The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-06 00:00:00

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THE WHITSUNTIDE A.HUSILKENTS.

There are fewer dramatic novelties to record
during the present Whitsuntide than we ever re-
member at the same period. Drury-lane and the
Lyceum Theatres are closed for the stuninet mum= •
the Princess's relies upon the attraction of draiii:
as-Pogue ; the Haymarket upon Brotterre2=
aided by the revival of Mr. Planobe's 0
Monster ; the St. James's upon Eleanor's Victory,
which is somewhat oddly called Bilinor's Viably out
the posters : the Olympic has gone back to the
Bidden Hand (a piece that has just been
produced in Amazes), with a promise of
Twe fth Night on Wednesday ; the Adelphi
still continues Leah, with a prongs' of a now five
act play called Osraisliow, which is to be produced
next Monday ; the Royalty is to be kept open for
a few nights longer with Mr. Banand's classical
burlesque Pirithotis the Prime of Wales's still
relies Mr. amusing burlesque, La !
la ; still an English opera-
house, with the additional attraction of Mr. Widdi-
oomb ; the Victoria has revived Mr. Chaim
Dickens's and Mr. Tom Taylor's drama
of the Tale of Two Cities, with Madame
Celesta in her original obaraetor ; fissEer's Wells has
been opened by Mr. Morton Price and Miss
Catherine Lunette, and its chief drama is the
Oderemi t 1 I new theatre st Sighbory is content
to play the burlesque of Ronan, and the Strand
Theatre is the only house that has produced any-
thing absolutely new—an historical burlesque by
Mr. Burnand.
The miscellaneous entertainments are numerous,
and mostly well-tried. The Crystal Palace has
prepared a special programme ; the Polytechnic
roller upon a variety of clever half-scientific per-
formances. /Roden, the new conjuror, appears
to be firmly planted at the 'Egyptian-
hall side by side with his neighbour, Mr.
Skelohley, who continues to exhibit " Paris" and
" Mrs. Brown at the Play f' Mr. and Mrs. German
Reed and Mr. John Parry are at the Gallery of
Illustration ; Tom Thumb and Commodore Nutt I,
anncranos their last week at St. James's-hall ; the
Alhambra boa three great ballets and a host of
minor entertainments to please hs patrons ; the
Agricultural-ball is holding a dog show, in spite
of the attacks of the Times on that faithful animal,
and the revival of the old midsummer hobgoblin,
hydrophobia ; Crouton., the Horticultural, the
Zoological, the Botanical, and other gardens, are
advertising special attractions ; Madame Tussaud is
not behind her rivals, and there are more concert-
rooms and picture galleries open than we care to
name. The various music-balls have made an effort
to attract holiday-makers--some, like the Oxford
and Metropolitan, relying mostly upon their
operatic selections, and others performing belle*
in imitation of the Alhambra. Numerous as all
these places of amusement appear, they never seem
to touch the London population of three millions,
for their audiences never reach the number of
visitors who are stopping every day in the metro-
PoliL

DRAMA.

STRAND.

Mr. T. O. Barnard has Wag had a desire to into-
dam sonathieg la t►i eauhrr like the lithe roan) aiurto
which ince readers& the awn at Nimbi* es famous he
Paris, sad ha appear to ban made the bin preettaal step
het sight towards nada' his pro loot is a saw burlesque
whisk he prodused at the above theatre ruder the this d
Windsor Castle. _

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The mom sad dream, se =al, were pretay sod bin'
flank and the isoidestal balsa is silkily eapperted by two
of them warm meg Wise wbo bow the moo el
011•11111 O. As the lest berieeps without a "
breakdown.* Windsor Castle is a dnunstio sorioeity, sod
we hogs that Yr. Bawd will be sonoureged to weed his
genies still further.

