The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-18 00:00:00

THE NEW PALACE OF THE PEOPLE.

Os Saturday last about 200 ladies and gentlemen
were ccovoyei hoot Kieee•aess terminus to Wocd-grent—
• new elation en the Great Northern Railway between
Mornay and Colney Batch—who were invited to take pert
fa the oaremosul foeticide. which precede or secompany the
establishment of most popular inentations in this country.
The OCCABIOII of the present mullion wee the inauguration of
• new People's Palace, and amongst those who feroared the
undertaking by their praemce were Lord Brougham, Lord
Talbot de Melehide, Mr. Bonzes* M.P.,_lsis C. Foe, Sir
HC. Roney. Mr. John Meeterman, Mr. W. Ws. &c. The
Ilia of pollens caulprisee several arra

The-object of the promoters of the melertaking le to pro-
vide a place of rational recreation end bisersetim fur the
million and a half of people who occupy the aerators
dons of the metropolis, to whom the Paseo et
is not sooresible without considerable loptaveeketott

The site selected for the Plers Pales is the mown of
Mamell-hill, which commands they egesselve and lovely
views over .Middlemx, Hertford, Bees, Resat, end Surrey.
A. fares accessibility and beauty of sheaths see concerned,
a more desirable choice could not have been made. "The
Palace," soy the promoters in their mespeo, "will oc-
cupy nearly the centre of a circle, including within a radius
of six miles Homey Colney Hatch, Highgate, Kentish-
town, Hampstead. Helaine, Finchlay, Totteridee, Barnet,
Best Bernet, Southgate, Edmonton, Enfield, Stoke Hewing-
ten, Tottenlisre, Clepton, Homerton, Hackney, Elooland,
Stamford-hill, Finsbury, Islington, Hlghbury, Ho lay,
Camden-town, Hyde-park, the Regent's-perk, Maide-hill, St.
John's-wood, Weetbounorterraos, Paddington, Bayswater.
From mane of these places it will be within an easy walk,
and from all the others it will be within an hour's drip by
omnibus or carriage. The Palace of the People is projected
in no spirit of opposition to the Crystal Palace at Bydenhaut
Experience has proved that fair competition is favourable to
all sound enterprises, and although the range of local visitor,.
which the situation of the Palace of the People will command
would seem to be of itself sufficient to ensure success, the
general public may apect to derive advantage from the sti-
mulus which each undertaking will receive [hem the efforts
of the other. In designing the Palace of the People,
the architect, Mr. Owen Jotter, has endeavoured
to secure tome important additional attractions ore,
Its predeoessore in Hyde Park and at Byden-
ham, combined with a considerable saving in expense.
A dome of 200 feet internal diameter, glazed on all sides, and
visible from all parts of the building, will contain a winter
garden, in which a proper beat can be maintained without
inconvenience or injury to the rest of the palm). Semicircu-
lar colonnades at each end, of 120 feet internal diameter, will
be devoted to refreshment courts, which will commandthe
most beautiful viewed the neighbourhood. A concert room,
or lecture theatre, of 216 feet internal diameter, surrounded
by oorridon 24 feet wide, projects from the centre of the
building on the north side. This theatre will contain 10,000
persona oomfortatly, and the corridors will enable such a
rumber to take their mats without confusion, and to
disperse with facility. In amusgiug the plan of
' the grounds the designer has endeavoured not only
to make them objects of beauty and interest, but
to furnish instructive examples of lan&ospe gardening.
Each &Woof the palace will present a garden in a different
style, such as the early English, the French, the Italisn,
the Dutch, and the madam English, with their appropriate
embellishments. Horticulture, economic botany. arboricul-
ture, and ornamental planting, will be taught and illustrated
on • wale never before attempted on one spot. Peek and
I forest scenery am embraced in the design, and a carriage
drive will be carried round the grounds to enable invalids
and equestrian. to enjoy the beauties of the landscape with-
out alighting. Ample specs is provided for outdoor ammo-
niate, including archery, cricket, riding, end boating. A
distinctive feature of the Pilate of the People will be the en-
deavour to render the resources of the institution subservient
to the cause of popular education. In order to accomplish
this object, English history, geography, astronomy, geology,
mineralogy, end mining, will all be illustrated in a systematic
manner, and on a large scale. Provision will be male for •
fund to be applied to the promotion of this object, bymeans of
lectures, prizes, mad otherwise. The control and disposition
of this fund will be confided to • council of distinguished
men, who will preside over the educational department,
Epeeist advantages will be offered to colleges, schools, end
mechanic institutes throughout the kingdom ; and aggregate
mediums of arch bodies as may become permanently
aos. MO.
dated with the uniertakieg may be held in the Pal
An agreement bas been entered into with the Great Northern
Railway Company for the working of the railway to end
from the pilaw, on terms of mutual advantage, and sack es
will ensure ample accommodation to viaitan. The estate
which has been secured for the purposes of the company oon-
, sista in the whole of about 460 acres; of these, 160 will he
appropriated ro the special use of the Pekoe and its grounds.
A reserve of 30 acres will be made in favour of benevelent
institutions connected with art, science, Mermen music,
horticulture, and the railway interest. The remainder will
'be available for the benefit of the shareholders. Taking ea a
basis of calculation the ascertained results of the Crystal
Palace, and applying them remits to the proposed under-
taking, with the additional attractione, advantages, and fact-
lilies of access above referred to, and regard being bed to the
greatly reduced amount of capitol required. a return of more
than five per cent. may be confidently reckoned upon, irre•
emotively of the booms to be derived from the disposal of the
surplus building land."
The promoters propose to carry out their scheme by means
of a conmaay (limited) poessesed of a share capital of
600,0001., In shams of 21. each, and 260,0001. in debentures.
MI. MARTI/MAR, having read for his lordship and the
company the foregoing segment,
Lord BROUGHAM replied by saying that the favourable
impression which was made on his rola by the statement
which be had heard in his how" in Grafton-street had not

