The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-19

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oal form and contains upward Of 1000 metres
Of silk.
PORTUGAL.
The electoral decree has been officially pro-
mulgated. Its liberal provisions appear TO have
given general satisfaction.
The government has reduced the excise duties
one half-from ten per cent. to five per cent -
and taken off the duty upon horses used for la
bor
There was some insubordination in the army,
The British claims were likely to be soon and
honorably settled.
TURKEY AND EGYPT.
Tie Paris Constitutional says" The diff
ficulties which have arisen between the govern
ment of Constantinople and that of Cairo, are
not yet arranged. The most grave questions
those which had given rise to the calumnies in
Turkey against Abbas Pacha and his ministers
have, II is true, completely disappeared in the
presence Of simple inquiry into facts, but the
demands of the porte as regards the internal
administration Of Egypt still subsits, and the
Viceroy, in virtue of the treaties of 1910 and
l84l, whilst hevpr0tests that he is DESTROYS of
adopting for his country the most useful re-
forms, refuses to consent to the establishment,
without any previous transition, of Constitu-
ton which, although proclaimed twelve years
ago, has not yet been pnt into vigor"
The following petition respecting the Crystal
Palace, has been adopted at public meeting in
London:
ITO The honorable the commons Of the United
Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland In Parla-
ment assembled: the petition of the committee
| for promoting the great exhibition in the boz
rough of Marylebone, sheweth--That by the
conditions under which the present site for the
erection Of the exhibition building was granted,
it will be incumbent upon the royal commission
lers 70 eject its removal in December next. That
it appears that the amount Of subscription and
admission money to the exhibition will be suffi-
cent to defray all expenses, and leave surplus
in the hands of the commissioners to enable
them to purchase the building from the conttac-
tors, and thusthe talent ingenuity and iudefatigr
able energy displayed in its erection, would
not be lost to the country, and the building it.
SELF which has excited universal admiration and
approval would be preserved as national edi-
fee. either for similar or other objects for which
it might be required and be found applicable.
Your petitioners humbly suggest that If the
building be retained, it may he converted into a
winter garden, and in various ways be instru-
mental to the encouragement of arts and indus
intellectual enjoyment Of the inhabitants of the
metropolis and its visitors and further, that the
purpose to which it is adapted might be rem
dered selfsupporting, and brought within the
reach of all classes Of her Majesty's subjects.
Your petitioners therefore pray your honorable
house to take the necessary measures to prevent
the removal of the Exhibition building, and Sc
cure the above mentioned object
Mr.. PAXTON, ARCHITECT OF THE CRYSTAL
PALAeE.-Some thirty years ago q young man
gardener, who worked for l2s. a week. at a
garden near the Duke of Deyonshire's villa, at
Chiswick, FIVE miles west of Hyde park, said or
| did something which offended the master garde-
ner, and was turned off. He was standing
unemployed one day near the dukes garden
gate. His grace, in passing, spoke to him, en-
tered into familiar conversation ascertained that
he was journeyman gardener out of work, and,
walking into the garden, the young man with
him, was pleased with his intelligence and man.
ners; not the manners of a sycophant sneaking
up to the side of a nobleman with sycophantish
words. but the manners of an intelligent man
who knew his profession, and could speak about
| it, unembarrassed, to another, no matter whom.
! The duke asked him to call at Devonshire
house the next day, and the young man did, and
the call resulted in his being sent down to
Chatsworth, in Derbyshire. There he coon
made way, and reached, as practical and scien-
titled gardener, the very head of his profession.
which position he had long maintained before
he was known to the world az Mr. Paxton, the
designer Of the Crystal Palace. Such was
according. 10 the conversation now prevalent at
Chiswick and about tho horticultural gardens
the origin of Mr.. Paxton's connections with the
Duke Of Devonshire.
COLLISION AT SEA.---In The admiralty court,
on Wednesday, the ovners Of the Dolores,
brigantine of 40 tons, on her voyage from Lon
don to Cadz, proceeded against the John Spear,
an American ship Of 62s tons, bound from
Trieste to Liverpool, for damage arising ont of
collision which did considerable damage. The
Trinity masters, being of opinion That the John
Spear was TO blame entirely, the court pro-
nounced for the damage.
The Bishop Of Exeter has refused to admit
another clergyman to preach In bis diocece on
account Of his not entertaining opinions TO the
bishops mind on the point Of baptismal regen-
Grafton.
A thousand hogsheads Of ale, and fifteen hun.
dred Of porter, are about TO be sent 10 Bengal,
for the use Of the European troops, in order to
snpcrsede spirits.
By Telegraph 10 Liverpool.
LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
LrvKRPooL, July 5. 1851.
EEGLAND The Times SAYS that the failure Of