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London, England, 1854-06-19 00:00:00

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

The Right lion. the LORD MAYOR in the chair;
It was
Viscopu proosed by Mr Alderman and Sheriff Wire,
nt Ebrington, 11.1'., and resolved 'unanimously;seconded by
That this Meeting, believing that the peace of the world, the' ad-
vaecement of sc ence, the development of art, and the diffusion of
knowlesge main'y depend upon the cultivation of peaceful relations
with the French nation, are of opinion, that some of its most dis-
tinguished men, connected with legislation, science, commerce, and
agriculture, should be invited to visit this country, with the view of
demonstrating to the world the sincerity of the alliance now happily
suhsisting between the two me ions—an alliance, the continuance of
which is eminently calculated to promote in all countries the per-
manency of peace, and its consequent blessings—order, prospelity,
and happiness. •
It was proposed by William Tite, Esq., F.R.S., seconded by Ben-
jamin Oliveira, Esq., and carried unanimously ;
That the Aldermen and Common Council of the City of London,
the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the Lord Mayor of York, the Lord Pro-
vost of Edinburgh, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, the mayors and
municipalities f the other cities and borouges of the United
dom, the Chancoellors, Vice-Chancellors, and principals of our univerg-
sities and colleges, as well as the heads of the learned and scientific
societies, be invited to afford their valuable co-operat on.
It was proposed by John Wood, P:sq.,seconded by It. Kennard,.•
Esq., ant resolved unanimously;
That a suhssription be entered into for carrying into effect the ob-
ject of this Meeting.
It was proposed by Jeremiah rilcher, Esq., seconded by T. B. Simp-
son. Esq., and resolved unanimously ;
That the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor ne appointed treasurer, and
the Right Hon. the Lord John Russell, M.P., Lord Viscount Ebring-
ton, John Masterman, Esq M.P., Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., and
the Baron Lionel de Rothschild, M.P., be respectfully requested to act
as trustees. and the bankers in London and the country be solicited
to receive subscriptions.
It was proposed by Humphrey Brown, Esq., M.P., seconded by the
Mayor of Leeds, and resolved unanimously ;
That the mayors, provosts, chief officers, and magistrates of the
cities aud b n•oughs of the United Kingdom be also requested to sanc-
tion the addition of their names to the Comm 'Pee, wit
listsh a
in their l o view to the
augmentatien of the funds, by opening s Cubscription cal
districts. THOMAS SIDNEY, Mayor.
It was than proposed by Sir Joseph Paxton, seconded by W. J. Hall,
Esq , and resolve,' unanimously ;
That the sincere and cordial thanks of this Meeting he presented to
the Right lion. the Lord Mayor, for the active interest he has taken
in the object of this Meeting, and for the ability and courtesy wi.h
which he has presided this day.
GEO. SEDGWICK, Hon. Secretary.
'ITTEE.
ion. the LORD MAYOR.
Laing, Samuel, M.P.
Langton, H. Gore, Esq., M.P.
La.lett, W.. Esq , M.P.
Laurie, David, Esq.
Lawrence, William, jun., Esq.
Lay ard, A. 11., Esq., M.P.
Leeds, the Mayor of
Leaf, W.' Esq.
I eneox, Lord IL G., M.r.
Liddell, the Hon. H. T., M.P.
Lid•' lard, William, Esq.
Lindsay, H.S., Esq , M.P.
Lloyd, J., Esq.
Lu hington, Charles, Esq.
Locke, Joseph, Esq.
Lowrey, Thomas, Esq.
Lucas, F., Erie , M.P.
Luce, T. E.g., M.P.
Lupton, John, Esq.
MacGregor, James, Esq., M.P.
MacGregor, John, Esq., M.P.
Mackinnon, W. A., Esq., M.P.
el aware, J. F. Esq., MX.
Mangles. R. D. Esq., A.P.
Masterman, John. Esq., M.P.
