The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-06 00:00:00

'UP TRA.INA.

The 3 45 p.m. Train from ifftnciiesieiwill be despatched at 4 p.m.
Nel the Exhibition Building, and 4.10 p.m. from London-road, and
be expedited to Crewe, and reaching Birmingham at 7 p.m., and
London at 9.30 p.m.
A Train will leave the Exhibition Building at 5 p.m , in connec-
nen with the Express from London-road Station at 5.15 p.m.
-An additional Local Train will be despatched from London-road
Ration at 3.30 p.m , calling at all stations, except Lonasight and
..!•evenshulme, and arriving at Crewe in time for the train reaching
.6tfMingham at 7 and London at 9.30 p.m.
.„..Itetum Trains from the Exhillition will leave the Building for
Liverpool at 2 p m., 5 p.m., and 6 15 p.m.
The following are the principal Through Communications of the
South, in direct connection with London-road Station, Manchester.
end the Exhibition :

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and London at 9.30 p m.
„he 9.10 a.m. train from Liverpool, and the
rain 9.30 a. . train from
,r 4 nester, will call at Leigh on, and cease calling at Bletolev.
buten 6'15 P.m. train from London will convey passengers to Oxford
,_ad of the 5.45 p.m , arriving at Oxford at 9.30 p.m.
D.ra.Q e 7.20 a.m. train from Leamington to Coventry, and the 9.45
t from Coventry to Leamington, will be discontinued.
By order, "A"K HULSE!.
General Manager's Office, Euston-statlon, April, 1857.

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BANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
Incorporated by Royal Charter.
The DIRECTORS of the R ttliK oh BRITIsH NOR TIT Am ERICA
do hereby give notice that the YEARLY GENEIt xL MEETING
of Proprietors will be held, pursuant to the Deed of Settlement, on
TUE- DAY, the 2d Jnne nest, at; the Office of the Corporation, 7,
St. Helen's-place, Ilishopsgata-street, at 1 o'clock precisely, when
the Election of Three Directors, in the room of those going out by
the provisions of the Deed, will take place.
Also the election of a new Director, in the place 01 John Stewart,
Esc., resigned.

By order of the Court.
London, bth, May 1857. C. M‘NAI3, Secretary

r HE SALOON • DINING-ROOLVI • of ithe
WELLINGTON, Entrance, 53, St. James.street, is OPEN
to Gentlemen for the SEAS' 'N ONLY, from Six until Eleven p.m.
The ',inner (French) of the day is served at a minute's notice,
betwet-zi six and nine o'clock, at a charge of seven suillings. This
includes dessert-and attendance.

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I advance I -to- a, small temporary dais which had
I' been. erected at the :lower end of the Brett central
hall. The Mayor of Mancbea.er, accompanied by
Inearly all the members of the corporation, then ap-
proached the Prince and read to him the following

addrpt3s
"May it please your Royal Highness,—We, the
Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City. of MiCnches-
ter, gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity afforded by
the visit of your Royal Highness to renew the expression
of our regard for your Royal Highness, and ,of opr ad-
miration of the many publicand private virtues by which.
your Royal,Highness is eminently distinguished.
" We offer to your Royal Highness our most hearty
congratulations on the recent sate and auspicious birth
of a Princess, and we fervently pray that the valuable
lift of her most gracious Majesty, happily preserved,
suy be long continued to be, as heretofore, a blessing to
her family and her people.
" While we refer with pride to the occasion which
has induced your Royal Highness to revisit our city,
we feel imperatively call d upon to express our
warmest gratitude to your Royal Highness for having
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rbyiny.wohuirephrewseensteaentdh,eroapiseend.
bs the public spirit and spontaneous liberality of our
fellow citizens for the reception of many of the priceless
treasures of ancient and modern art existio • the
United Kingdom.
" We rejoice in the completesuccess whic ended
the efforts. of those upon whom the reap ility of this
undertaking has devolved—a success lob has exceeded
the most sanguine expectations, which we attribute
mainly to the condescending a zealous patronage gra-
ciously extended by our b Sovereign.
"The enc•)uraging example afforded by her Moat Gra-
cious Majesty and your Royal Highness in thus zealously
supporting an exhibition originating in a desire to instruct
and gratify the people has been emulated in the noblest
spirit of liberality by the possessors of art treasures
throughout the kingdom, and the promoters haVe thus
been enabled to congratulate themselves on the splendid
realisation of their purposes which is presented in the

