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of use in the formation of Colonial Associations.

I have, &c.,
(Signed) ELCHO,
Chairman of the Council of the N.R.A.

P.S.—The next annual Prize Meeting of the National Rifle Association will take place early in July.

His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, K.G.,
&c., &c., &c.

Downing Street, Feb. 1, 1861.

SIR—I transmit to you a copy of a letter from the Promoters and proposed Trustees of the Exhibition of Works of Industry and Art of all Nations to be holden in London in the year 1862.

You will see that these gentlemen are desirous to learn from what Colonies articles will be sent for exhibition, and also to be put in communication with such persons or bodies in each Colony as are likely to command the confidence of those who may become exhibitors.

It is, I am sure, unnecessary for me to urge upon you the adoption of any means in your power for furthering the important object in view, and I shall be glad to learn that the Colony under your Government is prepared to become a contributor to this undertaking.

The general conditions of the Exhibition will be made known to you as soon as they are completed.

I have, &c.,
NEWCASTLE.

Governor Gore Browne, C.B.,
&c., &c., &c.

London, 18th January, 1861.

MY LORD DUKE—I am directed by Earl Granville to intimate to your Grace that the Promoters of the Exhibition of the Works of Industry and Art of all Nations, which it is proposed to hold in the year 1862, are about to apply to her Majesty for a Charter of Incorporation, by which certain Trustees, to whom the management of the Exhibition has been confided, may be vested with the powers requisite for effectually carrying out the projected undertaking.

The names of the Trustees are as follows:—

The Earl Granville, K.G., Lord President of the Council.
The Marquis of Chandos,
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P.
C. Wentworth Dilke, Esq.
Thomas Fairbairn, Esq.

The Trustees have every reason to believe that the application for a Charter will be favourably entertained: but, as some short interval must necessarily elapse before the usual preliminary formalities can be complied with, they are anxious that no time should be lost in giving notice of the intended Exhibition to the distant Colonies of the Empire.

I am therefore directed to request that your Grace will do the Trustees the favour to take the necessary steps for making known to the various Colonial possessions and dependencies of the Crown, that the Exhibition will open on Thursday, the 1st of May, 1862, and that the Trustees are very desirous to learn from what Colonies articles will be sent for exhibition, and also to be put in communication with such persons or bodies in each Colony as are likely to command the confidence of those who may become exhibitors.

The Exhibition will be held in London, on a convenient site which has been placed at the disposal of the Trustees by the Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, in the immediate vicinity of the ground occupied in 1851, by permission of her Majesty, on the occasion of the first International Exhibition.

The general conditions of the Exhibition, and the terms on which exhibitors will be invited to take part in it, will shortly be published, and the Trustees will at once communicate them to your Grace.

In the meantime I am to state that the Exhibition, in its leading features, will closely resemble that of 1851—pictures, however, being added on this occasion—and that such preparations as can be made, in anticipation of more detailed information, may proceed upon this understanding.

As the demands for space, however, will, in all probability, be very much in excess of what it will be possible to provide, so that quality and not quantity, will have mainly to be looked to in deciding upon the articles to be admitted, the Trustees hope that the greatest care will be exercised in selecting good specimens of the Industry and Art of each Colony, and more especially of its natural productions.

As your Grace will readily understand that, so soon as proper channels of correspondence have been opened, the Trustees will have many matters to which to draw the attention of the Colonies, which are likely to take an interest in the undertaking, they venture very earnestly to request that the earliest opportunity may be taken for making known the substance of the present communication to the various Colonial authorities.

I have, &c.,

F. R. SANDFORD.

The Duke of Newcastle, K.G.,
&c., &c., &c.