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the claws of the dragon or the clutches of vice,
even the seemingly dead must be raised; and all
good folks must be dismissed to a continual feast of
contentedness. The locality of the tale in question
is a cathedral town called Helstonleigh, containing
a "King's school,'' the boys belonging to Which
figure largely in the story; and one aim of the
authoress is to show the influence of early training
on the manners and fortunes of youth as exempli-
fied in two families, the Yorkcs and the Channings.
The former having lost their father whilst young,
and been indulged by-their mother, art self willed,
impulsive, and somewhat unscrupulous, though not
wholly destitute of gooit nature, and their career is
far from satisfactory. But the Channings, on the
other hand, possessing both patents and being early
imbued with good principles, bear the ordeal to
which they are subjected With firmness, and come
forth at the end triumphant. Nor are their trials
trivial or few, ":They some not single Spies
but in battalions." This the father is bed-
ridden with rheumatism, and is supposed incu
rable. Then a law suit is lost upon which
seemingly depended the fortunes of the fa-
mily, and in the hope of gaining which they had
got in debt. The second son is now accused of
stealing a bank note, and loses his situation. The
eldest son is thought by some of the family to be the
real thief, and is, moreover, suspected of falsifying
his father's account book. The third son, in con-
sequence of his brother's disgrace, loses his post of
senior at the school, and with it the chance of being
sent to college. The youngest son, after being
scared out of his wits one night by a sham ghost,
falls into the river and is set down as drowned,
whilst the eldest daughter is forced to go out as
governess, and has to break off her marriage en-
gagement in consequence of these family disgraces
and troubles. But "the whirligig of time (and
the third volume) brings about its revenges." The
father is cured by a visit to some German baths.
The two suspected thieves are exonerated and re-
compensed. The schoolboy gets his seniorship and
Oxford Exhibition. the youngesLAß turns up
after a time, only the worse for the loss'6l.his hair
(cut off during fever); and the daughter is Married
happily and settled comfortably. Thus substantial
justice is done to the deserving, and•the litter end
of the family is more blessed than'the beginning.
Of the executive merit of the novel we can speak
in very high terms. The intereqtta£ the plot is ad-
mirably sustaietd ; the character are varied and
real; whilst the narrative and
_dialogue are ex-
tremely animated and dramatic:_" The pictures of
schoolboy life are especially good; and we: can
scarcely mark our approval more than by saying
that we read it through from beginning t 6 end
without fatigue, and with pleasure.

was so struck with his appearance and fascinated
by his eloquence that he raised him to the highest
dignity and thdde him his bosom friend. Ho now
entered upon a series of reforms which have immor-
talised his memory, but his method of carrying thew
out was haughty, rash, and impolitic." Look for
instance at the following specimen of his roisiogh and
ready procedure as given in Canon Stanley's work.

The BookAunter. By John Ilill Burton. Black-
wood and Sensl
Among the manias to which the human rare is
liable, that of book collecting holds a prominent
place; and if it cannot always pretend to a high
degree of usefulness, it is at least comparatively
harmless. Among collators generally :esthetics
are at a discount. The rarity of a thing, not its
beauty, is with them the test of its value. The dif-
ference in appreciative power between a (collector of
criminals' relics, of snuff-boxes, or of prints, would
be, we fear, infiniteesimal. And it is pretty clear
from Mr. Burton's amusing revelations of the mys-
teries of his craft, that literary merit is, generally,
the very last quality that causes it to bring a high
price in the market.. Thus book collectors must by
no means be confounded with scholars, though they
may number scholars in their ranks; they consist
rather of men with means, leisure, and largely-de-
veloped organs of acquisitiveness, whose energies
have been directed into this particular channel ;
and, once commenced, the practice would seem to
be like that of gambling, beyond the reach of
remedy. Treating his subject systematically, Mr.
Burton divides it into four parts; the first discuss-
ing the " nature" of the book-hunter, the second his
" functions," the third his " club," and the fourth
" book-elub literature," these being again elabo-
rately subdivided. Thus, under the head of
" Mighty Book-hunters," he gives us clever
sketches of some of the Tritons of the race; and
under that of " Classification," some of the points
upcn which collectors lavish their regard, are ex-
plained to us thus:—" Some collectors may be styled
Rubricis ts,being influenced by a sacred rage for books
having the contents and marginal references printed
in red ink. Some "go at" flowered capitals, others
at"broadmargins;" again,"collectors there have been,
not unimportant for number and zeal, whose mis-
sion it is to purchase books marked by peculiar
mistakes or errors of the press. The celebrated
Elzevir Czesar,' of 1635, is known by this, that the
number of the 149th page is misprinted 153:" To
collectors of this class an accident which occurred
to the recent work known as the Men of the lime,
is a godsend. It sometimes happens in a printing
office that some of the types, perhaps a printed line
or two, fall out of "the forme." Those in whose
hands the accident occurs generally try to put
things to rights as well as they can, and may be
very successful in restoring appearances with the
most deplorable results to the sense, It happened
thus in the instance referred to. A few lines drop-
ping out of the "Life of Robert Owen," the paral-
lelogram communist, were hustled, as the nearest
place of refuge, into the biography of his closest
alphabetical neighbour—" Oxford, Bishop of." The
consequence is, that the article begins as follows:

