The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-13 00:00:00

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

We here been requested by tbo Committee for the
Preservation of the Crystal Palace to give publicity to the
following letters open the subject of the funds collected
from the admissions to the building :
“Devasishire House, April 6, 1852.
" Deer fihzs,—lt is the opinion of the committee air
pointed for the preserratiew of the Crystal Palm*
that there will be little probability of the It=
being retained, unless an arrangement can be
for Swim the surplus of the money received for
admission. M the disposal of the government. The com-
mittee are met en all sides with the objection that the de-
memeientiems aro promoted by them for the benefit
of do orstrolon, and therefore both the committee
end yourselves are placed in an entirely wrong position be-
im,* the public, who are under a misapprehension, which it
itecessary that we should immediately remove. Of
earns all expenses attending the care of the building rime
thiseimmittee was appointed, and all the expenses incurred
by the committee beyond the amount of the subscriptions
received by them, must be defrayed in the first instance.—
I am, az., " Josses' r AXTON.
" ?drum Fox and Henderson."

" 8, New-street, Spring-gardens, April 7, 1862.
" Dear Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 6th,we beg to
inform the committee that we had already, before the re-
ceipt of that letter, taken steps to obviate all difficulties
end embarrassments which' might arise with reference to
the money collected at the Crystal Palace on Saturday lest.
We have paid the amount into a separate account, at the
Bank of Glyn, ICUs, and Co., where it will remain sub-
ject to the committee's claims for expenses. The appro.
prtattuo a the Wanes is not to be Goal, decided upon
until the fate of the building is determined.
" We are, dear sir, yours faithfully,
" (Signed) Fox IiZSDRISON and Co.
" Si, Joseph Paxton, Devonshire Hostas, Pioeadilly."

AN OFFER FOR THB CRYSTAL PALACE

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The following copy of • letter will be read with
iaterest : . _

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" 29, Abingdon-street, April 8, 1862.
"Dear Birs,—Referring to the conversation which took
place between Sir Charles Fog and myself this afternoon
relative to the removal of the Crystal Palace, I have to in
form you that, in the event of her Majesty's government
declining to purchase on the terms specified—namely,
70,0001., I shall be prepared to sign a contract for the pnr-
' chase of the building at that sum. The intention of my
employers is to convert it into a whiter garden and a place of
general recreation and instruction for the public. In the
event of your accepting my offer your solicitors may for-
ward the draft contract to the solicitors of my employen
Mears. Johnston., Farquhar, and Leech, of Moorgate!
street.

" I am, dear ur, yours faithfully,
_ _" Faunas FuLLia.

" Messrs. For, Henderson, and Co., Spring-gardens.
The Hon. Henry T. Liddell bad an interview with the
Earl of Derby yesterday, at hie official residence in Down-
ing•dreat.

THE ELECTIONS.

EDINAIIBOII.—Sir William Gibson Craig has its•
nonneed his intention of retiring from the representation of
this eiry.
Essr Syryout.—The Solicitor-General (Sir Fits.

roy Kelly) bas returned telraenslon, but is expo s& blows
town again to-day, harks bus Invited to booms a ems.
date for the represeskstkm of the 1111110111111 Odin of
Suffolk, in the room of Lord Rtboilor% iOONNIL
No opposition is expected to the learned igemin fir
turn. _ _

•-••••
GLASGOW. Mr. Macgregor has addressed the
electors. He concludes as follows: " Considering the
strife and the expenses of a doubtful election, and however
painful to my hangs it will be to be no longer your repre-
sentative—l deem it just to you, and as a COMM NOM
decision on my. part, not to ask you again to sled INS, Wen
so full a manifestation shall be made by you/nivel, that
that there may be no cause to apprehend a defeat.' He
strongly recommends his colleague, Mr. naafi°.
GAry.suasti.—Thin borough has been actively can-
vassed by Messrs. Hutt, Walters, and Liddell.
HEREFORDSIIIRE.—Tho canvassing progrese of Mr.
0. C. Lewis has been highly satisfactory to his friends ;
indeed his course through the towns has been mosth. one
of triumph, the hones having been taken from his carnage,
and himself end friends drawn into the town amidst the en-
thusiastic applause of the people. His canvassing career
presents a marked contrast to that of his opprents, and
shows his to bo the " popular candidate.' —Hereford
Timm. . . .

