EXHIBITION OF 1862. 
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taking, in promoting wliicli the Prince Consort had taken so 
active a part, in view of the impossibility of herself officiating 
in the opening ceremony, as in 1851, had been pleased to ap¬ 
point His Eoyal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, His Grace 
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor, the 
Earl of Derby, the Lord Chamberlain, Viscount Palmertson 
and the Speaker of the House of Commons to conduct it in 
her name. 
The place appointed for the opening ceremonial was at the 
extremity of the nave, directly under the western dome, where, 
underneath a magnificent canopy, stood the throne and chair 
of state, with marble busts of the Queen and Prince Consort on 
either side. Here, therefore, when the procession had halted, 
the Duke of Cambridge took liis position in the center of the 
dais, with the Crown Prince of Prussia on his right. Prince 
Oscar of Sweeden on his left, and the other chief dignitaries 
according to rank. The orchestra, composed of two thousand 
selected singers and four hundred instrumentalists, whose posi¬ 
tion was a quarter of a mile distant, beneath the eastern dome, 
pealed forth 
“ God save our glorious Queen, 
Long live our noble Queen, 
God save the Qneen ! 
Send her victorious, 
Happy and glorious, 
Ldng to reign over us, 
God save the Queen!” 
and there was quiet. The Earl Granville, Chairman of Her 
Majesty’s Commissioners for the Exhibition, then presented his 
address to the Queen’s representatives, and after a response by 
the Duke of Cambridge, the procession moved down the grand 
nave to the platform in front of the orchestra. Then a grand 
overture by Meyerbeer, and a chorale by Dr. Sterndale Ben¬ 
nett to the following words by the Poet Laureate: 
Uplift a thousand voices full and sweet. 
In this wide hall with earth’s invention stored. 
And praise th’ invisible, universal Lord, 
Who lets once more in peace the nations meet. 
Where Science, Art and Labor have outpour’d 
Their myriad horns of plenty at our feet. 