Maugham, Robert, Esq.
Mechi, J. J , Esq.
miller, Darnel, Esq.
Mitchell, Thos. A., Esq , M.P.
eierewether, Mr. serjeant
o
Millard, James J. Esq.
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'DM. D. "
Rev.
monteflore, Sir Moses, Bart.
Moon, Mr. Atierinan
et offett, George, Esq., M.P.
Murrell, 11. Esq.
Nix. John, Esq.
Northcote, Stafford 11., Esq.
Obbard, Mr. Deputy
O'Connell,Erq , MP.
O'Connell, John, Esq., M.P.
Overstone, Lord
Oliveira, Benjamin, Esq , 11. P.
Oliphant, J., Esq., Chairman of
the East India Company
Oxford, the Mayor of
Panopticon, Royal, Council
Pakington, Right Hon. Sir John,
Paws n, John F., Esq.
Paxton, Sir Joseph
Pellatt, ApsleY, Esq.. M.P.
Pete, S. M., Esq., M.P.
Philipps, RN., Esq.
Pilkineton, J., Esq., M.P.
filcher, Jeremiah, Esq.
Polioct, Sir George, Lieut.-Gen.,
K.C.B.
Price, Robert, Esq., 11. P.
Roberts, David, Esq., R.A..
Rose, Mr. Alderman
Rothschild, Baron Lio eel de, M.P.
Rothschild, Sir Anthony
Rothschild. Baron Meyer de
Russell, the Rieht Hon. Lord
John, M.P.
Ruthin, the Mayor of
Sandal,' George, Esq., M.P.
Scobell, Captain It N., M.P.
Scully, Francis, Esq., M P.
Seymour, Sir Hamilton, G.C.B.
Schuster, Lee, Esq.
Scholefield, W., Esq.,
Seymour, H. Danby, Esq., M.P.
Simpson, T. 8., Esq.
Snerman, Rev. James
Sheriff, George Washington, Esq.
Smedley, Francis, Esq.
Smith, J. 8.. Esq., M.P.
Smith, Mr. Under-Sheriff
Smith, George Keight, Esq.
smith, George John, Esq.
Smith, William W , Esq.
Stephenson, Robert, Esq., M.P.
Stafford, Augustus, Esq., M.P. •
Staples, John, Esq.
Stusrt, Lord Dudley. M.P.
Stuart, W Forbes, Esq.
Sykes, Lieut.-Col.
Teuton, eymour, Esq.
Thornely, Thomas, Esq., M.P..
Thomas, Joseph, Esq.
Thompson, G., Esq., 31 P.
Tite, William, Esq , E.R.S.
Travers, John Ingram, Esq.
Travers, Smith, Esq.
Truman, Dr.
Tudor, Semuel, Fsq.
Tyler, William, Esq.
Tyrrell, Edward, Eel.
M., Esq.
Vile, George, Esq.
Wakefield, Jcseph Colin, Esq.
Walpole, eight lion. S. 11., 11. P.
wellis, Mr. Seeriff •
Warren, Capt. D.,
Whalley, G. H., Esq.
wickham, H. W., Esq., M.P.
w inun. on, W. A., Esq., m.r.
Wilcox, G. M' . Esq., lii P.
Wit lane, W., Esq., M.P.
Williams, Michael, Esq., M.P.
Williams, William, Esq.
Wilson, Thomas, Esq.
Winckworth, Captain
Wirhaw, James, Esq.
Wire, Mr. Alderman and Sheriff
se,Voed, John, Esq.
"Wortley, Right Hon. J. A. S.
M.P., the Recorder of London
Wigan, the Mayor of
Wolverhampton, the Mayor of
York, the Lord Mayor of

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Chairman—The Right B
Anderson, Sir James, M.P.
Anctert n, Mr. Under-Sheriff
Arden, Joseph, Esq.
Itagshaw, John, Esq., M.P.