been teemed, but greatly confirmed and increased, by what
he had seen that day. (Cheers.) He considered that the
ease was clear, that their success was perfectly assured, and
that the returnee( the Crystal Palace, which had been for the
years 1867, 1868, and the present year, greatly beyond what
could have been expected, gave them ea assurance of almost
inevitable succor. From the reduction of expenses, and
from the facilities of the neighbouring grounds for their un-
dertaking, be looked on their success as perfectly uttered.
(Hear, helm) Now, when he spoke of the Palace of
the People, be err naturally reminded that he bad
often been charged with having paid court to the
people, but in its own palate he would state that in all
times and in all places he had given his advice to, and
uttered his discontent with, the people as often aa he had felt
it his duty to do so. When he had differed from them he
had expressed his disagreement, and when he had agreed
with them he bad expressed his concurrence. (Hoar, hear.)
Thum led him to say that if there was any point on which It
appeared to him that he could advise them on tho present
occasion be should without hesitation tender that advice.
Bat now let them consider what was the object of their un-
dertaking. The peculiar object was relaxation, physical
and UMW. The working men required relaxatiou, and in
the great capital of London almost all members of the cam-
mtusity ware more or lees working people, and there-
fore required that relaxation. But the rake under
which relaxation was to be obtained were manifest. Men
had only a right to relaxation when they had earned it
by having done their work. In this condition be in-
cluded every epecies of relaxation. No man had any right
to devote himself to reading, either for mere amusement or
for the purpose of varying his information, unless ballad first
done that which was the object of every nun'. being—unless
be had fleet gained the time by having done hi. work. After
that he had the right to relax himeell ia the various ways to
which his teats might lead him ; but only after that had he
the right even to the relaxation at reeding—that ia, of reed-
ing not connected with hie profeedoe, trade, or avocation.
(Hear.) Now, both as to mental and physical relazatioe,
they moat attend to two principles. It must be innocent—it
must to such an occupation of the mind or such a relaxation
of the person as does not interfere with the Halite of other.,
and does not entail a breach of ces's own duty first of
all. And next it mast be such a relaxation, whether
physical or mental, as war consistent with the rules of
prudence, which, if not a virtue, was at lent, and may
M Whet, the parent of many virtues; at all events
It was preservative against many ekes. Within these
three principles, then, that re/elation shall be gained by
having performed all roe duties of our ordinary avocations;
next, that the Mazatlan shall be of such a nature as not to
interfere with the rights of others, or imply a breach of our
own duly; and, lastly, that it shell be such as is consistent
with sound dletzetioa and prudence. in order that it shall not
injure eareelees—he agreed that all people required relate.
Mon. (Chews.) Now, that being the case, why did he con-
test to place himself at the head of the educational depart-
ment of their undertaking, which aloes gave him the eight to
address them? Why, because he considered that education
must be promoted by the Palace of the People. Per that
purpose, steps had been taken to procure a fund to promote
education in various ways. This had been referred to in the
statement that had been read, but he took it that to houseful
it must be subservient On, and conneeteOrith, a practices of
reading upon the subject. that would be illustrated there, be-
fore earning toe.. the illustratioes that would be displayed.
After having instructed themselves by reading various works
on the topic to which three illuetrations would refer, people
might derive inestimable benefit by coming to see what they
would have to show there. (Cheers.) Then lectures would
naturally be past of the instruction that would be offered
there, and he thought a useful and important part. (Hear )
' And he thought also that giving prizes, ea yea proposed,
would have a good effect, by encouraging the reeding which
' should be enbeervieat t t the attendance at the lecture*, and
examination of the gardens, or plans, or the various models
which might be exhibited, As quaking and hearing in the
wen both difficult, he would not detain them longer.
gr air
wsevery much otdiged to them for having so kindly re-
ceived and listened to him. (Cheers.)
The company then sat down to an ezeaVent dijeltner, the
only drawback on which was that there wets more guests
than pleas, and some fifteen or twenty peruse were placed
in that moat ffiregmeable of pciettions, "looking en whilst
others fed." Mr. Hughes, of Highgate. presided at the
el!feeener, after which several tames were drunk. The bead
of the Coldstream Guards was oa the ground.

DEPARTURE OF IRISH NUNS TOR AUSTRALIA.—
Eight ladies of the Westport beam* of the Order of Morey
left Bagget-atzeot Cement on the lat of this month for Liver-
pool, whoa, re Omar snivel, obey 'awaited in St. May's
Commit of limey ant Wednesday, the 6th, vitas they
WWI is the Sabah for S)dsey, there to found a ooniess%
shoals, to., is cessealos wale their otder.—Firsassia
Anneal.

ROYAL FILIE HOSPITAL, ORAT'S-INN-ROAD.—The
osoltor of Wiener relieved et We hivierel daring the wak
oadlag July 16, woo 2,100, et 'adding sin ass are.