Transcribed from the 1852 Seeleys edition ,
THE DIVIDED SABBATH.
REMARKS
CONCERNING
THE CRYSTAL PALACE
NOW ERECTINGAT SYDENHAM.
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“Do ye thusrequite the Lord!”
Deuteronomy XXXII. 6.
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BY THE REV. WILLIAM JOWETT,M.A.
INCUMBENT OFST. JOHN’S CHURCH, CLAPHAM RISE,
AND LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN’SCOLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
LONDON:
SEELEYS, FLEET STREET, AND HANOVERSTREET,
HANOVER SQUARE.
1852.
Price Sixpence.
p. 2W. M. WATTS,CROWN COURT, TEMPLE BAR.
p. 3THEDIVIDED SABBATH,
&c. &c.
The following Report, found in theTimes of August 2d, 1852, appears to be, on one side atleast, demi-official. It has given occasion to the Remarkscontained in this pamphlet.
“We are happy to be able to state, that sofar as the Government are concerned, no impediment will be thrownin the way, and that there is now no fear of the people’slosing their palace on the day on which they can best availthemselves of its many means of elevation and refinement. When the Directors of the Crystal Palace Company applied some fewweeks since to Lord Derby for a Charter, they communicated to hisLordship the terms upon which they proposed to open the buildingand grounds on Sundays. They were of opinion, that untilafter one o’clock no trains should run from London, and theCrystal Palace itself should be strictly closed. After thathour they p.4proposed to throw open the Park and the Winter-Garden,but not to exhibit those departments of the building, which willpartake exclusively of a manufacturing and commercial character,the intention being to devote a certain portion of the space tospecimens of manufactures, &c., which the public will beinvited, upon certain conditions, to display. In the thirdplace, the Directors undertook that on Sunday no spirituousliquors should be sold in their grounds. On Monday lastLord Derby requested an interview with the Directors, who, withSir J. Paxton, waited upon the Premier and the Home Secretary inDowning Street. At this meeting his Lordship acquiesced inthe stipulations proffered by the Crystal Palace Company,suggested a few trifling variations, and promised to grant therequired Charter.”
An article in the Times, four days later, Aug. 6th,gives a full account of the ceremony of erecting the first columnof the New Crystal Palace.
With every desire that the best interests of my Countrymenshould