Baggallay, T. W , jun., Esq.
Ballantine, W., i,sq.
Barber, wm., Esq.
Bass, M., 1. sq., M.P.
Barnes, T., Esq , M.P.
Beale. Samuel, Esq.
Beaumont, I A., Esq.
Bethel', s.ir Richard, M.P.
Bell, Jame, Esq., M.P
Bennoch, Francis, I sq.
Berens, Alexander. Esq.
liesley, R bert, Esq.
B,nest, P. H., t,sq.
Biber, Rev. Dr.
Biggs, W lliarn, Esq , M.P.
Bishop, G., Esq , F.K.S.
lilandy, Loftus, Esq , M.P.
Blumberg, Ludwig, Esq.
Boileau, Major
'sower, Mr. Deputy
Brassey, Thomas, Esq.
Brocklehurst, John, Esq., M.P.
Brothcrton, Joseph, Esq., 31 P.
Brown, Humphrey, Esq., M.P.
Brown. Wm., Esq , M.P.
Bunning, J B , Esq.
i;utt, G., Esq., M.P.
Bin;;, lion. James
Butterworth, Joshua N., Esq.
Cotteirel!, Thomas, Esq.
meCabe, nobert, Esq.
Campbell, Sir John N. R.
Campbell, Patrick, Esq.
Carden. Sir Robert Walter
Carter, Mr. Akerman
Catty, F. H., Esq.
Causton, Joseph, Esq.
Caney, Charles, Esq.
Carlisle, the Rt. Hon. the Earl of
Carr, J. R., Esq.
Chambers, Montagu, Esq 1M P.
chambers, Thom-,s,
Chaplin, W. J. Esq., M.P.
Chapin, R. J., Esq.
Mittman, Wiliam, Esq.
Cheetham, John, Esq ,
Child, Coles, Esq.
Clay. Sir 'Milian% Bart., M.P.
obbold, J. C., Esq., M.P.
Cockerell, George J., Esq.
Cook, William, Esq.
Coppock, .1 ames. Esq.
Cowan, Charles, Esq., M.P.
Crachlow, David, Esq.
Crosby, E., Esq.
Crosby, Charles, E,q.
Crowley, Charles, Esq.
Crowley, Edward, Esq.
Cust, Major-(:en. the lion. Sir E.
Cubitt, William, Esq., H.P.
Cuthbert, George, Esq.
Dakin, Thomas, Esq.
Davidson, David, Esq.
Davis, Elias, Esq.
I iavies, J. E., Esq.
Deobigh, the Mayor cf.
Denison, E. 8., Esq., H.P.
Danford, C. W., Esq.
Dublin, the Lord Mayor of.
Duke, Sir James, M.P.
Eagleton, Deputy; Mr.
Ebrington, he Viscount.
Ellerton, Edward, Esq.
Esmonde, John, Esq., M.P.
Ewart, William, Esq., M.P.
Ete.es, W. J., Esq.
Evans, Jeremiah, Esq
Farebrother, Mr. Alderman.
Finnis, Mr. Alderman
Fitzgerald, J. D., Esq., M.P.
Forster, John, Esq., M.P.
Forster, Matthew, Esq.
Freestun, Col., M.l'.
Fuller, Francis, Eql.
Girdner, Richard, Esq , M.P.
Gibson, lit. Hon. T. Milner, M.P.
Gillett, George, Esq.
Geach, Charles, Esq., M.P.
Glyn, G. C., Esq.. M.P.
Goodman, Sir George, M.P.
Graves, G C. Esq.
Gregion, .tam el, Esq., M.P.
Griinwade, Charles, Esq.
Gurney, Russell, Esq., Q.C.
Hadfield, George, Esq., M.P.
HA', W J., Esq.
Ha I, S. H , Esq.
Hawkey, Thomson, Esq , M.P.
Hankey, Beaumont, Esq.
H W. T., h'sq.
