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APPENDIX No. XV.

APPENDIX No. XV.

Ceremonial observed at the State Opening of the Exhiiiition, on Thursday, the

1st of May, 1851.

(Extracted from the u IjomIqh Gazette'* of May \QtJi, 1851 .)

The Holders of Season Tickets wore admitted at all doors on the East, South, and West ofthe Building, botwoon tho hours of nine and half-past eleven o’clock, and took their placos,subjoct to polico regulations, in tho lower part of tho Building, and in tho Qallorios, excepttho parts railed off in tho Nave and Transept.

Exhibitors’ attendants, who had been sanctioned by the Executive Committoo, woroadmitted betweon the hours of eight and nine o’clock, at doors specified on their cards, andtook their places by tho counters or objocts exhibited by their Employers.

A Chair of State, raisod on a platform, and under a canopy, looking South, was placed at thoNorth of the Centro of tho Transept.

Her Majesty’s Commissioners, with their Executivo Committee, and the Foreign ActingCommissioners, assembled in the Transept, opposite tho Platform, at half-past eleven o’clock.

His Grace tho Archbishop of Canterbury, tho Bishop of Winchester, Her Majesty’s Ministers,and tho Foreign Ministers took their places on the Platform, to the right and loft of tho Chairof State, also at half-past cloven o’clock.

llor Itoyal Highness tho Duchess of Kent, with Her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Cam-bridge, His Royal Highness Princo Henry of the Netherlands , His Royal Highness tho Dukoof Cambridge, and His Serene Highness Princo Edward of Saxo Weimar, arrived at the Exhi-bition Building shortly before Her Majesty.

Tho Queen and His Royal Highness Princo Albert, with their Royal Highnesses the Princoof Wales and Princess Royal, attended by tho Royal Household, (oxcopting tho Vico-Cham-berlain and the Gentlemen Ushers, who awaited Her Majesty’s arrival at tho ExhibitionBuilding,) and accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princo and Princess of Prussia, andPrinco Frederic William of Prussia, left Buckingham Palace at half-past eleven o’clock, andproeoodod up Constitution Hill, down Rotten Row, to tho North Entraneo of tho ExhibitionBuilding, in tho following order:—

7n the First Carriage.

Field Officer in Brigade Waiting.

Silvor Stick.

Two Gentlemon in attendance upon tho Princo and Princess of Prussia.

In the Second Carriage.

Equerry to tho Queen.

Equerry to tho Princo.

Groom in Waiting to tho Queen.

Groom of tho Bedchamber to tho Princo.

In the Third Carriage.

Treasurer of the Household.

Lord in Waiting to tho Queen.

Lord of tho Bedchamber to tho Princo.

Clerk Marshal.

hi the Fourth Carriage*

Gold Stick.

Captain of tho Gentlomon-at-Arms.

Captain of tho Yeoman of tho Guard.

Master of tho Buckhounds.

In the Fifth Carriage.

Bedchamber Women.

Two Maids of Honour.

Groom of tho Stole to tho Princo.

In the Sixth Carriage.

Two Ladies in attendance upon tho Princess of PrussiaTho Lady Superintendent.

Tho Lord Chamberlain.