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and who have been honoured by your Lordship in being
invited to be present at this sumptuous and magnificent
banquest. And although I attach groat importance to
this compliment, considering my inability to return
• thanks in an adequate manner, I deeply regret that it
was not consistent with your Lordship's arrangements
to have thrown the entire of the pleasing duty of ad-
dressing this assembly upon my senior—(Laughter)—
municipal brother, the Lord Mayor of York. My first
duty is a pleasing one, namely, to offer the expression of
my profound and respectful thanks to the illustrious
Prince who has the exclusive merit of originating this
grand and important project; and my second, to congra-
tulate your Lordship on your wisdom in collecting this
vast and important assemblage, in order to give practi-
cal effect to this great and useful national undertaking.
My Lord, I have again to state that lam incapable of
speaking on behalf of this great assemblage of municipal
authorities—the greatest that ever met together in this
or in any other country to forward a useful undertaking.
When your Lordship proposed the:toast of the Foreign
Ministers now present, the duty imposed upon his Ex-
cellency the French Ambassador was comparatively
light, the number he represented not exceeding eight.—
(Hear, hear, sad laughter.) And, my Lord, when you
proposed the health of her Majesty's Ministers, the duty
imposed upon the Noble Lord at the bead of her Ma-
jesty's Government was comparatively light. Compare
their case with yak e.—(Hear, hear.) I ask your Lord-
ship to carry your eye along this great and magnificent
hall, and you will perceive that at least half the com-
pany are mayors, now standing and testifying, by
their respectful attitude, the gratitude that they
feel for the compliment you have paid them. My
Lord, the merits of this great undertaking have
been so eloquently spoken of by those who have
preceded me, that I shall not presume to occupy any
portion of yonr time upon that subject. But I cannot
help drawing attention to the eloquent appeal of the
Noble Lord (Lord Stanley), who spoke on behalf of the
Royal Commission, and to the equally eloquent and im-
pressive address of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member
for Tamworth. And Ido confidently hope that these
appeals will meet a ready and hearty response, and that
the mayors whom I now have the honour of addressing,
after they shall have returned to their respective mu-
nicipalities, will exert that influence which their high
position has conferred upon them in favour of this
patriotic effort to promote the manufacturing pros-
perity of this mighty empire. My Lord, I beg
to guard myself against the charge of presump-
tion as presuming to speak on behalf of the manufac-
turers of the-great towns and districts of England—that
duty has devolved upon the Lord Mayor of York, who
has ably discharged it; and, my Lord, as I am to be
followed by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, I have no
doubt he will do full justice to the genius and manufac-
taring industry of Scotland. My task, my Lord, is the❑
after all but a light one ; merely to speak of my own
epuntry—lreland. And I deeply regret to say that, as
regards manufactures; that important part of this great
empire has very little to boast of. Still, my Lord, when,
in the year 1851, the great mart shall be opened, and,
if I may be permitted to use the expression, when an
aggregate meeting of the manufactures and the manu-
facturers of the world shall be held, the linens, and
can:thrice, and poplins of Ireland, although not occupy-
ing a large space, will occupy a respectable position,
and I trust will be found to bear more than a compari-
son with similar articles produced in any other country.
My Lord, in again thanking you on my own behalf,
and on behalf of the mayors of the United Kingdom,
permit me to express a hope that my countrymen in
Ireland, profiting by the example for industry and per-
severalties, in the pursuit of manufacturing knowledge,
may yet reap a portion of the benefits that have been
so largely enjoyed by this glorious and much favoured
country.—(Great cheering.)
The LORD PROVOST Of EDINRIIRGH,—MyLord Mayor,
I can assure your Lordship that the mayors of Scotland
have bees highly gratified to accept the hospitable invi-
tation which your Lordship has given us to attend this
magnificent meeting. We have admired also the project
of our amiable Prince; we approve of his doings, we sym-
pathise with his sentiments, and we hope, with hie], that
this plan of industrial and inventive competition may, at
least for a time, engage all nations to abandon the strug-
gle of warfare for the peaceful and civilizing emulation
of the works of industry and am And, my Lord Mayor.
I will say, that in the far north we have not looked
coolly on this great national work. Scotland is said to
be poor; but I trust she will be found not to send her
works alone, but her money, and to contribute amply and
to her honour to the success of this great undertaking.—
(Cheers.) I have heard that some specimen of the'
human race is to be shown to rival all that has hitherto
been displayed. I hope, in that case, some of our
Scotch mountaineers, some of our Breadalbane High-
landmen, will be allowed to attend the exhibition, and I
feel convinced they will rival, if not excel, all that other
nations can display. It has been sometimes said that
Scotchmen have a tendency to move southward, but I
can assure your Lordship that never was that inclina-
tion more shown than when we were invited to attend
this important meeting—(Cheers and laughter)—and in
sitting down, I am sure that if we Scotch are short in
words we shall be found good in deeds, and -that Scot-
land will not be backward in all that contributes to the
honour of Great Britain, or the civilization of mankind.
—(Loud cheers.) In their name, and my own, I beg
leave to return your 'Lordship and this distinguished
meeting our warmest thanks.--(Cheers.)
