The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-15 00:00:00

Exhibition building can no longer be thrown open to the
public by the contractors.
" Fox, HENDERSON, and Co.

" ' London, April 13."'

Another document of interest read before the
General Committee, and unanimously adopted by
them, is the subjoined report of their sub-committee,
and which they submit to the consideration of the
public :

" At a meeting of the General Committee, held at the
Crystal Palace yesterday, the following was read and
unanimously adopted:—
'Report of the Sub Committee to the General
Committee appointed to secure the Preservation
of the Crystal Palace, and submitted by the Com-

matte() for the consideration of the Public.
"' A great question must very shortly be decided,
viz., whether the Crystal Palace is to be preserved or
destroyed. The object of this statement is to establish
the advantages of retaining this building, and of apply-
ing it on self-supporting principles to the public pur-
poses, combining the instruction and recreation of the
people with the promotion of the arts, sciences, and ma-
,onfacturee. • Not only will a great sacrifice of public
property be thus avoided, but a lasting benefit will be
conferred upon the nation at large.
Two principal difficulties have existed in the public
mind on the question of preserving the building. The
first is the supposition, that if retained it must be at the
public expense, as private subscriptions would obviously
prove inadequate for an object of such magnitude. The
size of the building and the necessary cost of maintain-
ing, requiring, aad rendering it permanently greatly
magnify this objection, which exists in the minds of
many persons sincerely desirous, on other grounds, that
the building should be preserved. The second objection
is that the non-removal would amount to a breach of
faith with, and would be a hardship upon, the owners of
property in the neighbourhood. It is necessary to meet
both these objections. , •
'...ttat•iivropoeed that the building-be -vested by .4.8`0f
Parliament in trustees, who shall have powers of faun
it under certain conditions specified in the Act. It is
tilso proposed that the trustees shall be so selected as to
give the country at large the highest guarantee that
station can afford that the building shall be appropriated
to no purposes unworthy of the beautiful site upon
which it has been erected, or of the associations of the
Great Exhibition. _

-6:7Taing it for granted that the first, difficulty ex-
isting in the public mind may be overcome as now sug-
gested, it is proposed to meet the second by buying up
all the house property in the neighbourhood said to be
injured, and for this purpose, as well as for all other
sources of outlay connected with the building, sufficient
capital will be provided under the terms of the lease to
be granted by the trustees.
"' Three modes of appropriating the Crystal Palace
may be at present specified with sufficient distinctness to
.show how it is intended to combine to instruction and
recreation of the people with the advancement of the
arts, sciences, and manufactures.
" In the first place, a portion. of the space may be
allotted.to a Winter Garden, embellished with fountains,
statuary, geological specimens and a .great variety of
other interesting objects.
" Another portion might be appropriated for the re-
ception of new inventions, and a,' trade collection,' in
illustfation of the commerce of the country. •
" Lastly, the building might contain a gallery of de-
sign, for the promotion of taste among manufacturers
and the public; and lecture-rooms and museums, which
would relieve the already overcrowded state of many of
our greatest scientific institutions.

" It is not extravagant to expect that a sufficient
sum will be realised to effect the redemption of the
building in a very short . period. The receipts will be
applied first in providing for the maintenance and repair
of the building, then in paying interest on the capital ex-
pended by the lessees, and the surplus partly in adding
to the works of art, and other objects of attraction which
the institution will contain, but the greater part in form-
ing a sinking fund for the purchase of the building by
the trustees for the nation.
" No more is asked for, in carrying oat this plan for
the preservation of the Crystal,Palace, than has already
been conceded to the Zoological and Botanical Societies
in the Regent's Park.
" The self-supporting principle upon which it is pro-
posed to effect the preservation of the Palace is the same
as that upon which the Great Exhibition was so success-
fully carried out; no better proof can be given of the
confidence felt in the soundness of that principle than by
mentioning the fact that some of the first capitalists in
the country are prepared to guarantee the funds required
upon the basis of this statement, and to submit their
guarantee to her Majesty's Government.
"`lt is believed that an object worthy of the energy
and intelligence of the British nation is now within their
reach. A building has never before existed, And, if the
Crystal Palace is removed, probably never will exist, in
our times, affording such facilities for the moral and in-
tellectual improvement of all classes of the community.
The illustration of nature and the history and progress
of,.art can hero be fully presented under all the advan-
tages which ample space and light adapted to every re-
quirement of the subjects can afford. It cannot be be-
lieved that the people of this country will allow such an
opportunity to be thrown away, and this statement i..
submitted with the view of rousing them, before it is too
late, to a decided expression of opinion, which alone is
wanting to beCilre to them a palace worthy of the me-
tropolis of the first nation of the world, and a most
appropriate and lasting me morial of the Great Exhi•
bitten. " ‘JOSEPH PAXTON, Chairman."

