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1st, It would be a positive breach of contract, the building having 

 been erected on its present site on the express condition that it should 

 be removed by a certain day, and the park restored to the public use. 



2nd. It would be a breach of faith vvith the subscribers who •gave 

 a£70,000 for a specific object, totally different from the proposed ap- 

 plication. 



3rd. That the inhabitants of the parks have already access to the 

 great conservatory of the Royal Botanic Society, to Kensington Gar- 

 dens, &c., and strenuously oppose the proposed plan for ipaking the 

 Crystal Palace permanent ; whereas every respectable inhabitant in 

 the vicinity of Smithfield would desire a garden on that site. 



4th. That to nine-tenths of the metropolis it would be useless from 

 its distance. 



Mr. Paxtoii's PetHion. 



" To the Right Hon. the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parlia- 

 ment assembled — 



" The humble petition of Joseph Paxton, of Chatsworth, 



" Showeth,— That the building for the Exhibition of the Works of 

 Industry of all Nations, erected after the design of your petitionei*, 

 would, after the Exhibition is closed, supply a great public want 

 which London, with its two and a half millions of inhabitants, stands 

 most essentially in need of — namely, a winter park and garden under 

 glass. 



" That when your petitioner sent in a design for the Glass Palace, 

 be had in view quite as much the after purpose for which the building 

 could be adapted as the object then more immediately required. 



" That your petitioner respectfully calls the attention of your right 

 hon. House to the fact that within the last twenty years the physio- 

 logy, economy, and requirements of animated Nature, with the effects 

 which climate, locality, and various contingencies have upon its 

 health and habits, have been studied and examined with the best 

 results. 



" That by the aid of chemistry and botany many useful discoveries 

 have been made which practical horticulture has rendered subservient 

 to the comforts and happiness of man, and that the removal of the 

 duty on glass has given great impetus to this science ; indeed, had 

 that duty still existed, no such building could possibly have been 

 erected. 



" That the achievements of horticulture lead onwards to the forma- 



