The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-07 00:00:00

FIREWORKS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

d. general impression that our old historic friend
Ghy Fawkes, having been an a general rule simpered in
the highways and by-ways of the great metropolis, was
about to establish himself permasentl, at the Crystal
Palace, attracted as immense crowd to Sydenham yester-
day erasing. There was no Gay, however, nor anything
else political in the affair beyond the coinoidecee of a date,
but there was what was perhaps quite as good, mmaely, •
very brilliant display of fireworks, including some entire
novelties, all of which were rapturously applauded by the
vast company assembled. The Goons( was cold—bitty
cold—and the atmosphere suitable to the season, that is to
say, about as deer as the steam out of • tea-
kettle, and (or these reasons the 'ethane= of
the public was not much excited during tha earlier
portions of the estaytarament. The " gelato of a grid
maroon" remained utheturned, and the "rockets of va-
rious garniture" passed into space without much notice,
beyond the eager "Oh, ohs," of the juvenile Tiaras ; but
the "large stock of serpents" was a gratifying succoa, and
the set piens, including a true lover's knot, a rainbow, and
several stars, elicited sunossive rounds of cheering. How-
ever, the "sensation" peso of the evening was very pro-
perly the last, and to make it the more effective the sister
element was called into requisition, not, as is usually the
case, to be the conquelor of fire, bat as its friend and co-
adjutor in the creation et the beaunial. The whole range
of fountains were surronaded by noels filled with the ma-
terial for admired lights, end when all wen ready the water
jets commenced throwing their silver spray into the air,
and the light@ to give it the various coleus
of the rainbow. Then came the fifty batimies
of iromsn candles, • satisfactory proof that them
was nothing political in the display ; and, finally.
a tremendous explosion, in which firs, water, roman manes.
and the band, all seemed to go off together, net to speak el I
setting the company off also in a perfect paroxysm of de-
light sad approval. Nothing certainly could have been
more novel or beautiful than this final display. The tall
jets, as illuminated by the light below, looked like slender
columns of frosted silver ; then, when the colour of the fire
changed, like burnished gold, which tint in its turn wee to
give way to ruby, end jasper, and amethyst. The grass, the
trees. the distant water towers were all touched with this
ever-changing illumination, which, when it suddenly west
out, left us in such an entirety of gloom as made as ed.
journmant to the interior of the palace the leading idea
with certainly the majority of the company. There can be
no doubt but that, until the system of Wearier illumination
and of external pyroteohnias b brought op to a sada of msg.
nits& suited to the extent of the building and the ground'.
the attractiveness of the Crystal Palace will not have
remind its culminating point.

TESTIMONIAL to lbw. GLADEEONE. —We under-
stand that the Putick Working hiss's Clab ham is eon-
temp/ation the getting up of a autocription to remit a
memorial to Mrs. W. E. Gladstone, as a testimony of their
appreciation of the boon conferred oa the pahlie by Mr.
Gbalstom's reduction et the tame which most idect the
working claims. It is also proposed to make the saboarip-
tioa or. peony each, se that all may hive ea opportunity of
giving something, however reeelL—Nordi Brine. Mail.
THE Hole. RICHARD BITHICLL...-.-We understand
that informations have been prepared by the Attorney-
General for the proseentioa of the Hon. Richard Bothell
and the other parties aminerted with the traffic in the
attempted sale of public offices. It is not, however, be-
lieved that the evidence is such S 4 will ensure *Deviation.—