A RUSSIAN REFORMER.
First, it is impossible not to be struck by the savage
spirit in which he fulfilled his task. We are not altogether
unaccustomed to rough action and speech in Martin Luther
and Sohn Knox; but we must expect something more m
the Scythian atmosphere of Russia Again.refer to the
journal of Archdeacon Paul. "He was," says the arch-
deacon, "a very butcher among the clergy. His jams-
saries are perpetually going round the city ; and whet they
find any priest or monk in a state of intoxication, they carry
him to prison. etrin him, and scourge hint. his pris)iis
are full of thein, galled With heavy chains and logs of wood
on their necks and legs, or they sift flour day and night in
the bakehouse." The deserts of Siberia were filled with
dissolute clergy; banished there with their wives and dill,
dren. An instance is relorded hardly credible, but too
characteristic to be omitted, perhapd net so much of his
wild severity as of his barbarian humour. It Was at one of
the numerous banquets, attended by the patriarch of
Antioch, that Niktin, partly to show off the wonders 9f his
master's vast dominions, partly to satisfy the curiosity of
his own inquisitive mind, called before him thirty chiefs of
a distant Kalmuck tribe, called from the appearance of
their physiognomies, the dog-faced tribe, or (as a euphe-
mism) the tribe of the dog-faced saint, St. Christopher.
As soon as they entered, the whole assembly was struck
with horror. They burned their heads, and bowed to the
patriarch with great veneration, crouching to the ground
all in a lamp, like pigs. After various questions as to their
mode of life, and travelling, and warfare, he said, "Is it
really true that you eat the flesh of men ?" They laughed,
and answered, " We oat our dead, and we- eat dogs ; how,
then, should wo not eat men ?" He said; " How do you
eat men ?" They replied, " When we have conquered a
man, we cut away, his nose, and then carve him into pieces
and eat him." 'Thi'fiaid, " I have a man here who deserves
death ; 1 will send for him and present him to you, that
you may eat him." Hereupon they began earnestly to
entreat him, saying, " Good lord, whenever you have any
men deserving of death, do not trouble yourself about their
guilt, or their punishment; but give them us to eat, and
you will do us:a great kindness.
The unfortunate victim with whom Nikon intended to
play off this experiment was no less a person than the
Metroplitan of Mira. It happened that, amidst other
" odious deformities" of himself and his companions, on a
recent visit to Mospow, they were found smoking tobacco, and
all, except himself, were sent into banishment. Nikon was
still, however, enraged against him ; "for," says the Syrian
archdeacon, "no crime with him is ever forgiven; and he
now sent to hivie 'him brought to those savages that they
might eat hire; but he was not to be found, having hid
himself,"

The natural result of this line of conduct was that a
powerful party formed against him, lie lost the
Czar's favour, was deprived of his dignities, exiled
to a monastery, led the life of a hermit, and died in
the odour' of sanctity. The " Brief Literary Notices"
at the end of the number are numerous and inte-
resting.

