The Press.
London, England, 1857-04-18 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

WATER TOWERS. —The Great Towers are now completed, and
arrangements have been made by which, for a small charge,
visitors to the Palace can ascend them and enjoy the extensive
view from the balconies, where powerful telescopes are about to
be placed.
MAMMOTH TREE.—An object of great interest has lately been
added to the contents of the Palace, which will remain on exhi-
bition during the whole of the coming season. The object
alluded to is a portion of the trunk of the Wellingtonia Gigantee,
or Mammoth Tree, being the largest of the group of those trees
discovered in California. The portion erected in the Tropical
Transept, opposite the Abet Simbel figures, is no less than 103
feet in height, and 82 feet in diameter at the base.
EXHIBITING DEPARTMENT.—AIIIOIIgSI the branches of industry
which now find important illustration in this department, may
be mentioned the manufacture of Gold and Silver work and
Electroplate, both domestio and artistic; Vulcanite and India
Rubber generally; Colour Printing and Typography; Papier
Mache, Ornamental Iron, Fancy Goods, and other productions
of Birmingham; Domestic Furniture, Church Furniture, In
atone, wood, metal, and fabric; Hardware generally, and espe-
cially the productions of Sheffield, iu the court tilled by the
manufacturers of that important centre of industry.
CANADIAN COURT.—The arrangements announced on a former
occasion with the Government of Canada are now, the Directors
are happy to report, complete. The Government of Canada have
undertaken to form and maintain iu the Palace a collection
which shall completely set forth the condition of the manufac-
tures and other intinatry and resources of that important colony.
At a time when so much public attention is being directed to
Canada, such a collection cannot but be both interesting and
useful to those who may be intending to make that country their
residence, as well as to those who have commercial relations
therewith. In the circumstance that the collection has been
originated and undertaken by the Canadian Government itself,
and that a large sum of money has been voted for the purpose of
its creation and maintenance, a guarantee is afforded to the
British public that it will be thoroughly welt carried out, and be
a real representation of the commerce of the colony.
The collection will be placed in the large court lying between
the News-room and the Stationary Court, immediately aijoining
both the Nave and Centre Transept, and at present occupied by
the sculpture of the German school.
RAW PRODUCE COLLECTION, AND TRADE MUSEUM.—Ihe
Technological portion of this department is rapidly approaching
completion. It will comprise illustrations of all the chief
manufactures of the United Kingdom; and specimens of the
products, animal, vegetable, and mineral, of Great Britain and
the colonies, as well as dottier countries. It is believed that
it will be open to the public in the course of the present
summer. _

The Department is situated in the second gallery on the
garden side of the Great Transept.
MACHINERY IN MOTION.—The Machinery will be In action
during the season at such times as will be announced in the
detailed advertisements. The Machinery now in the Depart-
ment comprises a complete set of machinery for Spinning,
Carding, Warping, Sizing, Weaving, and all the other processes
fur the manufacture of Cotton goods from the bale to the thread,
and from the thread to the finished piece, by Walker and Hack-
ing, and Harrison and Co. ; Lathes, Shaping-machines, self-
acting Planing, Drilling, and other machinery, by Whitworth,
Muir, Harrison and Co., Else, and others; Condiea Steam
Hammer; Woods' Carpet Loom; Winding Machinery, by
Clark, of Leicester ; Centrifugal Pumps. by Appold, and Gwynne
and Sons; Centrifugal Sugar and Drying Machines, by Man-
love and Alliott; Steam Engines, by Goodfellow, Dunn
Hattersley and Co., and others; Marine Engines with Screw
Propeller, by Tod anu M'Gregor ; and a great variety of other
machines.
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.—The Department of Agricul-
tural Machinery and Implements has been considerably im-
proved dunng the past year. Specimens will be found there of
the Portable Steam Engines and all the other new machines of
the chief manufacturers, and purchases can be made at the same
prices as at the warehouses of the makers. The stock is con-
tinually receiving additions, and every means are taken to make
it a perfect representation of the state of one of the most im-
portant branches of modern industry.
Its:AntNo-itoost.—The Company's Reading and News Room is
situated close to the Centre Transept, between it and the Ger-
man Sculpture Court. It contains all the Morning Journals;
the Weekly Papers, Metropolitan and Provincial ; and all the
Periodicals and Magazines.
In addition to this, advertisements and copies of new work s,
both British and foreign, are displayed immediately after pub-
lication.

