The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-03 00:00:00

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF FRIDAY.
ADVERTISER.—The great event to whieh, for some time
past, all Europe has been looking forward with an intensity
of interest•which has never been surpassed, has at last come
off. The Exhibition has been formally opened. Her Ma-
jesty yesterday inaugurated the World's Fair. The Crystal
Palace is now accessible, not only to her Majesty's subjects,
but to the nations of the earth. The Exhibition contem-
plates the well-being of the brotherhood of man, and all are
now welcome to enter the portals which conduct to its
amazing assemblage or marvels. Yesterday must have been
regarded by her Majesty as the proudest day of her reign.
She must have felt gratified on such an occasion, had the
idea originated with any one of ber subjects. It was a noble
notion. It was one of the most magnificent conceptions
which ever entered the human mind; and therefore our
gracious Sovereign would have felt no small satisfaction,
had it been developed by any of her people. But when
it is remembered, that the project originated with him who
sustains to, her the closest of earthly relations—he whois
the posse-530r of her heart's affections, if not the sharer
of hex thomes—it may easily be imagined that she- regards
the'World's Exhibition with an interest which catititit be de-
scribed. And when to the conception of the idea, there is
added the way in which it has been carried out—the brilliant
success which has attended the project, it would, indeed, be
passing strange if the bosom of her Majesty had not yester-
day throbbed with emotions of joy, as she presided at the
inauguration of the most illustrious occurrence which has
taken place in that portion of her reign which has already
passed. Nor could the reception which the Queen met with
yesterday, wherever she directed her steps, have failed to in-
crease the gratification which, under any circumstances, she
mwt have felt at the inauguration of the Universal Bazaar.
Her reception was more than cordial; it was enthusiastic.
She could not have wished a warmer greeting from her sub-
jects. It, would hardly, indeed. have been possible for them,
without exceeding the bounds of decorum, to have manifested
a more ardent loyalty for their Sovereign, than that to which
they yesterday gave utterance. Those who had the good for-
tune to be within the walls, if walls they may be called, of the
palace of glass, will not soon, if ever, forget what they saw
and heard, on the entrance of the Queen, and afterwards, as
she walked, with all the gracefulness of her sex, and the
dignity becoming her position as the most exalted personage
in:the land, along the leading passages in the area of the
building. The scene was one which cannot be described. It
was one which the most imaginative mind could not have
previously conceived. The dazzling and delightful aspect of
the place not only realising, but far exceeding the most fas-
cinating descriptions with which the " Arabian Nights' En-
tertainments " abound— the enormous concourse of persons
stretching out, farther than the eye could conveniently
reach, in long lines, both in the area and in either gal-
lery - all the aristocracy, attired in their courtly dresses, and
the entire assemblage arrayed in their holiday apparel, while
every countenance was radiant with delight at the scene,
and beamed with a joyous loyalty to the Sovereign, who
graced the inauguration of the great occasion with her pre-
sence—the waving of thousands of handkerchiefs—the deaf-
ening plaudits which resounded through the vast place—the
performance of the National Anthem by one of the largest
and most effective orchestras ever known on an occa-
sion of state the flourishing of trumpets, mingled
with the slow and solemn tones of the organ
all these concurred to make the occasion incomparably the
greaten and most imposing which the world ever witnessed,
and which, we feel it is not too much to say, will never be
witnessed again by any of those who took part in it. But
if, turning from the mere pageantry of the thing, we contem-
plate the occurrence of yesterday in its moral and social
bearings, we shall, as a people, still find greater cause to re-
joice in the scenes and circumstances which we witnessed.
There were present the representatives of all nations. The
Sovereign did not, like the Emperors and heroes of ancient
Rome, enter the Crystal Palace to celebrate some great vic-
tory, accompanied with the effusion of oceans of human blood,
over some other monarch with whom she, was at war. The
rejoicings; of yesterday were not like those in the time of the
French war, got up to celebrate the achievements of a victory
power wit I,lv
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we celebrated was abloodless triumph. The grand occasion was
the fruit of the prevalence of peace among the nations of pl. The
Eu-
rope. It was the result of those feelings of goodwill
and amity, among the nations, which now happily prevail i
so largely, and which are destined, ere long, to acquire an I,
universal ascendancy. The events of yesterday were tb'e
effects of the progress of the cause of universal brothet+.ood
—a cause which is still advancing with urapittity whir,h it is
as amazing as it ie delightful to contemplate, area which,
from all human appearances, is destined to pregril,:s at a still
greater pee, until the whole family of man are united toge-
ther in the bonds of a holy and happy hregherhood. The
events of yesterday will very materially lielp to accelerate
the advent of this moral and social millennium. The inter-
course which will take place during the next few months,
among people of all countries and climes, will soften down
national animos'ties, remove national prejudices, and create
an international friendship, from which the happiest results
to humanity will be sure to follow. The inauguration of the
World's Exhibition, therefore, was an event on the occur-
rence of which the universal family of man may indulge
in mutual congratulations. It was a scene in the con-
templation of which, not only all the truly good on
earth will rejoice, but one on which we may well
suppose, without indulging in any great stretch of the ima-
gination, the inhabitants of a brighter and better world
above, looked down with emotions of inexpressible delight.
