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LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, UNE 19, 1854.

NATIONAL FESTIVAL in CELEBRATION
of the UNION between EICOLAND and FItANCE.—At a
numerous and highly influential MEETING, held on Wednesday,
the 14th of June, at tho Mansion-house, to promote the aboYe ob-

The Right lion. the LORD MAYOR in the chair;
It was proposed by Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Wire, seconded by-

Viscount Ebrington, m, r., and resolved uratuhnously;
That this• Meeting, believing that the peace of the world, the ad-
vancement of silence, the development of art, and the diffusion of
knowle ige mainly depend noon the cultivation of peaceful relations
with the French nation, arc of opinion, that some of its most dis-
tinguished men, connected with legisla_ion, 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
subsisting between the two nations—an alliance, the continuance of
which is eminently calculated to promote in all countries the per-
manency of peace, and its consequent blessings—order, prosperity,
and happiness. -
It was proposed by William Tite, Esq., F.R.3., 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 of the other citie4 and borougns of the United King-
dom; the Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, and principals of cur univer-
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; Esq., seconded by It. W. Kennard,
Esq., an 1 resolved unanimously ; -
That a subscription be entered into for carrying into effect the ob-
ject of this-Meeting.
It was proposed by Jeremiah Filcher, Esq., seconded by T. B. Simp-

son, Esq., and resolved unanimously ;
That the Right Hon. the Lord hisyor be appointed treasurer, and
the Right Hen. the Lord John Russell, M.P., Lord Viscount Ebring-
ten,John Masterman, Esq . M.P., Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., and
the Baroo Lionel de Rothschild, M.P., be respectfully requested to act
as trustees, and the bankers in London and the country be solicited
to receive subscdptions.
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 and b Toughs of the United Kingdom be also requested to sanc-
tion the addition of their names to the Comm t ee, with a view to the
augmentation of the funds, by openimt subscription lists in their L;cal
districts. THOMAS SIDNEY, Mayor.
It was then proposed by Sir Joseph Paxton, seconded by W. J. Hall,
Esq , and resolvei unanimously ;
That the sincere and cordial thanks of this Meeting be presented to
the Right lion. she Lord mayor, for the active interest he has taken
,in the object of this Meeting, and for tile ability sad courtesy wi h
which he has presided this day.
Ci Ei
CO)lB
Chterman—The Bight'
Anderson, Sir James, M.P.
Andert n, Mr. Under-Sheriff
Arden, Joseph, Esq.

