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be found its maintenance and per,
They (the projectors) had seen the pt
the old Crystal Palace. They hal se
play characteristics which had hithei
slsthhadadlohre,genbedeetinieddontoe then',u ye
up to a very late time, that they •
with the preservation and the enjoy:
them.of art, ,
was denied that refined enjoyments and that nature were
swsst
apuaoilstrepttdsh.a
leto
ha their
oade .__a resultn :toaaf
charm,
Palace,—(Hear.)
heaar—er:Gi t,
rwfeoaar
Didts . denied Englishmen.
nxEg llnipiibgannl
titmishohetanlnt eo.aa
fr in yel:tnBhl3s .isnllag?cthl e,
believe tuiv
ir.
tt
twthhh:
:yet
st,
impossible;
oapnt 0 ososufigbthihete; t
Crystalon
npdassh oa
Icy.
,caao
tyna
ring, the tavern, and the gin-palace, and the rougher
denied that Englishmen had any taste for art. But what
that six millions of the people passed through the Cry-
stal
to be perpetuated? This was at first believed to
achieved he looked. upon it as an impossibility to carry
it farther.—(Hear.) owthseunchit ahnadindbueceen-
One fine mornieg he remembered
and e hen they did so he
that a body of not more than twenty man took posses-
one
oe snide
his
stuob j
ee him.tshe Teesinad
e
confessed that he felt very much like the individual who
r wantedesent o of
t oa n
ruinelephant
would remember it was a custom whenever an Indian
him the present of an elephant. Tao 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 in Englishmen. They said
to each other "We have no fears 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 bad 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- •
tensor, 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
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 en 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 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 be 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
They believed, therefore, they were
the undertaking.
merely the guardians of the public property by nom-
after they had been
mencing this undertaking, and that _ _
remunerated who had risked the loss of their money, all
that remained over should be consigned to the improve-
mentgreat sehools of national art
and elevation of the
"and national industry.—(Hear, hear.) The first task,
as ho 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 aecomplish,
and would have done but for an ealightened 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 - ey, when they were
in a difficulty, and said, "althoughemergen' '
mind I had made uP IDY
to spend the remainder of days here, I would
rather give it up than you should be
without a site, and
you shall have the park."—(chrbe
directors
were willing to pay him a large hrs.) The
at
be was unwilling to accept it,
pricert for the land, b
and not
to have the
amount as fixed by an arbitrator,P
bneof, one farthing
snore.—(Herr.) Thus the company
d got the ele-
phant into the park. But this was not all. The elephant
was old—they wanted a new one--anti a miller was re-
quired to grind the old animal into a new one.—(Laugh-
ter.) They found such a miller in tho person of their
old friend Sir Joseph Paxton, and at once they threw
ihemselves upon the resources of his genius. When the
„Ad Crystal Palace stood, in ell its beauty, in Hyde-
emir, ever) body said it was impossible to go further,
end that it they tried to produce anything finer they
would fail. He felt of that opinion coo, when the Crye-
cal 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
tee, as the old one was grander and more perfect
.han 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-
:fees:e:lagthllatn
plished. The genius of Sir Joseph Paxton showed they
were not wrong in placing confidence in each other, and,
having that confidence, in going en 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 Hyde-park was opened
by the day named, the sat 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 aceoMpiished.
Under such circumstances he felt they were not wrong
in trusting to each other, to the enterprise of British
c. maiercial men, and to the British people, to produce a
far more glorious structure than that
.of 1851,—(Hear,
hear.) What they eeiahed to hay..h.slioved was ibis* ..4.-
man ever entered upon auy duty more sincerely desirous
of uccomplishingethe highest aims—moral, religious,
Recite% cad aesthetical—than the promoters of this under-
taking.—(Hear.) After a few mere 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 thanks
for the toast in a few observations, which were but im-
perfectly heard. Sir Charles expressed his conviction
chat 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 oT animate, 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 he erected this would
be done, and it would be attended with most important
practical resulte.—(Hear.)
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 Corepany."—(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 le ' ad given utterance.