imposing .pectacle around us.
"As representatives of the vast population by whom
we are surrounded, we venture most respectfully to assure
your Royal Highness that we hail with the greatest joy
and satisfaction the intimation that it is the gracious

intention of her Majesty to honour the exhibition with

a R visit

" We specially rejoice in the hope of this event, as
affording ano,her opportunity of evincing the deep and
universal feeling of loyalty and attachment to her Ma-
jestyl person which prevails within and around this city
and the profound sense of gratitude which exislo for the
care and solicitude very graciously manifested by our
beloved Queen in, favour of whatever is calculated to

secure and promote the improvement and happiness of
her Majesty 'a subjects.
"That your Royal Highness may be loninoared to
secure and increase the happiness of our Most Gracious
Queen, and to be a blessing to your children and to the

nation, is our moot fervent prayer.
" Given under the common seal of the corporation
this 20t.h day of April. 1857."
His Royal Highness returned the following
reply

" -Mr. Mayor, Aldermen, and Gentlemen,—l have
received with feelings of no ordinary gratification the
address whichysm have presented to me, expressing such
kindly feelings towards myself, and professing to repre-
sent the good wishes of the vast community which is
collected in and around this city.
" It will, I am sure, be must pleasing to the Queen
to receive, from the expre,,sions contained in the address
a fresh assurance of the loyal interest taken by her peo-
ple in all that concerts her happiness.
" I most willingly attend here this day to assist at P.
ceremony which the inhabitants of Manchester may well
witness with pride, as its object is to inaugurate an Ex-
hibition collected by the exertion of their enterprise and

public spirit, and intended, not for the amusement and
gratification of the neighbourhood alone, but for the in-

Itruction and improvement of the nation at large.
" You ju.stly allude in terms of gratitude to that com-
prehensive and liberal spirit which has adorned the walls
of this building with the choicest specimens of art from
so many private galleries of the kingdom. It added
much to the pleasure with which the Queen and myself
had complied with the application for works of art be-
longing to us when we found this example so generally
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followedby the possessors of treasures which are, in
general, so reluctantly entrusted by their owners to the

Care of others/.

" The Queen will, I am confident, be glad again to
visit Manchester, not only to mark by her presence her
approval of the object and successful execution of this
great undertaking which we have this day to celebrate,
but from a recollection of the enthusiastic loya,ty exhi:
bited when she bad formerly an opportunity of visiting
this great centre of Induatry.".
The Prince, attended .by those :who had accompa
nied him from Abney-hall, by Lord Overstone and
Mr. Fairbairn, by the Mayor and Ccrporation of
Manchester, and by the members of the Executive
Comtnittee,, then proceeded up the central hall to
the dais prepared for his reception in the trinsept.
The moment the procession began to move the
orchestra at the opposite end of the building struck
up the national anthem, and continued playing it
till his Royal Highness had taken his place on the
dais. The effect was very powerful, although some-
what marred by the cheers which from time to time
burst forth as the procession advanced. What a
sight met the gaze of the Prince as he walked slowly
up the central hall ! Not to speak of the living
crowd by which he was so heartily welcomed, he
was surrounded on every side by the portraits of
all the most cal ebrat ed characters in British history.
On the right the heavy browed, swarthy portrait
of Charles ll.—in aspect the very reverse of a merry
mouarth—seemed as if about to step from its frame
and join in the ceremonial. Around him were
grouped the frail beauties of his Court, to whom
Lely and De Grammont have given a questionable
renown. There was the Duchess of Cleveland, the
Limier of Marlborough's fortunes. By her side
was Madame " Carwell," as the Londoners of that
day called the lovely niece of Mazarin, arrayed in
a dress which even improved her beauty. Near ,
her hung the portraits of Nell Gwyone and a host of
otter less famous or rather infamous enamorata,
with Grammont himself, poor Catherine, and the
execrable Countess of Shrewsbury. Glaring from
the opposite walls—grim, stern, and dangerous
looking men—were the leaders of the Common-
wealth, scowling upon the seductive beauties of
Whitehall. Tha procession passed the Museum of
Art,withall its rare treasures of gold and silve t work,
antique carvings, gems, and porcelains. Next in
order came the Arrnoury-court, grim with the pon-
drous figures of men and heroes of all climes and
S.irae looked monstrously grotesque, others
were bright, shining, and handsome asin the story-
book ; some were. of very coarse manufacture—a
mere. panoply of common ironwork,—while the
suits from Venice and Milan were equisitely tem-
pered, and inlaid with the finest arabesque designs
in gold. On the right was the complete suit of ar-

