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

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

The following important correspondence between
the First Commissioner of Works and Messrs. Fox
'and Henderson was yesterday laid before a meeting
of the. General Committee for the Preservation of the
Building, and has the effect of not only putting a stop
to the promenade announced for Saturday, but also of
finally closing the building to the public :-
6g Office of Works, &c., April 13, 1852.
"Gentlemen,-1 am directed by the First Commis-
sioner of her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings to
acquaint you that his Lordship bas•received a letter from
the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, inform.
ing him thrt they have been always anxious to fulfil to
the utmost their engagements to the Crown, and that for
that purpose they had given notice for the removal of
the building in Hyde-park on or before the Ist of June
next; that they have given no approval or sanction to
any proceedings likely to cause delay, or to the appro-
priation of the building to purposes not contemplated in
their charter; that they had also communicated to you
the announcement contained in my letter of the 26th
ult., that the Chief Commissioner of Works could not in
any way countenance the appropriettion of the building
to any purposes other than those specified in the royal
warrant of the 26th of September, 1850.
" The Chief Commissioner, however, regrets
.to find
that, notwithstanding the intimations thus conveyed to
you, the building has been used by you for the purpose
of public promenades and concerts; that you have taken
money for admissions thereto; that by means of adver-
tisements in the public papers, and otherwise, you have
induced a concourse of persons to assemble in the build-
ing, in the park, and in the neighbouring thoroughfares;
and that such assemblages have been injurious to the
park, detrimental to the property in its immediate neigh-
bourhood, and otherwise prejudicial to the peace and
quiet of the vicinity.
" Under these circumstances, his Lordship feels it in-
cumbent upon him, under the advice of the law officers
of the Crown, to take measures for preventing the far-
ther misappropriation of the building; but, before doing
so, he thinks it right to make you acquainted with his
intentions, in the hope that, upon the receipt of this
communication, you will see the propriety of forthwith
abstaining from your present course of proceeding. In
the event, however, of your persisting in the application
of the building to its present objectionable uses, or to
any purpose other than those specifically mentioned in
the Royal warrant, the assistance of a court of compe-
tent jurisdiction will be sought to restrain you and all
other persons from a perseverance in that course, and
from proceeding otherwise than bond fide for the pur-
pose of taking down and removing the building with the
materials and contents, in accordance with the terms
therein set forth.
" His Lordships begs that you will send him a de-
finite answer to this communication in the course of to-
morrow at the latest.
"I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant/
" T. W. PHILLIPS.
" Messrs Fox and Henderson."

Sir,—We
"8, New-street, Spring-gardens, April 13.
, ' Sir,—We have the honour to acknowledge the re-
tthhee doors
st of
re-
ceipt of your letter of this day's date, conveying to us
an intimation of the intention of the Chief Commissioner
of her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings in refer-
ence to the opening of the Crystal Palace to the public.
"In immediate deference to his Lordships desire, we
have sent to the morning newspapers an advertisement,
of whioh the annexed is a copy. With a View to pre-
vent disturbance, we propose to allow the entrance of
persons who, in ignorance of this notice, present them.
selves for admission to-morrovr,
finally on and after Thursday, the 15th instant.
the period for commencing
" The Exhibition building has been hitherto preserved
to the public by a vote of the House of Common.
which (as the Chief Commissioner is well aware) deferred---'
Ist
May next, and we respectfully submit to his L
its
rebmutovtal close the
Lordship
that we were bound to act in deference to that
and to give every opportunity for the expression
vote,
had been invited of general opinion. _, which
" e have had no
other object in view.
" We have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your most obedient humble servants,
" Fox, HENi)EitseN, and Co.
" To T. W. Phillips, whit
or of
Works, acc., hall.

