1st Session. No. 36. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING A set of works illustrative of the Exhibition in London of 1851, presented by the British government to that of the United States. JANUARY 24, 1854.-Referred to the Committee on the Library. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit to Congress a report of the Secretary of State, together with the set of works illustrative of the Exhibition in London of 1851, to which it refers, in order that such disposal may be made of them as may be deemed advisable. WASHINGTON, January 23, 1854. FRANKLIN PIERCE. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, January 23, 1854. The Secretary of State has the honor to lay before the President a copy of a note addressed to this department by her Britannic Majesty's minister in Washington, together with a set of works illustrative of the Exhibition in London of 1851, to which that note refers. Respectfully submitted. To the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. W. L. MARCY. WASHINGTON, August 22, 1853. SIR: With reference to my letter to the late Mr. Webster of the 10th of July, 1852, on the subject of the delay which the calamitous fire at Messrs. Clowes' would necessarily cause in the transmission of the sets of works illustrative of the Exhibition in London of 1851, intended for presentation to the governments of the respective countries that took part in the exhibition, I have now the honor to inform you that the sets of works in question have been completed, and that one set of them has been transmitted to me by her Majesty's government, with an instruction to me to present it to the government of the United States. In obedience to this instruction, I have now the honor to transmit herewith a case containing the presentation volumes and medals, and to request the government of the United States to accept its contents, as a testimony of the high sense entertained by her Majesty's commissioners for the exhibition of 1851, of the valuable assistance afforded to them throughout their labors from the governments of the different nations of the world, whose cordial co-operation so materially contributed to the success of the exhibition, and alone rendered it a worthy representation of what it had been from the first designed by them to represent, namely, the present state of the industry of all nations. I am likewise instructed to state that it affords her Majesty's commissioners much satisfaction to have it in their power to record in a permanent manner, by means of the slight tokens alluded to in this letter, the feelings existing on their part, and that they trust that the great exhibition which they are intended to commemorate may prove to have been, under the blessing of Providence, of no immaterial service in aiding to cement and draw yet closer the bonds of amity and peace throughout the world; and I am also directed to add that her Majesty's government appreciate highly the co-operation which was so cordially afforded to the exhibition by the government of the United States. The set of works in question contains the following series of nine volumes: Jury Reports, illustrated with photographs of articles exhibited, four volumes. First and second reports of the commissioners, one volume. Medals struck by order of the commissioners, one volume. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to you, sir, the assurance of my highest consideration. The Hon. W. L. MARCY. JOHN F. CRAMPTON. |