The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-11 00:00:00

THR CRYSTAL PALACE.

The Crystal Palace now contains all that was
nerieseary to complete its MANI of clamed& objects, at eon
so interesting and so instructive, but unhappily so little
noticed is those latter day. el Banda ascents and shadow
pantomimes. It has the best collection of Annan in
England- perhaps in Europe—the most MINIMS array of
portrait busts, every isslisidasl head rocs/Bag a histoTy,
sad, is the Pompeian wart, an exact represealation of a
Roman interior, just as the people lived in it in the time of
the Cagan It has long pinerved en exact model of the
Parthenon, the most perfect temple save no ever pat to-
gether by human hands ; and now its Greek parry is sem.
plated, with a Jar-simile of the whole Acropolis with all its
famous features so familiar to the student a Greek history.
The model, which is carefully constructed to scale—one
thousandth—is the work of a lady, Mrs. AVTIII2IiO4B, and is
most creditable both to her patinas and her artistic sidll.
We have the great cook, the site of the infant city, and
eloping deem in frost the marble staircase, the construction
of which was one of the tweets of the long rule of Ponca&
There are in hoot, the Temple of Victory, the reoselly
discovered Temple of Beaches, both otiefully restored, and
above them the far-famed Propyhea with its six Doric
columns and five doorways, forming the entrance to the
" finest edifice on the fined site in the world r the Par-
thenon itself, built of the whit* marble of Peateliona, and
looking, in ruins, as bright and dazzling as it did two
!bonnet years ago. The spectator can note the destruction
I caned by the Venetian bomb in 16117, and mks the pleader
known in this country as the Elgin Marbles. During the
Turkish rule the Acropolis suffered severely, but a wane
destroyer, time, is now rapidly crumbling its beautiful or-
naments away. We shall, therefore, be all the more
obliged to Mrs. Avramiote for coriatructieg this carefully
made model, so perfect in all its details, sad giving a
better idea of the first architectural " Lion "of ancient
Athens than could be obtained from a whole volume of
description. Al the walls of the Acropolis weirs a little
over 2,000 yards is circuit, and as the model is on a scale of
one-thousandth, it will be seen that it is of sufficient she
to permit of full junkie being done to every one of its mani-
fold beauties. It is, we believe, the first perfect model o
the Acropolis that has been exhibited in Eaglaad, and
therefore, sure to be a most attractive addition to the eke
sisal department of the Crystal Palace.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, JAN. 9. -

—Com-

mandate W. Chimmo,to Ow lipid; F. A. Hums, to the
Duncan.

Lieutenant A. H. G. Einbardma, to b Asi-Seutanant to
Bear-Admind Sir Jam. Hops, K.C.S.
Paymastor's-Anistsats T. J.G dos, to the Viotory u seam
tarrs clink ; A. Warren, to Um Majestic ; A. M. Wads, to
the Ain.

Clerk R. G. Gordoe, to the Aurora.
Chief Engineer E. 0. Crfghtoe, to the Dams
Engineers G. Mille, to tee dais for woks u the Alba-
core • E. Brown. to the Duman.
Asistant-Eagiames H. W. Thompsos, W. M. Kellar, and
W. G. F. Colley, to the Duncan. 81, at Portsmouth ; B.
G. Highs* promoted to firitolaas is the Asia as super-
numerary.