" (Copy.)
" ' Closing of the Crystal Palace.—Notice is hereby
given that, in conseqn, once of ft
i_ - communication from th©
office of her IfferetY 3 Works wad Public 13aildingat the

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-
mittee 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-
nufactures. 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, and 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.
" It is proposed that the building be vested by Act of
Parliament in trustees, who shall have powers of leasing
it under certain conditions specified in the Act. It is
also 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.

"'Taking 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
illustration 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 out 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.
" It 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 here be fully presented under ali the advan-
taees 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 is
submitted with the view'of rousing them, before it is too
late, to a decided expression of opinion, which alone is
wanting to secure to them a palace worthy of the me-
tropolis of the first nation of the world, and a most
appropriate and lasting memorial of the Great Exhi-
bition. " 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 iu 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 clear] Y
eA
pressed opinion of the intelligent classes,: w
which so many brother Protectionists are satisfying
the demands of a false shame. After observing velndgecision
postpone
—" Some say it is necessary to
al to the
of this opinion till the approaching
part, I con-
Mr. Adderley proceeds,—" F.or my
amply
country has more clearly tested the noawtainpopneal feeling,"
eider that the national feeling is alreadyis tested.
the
uestion eing need-
better, and I deprecate such f tithe('
landed gentry f
I believe that the earlier this decisior!
hay.owed
a ter
lessly repeated on the part
g) is so fully
known."the national
The
feeling,h e
rea s
0.
Thnehs it.
exocedingly good. ... eri°g offersla
sandedto rg foreewnr rtarol
whethercyni
tcl,t hel eP. snseta:hyr:imy, lwaacisrhl :1,
in the nature
provoke just the same animosity,
they will not obtain a hearing for other
t neither -
little or much; they will
ge
ask anything at all
but, as long as they
will lose the
of Protection, mh aisn dv. si
e, and they
views on the subject "to
last chance of
and more attainable
!de:
redress. . It is important to add, that
the main with the opinions held by Lord
Mr. Adderley
Derby,.anci certainly prevalent among his party."
But o there no saving clause, no lingering
coincide in
.glance.
no hesitation of the step, as the •
painful renunciation is
delivered ? There is, slight th h
oug it be. Mr. Ad-
derley still seems to think it possible that at some
future day, under some new
ter, some change of
circumstances, not to say some
new condition of existence, the industrious people of
this country may s a tax on all
fpontaneously and imperiously de-
mandood, and may tumultuously pre-
vent
the arrival. of foreign supplies. Such a dream
certainly must have flitted through the writer's ima-
gination when h e says, ~ At all events, until the na-
tion changes its mind on the subject,and
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
deeply injure them." Till the nation changes it mind
on the subject ! 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
1 delusion. It is not the custom of labour to be as-.
cetic 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 425. 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 cottages run up for labour-
ing men with a comfort and elegance unknown to the
!er,
last generation ; with good drainage, and pure wring
abundant and almost free? Why are there flow.do ws
plants and worked muslin blinds in all the 'yr!:raffles
new furniture in every room, and the young a happy
within well clothed, blooming, playful,a ,
w
nu ered and
Wby is it that they who have

