The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-02 00:00:00

THE ACCLIMATIZATION SOCIETY.

The anniversary dinner of this society was held
at St. James's•hall last evening, and a large company of
some 140 gentlemen, members of the society, and others
interested in the promotion of the objects of the association,
sat down toe banquet which was designed to illustrate
in a manner peculiarly English the aim and purpose of the
society. The room was very appropriately and characteris-
tically decorated with specimens of birds, with skins arid
antlers of many kinds of deer suitable for food, and with
almost every variety of the antelope. There were also some
remarkably large leaves of a kind of rhaterb grown in the
Channel Islands, and some hoe specimens of grasses and
flags, which, we presume, were intended as samples of
vegetables which might be utilized as food for cattle. The
dinner, however, was evidently the practical argument upon
which the society rested for enforcing the weight and im-
portance of its claims to the attention of the public, and the
programme of the repast, which we subjoin, will give some
idea of the extent to which acelimssisatioe may eelargeour
cuisine, as the dishes and wines printed in italics are ex-
ceptional, and have been introduced into the menu by the
society.

Porauts.—Tortua claire, consomme it Is Bedford, a Is
Bisque aux ieriviaes•— 'rade soup of the Channel Islands,
Lou elfabale.% _

PolBBoN&—Saumon ala Ducheue de Sutherland, turbot
tarsi ala Hollandaise—Tiler Dal mon, charr, ucioperra , Wan-
chains.

ENTRE:EL—Supremo de volaille a recarlate et ens truffea,
mielesses d'aguean a le Wyndham, croustades de Cattle.,
no de Teen pique .1 la financuere,main a la Itussa—grm
nunlike a la pus/tette, Pepper Poi.
0808SES niters. —Haoche de •ViDaiioD, *elle de mouton,
ayneats roti ender, farri aux pistarktet, semi au pi.'aff et
cuaeousu, fawn of fallow deer, ribs of beef cross between
buffalo and Kerry rote, eal,fof reel deer.
11078.—DindaltlettlX, ache., canoetoos, poulets a Tanen-
ripation des ntgres, pallets sand grouse, jauabois dours h
Madere, red deer ham, jamb.* de Bayonne, postulate de
terra, pois vertu asperses, Chinese yam.
ENTIIIMILTS. —ostrich eyys, petits pois a It /*reticules,
choux•deurs au Psrmesan, mayonnaise d'Homard, geke a la
StacCdoine, creme aux frsises. piti.aeries Frauttaises,
gateaux Napoleteines, vol.au-vent des fruits, bsigoete
d'Abrieots, boudin el la diplomatique, boudin glace' a la St.
flt. James's, bouryout from Mr Lebanon, flamed.
WINE-S.—Sherry, hock, meureault, red Burgueedy„ Cham-
pagne. Greek—Santorin, Thera, St. lelie. Vi Bantu,
Cyprus, Larrinta Christi. Hungarien—Meseat, Badar-
cooper. Szarnarodny, Ofrser, Tokay. Austra-
lian—Camden, and other wines.

To say that we are in a position to pronounce upon the
flavour of half these curious viands would be a gross pre-
tence, though it is true we clamoured as vocifer.usly as say
other Eng,liahmtu for frogs without succeeding in obtaining
even a glimpse of that classic fare of Frenchmen. Yet we
were assared, in comfort, hy those who were more success-
ful that the "greuouillee la pouletto" were delicious.
The white soup of the Cheminl [elands proved to be an old
acquaintance, well known in Cornwall and Devon as copier
eel stew, and the highly nutritious properties of
this we were content to take the society's word for.
Of the fish, the Lucioperca, a cross between the perch mod
the pike, seems to he a fair article of its kind, rather dry
but substantial ; but the chart is a very decided success, it
has all the richness of salmon, with a Mare delicate flavour,
and it has the great recornmsodstioa of not being a bony
flab. This, it should be uoderetood. is • fish that has been
very successfully batched with salmon by Mr. Dockland and
other experimentors in pisciculture. The Pallas sand
grouse, • bin: almost too beautiful to kill, was amongst the
entries, but h-ow to carve the two lame or so upon the table
among so many was • problem that remained unsolved. The
Maass lamb too most bass beat tan fa *on, sling with