The _universality of the language_ is of such importance, that it would be quite mischievous hastily to publish to the world any other than a well-considered system of signs. The Exposition of 1851 furnishes an opportunity for such a revision. § Considerable discussion has arisen respecting the ultimate fate of the Crystal Palace. Three questions have been agitated:— 1. Shall it be pulled down? 2. Shall it be removed to another locality? 3. To what uses can the building be applied if it is retained? Public opinion has undergone a great revolution since the opening of the Exhibition; but however strongly it may now be expressed, it ought not to interfere with public faith. If, after all the protestations and pledges of the Commission, that the building was to be of temporary duration, it should be permitted to remain permanently in its present locality, little faith will be given in future to the promises of public bodies. The pledge contained in the document by which the Commission was appointed, viz. that 20,000_l._ should be given in prizes, has neither been redeemed nor forgotten; and the treatment of the income-tax by the successive political parties has added little to the respect with which official promises are regarded. If the country had originally maintained its undoubted right to use its own parks for its own purposes, the building might then have remained; but the inhabitants of Belgravia, having raised a violent opposition to the selection of that locality, were only pacified on receiving the strongest assurances that the building should be removed after it had fulfilled its original purpose. In justice therefore to them, it must be taken down. The second question, Shall the Crystal Palace be removed? is by no means decided by the answer given to the first. It would be perfectly consistent with good faith to remove it to any other part of the park not contiguous to Belgrave Square. The third question, therefore, To what uses can the building be applied? must now be examined, in order to arrive at a definitive decision upon the second. A wish seems to be very generally entertained for the preservation of the building; and various uses have been suggested to which it might be advantageously applied. Mr. Paxton wishes to convert it into a winter garden. M. Gambardella, in his highly interesting pamphlet, “What shall we do with the Glass Palace?”[14] has proposed to have within its walls alternately exhibitions of painting and of sculpture. Permanent galleries of the fine arts have also been proposed. Collections of the industrial arts, and models, have also been suggested. A portion of it might also be appropriated to the building of several theatres for lectures, of various sizes, capable of containing from 100 to 2,000 persons.