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noted wbst they,saw for pt,!rils.ps half a (..:entoyi,„
and who have witnessed many a sudden gush of
prosperity, are new as surpr:sed at what they s( aas
if the like had never been seen before ? It is because
everything is abundant and cheap, and yet wages keep
up and labour has its due. It is because breed is un-
taxed ; because all kinds of food, if not wholly free,
are at least little taxed ; it is because bricks are un-
taxed, and timber .owing to the reduction of the
duties, costs two-thirds, in some instances less than
half, its former price ; it is because coal is cheap,
metals are cheap, and all the material of industry
is free. Hence it is that our hard-working popu-
lation have every facility and every inducement to
labour, to settle, to be householders, to surround
themselves with comforts, and to maintain a decent
state. How far they will generally stand the trials
of prosperity, which certainly bas its trials, is a
question for them to consider very gravely;
bat it
is not a question for the nation to decide by Starving
the poor man for the safety of his soul.
Though the surrender, then, is as total as it is
reasonable to require; Mr. Adderley still retains' his
abieraet love of Protection, his tender recollectiens of
its beniga influence, and his fond anticipations of its
possible, though distant revival. He tells us he bus
not in the slightest degree abandoned his opinion that
the agricultural interest had a right to protective
(Julie's, as an equivalent for their extra shore in the
national burdens. Till the nation undergoes the above-
mentioned change of opinion as to the wisdom of a
duty on corn, he demands from a country proverbial
for its love of fair play, that a class which is now dis-
playing so much tardy and superfluous generosity
shall be relieved from those burdens which, as he says,
are now wholly uncompensated. On this point we only
wish that he had spoken with a particularity and ex-
actness which promised success, if not in obtaining
actual relief, at least in telling us what ought to be
lone. Strongly as we feel that many agriculturists
have suffered by the change, and are now more bur-
dened than they would have been but for the theory
of a protected agriculture, we wholly despair of hit-
ting the exact remedy which is to relieve the case of
the sufferers without either injury to one class or
wasteful generosity to another. In justice to Mr.
Adderley, it ought to be stated that he most empha-
tically deprecates any measures of relief which shall
have the power, if not the form, of Protection. Nay,
in so doing, he makes a curious admission, which
sufficienty disqualifies him from agitating Protection,
even in that far distant day when a repentant and
self-denying people shall clamour for it. " What-
ever other mode there may be," he says, " for an
adjustment of unequal taxation, it appears to me
that those at 'least must be abandoned which
have the tendency in any degree (and the
less that degree the less reason for adhering to them)
to raise the price of food." According to Mr. Adder-
ley, therefore, protective measures are only beneficial
so far as they raise the price of the protected article;
and the less nuisance they are to the people, the less
are they worth the odium of stickling for them. So
the working man's bane is the landlord's weal. Of
course this has often been alleged, but not hitherto
by county members. They have usually tried to
make out that it was possible to fill the pocket of the
landowner without the least interference with that of
the working man ; nay, with benefit to it, rather than
otherwise. Mr. Adderley, overflowing with candour,
and carried along by the tide of political transition,
has confessed the honest truth, as stated by Mr. Side
ney Herbert, that the corn laws were nothing but a
system of out-door relief for the benefit of the land.
owner.

AMERICAN

NEWS.

[A. summary of the following, appeared in our inkp
pre:sion of yesterday.]
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14.

By the Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara, Stone
commander, we have received advica from New
York to the 30th ult., and Boston to the 31st. She
brings 13,000 dollars in specie on freight.
The Niagara left the Boston wharf at 7 A.M. on the
31st, and anchored in Nantucket Roads shortly after
8 A.m. to await the arrival of the mails. At 12.30
P.M. she received the mails, and at 1 P.m. she set on
full speed. She arrived at Halifax at 8.10 A.M. on the
2d inst., and left again at 9.40 A.M., since which time
she has experienced variable and head winds, with a
heavy cross sea. She made Cape Clear at 7.30 A.M,
on the 12th, Holyhead at 3.30 P.M. yesterday, and
arrived in the Mersey at a quarter past nine o'clock
last evening, her run having occupied upwards of 13
days mean steaming time.
The Niagara passed the Canada, with the mails of
the 20th ult., from Liverpool, at 1.30 P.M. on the 31st,
going into Boston ; on the Bth, at 5.30 A.M,, She
pissed the Royal Mail steam-ship America, with the
mails of the 3d inst. for Boston ; and on the 10 h, at
6 A.M., she passed the United States' Mail steam-abip
Arctic, with the mails of the 7th inst. from Liverpool,
for New York.

