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96LLOYD'S WEEKLY OPENING OF THE AMERICAN EXHIBITION. BUFFALO BILL's WILD WEST. The Exhibition of the Arts, Inventions, Manufactures, Products, and Resources of the United States was opened on MOnday afternoon at West Brompton. The proceedings were begun in the main transept at half-past three o'clock by a performance of "Hail! Columbia" by the Grenadier Guards band ; after which Archdeacon Farrar, of Westminster, led the company in prayer. The band played "God Save the Queen," after which Lord Ronald Gower, on behalf of the English council, delivered an address of welcome to the American guests. This council, he said, consisted of about 1,000 leading Englishmen in all walks of life, animated by the common purpose of showing a strong regard and affection for America and Americans. He xpressed the hope that hti sexhibiton might be a new bond of amity between England and America. The [president?] of the exhibition, Colonel Henry Russell, [?] thanks for this welcome and for the encouragement given to the Americans in their efforts to make a fair show of Yankee industries. Mr. John R [Whitley?], director-general of the exhibition, explained [that?] it had been organised and developed solely by private initiative. The "Star-spangled Banner" and "Rule Britannia" having been sung by Mdlle. Lilian [?] amid great enthusiasm, Colonel Russell, as president of the exhibition, started the machinery, proclaimed the exhibition open, and expressed ahope that [it?] might prove another strong link in that chain, sometimes strained but never to be broken, which bound the United States to Old England. "Yankee Doodle | 96 |