And that the Illustrious Personage under whose auspices the
inauguration of this great gathering of the nations yesterday,
took place, may live to witness those happy results from it
to which we have adverted, must be the earnest wish of every
person within her Majesty's dominions. Myriads, in the
presence of their Sovereign, yesterday secretly breathed a
fervent aspiration that she may enjoy a long and prosperous
reign. And millions on millions of her subjects, in all parts
of the empire, will cordially respond to the wish. Never
did Monarch occupy a better place in the affections of a peo-
ple than does the Sovereign who sways the sceptre in these
realms in the hearts of her subjects. The demonstrations of
loyalty, so decided, so unmistakeable, so universal, which
were yesterday made, not only in the Crystal Palace, but as
her Majesty went to and returned from the building, must
have made an impression on the minds of foreigners which
no lapse of time will be able to obliterate.
DAILY NEWS. The first of May, 1851, was as genial
and bright as if there had been no holiday to be spoiled by
its being otherwise. Accordingly, all London was astir be-
times. From Charing-cross to Kensington, and from Hol-
born, to Whitehall, every thoroughfare was by ten o'clock
thronged with undulating currents of gay passengers; the
other parts of the metropolis presented, to those whom acci-
eent compelled to visit them, much the same aspect us they
do cn some fine summer Sunday, when all the churchgoers
are in church, and all the rest (with the exception of a few
domestics engaged in cooking the dinners of zealous pro-
moters of Bills for shutting up Sunday cook-shops) out of
town. It is no exaggeration to say that the spectacle
within the Crystal Palace far exceeded, in impressive beauty,
what the most sanguine could have anticipated. To the
surprise of those who bad seen the interior of the build-
ing only a few days before, the arrangement of the costly
and valuable articles exhibited was complete; a minute
inspection might have shown defects, but the gene-
ral effect was perfect and satisfactory. The beholder
felt himself in a lightsome, airy, spacious world, under an in-

via ble cover. protecting him from all inclement airs. The
brilliant and contrasting colours of the holiday dresses of the
thronging visitants—the silveryliving'play of the fountain
in the sun—the gorgeous magnificence of the gay eastern
wares and arms - the breathing poetry of the statuary—the
fresh rustling of the leaves of the trees—all were sources of
intensely pleasurable feelings in themselves, and attuned the
mind to the impressions it was subsequently to receive. This
state of preparation was carried to a higher pitch by the
music. The" God save the Queen"
_accorded with the seri-
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timents of the auditors, and the grand chorus of the " Halle-
lujah" swelled out in harmony like the noise of many waters
heard in some api calyptic vision, making the hearts of the
hearers vibrate like the glass of the edifice that in-
closed them. Anything trivial, common-place, or un-
sympathieing, in the human performers, who were to
breathe a living soul into this aggregate of ele-
mentary charms, would have spoiled all. But the task
had devolved upon performers worthy of the occasion.
The reverend grace of the Archbishop of Canterbury im-
parted a charm to the brief and unostentatious act of devo-
tion which hallowed the whole. Her Majesty entered into
her part with a heartiness and vivacity that carried the wil-
ling sympathies of all around her. Every one of her attend-
ants caught the genial contagion, and in not the least degree
the veteran hero of Assaye, the Peninsula and Waterloo, the
statesman who gave us Catholic Emancipation, and whose
resolute zeal brought the House of Lords to their senses
when they let fall the corn-law from their reluctant grasp.
The Duke of Wellington contemplated the scene with as
much of pleased vivacious interest as if it had been his
twentieth instead of his eighty-second birthday. Viewing
the spectacle as no more than a gay and glittering ovation of
industrial triumph, it was a scene such as earth has never
before witnessed. There never was before an industrial expo-
sition to which so many remote and varied lands and com-.
munities had sent their contributions. There never before
was one in which so much of mere material wealth, enhanced
by the immense amount of inventive, persevering intelligence,
and industry to which it bore testimony, was accumulat'ed.
There never was one spread out to the gatae of the specAators
in a structure every way so worthy of it. It vies worthy of
our Queen, and without even the suspicion of flattery, we
may add, our Queen was worthy of it, Our retrospect would
leave more than half the tale untold, did it leave unnoticed
the motley groups who crowded the park while this imposing
ceremonial was being performed within the Crystal Palace.
Homely many of them might be, but all seemed happy.
Doubtless there is a great acco7;.aiation of foreigners
in London just now, but they were lost in the ocean
of London population, 'swelled as it is by the influx
of provincial vialtors disgorged durisig the last few
T
days from all the railways. the aspect of the crowd was
entirely, exclusively English. And a more good-natured
populace than that of kngland, used of London in particular,
does not exist. If any of these " raw-head and bloody-bone"
emeutiers who have been haunting the waking and sleeping
dreams of Tory and Protectionist old women for the last few
weeks were present yesterday in Hyde-park, they must have
felt instinctively that it was no place for them and their va-
garies, Thev must have felt that they were among a eaLtiti.
tudinous crowd of which not one had the remotest sympathy
with their savagery, and who were m
re strong aphrdesnsuurme,erLoatisa
enough to have crushed then;
they attempted to ows a linger in the way of
doing mischief. The kkiace Prugaia, who was
aguest
at this feast, may takt bstne with a tet, from the
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