SEDGWICK, lion. Secretary.
IT PEE.
ion. the LORD MAYOR.
Laing, Samuel, M.P.
Langton, El. Gore, Esq., M.P.
Laslett, W., Esq , M.P.
Laurie, David, Esq.
Lawrence, William, jun., Esq.
Layard, A. IL, Esq, M.P.
Leeds, the Mayor of.
Leaf, W., Esq.
I enttox, Lord H. G., M.P.
Lildell, the Hon. H. T.. M.P.
LilAard, William, Esq.
Lindsay, H.S., Esq,'M:P.
Lloyd, J., Esq. •
Lu hington, Charles, Esq.
Lock', Joseph, Esq.
Lowrey. Thomas, Esq.
Lucas, F., Esti., M.P.
Luce, T. E' q., M.P.
• Lupton, John, Esq.
MacGregor, James, Esq., M.P.
MacGregor, Jobn, Esq., M.P.
Mackinnon, W. A., Esq., M.P.
Maguire, J. F. Esq., M.P.
Mangles. R. D. Esq., M.P.
Masterman. John, Esq., M.P.
Maugham, Robert, Esq.
Mechl, J. J , Esq.
Miller, Daniel, Esq.
Mitchell, Thos. A., Esq , M.P.
.ilerewether. Mr. Serjeant
Millard, Jamas J., Esq.
million, Robert, Esq., M.P.
Millman, Rev. 11. H., D.D.
Monteaore, Sir Moses, Bart.
Muon, Mr. Alt:erntaa
Moffstt, George, Esq., M.P.
Murrell, 11. Esq.
Nix, John, Esq.
Northeote, Stafford H., Esq.
Obbard, Mr. Deputy
O'Connell, Daniel, Esq , M.P.
O'Connell, John, Esq., M.P.
• Overstone, Lord
Oliveira, Benjamin, Esq , M.P.
Oliphant, J., Esq., Chairman of
the East Ind•a Company
Oxford, the Mayor of
Panopticon, Royal, Council
Pakington, Right lion. Sir John,
M.P.
Paws :n, John F., Esq.
Paxton, Sir Joseph
Pellatt, Apsley, Esq.. M.P.
Pete, S. M.. Esq., M.P.
• Philipps, RN., Esq.
Pilkihgton, J., Esq., M.P.
• licher, Jeremiah, Esq.
Pollock, Sir George, Lieut.-Gen.,
K.C.B.
Price, Robert, Esq., M.P.
Roberts, David, Esq , R.A.
Rose, Mr. Alderman
• Rothschild, Baron Lionel de, M.P.
Rothschild, sir Anthony •
Rothschild. Baron Meyer de
Russell, the Right lion. Lord
John, -M.P.
Ruthin, the Mayor of
t'andar ' George, Esq., M.P.
Seobell,Captain R N., M.P.
Scully, Francis, Esq., M P.
Seymour, Sir Hamilton, G.C.B.
Schuster, Lee, Esq. •
Scholefield, w.' Esq., M.P.
Seymour, 11. Dantsy, Esq., M.P.
Simpson, T. 8.. Esq.
Sl,erman, Rev. James
Sheriff, George WaskingtOn.Eliel.
smedley, Francis, Esq.
Smith, J. 8.. Esq., M.P.
Smith, Mr. Uneer-Sheriff
Smith, George Knight, Esq.
'smith, George John, Esq.
Smith, William W , Esq.
Stephenson, Robert, Esq., M.P.
Stafford, Augustus, Esq., M.P.
Staple., John, Esq.
Stuart, Lord Dudley. M.P.
Stuart, W Forbes, Esq.
'. Sykes, Lieut.-Col.
Toulon, eymour, Esq.
Thornely, Thomas, Esq., M.P.
Thomas, Joseph, Esq.
Thompson, G., Esq., M P.
Tite, William, Esq , F.R.S.
rravers, John Ingram, Esq.
Travers, Smith, Esq.
Truman, Dr '
Tudor, Samuel, Esq.
Tyler, William, Esq.
Tyrrell, Edward, Esq.
M., Esq.
Vile, George, Esq.
Wakefield, Joseph Conn, Esq.
' Walpole, Right lion. S. H., ISI P.
Wallis, Mr. Sneriff
Warren, Capt. D., R.N.
Whalley, G. H., Esq.
Wickham, H. W., Esq., M.P.
Wilkinson, W. A., Esq , M.P.
Wilcox, G. M. Esq., M P.
Wit lams, M.P.
Williams, Michael, Esq
Williams. William. Esq.
Wilion, Thomas, Esq.
Winckworth, Captain
Winnaw, James, Esq.
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff
Wool, 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
•

liagshaNy, John, Esq., M.P.
;Baggallay, T. W , Jun., Esq.
Ballahtim, t.sq.

arber, Win., Esq.
M., Esq., M.P.
T:, Esq , M.P.

