of art and science, what the British Museum, the
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 results.—(Hear.
Mr. PETO had the permission of the chairman to pro-
pose a toast, which would be received with great pleas
sure-" The health of the Chairman and Directors of the
Crystal Palace Company."—(Loud 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.
—(Hear, hear.) He felt sure, too, that however attrac-
tive the palace of Versailles might be to our Gallia
neighbours, it would yield before the still reater
charms of our new Crystal Palace g •
; for while
the beauties of the
one were clouded with
dirk associations of s ' uttering and woe, the
et her could suggest nothing but that which
would premote " 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 he
lt
ra,ted they would also manifest by their own conduct
and by that moral and mental elevation which all would
rejaice to see effected.
The toast was di tank with nine times nine.
The CI:AIRMAN in returning thanks, diFelsitaEd all
praise but that which belonged to the bumble hocman
who furnished the materials for raising the structure.—
(Laughter.) The most exalted genius, itw of air, could
weverdid not
not soar in the air if the material element
17:jet to sustain his fluttering pinion:
(Hear, hear.)
_r4
el Owen Jones,
It was to Sir Joseph Paxton,
d Mr. Digby Wyatt
Kessrs. Fox and Hentlerson.a
edifice. The board
that they would owe the
carrying out the de-
could do nothing towards the pounds. shillings, and
sign except by P
su PkYlip-the credit they claimed.—
pence; and that was
hater.) He would now conclude
(Hear, hear, and laugol
~,; by one more toast. What would
the present proceeelfai
5 have been without the ladies?—
the Exhibition of
. What would the present proceedings be
(Loud cheers./
it they blotted out the fairer ball of creation ?—(Cheers.)
Crystal Palace be if they were not
wouldhe new
Will" t tronage of the ladies of England?—
to receive tbepa
cheers.) He never wished to see the day when
(Loud dof England would wish to go abroad with-
the busban.
es.
when-the brothers of England would
out their wiv
not ,
their
sisters as th • dearest companions; and
when
regard their
not the lads of this country would find the most
attraction in looking upon the comely f
perfectacee of
the lasses who were dear to them.—(Cheers.)
In answer to loud cries of "Paxton,"
[ The CHAIRMAN briefly, and with a handsome c pii"
went, proposed Sir Joseph's health.—(Load ern-
cheers.)
Sir J. PAXTON thanked the assembly for the kind re-
ception which they had given to the mention
and said that he felt before this great ilcd
his
name'
he should require all their indulgence work was ended
It w and good feeling,
as a work of great magnitude, requiring thought
equiring thought
and care and attention in its progress,
fleeting months a very large extent Within a few
of ground was to
of hope and of configden h
undergo an almost magical chap
he was full
good B
acut
*
co $t hat a -
count would be rendered on the
(Cheers.) Ile felt that he had to lst
ofMay
neat.—
a very do withry spi-
rited body of directors, who had gone into the matter
with a heartiness he had never seetie
excelled—(Cheers)
—and furthermore that he had for his coadjators his
old friends of the Crystal Palace—Messrs. Fox and
Henderson, with their numerous staff—his excellent
d
friend Mr. Owen Jones, and all the gentlemen connected
with the Exhibitions and all hearty and tulunimens
determined to produce a palace worthy of the
1 country.aud all
—(Cheers.) He freely forgave Lord Ca P
inhbewl as not a
his other friends who thought Hyde-par
they would
position for it—(Laughter)—and 0
e doubt „ This is
come to Sydenhans, and smile tuid
whams (Sir
anti the
beautiful place; what a service
(Sir J. Pax-
country I"—(Laughter.) But thongbeautiful site—(Hear,
ton) was satisfied that this was a
that the palace
hear)—he should always regret
.park.—(Cries of " No
was ever removed from liY it wa
But - '
a been)sdecided
no r) yes, Fes!—(Hear, l—(Hee ' Lord Campbell and those en-
•
otherwise. He must do
that they treated him g with
I with
justice w say
tlemen the
tbough they opposed having the
I nothing but kindness,
Hyde-Park. Here, he was sorry to say, he
palace in
different reception. The wife of a gentleman,
met with a .I s from that spot, was in a great rage
not a hundred nu
and
i nhe asked if he con! see
I with him persons: y,
her, he wasM-li be ,
'
told it W • impossible unless he went e ar.