The Royal Mail steam-ship EuroDa, Lott com-
mander, with the mails of the 13th ult., from Liver-
pool, arrived at New York on the 25th.
The Crescent City arrived at New York on the
30th ult., with a million and a half in gold dust, and
advices from San Francisco to the 2d ult. From the
very brief accounts received we learn that the town
of Downieville bad been totally destroyed by fire.
Our miscellaneous advices mention that a public
meeting had been held in Philadelphia to resist the
removal of the Mint from that city. Defalcations
to the extent of 73,000 dolls. had been discovered
in the Suffolk 13ank at Boston. The military at
Lochpost had been called out to quell a disturbance
among the Irish. A general fight had taken place,
in which firearms were used. The riot was occa-
sioned by one party striking for higher wages and
attempting to drive off those who remained at work.
The reported murder of seven emigrants in Dod-
dridge county proved to be a hoax. M. Kossuth
arrived at New Orleans en the 27th ult. There
were no preparations made for his reception and but
little excitement was manifested. Eight persons
had been killed and a number injured by a steam-
boat explosion on the Mississippi The navigation of
lakes Ontario, Erie, and the rivers Hudson and
Delaware was open. Nearly 500,000 dollar worth
of property had been destroyed by fire at Philadel-
phia. A large Ere had occurred at Boston, by
which the Fremont Temple was burnt down, wi
the whole of its valuable contents.
The following telegraphic communication has been
received from Boston :
" Halifax papers to the 26th inst., received here, men-
tion that Messrs. Howe and Fullerton (Liberals) had
been returned to Parliament from Cumoloveerrlannord
an orcounty
vree:
by about 250 majority. This was considered
Go:Terhnemfeunntertariluomf pthhe. late Lieutenant. Governor
was to, take place on the 27th inst., with great military
pomp•
Canadian letters mention the prevalence of a
rumour to the effect that the Earl of Elgin had sent
in his resignation. The Committee of the Quebec and
Montreal Railway were working energetically.

T THE D
The following is an from Lien-
tenant
tenant Girardot, 43d Light Infantry :
" Simon's-bay, March 1.
safe,
dear Father,—l wrote one letter to say I WAS
but for fear that should not reach you, I will send
this to say I am quite well. I remaiaed on the wreck
until she went down; the suction took me down soma
way, and a man got hold of my leg, but I manavd to
kick him off and come up, and struck off for some pieces
of wood that were on the water, and started for land,
which was about two miles off. I was in the water
about fire hours, as the shore was so rocky, and the
surf ran so high, that a great many were lost trying to
land. Nearly all those that took to the water without
their clothes on were taken by sharks; hundreds of
them were all round us, and I saw men taken by them
quite close to me, but as I was dressed (having on a
flannel shirt and trousers) they preferred the others. I
was not in the least hurt, and am happy to say
kept my head clear; most of the officers lost
their lives from losing their presence of mind,
and tr3ing to take money with them, and
from not throwing off their coats. There was no time
to get the paddle-box boats down,' and a great many
more might have been saved, but the boats that were got
down deserted us and went off. From the time she
struck to when she went down was twsnty minutes.
When I landed I found an officer of the 12th Lancers,
who had swam off with a life-preserver, and fourteen
men, who had got on with bits of wood like myself. We
walked up the country eleven miles to a farm belonging
to Captain Smales, formerly of the 7th Dragoon Guards*
who was very kind to us, and all the men that were goo
on shore came up to him. I hope the Government atil
make up our loss to as, as I have saved nothing.
ford, of the 6th, the ensign I spoke of as haviex.Dl'
wife on board with him, went down; she, poor
•
was left here when the ship sailed for Buffalo lifee.TL,
have just been to see her, and she looks more des
home'
we alive, left all alone at this distance from her ho_e__47l;
we shall do all we can to be of service to her.
.._ There
a report that many have been killed
.in .tn little
Mountains, and our poor doctor was. kialllelabesoPaered
time back. God grant that we rn-y
meet again.—Ever your affectionate son,
FRANK GIRARDOT."

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