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Gm JUNE 233 1851.
N°.18,330.] LONDON, MONDAY
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NEW EDITION OF THE LIVES OF THE QUEEN'S.
With the Magazines, on the 30th of June, will he commenced the
publication, in Eight Monthly avo. Volumes (comprising from 600
to 700 pages), price 12s. each, elegantly bound, of the
LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND.
By AGNES STRICKLAND.
A INF:NV, REVISED, and GREATLY AUGMENTED EDITION,
EMBELLISHED ITH POR FRAITS OF EVERY QUEEN,
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N.B. The First Volume sill contain the Lives And Portraits of
Thirteen Queens, and a fine Portrait of the Author.
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To be had of all Booksellers.

Cheap Edition, price is 6d., 330 pages and Woodcuts,
LIFE at the WATER CURE; or, a Month at
Malvern. By It. J. LANE, A.E.It.A., and Atrographer
in
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a Water Patient," by Sir Edwird Bulwer Lytton.
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The Great Exhibition and the Royal Polytechnic Institution.
All the most interesting Deposits at the Great Exhibition will, in
turn, be lectured on at the
ROYAL PO, YTECHN IC I STITIJTION
The present Lectures are on the Chemi,try of the Minerals
and Crystals at the Great Exhibition, beginning with Diamonds,
RubieQ, an I Pearls by 1 H. Pepper, Esq. ; And oil BakewelPs Patent
Copying Telegraph, by Dr Bachhoffner. fhe Rotation of the Earth,
exhibited by P'oucAult's Experiments.—The great economy of Cook-
ing by Gas explained.—A Lecture on the Ilistory of the Harp, by
Frederick Chatterton. Esc , with Vocal Illustrations. —Two Series
of splendid Dissolving Views.—Diver and I lying . &c.
Admission. Is. ; Schools, lialf-price
Open dal'y from Half past Ten to Five, and every Evening from
Seven till Ilalf-past Tell.

LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO,
Licensed by Act of Parliament.
A
AGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-
STREET, ST. JAMES'S.
(Sole Lessee, Charles Emile Laurent. jun., 57, BromptOn-square.)
OPEN EVERY EVENING,
With LAURENT'S UNRIVALLED BAND.
Principal Cornet-a-Pistons, M. Boalconrt.
Doors open at Ralf-past Eight o'clock Dancing to comment). at
Use and terminate at Ralf-past Eleven o'clock precisely.
Admission. erne Shilling.

iIATTY'S GRAND NATIONAL.
HIPPODROME, Kensington.---Crowded daily with rank and
fashion to witness the most surprising teats ever performed in Eng
land. Mr. Batty has much plea,ure in armouncing to his Patrons
that Mr. Hampton, the celebrated Aeronaut, will make his Second
Ascent in his magnificent Balloon the Erin-go-Bragh, TIIIS
EVENING. June 23, precisely at Six o'cl-,ck. 'I he doors will be
opened at Four, in order to afford the public an opportunity of wit-
nessing the Inflation M the centre of the arena.
On THURSDAY next, June 26. there will be a Grand DAY PER-
FORMANCE, doors open at One, to commence precisely at Two.
The entertainments in the Evening as usual.
Doors open at Five. Performance to commence precisely at Six.
Privwe Boxes ----- Is. Od.
Admission to the Reserved Seats - 3s. Od.
First•class do.
- Is. Od.
Second do. - -
Third do.

squadron was renaavkably healthy. Archer, 14, screw-
sloop, Commander S mange, was off Lagos; Flying Fish,
12, Commander Patey, was cruising off Porto Novo;
Harlequin, 12, Commander Wilmot, was cruising off
Palmas; Niger. 12, screw-sloop, Commander Heath,
was cruising off Little Papo; Prometheus steam-sloop,
Commander Foot,, had been sent from the Bights divi-
sion to Ascension for provisions; many of her crew had
been sickly.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—At the half-yearly exami-
nation of the mates of the Royal Navy and officers of
the Royal Marines at the Naval College on Saturday
last, Mr. James Graham Goodenough, mate, was de-
clared to be qualified for the Lieutenant's commission
granted by the Admiralty in December, 1838, to the
most advanced student m mathematics, &c.; and Lieu-
tenant F. W. F--sting, It. M., was found qualified for the
Marine Arillery C, rps.
