New Munster Gazette – 1852 – No. 16

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✨ Colonial Exhibition Recognition



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[Circular.]
Downing Street,
December 9th, 1851.

SIR,—I transmit for your information the Copy of a Letter addressed to my Department, by direction of Her Majesty’s Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, expressing the sense entertained by the Commissioners of the important services rendered by many of Her Majesty’s Colonies, and announcing their intention of presenting to each of the Colonies in which Local Committees were formed, a series of the several Medals distributed by them, together with a Copy of the Jury Reports, Illustrated with Photographs of Articles exhibited, and also a Copy of the Illustrated Catalogue, “as a Memorial of the Great Undertaking in which they have been engaged.”

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
GREY.

Governor Sir George Grey.

[Copy.]
Palace of Westminster,
December 1st, 1851.

SIR,—I am directed by Her Majesty’s Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, to request that you will communicate to Earl Grey their sense of the important services rendered to the Exhibition, which has recently been brought to a successful termination, by many of Her Majesty’s Colonies, where the most praiseworthy exertions have been made to ensure a proper representation of their respective industries.

The Commissioners feel that the display of Colonial Productions which has been the result of those exertions has tended greatly to increase the interest and success of the Exhibition; and they are the more sensible of their value, from their knowledge of the peculiar difficulties which in many instances had to be overcome, arising from the remoteness of the Colonies, the comparatively short time in which the collections had to be made, and other causes.

I am, therefore, directed to request that you will move Lord Grey to convey to the different Colonies represented at the Exhibition, this expression of the feelings entertained by Her Majesty’s Commissioners.

It is their intention to present to each of the eleven Colonies named below, in which Local Committees were formed, and which were more especially so represented, a series of the several Medals distributed by them, together with a copy of the Jury Reports, illustrated with Photographs of Articles Exhibited, and also a Copy of the Illustrated Catalogue (as soon as they can be prepared,) as a Memorial of the Great Undertaking in which they have been engaged.

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
(Signed,) H. MERIVALE, Esq.
E. A. BOWRING.

COLONIES REFERRED TO.

  1. Barbadoes.
  2. Canada.
  3. Cape of Good Hope.
  4. Ceylon.
  5. British Guiana.
  6. Malta.
  7. New South Wales.
  8. New Zealand.
  9. Nova Scotia.
  10. Trinidad.
  11. Van Diemen’s Land.


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🌏 Recognition of Colonial Contributions to the Great Exhibition of 1851

🌏 External Affairs & Territories
9 December 1851
Great Exhibition, Colonial Contributions, Medals, Jury Reports, Illustrated Catalogue
  • George Grey (Sir), Recipient of the letter as Governor
  • H. Merivale (Esquire), Signatory of the letter from the Commissioners
  • E. A. Bowring, Recipient of the letter from the Commissioners

  • Grey, Secretary of State
  • H. Merivale, Esq.