The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-03 00:00:00

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

The managers of the Crystal Palace inaugurated:
their summer 'emu on Saturday lest under happy auspices.,
It is true that the weather had not u yet settled tab Its per. •
lament mummer sunshine, and that the dulness, tearful,
smile of April still struggled hard with the merry laugh.,
of May; but yet there was enough of the latter to sheer
that It was the rising power, and to preserve freer imminent
peril the angelic bonnets, the vapoury Nbes, and the ride
silks and satins of the immense crowd of hie atml decidedly
didifOrbe ladies who crowded the transparent halls during-
the whole of the afternoon.

The main attraction of Saturday wen of course, the concore.,
for which the airiest and pleasantest of music halls had beam
improvised in the great transept. Mr. Ryles had been sum—
moned on short notice to deck it with hia splendid =Mee
and rhododendrons, and had succeeded in =Mulling them
in the front of the orehetstre in gorgeous masses of odour-
The latter, also a marvel of celerity, had only been completed.
the night before, but looked as tasteful and complete as if it
had been the result of long and careful preparation The
effect was very charming. The heads of the musicians Thin;
above the foliage and dowers might have led one to imagine
that Pan himself was there holding high festival, truly that
the scoompliatied cAsf of Sydenhaat is a much mom per.
sonshis individual than Apollo's rival Is represented to have
bean. To make all complete, a graceful little fountain
trickled gently in front, and in liquid mune acted almost
like:espell upon the ear between the grand bursts of the more
ambitious harmony of the orchestra. One peculiar merit cid
these Crystal Palace °courts is, that the "election is generally
non conewhat out of the beaten track of hackneyed moiled
popekerities, and that people Lave therefore opportunities of
beating, at them, music which has not been worked
to death elsewhere. Mendeissohn's overturn to Ray Bias,
• insince, although a great favourite with the amateurs, le
en net as nory-day piles 4 retistaisce, nor is Mr. Mac-
anesfs theerfal, and, on this occasion, most appropriate
sentata " Mayday," so generally known as it ought to
be. They wore both given In excellent style, the recent sop
nentenen of the band tang splendidly in the overture, end
Maims Sherrington's sweet voice, and the oorreot &gni
dr well trained chorus of the Royal Italian Opera, giving
ibil sin to the hearty, cheerful, pleasant music of the
enallals. Mr. Ashen played a magnificent violin solo, on
sirs then the Zonate, and last, though not least, Mr. Sims
Rams banned new tire to Pamir s well-known "Come, if
you dean." As the abject of this article is to nodes the
vowel Meares of the opening May-day, not to enter Lilo my
special musical criticism on the conoert, we most pais over
many attractive features In the latter, but cannot avoid
noticing the charming effect produced by the novel inter-
mingling of the human voices with the bend in the engage-
ment of the Prscioso. •It dram us very forcibly that suck
a union If carried oat mare frequently, and more enenevely,
would plan Immensely, as the human voices give an ea-
premien and vitality to the music which the most delicate and
reined instrumestatien could not bs expected to produce.
After the concert the compsay all crowded mound the oare-
fally roped off spies, within which the monster
nugget from Australis displays its unadorned enthrone
&rise This immense mar of the precious ore was food
by a party of four diggers, two of wheat were natives of New
Brunswick, and two emigrants from Gravesend. One had
been eleven years in the colony, and two had been ere years
at the diggings, getting merely a precerloom subsistence,
when suddenly they came upon this piece of thumping luck,
the vans of which le scanewlireis about 8,0001. sterling. It
is exposed in a gine ease at the bees of the Heade cecitedas,
earefolly gouda by two pollosnien, sad watched over with;
paternal cam by the youngest amber of the intonate ex-
ploring party. It is a large dat moo of nearly pure gold,
about two feet long, with en irregular breadth of a foot more
or leen and its Male yellow colour Indicates It to be of the
very hue quality. lee attraction on Saturday was very
great, the rail being quite besieged by emulous '• prospectors"
and there Is little doubt but that many a crude scheme of
nalgration was suddenly brought to maturity by the tempt-
big emanate of this valuable fragment, although the
Mame of getting a similar one is something like what ma
Hat of getting the 110,0001. prize In the old lottery. The
non curious thing about this nugget I. its form, which is
that of molten metal, as if some vast matrix had
boned up somewhere and °meowed, and that a
portion had then run into the place where it was
at last discovered. If one hundred and eighty-seven similar
nuggets were all placed in a long row with the new arrival
at their head, they would aboat represent the cost of the
crystal nine in which this ON solitary specimen is eel&
bind.

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gessiewea, having undergone the ireopeeery exaceleatirew for
the diploma, were admitted member of the Collage at She
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flows Palmer Deadel, Brasineter, Dorset ; Predrill*.
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