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mour for man and horse which was formerly worn
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pion. It is the finest suit of harness in the court.
The Prince, too, must have been astonished at the
extent and beauty of the collection of English
sculp ure which adorns the central hall. Here, on
one hand, is Marshall's "Ophelia," and, 'on the
other, Spencer's " Highland Mary." Beyond is
Bailey's "Eve at the Fountain," the most beauti-
ful and widely-known of all his works. Gibson's
Hunter " faces it, and seems in the very act of
slipping the leash that his hound may bound for-
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vigour. Next comes J. Westmacutt's " Peri," a
perfect embodiment of immortal grief. The "Greek
Slave," that cold prodigy of Iltrim Powers which
so narrowly escaped 13,-ing the first work of the age,
again greets the visitor. "Eve startled at the
sight of Death," one of the most touching groups
in the building, is on the right ; and on the left is
Westinacott's " Euphrosne," so light and airy that
it seems ready to soar aloft.
Arrived at the transept, his Royal Highness took
his place on the dais, looking down the avenue up
which he had advanced, and, his suite having formed
a brilliant semicircle rrund him, the orchestra per-
formed the national anthem vocally, Madame Clara
Novello singing the solo, Mr. Sims Reeves and Mr.
Weiss also taking parts. The anthem having been
coucludeJ, Lord Overstone advanced, and in the
I name of the General Council read the following
laddress to the Prince :
" To HIS ROYAL HIGHNEs9 THE PRINCE ALBERT, K.G.
‘M ayitple Council, o
aseyourßor tibellihness,--In the name
of the‘ General
Executive Committee,
and of all the officers connected with the preparatory
,of this great undertaking. I approach
Royal Highness with the expression of our deep
ya roruarn gem ents
sense of obligation for the constant interest which your
Royal Highness has taken in the success of the Exhibi-
tion now about to be opened for the gratification and
instruction of the public.
" Before, however, we enter upon the mere formal
proceedings of this day we beg to tender to your Royal
Highness our sincere condolence on the event which has
brought sorrow to her most gracious Majesty our
Queen, to your Royal Highness, and to the members of
the royal family, and which has at the same time caused
deep regret to her Mjesly's subjects, who have long ad-
mired the virtues and respected the character of her late
Roy,' Highness the Duchess of Glouceste ).
" In the presence of your Royal Highness among us
under these painful circumstances, and the decision of
your Royal Higness not to suspend the ceremonial of
this day, we gratefully recognise a delicate consideration
of the importance of the occasion, and a gracious desire
not to d.sappoint the vast numbers who must have made
arrangements which it would have been impossible to
postpone. At the same time we respectfully appreciate
and sympathise with those feelings which cause your

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" My Lord and Gentlemen,—You are very kind in
thinking at this moment of the bereavement which has
befallen the Queen and her family.
" In the Duchess of Gloucester we have all lost, not
only the last of the children of that good King, who oc-
cupied the throne during 60 years, and carried this
country fearlessly and successfully through the most mo-
mentous struggles of its history; and thus the last per-
sonal link with those times, but also a lady whose vir-
tues and qualities of the heart had commanded the re-
spect and love of all who knew her.