eale, Samuel, Esq.
eautnont, I. A., Esq

Bethel!, Sir Richard, M.P.
Bell, James, Esq., M.P
Bennoch, Francis, Esq.
Berens, Alexander, Esq.
Besley, R .bert, Esq.
Benest, P. IL Esq. ,
J3iber, Rev. Dr.
Biggs, W 111 am, Esq., M.P.
Blsnop, G. Esq , F.R.S.
Blandy, Loftus, Esq., M.P.
Blumberg, Ludwig, Esq.
Boileau, Major
Bower, Mr. Deputy
Brassey. TPOMai, Esq.
Brocklehurst, John, Esq., M.P.
Brothtrton, Joseph, Esq., M.P.
Brown, Humphrey, Esq., M.P.
Brown, Wm., Esq , M.P.
Bunning, J. B , Esq. ,
Putt, G. Esq., M.P. •
Byng, don. James
Butterworth, Joshua N., Esq.
Cotterrell, Thomas, Esq.
McCabe. Hobert, Esq.
Campbell, Sir John N. R.
Campbell, Patrick, Esq.
arden, Sir Robert Walter
Carter, Mr. Alderman
Catty, F. rl., Esq.
Causton, Joseph, Esq.
Candy, Charles, Fsq,
Carlisle, the Rt. Hon. the Earl of
Carr, J. R., Esq.
chambers, Montagu, Esq-, 31 P.
Chambers, Thomos, Esq MX.
Chaplin, W. J. Esq., M.P.
Chaplin, R. J., Esq.
Otman, Wiliam, Esq.
Cheetham, John, Esq ,
Child, Coles, Esq.
Clay, sir. Bart., M.P.
obbold,.J. C., Esq , M.P.
Cockereil, George J., Esq.
Cook, William, Esq.
Coppock, James, Esq.
Cowan, Charles, Esq., M.P.
Cracklow, David, Esq.
Crosby, E., Esq.
Crosby, Charlt s, E-q.
Crowley, Charles, Esq.
Crowley, Edward, Esq.
Cust, Major-Gen. the Hon. Sir E.
Cubitt, William, Esq., M.F.
Cuthbert, George, Esq.
Dakin, Thomas,Esq.
Davidson, David, Fsq.
Davis. Elias, Esq.
Davies, J. E., Esq.
Dei,bigh, the Mayor of.
Denison, E. 8., Esq., M.P.
Dunford, C. W., Esq.
Dublin, the Lord Mayor of.
Duke, Sir James, M.P.
Eagleton, Deputy, Mr.
Ebrington,, he Viscount.
Ellerton, Edward, Esq.
Eamon te, John, Esq., M.P.
Ewart, William, Esq., M.P.
Etc ies, W. J.. Esq.
Evans, Jeremiah, EFQ
Farebrother, Mr. Alderman.
Finals. Mr. Alderman
Fitzgerald, J. D. Esq., M.P.
Forster, John, Esq., M.P.
Forster, Matthew, Esq.
Freestun, Col., M.P.
Fuller, Francis, E'q.
Gardner, Richard, Esq., M.P.
Gibson, Rt. Hon. T. Milner, M.P.
Gillett, George, Esq.
Geach, Charles, Esq., M.P.
Glyn, G. C., Esq., hi.P.
Goodman, Sir George, M.P.
Graves, G. C. Esq.
Gregson, Sami.el, Esq., M.P.
Grimwade, Charles, Esq.
Gurney, Russell, Esq., Q.C.
Hadfield, George, Esq., M.P.
/I:t11, W J., Esq.
Hail, S. if., Esq.
Hankey, Thomson, Esq , M.P.
Hankey. Beaumont, Esq.
Hay, W. T. Fsq.
ifirrison,Roliert, Esq. '
Hanes, Benjamin, E- q. -
Heywood, James, Esq., M.P.
Heyworth, Laurence, Esq., M.P.
Hindley, Charles, Esq.,
Holyland, Wiliam H ,
Ha-tie, Alexander, Esq., M.P.
Howes, G., Esq.
Hume, W. F., Esq., 31 P.
Hunter, A., Esq.
Hutt, W., Esq , M.P.
Jackson. William, Esq., H.P.
Johnson, Robert, Esq.
Kelly, sir Fitzroy, M P.
Keating, H. S., E'q., H.P.
Kennard, R. W., Esq.
Kershaw, James, Esq., 31. P.
Key, Sir John, Bart.
Kinnaird, Hon. 'A., M P.
Kirk, William, Esq.

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TO the MEMBERS of BOTH HOUSES of
PARLIAMENT.
My 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,
THE MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH COLLEGB OF HEALTH,
New-road, London, for and on behalf of the Society of Hygeists.
June 14, 1854.

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TEE CRYSTAL PALACE.

DEJEUNER TO _ THE
.IiEPRESENTAT IVES OF

FOREIGN 'COUNTRIES. • -
On Saturday the opening of, the Crystal palace was
duly celebrated by a grand dejeuner in the b wilding, by
the directors and shareholders of the company,. to the va-
rious.representatives of foreign Governments .who were
present at the opening of the palace on they previous
Saturday. The invitations to the dejeuner itnaluded, in
addition to the distinguished foreigners then as eives, a
very large proportion of the aristocracy, and many per-
sonsopf eminence in art, science,. and literat ore. The,
company was a most briliant one, Sand the att( indance 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 iv:as given
in the basement story of the building, in the pa rt to be
hereafter occupied by machinery in motion, and pro-
bably not less than six hundred persons partoc ik of the
liberal and recherché hospitality of .the directors and
shareholders. Among the guests present we nocticed the
'Duchess of Montrose, the Duchess of Sutherland, the
Duchess of. Argyll, the Earl and Countess ao, re, the
Baron De -Monty, the Countess •Lavradio, the, ;Sicilian
Minister, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl and Co un tess of
Shaftesbury, the Lord Chief Justice, the Risb.op of
Oxford, Lord- Robert Grosvenor; M.P. ; Mr.. .Milner
'Gibson, MY., Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P. ; th.e Earl
'and Countess of Chichester, Earl of .11ardwicke., Lord
Stanley, M.P. ; Sir J. and Lady Pakington, .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, MY, ; Mr. Kinmaird;
M.P..; Mr. Henley, ; Lord Ernest Bruce, 111. P. ,
Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. Locke, M.P:'; Mr. ayter,
; Mr. Napier, M.P. ; Sir H. Davy.; Mr. G eorge
Bankes, M.P. ; Lord 0 verstone, the Solicitor-General ;
Mr. Stafford, M.P. ; Mr. Liddell, M.P. ; Hon . W.
Cowper, MT. • Mr. Rich, M.P.-; the Princess C:arini,
Madlle. Maced'o, the Brazilian Minister, Dr. Wa agan,
Count Klingemann, the Earl and Countess of Mul

