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aod the accommodation it the foreign visitors who came
to this country.—(Cheers.)
Lord Rosso-ocknowledgc.l the toast of " the House of
Lords," with which his name was associated by
Th,.. LORD MAYOR, who then proposed in highly COM-
plimentry terms, "Lord John Itusstll and tha House of
Commons."
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who was received with loud
cheers, L mig and Gentlemen,—l beg leave to
return to your Lordships and this company the best
thanks of the House of Commons for the honour you
hove done U 3 in drinking our healthy. I c.sn assure
you that, charged:with the important duties which belong
to the House of Commons, it will not be our fault if our
labours should not prove fruitful in good results to the
country.—(Great cheering.) Although th.l,re are men
of various parties in the House of Commons, however
much they may diff-T, with regard to. portions of the
' publiC policy, yet all are united in this—that they are
ready to give their time and labour fer the sake of ob-
taining that which they believe 'to be for the public
good.—(Loud and continued cheering.) My Lord, it is
imposSibla do, address your Lordship on this occasion,
and not to refer to that Great Exhibition which has
been the cause of your Lordship inviting us here this
day; and allow me to say that while (as my Noble
Friend Lord Granville has said) the time is past when
it is necessary to make any appeal in order to show forth
the merits of that Exhibition, yet it is a time when other
remarks moat forcibly occur to our minds. A great
proportion of the thee during wWo ',hat EabiDitiou is
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-hf art and—riae-Chaniani, which we can see any day exhi-
bited before our eyes—will disappear, and, " like the
baseless fabric of a vision," vanish away. But every-
thing, I trust, will not vanish away.—(Cheers.) There
will be, in the first place, the recollection of all those
who were present at the Exhibition—of the wonderful
ingenuity and skill displayed by the various nations of
the world in the productions and manufacture of the
works of fine art they have sent to the Exhibition.
There will not vanish away the instruction which many
have reaped from the daily studies of the objects there
exiiibited.—(Cheers.) There will not vanish away the
recollection of that useful collection which will make
some of the rarest and newest inventions of the present
day become of common use in our time, and minister to
the comfort end happiness of millions in future ages.—
(Cheers) There will not vanish away that feeling which
the artisans and labouters who have come from a dis-
tance must have, that in providing that Exhibition, of
which Yriece Albert gave the notion and the sugges-
tien to the c,untry, their comfort, their welfare. and
their enjoyment have been cared for, and they will go
beck more instructed, and I trust better men, for thet
which they hove seen in the Exhibition.—(Cheers.)
Other things, I trust, will not disappear when ell the
()ejects we see there are scattered over the different
pars of the earth. There will not, I trust, disappear
that feeling of friendship and brotherhood which has
existed, when the nations of the arth have been, as it
were, shaking hands with each other in the midst of that
Exhibition.—(Cheers.) That feting for friendly rivalry
for otj. eta celculatt d t promote the god of ad—that
feeling ef friendship for all—that unwillingness to do
anything that might promote disunion, and the wish that
concord mild peace should reign throughout the eerth—
(Applause)—these are thine* which I trust will not pass
away with the passing sights of the Exhibition; and it'
that be so, those who in any degree co-operated in pro-
ducing these egects will hare a proud reflection to make,
and I trust that the millions of the earth will gain
benefit by the proceedings of the gresent year. I beg
leave to propose to you the " Health of the Lord Mayor."
—(Cheers.) The Lord Mayor has various onerous
duties to perform which take up a great portion of nis
time, and the manner in which ho discharges those duties
is eminently satisfactory both to this city and to all
her Majesty's Ministers whose departments enable
them to judge of his Lordships ability. But, besides
these important civic duties, it is the custom of the
Lord Mayor to entertain with hospitality not only
those who belong to the city of London, or those
belonging to other parts of the United Kingdom, but
all foreigners who may during his mayoralty visit this
great city. It has occurred during the mayoralty of our
host that a greater number than usual of the inhabitants
of foreign nations were present in this city. lam sure
all of us owe a debt of gratitude to them for the readi-
with which they have come forward to contribute towards
the promotion and success of a great public object; and
I am sure every one who hears me feels with me when
I say that the manner in which the Lord Mayor has
discharged his duties of hospitality and kindness deserves
cur thanks, and that the whole of the company will
heartily join with me in drinking his health.—(Cheers.)
The LORD NIA.YOR, in returning thanks, assured the
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eotieegave him greater gratifieattsin then-that of oftikilee
a hearty igelcome to those, distinguished foreigners
_Who
had so Ilnolti favoured him with their 'presence.—
(Cheers.) He then proposed the " Health of the Foreign
Commissioners," coupling with the toast the name of M.
von Viebahn.—(C heers.)
