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THE EXHIBITION OF 1851.

A CONTRAST WITH WEMBLEY.”

MONDAY, JUNE 9TH, 1924

Jews and Christians, and those who night without injustice be excluded from either category, jostled each other good- humouredly on the verdant swar Celt. Sclave, and Anglo-Saxon trod on ope an- The British Empire Exhibition inevit-other's heels, and smiled a mutua ably suggests a comparison, especially in apology. The turbaned Turk, the kilted Scot, the fezed arabian, the wild Albans the minds of those who enjoyed the bless-fan, kirtled to the knee, the Spaniard gs of the Victorian Age, with the with fierce moustachios and a coffee- coloured face-the Russian, the Norwe "Great Exhibition "which was held in gian, and the Swede, with cold, grey eyes Walloon and straw-coloured beards the Hyde Park in 1951, sars the Morning from Luxembourg and Heinault the Put That Exhibition, was the, wonder Fleming, from Brabant-the Prussian, of the tinie, au legs by reason of the vast from Westphalin-the Australian, from a hundred regions--all mingled together. number of exhibits as by the wonderful with millennial suavity, and seemed to be Crystal Palace" in which they were as much at home in each other's com- pany as if they had all been playmates housett

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It was a day when so little was known "of the British Empire that Palmerston could ask of his Permanent Secretary,

Where are the Colonies! manage the British Empire, as you know, but I never could understand my lari-Prince Albert brought in the Princess

The Queen, ccompanied by her Con sort, arrived punctually at noon. Her Majesty, who was dressed in pink silk broended with silver, and who wore a Itiara of diamonds, led the little Prince. of Wales, who was clad in a black velvet jacket and the Rothesay tartan; while

tudes and longituiles, or make out where Royal," charming picture of youthful the British Empire isn't.” P; the grace and spirit." The National Anthem Colonies rose to the occasion was sung by a choir of 400 voices, under the direction of Sir George" Smart, and foreign countries; anil gave to the world an“ Exhibition the fame of Chich is not likely to be seriously challenger until the doory of Wembley have closed on the

onelading day,

QUEEN VICTORIA'S £1,000).

the close of it a burst of cheering rang from one end. of the building to this other. This done, Prince Albert, on he half of the Commissioners, read a long address to her Majesty, and read it, as the orang Post recorded, with sea reely and perceptible foreign accent," The uriginal idea of the Great Exhibi-and the Queen replied "a bushed silence tion is aftributed to Mr. F. Whishaw, awaiting the words "as they fell with Secretary of the Society of Arts in, 1844, distinct and silvery clearness from her but nothing serious was, done until five lips." After a prayer by the Archbishop years later, when, Prince Albert onid: ¡ of Canterbury, a procession was formed

Now is the time to prepare for a great and passed round the building. exhibition, an exhibition worthy of the greatness of this country; not merely national in its scope and benefits, but comprehensive of the whole world; and I offer myself to the public as their leader if they are willing to assist in the under taking A Royal Commission was a pointed, and subscription list was opened. headed by Queen Victoria with contribution of £1,000

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THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON,"

The most interesting episode in the procession," says the facing Post of now came before us in the walking together of the two that date,"

Field- Marshals, the Duke of Wellington and the Marquis of Angelesca. These two old soldiers and old comrades-the sago commander and the dashing hussar-the one 83 years old, the other having com- pleted his 2nd year this very day-came side by side, a living passage of martial: history. The Marquis walked without a stick, so well and so firmly, indeed, that scarcely could we perceive it possible we now saw that Marquis of Anglesey of those illustrious misfortune it was su pleasantly said-now 34 years ago;

* He goes to rent, or ball, or play, With one foot in the grave."