grave, Lady Doneraile, the March:oness of Aylesbury,
the Earl and Countess of Zetlaed, Colonel La wi•ence,
the Earl of Harrowby, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Jost4htti and
Lady Paxton, and numerous others.
The ht'alths of her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the
Royal Family having been drunk with enthusiatna.
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 neceesity 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 the 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 irifluencea of the Great Exhibition of 1851,
which had o riginated the present undertaking, none was
more important than the perpetuation of the humanis-
ing influences which had brought the representatives
of all the n ations of the earth in peace and good-will
together, and which bad been exerted so conspicuously
on that ocoasion (Cheers) He looked upon. that as
one of the ~greatest triumphs of their modern civiliza-
tion. (Cheers.) For many centuries the nations of
the world Lad 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 nun ►ber of hostile camps, where the people of
every different nation regarded one another ' with the
most absur d and inveterate prejudice, and where these
prejudices, reflected by the action of the' governments,
involved th em, in long-continued acts of hostility and
antagonisni. (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 m ore 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 embodiediand
symbolised in the institution under the roof of which
they were th at day assembled. He thought they would
say that the abandoning of mutual prejudices was owing
in the first p lace 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 ii iutual intercommunication, effected by the
miraculous r esults of the application of steam to locomo-
tion, which had brought then% upon visiting terms with
their neighbours of France. (Loud cheers.) Much,
too, was owing to those enlightened agencies which
enabled th:ern to speak to their brethren at Berlin or
Vienna, tlarough the medium of the elentric telegraph,
and have . a reply on the same day, this uniting the
nations of the world into one happy family, and drawing
them more closely together than the provincial towns
of England were when he and he was not an
old inan—Erst 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 mercitnl 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 13y ties
of kindred—a nation small in extent, but famous
for its historical association, and the triumphs of its
industrial inhabitants—a nation which be 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 in
deed a Temple of Peace. The political horizon was not
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 had occurred. Their fairest
aspirations and happy visions of peace had disappeared.
War, with all its horrors, had 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 " Foreign Guests."
The whole company rose, and responded to the toast
in the most enthusiastic manner.
Count Lzsszrs 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 how it has obtained the victory.
Public opinion has proclaimed 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 hesitatetl, 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 ooasto of Rusk% in the

east and in the north ; and their presence has driven
back and confined the fleets of the enemy within those
retreats, from whence they dare not show themselves.
(Renewed cheers.) At the same time our brave soldiers,
guided by two of our princes, and our most illustrious
generals, are traversing the Mediterranean to fight by
the side of an ally who has found, in the justice of
her cause and devotion of her people the secret of sns-
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taining valiantly a terrible struggle against an aggression
as formidable as it is unjust. Already we may admire
on the shores of the Danube, at Odessa, at Silistria, in
the Baltic Sea, their valour and their magnanimity.
(Cheers.) Let us hope that other triumphs are reserved
for then]. On the other side, gentlemen, the arts of
peace have never ceased to illustrate both England and
France. At no opoch has the intellectual, industrial,
and commercial power been manifested with more acti-
vity and grandeur. (Cheers.) You have only to look
around you and you will have a most palpable proof of
the striking evidences of this fact. In Paris, as in Lon-
. ..

