The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-30 00:00:00

THE PEACE REJOICINGS.

Barely London never promoted so thronged ea
apemen*, es it did last evening. By seven the human
tide had begun to flow in its strength. Up Osford-atreet,
sad along Piccadilly the people poured is sambas, vast
beyond all eslealation, towards Its two foci, the Green
Park sad the Hyde Park. From every avian" deboaching
is the two great thoroughfares meatimed the stream
poured le. llp WhitehiJl they came is such great numbers.
that wide so is that street it ma filled from side
to side and from and to sad, se that vehicular
meads biome at first difficult sad this impossible, sow
we walking a mush more easy proems. At Charingctross
the wowd coming shag the Based sad that coming op
Whit. hall met, and program this became more tardy still.
Pall-mall, the Haymarkr, and Regeat-,trod, at 8 o'clock.
were crowded. At that time the Ilhaninatieue had began,
sod as it thee wonted as hoar and a half to the specified
time for the grand performance is the parks, them was time
to nee the illaraisatioss, which were mostly lighted up.
The Haymarket presented • bright eppearsoco, the
illamlnatiose es welt side being regular sad
surly ceatigueus. The Senior United 8 mice Club
and the Athena's were brillinatly Wuminated,
sad, as sontrasted with there, the lower part of Regina-
street was dark. One device, of rather large dimenaoos,
°woe the home No. 73, sad which consisted of a star, with
Prises of Wales's feathers, was very affective; but, with
Mese eatteptiose, this portion of Resat-strut preeented a
doll sppears•ss, though there were here and than a star
sod aV. A., or •V. N. At the Gallery of Illutration then
was a beautiful transparecey, represestleg the Queen on
her throe*, on her left the Prises of Wake is sailor's
ustassa, sad other pation of the royal fatally ; and es
either side the trophies of war presented by Bare
poses and Asiatics. The Circus, at Piccadilly, was
• blase of light, almost every building being illuminated,
the devices being various, but the predontisating ones being
the crown with tbe initials V.A. sad V.N. Coating an eye
from this point westward the lose was striking, for though
, the illantiaations were cooly at intervals, yet la the mums-
am the streets appeared one bliss of light; outward the
scene was scarcely to pleuisg. The Qaadrast looked
marcratively sombre, the illuminstioss hew Ming sparsely
displayed, and what there were soesiating esaiely of Chinese
lentenie, which had net a Amato, Orem Prom ohs
Qaadraat, however, and looking up Regent-street, the eime
was brighter, the illnaination was mach sum geserel,
sod a striking effect was prodaead by rows of
Chinese lasteras projected from the roof of one
of the bosses to the root of the house as the opposite side
of the stoma. The side streets loading into OUCH-street
were also egret of than sum or less illuminated, Chasse
listens ban the prethlset feature. Ia OsfOrd-street the
illosileatiese wwe also geserel, but not so anaarrose nor
of so dasellag a Moneta as is Regent-street; but the
Circus was peculiarly bright. The crowd ponies up Oxford-
strut before the fireworks commiscrid was hammer. It
was impossible to get o• as foot, and gait* so Is cer-
degas, which were ranged five or alit abreast for halt
a sile as the mat side of the marble arch. After the fire-
works were over the cras► is Piccadilly wee MIA fearful,
sod particularly at the peint when the crowd from Hyde-
park met that coming from the Oreen-park. The street
was summed, and progress could not he made at a "sore
rapid nits this halt a mile an hour. Up to =Walsh% sad
Weed bag atter, the streets were filled with greeter womb
than here perhaps ever before hies known.

THE GREEN PARK.

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moostratices of 1816, sad were presoak at the display of
fireworks la this locality ea that ecessicaa, will deabilees
call to nisi the Tensile el Coseeed, • pertkalarly mune'
sad sot p•rticelsrly pietaresque bathing, which +saunter)
for the o anon of foreleg the grad entre of the urns,-
mean There wee so Temple of Covered yesterday is tic.
pub—so improvised sprolana of a depraved snititectorel
taste, bat simply a wooden Meardiag,sulosiag somas thin or
fear asses of ironed, within whin the magi, represented is
seder& times by artillery sadists, performed their saris
nese rite*, sad from which they saiiibind those weeders is
the pyrokehaie art which, free shiest half-past alas o'clock
last sight until half past sieves, estosishod sad detiglited
ems of the largest envie that probably ever ....bled et •
publis exhibition ist the metropolis. Pinedilly, from
St. Jaw's street to Hydelark, woe all bat le-
pesuble. The Mall sad Beings. walk, is 8.. Jesse.-
park sad Coastutios hill 1,01, IS • sheik/ con-
dition, sad the whole surface of the Greet-path itself
during the whole of the display, sad, Lathed, for sons keen
before, was covered with • moviag saes of bussaity,
klieg like • ma, sad earrylag oat the similarity still more
by the rallies mad of their nine, sow loader, sow lower,
as approv:ag shouts at es* sow devise alienated with the
ban of *apostatise of what wee to follow. • Sur umber
for nob as =Militias wield set have been. There wee as
ran, bat a paanily of Math clouds finned • blickgroind
whisk showed up the variegated flee beaatifolly, Ades
Its eskers, C 0.., direction, sad general effect, with a vivid
distleetaess whisk Mr. Darby sad oar other celebrated artists
it Am would, ea Vauxhall or Demons sights, almost give
tr sir Sus for. As soon es dock begs. to set ia, the mm
impstkat of the opeentors wine gratified by a display sot
included is the programme, sad which, if lin 'thanks
tbik that provided at the paMie espeasei, was sullinsatly
sassing, sad served to while awe, the time from shoot
eight to half-post sight. This cessisted la the &thugs of
a umber of squib*, crackers, sad sensate, unapt the
weird by aortal& smiteurs la the pyretethak art, who
eoatributad to the public sseneunt at their owa soot, sad
who, as as ill-holleg resulted sad se takeltief cosurnid,
were permitted by the polies to pursue their bent without
langur/on. At the appointed hoar, s Mae lithe tae up la
frost of the pavilloa erected outside Bseklagheas Pane,
was the Areal for the eionnesorimest of the more regular
performeasse, sad isetaatiy a strong white glare woos Sr.
the swelesan, whisk lit up the bonne la Piseedilly sad gm
park with • pale light, sad semesualestod &glassily heis to
rho thenaads of basalt fans whisk were tented towards IL
Tlik was rapidly followed by a ohmage to red, free
rod ft gun, sad hem gnus to ersage—sad es
es through the whole nage of molests, se* Is •
porde. its realist Vats epee essay sarreeadlag
ablest, sad this feileleed a diesbasie of nansart fi-
lmed by pearl sileaawes, a bombed half-psead
waken sad lily eight-nth shall; whisk shook the greyed
with their ripen, sad oiled forth the loadly-expreseed
appeobatlas M the =Wilted*. Wheel piens, bateedie el
geld strewn, teurbilleas, blue, visa, red, sad yellow
reeking, sad shells sawed d, nteesporeed with pfd sad
sliver rats, revelvlas sad sbasesiag stars, glebes wbfeb,
after play tau tor • tine, formed late bethate of eorpisate,
squibs, sad reshot*, beanies, been, yew trees sad every
other devise el whisk tbs pyselesbais sat Is eseebis, %MU