Commodore W. F. Martin, of the Lisbon squadron,
has been honoured by the lately vacant appointment of
naval A.D.C. to he Queen.
The good service pension of 300'. per annum, which
fell in on the death of Admiral Sir Edward Codtington,
has been conferred upon Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Pym,
K. C. B.
A captain's good service pension of 1501. per annum,
which also fell in 11 the promotion consequent upcm
death vacancies on the fl g-list, has been conferred upon
Captain H. B. Powell, 1822.
The good service pension of 1501. per annum enjoyed
by the late Colonel M'Cullum, of the Royal Marines,
has been conferred on Colonel Samuel B. Ellis, C.B.
Rear-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G,
visited the: Excellent gunnery-ship last week, and wit-
nessed shot and. shell practice and the evolutions in sea-
manship by the crew. The noble Admiral was much
gratified with his visit, and expressed to Captain
C. 8., his warmest appreciation of the high effi-
ciency displayed by the officers and men under his
command. Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8.,
,late Commander-in-Chief on the south-east coast of
America station, accompanied his Grace on his visit to
this port.
Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin, G.C.8., Admiral
of the Fleet, arrived here last night, and (together
with General Fanshawe, who is waiting the momentarily
expected arrival of his son, Commodore Fanshawe, in
her Majesty's ship Centaur, from the coast of Africa),
is sojourning at the George Hotel. Rear-Admiral Pres-
cott, C. 8., &c., visited him to-day.
The Wellesley and Resolute Indiamen sailed from
Spithead yesterday, the former from Madras and Cal-
cutta,
and the latter for Sydney.

APPOINTMENTS.
WooLwlcH, JUNE 21.—Lieutenants—Charles G.
Grylls (1817), and Charles W. Russell (1850), to the
Re ribution for service in the Sidon, 22, paddle-wheel
steam frigate of 560 horse power, the latter vessel being
intended to convey troops to the Cape of Good Hope.
Commander Francis P. Egerton (1844), having
finished a course of study of steam at the factory at
Woolwich dockyard, was examined on Friday last by
Mr. Trickett, assistant to the chief engineer, and on
palling received his certificate.
Captain the Lion. Montagu Stopford (1825) has hoisted
his broad pendant on board the Trafalgar, 120, at Sheer-
ness, and taken the temporary commend of the ships at
that port in the room of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Geo.
Eiliot, C.B.
11,-ar-Admiral M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., one of the
Lords of the Admiralty, it is said, will be appointed flag-
efficer at the Nore in about six or seven weeks from this
period, when the temporary command of Captain the
Hun. M. Stopford will cease.
The Cy clops steam-frigate Master-Commander Hoff-
meister, is order d up from Sheerness to Woolwich, and
is expected at this port to-morrow to embark Captain
Faddy's aid Captain St. George's companies of the
Roy al Artillery, for conveyance to the Cape of Good
Hope. This arrangement will give great satisfaction,
and save a great deal of time in the embarkation of the
companies, and the men will be saved the trouble of re-
shipping their baggage at Sheerness.
The Magicienne, 16, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, is
expected at this port every tide from Devonport. She
is to be brought round by Mr. Biddlecombe, and will be
taken back to Devonport by Mr. Brown, assistant-
master-attendant at that dockyard, who will take on
board the masts and stores required to bring the Barra-
uouta to Woolwich. _ _ _

Vv
The Barracouta, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, is under
the shears outside the basin at this port, and her masts
and stores have been all taken out. Although a paddle-
wheel steam-slut p, she is built on similar lines to the
Brisk steam•sloop, recently launched here to be fitted
with a screw-propeller and engines of 250.horae power,
by Scot and Sinclair, at Greenock. The Barracouta is
to be fitted with the old engines taken out of the Medea,
and of 220 horse power,
The Monkey steam-vessel accompanied the Brisk
as far as Sr. Helen's, and returned to Woolwich on Fri-
day afternoon.