The London Review—April.

" Oxford, The Right Reverend Samuel Wilberforce,
Bishop of, was born in 1805. A more kind-hearted and
truly benevolent man does not exist. A sceptic as regards
religious revelation, he is nevertheless an out •and-out be-
liever in spirit movements."

By no means favourable to the Broad Church
Party, this number opens with a severe rebuke to
Dr. Colenso, Bishop of Natal, for the views ex-
pressed by him in his recent work, " St. ;Paul's
Epistle to the Romans ; newly translated finia ex-
plained from a missionary: .point of view." The
writer styles him a " most rash and confused
thinker," but he makes Messrs. Maurice and
Kingsley row in the same boat, and raps Tenny-
son's knuckles after this fashion :

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Whenever this blunder was discovered, the leaf
wa cancelled : but a few copies of the book had
got into circulation, which some day or other may
be very valuable. Diverging then to book sales, the
writer mentions some of the most memorable, among
which that of the Duke of Roxburghe takes the lead.
It lasted two and forty days, the books comprising
ten thousand lots, and being all of rarity and value ;
but the great bone of contention was the Venetian
Boccaccio which the Duke's father had bought for
£lOO. The competitors on this occasion were the
Marquis of Blandford and Earl Spencer, and after
a "spirited competition" it was secured by the
former for £2,260. The largest sale, however, on
record, was that of Mr. Heber's colleetion ; the fol-
lowing will give some idea of its extent. " Some
years ago," says th© writer in the Gentleman's
Magazine, " he built a new library at his house at
Hodnet, which is said to be full. His residence at
Pimlico, where ho died, is filled, like Magliabechi's
at Florence, with books, from the top to the bottom.
—every chair, every table, every passage contain-
ing piles of erudition. He had another house in
York-street, leading to Great James-street, West-
minster, laden from the ground floor to the garret
with curious books. He had a library in the High-
street, Oxford, an immense library at Paris, another
at Antwerp, another at Brussels, another at Ghent,
and at other places in the Low Countries and in
Germany." Surely the lust of accumulation could
no further go ! But one of the most amusing sec-
tions of the book is that called " The Gleaner and
his Harvest," which turns on the strange titles and
stranger contents by which some works are cha-
racterised. Those by natives of the Emerald Isle
furnish some good specimens, thus—" The Irish
Statute-book" opens characteristically with "An
act that the King's Officers may travel by sea
from one place to another within the land of Ire-
land." And further on we have a whole series of
acts, with a conjunction of epithets in their titles
which at the present day sounds rather startling,
" for the better suppressing Tories, Robbers, and
Rapparees, and for preventing robberies, burglaries
and other heinous crimes." A curious fact con-
nected with books is their comparative non-inflam-
mability. "In the days when heretical books were
burned, it was necessary to place them on large
wooden stages, and after all the pains taken to de-
molish them, considerable readable masses were
sometimes found in the embers; whence it was sup-
posed that the devil, conversant in fire and its
effects, gave them his special protection. In the
end it was found easier and cheaper to burn the
heretics themselves than their books." Famous

BANQUET TO THE COMMISSIONERS AT
THE MANSION-HOUSE.

Last night the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress
entertained a very numerous and distinguished com-
pany at the Mansion-house, to meet H.Q.H. the
Duke of Cambridge and her Majesty's Comtiaissioners
for the International Exhibition of 1862.