" If I have thought it my duty to attend here to•day,
although her mortal remains have not yet been carried
to their hat place of rest, my decision has been rendered
easy by the conviction that, could her own opinions and
wishes have been known, she would, with that sense of
duty and patriotic feeling which so much distinguished
her and the generation to which she belonged, have been
anxious that I should not on her account, or from private
feelings, disturb an arrangement intended for the public
good."
Mr. Fairbairn, the Chairman of the Executive
Committee, who wore the uniform of a deputy-
lieutenant, then approached the chair of state and
read the following address, which he presented to
the Prince in a case of purple velvet, embroidered
with, gold:— . -•
" May it please your Royal Highness,—Wo, -the fi
Executive Committee for conducting the Exhibition of
dayhe General
of
May,i u n
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Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, appointed to our
humbly approach your Royal Highness on the auspicious
occasion of your presiding at this inaugural ceremony,
the present
Exhibition
offices at athaeldmeeting
on
to lay before your ROyal Highness a short account of
the history and progress of the undertaking to the pre-
sent time. theof2Ot

" Before alluding to our actual proceedings, we would
ask permission to remark that this great gathering of
the most precious and remarkable works of art in the
United Kingdom may be considered the legitimate off-
spring of the happy suggestion for the instruction and
enjoyment of vast masses of our fellow creatures of all
classes and countries and for the good of all mankind,
which, originating with your Royal Highness, had so
glorious a triumph in the success of the Great Exhibition
of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1851. Toe
interchange of knowledge which that magnificent under-
taking and its equally magnificent successor, tbe French
Exhibition of 1855, effected, has already proved of the
greatest value in advancing the art of design, and pro-
moting all branches of human industry. Both those
arenas of peaceful rivalry, so vivid in their contrasts to
the more exciting international contests which we have
since witnessed, were remarkaule, as regards the Eng-
lish element, for two broadly-defined features ; they
showed to the world at large—our best customers—the
peculiar excellences of many of those great staple manu-
factures which employ and feed the industrial population
of these islands, and they showed to ourselves our own
deficiencies in matters of taste and design. While, there-
fore, there was A mutualgain, and there sprung up a kind-
lier international feeling, there originated also a desire
for the acquirVient on the one hand of a knowledge of
the utefug and on the other an appreciation of the beau.
tiful.

" The promoters of the present Exhibition conceived
it possible to carry the beneficent intentions of their pre-
decessors irtith undertakings one step further. The pro-
ject.of atuYely Fine Art Exhibition on a great scale ap-
peared at first sight, to say the least of it, somewhat pro-
blematical as regards its financial success; but when the
subject was sifted, when it was found how comprehen-_
sive were its details and application, how wonderfully
rich our happy country—untrodden for many a century
by any foreign invader—unquestionably is in all that
unequalled wealth and civilisation could accumulate, and
bow much positive and immediate good was likely to re-
sult from the bringing together of the eager and inquir-
ing minds of our time with the realisations of the genius
of past ages and other countries, the project assumed it
proportion of importance which at once commanded the
attention and cried aloud for fulfilment.

" The first suggestion of the Art Treasures Exhibition
was submitted by Mr. Deane, the General Commissioner
of the Exhibition, to au influential meeting of Manches-
ter gentlemen, on the 26th March, 1856. Tne scheme
was favourably received, and, dependent upon the suc-
cess of the application for public support in the way of
subscription, was voted into existence. And here we
would request your Royal Highness's special attention
to a remarkable feature in the history of this undertaking.
Without any public appeal, without even a general local
canvass, contributions to a guarantee fund amounting to
not less than 74,0001. were raised iu this city within a
period of three weeks. From this fact we would draw
the inference that the promoters of all schemes profess-
ing to commend themselves by their intrinsic merits to
public approval need not and ought not to be deterred
from promulgating their efforts by the lack of positive
money gilts, but would rather do well to test the sten.-
hog value of their conceptions by this form of appeal for
the guarantee of the whole expenditure required.
" Upon the completion of the guarantee fund, and
after having obtained the patronage of her Most Gra-
cious Majesty the Queen and the marked and special
encouragement of your Royal Highness, we at once in-
vited designs for a building suited to the purposes of
the Exhibition. After a careful consideration of the de•
signs and estimates sent in to us in competition, that of
Messrs. C. D. Young and Co., of Edinburgh. was finally
selected. The building works, notwithstanding the in
tervention of winter months, having been brought to
timely and satisfactory completion, the interior decora-
tions were entrusted to Mr. Crace, of London, and we
venture to hope that, as regards their appropriateness
for the favourable display of works of art, the commit
tee's decision io both respects will meet with your Royal
Highness's approval.

We gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity of con•
veying, through your Royal Highness, to our most gra-
cious Sovereign the expression of our profound gratitude
for the cordial and most munificent patronage and sup-
port which her Majesty has vouchsafed to our labours.
Her Majesty's loyal subjects in this part of her dominions
will recognise in the variety, splendour, and rare excel-
lence of her Majesty's contributions to the Eabibitioa
another evidence of their Sovereign'3 unceasing desire for
the advancement of her people's true interests and wel-
fare. We would also respectfully tender to your R.yal
Highness our grateful thanks for the valuable assistance
and advice we have on numerous occasions received
from your Royal Highness.
" Without the support and cooperation of the owner
of art treasures throughout the kingdom, our undertaking
wouli, as a matter of course, have failed. The character
and excellence of the contributions by which your Royal
Highness is now surrounded, and the value of the pro-
perty deposited in thisbuilding by so many contributors,
form the noblest testimony to-the patriotic and unselfish
character of our countrymen of all ranks. We believe
so general au evidence of self-denial and sacrifice of per-
sonal convenience for the public good to be without a
parallel, and we sincerely feel how inadequate is the
language at our command to express what is due from
us to all for the generous support that has been accorded
us.

"In connection with our proceedings we would very
briefly refer to the circumstances under which one very
important feature of the Exhibition, the well-known his-
toric museum of works of decorative art collected by M.
Soulage, of Toulouse, has found its way to Manchester.
Upon the refusal of her Majesty's Government to pur-
chase this choice collection at prime cost, we considered
we were acting in the true interests of art in volunteer-
ing on our individual responsibilities to purchase 'the
collection upon the terms that had just been refused.
We desired that a collection of so high an educational
value to our artisans should have the benefit of the widest
possible examination ; and we would express a confident
hope that it may yet be preserved in its entirety after
tne close of this Exhibition for more general public in-
struction.
" We cannot close this address without expressing a
hope that, in the language used by your Royal High-
ness in the letter you addressed to our lamented presi-
dent. the late Earl of Ellesmere, a national usefulness
will result from the educational direction which we have
endeavoured to impart to the whole scheme.
"Oa belpilf of the Executive Committee,
"THOMAS FAIR,BAIRN, Chairman."
His Royal highness returned the following reply:
Gentlemen of the Executive Committee,—
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credit upon you. They must strike the beholder with
grateful admiration, nalkonly of the wealth and spirit of
enterprise of this country, but also of that generous
feeling of mutual confidence and goodwill between the
different classes of society within it, of which it affords
so gratifying a proof.
" We behold a feast which the rich, and those who
have, set before those to whom fortune has denied, the
higher luxuries of life—bringing forth from the inner-
most recesses of their private dwellings their choicest and
most cherished treasures, and entrusting them to your
care, in order to gratify the nation at large ; and this,
too, unhesitatingly, at your mere request, satisfied that
your plans were disinterested and well matured, and
that they had the good of the country for their object.
" This is a gratifying sight, and blessed is the country
in which it is witnessed. But not less so is the fact which
has shown itself in this as in other instances, that the
great and noble of the land look to their sovereign to
head and lead them in such patriotic undertakings, and
when they see that the sovereign has come forward to
give her countenance and assistance to the work, that
they feel it a pleasure to co-operate with her and not to
leave her without their support, emulating thus, i u
works of peace, the chivalric spirit which animated
their forefathers in the warlike times of al.
" You have done well not to aim at a mere accumula•
tion of works of art and objects of general interest, but
to give to your collection, by a scientific and historical
arrangement, an educational character, thus not losing
the opportunity of teaching the mind, as well as gratify-
ing the senses ; and manifold are the lessons which it will
present to us. If art is the purest expression of the state
of mental and religious culture and of general civilisa-
tion of any age or people, an historical and chronolo7
gical review given at one glance cannot fail to im•
press us with a just appreciation of the peculiar charm;