The new boilers on board the Hydra steam-sloop are
of a circular form, 9 feet 10 inches each in diameter,
and 16 feet long, and from their perfect construction re-
markably strong. Teem are five furnaces in each of the
two boilers, two below three, and, owing to their shape.
there is ample room for the engineers or stokers to pas,.
between them when necessary. They also dispense with
the steam-chest used in square boilers, which will be a
great advantage and bring them considerably under the
water-line. They were made at the factory at Wool-
wich dockyard, from a design originally submitted to
the Admiralty by Messrs. John Penn and Son, engineers,
Greenwich.

DINNER TO MR. FOX AT DERBY-
On Saturday the inhabitants of the town of Derby
entertained Mr. Fox, their fellow townsman, head of the
firm of Fox and Henderson, at a public dinner in honour
of hie great achievement, the Crystal Valace. The oc-
casion must have been a peculiarly gratifying one to that
gentleman, to his brother, who is this year. for the
third time, Mayor of the borough, and to all his friends,
who flocked around him to testify their admiration of his
successful labours and their respect for his private cha-
racter. Mr. Paxton had been specially invited to be
present, and came accordingly Mr. Henderson was
prevented from attending by his delicate state of hearth.
As to the rest of the company, it comprised many of the
chief guest's most respected townsmen and friende, and
was in all respects a very gratifying muster. About 150
gentlemen sat down to dinner, and Mr. Douglas Fox
presided in a manner which did him the utmost credit.
Among those present, beeides several of the town and
county magistracy, were Mr. Bass, M.P., Mr. Hey worth,
M.P., the Right Hon. Edward Strtitt, Mr. Mosley, Mr.
J. Cochrane, Mr. Johann. Mr. Cooper, Dr. Wylde, Mr.
W. E. Mousley, Mr. Low, and Mr. Crompton. The
dinner took place at the Royal Hotel, and was worthy
of the occasion. At its close,
The CHAIRMAN gave the usual loyal and constitu-
tional toasts, which were received with great applause.
Mr. MOUSLEY then proposed, in highly laudatory
terms, the health of the guest of the everting, Mr- Fox,
which it is almost unnecessary Wormy was received with
the utmost enthusiasm.
Mr. Fox said—ln rising to return thanks for the very
handsome manner in which you have been pleased to drink
my health, I assure you I feel farmore difficulty and
embarrassment than I ever experienced at any period
during the construction of the Cryitai palace. It is im-
possible to express my feelings upon this the moat de-
lightful occasion of my life, when so much more has
been said t han is deserved, and so kindly said, in praise
of the manner in which the work has been carried out
by my good partner, Mr. Henderson, and myself. What-
ever may have been the weight of care and responsibi-
lity under which I have lived for the last twelve months,
I am amply repaid for it all in the perfect success which
has hitherto attended the progress of the Exhibition,
in the approbation expressed by our gracious Sove-
reign, in the kind congratulation of all my friends,
and no* in the enthusiastic and heartfelt manner in
which the toast has been responded to by this distin-
guished assembly of my fellow-townsmen.—(Loud
cheers.) Before entering on a brief history of the
building, I wish to state, that it is to Mr. Paxton's
idea of a palace of iron and glass, which it
has been my lot to mature and realize, that
the public are indebted for the present structure in
Hyde park; and that gentleman proudly acknowledges
that but for the enlightened views of the Duke of De-
vonshire, the Lord-Lieutenant of this county, and his
Grace's princely expenditure at Chatsworth, the idea of
such a building might never have been entertained. In
June, 1850, the Royal Commission invited contractors
to tender for a building to be erected in Hyde-park, in
conformity with plans and specifications prepared by the
Building Committee. The building, which was intended
to consist principally of brick and iron, with a splendid
dome in its centre, was considered of too permanent a
nature for subsequent removal, and public opinion to
this effect was very generally expressed. In the printed
condition of tender issued by the Building Committee