Record.
ENVIROIIIIIITION 07 ARCHBISHOP
The solems receptise sad outhrooisstios of Archbishop
blaming took plum yesterday a:main& st the Rousse
Catholic pro-Cathedral at eloordelds, with great careurosy.
the iotenorof the church being &worsted awl adorned to

an unusual degree.
Tits Qourerr Micitoacorroir. Cid7B. -- This
society formed for the promoting of microscopical inquiry
amongst amateurs and others interested in the science held
its third ordinary meeting at its rooms, 32, fieckville.
street. Piccadilly, on Friday leak Mr. P. Ls Neve Foster,
Tice-president, is the shalt. Mr. Richard Beck reed an in-
teresting paper ea the spiracles, or breathing aperture' of
insects, illustratiug his remarks with some excellent
diagrams. Mr. M. C. Cooke cootributed a paper on "Six
New Forms of Microscopical Fungi." The proeeediep
terminated with a conrerrarione, at which some interesting
objects were exhibited, aided by Powell and Lealand's 1.25 th
object glass. Dr. loaltester w the president of the stub.
OIIIILAGN IN A RAILWAY Cartnuori.—A recent
oar of aboiniciable outrage ow two ladies travails,/ en the
North-Esetere Railway between Scarborough and Batley-
bridge was made the subject of a magisterial investigation
oa Saturday at the Norton (Fort Biding) monthly sessions.
On the 27th tilt. Mrs. Blackburn sag Miss Robinson, of
Pateley-bridge, were pennons's, with periodical tourist or
excursion tickets, by en evening return excursion train from
Scarborough to l'ateley•bridge. The defied:ant, a farmer
named Robert Agar, residing at West-end, Pateley-bridge,
got into the same carriage as the married lady, ead beiges. I
Scarborough sad Melton ermined his hatentioo of Ylcdatiag
her poem, sod conducted himself in a meet brutal manlier,
hurtiag her so much that she wag ill for a week. At Rattail
the defeedant got out of the carriage, and wee locked out by'
• peseseger who had a key, but he got into another cem.l
wtment end attempted the same cotter ow the young,
lady. All the way to Paisley he used umt disgusting lan-
gums. Other pareengers restrained 134 and gays the
ladies what protection they could in the dark, there being
no light in the carriage. One of the defeadant's freaks
was to make and light a flambeau in the carriage. The
conduct of the defendant was so gross that the two ladies
were afraid to travel in the same train with him to Melton
without protection, aid Mr. Blackburn was obliged to
escort them to Melton and hack-132 miles. Agar made
no defence. He said he warn "rather fresh," and made
noise like the rest of them. The magistrates said that this
case was Dee of the most brutal that had ever been heard in
that court, and they regretted they could not impose a
higher flee than the by-law named. It wee men like Agar
who rendered it so (Leprous for women to travel akin' and
unprotected. They Sad him 400., with 3/. 18.. costa.
Agar paid the amount, sad meet away laughing.—Times.
ENTANOLND ne • Cow's TAIL—STRANGE RITA-
LrrY.—A few days ago an Coquest was held at Kelby, on the
body of Nance Wakefield, aged 16 years. The deceased
was in the employ of Mr. Everitt, of Eelby, sad on the
previous morning went, as usual to a field about a q carter
of a mile off to fetch up two cows to milk. He had been
absent about 25 minutes. whoa one of the cows was men
ruining towards Mr. Fneritt's farm-yard, dragging de.
osassd at her tail ; and on being stopped the tail wee cat,
and deceased's log (which bad become entangled) was re-
tained. He was ogad to be leseoeibls, and severely bruised
on the bead and body, and died in half an hour afterwards.
After bowleg the evidesee of the witnesses, the jiffy se-
tumid a verdict that deceased was accidentally killed.—
Armagh Guardian.
Soorx Kixautwrow ltivesum.—During the week
ending November 4 the visitors have been as follows :
On Roeder, Tuesday, and Saturday. free days, open from
10 me. to 10 p.m., 8,736; Wedaesday, Thurailey,
and Friday, seadests' days (idealistic to the public, 81.),
open from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m.. 1.558. Total, 10,294. From
the enemies of the ammo. 5,634,480.
Cattail. PALL= Oos SHILLING DAY.
MONDAY, Nov. 6,—Ad at payment, 5,881
ditto by nom Waft, MOO ; total yimiters, 9,381.