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The vote was then agreed to.
The next vote, of 134,5601. to defray the expenses of the
Commission of National Education in Ireland, was agreed to
after a short conversation.
A vote of 15,0551. for schools of design,&c., was agreed to.
The following votes were also agreed to :-
2,006/ for professors in Oxford and Cambridge.
3,9201. for the University of London.
7,610/. for universities in Scotland.
3001. for the Royal Irish Academy.
3001. for the Royal Hibernian Academy.
6,2601. for the Royal Dublin Society.
3,0001. for the theological professors of the Belfast Acade-
mical Institution.
1,6201. for the Queen's University in Ireland.
1,7001. for the Na tonal Gallery.
15,6231. for the Museum of Practical Geology, and the
geological survey of Great Britain and Ireland.
2,4211. for the magnetic observations abroad.
10,0001. for the erection of a national gallery in Edin-
burgh.
The House then resumed.
The Merchant Seamen's Fund Bill passed through Com-
mittee.
The Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill passed through Com-
mittee.
The Turnpike Road (Ireland) Bill passed through Com-
mittee.
The Private Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) Bill, the Turnpikes
Acts Continuance Bill, and the Marriages (India) Bill passed
through Committee.
THE GREAT EXHIBITION. _

Mr. STAFFORD then moved that an address should be
presented to her Majesty for a copy of the warrant under her
Majesty's sign manual, authorising the Commissioners for
the Exhibition of 1851 to enter upon a piece of ground in
Hyde-park, and to erect buildings thereupon for the purposes
of the Exhibition. And for a deed of covenant from the
Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 to the Queen's
most Excellent Majesty, to observe and perform certain terms
and conditions mentioned in the said warrant, and to reinstate
and yield up the site granted for the purposes of the Exhi-
bition.

The motion was agreed to.
Lord SEYMOUR then obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
amend two several Acts of her Majesty's reign, enabling the
Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests to pur-
chase land to form Victoria Park; and to indemnify the
trustees of copyhold land held in trust for her Majesty;
and also a Bill to amend the Act for regulating the con-
struction and use of buildings in the metropolis and its neigh-
bourhood.
Both Bills were then brought in and read a first time.
The House then adjourned at One o'clock.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 11.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
BURGESSES AND FREEMEN'S ENFRANCHISE-

MENT BILL.
Lord BEAUMONT postponed the committal of this
Bill until Monday.
PRIVATE BILLS.
On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, several private
Bills were forwarded a stage.
The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition in
favour of the preservation of the Crystal Palace, and
praying that it might be made a shut-up winter garden;
also, petitions from various places against the Papal ag-
gression.

CRYSTAL PALACE.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from a most
excellent and worthy and clever man, Mr. Joseph Pax-
ton, of Chatsworth, against the taking down of the
Crystal Palace.—(Hear.) He had, when Mr. Paxton
asked him to present the petition said he was the last
person who should be asked to present the petition, be-
cause ho had always been against placing the Exhibition
in Hyde-park--not against the Exhibition itself, because
he had always expressed his approval of the Exhibition
itself as a work of not only British but European
utility—but he had opposed the Exhibition taking place
in Hyde-park, because the erection of that building
and the taking it down would be a nuisance.
And he
had also been of opinion that the erection of it would
encroach upon the Park, and would be illegal; and he
still felt that his Hon. and Learned Friend, the now
Master of the Rolls, ought not to have interfered to pre-
vent the question, as to the legality or illegality of that
erection, from being discussed in a court of law;
and if the same thing were to go over again, he
should probably argue as he had done, and be of pre-
cisely
the same opinion that he bad been; he therefore
would not go into the question but let Mr. Paxton state
his own case in his own words. There was a great
difference between being opposed to the placing the
Palace in
Hyde-park and the consenting to its removal.
(The Noble Lord then proceeded to read portions of the
petition of Mr. Paxton, in which ho stated that had
the duty on glass continued no such building as
Palace could have been constructed.
the Crystal
The existence, therefore, of the Crystal Palace was due
Sir Robert Peel.) Mr. Paxton said
amt
heiansgu
couldmeasures of
be more useful to this metropolis than
to retain that vast space as a winter garden for the re-
creation of the people during the six months of winter.
Such a building so maintained. would not only tend to the
amusement but to the useful instruction of theilmople by the
transfer to that building from the over-crowded rooms
of the British Museum of the Natural History collection.
The opinion of Mr. Paxton was entitled to be respect-
fully heard and to a certain degree deferred to, and he
had no doubt but that for a less amount than the funds
at the disposal of the Commissioners it might be trans-
ferred into a winter garden and museum, and that from
the annual income derived from admission, the whole of
the expenses of its maintenance might
be pro-
vided for, and he prayed their Lordships :to pre-
vent the Crystal Palace from being removed or destroyed,
He hoped that before the great building should be re-
moved the fullest investigation would take place into the
allegations of the petition, and that due consideration
should should be given to the reasonss on the one side and op
the other. He ventured to say that the people of this
country were decidedly of opinion against its removal.
For after this Exhibition had succeeded in a manner whi
exceeded the expectations of its most sangaine supporte
ich rs,
if they were to destroy the building they would bb..gv-
ing to the world, after an Exhibition of the Industry of
all Nations, an unparalleled exhibition of the folly and
vacillation of this nation; and therefore he believed that
the people of this country were opposed to the destruction
of the Crystal Palace.—(Hear.) The great benefit of
the Exhibition had not, however, been without
alloy.—(Hear.) That success had inflicted great suffer-
ing on the shopkeepers, but that suffering would not be
occasioned by the change of it into a winter garden.
He was convinced that without Mr. Paxton that Exhi-
bition would never have taken place. If the building had
not been erected according to his plan of glass and iron,
that Exhibition would not have taken place. Mr. Pax-
ton had consulted him on the subject, and he had ad-
vised him to submit his plan, and it was infinitely to the
credit of the committee, whose conduct throughout had
been admirable, and nothing was more entitled to ap-
proval than their immediate adoption of the plan of Mr.
Paxton. What he wished them now to do was to pause be-
' fore consenting to its destruction. He had the honour of
being chairman of a well-known society—that of Useful
Knowledge; and he knew that they were about to petition
in favour of maintaining the Crystal Palace, as they be-
' lieved it would be a great support of their ally, the school-
master, and a great support against their rival, yr rather ad-