don, humeri labour exhibits all its wonders, and in the
same way that, under the impulse given by the Emperor
Napoleon, the Louvre approaches completion, so her
Most Gracious-Majesty, the Sovereign of Great Britain,
inaugurates this palace of wonders. (The noble count
resumed his seat amid groat applause.)
The Earl of CARLISLE, who was warmly cheered, pro-
posed the toast " Success to the Crystal Palace," and in
doing so, said : I have been honoured by a request to
propose to you a toast upon the present occasion, and
whatever may be the shortcomings of the proposer, and
whatever the dignity of the audience, I yet feel sure that
I may calculate upon your ready and unanimous ap-
proval. (Cheers.) That toast is "Success to the Crystal
Palace." (Loud and protracted cheering.) I aim hap-
pily relieved from any necessity of explaining or mons-
mendiag such a toast-by the notoriety of all the eircutna
stances which have attended the origin and progress of
this great undertaking, by the interest evinced in the very
fact of the attendance of an assembly of such varied dis-
tinction, and, above all, by the mute but eloquent and
all-sufficing testimony of the fabric itself. It may be said,
not I am happy to think, as an epitaph upon the tombs
of the men who have contributed to its completion,
but as a tribute to their living merits, " If you want
a monument, look around." (Cheers ) Success, then.
to the Crystal Pal ice, partly on account of that liberal
breadth which has distinguished the whole conception,
principle, and design ; for while, as we saw last week,
crowned heads and their representatives, and univereaties
and municipalities, the great, the learned, and the fair,
crowded around its cradle and blessing its auspicious
birth, there is not an obscure class of society, there is
not a struggling son of toil, for whom it does not store
up and throw open its treasures, whether for blameless
recreation or wholesome instruction—(great cheering)—
and while its contents may minister to the most refined
taste and to the soundest knowledge, it seeks to provide
for the common, the public, the universal enjoyment.
(Renewed cheers.) " Success to the Crystal Palace,"
since to those who by their circumstances, their means
or their duties, are confined to the narrower circuit of
our own shores, it extends some, at least, of the plea-
sures and advantages which have been heretofore ex-
clusively confined to the wealthy or the unoccupied.
(Hear, hear.) I myself, who now thus venture to ad-
dress you, come here fresh with the most recent impres-
sions of all that is most lovely in nature and most ad-
mirable in art. Yet when I wander into the Greek,
Italian, or Byzantine court above, I can almost feel that
I am again gazing at the glittering cupolas of St. Sophia
or St. Mark's or upon those master-pieces of Phidias
which still remain on their own immortal rock. (Hear.)
Yet in'these delicious climes the thought will too often
obtrude itself which is contained in the expressive line of
one of our paets, that—
" All, save the spirit of man, is divine"—
(hear) ;—but here, under our weeping skies, and amidst
our murkier atmosphere, the spirit of man has been en-
abled to recal the foliage, the blossoms, and the odours
of the tropics, or to retrace the unsurpassed forms of
human genius. Success, again, to the Crystal Palace,
because throughout its birth, its growth, and its maturity
it has been the work of private enterprise. And although
in its rapid progress it has been constantly cheered by
a royal smile, and-sustained throughout by the sympa-
thy of millions, yet it is through unbidden and unaided
efforts that it has become all that you now see it. (Hear.)
I could not wish, anti if I could wish, I should not be
able to classify Vie services which have brought about
this brilliant result. I may just say for myself that the
pleasure I have felt in being present this day has been
materially enhanced by a long private regard for my dis-
tinguished friend Sir Joseph Paxton. (Loud cheers,
during which Sir Joseph Paxton bowed his acknowledg-
ments.) And you will also, perhaps, just allow me to
say that I feel assured you will join in the regret I my-
self cal not fail to feel, that the business, both of this day
and of last Saturday, has wanted the presence of an-
other friend still more intimately connected with him—l
allude to the Duke of Devonshire. (Hear.) But I feel
confident that, though I decline the task of qlassifying
any difference of merit or exertion that may exist be-
tween the distinguished persons who have brought this
great enterprise thus far to maturity,, any such d;ffer-
ence will be most accurately and candidly measured by
the agents in the work themselves. I know, too, that
the prospect of its being a remunerative enterprise can-
not have been the one that was foremost in their minds;
yet they, as well as we, are bound to wish, if only as a
test of the amount of pleasure and benefit which the
Crystal Palace may confer upon others, that it should be
abundantly remunerative to themselves. (Cheers.) And
this, I am sure, you will all feel, however romantic or
chivalrous their disregard may be for their own inter-
ests. (Renewed applause.) Success then, once more
for all, to the Crystal Palace. (Renewed cheers.) It
is the wish of my heart that many a happy generation
