The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-30 00:00:00

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G/ ilia matreeton, whe were better able to tell what
would sell for, and the suet of its maintenamse.
Whatbldi Ifeseph Paxton stated is him (Lord
was, that the eon of the stainless.os of the builditig=
be, instead of 12,00 W. a year, 20,0551., sad that statesman
he sent in writing. That, however, was not the wreaks.
as it was now said that the building was to be self-support-
ing. On that subject he had the best evidence. Mr. Cole
stated that if the building was to be self-supporting it
must be open at night—and that it was Indispensable that
it should be made a place of recreation at night. (Hear,
hear, and laughter.) The building was to be nadir the
management of certain trustees. The commission for con-
ducting the Exhibition was appointed by royal charter and
under the sign manual, but this was it communion issued by
Sir J. Paxton (cheers and laughter) who named
trustees for interfering with the Park, and taking
.hi acres of it away. (Hear, hear.) It was impossible that
the parks could be dealt with in that way—(cheers)--except
by act of parliament. All the resolutions of that house and
all arrangements by commissions would be useless, and, tin-
kle an set of parliament was passed, the building must come
down aud the ground be given up to the public. (Hear.)
Mr. Cole hail and that the building was not adapted for a
museum or for lectures, but he tallied of keeping it as a
great warehouse till we could get something better. (Hear,
hear.) But was that • reason for filling up 20 acres of the
Park ? (Hear, hear.) If pledges like that which hail been
given were to be broken, let them have no more of them ;
and he (Lord Seymour) would not again in a hurry. bo •
party to one. Ile trusted the house would persevere in re-
teeting this motion at once, and settle the question for ever.
(Cheery)
Mr. WAKLEY mid the noble lord who had just sat
down had made a speech which appeared to him to indi-
cate that he had • very strong feeling on the subject, and
the remarks which the noble lord hail made with reference
to his late noble colleague appeared to hint to be very
unsuited to the occasion. He (Mr. Wakley) had made no
pledge ou this subject, and if the nimble lord had made •
pledge which he could nut maintain in consequence of the
power of parliament, morally the noble lord had committed
no sin. They would all admit that the noble lord had done
his hest to keep his pledge. This was a pledge for destruction.
Suppose the pledge had been given for protection. (Cheers.)
The noble lord,the Chief Commissioner of Woods ie.d Forests,
had intimated that if the palace were retained, it should be
removed to Battersea. Why, what kind of animal did
the noble lord think existed in the neighbourhood
of Battersea? Some curious monstrosity or other. He
appreliendid that was the case, because the noble lord and
government would give Shim some specimens if they re-
moved it to &diem a. Now if it were a zoological garden,
then be admitted government might supply some good
specimens. (Laughter.) But he could nut nailer:dm:id
hoer it was to be an immoral thing at Hyde-park and a mural
thing at Battersea, and it was for the mails lord to explain
that which appeared to him to involve • contradictionl
which scarcely anything could satisfactorily explain.
He sincerely hoped that the majority of the house would
approve of this motion.
Mr. GRACIL who was greeted with loud cries of
" Divide," and who spoke amid much interruption, was
understood to deny that negotiations were going on with
government as to the removal of the Crystal Palace. If
they were to take it to another site there would be no ne-
cessity to negotiate with the government, am they could then
pine it where they pleased, mid devote it to what purposes
they liked.
Lord JOHN MANNERS said, the hon. member for
Finsbury had in a speech of unmitigated nonsense--(sties
of Oh !")_—put language into his mouth which be never
uttered. Ho never said anything as to the geographical
morality or ingporality of Hyde-park or Battens.. The
noble lord then, in answer to the hon. member who bad
just spoken, read a letter stating that certain persons had
purchased he Crystal Palace fur 75,0061., and that they
proposed to remove the building and erect it elsewhere.
Mr. GEACII said there Will no doubt that was perfectly
correct, but that was a bargain contingent upon the house
not sanctioning its remaining
Captain PECHELL said a petition had just come into
his hands, signed by the magistrates and a thousand of he
inhabitants of Brighton, in favour of the retention of the
Crystal Pelee..
Mr. JOHN EVANS contended that no one could say
them war anything like a breath of faith in voting for
this motion. It was with the Wawa astonishment that be
heard the noble led the member tot Tonnes my that it was
a beim* of faith not to pall the building dose, when that
noble lord had sat se chin:Eau et a ommaissies, the object
of which was to ascertain whether the building Gould not
be retained.