the following clause was introdaeed:—" Tenders for
methods of construction other than those shown upon
the drawings and described in the specifications, will
be entertained, but on condition only of their being ac-
companied by working drawings and specifications, and
fully priced bills of quantities.' This invitation to par-
ties to send in tenders, based not only on the commit-
tee's plans but upon such other designs as they might wish
to submit, induced me to believe that a tender for a build-
ing of glass and iron, as suggested to me for the first
time by Mr. Paxton on the 22d of June, 1850, just 12
months ago, an engraving of which was published in
the Illustrated London News on the 6th of July, would
meet not only with the approbation of the building
committee, but with that of the p,sblic at large; and I
therefore went to Birmingham on the 18th of Juue, and
put in hand the drawings and specifications upon which
our tender to the committee was to be based. On the
2d of July Mr. Cole, having heard of our intention to
make an offer for a building of the kind, and feeling
strongly that the success of the Exhibition depended
upon having an attractive and suitable building, came
down to Birmingham at his own suggestion, but with
the permission of competent authority, to stimulate us
to proceed, and to offer such hints in reference to the
requirements of the case as would enable us to make the
conception of Mr. Paxton conform strictly to the con-
dition of tender required by the Commissioners, and
therefore most likely to meet with the approbation or
the Building Committee; and I am of opinion that to
ruts spirited advice we are mainly indebted for ob-
taining an impregnable locus standi on the merits
of our case.—(Loud cheers.) In all this I had the,
co-operation of my partner Mr. Henderson, who,
feeling with me the value of Mr. Cole's suggestions and
the great importance, in the preparation of these draw-
ings, of conforming as much as possible to the arrange-
ments adopted by the committee in the plan upon which
they had invited tenders, proposed the addition of the
transept, in the propriety or which Mr. Paxton, after
due consideration, entirely concurred.--(Cheers.) Be-
fore completing our tender, and with a view to a more
precise appreciation of the magnitude of a building
covering 18 acres-1,850 feet long, 408 feet wide, and
64 feet high, irrespective of the arched roof of the tran-
sept—l walked out one evening into Portland-place;
and there setting off the 1,850 feet upon the pavement,
found it the same length within a few yards; and then,
considering that the building would be three times the
width of that fine street, and the nave as high as the
houses on either side, I had presented to my mind a
pretty good idea of what we were about to undertake,
and I confess that I considered the difficulties to be sur-
mounted in constructing that great palace were of no
ordinary kind; but feeling confident that with great
energy, good arrangements, and a hearty cooperation on
the part of our extensive andwell-disciplined staff it might
be accomplished, and that upon it depended, in all proba-
bility, the success of the Exhibition, we determined to un-
dertake the responsibility; and the opening on the let
of May has proved the correctness of our conclusions.
—(Laud cheers.) The plans and specifications prepared
by us in great haste were submitted to the Commissioners,
together with a tender, on the 10th of July; but though
sufficient to enable us to bring the subject before them,
and to convey to their minds an idea of what we pro-
posed to erect, they were necessarily very incomplete,
and did not contain either sufficient architectural or me-
chanical detail to admit of their being used in the execu-
tion of the works. The arched root' was afterwards
added to the design, and submitted to the Commissioners
on the 15th of July, with the view of getting over a
difficulty which existed in consequence of the elm trees
being too tall to be covered by the flat roof proposed by
Mr. Paxton. For the expense attending the addition of
the arched roof to the transept, Fox, Henderson, and
Co. did not increase the amount of their former tender,
and it was consequently executed at their sole expense.