The design for the great building was thrown open to the competition of all the nations, and by the summer of 1950 no fewer than 245 plans went sent in. Of these only three native and is foreign plans were thought worthy of considera- tion. The buildings contemplated were of brick, but such an eruption of bricks and mortar in Hyde Park, and for a tem- porary purpose, we popular. The dif Geulty was solved when Mr. Joseph Pax- ton came forward with his happy idea ef a House of Glass--the Crystal Palace which now tops the hill at Sydenham.

The contractors were Messrs. Fox and Henderson, to whom it was agreed to pay 970,800, or £150,000 if the building were permanently retained. -The cost was £176,030 1880. The exact length of the building was determined by the date of the year in which it was completed, 1851, and the width was 108ft. The entire area was about 19 acres, and with the grounded in circles like French borns, mecha floor and the galleries there was 1,000,000 square feet of flooring,

At this distant date any record of the contents of the Grent Exhibition would be little more than a catalogue, but, we may mention some of the exhibits which seem to have attracted more than usual attention, such as an enormous block of zinc weighing 16,400 b, the Spanish table. composed of 3000,000 pieces of in- laid wood. Toledo swords so finely tem pered that they sheathed into eases twist

meal humming birds that moved and sang," recently invented guns, discharg- ed by a needle pushing a hole in the cartridge, and the Koh-i-Noor in its gilded cage, which, on a spring being touched, sank into an iron safe embedded in masonry-

A THACKERAY'S COMMENT. Less than a year was allowed for the construction, and work was carried on with great rapidity. It is recorded that

eighty men in one week glazed 69,600. The Great Exhibition remained open superficial feet, and one man in one day 144 days, during which it was visited hy put in 108 panes, measuring 267 feet $6,170,000 persone. The greatest number inches in length. The glass is sheet glass, in one day was 10,760. The visitors. and the size is 4 feet.1 inch by 10 inches, paid £3, to come in. After pay- the largest, we believe, ever blown." Noment of expenses, there was a surplus fewer than 500 painters, suspended 'ia of £130,000. On October 15th the doors of the air from the iron trusses, "swept the Great Exhibition closed; it had been simultaneously from end to end with in- a tremendous success, the iden of the credible, swiftness." To complete the Crystal Palace ? had caught the public building by the atlay 'appointed for its opening, thousands of workmen were em- ployed and by the last day of April, is, all was ready, and Thackeray was able to announce that-

This Palace tall,

This Cristia! Hall,

Which Imperors might covet,

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Like Noah's Ark,

A minbow hint shove it.

The most extravagant hopes as to the ́success and influence of the Exhibition' were entertained, but the furning. Pest refused to believe that the world was on the eve of the Millenium. It neknow- ledged the pepid though peaceful chal- lenge to all the world, to meet us in an arena where arts not arms"would be the weapons employed, but we con feas, indeed, that we have never been able to share without reserve in, the wide anticipations which we have seen set forth in some quarters as to the prob able results of the Great" Fair of 1857... We do not expect that Mr. Paxton's triumph, in the happy adaptation: of means to an end, will, be the scene of & great revolution in human nature. We do not believe that the combination of art and industry, exhibited by its multi- farious contents, will make superstitions more religious and bigotry more reason- able We do not think that there is the slightest approach in all the mighty maze to the realization of that indefinite im- possibility the Unity of Mankind." And two days later the fornir Punt record ed its opinion, that the unity of man kind will be just, where it always has been. French, German, English, will be as Gallic, Teutonic, Anglo Saxon, as if the fair of 18hi had been strangled in its birthd

COSMOLIS IN HYDE PARER.” ⠀⠀⠀ Two days before the opening no fewer than 1,000 season tickets had been sold, and when the Commissioners suspended. the issur England open-mouthed asked for more. The financial success of the great undertaking was assured, London was all agog on the morning of May Day, for which the opening ceremony by the Queen had been fixed. Thousands had poured into the capital from all parts of the country, and thousands more from abroad, until, as the Morning Post res carded, Hyde Park was as cosmopolitan as it was possible to imagine.

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