ROYAL BOTANIC BOUNTY, RIBOINT'S-PARK.-Mr.
Jan Wataries mewl show of rbodotiondrose is just now
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at its whelks. It censiels of many thesesads of blooms
of every coaesivable shade sad has; end time being ar-
r•ngd with 0001111111191411 taste, wane* so effect which cea
hardly be conceived by those who have never witnessed one
of times gorpons exhibitions. As signal, • amsiderable
ember of vintage have been attracted to the peddles
and indeed thee* is not sae of the Leedom " Wes` that is
bettor wort► wing.
Poixracifitic IssiTrorios.—As usual at this
institatioa there wen an infusion of novelty into the
eutertainmeets provided for the Whitreatide vidtoes. Far
I the first time • lecture was delivered by Mr. J. L. Hist,
llostrative of an apparatus by which a puma may eater
any suffocating atmosphere, mid be seeare egged Ike
effect. ; sad it is putionlarly available wird the opera-
tion of that dangerous socuraulatloo of foul sir which is
known as eboke-damp. The apparatus—which is the
fe-
veotion of IL llalibuM—euaelste of • sheep-skin beg was
as the back like a kaapeack, whirls is filled with pare sir ;
sail commentating with it are tuba, teensiaathig is •

mouth-piss% whirl; is fixed is the teeth as& the lips draws
over it, wide the specters' of the nose are edema
by means of nippers. fa this =edition • man
may set at debases any mephitic gross for
• period of twenty minutes by inhaling the pure air whisk
he carrier in hi. bag. This operation was performed during
the lecture, • dangerous atmosphere being crested
Joe the purpose. It may be ineatiosed that the pis-
torisl ilisstretiowe and optical illssioo• including specimens
of the famous (hod misses, have been eslarged far this
ocattion ; the dellosatioes of the Holy Plums at Mama MI
Median being interrpersed w►th repressetations of those all
Bethlehem and Jaremalem. The singular performers§
Mr. Pepper and Mr. Tobin is their " wouderlid 'ablest.
are cootinned with marked encore. The spadelike esm-
elude with • sew musical intertaiomest by Mr. George
Buokland, assisted by as efficient rap of vearlirts.
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S GARDENS, REGENT'S-PARE,
—Ms bright morning of Teets:day drew • n early crowd of
holiday-makers to these gazebos, and shortly after nisei
o'clock, at which hour the ptes were opined to the public,
the appltoante for admission began to be very nnmeroo• As
the day programed the crowd increased until about three
o'clock, when the gardens were thronged in every pert, sad
lien eo•ld not have bean less than 20,000 persona presort
at ens time. The principal centre of attraction was, per-
haps, the sew monkey-house, bat all the larger animals, such
as the Boss, elephants, giraffes, hippopotami, and rhino-
(erase, were likewise beniesed ►hroughout the day by as
eager crowd of spectators. At the dose of the gates at gusset
the total somber of visitors wee ascertained to have been
L 28,576. Ws are sled to be able to add among this vast cos-
' souse of people na case of misbehaviour occurred, nor was
any injury done to the society's valuable collection of
animals.

WHIT-MONDAY AT MANCHIEITER—TIIIterday •
proesesioe of Sundae soheol rains, in carries with the
'berth of Kegler, irk plant at bleasbester so real ea
Whit-Woodsy. There were 30 schools pert, and probably
over 20,000 children. It was the most 11111alleadl roomer
of the kind that has taken pleas, mod occupied rattler move
that so hour is passing a giro prat. Each school was r
usual preeeded by the clergymen and olterchwardese of the
rural to whir it heloored, and by its male sod female
leachers, and meet of the schools had a bead of wear at
their head. The weather we fits, sad the numbest of people
attracted to witness the spectacle was greater that .set
known. It could sot be less than 40,000 or 50.000=
et all ages, end the streets were logger then real In
cleared, no that the ardirry raids el the tit weld he
resumed. Tr eltildne were mostly well aid early dressed,
the girls wears( white frocks and the bra ore whitecap%
The number of holiday people bronght tete Idenebester,
sad the amebic rhea ant by railway tree (regular ad
excursion together) leer have been same ring eareenti-
Nary. To FIM ere the nemben sod redrew of the
people the trarellis& se ose sold boogies Isisseell le •
neighborhood no severely saes* as this las frees the
asthma lambs. Yet the sista pal holidays de set emssesse
till the tase-410. which ale Wableday sod Thunday.

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