—(Cheers.) The Building Committee, having had the
matter under their consideration from the 15th to the
26th of July, resolved unanimously to- recommend the
Commissioners to accept our offer for the building, and
nothing could be more disinterested than their conduct
in setting aside the drawings and specifications which,
with much labour, they had prepared, and adopt-
ing others, which, though laid before thorn in so imper-
fect a state, presented to their minds, as experienced
engineers and architects, the mode of constructing a
building of iron and glass better fitted for the purposes
of the Exhibition.—(Cheers.) On the recommendation
of the Building Committee the Commissioners on the
26th of July were pleased to signify their wish for us to
construct the building, but were met by a difficulty
which threatened to postpone for a year, if not to put an
end, to the Exhibition altogether. The Solicitor to the
Treasury gave as his opinion that until the Commis-
sioners bad obtained a royal charter they could not
legally proceed, and were therefore not in a position to
give an order to any one. These circumstances were
explained to us by Lord Granville on the 26th of July, in
the presence of the Commissioners, who at the same
time told us that it was their fixed intention to apply to
Government for the charter, and that be had every rea-
son to believe it would be granted, and having informed
us that as soon as they were a legally constituted body
they would probably conclude a contract with Fox, Hen-
derson, and Co., finished by asking, whether under these
circumstances we should consider it running too great
a risk to enter at once Upon the execution
of the work, as, otherwise, many weeks would
unavoidably be lost, and the chance of open-
ing the Exhibition on the Ist of May placed
beyond possibility. In reply to his Lordship's inquiry,
seeing the imperative necessity for immediate action, and
desiring to render all the assistance in our power in
furtherance of the important object of the Exhibition,
we expressed our willingness to run the risk, whatever
it might be, and without waiting for the charter com-
menced at once the drawings and the necessary opera-
tions for the erection of the building.—(Loud cheers.)
As the time for the execution of the building was so ex-
tremely limited, and being well aware frem experience
that when matters of business bad to be decided by a
committee composed of many persons much valuable
time was generally wasted, we requested the Commis-
sioners, inst. ad of referring us to the Building Com-
mittee, to select one of its members—either the chair-
man, Mr. Cubitt, President of the Institution of Civil
Engineers, Mr. Robert Stephenson, or Mr. Brunel—
and give him absolute power to settle with us finally
all matters connected with the arduous task we were
then willing to enter upon. The Commissionere, op.
preciating thd importance of this request, appointed Mr.
Cubitt to fill this office. It was now that I commenced
the laborious work of deciding upon the proportions
and strengths required in every part of this great and
novel structure, so as to insure that perfect safety essen-
tial in a building destined to receive millions of human
beings—one so entirely without precedent, and where
mistakes might have led to the most serious disasters.
Having satisfied myself on these necessary points, I set
to work and made every important drawing of the build-
ing, as it now stands, with my own hand; and it was no
small source of gratification to me, when asking Mr.
Cubitt to look over the drawings I had prepared, to find
that he not only had no desire to suggest alterations, but
expressed his entire approbation of them all. The Com-
missioners having carefully considered the merits of the

various sites proposed for the Exhibition, among which
may be named Leicester-square, Somerset-house,
Trafalgar-square. the Isle of Dogs, Battersea fields, and
Regent's. park—(Latighter)—selected, after the most
careful consideration, a portion of Hyde-park, situate
between the Serpentine River and the Queen's drive,
and gave us possession of the ground on the 30th of
July, when we proceeded to take the necessary levels
and surveys, and to set out with great precision the po-
sition of the various parts of the budding. The draw-
ings occupied me about eighteen hours each day for seven
weeks, and as they went from my hand Mr. Henderson
immediate!), prepared the ironwork and other materials
required in the construction of the building. As the
drawings proceeded the calculations of strength were
made, and as soon as a number of the important parts were
prepared, such as the cast iroa girders and wrought
iron trusses, we invited Mr. Cubitt to pay a visit to our
works at Birmingham to witness a set of experiments in
proof of the correctness of these calculations. We first
placed upon each part the greatest load it could ever in
practice receive, and proceeded to show that above four
times that load was required before fracture would oc-
cur. These proofs were made on the 6th of September,
when Mr. Cubitt was pleased to state that he never wit-
nessed a set of experiments, of a more conclusive nature.
