The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-18

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81 form and a kpwsrd of 1908 estvss
silk.
The elsctoral decree has been officially pro.
mnigsted. IL liberal provisions appear to have
given general satisfaction.
The g0vsra16ent has reduced the excise duties
one half-ffonsf ten per cent. to five per cent -
and taken off the duty upon horses used for Ia
Dor.
There WAS some insubordinatlon in the army.
The British claims were likely to be soon and
honorably settled.
/ TURKEY AND EGYPT.
The Paris Constitutional says" The diff
fculties which have arisen between the govern
ment Of ConstantinopIs and that Of Cairo, are
not yet arranged. The most grave questions-
those which had given rise to the caiumnies in
| Turkey against Abbas Pacha and his ministers
have, it 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
Vceroy, in virtue of the treaties of l84O and
184l, whilst he protests TINT he IL DESTROYS Of
adopting for his country the most useful re-
forms, refuses to consent to the establishment
without any previous transition, of u Constitu-
ton which, although proclaimed twelve years
ago, has not yet been put into vigor."
| The following petition respecting the Crystal
Palace, has been adopted ut public meeting in
/ London
TO the honorable the commons Of the United
4 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parlia-
ment assembled the petition 1T the committee
for promoting the great exhibition in the bo-
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 commissions
ers to effect 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 contrac-
tors, and thus,the talent ingenuity and iudefatig.
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 other objects for which
it might be required and be found applicable.
\ Your petitioners humbly suggest that II the
building be retained. it may he converted into a
i winter garden, and in various ways be instru-
mental to the encouragement of arts and indus
try, and to promoting the health, recreation and
intellectual enjoyment of the inhabitants of tho
metropolis and its visitors and further, that the
purpose to which it is adapted might be rem
dered se|fsupporting, and brought within The
reach Of all Glasses Of her Msjestys subjects.
I Your petitioners therefore pray your honorable
house to take the necessary measures to prevent
the removal of the Exhibition building, and Sc
cure tho above mentioned object
i Mr.. PAXTON, ARCHITECT OF THE CRYSTAL
PALAcE.-Some thirty years ago a young man
gardener, who worked for lbs. a week. at a
garden near the Duke of Devonshire'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
ne was journeynan gardener out of work, and,
walking into the garden. the young man with
him, WAS pleased with his1ntelligence and man.
ners; not the manners OF a sycophant sneaking
up to the side of a nobleman with sycophantish
4 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 soon
made way. and reached, as u practical and scieu-
tilted gardener, the very head of his profession.
which position he jad long maintained before
| be was known to The world as Mr.. Paxton, the
designer of the Crystal Palace. Such was,
according to the conversation now prevalent at
Chiswick and about the horticultural gardens,
the origin of Mr.. Paxton's connections with the
Duke of Devonshire.
| COLLISION AT SEA.-In the admiralty court
on Wednesday, the owners of the Dolores, a
brigantine of 100 tons, on her voyage from Lon
don to Cadiz, proceeded against the John Spear,
an American ship Of 62s tons, bound from
| Trieste to Liverpool, for damage arising out 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 his diocece on
account of his not entertaining opinions to the
bishops mind on the point of baptismal regen-
/ Grafton.
/ thousand hogshcads Of ME, and fifteen hun
dred of porter, are about to be sent to Bengal
for the use Of the European troops, in order to
supersede spirits.
BY Telegraph to Liverpool.
| LATEST INTELLIGENCE. a
| LIVERPOOL, July 5. 1851.
| ENGLANp,--The Times says that the failure of
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