FREE TRADE.
(From the Times.)
It is difficult to keep pace with the daily increasing
crowd of adhesions to the necessity, if not to the
wisdom and justice of free. trade. Like Nelson re-
ceiving the swords of his vanquished antagonists, and
passing them by handfuls to the sailor at his side,
free trade may now throw capitulations by the dozen
into the waste-paper basket. As usually happens
when there is plenty of a thing, there is something
to desiderate in quality, and we regret to say that we
have not yet had the fortune to meet with an avowal
so frank, so entire, so unreserved, and altogether so
becoming, that it may be safely recommended to con-
verts in want of a model. Here we have a surrender
before us made by a distinguished man—Mr. Adder-
ley, Member for North Staffordshire, and candidate
once more for that constituency. It must be con-
sidered full enough for most practical purposes, seeing
that the Hon. Member repeats what he said to the
people of Burton early last recess, that Protection
has " become, whether rightly or wrongly, so odious
in the eyes of the general body of the nation, that
it would be unwise to accept it any longer, even
if it could be obtained." Mr. Adderley having
thus determined not to accept Protection,
.even if
it were offered him, has of course given up that
reference to the " well understood and clearly ex
.
pressed opinion of the intelligent classes,"
_w_ith
which so many brother Protectionists are satisfyinats
the demands of a false shame. After observinA.tht
....., Some say it is necessary to postpone the decision
l to the
of this opinion till the approaching appeal to
country has more clearly tested the nawtiao i I
pert, I cons
Mr. Adderley proceeds,—" For my o
amply tested.
eider that the national feeling is already
is avowed the
I believe that-the earlier thihs
desculseistion being need-
f athe- landed gentry after
better, and I deprecate sac
Thenlianetd:deitgheenrtrlyit,uhee
nsaoyr says, be itpert
righto
be
mo:ei
trys
,fo
whether
haectqhu:ire s cteh_necy.eaa
ask
thele ss
lnya national tefedeloinhgt,hhe
known." The reasons
exceedingly good.
g thin t all in the nature
provoke just the same
.a
little or much; they well
they Will not obtain a hearing for other
but, as long as they as•kanyt 4 a
his I t is important to add, that
of Protection,
views On the subject "to
and more attainable demands, and they will lose the
ltiasrt. chan
the main
coincide in' with the opinions held by Lord
d certainly prevalent his
Derbytau among party."
But as there no saving clause, no lingering glance
n Adderleycof redress. supposes
,:, hesitation of the step, as the painful renunciation is
delivered? There is, slight though it be. Mr. Ad-
derley still seems to think •it possible that at some
future day, under some new phase of British charac-
ter, some change of circumstances,
.not to say some
new condition of
existence, the industrious people of
this country may
mend a tax on al Spontaneouslyfd and imperiously de-
the arrival food, and. may_.tumultuously pre-
vent of foreign supplies. Such. a_ dream.
certainly must have flitted through the writer's ima-
gination when . he says, "At all events, until the na-
tion changes its mind
on the subject, and ceases to
retain its present repugnance to protective duties, I,
for one, will not seek that kind of boon to a suffering
class of the community, which would only more
within well clothed, blooming, playfal, wend and
deeply injure them." Till the nation changes it mind
on the subject 1 If it is scarcely possible to" imagine
a morbid appetite for a scarcity on the part on hun-
gary men, it is still less possible to conceive any cir-
cumstance at all likely to bring about so strange a
delusion. It is not the custom of labour to bn as,
ce.tic in the article of food, nor do men in the receipt
of daily wages often want their little pittance to go
as short a way as possible. Go to any of our
manufacturing towns, first, second, or third rate,
and ask whether wheat at 423. is or not conducive to
the prosperity of the operatives. Why do you see
street after street, nay, whole suburbs, rise up as by
magic from the green sward, from the stubble of last
year's harvest, from the hill side, from the heathery
skirts of the moor, under the very shade of the ancient
oaks? Why do you see cottsges run up for labour-
ing men with a comfort and elegance unknown to the
last generation; with good drainage, and pure wa!_r,
abundant and almost free? Why are there lbs:.l;'9g,
plants and worked muslin blinds in all the sv;,annies
new furniture in every room, and the yowl, happy ?
Why is it that they who hoe iv