At the adjourned meeting of the Crystal Palace Company, yesterday,
the report of the Committee, suggesting several plans to improve the position of the enterprise, was, with some modification, unanimously adopted. The Solicitor of the Company read the heads of a bill, for in- creasing the capital of the Company to 1,135,0001., and for authorizing the purchase of a lease of Dulwich Wood, the issue of life-tickets, &c. The proceedings did not go with perfect smoothness. Sir Joseph Pax- ton indignantly rebutted imputations made against him at the previous meeting by Alderman Wilson,—that he had led the Company into un- profitable land-purchases ; that he desired to purchase land for himself ; and that he was drawing 10001. a week from the Company. Sir Joseph admitted his desire to become the owner of Rockhill—he had openly of- fered to purchase it at a price fixed by arbitration. Alderman Wilson intimated that he still desired explanation on the subject of 10001. per week. Mr. Scott Russell explained, that Sir Joseph might have drawn 1000/. in one week for the wages of the servants, yet as the whole amount so paid to him was only 17,000/., the Alderman's statement was impossible. The discussion gradually concentrated upon the business of the day ; and the meeting dosed with a vote of thanks to its Chairman, and of confidence in Sir Joseph Paxton.
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