LEEDS.—The canvass for signatures to the requi-
anion to Mr. Baines and Sir George Goodman has been
continued during the put week. The returns already re-
oeived are satisfactory so far as they go. But the signa-
tures to the requisition aro not as yet so numerous as to
prove the success of a third candidate to be absolutely
im-
possible.
Mommosr--Dr. Burnes has declined to oppose
Mr. Hume.
NOILTUUMBEILLAND.—It is generally understood
that Sir G. Ory's return for North Northumberland mil
be mint sad that lord Oswald= will retire te Rohe
reset Immiss. This esessismeat is said tele*,
remit et as implied essagast, by yid& Mr. Matthew Belk
the tau neamber for Beath Nemboaberland, will be un-
opposed by Mr. Beaumont, at *well. Mr. Beaumont is
now tared of as a twatiblate for North
N 01201011431,11111 (Sours).-114114=seh's ad-
dress messed ea Beturdey. Ile &dame his iktemslaation
Ot suggest the Derby ministry.
NORTH Esau.—A regsisithot is in mom of sig-
UMW le H. J. Conyers, Nag., et Chet Halle dialer, to
slew himself be is emlosilito Air *Ws BMW= of
the smaty, in to
le Ms
emisereford. The "spire"
it poplar not sem* mass the yams sod geseseses et
the emmty, but is roweled sod seiessasd by them where
Ms* Bereetard seolsomilosody Owned the " ashige."
Moeda he Mood, ble• MOM h mallsiov eel the major
wane get est at the way."
Snoop.—Mr. Jelinger Symons, et the Oxford
Circuit, hosed an address to the electors es Saturday, in
which he aspreeme his regret that the state et his health
prevents him toss lesamins andidate.
STAYTOZDIMMII Adderley and
Mr. Smith ChM 'base Both candidates
appear to smolder tbst,thinizestien of direct protection to
agriculture is abaft y &died, and that it would
be injurious to that Usenet to attempt its revival. They
are nevertheless sappermrs of the present ministry._
STOKE-I: PON-TEENT. —The Meads of Alderman
Copeland and Mr. Ricardo have been busily engaged in
' canvassing the electors in the various districts. Both per-
' ties speak with confidence of emcees.
TavisrocK.—Mr. George Byng addressed the
' electors on Thursday evening, and declared bimaeU in fa-
' your of free trade and preemies reform. lie was opposed
by Mr. Samuel Carter.

ALARHINO ACCIDENT ON THE MANCHESTER,
SIIEFFISLD, AND LINCOLNAIIIIIII RAILWAY.-011 Saturday
night a serious accident occurred to the 6 o'clock train on
the short branch of this company's railway from New Hol-
land to the market town of Barton, on the south bank of
the Humber. A new engine, the Apollo, was drawing this
train, and had, with one stoppage, brought it in safety the
three and a half miles to Barton ; but on arriving there,
from some cause at present unknown, the driver and guard
were unable to make their brakes act efficiently, and the
engine went at the rate of 12 or 14 miles an hour through
• thick wall at the end of the line into the stat•cm-house,
the internal aninp being completely smashed. Mr, Taylor,
the station master, was writing at his desk at the time, and
bad a very narrow escape. Nearing the loud shouts of the
people outside, he ran out, and had not been gone
a second when the bufen of the engine satisfied
the counter he was sitting at Into splinters. The
engine-driver, David Vince, and the stoker, saved
antennae by leaping on to the platform, when they found
that the train could not be stopped. The former went
beck to New Holland, gave information of tho accident,
and has not been heard of since. Several of the passengers
were injured. Mrs. Morley, of Hull, was most severely'
cut and bruised about the legs, and several others are now
under medical treatment fur the injuries received. The
train consisted of live carriages and a luggage veil ; and it
is somewhat singular that the persons who were riding in
the carriage immediately behind the engine, which was, so
to speak, doubled up' by the concussion, escaped without
the slightest injury, while those were hurt who were tra-
velling in the last carriage of the train. The wreck was
cleared away In a very short time, under the superintend-
ence of Mr. Hibbard, the manager of the district, and the
Wale was resumed as usual neat morning.
CURIOUS PIIENOMF:ISON.—A letter from Breslau, in
the l'rurstariGir:ette, states that on the Ist April the moult-
tain of Zobt wee observed to be enveloped in a thick smoke,
while a rumbling noise like that of distant thunder was
heard. When the smoke had cleared away, it was ay.
covered that the chapel which was being built on the sum-
mit of the mountain had disappeared, having been swal-
lowed up in an abyss. No further details, nor any account
of the number of victims, are given, [The German papers
contain narratives of a number of events equally curious
with the above, and of the same date. At Breslau on the
3d inst., nothing was known of the occurrence above
I described. The Prtissi,in Gazette bas hew "sent into
April," as the Germans phrase it.)