name of eel'. Smith, "or e letr. Brown."—
in the
He didnot like . bad not had
that, and be
(Laughter )
was told
leasure of an introductisn to her; but e-e
tee P of all persons
she was present now.--(Cheere.) As she

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amongst maekind.—(Cheees.) He had, therefore, the
greatest satisfaction in announcing the adherence of
Chevalier Bunsen, M. Van de Weyer, and Mr. Abbott
Lawrence to their project. As all present were conver-
sant with the history of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
it would he idle to detain them with any retrospect, and
he would simply say that the idea of that Exhibition
originated in the noble and philosophic ceeception of
the highest personage in the realm next to the Sove-
reign, and was developed into
a world's wonder and at-
traction without parallel.—(Loud cheers.) He could not
refrain from calling at-eutiou to the almost providential
circumstances which had co-operated in bringing about
that magnificent result. The accidental discovery of a
water lily of gigantic dimensions in another hemisphere
had set his friend Sir Joseph Paxton about devising
means of household accommodation for the Victoria-
regie, and the plan he devised for that accommodation
expanded into the idea of affording accommodation under
a crystal roof for the assembled nations of the universe.
—(Load cheers.) When that unrivalled exhibition had
done its work, when the time had come, as in the case
of all sublunary grandeur, that it must die, a bitter feel-
ing of regret was felt that that, which had been a great
opportunity for the instruction of the people should pass
away without an enduring record.—(Cheers.) That idea
took a. varkety of shapes. In the first place, it took the
shape of pressure from without upon the Legislature
of this country, to preserve the Crystal Palace on its
original site. That attempt did not succeed, and for
good reason. Ile had regretted the failure at the
time, and bad been somewhat disposed to reproach
the Legislature for their great indifference to the
wants of the people. But experince had corrected that
short-sighted notion, and taught him that the Legis-
tore had done quite right in leaving the people
of England to their own resources. The consequence of
the vote negativing
the
rte I t f
maintenancehu
Palace had been to give them a new andmore beautiful
crystal palace at Sydenham.—(Loud cheers.) The old
Crystal Palace would rise, like a phoenix, more beautiful
sseoriAir a
yt oo,f
that theB 53 old
which
h e
y Crystalehwould
al
dd
o had
have, a crystal palace far superior
than ever; and, not to waste words, after the models
which had been exhibited in an adjoining tent, nt, h
he woult
repeat his belief that
passed away.—.(Hear, hear.) El
describe e would now proceed to
•as briefly as possible the objects which they
intended to carry out
in
that g
hoped to see completed in S dorious building, which he
enham Park. Those ob-
jects might be briefly classed
recrea-
tion, instruction, and commercialnder the head of
to the question of recreation, theyetility- With respect
strongly that there were some' could not but feel
grounds for the often addressed to Englishmen, reproach
better than most men how to work
andat while they knew
how
create objects of
industry, they knew worse than any
them-
selves.—(Cheers and laughter.) lt omwustot amuse
be admitted
that in that respect they were inferior to many
foreign nations, to whom in other respects they were su-
perior. It must be admitted that amidst the striking
and noble qualities of the labouring men of England
there was a slight deficiency in that polish, and those
aesthetic qualifications which refined the character of
some nations of the continent. It was not true accord-
ing to the representation of Englishmen in the French
vaudeville, that they went about with bull-dogs at their
heels and halters round their wives' necks—(Loud
laughter)—but still they must admit that the popular
exaggeration was founded upon some faint and remote
degree of verisimilitude.—(Hear, hear.) It must be ad.
[flitted, then, that if they could furnish the masses of the
people with a rather more ennobling recreation than
they could find on Windmill-hill or at Greenwich fair, or
worse 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 bad even in his recollection made
great advances, more especially among the labouring
classes, and he believed the time had now come when
the gentlemen of England must look to themselves i,
they wished to keep their places—(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 shoulo
see the aristocracy elevating themselves to still treater
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, speaking from a pretty intimate
acquaintance with the habits and character of the
working classes, and he believed his friend, Mr. Peto.