may disport themselves beneath its gleaming roofs,
all along its well stored courts and suggestive galleries,
or among its gay parterres and stately terraces, and
there feet the thrill of gratification to the Creator
who has implanted in their souls the sense of beauty. and
learn those lessons of lowly reverence which offers up all
the treasures of this world as an incense to the God of
all worlds. (Great cheering). I have thus said little
enough, I know, for my subject; but I trust I have said
enough to induce you, on this occasion, to join with
me in drinking with as much warmth and goodwill as
the wish requires, " Success to the Crystal Palace.
The toast was drunk with three times three, and with
the most enthusiastic applause.
The CHAIRMAN, in responding to the toast, said that
circumstances had made him to a great extent the spokes-
man and official mouthpiece of this undertaking. An
undertaking of this description was of necessity managed
by boards of numerous directors, and as a board of
eight or ten gentlemen could not speak all at once with
any effect before an assembly like the present, it bcceme
necessary that one individual, their chairman, should be
their mouthpiece. It was his fortune then to occupy
that position to-day, and trusted they would remember
that there were many who acted, although there may be
only one to speak, and that the merit, whatever it be,
was distributed amongst those colleagues whose spirit
and energy had assisted in conducting the undertaking
to a successful issue. Still further, to go for a moment
beyond the board of directors of whom he was the official
organ and mouthpiece, he would say that he was glad to
have the opportunity of doing that which the noble earl
had told them it did not devolve on them to do, namely,
to classify in some degree the merit which might be ap-
propriated to different parties who had embarked in this
enterprise. This was a task which he had no hesitation in
performing. And, first, he would classify the merit by
assigning to his distinguished friend (Sir J. Paxton) the
merit of designing this undertaking. They might have
had 20 or 100 boards of directors to do what the pre-
sent board had done, but they could not have had another
Sir Joseph Paxton. (Much cheering.) He was the
only individual at this moment living and breathing in
Europe who could have achieved that proud triumph of
science and art which has reared the Crystal Palace of
Sydenham on that beautiful and magnificent hill.
(Cheers.) In proceeding with his classification he would
next mention two names also henceforth illustrious in
the annals of English art—he alluded to his friends, Mr.
Owen Jones and Mr. Digby Wyatt. (Renewed cheers.)
It was to their eminent talent, and to their unwearied
zeal and assiduity that the collection of these treasures
of art, which we all admired, was mainly owing ; and if
the reproach, which had so long attached to England, of
not understanding and appreciating the fine arts was
destined, as he hoped it was, speedily to pass away, he
did say that to those three names—Paxton, Jones, and
Wyatt—would be due the gratitude of our posterity, if
we could show that this country was not behind the rest
of the world in its appreciation of the fine arts as well as
in the cultivation of the pursuits of commerce. (Cheers.)
To return to the board of directors, whose organ he was,
the only merit they claimed in promoting this under-
taking was, that they had faith in the genius of those
great men, and faith, also, in the English people. (Loud
cheering.) He said "faith in the English people, be-
cause, if this undertaking was to be carried out to a
successful conclusion, it was evident that, however
highly we may value the patronage of the distinguished
and. the noble of the land, who had that day honoured
them with their presence, it was to the hardworking;
industrious millions of England that they must look
for the complete success of the work. (Renewed
cheers.) For his part, he would say of himself and of
every one of his colleagues, because he knew it from
intimate conviction, that they entertain the strongest
and most assured faith in the mass of the English na-
tion in supporting whatever deserved to be supported,
and giving them success, if it be true that they
deserved to achieve it. (Cheers.) The noble earl had
truly observed that remuneration was not the object
sought for in this undertaking. They had, he trusted,
pursed a higher and nobler object. (Hear, hear.) At
the same time he did not conceal the anxiety with which
they looked forward to this enterprise being remunera-
tive as a commercial speculation ; for they were con-
vinced that should it prove to be so, it would be the
signal for embarking great masses of the overflowing
capital of the country in similar enterprises of an educa-
tional and a philanthropic nature, which would tend to
raise by degrees the bulk of our people to a higher level
than any to which they had yet attained. (Cheers )
With this feeling he could only once more cordially
thank them on the part of every one who had been con-
nected with the rearing of the noble structure in which
they viere then assembled, and assured them that it was
among the dearest wishes of their hearts to see the toast
they had jut drank7the gloom of the Orystal Palace