The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-16 00:00:00

THE CRYSTAL PALACE SEASON FOR 1860

The directors of the Crystal Palace at. Sydenham have
just issued their prospectus of the forthcoming season;
and as so many of our townsmen now visit the' Metro-
polis (thanks to the excursion trains of Marcus and.
Erving,) a brief summary of its contents will, doubtless,'
interest our readers. The first great event of the season
will take place on the 2nd of May, with a grand per-
formance of " Elijah," directed by Mi. Costa, and in
which 3,000 vocalists and instrumentalists, organised by
the Sacred Harmonic Society, will take part. This per-
formance is to celebrate the inauguration of Mr. Charles
Bacon's colossal statue of Mendelssohn, the result of a
subscription of the admirers of the great composer,
headed by the Queen and the Prince Consort. This
day's festival will conclude with a grand torchlight pro-
cession at dusk, on the plan of a German Fackel-Tanz.
The concerts of the Royal Italian Opera Company
will, this year, be superseded by first-class concerts,

in which the principal native and foreign artistes
in London will be engaged, the ordinary baud of
the Palace, conducted by Mr. Manus, being consi-
derably strengthened on those occasions. On the
16th of May, the Tonic Sol-fa Association will
give their annual concert ; and on the 19th, Mr.
Vincent Wallace will conduct a grand morning
concert, the programme of which will consist en-
tirely of his own instrumental and vocal compositions.
The great event of the year, however, is a series of three
concerts, to take place on the 25th, 26th, and 28th of
June, when 3,000 French male vocalists, selected from
170 of the societies connected with the Orphe'onistes,
will sing a collection of choral music, tinder the direc-
tion of their leader, M. Eugene Delaporfe. This
"French invasion" is looked .forward to with great
interest in the musical and fashionable world, and is
likely to rival the greet Handel Festivals in popularity
and attractiveness.

The Metropolitan Schools Choral Society and the
Metropolitan Charity Children will also give musical
performances during the month of June ; and in July
a grand brass band contest (an importation from Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire) will take place.
The directors also announce the opening of new
dining rooms, grand performances of all the fountains
and water-works, flower shows, fancy fairs, and rabbit
and poultry shows ; and last, but not least, the estab-
lishment of a school of art, science, and literature, for
which some of the best known and most talented pro-
fessors and lecturers in the metropolis have been
engaged.

This brief resume of the prospectus will show our
readers that at whatever period of the summer they may
chose to visit the metropolis, there will always be plenty
to see and hear at that wonder of the world—the
Crystal ;Palace.

One of those cases which are now often witnessed in
our naval ports has occurred at Portsmouth, when one
of the Algiers' crew, a " bounty " man, was discharged
from the ship for "incompetency" amid the derision of
the crsw. The Algiers is a well-manned ship.
EXEMPTION OF itIPLEMEN FROM SERVING ON GRAND
JURIES.—On the Bristol grand jury being sworn, the
other day, Captain Taylor asked the recorder to be
excused from serving at the sessions, inasmuchas captain
of one of the companies of Bristol Volunteers, he was
engaged with members of his company in ball firing at
Sneyd-park. The recorder assented to his exemption.
RIFLE CORPS FETE.—There is some talk of getting
up a rifle corps Pte in Dorchester during the week of
the Bath and West of England Society's Exhibition,
it is proposed a number of prizes should be offered for
the competition of the members of the voluateei rifle
corps, in that and the neighbouring...counties. cWliy
not have a rifle corps Pte in Liverpool ?—En..D.I,)
A MAN ARRESTED FOR MARRYING ELEVEN WIVES.

—A man named Travis, alias Ferguson, alias Hoyt, alias
Wadham, is now in the Boon county jail, charged with
various delinquencies, the principal of which is poly-
gamy, for which there are at least ten counts against
him. Passing himself off as a rich Californian, he
married a young lady in South-western Wisconsin, and
a second in Jo Daviess county, Illinois. In another
town, in the same county, he won and wooed a widow,
but was detected in numerous swindling games, and
arrested. Since he has been taken into custody, it has
been ascertained that he was formerly an inmate of the
Illinois State Prison, where he had been confined for
larceny, and that, including those above-mentioned, he
has, within the last few months, married, and then
robbed of their money and jewels, no less than eleven
credulous young ladies and foolish widows.—PaNanza
Stae.

