UNCOVERING OF THE MEMORIAL. an 
gress of productive industry and giving it an increased stimulus." The meeting saw, 
too, with the wise author of the undertaking, that its tendency had been to promote 
useful intercourse between all peoples, and to induce in them feelings of goodwill 
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to submit drawings and models in in competition and ultimately, out of 1 meaty тй 
the design sent in by Mr. Joseph Durham ве! 
The endeavours to to procure a sight in ‘the Park having failed, we, the Executi 
Committee, who had г. et with difficulties that might not cee been d 
sought the aid of the Prince RE This was at once freely accorded on the 
condition, rem eristic of be Royal Tam m rd furi yet "ed the Memorial 
should be i ay perso ers one to which d him ribe. Th 
Royal gerent Society granted the fine ga 9 which » now ap on land. 
belonging to the Royal Commissioners for the G eat Exhibition, re therefore appro- 
priate, the Commissioners themselves tt enden n the бым, and from that time 
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improved to its present form; and the last public act of the Prince in 
London was the approval of a statue of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, then 
intended to surmount the Memorial. 
A letter from your Royal Highness, after the painful event = had кора ih he 
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nation into grief, conveying the will of the Queen that instead of Her Majesty’s statu 
that of her beloved husband should crown the Memorial, and ато п your Royal 
Highness's own-part to present the statue arene? to be thus placed—a letter which 
touched the heart ot! Me country—enab to carry desire of the 
subscribers, which mphatically, to offer a a public and lasting ы їп Ram cee 
with the Grea t Exhibition of 1851 to the good Prince—** to a 
prehensive n thropy” (as now recorded on the face of the emorial). * its “first 
conception was due, and to whose clear judgment and iia A settee in directing 
its ex via the world i is indebted for its unprece edente 
We take the liberty of expressing our great sa tisfection 3 with the admirable man- 
ner in vids К Mr. Durham has executed the commision confided to him We has 
ae a work that we believe to be honourable alike to himself and to 
try; and we tiet this feeling vill be generally р ір, у especially by os ce a 
рей who assisted т = Great Exhibition, and whose names he has consequently 
recorded on endu ming 
of this work, and the all-important assi endered us in our self-imposed 
labour. And we pray ape: and еу that АБАУ God may, in Ніз good- 
ness, long preserve Her Majesty’s life—a life most precious to her loyal and loving 
people. 
Pn only remains for us to rico obe st respeetfully the anxious readiness with 
which you, 229 accompanied by the illustrious Princess whom all the kingdom wel- 
es with 
part in the боо edings o f to-day. We o n the name of the subscribers our 
earnest thanks, and we solicit Pur уон Royal Higuness ‘will now be pleted to com- 
mand the uncovering of the Mem 
To this address His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales returned the 
following reply :— 
have listened with an interest, which I am Ped will ү shared by all present, to 
ils which you ге given іп ст the Memorial to my lamented 
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that our роон in commemorating so proud а year in England's вены would 
approval. 
d I am stated in the part which, in obedience to the Queen’s аа I 