THEOLOGY OF TENNYSON.
We were willing to hope that the bishop had misun-
derstood the Poet Laureate, or made an unfair use of his
words. But on turning over the volume again, we find
what fully justifies his quotation. How can it be suffi-
ciently regretted that so fine a work as " In Memoriam"
should be used as a vehicle for the promulgation of anti-
Christian. opinion? The refinement of feeling, the strength
of affection, the felicity of delineation, the purity of diction,
the subtlety of thought, the elevation of sentiment, which
we recognise with so much pleasure on a renewed exami-
nation, only lead us to indulge a deep sorrow at the author's
ignorance or perversion of evangelical truth. Mr. Tenny-
son invokes the Son of God, and contradicts him on the
same dedicatory page. He yearns after " the Christ that is
to be," and virtually ignores " Him that livoth, and was
dead, and is alive for evermore." But if Ho has indeed
overcome the sharpness of death, and opened the king-
dom of heaven to all believers, why these complaints about
the darkness and uncertainty of the future ? What need
is there to fall upon the great world's altar stairs,—
"That slope through darkness up to God,"

After the cloth had been removed, and grace bad
been sung,

The LORD MAYOR gave the " Health of the
Queen"—the first toast, he said, in every assemblage
of Englishmen—and the toast was most enthusias-
tically received. They were, he thought, particu-
larly bound to do honour to this toast on, such an
occasion, seeing that her Majesty had exhibited the
deepest solicitude in reference to this great nati3nal
co-operative undertaking. The event, as they might
well imagine, would re-open that deep grief which
had now for some time pressed so heavily upon the
heart of our Queen. (Hear, hear.) Nor could they
be unmindful of the great loss which the enterprize
itself had suffered, by reason of the calamity which
had befallen her Majesty. (Hear.) The reign of
Victoria had been beneficial, not only to our own
happy country, but it had also contributed materi-
ally to tho ndvanooment of other natiofirs. Her teigu
had beeu such that every one present must cordially
unite in the fervent hope that the beloved Sovereign
of these realms might, by God's favour, long be
spared to continue to fill the exalted position which
she at present occupied, and in which it had been
His pleasure to place her. (Applause.)
The toast was drunk. with great enthusiasm, in
which the foreign guests seemed most sincerely to
unite.

si hen our Saviour has said," I am the light of the world ;
he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall
have the light of life." If He has pronounced a special
blessing on " those who have not seen and yet have be-
lieved," why complain that
" We have but faith, we cannot know,
For knowledge is of things V7O sec ?"

This faith that teaches nothing, and leaves its votaries as
ignorant and as much perplexed as the heathen, is certainly
not " the faith of God's elect ;" and if we are to take the
Laureate's confessions as the practical ernbcdiment of the
teaching of Dr. Cams() and Mr. Maurice, it is very plainly
seen that this "other Gospel is not another," but, as sa'd
above, no good news at all. Instead of walking in the
light, and rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, its votaries
are infants " crying in the night," and " for a light," " and
with no language but a cry." Instead of having a hope
entering within the veil, sure and steadfast, as an anchor
of the soul, they ask, "What hope of answer or redress
behind the veil ?" and cry out in vain to their deceased
friends to tell them something. They "faintly trust,"
even to the realisation of their own expectations. Where
the true Gospel provides certainty, they are unable to rise
beyond the vaguest and most ill-defined expectations. They
"trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill ;" but
beyond this they cannot rise.
"Behold, we know not any thing,
I can but trust that good shall fall;
At last—far off—at last to all,
And every winter change to spring."
And is this the most accomplished poet of the nineteenth
century in Christian England ? Have the ages brought us
nothing better than this? Do Tennyson maundering, and
Byron scoffing, and Maurice arguing, and Colenso ex-
pounding, all meet at a point? Is the consummation of all
our labours a possibility of one day " sitting down with"
Lucifer "in the kingdom of God ?" Truly the Laureate
has "groped," and gathered "dust and chaff," to good
purpose at last.

" His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and
the rest of the Royal Family" was the next toast,
and it met with an almost equally flattering re-
ception.
The LORD MAYOR, in rising to propose the next
toast, referred to the unusually complete represen-
tation of foreign powers which honoured the occa-
sion. He rejoiced to see thesedistinguished gentlemen
around him, and he hailed them as the ambassadors
of peace. (Loud applause.) It was to promote
peace and prevent strife that these gentlemen exer-
cised their fuections ; and the success which had
crowned their labours would be seen in the fact
that for half a century this country had not been
engaged in war near at home. (Laud cheers.) The
science of diplomacy had, in fact, made such ad-
vances, that they might now look forward to the
day when they might hope altogether to escape
the frightful results which war occasioned. (Hear,
hear.) He had to associate with this toast the
name of his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador ;
and without attempting to enumerate the names of
the other Ambassadors present, for a list of whom
he would refer the company to the daily papers of
the next morning, he would simply congratulate
himself and them upon the presence of so many of
them, and ask them to drink to " The health of the
Diplomatic Corps," coupling with the toast the
name of M. Musurus, the Turkish Ambassador.
The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm.

