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globe were to meet each other in a spirit of friendly competition—\vc felt that no exer-tion ought to be wanting on our part in order to insure success to so vast an under-taking.
Whatever may have been the extent of that success, we are conscious that it is notto any merit on our part, nor even to the zealous and efficient assistance which wehave received from those who have been employed under us, that it is principallyowing. It is to the cordial co-operation which we have met with in every country,and from every class ; it is to the gracious and unchanging favour of our Queen, andthe zealous aid of every order of Her subjects, of the rich and the poor, of the nobleand the artisan; it is to the assistance of all who arc eminent in science and inart, in industry and in talent; above all, it is to the blessing of God upon ourlabours that we attribute the happy issue to which they have been brought.
It is our earnest prayer that He who has thus far protected an undertaking designedto promote the common good of mankind, may give to it that effect which it wasintended to produce; and that the Exhibition of 1851 may prove in its results tohave been the means of advancing the happiness and prosperity, not only of this, butof all other countries, and of strengthening, permanently and surely, the bonds ofpeace, of friendship, and of brotherhood throughout the world.
ALBERT.
BUCCLEIJCII.
DERBY.
ROSSE.
GRANVILLE.
EGERTON ELLESMERE.OVERSTONE.
J. RUSSELL.
II. LABOUCIIERE.
W. E. GLADSTONE.
C. L. EASTLAKE.