FANCY FAIRS.—The Directors are prepared to afford accom-
modation to benevolent and other societies, for holding fancy
fairs in the Palace during the season.
CRICKET, ARCHERY, AND THE GROUNDS GENERALT,Y.—It gives
the Directors great pleasure to announce that the Cricket-
ground is now complete, and that it will be thoroughly in order
for the approaching summer. Great care has been taken in the
formation 4* the ground, and they believe that it will be found
fully equal in extent and excellence to any other iu the neigh.
bourhood of London.
The

will be continued, as before, in the
northern portion of the grounds, behind the Picture Gallery
Wing.
Considerable progress has been made towards the completion
of the ornamental grounds in the lower portion of the Perk, in
the vicinity of the Cricket-ground and the Lower Lake : waste
parts have been cultivated, snrubberies planted, and new walks
made, and the whole rendered much more agreeable and con-
venient of access than it was last season.

VII. SEASON TICKETS.
The Directors have determined upon continuing the price of
Season Tickets of admission at the following rates, viz.:-
I. SEASON TICKETS NOT TRANSFERABLE), AVAILABLE FROM IST
MAY, 1837, TO 30TH ♦PRIL, 1858, TWO GUINEAS EACH.
These tickets will admit the holder—
To the whole of the Twelve Opera Concerts.
To the Concert of the Cologne Choral Union on the 6th June.
To the Flower Shows on May 90 and Sept. 9, 10, and 11.
To all the displays of the Grand Fountains.
To the Poultry Shows on August 7,8, 9, 10, and 11, and
On all ordinary days—in fact, on every occasion between May
1. 1857, and April 30, 1858, on which the Palace is open—the
four days of the Handel Festival, viz., the 13th, 15th, 17th, and
19th June, only excepted.
11. REASON TICKETS (NOT TRANSFERABLE), AVAILABLE FROM IST
MAT, 1857, TO 30SII APRIL, 1658, ONE GUINEA EACH.

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These tickets admit the holder on all the occasions named
above, excepting the Opera Concerts, and the other Fridays
throughout the year, and the 13th, 15th, 17th, and 19th June,
being the four days of the Handel Festival.
The tickets will be issued on and after the 20th instant, and
may be obtained at the Crystal Palace; at the offices of the
Company, 70, Lombard-street; at the offices of the London and
Brighton Railway Company, London bridge, and Regent-circus,
Piccadilly ; Central Handel Festival Ticket Office, Exeter-hall ;
and at the following agents to the Company :
H. A. Bebbington, 42C, Strand; George A. Calder, 1, Bathurst-
street Hyde-park-gardens; Cramer, Beale, and Co., 201,
Regent.street ; Duff and Hodgson, 6S, Oxford-street; M. Ham-
mond and Nephew, 27, Lombard-street; W. H. Henniugham
and Co., 5, Mount-street, Grosvenor•square ; Keith, Promo, and

SATURDAY,

Co., 4R, Cheapside ; Letts, Son, and Co., 8, Royal Exchange;
Mead and Powell, Railway Arcade, London-bridge ; .1. Mitchell,
33, Old Bond-street; W. R. Sams, T. St. Jamea's-street ; John
Henry Smith, !2, Gresham-street, Bank ; W. R. Stephens, 33,
Throgmorton•street; Charles Westerton, 20, SL George's-place,
Knightsbridge.
Remittances for Season Tickets to be by post-office orders,
payable to George Grove.
VEIL GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL.
It gives the Directors great gratilleation to be able to an.
nounce that they have entered into arrangements with tha
Sacred Harmonic Society for a Grand Series of Three Per-
formances of Handel's Oratorios, to take place in the Centre
Transept of the Palace in the month of June.
Her Majesty and H.R.H. Prince Albert have been graciously
pleased to extend their especial patronage to the Festival, and
have expressed their intention of honourin; it with their
presence.
The performances on this great occasion will be on the most
gigantic scale, far exceeding anything of a similar nature hither.
to proposed or carried out in this or any other country. The
Orchestra will number upwards of 2,500 executants, including
all the principal performers, vocal and instrumental, and an
immense reinforcement of amateurs from the musical societies
of the metropolis, the provincial towns and districts, and other
sources. An organ of great power has just been constructed by
the well•known builders, Gray and Davison, expressly for the
festival, and its erection in the Palace is now rapidly pro-
ceeding.
The Directors have much pleasure in stating that Mr. Costa
has accepted the office of Conductor.
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The Oratorios performed will be the three most celebrated
masterpieces of Handel :
" The Messiah," on Monday, June 15.
"Judas Maccabeus," on Wednesday, June 17.
" Israel in Egypt," on Friday, June 19.
The Festival will form the subject of an entirely separate Pub.
act iption. and the Annual Season Tickets of the Crystal Palace
will not be available for any of the performances.
The price of stalls on the floor of the Palace, reserved and
numbered, is fixed at One Guinea each, for each Oratorio. If
taken as a set, for the whole three at one time, Two Guineas and
a Half. A :invited number of reserved stalls will be set apart in
the Galleries, which will be disposed of in sets, i.e. for the
whole three Oratorios, at Five Guineas per set. By a " set" is
meant a ticket securing one stall for the whole of the three
performances.
These tickets will be transferable.
Tickets may now be secured at the Handel Festival Ticket
Office, N 0.2, in Exeter-hall ; at the Crystal Palace ; and at the
Temporary Offices of the Company, 79, Lombard-street.
Further particulars will be announced from time to time.
IX.—RATES OF ADMISSION, RAILWAY ARRANGE.
MENTS, dm.
ORDINARY BATES 01, ADMISSION.---These remain as before,
viz:__ _ _ _