M. VON VIEBAHN, in returning thanks, reminded the
company of what the illustrious President of the Royal
Commission had said on a former occasion—that the
striking characteristic of the present time was the reali-
zation of the unity of mankind. The unity of the dif-
ferent nations in the peaceful cause of industry and in
the endeavour to promote the welfare of the whole hu-
man race was indeed a lofty and a noble aim.—(Uheers.)
In his country the kingdoms of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony,
Wurtemburg, and 22 other States had united themselves
in the Zollverein, so that from their union the great ends
of industry might be accomplished, and that there might
be a thorough union of all those States to contribute
their produc!s, and to swell the magnificent triumph of
the splendid building in Ilyde•park.—(Cheers.) He
thought that the Great Exhibition was not to be regarded
as a triumph of industry, great as that triumph might
be, but as a sort of general international combina-
tion—as a sort of Zellverein of the whole human race to
show whit men could accomplish.
The "health of the Lady Mayoress" was proposed by
Lord LONDESBoRoUGH, and acknowledged by
The Lotto eilavoa. who in compliment to the dis-
tinguished foreigners present, not immediately bonnected
with the Exhibition, gave to the coterie/1y as a toast the
name of M. Buts-,1, French Minister of Commerce.
M. BUFFEL having briefly returned thanks in his na-
tive language,
" The Eat India Company" was proposed, and ac-
knowledeed by Captain SHEPHERD; and " The Bank of
England," which was responded to by Mr. T. lIANKEY,
jun.. the Governor.
The LORD MAYOR, in giving the healths of " The
Executive Committee," said that if he were to talk for a
quarter of an hour in praise of those gentlemen he could
not do them all the justi o which their great and valu-
able and indefatigable labours demanded.—(Cheers.)
He would associate with the toast the name of Mr. C.
Wentworth Ddke.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. DILKE said that the Executive Committee was
very sensible of the honour conferred on them, and in
their name he begged to return the company his heart •
felt thanks. They claimed no other merit than that of
having to the best of their ability and zeal carried out
the directions of his Royal Highness and the subsequent
instructions of her Majesty's Comn.issioners.—(Cheers.)
If they had been so successful as to meet with public
favour in doing so, it must be to them a subject of the
greatest congratuletion.---(Cheers.) But there was
another class of men to whom the public was still more
indebted, and to whom the utmost credit was due for
the spirit of enterprise which they had displayed. He
meant the exhibitors, by whose aid and hearty co-opera-
tion they had been encouraged from the beginning,
and without whoae assistance the project must
.have
failed.—(Loud cheers.) They were also deeply indebted
to the Commissioners from foreign Governments, who
had much assisted them in their labours.—(Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR proposed, as the next toast, " The
foreign jurors connected with the Exhibition, who were
present, and that highly distinguished gentleman Baron
Dupla, who sat on his left."
Baron Dom said—My Lord 4 and Gentlemen, the
foreign jurors who are present must be proud of the
kinehoapitality proffered to us by the first civic magis-
trate of the great town of London. Gentlemen, it is an
object of the deepest interest to assemble in this metro-
polis, which has been for many centuries the very
stronghold of liberty, good order, and love of the law.
Gentlemen, as members of the jury, we must bear testi-
mony to the very numerous productions of art, to the
varied and wonderful specimens of industry and inge-
nuity at the Great Exhibition. We cannot fail to ob-
serve how largely England generally has contributed,to
this Great Exhibition; but the town of London has, in
fact, furnished a third part of the whole of the English
department. London is not only a great commercial
town; it is coso renowned for the skill of its artisans,
for scientific labours, for its mathematical and philoso-
phical instruments—in short. not only for its great
wealth and ifs magnificent shipping, but for some of tho
most admired and ingenious works and models which
the Exhibition can boast of.—(Loud, cheers.) We have
another reason to do honour to the city of London. It
gave origin to a mighty company which has been
alluded to to-night—l mean the East India Company—
which presented to the Exhibition a most admirable col-
lection of all the results of the art and industry of the
East.—(Cheers.) They have shown to us the present
condition of the arts of that interesting country. The
East India Company has shown that the produce of
those nations has not degenerated from what it was in
the time of the Etomens, and at the period of Alexander
thOGreat. They have done the greatest service by
their exertions. and have furnished one of the must mag-
eifieent compartments of the Exhibition. Now, gentle-
men, is it not very remarkable that this great company
—this great assembly of merchants—has continued so
long and so successfully to rule over this vast territory,
which, at the present day, has not the inconvenience of
au infantile minority or an imbecile seniority, but which
is always in the lull vigour of its age—which wisely, ably,
and efficiently maintains its sway over 130 millions of
people? Daring the last 20 years the city of London has
increased vastly beyond its former dimensions, and those
wondertul rivers of iron traversing from the great centre
to the extreme limits of the island, reaching from
the heart of London to every part of the coast, have
added enormously to the wealth and the power of this
great city, and have produced in the space of fif,een
years a revolution in the state of society as wonderful
as it is uuparalleled. lam sure that where we obtain