s, have so kindly
consented to come over here to decide on matters appertaining to
the Health Exhibition. It is particularly gratifying to me to
have been here to receive them, and I sincerely hope that their
labours will be crowned with success. That the Exhibition has up
to the present time been successful so far as numbers are
concerned we have evidence to show, but I hope at the same time
that for scientific and educational purposes the public at large
may derive even greater benefit from it than they can get by
merely coming here to enjoy the Exhibition as a place of
recreation.

"After the address from the Duke of Buckingham, and the long,
able, and most interesting one from Sir James Paget, which was
commented upon by Sir Lyon Playfair, it would be perfectly
superfluous for me to detain you but for a few moments on any
subject relating to health. These addresses, which you have all
listened to with such great interest, will, I trust, have proved
to you what an important consideration the matter of health is.
This Exhibition, under the able chairmanship of the Duke of
Buckingham and those gentlemen of the Executive Council who have
worked under him, has, I think, been brought to a remarkable
degree of perfection. They have done everything they can do to
make it pleasing to the eye; but still I hope that those who
visit the Exhibition will remember that there are greater and
more important objects at stake--that they will go home
impressed by the study of those objects as well as by the
pleasure they may have derived from the wonderful inventions and
methods of showing them. I wish to tender my thanks to the Lord
Mayor and the great City Companies for their kind co-operation
in this Exhibition, and I am sure we are all much gratified at
the success of what is called Old London. Before concluding I
would beg to ask the Chairmen and Jurors at the close of the
proceedings to constitute their juries and select their
secretaries."

The French Ambassador, in moving a vote of thanks to the Prince of Wales
for presiding, referred to His Royal Highness's readiness on all
occasions to give his time and to devote his energies to any cause which
might advance the welfare of the people of this country. He called on
them to thank His Royal Highness, not only in the name of those present
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