The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-05 00:00:00

TEI CRYSTAL PALACE.

Notwithstanding Lordltosse's strenuous denial
of may unfair tampering with the weather, there Is still a very
general belief that, whether through the aid of his lord-
ship'• leviethea telescope, or from some occult muss which
people don't (firmly understand, but in which they never-
theless religiously believe, these islands are to be blessed with
more than an average amount of sunshine in the course of
the waken eurarser. The drapers feel it, as ws may see ►y
their shop windows. Cremona* avows it in its preparatory
annoancements ; and the Crystal Palace and gardens, the
special ',abject. of the precut article, exemplify it is the pre-
-030101111 appearance of the grounds and flower beds which
Dave already, ens during the last week, attracted thousands
of visitors within the magic paling. There were 27,000 per-
sona, less cres—who, and when, could that one defaulter be?
in the palms, on Good Friday, and on Saturday, although
the crowd was a half-crows crowd, end thenfces as limited
as It was paled, it was an immense improvement on the
Saturday assemblages of the earlier part of the season. The
rein fell rather profusely, as became it on an April day, but
sererthelem the moment the long files of visitors came
to say opening in the long glass corridor which forms a sort
of labia land between the outer Mont Blanc and the inner
Himalaya of the terrific anent, the perfume of the young grams
and the spring flowers proved too strong fur the discipline
of the cortege, and people burst out upon the moist green
sward, and sniffed the fresh air of Penge-hill with a relish
which no spprebensions created of thin boots, or dresses ob-
noxious to rain water, could in that moment of asthuslann
qualify. The tart wee already in beautiful order—it is to be
hoped that the Heater °output, will respect its velvet pile end
medal reedure—and the wines beds of flowers with
which the skill of Mr. lyles end his eaelatants bee studded
the grade were positively wonderful in their growth end
colour. Bat the outer prospect, as one stood with his face
toned' the eels of sent, was one to make an Eagfishems
proud, end a lower of the beautiful happy. The limits of the
brisk• bed converted a whole county into one vest woody

amphitheatre, in which towns, village", church spins, tan-
ning Weems, refitted', and reentry mansions seemed to be
thickly Imbedded in one great pervading sad-coloured mass,
made np of Wrest, grove, and shrubbery. The foliage is
still, it is true, in Its infancy, but the time is fast approaching
when the visitor to Penge-hill, if he be a poet, will be Ate to
distinguish In this landscape es many metedels for a sylvan
word picture as has already immortellard Oronger.
" The gloomy pins, the poplar bine,
The yellow beech, the saki" yew,
The slender dr, that taper grows,
The sturdy oak, with bread-spread boughs."

To which our modem Dyer may aid some very pretty
elms, "sad serve," as Y. Sore would my, and it will be a
dish worthy to be set before the meat fselidious lover of the
picturesque. The glorious landseape will then be clearer,
brighter, more sharply defined, but it is to be doubted whether
it will be so soft, so dreamy, so like a pleasant vision as at the
present moment. English mists have many enemies, not to
speak of formidable rivals in their Scotch neighbours, but
nobody can deny that they give to a landscape atmospheric
effects which make the spectator—especially if provided with
a good umbrella and grata percha soles—console himself for '
the brighter skies of southern latitudes. From the esplanade
in front of the Crystal Palace these effect' may be observed in
their perfection. They are in thalami's' worth ell the
trouble and money spent in getting there, and, besides,
form a most legitimate excuse for pausing to take
breath before entering the crystal precincts, should
the visitor have bad the misfortune to get slightly
"blown„ during the struggles of the previous sweat.
If he should arrive while the fountains are playing, ail the

better, for this the afternoon ens makes half alaiss little
rainbows oat of the spray, and an opportunity is alibrded
for corning out very strongly before the young people von
reflection, refraction, prismatic colours, and the levelling
tendencies of fluids in general, and the mysteries of the
pneumatic forces. By turning hie eyes a little to the right,
he can also catch a glimpse of Mr. Watiebesse Hawkins'
amiable family, and if the curiosity of any of ltis young
Meade should be excited by the sight of the Xegatherium
trimming a full-grown oak to form a tenth with his tee,
he can &ammo, that the prothesor of pm-Adamite physio-
logy gives lectures within the building, sad makes the ge•
amel habits of the shapeless giants of the tertiary formation
11 is ibtaSisr as household worlds to the meanest capacity.
We saw crowds doing the very thing we 'mature to mom-
Reail, et various periods during our visit, but they were ince-
se drawn off when the sound of music roes within the
Whin, thus proving how very sagacious an eat it was of the
amellers to mousy the services of the treasurer of the Seared
Nthmanic Sthisty se their immoral manager. Under the reign
elf the hammier &May we may expect grand choral
on* to be a lssding feature in the entertainments, but we
dud it will mat be to the Meer extinction of Mr. Manna' nice
ale amemle es Seer to the Saturday company rid season
sr the way, the elegant Ake that are rising
se veil* on .may nide of the Palace will is then:wine
seen mg* eels --y of ticket-holders, and It is said
Ihory wield he mom still male nasammth out that the
camas of balding pearl la the mighlimielmed lime Ind
Irk minimum pethe at bee wirdsti lon elms thimasnd
ponds the sere I The directors of the Clyde] Palace them-
'Swam are said to be amongst the number, and we mead
help thinking the& • esetswitet shothalikted polity which
goes to purred as hems of whet the entarpdhe mate of
all things, • miglismibt, awl thdelire a permement sob-
sceptic. Bit, totlgeenueailedthsin meanie Wombs
sheet. The drat lb* ems treirmaly dose whin be sidle
within walking admen of r Crystal Pasco is to Nabs
his ihnsfly all mina thashibildlish or elm he may pedgm
limedreeproysessipedesedbaliniebelk wife sml dthebtess.
It wee the ewe eel** ilmeeporsints, ante theymine der
premed into the Beam./ Oenth kfa Steams sow car tit
lisontrs Perk-gordeememilhelet eleedidet be loolfileidel
by the Crystal l'elisedbedens dine iddinglint pismire*
seeping building peen/. liermodes edi tilisends le
the Setardeg emeteto ken vide it ribeledom woes pied
Ad that of Isieselag bid es Yip end dillimoik ettaidedi
The mmeed meta wee armemei le the dewy di* r terse.
were Ole emosimid with essipany, sal way ad tits
addeendhsell ken which
Anyaes of Mme be
bra ties et spieniam. old Maw
Ossiellim, ems neseinetle sir or two In eat stay dyie,
and 1L Remispi. vest Sungari's *Wet, gees two
of bit most toogag6ll new Every awe we pissed eel
el:Timed may, but the majority task cam le mateme le
the raise mentere opposite garbs the keg symphonies
whisk It. Kelm had this the brow of deltmming savory
Weft sadism* of amineem, wedissontml by 60 Praleal at
the ism derrimAnadnd pardon el the rgeopsay.
As nohow et pumas were amble et get Into the eamet
room, it is dmmied that the sestimme gees Ada be adordri
pair to the ressout en flaserdey ant, whin Kaden,
Coddles is to make bet tamed appesteasis.
Orent propmedons see making for the Beater bolder,
and thinks to the sew maws, en imam Maur of
videos may no dashe be ingested. It is said that an Friday
WI the moons of testier and ipso wen lowed to be some-
what too Halted for the doubts deem of people, sad if eo,