On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursday; and
Fridays
On Saturdays
Children under le • of --- Half '

years of age -
The Palace will be opened on Mondays at 9 a.m.; on Tuesdays,
Wednesdays. Thursdays, and Fridays at 1U : excepting on the
days of the Concerts by the Opera Company, on which days it
will be opened at 1 o'clock, and on Saturdays at 12 ; closing
daily about sunset.
BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—During the season, the trains of the
Loudon and Brighton Railway Company will leave London-
bridge F tido!' every half hour, and during busy days every
quarter of an hour, from 9 o'clock a.m. till dusk, returning (rota
the Palace at the same intervals throughout the day. (For
exact times of starting, see the Railway Company's time tables.)
Return fares, including admission to the Palace-
-Ist Class. 2nd Class. 3rd Class.
On Shilling Days .... 2s. 6d. 2s. ud. Is. Ad.
Ou Half-Crown Days . 4s. Od. 3s. 6d. Ss. 9d.
Children under 11 years of age Half-price.
WESr•END RAtt.waY.—The opening of this line to the Wands-
worth Station has already been attended with great convenience
to visitors to the Palace, and it is with much pleasure that the
Directors anticipate the completion of the whole line to the
Sloane-street, Station, as well as the junction with the main line
of the South-Western Railway at the Clapham-common Station,
in the course of the coining season. An access will thus be
opened for the residents iu Hyde-park, Belgravia, and Bromp-
ton, and the other West-end districts, as well as for the neigh-
bourhoods of Richmond, Windsor, and Hamptnn•court, by
which great economy of time will be effected, and still further
convenience afforded to the public,
MID•SENT litatvity.—The portion of this line from the
station of the South Eastern Railway at London-bridge to
Beckenham has been opened, and the extension to the Crystal
Palace Station will be shortly completed, whereby an easy ac-
cess will be afforded to the residents in the Lewisham and
Blackheath districts.

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EXCURSlONS.—Arrangements have been made by which be.
nevoleut societies, schools, and other large bodies may visit the
Palace at the following reduced rates :—applying only to shilling
days and third•clasa carriages.
For a number of excursionists s. d. a. d.
over 210 and under 54 1 3 per head instead of 1 8
Exceeding 600 and under 730 1 2 „ 1 6
Exceeding 710 and under 1,000 1 1 „ 1 6
Exceeding 1,000
Children, half-price.
(Signed) ARTHUR ANDERSON, Chairman.
JAMES FERGUSSON, General Manager.

GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL.-CRYSTAL
PA LAC E.—Vouchers exchanged and Tickets on sale on
and after Monday, April 20. The Tickets, lettered in blocks re-
served, and numbered as Stalls, price One Guinea each, or for
the TI lasi Oratorios, Two Guineas and a Half, with block plans,
may be obtained, on and after Monday, April 20, at the Crystal
Palace ; the Temporary Offices of the Company, 79, Lombard-
street; or at the Central Handel Festival Ticket Office, Lower
Hall, E:xeter.hall, from ten till four o'clock daily. The NewiSeason
Prospectus and Season Tickets, as well as Single Tickets fur
the First Royal Italian Opera Concert on the let of May, are also
ready for issue at the same places. Posteoffiee orders to be
made payable to George Grove. Vouchers may be exchanged
either personally or by letter.

HORT icuuru RAL IMPLEMENTS and
GARDEN TOOLS of every description for the amateur
or practical gardener, and of warranted quality. Deane, Dray
and Co., have prepared for the present season a new lxims-
TRATED PRICED LIST of the above (to be obtained gratis OR
application, or post free), including Lawn Mowing Machines,
Garden Engines, Boyd's Patent Self-acting and Vulcan Scythes,
Garden Rollers (from 30r.), Flower Stands, Garden Seats, kc.
Galvanised Game Nett•ng from td. per yard. Ornamental Wire
Work made to order, Garden Arches, Flower Baskets, ttc.
London agents fur Lingham's Permanent Labels. price from
Is. per box, containing 1(ig; also Sayuor's celebrated Pruning
Knives.
Deane, Dray and Co., (opening to the Monument), London
Bridge, E.C. Established, A.P. 1700.

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