Qllll Sy DON'T DO IT.—ln "Advice to Young Women"
occurs the following :—" There is a practice quite
prevalent among young ladies of the present day, which
we are old-fashioned enough to consider very improper.
We allude to giving photographs of themselves to young
men who are merely acquaintances. We consider it indeli-
cate in the highest degree. We are astonished that any
young girl should sell herself so cheap as this, With an
accepted lover it is, of course, all right. Even in this case
the likeness should be returned if the engagement should,
by any misunderstanding, cease. If this little paragraph
should meet the eye of any girl about to give her pho-
tograph to any gentleman acquaintance, let her know
that the remarks made by young men when together,
concerning what is perhaps on her part but a piece of
ignorance or imprudence, would, if she heard them, cause
her cheeks to crimson with shame and anger. ' Were
it a sister of ours,' we have often said, with a
flashing eye—were it a sister of ours! but. that not
being the case, we give this advice to anybody's sister
then who needs it, most anxiously desiring that she
should at all times preserve her dignity and self-
respect."
GIANTS IN TROUBLE.—I think if the liberty and the
power were given me to punish my bitterest enemy, I
should cause him to become a giant. I can conceive no
position likely to be more fruitful of misery and annoy-
ance to him, or more fruitful of revengeful gratification
to me. He would be one of a limited, but unfortunate
tribe, whose existence must constantly remind them
that they are not made to measure. At every turn in
the valley of life he would find himself a huge misfit.
His head would bump against the upper cornice as be
came in at any ordinary door ; his legs would be difficult
to dispose of, under the widest dining table; his boots
would cost him double the price of any other man's
boots; his sixteen-shilling trouser-maker would strike
every time his broad countenenee looked in at the shop
window; his appetite would be expensive; his omnibus
conductor would never see him ; and his cabmen would
fly from him as they do from a well-known sixpenny
passenger. If he indulged in reading, and were curious
about the history of his fellows, he would open one of
the most melancholy pages in the whole range of per-
sonal records. The general fate of kings seems sad
enough, but the fate of giants is surely sadder. Some
have been struck down by inspired mannikins ; same
have sunk under the degrading monotony of being no-
thing but a coastant spectacle ;* while others have lived
only as carriers of advertising placards. The unfortu-
nate destiny of giants animate, is shared by giants in-
animate. The. wicker representatives of Gog and Magog
have, ere now, been half devoured by rati ; the Colossus
of Rome was hurled down by an early earthquake ; the
Pyramids still exist, but only as unproductive cemeteries;
the largest picture in London—the " Raising of Laza-
rus"—has been pining unpurehased, for years, amongst
toys and parrots ; and the most recent ambitious effort
of joint-stock companies—the big ship—is little more,
at present, than a disastrous experiment.
DEATEL OF Two Boys FROM POISON.—TWO lads,
named Joseph and George Rushton, the former fifteen
and the latter twelve years of age, residing in the ham-
let of Castle Bromwich, went down to the railway
station at that place with a small hand-wagon to fetch a
quantity of coal. On their return their attention was
attracted to something having the appearance of
meal or floor, which lay scattered on tile easell of
what is called the mill bridge. The poor lads, who
had previously been observed larkiug and laugh-
ing by the station-master, near to the spot, were,
it was supposed, induced to eat some of the stuff,
and a short time 4fter they began' to vomit, and
continued to do so at intervals, until they reached their
home, which they did with much difficulty, leaving their
waggon behind them. The boys had been employed
throught the day in:assisting in potato setting, and it was
thought by theirparents that they might have eaten of some
pernicious root in the field ; bq they each denied having
eaten anything, and attributed their illness to some ale
they had drauk in the feeld. Brandy was given to them with.
other simple remedies,but both lads died in great agony.
It was only by tracing the ground they had come over the
name morning that the poisonous iugredient was disco-
vered, as the poor boys, who attriezeted their ailing to
the beer they had had, never once named the thing to
their parents. A portion of the stuff, with the contents
thrown off the etc:each of the deceased, is in the hands .
of Mr. Baiiley ; and, as a coroner's inquiry will, n,ecese
saeily take place, the mystery of who placed such, a
deadly poison in such a publip, and, consep,ently such a
dangerous, situation, yell, foem the subject ef a search-
ing investigation.
A PER;;ECI.7ED MAN. -- Thomas Newell, 14, wile
chtugged at the Mansion-house Police-court with annoy-
ing Julitte Polack, grocer, of 22, Somerset-street, Ald-
gate,' in the conduct of his business.—The prosecutor
(who speaks "de Inglis like de natiC') said : This here
boy much trouble to me; and 30-40 boys much trouble, '
very much trouble to me, and annoy me much.—Sir R.
Carden : Will, what has he done ?—Prosecutor : They
all done something, They do tings too many for.
me to mention, Here one ting (producing from a
papev hag an old battered tea-kettle.). That boy
de oder dß\N—what you call yesterday--trow dis' into
my shop till it fall on me couaeer and den on me toe.
Sir R. Carden : That was very bad, very ; het are you
sure this is the boy ;—Prcsecutor : Quite sure. But dat
only one ting. Dey try new experiment every day ; one
day they get, pee-blowers and blow peas, one, two, dree,
in my Wife's eye—(laughter)---and another day my fust
floor lodger call cut "Look out, Mr. Polack, dem boys
!inning off wid .your shutters," and when I look out of
my door—dere I see two boys running off wid my shut-
ters on their shoulders, and when dey see me, dey
drop the shutters, and I bring dem back.--Sir R. Car-
den : Really it's very hard. Proiecutor : Oh
bat dat not all. ,Dey fasten cord to my shop door
step, and when customers go out pull tight, and
citstorters Xll down—(laughter)—and one oder night
dey tie black' string to my knocker, and go PA oder
side de way, when dey pull and pull, erallenock and
knock, and ebbery time me go nee see nobody—(roars
of laughter)—till the boys bolt out, from der hiding,
and den dey put their Engert to nose and reel?. olct
laughing. (Renewed ltlughter.)—Sir fit. Cat:det4 ; The
police must protati you. Thy PP,'s,;t pit ii stop
to.---:43oliceraat My lore*, we (.10. 199. g alter these boys,
bl3_l: were are tlei,ete' Or I•4l.tyOf Pena, and, as we never
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shllops.,
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should be well whippe4,
offending in future
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COURT NEWS..