—(Hear, liter.) Ile felt sure, too, that however attrac-
tive the palace ef Versailles might be to cur Gallic
neighbours, it would yield befoie the still greater
chasms of our new Ousted Palace ; for while
the beauties of the one were clouded with
clerk resoeietious of suffering awl wee' the
other could suggest nothing but that which
would promote ,i peace' en earth and good-will towards
‘"*"-- (Loud cheers.) In the name of the iPcl"stri9l
-
25 he begged to convey to the chairman ane the di
eh h
colors that tribute of heartfelt sgriltimde w:H
boicedue
wouldt
trurtad they would also manifest by their own
p
and by that morel and mental elevation which a
fsi‘ lekt to see effected.
•
Teo mast was drunk with nine times nine•
e as i,claimed all
The CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks, ~
bumble hodmau
praise but that which belongefodrtoraising
the structure.—
who furnished the materials
te _
genie?,
however, could
(Laughter.) Thr most exalterdal
element of air did not
not soar in the air it thewsa_i
_,..i0n.....
(Hear, hear.)
exist to sustain his flthVaxgtou7
Mr. Owen Jones,
It was to Sir
Joseph
;warn. and Mr. Digby Wyatt
Mesa& Fox and lieriwe the edifice. The board
that they would owe the
cares leg out the de-
sign,taleg toward,
could do nt •
supplying the pounds, shillinga, and
except
that
t was ell the credit they claimed.
pence; and
s and laughter.) He would now conclude
(Hear, beer,
3- e by one more toast. What would
be „,- frt prOCCO Ines
1,7 le': hien of 1851 have been without the ladies?—
(Loud"' "sxs i'ji s•) What would the present proceedings be
cheer.,
if they blotted out the are f • r hell of ere t• ? (Ch
a ton tem)
enau•
- - would the new Crystal Palace be if they were not
to receive the patronage of the ladies of England?-..
(Loud cheers.) Ho never wished to see the oily when
cao husbands of England would wish to go abroad with-
out their wives; when the brothers of England
would
not regard their sisters as their dearest companion
when the lads of this country would not find the mosts;and
perfect attraction in looking upon the comely
the lasses who were dear to then3.—(Checra.)
f&ce3
of
In answer to loud cries of "Paxton;'
The CHAIRMAN briefly, and with a hand
mcnt, proposed Sir Jo 1,
seP.26 health._ some aomplt.
(Loud cheers.)
Sir J. PAXTON thanked the assembly for the kind re-
ception which they had given to the mention of his name,
and said that he felt before this great, work was ended
he should require all their
indulgence and good feeling.
It was a work of great magnitude,
and care and attention in its progrequirintf thtlinoafsen:
fleeting months a very large exta=ntressO Within
ground was to
undergo an almost magical change.---(Hear, hear.) But
he was full of hope and of confidence that a good se-
count would be rendered on the Ist of May next.--
(Cheers.) He telt that he had t 3 do with a very a i-1
nt e ,-1 body of directors, who had gone into the matter)
exeelled—(Cbeer.
with a hetrtiness he had never seen
adjutors his
—and furthermore that he bad for his ec
.Fox and
old friends of the Crystal Palace—lte'';l; excellent
11 enderson with their numerous sfs Sateen connected
friend Mr. with
Jones, and all the er!"'
„,.. of nenimous and
with the Exhibition, and all heare`sTeere the country.
determined to produce a ralaceelerd Campbell and all
—(Cseers.) He freely fendevbt
, alyde•perk was not a
his other friends who illbod no donht they would
podeion for it—(Lau!~ smile and say, " This is a
come to.S.Td6nbertata s service we did you end the
beautiful place; what
.) But though he (Sir J. Pah-
country!"—(Leaucgth:str this was a beautiful site--(Hear,
toe) was
shouldcatis elwaya regret that the palace
hesr)-11° ved from Hyde-park.—(Crics of " No,
sans
""
re
s '— (11
ear, Lear.) But it was decided
re.er) 1-es'ee e must do Lord Campbell and those gea-
ticmen the thcrwi se.
justice to say that they treated him with
_
• bat kindness, though they opposed having the
ai
nothing dell. , ek• Here, he was sorry to say, he
Psce inHY
wet with a different reception. The wife of a gentleman,
es if
to reat rage
not a hundred miles from that- spot,
wed if could see
with him personally, and when he ask_i_
unless be went
here he was told it would be iroPo6Bl°.:%. Brown., or ear.
be- • thi name- of w Ilse smith, '
t
(Laughter.) H that, and he bad not had
e did not like her; but he was told
the pleasure of an intro
rluctiGn to
As she of all persons
she was present riow.—(Cheers.)

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