' Harrison, Robert, Esq.
Hawes, Benjamin, E-q.
Hey-wood, James, Esq., H.P.
Heyworth, Laurence, Esq.,
11 wiley, Charles, sq., M.P.
Holyland, Wi'liam II ,
lla tie, Alexander, M.P.
Howes. G., Esq.
Hume, W. F., Esq., 211 P.
Hunter, A., Esq.
Hutt, W., Esq , M.P.
Jackson. William, Esq.; M.P.
Johnson, ltobert, Esq.
Kelly, sir Fitzroy, M.P.
Keating, 11. S., Esq., M.P.
Kennard, R. W., Esq.
Kershaw, James, Esq., M.P.
Key, Sir John, Bart.
Kinnaird, Ha. A., H P.
"Irk, William, Esq.

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TO the MEMBERS of BOTH HOUSES of
PARLIAMENT.
311 LORDS AND GENTLEMEN.—Before passing any more laws which
affect the medical liberty of the subject, we earnestly call upon you
to peruse Mr. John Fraser's public lecture on that important ques-
tion; a copy of which will forthwith be delivered to you.—We have
the honour to be, my Lords and Gentlemen, your most obedient
servants,
T 1 IE MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH,
New-road, London, for and on behalf of the Society of liygeists.
June 14, 1854.

TiIRIESEMAR, protected. by Royal Letters
Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole de
Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College t,f Medicine, Vienna.

TRIESEMAR, No. 1,
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TRIKSEII.‘II, No. 3,
is the great Cont'nental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which
unfortunately the English physic, an treats with Mercury, to the in-
evitatae destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the
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150, Oxford-street.

DEJEUNER TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
On Saturday the opening of the Crystal Palace was
duly celebrated by a grand dejeuner in the. building, by
the directors and shareholders of the company; to the va-
rious representative's of foreign Governments who were
present at the opening of the palace on the previous
Saturday. The invitations to the dejeuner included, in
addition to the distinguished foreigners themselves, a.
very large proportion of the aristocracy, and many per-
sons of eminence in art, science, and literature. The
company was a most briliant one, and the attendance of
visitors must have been highly gratifying to those who
have devoted their valuable time and- attention to the
completion of the vast undertaking. The fete was given
in the basement story of the building; in the part to be
hereafter occupied by machinery in motion, and pro-
bably not less than six hundred persons partook of the
liberal and recherché hospitality of the directors and
shareholders. Among the guests present we noticed the
Duchess of Montrose, the Duchess of Sutherland, the
Duchess of Argyll, the Earl and Countess Howe, the
Baron De Morny, the Countess Lavradio, the Sicilian
Minister,• the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl and Countess of
Shaftesbury, the- Lord Chief Justice the Bishop of
Oxford, Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. ; Mr. Milner
Gibson, M.P., Mr. Bernal Osborne' " M.P. ; the Earl
and Countess of Chichester Earl of Hardwicke, Lord
Stanley, M.P. ; Sir J. and Lady Pakiiigton, M.P.,
Sir J. W. Hogg, M.P. ' • Lord Mahon, the Right Hon.
Edward Ellice, M.P., Sir Robert Price, M.P., the
Lord Mayor, Mr. H. Herbert, M.P., Sir James Duke,
M.P. ; the Marquis of Granby, M.P. ; Mr. Kinnaird;
M.P. ; Mr. Henley, M.P. ; Lord Ernest:Bruce, M.P.,
Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. Locke, M.P. ; IVIr. Hayter,
M.P. ; Mr. Napier, M.P. ; Sir H. Davy ; Mr. George
Bankes, M.P. ; Lord Overstone, the Solicitor-General ;
Mr. Stafford, M.P. ; Mr. Liddell, M.P. ; Hon. W.
Covnper,M•P. ; Mr. Rich, M.P. ; the Princess Carini,
Madlle.