Being thus satisfied by actual experiment that the pro-
portions of the various parts of the building were such
as to insure perfect stability and safety, the preparations
of the ironwork and other materials were pushed for-
ward with the greatest vigour, and large deliveries were
made in the park within the next three weeks; so that
on the 26th of September we were enabled to fix the first
column in its place. From this time I took the general
management of the building under my charge, and spent
all my time upon the works—feeling that, unless the
same person who had made the drawings was always
present to assign to each part as it arrived upon the
ground its proper position in the structure, it would
be impossible to finish the building in time to insure
the opening on the Ist of May; and I am confident
that if any other course had been taken, or if, as is usual
in the construction of large buildings, the drawings
had been prepared by an architect and the works exe-
cuted by a contractor, instead of, as in the present case,
these separate functions being combined by my making
the drawings and then superintending the execution of
the work, a building of such vast dimensions could not
have been completed within a period considered by ex-
perienced persons as altogether inadequate for the pur-
pose.—(Cheers.) The erection of the building, now
fairly commenced, was pushed forward with all possible
speed, and a good notion of the amount of work may be
obtained from the fact that at one period we fixed as
much ironwork every day as would be required in a roof
of extent equal to the passenger station of this town,
which is one of the largest in the kingdom.—(Cheers,)
It was not until the 31st of October that the contract
with the Commissioners was completed, up to which time
we not only had received no order for the building, and
no payment on account of the work we had done, but we
had run the risk of expending upwards of 50,0001. with-
out being in a legal position to call upon the Commis-
sioners for any portion of the sum we had so expended;
and such was the appreciation of oar conduct in this mat-
ter, that Lord Granville was pleased, in the presence of
the other members of the Commission, to state, on the
16th November, that they were of opinion that but for the
courage evinced by Fox, Henderson, and Co., in
commencing he work without any order from the Com-
missioners, the Exhibition of Industry of All Nations
would never have taken place.—(Cheers.) Perhaps the
most difficult and hazardous, and certainly the most in-
teresting portion of the work, was raising the sixteen
ribs of the transept to their places. A month was the
shortest time assigned by any one for this operation.
We commenced on the 4th of December, and succeeded
in.raising two in the course of that day. Two mote
were safely deposited in their places in the presence of
his Royal Highness Prince Albert on the following day.
and the last pair on December 12 ; so that the sixteen
ribs were all placed in eight working days. As the
building progressed I was assailed on all sides, not only
by unprofessional persons, but by men of high scientific
attainments, who, notwithstanding the careful calcula-
tions which had been made, and the satisfactory proofs
to which all the important parts were individually sub•
jetted, as soon as these parts were put togeth,r and pro-
duced a structure of unparalleled lightness, doubted the
possibility of the building possessing, as a whole,
that strength which was necessary to make it
safe against the many trying influences to which
it must necessarily be subjected. (Mr. Fox,
having entertained the company with a very
amusing resunil of all the sinister predictions and "airy
prophecies" which had been indulged in, with reference
to the bui;ding, at the Institution of Civil Engineers and
elsewhere, proceeded to say):—" Before concluding. per
mit me to present my thanks to Mr. Barry for his nave-
!liable improvement in the architectural beauty of the
building; to Mr. 0 wenjonei for his many beautiful de-
signs for the embellishment of the building, and to whose
taste in decorative art is owing that splendid appearance
which has charmed the eye of every spectator; to
Messrs. Cochrane and Co. and Mr. Jobson, for the ener-
getic manner in which they prepared the castings; to
Messrs. Dowson and Co., for their promptitude in deli-
vering the timber; and to Mr. John Cochrane and al
persons in our employ connected with the work for their
willing services, so indispensable in carrying out a con-
tract of such unexampled magnitude.—(Cheers.) When
the Royal Commissioners confided to us the construction
of the building for the Exhibition of Industry of All Na-
tions, I felt that in some degree the credit of England
was in our hands—that we had it in our power to
achieve that which would prove eminently successful,
or in failing to do so would be a source of the most
serious disappointment and disgrace, and that we were
therefore bound by considerations of no ordinary kind
to exert every effort in our power to carry the work to
completion in the shortest possible time and at any per-
sonal sacrifice, and without regarding the question of
expense, the more especially as his Royal Highness
Prince Albert-bad invited the world to this great festi-
val on the Ist of May; and it was essential, as a point
of national honour, that this vast edifice should be ready
for the receteion of his guests.—(Cheers.) I need not
remind you that we completed the contracts, and that
our beloved Sovereign presided at the inauguration on
the day which had been originally appointed.—(Loud
cheers.) I feel a peculiar pleasure in having carried
out this great undertaking in the consideration that.
it is not a temple in which the representatives of
nations will meet together for the purpose of adjust-
ing matters of strife or questions of warfare, but one
in which the Prince has invited all the family of.