librarians are then mentioned, and the origin and
function of book clubs commented on. A discussion
on "Early Northern Saints and their Miracles,"
succeeds, and the volume concludes with a few
words on Ancient Sculptured Stones. The ground
covered by the author is thus tolerably extensive.
Few topics directly or indirectly connected with
books escape his notice. His handling is light
and agreeable, and he has produced a very readable
volume.

The article on " Modern Sacred Art in England,"
glorifies the Pre-Raphalites and highly eulogises
their apostle, Ruskin. In " High Church Litera-
ture for the People," we find a very rust condemna-
tion of the bad habit to which religious novelists are
addicted of twisting historical facts and distorting
characters to serve some special end. But among
the most generally interesting articles are those on
" Stephen Grellet. the Quaker Evangelist," and on
" The Patriarch Nikon." The character of Grellet
is thus described—

The Channtngs. By Mrs. Henry Wood. 3 vols.
Bentley.
This is, upon the whole, an excellent novel, reli-
gious in tone, and a reprint (with slight variations)
from the pages of the " Quiver." " The Theme," 'a
very old one, is of the trials and triumphs of virtue,
and the key to the work is contained in the verse
with which the last chapter concludes—" I have been
young, and now am old; and yet saw I never the
righteous forsaken, nor his- seed begging their
bread." Thus the doctrine inculcated, that of material
reward of virtue, is more akin to the teaching of the
Old Testament than of the New, and is scarcely
borne out by the experience of life. That virtue
deserves (and gets) a reward, is true ; but it does
not often consist in " fourteen thousand sheep, and
six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen,
and a thousand she asses," as in Job's case, or in
marrying the idol of one's heart, finding a long lost
parent, and being declared rightful heir to a large
estate, as in that of the hero of a Victoria melo-
drama. Virtue must be loved for itself. In Tenny-
son's words—

M. MUSLTRUS said—My Lord MayOi, Ladies,
and Gentlemen—l have the honour to return
thanks to you on behalf of my colleagues
and myself, for the kindly manner in which
you have received the toast just proposed by
his lordship. Nothing is more agreeable to the
diplomatic body than to be present at such a splen-
did meeting as this, and which is the prelude to
the grand International Exhibition, of which we
shall soon have to witness the opening. In fact,
there can be nothing more in accordance with the
wishes of the diplomatic body than to view the
emulation which has always existed between na-
tions, and whieh has too often been the source of
great evils, now directed on an arena where each
must appear only under the head of auspices, and
through the works of peace, and where different
people will learn mutual esteem, to regard each as
brothers, to each perfect themselves by the exchange
of ideas, in industry, science, and art, and thus
to promote their common well-being. (Chem.)
It is to England that belongs the glory of
having been the first to assemble the nations at
these modern Olympian games where the
prize is awarded, not to the strongest, nor to
the swiftest, but to those most industrious and
most useful to mankind ; and this great metropolis
ought to be proud of offering for a second time its
hospitality to the representatives of the industry
and genius of other countries. Mean) But alas ! a
veil of gloom is thrown over these festivities by the
ever-to-be regretted absence of the August Prince
who, among other humanitarian institutions of
which he was the promoter, could conceive and is
justly entitled to be considered the founder of a
work to which other States have warmly lent their
co-operation. Through that, therefore, he has
acquired an incontestable right to the gratitude of
all nations, who will preserve for his memory
the same sentiments of esteem and admiration as
the English people. (Hear, hear.) Therefore, the
more we desire to honour the memory of this great
and illustrious Prince, the more we ought to con-
form to his generous views, by devoting our cares
to the success of his work, and by endeavouring to
render its results more and more profitable to the
human race. (Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR said—Till the triumphs of
the science of diplomacy should have superseded
the necessity of studying the art of war, it
behoved every country in the world to guard

