Excerpt from The First Report of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, to the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, &C., &C,

And whereas the said Society for the Promotion of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, have represented unto us, that, in carrying out the objects proposed by the said Exhibition, many questions may arise regarding the introduction of produc tions into Our Kingdom from Our Colonies and from Foreign Countries also regarding the site for the said Exhibition, and the best mode of conducting the said Exhibition, likewise regarding the determination of the nature of the prizes, and the means of securing the most impartial distribution of them, and have also besought Us that We would be graciously pleased to give Our Sanction to this Undertaking, in order that it may have the confidence, not only of all classes of Our subjects, but of the subjects of Foreign Countries.

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