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INTRODUCTION.
Holders of season tickets will be admitted at all doors on the east, south, and west ofthe building, between the hours of 9 and half-past 11 o’clock, and will be allowed to taketheir places, subject to police regulations, in the lower part of the building, and in thegalleries, except the parts railed off in the nave and transept.
A platform will be raised to the north of the centre of the transept, on tvhich a chairof state will be placed.
Her Majesty’s Commissioners will assemble at half-past 11 o’clock in the transept,opposite the platform, together with their Executive Committee and the Foreign ActingCommissioners, in full dress or in plain evening dress.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Her Majesty’s Ministers, the great Officers ofState, and the 1* oreign Ambassadors and Ministers, will take their places on the platform tothe right and left of the chair of state, in full dress, also at half-past 11 o’clock.
Her Majesty, proceeding in State, with the royal family, foreign guests, &c., and herand their suites from Buckingham Palace up Constitution Hill, and down Rotten Row, willenter the Exhibition building by the north entrance precisely at 12 o’clock. She will ascendthe platform and take her seat in the chair of state.
On Her Majesty’s arrival a choir will sing “ God Save the Queen.”
On the Queen taking her seat His Royal Highness Prince Albert will join the RoyalCommissioners, and when the music has ceased proceed at their head to the platform, and readto Her Majesty a short report of the proceedings of the Commission up to that time,which he will then deliver to Her Majesty, together with the catalogue of the articles exhi-bited. Her Majesty will return a gracious answer, handed to her b\ r the Secretary of State;after which His Royal Highness Prince Albert will take his place again by the side of HerMajesty.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury will then say a prayer, invoking God ’s blessingupon the undertaking, followed by a ^hort anthem sung by the choir.
A Royal procession will then be formed, preceded by the Commissioners, which willturn to the right, move to the west end of the nave by its north side, return to the £ast endof the nave by its south side, including the south end of the transept, and come back to thecentre along the north side of the nave ; thus enabling all those present, who will beexpected to keep the places which have been assigned to them, to see.Her Majesty and theprocession.
During the procession the organs appointed will play marches, taking the music up atthe Queen’s approach.
On Her Majesty’s return to the platform the Queen will declare “ the Exhibitionopenedwhich will be announced to the public by a flourish of trumpets and the firingof a Royal Salute on the north of the Serpentine; whereupon the barriers, which hadkept the nave clear, will be thrown open, and the public will be allowed to circulate.
Her Majesty will then return to Buckingham Palace by the route by which she came.
All the doors, which will have been closed at half-past eleven o’clock, will, upon HerMajesty’s departure, be opened again.
Principles on In announcing the Prizes, the Commissioners laid down certain general prin-were h awarded. eS ciples for the guidance of the Juries, which they published as follows :_
In the department of Raw Materials and Produce, for instance, prizes will beawarded upon a consideration of the value and importance of the article, and the superiorexcellence of the particular specimens exhibited; and in the case of prepared materials,coming under this head of the Exhibition, the Juries will take into account the novelty andimportance of the prepared product, and the superior skill and ingenuity manifested in theprocess of preparation.
In the department ofMACHiNERY, the prizes will be given with reference to novelty inthe invention, superiority in the execution, increased efficiency, or increased economy, in the