.Macedo, the Brazilian Minister, Dr. Waagan,
Count Klingemann, the Earl and Countess of Mul-
grave, Lady Doneraile, the Marchioness of Aylesbury,
the Earl and Countess of Zetland, Colonel Lawrence,
the Earl of Harrowby, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Joseph and
Lady Paxton, and numerous others.
The healths of her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the
Royal Family having been drunk with enthusiasm.
Mr. S. Laing, M.P. (the Chairman) proposed the
health of the foreign guests. In proposing the toast,
he could not but regret that, owing to the necessity of
holding a Cabinet Council that day, they had been de-
prived of the company of a distinguished and accom-
plished nobleman, Lord Granville, than whom no one
could more appropriately have represented England in
the eyes of the foreign commissioners. The duty had
unavoidably devolved upon him, in his official capacity
as chairman of am company, to propose the toast ; and
be thought he should best discharge his duty by confining
himself to the simple remark that, among the many
beneficial influences of the Great Exhibition of 1851,
which had originated the present undertaking, none was
more important than the perpetuation of the humanis-
ing influences which had brought the representatives
of all the nations of the earth in peace and good-will
together, and which had been exerted so conspicuously
on that occasion (Cheers) He looked upon that as
one of the greatest triumphs of their modern civilisa-
tion. (Cheers.) For many centuries the nations of
the world had been kept asunder by a variety of hos-
tile influences. The religious wars of the 15th and 16th
centuries, the political wars of the 17th and 18th cen-
turies, had the effect of separating the States of Europe
into a number of hostile camps, where the people of
every different nation regarded one another with the
most absurd and inveterate prejudice, and where these
prejudices, reflected by the action of the governments,
involved them in long-continued acts of hostility and
antagonism. (Cheers.) It had been one of the great
features of this, the 19th century, to overcome these
influences—to bring men to a better frame of mind, and
to a state more becoming that brotherhood, which should
exist in Christian and civilised nations. In looking at
the causes that had produced that happy change, be
thought the Macaulays and the Alisons of future ages
would think upon two causes, which were embodiedland
symbolised in the institution under the roof of which
they were that day assembled. He thought they would
say that the abandoning of mutual prejudices was owing
in the first place to that enlightened system of commer-
cial legislation by which private industry was made free
and allowed to exert its beneficial influence, and to that
facility of mutual intercommunication, elected by the
miraculous results of the application of steam to locomo-
tion, which had brought them upon visiting terms with
their neighbours of France. (Loud cheers.) Much,
too, was owing to those enlightened agencies which
enabled them to speak to their brethren at Berlin or
Vienna, through the medium of the electric telegraph,
and have a reply on the same day, thus uniting the
nations of the world into one happy family, and drawing
them more closely together than .the pipvincial towns
of England were when he and he was not an
old man—first recollected the state of the country.
There was then more isolation between York and
Manchester, and Liverpool and the metropolis, than
there was at present between London, Paris, Berlin,
Vienna, and other continental cities. (Hear, hear.)
It afforded him and his colleagues the greatest sa-
tisfaction to see around them the distinguished represen-
tatives of so many foreign countries, assembled to do
homage to the universal idea of peace and brotherhood
which they wished to shadow forth in their present in-
stitution. (Hear.) He saw on the right hand the re-
presentative of a most gallant and distinguished nation,
which had been long their chivalrous enemy, now he
hoped, for long ages to come, their firm and faithful ally.
(Tremendous cheering.) Nor could he close his refer-
ence to that gallant nation without a brief allusion to
that merciful interposition of Providence—for he could
call it by no other name—which, in the present alarming
contingency of European politics, had placed at the head
of that great nation the remarkable man who had ce•
mented the alliance between France and England by
his straightforward and consistent conduct. (Renewed
cheering.) On his left hand, he saw the representative
of that great German nation of whom he was sure Eng-
lishmen would never speak but as brethren, as branches
with themselves of the great Teutonic family, and any
contest that would divide them from that great German
brotherhood would be indeed parricide. It gave him'
great pleasure to see among the representatives of fo-
reign nations and governments present a representative
of that young and chivalrous emperor, whose gallant,
straightforward, and honourable conduct at this mo-
mentous crisis had removed, he trusted, for ever those
misunderstandings and clouds which, to their mutual de-
triment, had prevailed between England and Austria.