man to assemble in harmony and good fellowship, and
where juries, composed of distinguished foreigners and
Englishmen, meet together as friends, to decide upon
the comparative merits of those beautiful objects of art
and manufactures which are the happy results of peaceful
commercial emulation.—(Cheers.) Again thanking
you for the honour you have this day conferred upon
me, the recollection of which will never be effaced from
my memory, and also for the kind patience with which
you have listened to my remarks, I conclude by wishing
you the long enjoyment of health and of that happi-
ness and prosperity which are fast spreading over the
world and which the people of Derby have ever been
among the foremost to advance.—(Loud cheers.)
The next toast given was the health of Mr. Paxton,
which was proposed in highly complimentary terms by
the Mayor.
Mr. PexTori returned thanks at some length, and in
the course of his observations alluded to the unexpected
risk which the Crystal Palace had run from the recent
balloon ascent. Had the unfortunate aeronauts been
arrested in their progress by the arched roof of the
transept, they would, he feared, have met with a cutting
reception. _ _ _

Kgreat variety of toasts followed, and the company
separated, highly delighted with the opportunity
afforded them of testifying their admiration for the
character and the talents of their now distinguished
townsman.

THE WAR MEDAL BANQUET TO HIS
GRACE THE DUKE OF RICHMOND.
On Saturday night, the banquet given by the war
officers, subscribers to the testimonial to be presented to
his Grace the Duke of Richmond, in token of the high
and grateful sense entertained by them of his Grace's un-
tiring and successful exertions on their behalf, to:ik place
at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's. The day
was the 38th anniversary of the battle of Vittoria. The
chair was taken by Lieut.-General the Right Hon.
Lord Saltoun, K.C.8., G,C.H.; and the vice-chair by
Admiral Sir Graham Eden Hamond, Bart., K.C.B.
Among the company present wore the guest of the
evening, his Grace the Duke of Richmond (who sat on
the right of the chairman), the Earl of Cardigan, Sir
Hugh Ross, Sir E. Bowater, Mr. Guthrie, Sir W. Bur-
nett, Sir H. Halkett, Major-General Sir J. Rolt, Sir R.
Murchison, Sir W. Byam, Sir J. Wilson, Sir G. Ham-
mond, Colonel Alliz, Sir E. Belcher, General Llewellyn,
Major-General Herring, Colonel Love, Colonel Dixon,
Admiral G. Falcon, Dr. Thompson, inspector of
hospitals, Sir Charles Forbes, Rear-Admiral Sir
W. EL Dillon, Major- General Gordon, Sir T. Falcon,
Captain Scott, R.N., Captain Weatherley (late
60th Rifles). Lieutenabt-Colonel Fitzmaurice, Captain
Sweny, R.N., Captain Kincard, Rifle Brigade, &c., &c.
Most of the guests were in uniform, and wore a number
of crosses and decorations, indicating the length and
variety of the services upon which they had been en-
gaged. The character of the company generally was
that of old and war-wern veterans, who had done good
service " by flood and field," and the assemblage of up-
wards of two hundred of the most distinguished navel
and military warriors of the day was not the least inter-
esting feature of the proceedings.
In the gallery were a large number of ladies, amorg
whom we observed the Duchess of Richmond and a large
party of fashionables.
After the usual loyal toasts,
The CHAIRMAN said—lt is very gratifying to see the
great body of veteran warriors assembled here for the
purpose of doing honour to one of our cloth, because, al-
though his Grace the Duke of Richmond—(Tremendous
cheering for some minutes)—has for some time left the
regular service of the country, he has done us the honour
of appearing here in the ordinary military uniform of
the country—the militia.—(Loud cheers.) I have no
hesitation in saying that his Grace is as gallant, and as
good, and as straightforward a soldier as any amongst
you.—(Loud cheering,) Gentlemen, it fell to his
Grace's lot to
go out Very young to the Peninsula, and