The Earl of CARLISLE, who was very warm)y re-
ceired, then rose and said—My Lord Mayor, my Lords,
and Gentlemen, after all the things and after the men we
have heard, I should hold myself to be without excuse
ill trespassed for more than a very few moments upon
your time, even for the toast which, by a command con-
veyed to me by your Lordship, I have the great honour
to propose. That toast is, " The Working Mea of the
United Kingdom."—(Great cheering.) It is indeed most
fitting that, amidst all the brilliant and gorgeous accom-
paniments of our present gathering, amidst all its royal,
its patrician, and its civic splendours, those who form
that great and active mass of beings who from day to
day do the real work of the world should not be for-
gotten.—(Cheers.) For I feel, my Lord, that I may ap-
peal to the large proportion of your municipal brethren
whom your truly metropolitan hospitality has gathered
round you upon this occasion, who come from the hives
and marts of industry in all corners of the realm, who
may be said to represent the staple branches of our
manufactures, and the ♦aried pursuits of the nation's
labour—(Cheers)--I may ask them whether there is a
single person in this distinguished assembly, from
the Illustrious Prince nearest the throne of Eng-
land to the magistrate of the smallest town withi❑
the kingdom, whose comforts, whose luxuries, whose
life itself, are not prompted, embellished, and sus-
tained by the sweat of the brow, the strength of the
siacw, the skill of the hand, and the resources of the
brain, which go to constitute the wonder-working in-
. dustry of Britain?—(Loud cheers.) It its moat right, as
it appears to me, that an assembly like this should give
a distinct assurance that although the Exhibition of 1851
is for all classes as well as for all nations, it is yet pre
eminently intended to be the festival of the worlang-man
and of the working-woman—(Enthusiastic cheering)—
for there is no monopoly of sex, any more than of con-
dition or of race, and to interest their attention, to refine
their taste, to stimulate their invention, and, above all,
to do honour to their industry, are among its fairest and
. most legitimate objects.—(Cheers.) Though I have not
the honour of being a member of the Commission, I am
sure I do not misrepresent the;views of that. Commission
when I state that among the many, though, perhaps,
Still scattered, acts of liberality Which have been ex-
hibited towards this project, any contributions from the
working-people, limited and proportioned to their mo-
dest earnings as they must be, will not be the least ac-
ceptable. I quite agree with those who have advised
you not to entertain any feelings of discouragement from
_ the circumstance that the: various temperaments and
aptitudes of the rues and nations which people the earth

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. would scarcely allow any one nation whatever to carry
away the palm in every species of excellence from a
field where the competition is universal. It was said
of the most powerful people that the world has yet
known, and at the very moment when the power of that
Roman people was at its meridian point, that others
mighe more softly mould the breathing brass, or chisel
the living features from the marble, but that the c,)m-
pensation that was held out to them was prowess in
arms and the subjugation of the world. So it may be
that our countrymen appear comparatively deficient in
501/10 of the minuter graces of design and fabric, but
.they will seek their counterpoise not in the din of strife,
or in the roar of battle, but they will find it in the sturdy,
useful, persevering industry that forms the element of
the Saxon character and the glory of the British name.
—(Loud cheers.) In the exhibition and storehouse
of all the most choice productions of the world they
mr/11 see nothing but what industry like their own has
produced—nothing but what industry like their own
re ay aspire to excel—(Hear, hoer, and cheers)—and, in
the er,ntidence that they are made of the staff and fibre
Nilich will not allow them. in any course of useful
ogress, or any career of high achievement, to fail,
give you now, " The Workulea of the United Ring-
uotn."—(Loud cheering.)
Sir G. GREY proposed " The health of the Magis_
trates of the City."
Mr. Alderman THOMPSON returned thanks.
. Sir J. GRAHAM proposed " The City ComPanieP."
This was the last toast, and after it had been drunk the
to Prince and the rest of the company retired to the draw-
" ing-room to partake of coffee.
61. His Royal Highness almost immediately took his
-departure, and was again, 'as on his entrance, greatly
gered.

• SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
'WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON (MILITARY)
STEEPLE CH ASE S.—THURSDAY.
The Gold Cup of 100 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of
10 says. each, for officers' horses, lost each, &c.
. • Three miles. (29 Subs.)
Capt. Dyson's Hawkesworth (Owner) 1
Capt. Green's The Treasurer 71b'extra (Mr Morris) 2
Ca pt. Hervey's Meath ............. : .... (Owner) 3
The following also started, bat re not placed:—
Captain Gambier's The Thrush.... (Capt. Douzla) 0
Lieut. Tomlin 's Buckjumper ........... (Capt. Little) 0
Capt. Dyson's Gyneth ............(Mr. Winterbottom) 0
Lieut. Scohell's Junk, 41b (Owner) 0
Lieut. Reed's Champagne (Capt. Lane) 0
:Capt. Knight's Leo (Mr. Greene) 0
• Betting-9 to 2 agst Ilawkesworth-4 to 1 agst
:Meath-5 to 1 agst Buckjumper-6 to 1 agst Cham-
pagne—and Bto I agst The Treasurer. Won by two
lengths, Meath a bad third, Buckjumper fourth, Junk
fifth. Buckjumper and Leo went the wrong side of a
as early in the race, and having to turn back lost a
good deal of grctind.
The 111 eter at Stakes—No race.
-Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each, for officers' horses, list
each, &c.; riders, &c., as above. (10 Subs.)
Lieut. Scobell's Gipsey Queen, list ...(Capt. Little) 1
Zieut. Lindow's The Captain, I Ist 71b .....(Owner) 2
'Colonel Shirley's Councillor, list (Mr. Proby) 3
'Captain Gambier's Stilts, Ilst . CCoptain Lane) 4