(Great cheering.) United with these representatives he
saw a distinguished nobleman on his left, the worthy
representative of Italy—the country of art—(great
applause)—to which they were indebted for so many
of those marvellous productions which delighted them
in the structure over their heads. (Cheers.) He saw
the representative of Belgium, a country whose monarch
was closely allied with their own Royal Family by ties
of kindred—a nation small in extent, but famous
for its historical association, and the triumphs of its
industrial inhabitants—a nation which he was sure Eng-
land would always greet and see with the utmost satis-
faction attending meetings of that description. He saw,
also, near him, the representative of a nation united with
them by still closer ties of consanguinity_the represen.
tative of the great United States of America--(cheering)
—of that younger brother of John Bull, of whom, of all
the many productions of John Bull's industry, he had
the greatest reason to be proud. (Cheers and laughter.)
He saw around him the representatives of many other
distinguished European States, and he hailed their pre-
sence on that day, because it showed that Europe asso-
ciated itself with that movement, and with that idea
which, working in the minds of a few plain practical
Englishmen, had been responded to by all the most dis-
tinguished persons assembled around him. (Cheers.) In
conclusion, he would simply advert to one circumstance
which had occurred since their last meeting, when the
nations of the earth were gathered together in the Great
Exhibition building of 1851. At that period it was inot
n-
deed a Temple of Peace. Thep olitical horizon was
overshawdowed by a single cloud, and at that time it
appeared to all of them as if they were then entering on
a new Augustan era, in which the peace of the world
stood above all apprehension of being disturbed. Since
then an unlooked for change bad occurred. Their fairest
aspirations and happy visions of peace had disappeared.
War, with all its horrors, bad burst upon them ; and al-
though he deeply deplored that it had been occasioned
by the ambition of a single individual, there was some
consolation in feeling on this occasion that it was a
proud spectacle to show to the world that the aggres-
sion of an isolated ambition was powerless, not only
to prevail in arms against England and their gal-
lant allies, but that it was impotent even for a
single moment to arrest the march of civilization, or stay
those peaceful ideas which had been conceived in hap-
pier times, with the view of carrying out the objects of
universal peace and brotherhood among all nations, and
that, in spite of war, they had not been interrupted,
and they might hope to see them carried to a successful(
conclusion. (Cheers.) With that sentiment he begged
to call upon them to show their foreign guests how
Englishmen celebrated a toast in order to do it honour.
Let them drink with true enthusiasm, and three hearty
English cheers, the toast of their " Foreigh Guests."
The whole company rose, and responded to the toast
in the most enthusiastic manner.
Count LESSEPS rose and spoke in French to the fol-
lowing effect :—ln the names of the foreign commis-
sioners I have the honour to thank the directors of the
Crystal Palace for their cordial hospitality. I have also
the honour of proposing a toast to England and to its
union with France. (Cheers.) This union is the alli
ance of force and reason. It is also the pledge of the
peace of the world. (Loud cheers.) Its first object has
been to establish before the eyes of all the evidence of
its justice. You know bow it has obtained the victory.
Public opinion has prociaiined it in a manner the most
striking. All honour to England and to France for
awaiting this end before having recourse to the force of
arms. (Great cheering.) As soon as this new and ter-
rible recourse had become an imperative necessity, they
have not hesitated, and you also well know with what
wonderful vigour they have set to work and launched
mighty squadrons—such as were never before sent out
from their ports —against the ,eoaitti of 1W0.% in the