The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-21 00:00:00

CANAL? MOW AZ THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

On Saturday a " grand exhibition," as it was
celled, al canaries and other cage
Pb British and
lonise, wee omen at the Centel alms, and wee
very interesting, no doubt, to the gentle minds of en-
thosisatio Mid-tanners, it not inatzuctive to the observa-
tion of the naturalist. Thum were about 400 cages,
distributed on several tales ever the tropical depart-
went, and thus exposed to the inspection of learned
amateurs, class by clan, instead of forming one imposing as-
semblage. In fact, a walk through certain streets of the
district cif St. Elites, when these pretty living ornithological
toys are Ming out for sale in the doorways and windows of
the dealers, might famish the same kind of entertainment,
though ladies would scarcely be able to avail themselves of it
with the same leisure end comfort. The Crystal Palace is in-
deed worth a visit at all times, and under any special pretext,
or none whatever. It has seldom, on a bright winter's day,
looked fairer or more enjoyable than on Saturday lam ; and
amongst the gay birds and the palm• treat, the temperature
was that of a genial summer. its for the birds themselves,
which were the business of the ocosaios, we have nothing to
say but that the west knowing patrons ot these little drawing-
room prisoners, and the moat fastidious critics of note and
plumage, would have approved of the quality of the collec-
tion. Of every familiar genus and variety—canaries, from
clear yellow Norwich and buff Belgium to spangled Lizards
alive( or golden, bull, chaff, and gold/Inches, linnets and
thrushes of the blossoming thorn, the aspiring lark of the
morning, and the soft nightingale of dewy eve, the sagacious
magpie, and the eloquent blackbird—all birds that are wont
to the glad season ot apriog to twitter or to chatter for their
own and the public amusement were duly represented In this
" Parliament of Fowls." The names of their peoprieters,
and the prices at which they were valued, appeared in the ca-
talogue. Perhaps the moat attractive part of the exhibition
to an ordinary spectator was to be found In the clever talkers
and gorgeous dressers of the parrot and cockasse
tribe, impudent and beautiful, the chartered and cherished
libertines of domestic convene, the sawn betrayers of family
coefidenine, the isoceripible utterer, of rude teethe, whose
gaudy attire, like the parti-coloured jerkin of a court jester
formerly, is the privileged garb of malicious wit. Some of
those now to be seen et the Crystal Palace have ilitLgser,s;
fences at command, expressing moat innocent/7 every
of reproof and samara devised against the near tentless
end intimate acquaintance of their owners or inetractors.
Who would beat poor Poll for jest meeting what people
will say ? Who would not love poor Poll for saying what
we all mean, and telling Mrs. Grandy as writes which we
dare not tell her ourselves ?
There was nothing else to be noticed on Saturday except
the usual concert, which was even 113010 than tomb), agree-
able. Schubert's symphony in C was performed by the
orchestra wider the guidance of Mr. Manna, two or three
conga by Madame locomen' Sherriegton, and the violin
solos of Mr. Viotti Collins, making up the rest of themussoal
entertainment. The chrysanthemum are fading, but not
yet removed.