WINDSOR CASTLE—SATURDAY, 'Arun;

Her Royal Highness the Duchess. of /tent, accom-
panied by the Princess-Leiningen, came from her resi-
dence, Frogmore House;tO the cattle this morning, to
pay a ;visit of congratulation to the Queen, to-day being
•
the!anniversary of -the.birth of the Princess Beatrice.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince
COnsort walked within the grounds of the castle this
morning.
M. de la Rive had this afternoon an audience of the
Queen, at which Lord John Russell assisted.
On Saturday next, the 28th instant, the Queen will
hold a levee in St. James's Palace.
On Saturday, the 21st instant, her Majesty will hold
a presentation Drawing-room in St. James's Palace.
On Tuesday, Ist May, the Queen-will give a juvenile
ball at St. James's Palace.

On Friday, 4th May, Her Majesty will have a-concert
at Buckingham Palace.
On Wednesday, 9th May, the first state ball this
season will be given by the Queen at Buckingham

On Friday, 18th May, a Dralving..room, in celebra-
tion of Her kajesty's blilh-day, will be:held by the.
Queen in- St. James's Palace. - =

Lord Palmerston is expected to arrive in Lotidon to-
day from Brocket Hall. The Dike of .Neweattler Mr.
Milner Gibson', and other 31inisters are also expected to
return to town on the same day. Lord Granville and
Sir G. C. Lewis are staying in town.

The Royal mail steamer Circassian arrived at Galway
on Friday evening, with 93 pas.9engers, latie cargo, and
mails. Her dates are New York 2nd April.
The Council-General of the Heraidt, of which M.
Michel Chevalier is a member, offers a prize of 10,000 f.
for the invention of a simple and practical method' for
ascertaining whither and in what proportion alcohols
distilled from wine are mixed with alcohols from other
substances. _

TAT MILITARY SALUTE AMONGST VOLUNTEERS.—
Several letters on this subject appeared iu the Army and
, Maw Gazette. Their general tendency is against intro-
ducing the practice of saluting in volunteer regiments.
A "Rifle Volunteer" writes---" But if steel scabbards
are to command a salute, I do hope his Royal Highness
the Commander-in-Chief, or the Sscretary for War, or
whoever our patron saint may be, will cancel the privi-
lege of the sword to any but commissioned officers. In
the days when a volunteer with a regiment of the line
on actual service wore a sword, gold lace in lien of a
tape, and had a seat at mess, itivas a different matter;
he was a cadet seeking a commission at the first forlorn
hope." Another correspondent says :—" A letter
appeared in your journal of April 7th, claiming a salute
from soldiers. These quasi-officers surely do not expect
a salute from their owu men. If not, why from the j
regulars ? They are not military officers, nor entitled to
military privileges."