

^9 ^^^^ yi ™^ ^^^^ '■'^^ EOTAL 1^ ^^^S 





^^^l Prince of Carignan, representing Italy ; the Cotmt of Apponyi, 

 H| representing Austria ; M. Thouvenel, France ; and numerous 

 other Foreign Eepresentatives, added to the interest and 

 «^ splendour of the scene. From the Conservatory the procession 

 passed down to the dais, where H.E.H. the Duke of Cambridge 

 took his place on the tlu'one, as Her Majesty's Eepresentative, to 

 receive and distribute the awards to Committees representing the 

 By Exhibitors of the United Kingdom, and to the Commissioners of 

 1 the Colonies and Dependencies. Around him stood the sjaecial 

 1 Eepresentatives of Foreign Countries, who were to receive and 

 I distribute the awards to the Foreign Commissioners. At this 

 W) 1 station the ceremonies commenced, and to it, after making the 

 Sot tour of the Garden and the Exhibition BuUding, the procession 

 M t retu.rned. All that passed was distinctly visible from the greater 

 ^ 1 part of the Garden ; the day was magnificent, and the Garden 

 W 1 was, for the first time since its opening, fairly filled, no less a 

 M 1 number than 44,000 having been counted. 



S§ 1 No jsecuniary benefit accrued to the Society from this day's 1 

 SjW proceedings, but it placed them in the position of having con- 

 ' ferred a favour for which some return might fairly be asked. 

 ^N'^ ilie Commissioners, in kliuLl)' recompense oi LhaL accommodaLion, 

 1 ^ 1 gave them thereafter gratuitously every facihty for advertising 

 I B'j, their bands and shows by placards in the Exhibition Building, 

 1 and what was of still more importance, accorded (on payment 

 Iji^ 1 of a moderate fine) the privilege to visitors of re-entering the 



Exhibition from the Garden without repayment. 

 1 h|| The usual cessation of visitors which takes place after the 

 1 'IPI'i close of July, when the London world of fashion goes out 

 £r of town, did not take place this year, large numbers having 



1 



•■ 



S 



m 

 yjj 