" To live by law,
Acting the law we live by without fear;
And, because right is right, to follow right,
Wore wisdom in the scorn of consequence."
The true reading of the matter is contained in the
old adage, " Virtue is Its own reward." If other
rewards are added to it well and good, but it ought
not to be made the pretext for expecting them.
Consider Shakspere's handling of the subject. Vir-
tue, with him (as in life) often meets no better fate
than vice, whilst mediocrity steps in and gains the
prize. The noble Othello, the divine Desdemona,
and the execrable lago are alike cut off, whilst the
careless Cassio is made Governor of Cyprus. Ham
let dies like the caitiff King, 'whilst to the young
Fortinbras falls the crown of Denmark. The end
of Cordelia is untimely, as that of Goneril and
Albany, in England, reigns supreme. True, Shaks-
pere's motive is never paraded on the surface. He
was a consummate artist, not a preacher. Yet
never do we meet with aught in him to shake our
faith in good, or cause us to rejoice in evil. Virtue
and innocence with him are always fresh, always
lovely, and if here they are unhappy, we feel that
they are sure of their reward in another and brighter
world, where weeping shall be no more, neither
shall the voice of lamentation be heard, " where the
wicked shall cease from troubling, and the weary
shall have rest." A world which the heathen saw
faintly, and afar off, in their land of Lotos eaters,
and shadowy Elysian fields—one to which the
struggle with the powers of evil shall not reach—
where no bitter frost shall nip goodness in the bud,
but in which beauty, order, purity, and harmony
shall reign undisturbed for ever. But if, as we
think, the authoress takes a somewhat superficial
view of existence. If she rather implies that we
must be bribed to be good, that we want sugar after
the bitter draught, and insists somewhat
strongly in special providences in favour of the de-
serving. This will in no way damage the popu-
larity of her work. People nowadays, though they
like "sensation," can't bear their feelings harrowed
beyond a certain point. Woe, with them, if too
rea', loses its luxury. At the right time the deli-
verer, whether errant knight or Jack Tar, must
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carefully its own coasts and frontiers. There was
no desire whatever for aggression on the part
of this country (hear, hear), but while human pas-
sions were what they were, it was our duty to do
honour to our army, our navy, and our volunteer
corps, and to promote their efficiency. (Cheers.)
He felt that such being our intentions, even in the
presence of so many distinguished representatives
of foreign Courts, this was a toast which might
very properly be given (hear, hear), for our object
was simply defence, and not defiance. (Hear, hear.)
He should not enlarge upon this toast, but simply
ask them to drink to the "Army, the Navy, and
the Volunteer Corps," coupling,► with the toast the
name of hi,3 Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
Commander•in-Chief.