who sat on his right 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 all they wanted to raise
them to the level of their more fortunate and refined
countrymen wag the application of that maxim which
they all remembered in the Latin Grammar:
" Ingenues didicisse 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 perfection as it was pos-
sible 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 1851 fully confuted the notion that
the people of England vvere unworthy of enlightened re-
creation, and that to offer it to them was only throwing
pearls to swine. They saw three millions of visitors, in
a period of less than six months, conducting themselves
with the greatest decorum, and Buell 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 before.—(Cheers.) As to the means
of instruction, it must be understood that they proposed
in this building to combine instruction with amusement:
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 the notorious fact, that the ten-
dency of the present age was no longer to appeal to the
intellect by dry abstractions, or mere words, but to appeal
to all the senses of the human being, man, offering to
him, as it were, illustrated editions of treat works of na-
ture and of science.—(Cheers.) Their g 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 to
give an ethnological series of the whole human family,
in wbich the young men who had not means to purchase
large works, or who had been studying Dr. Pritchard,
might come there and for a shilling get a comprehensive
notion of the subject.—(Hear, hear.) Another illustra
lion 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
cot.on-mill, they might see the manufacture at a glance,
from the moment the raw material went in until it emerged
in the beautiful gauze and muslin with which so many of
the falr ladies around ~him were decorated. As tar,
then, as instruction was concerned there would be nc,
deficiency in the new Crystal Purace. But to descend
to commonplace objects of commercial utility, he m ouhi
ask what was another great principle of the prt sent
day? What stared them in the face at every turning?
Colossal advertising vans and Brobdignagia,n boots, Tie.,
principle was the principle of advertising,_(fi --
ear,
principle
hear.) It was in our commercial age a
of
first-rate necessity, enabling people to compare
the
value they obtained in one place with the .i
value
another.—(Bear, hear.) Great and unrivalled -
o2tegdreat
it,
bees the glories of the Great Exhibition of 1851 88
were
were the exertions of the patriots who pro
could tell them that after all it was the principle of ad-
vertising that started that wonder.—
And let him further tell them th place like that
t(blear, hear.)
would be frequented by numer ' a"
a whom an ad-
vertiser would like to attract. AcllalsfsOrseigners would
inevitably visit them, all country visitors to town would
resort to them, so that their
and hugest advertising van that palace
would be the beat
—(Hear, hear.) It would supply
had ever been exhibited.
which had been often felt,
in ' another great want
bazaar. They all knew . being a great national
that in the -early ages of com-
merce there were largee fairs attracting great masses of
people, and having
meats had supersedendormous traffic. Modern ienn7B77
showed these, but the Exhibitio.niofnece_l_
that a world's fair was still a cnmmerclaew 6
sity, ent of
Let them only imagine when their arrang re_
the. Cyrstal Palace was carried out, what a neW
dare'
would be given to another subject, wbegeak-
e. nee it would have on the business of shopreir?getay say
ing as he did in the presence of the fair sex. ne
y present carried
that the way in which shopping to the lords
on was by no means agreeable or elevatingas
y tdd bring all the
of the creation.—(Laughter.) '
1 of dress would be esia-
master pieces of art togetherie,f they
tastes would be
formed, true re3thetic Prinli would be . conferred on so..
blished, and great besehret of which the importance
ciety. This was a 8;1 tot as many gentlemen were
could not be overrates
would not detain them further than by
to follow him, he. socos to the Crystal Palace:, e
Ryazan said he had to address a few
again proposing 6
Mr. Scorn
he were more especiallconnected ~,,;,,
he was about topropose---- —u"
a toast
words to those w
i b nearly all present.the ll
eintended
the undertalteinaTrfaseer
twohnicrhnow"-thst they should drink to health of the
r--. °sena had the greater pleas '
proudvisitors. that,
as
one
of
the
felt. undertaking, he saw humblest beginners of this
great ..
.. prudent so large a body of
guests distinguished by position - •
in society, by
personal
character, and by extensive influence. He
resenee somethinglike a saw in their
P guarantee of their
goodviill towards the undertaking,andcordial
of
concurrence in accomplishing; its great social their cordial
Everything the.,
y had done upg to this reomo advantages.
pronounced byhad been
everybody, except themselves"
who knew their sincerity, impossible. It and those
believed_ that the Crystal Palace could be was
at first
Then the thing was so grand that it was impossible uated.
man could be got to buy the Crystal Pelee any
the impossibility exieted, ten Englishmen°,But, while
ei-P, were buying the Crystal Palace, ~ and, nobody
Englishmen believed in each other. The yh ten
thq believed in the p,,p10
of E,,,,,, 37 did more—
Ttiey believed that the Crystal p„1- "d'—(Cheers.)
Stay ;
.11 the hearts of common .0 • 'lee had its main
eengliehtnen, and that
Lin the common sense of common Eugliehmon would,