The Great Exhibition Vol 1 by Geoffrey Cantor

Author:Geoffrey Cantor [Cantor, Geoffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General
ISBN: 9781000561661
Google: J5hREAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-24T02:48:47+00:00

He hoped that this brilliant and eloquent anticipation would not be clouded. He was satisfied, indeed, that the good sense and public feeling of the House would not permit private and peculiar views and notions to interrupt a course prescribed by sound reason. Reference had been made to the inhabitants of Knightsbridge, who, it was represented, would be especial sufferers in the matter, though even those whose houses absolutely fronted the proposed site would be separated from the Exhibition by two roads, a broad terrace, and thick trees. He must say he thought that this complaint of the parties in question, this indisposition to undergo for a brief time a little possible disquiet for the sake of a great national benefit, came with peculiar ill grace from persons to whom so singular a favour had just been accorded in the throwing open, on their account, of Prince’s-gate, a favour alike promoting their personal convenience, and benefiting their property. A more striking illustration still of the nature of the objections was afforded by the hon. Member for Maidstone [Hope], who was prominent among the com-plainers, although he lived altogether at the other side of the park, where he could in no possible way be annoyed by the Exhibition, which would be alike remote from his sight and his hearing. It was said that the other contiguous inhabitants, besides those of Knightsbridge, would be aggrieved. It was at all events only very recently they had intimated any such apprehension. It was only in April last that the inhabitants of Chelsea and its neighbourhood held a meeting for the express purpose of promoting the Exhibition, as an exhibition calculated in every way to benefit all classes of the community, and especially the inhabitants of the western portions of the metropolis. Among the many distinguished names which figured in the requisition for that meeting, he would only mention one, it was that of the Hon. William Frederick Campbell, M.P.25 Nothing, in fact, could be more gratifying than the earnest zeal with which this subject had at once been taken up by all classes of the people; and it was essential that the place in which the Exhibition was held should be readily accessible to all classes of the people, not merely to the rich, but to the poorest artisans, who, coming from all parts of the country in crowds, as they would, ought to have the facility, not merely of visiting once, as they might a wild beast show, but of revisiting, time after time, the Exhibition, so as to derive the desired benefit from its contents. The alarm at one time manifested, / that this building would not be a merely temporary erection, had not been much referred to on the present occasion. He could assure the House that he was himself as strongly opposed as any man could be to any permanent encroachment upon the parks; and he considered the Commission and the Government pledged to the public that the building contemplated should only be a temporary building.

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