The toast was honoured with great enthusiasm.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, in acknowledging the
compliment, said he was duly sensible of the great
honour conferred by the Lord Mayor upon the
army, over which it was at present his privilege to
preside. Though the present meeting was purely
pacific in its objects and its tendencies, that com-
pliment would be none the less grateful to our
soldiers, our sailors, and our volunteers. (Cheers.)
They might, without the slightest offense, and
without even indiscretion, show to their foreign
friends the sense entertained by this great comnier-
cial city of the very great services which those
forces had rendered, and were capable of rendering.
(Cheers.) In this city the arts of peace reigned
triumphant, and certainly not the art of war ; and
in this respect the city of London faithfully repre-
sented the whole of this great country in its earnest
desire for the maintenance of peace. (Hear, hear.)
The fact was, that the city honoured these services
because, when efficiently maintained, they were cal•
culated to preserve peace (cheers), and the compli-
ment thus paid to them was one which they could
cheerfully accept. He would venture to take that
opportunity of calling attention to the compli-
ment which on that occasion had been paid to
his lordship, and, through his lordship to the
city of London, by the presence of so man repre-
sentatives of foreign powers. (Cheers.) It seemea
singularly appropriate that the chief magistrate
of the city of London should have taken that
the earliest opportunity of assembling together so
distinguished a body of those foreign gentlemen at
his hospitable board, in order to give them that
thoroughly English welcome which he was sure
every Englishman was desirous of according to them.
(Cheers.) But although this meeting bad been of a
pacific and joyous character, they could not over-
look the fact, that the pleasure had been sadly
marred by the severe and irreparable loss which
their Queen and their country had recently sus-
tained. (Hear.) He felt all the more grieved for this
loss owing to the fact that as it was from the late
illustrious Prince that the idea of these international
exhibitions emanated, he had not lived to see this
second realisation of his anxious desires and earnest
hopes. (Hear, hear.) They might fear that the
anxiety of mind attendant upon these great under-
takings had in no small degree contributed to
shorten that life which was so valuable to his coun-
try, and the abrupt termination of which the whole
nation so sincerely deplored. (Hear, hear.) The
success of the Exhibition of 1851 was largely attri-
butable to the exertions of the late illustrious Prince.
Many at first doubted the expediency and practica-
bility of the undertaking, but his Royal Highness
persevered, and the result was a success beyond
what any one expected. Now that this second at-
tempt was about to be made his Royal Highness
was no longer amongst them to share their joys and
triumphs. (Hear, hear.) The Lord Mayor had ex-
pressed the hope that the result of this second
gathering would be to promote peace between the
nations, and he (the Duke of Cambridge) sincerely
trusted that the Lord Mayor's wishes in this respect
might be happily realised. (Applause.) He was sure
that the cordiality and hospitality with which their
foreign_ friends had been received by the Lord
Mayor on that occasion must contribute materially
to such a result. (Applause.)
Captain MAY briefly returned thanks on behalf
of the Royal Navy, and Colonel Ward, of the Ist
London Rifles, acknowleiged the compliment on
behalf of the volunteer corps.

The next toast was " The Church and the Health
of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury," which
having been duly honoured, was appropriately ac-
knowledged by his Grace, who expressed his admi-
ration of these industrial exhibitions, as calculated
to promote peace between nations. He hoped that
it would be found impossible for those who had been
thus associated in promoting national industry to
resort to the destructive arts of war. [We may ob-
serve that his Grace, whose brief observations were
exceedingly well received, appeared to justify the
gratifying announcements which have recently been
put forth respecting his restored health.]
The next toast was " The Health of the Royal
Commissioners of 1862 ;" in proposing which the
LORD MAYOR took occasion to eulogise those noble-
men and gentlemen for the able manner in which
they had discharged their duties, and he coupled
with the toast the health of the Right Hon. Earl
Granville.

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men, but were more or less connected with indw-
try, with art, or with science—(hear)--and they
coupled theirguarantee with conditions of the most
liberal description. (Hear, hear.) In fact, he believed
that the commissioners were the only really despotic
body in this country, seeing that the guarantors
gave them the fullest powers over the entire ma-
nagement of the whole affair. (Hear, and laughter.)
At first it was the opinion even of some on whose.
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they felt that if done at all it must be done on a,scalo
commensurate with the importance.of the eccion;
and the guarantors then elves felt that it Wfta desir-
able to go in for a complete success. In doing so
they had exercised the strictest economy in every
possible way; for it was a private enterprise, ar.d
must ba of an entirely, self supporting character.
There had alto been some criticisms as regarded tha
building. Looked at from the north, it would ap-
pear that if the design of the architect had been
carried out in its great central features, it would
have bcen'a much more imposing structure. (Hear.)
But want of means prevented the execution of that

