The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-09 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE.

Beautiful acenery, pietureequely-arranged and
well-cultivated ground', and the products of art and "amine
in almost every depots:lett and in every variety, which
are the normal teeters of the Crystal Passe, are always
sufficiently attractive in line weather to throng its specious
naves, transepts, and galleries, and out of doors its bread
terraces and grassy elopes, with visitors. When we have a
warm spring-like day in almost mid-winter, following weeks
of rain, in which the only changes have been from the
delude to the shower, and the shower to the drizzle again,
and, soperadded to the ordinary sources of amusement, we
have a moat interesting and instructive ornithological exhi-
bition, a first-rata concert, and the price of admission en-
hanced beyond the shilling (which seems to be the orthodox
limit when it is desired to "draw" the lower hundred
thousands rather than the "upper ten thousand"), we are
pretty sure to have a company select ss well as numerous.

Bach were tits favourable conditions under which the Greed
Exhibition of Canaries and British and Foreign Oage
Birds opened on Saturday, and such the favourable
results. Throughout the afternoon an elegant and faahion.
able assemblage promenaded the building and gardens. The
concert, which embraced the talents of Miss Arabella God-
dard, Miss Annytage, and Mr.Viotti Cooper, was so crowded
that many who failed and more who succeeded in gaining
adularia to the room must have felt convinced, by the
powerful argument of personal inconvenience, that ea en.
largement of the area by at least one-half would be ea im-
provement much to be desired. The specialty of the day
(and of the ensuing three days), the bird show, appeared to
afford great satisfaction to the learned in such matters, and
wee pronounced by those whose raptnesce entitled them to
speak authoritatively u of the first order. It certainly com-
prised a great many very curious and extraordinary, as well
as many beautiful specimens of the feathered tribe. All our
British song birds were represented—linnets, robins,
thrushes, lark,— finches of all kinds, and canaries—English,
Belgian, German, and other origin—some of them of
form and figure and colour, but not in voice, as
us-canary like as can well be conceived. There were
numerous specimens of nightingales, swallows, red-
poles, and other migratory birds. Of talking parrots,
cockatoos, paroquet., love birds, Java sparrows, sad other
foreign varieties, in which brilliancy of plumage or the power
of imitating sounds, are the poiuta of excellence, there wee
likewise a large and pleasing variety. The prises, which
range from If. down to 104., we gave a list of on Saturday,
and it speaks something for the peide of the exhibitors
in their ornithological property when, in competition for
sae► inconsiderable sums, they exhibit birds which they

mark as of the selling value of from 11. to 501. A bull-
finch, one of the largest end finest perhspe that was ever
men. Stands at the latter aristocratic figure. Many canaries
are iniirred as Watt as 201. ; linnets stand at 41. 4a. ;
thrushes at 10/. ; parapets, at 601. ; parrots as high as 100
guises., and were mere sine the standard of money worth,
there is • noble specimen of the great eagle owl, from
Turkey, priced at 361. 155., which would certainly be the
cheapest of the whole lot.

Tx■ VACANT THEONI or Gasses.—K John
Lemotooe 000 tributes an article upon the Greek question to
the Dilate of Saturday. After alluding at some length to
the many diplomatic negotiations which Lave taken place
' with the view of Boding a candidate for the vacant throne,
he thus concludes :—" • But the Greeks,' you will perhaps
say. True, we had forgotten them. It is not our fault.
In this long series of negotiations, of protocols, and
intrigues, they are no more thought of than the Esquimau:.
Diplomacy goes from door to door, crown in hand, offering it
to I don't know how many petty princes, who prefer to remain
petty gentlemen, and it never once mks itself if this
humiliating search is agreeable to the nation, which it treats
like a flock of sheep. And while the monarchical govern-
ment" are playing with thrones the Greek people govern
themselves all •loos, without any government, and wait
with exemplary patience until the strongest have decided
their destiny. On which side, we ask, is the spirit of order,
and on which that of revolution It is for public opinion to
MIT."
A movement is on foot to erect a memorial bridge
over the Regent's Canal, at Twig Folly, time the southern
entraom to Victoria Park, in lieu of the present narrow and
dilapidated structure. The suggestion to call it "The
Albert Memorial Bridge" has been well responded to.
About 300 f. bas been collected, including • donation of
201. from Miss Burdett Coutes.
GRIAT EASTILIIN RAILWAY.—It 111' officially AU-
sounced that Sir Samuel Bignold has resigned his seat at the
board of directors of this rompsey. The meet atounen
Fairy and Speedwell will io future convey goods at through
rates to Hull, in connexion with the ■y■tem ; the steamers
will leave Lynn and Mahone k every Thursday and Friday.
The acceleration of the train service hes been fully carried
out during the past week, and the express trains now run
from London to Norwich in three boon and • half, as IVY
stated is this journal some weeks sines by eatioiyatim.
CRYWTAL PALACIL—HALr-A-Czows DAT.--SA-
TCLOAT, Fm T.— Admissive ne payment, 893 ; ditto by
memo ticked, 2,992; total, &IR&

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