idea. Still, from what he learned from persons of
the highest intelligence in these matters, he felt jus-
tified in saying that if there were any Augustuses
present, either individually or collectively, who de-
sired to change the brick into marble, or even into
the commoner material of stone, they would find the
building full of grandeur and appropriateness. Thu
edifice was marked by great simplicity, but he would
not enter into details, as he hoped to meet them
there in a day or two, and he would be disappointed
if they did not admit that for architectural effect
and for decorations it was superior to any similar
building, and that the whole effect was of a singu-
larly impressive character. It was impossible to speak
too highly of the exertions of tho foreign- commis-
sioners. France had exhibited her usual felicity and
exquisite taste in applying art to manufactures, and
had exhibited great improvement in some practical
departments. Gerthany and the Zollverein had
entitled themselves to similar praise. Austria
and Italy were engaged in a peaceful rivalry.
Italy would show better than on any former 'occa-
sion. Russia, Spain; and Portugal:would also show
well; and America was going to exhibit, in spite of
her civil war. (Applanze.) He must bear his testi-
mony to the courteous and conciliatory manner in
which the foreign commissioners had discharged
their duties; and in conclusion his lordship said that
he trusted that the results of the Exhibition would
justify the aspirations of the poet, and that they
would
Uplift a thousand voices full and sweet,
In that wide hall with earth's inventions stored,
And praise th' invisible universal Lord,
Who let once more in peace the nations meet,
Where Science, Art, and Labour had outpeufd
Their myriad horns of plenty at their feet."
(Loud applause.)
"The House of Peers and the Lord Chancellor"
was the next toast, which was duly honoured.
The LORD CHANCELLOR returned thanks, and
said that one of the characteristics of the House of
Lords, of which he was the unworthy representa-
tive, was that though it was an hereditary assem-
bly, it was recruited from the ranks of the people,
and his own case was an illustration of the fact that
the humblest individual, if found worthy, would be
elevated to that distinguished honour. The House
of Peers recruited its ranks from the bar, from the
army, from the navy, and, in the case of a recent
illustrious individual, from literature. (Hear.)
The LORD MAYOR next proposed " The House of
Commons, with which he flOupled the name of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer.'
The toast was duly honoured.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER returned
thanks, and said that as elected by the suffrages of
their fellow-countrymen, it must always be a plea-
sure to members of the House of Commons to par-
take, according to ancient usage, of the splendid
hospitalities of tho Lord Mayor. In such cases as
this Exhibition, the House of Commons felt that
there ought not to be any necessity for what Sir R.
Peel called the "vulgar expedient of resorting to
the Consolidated Fund," but the house saw the im-
portance of the movement, and lent its aid cheerfully
to the supplementary measures for acquiring the
estate on which the present building was erec►ed.

(Hear.)
" The Lord Mayor" was the next toast, proposed
by his Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE,
and duly honoured.
The LORD MAYOR returned thanks. He said it
was his good fortune to have had great opportuni-
ties during his mayoralty, which he had endea-
voured to turn to good account, and such expres-
sions of thanks as these were to him a great and
gratifying reward. (Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR then proposed " The Commis-
sioners of the Exhibition of 1851," whom he eulo-
gised in the warmest terms for their care and judg-
ment, which had materially lessened the difficulties
of securing a suitable site for the Exhibition of
1862. With this toast he associated the name of
" The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P."

Mr. DISRAELI, who was received with applause,
returned thanks. The Great Exhibition of 1851
was a great lesson, taught by a wise master, to a.
people in whom he had confidence. There was no
doubt that in that concurrence of the industry and
invention of the world England learnt many things
of which she was before ignorant, and unlearned
some things which perhaps she had practised too
long. (Hear.) The verdict of posterity with regard
to the Exhibition of 1851 had been, that it had
stimulated the invention and refined the taste of
Europe. (Hear.) Another Exhibition had now'
become a necessity, and the question was when it
should take place. The decennial interval had been
thought the best. After a touching allusion to his
late Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the right
hon. gentleman said this Exhibition would be the
best memorial to his memory, being the consumma-
tion of what he most desired. Of old it was the
custom on the tombs of heroes to celebrate rites and
sacrifices, sometimes fantastic, sometimes gloomy
and terrible, but to their hero they offered oblations
of peace and of industry stimulated, of invention
refined, of taste elevated. These were our offerings
to the memory of that serene and sagacious spirit.
The health of " The Lady Mayoress" was next
drunk, and the proceedings terminated.

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