The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1856.

THE PEACE REJOICINGS.
THIS DAT.

In the suburbs of London this awning, business
was elated satirely ensosaded, ealy those shops dialog la
the neciesseries of lite keeping open. Ia the City end west-
elide however, by previous smageneet, the dale were
genenlly epee for tM drat half of the day. 11esesealas

wee dull oral gloomy. but, notwithetanah4 this, thousand;
of country people wade their appeeranee by alas se
tee e'clork, having owns fret the surrounding listriete
principally as too', while tbe eaenreion trains ow ell the
ustrepelitiut nilweye broght is imistinsou stream of
visitors.

The Int greet focus of attention was St. Ifisies'opark,
wham at tea cede= as taspeodoa of Howl*ld troops took
place spin the parade is frost of the Horse Gourds. Her
Majesty, Priam Albert, Priam Frederick Willies' of
Prussia, the Duke of Cazabridp, and L.wd Her-
ding' were peewit, 'tended by a sena, staff of pet-
rel °Mears. The troops formed to line, presenting
anal, while the bands played "Ged IMMO the Quest;" after
which the usual evolutions were pas through, sad her
Majesty having expressed ►er oath/autism at the Gao sp-
umonis of her troops, and the mama in which the
so:dutiese lad been executed, returned to Backinahms
Palace; sad her Illutrlous visitor, accompanied by Priam
Albert, then =tore(' the Gems-park and lamest= the pre-
parations 'kakis. there ter ti a exhibition of fireworks,
la the afternoon her Majesty, as is sustamery, held a
birthday drawiag-room, but so presestatiome took limos.
Hyde-park at ea full hour, permeated= estremely sal-
mated sppearasoo; thoesasels of perms* locking is at all
the gates to view the operations of laths mad peewits the
various please intended to Gram la the grand pyroteeksie
display of to-night It must have bees @somewhat mou-
ths to aces who made as early entry, to tad that the park
was enveloped Is a mist, not =like that of a sold
autumnal monolog; bet, as the day =missed, the
vapours roes, sad, the people were easbled to ',Joy
the natural beauty of the pleas, perfected by the rates
of the last few days, as well as to obtain some Moe of
the gigantic display of to sight. Is =did= to the feed
pieces, with regard to which rapid progress wee made, stood
the countless steads of rockets ready foe firing la lights of
twenty and fifty, snoozed wit► torpid= to keep them
dry, while hundreds of waggons from Woolwich, similarly
protected, were os the grotad, filled to an overflow with
pyroterhale projectiles.
The Green-park, Victoria-park, and Primrose-hill, each
preened a tinglas apparent*, and attracted a numerous
concourse of visitors.

There are feellop abroad surest timid and nervous
people, that many reddest. will rear at the fireworks
through the presents of the crowd; hat such ars the pre.
sontior takes by the police to give safe ingress and ogres,
and so vast is the epees that offers itself for eluding
ground, that it seems hardly poribis that there
should be any real muse for uneasiness; hare it may he
observed that the displays will be better era from a die-
resis than from the immediate vicinity of the oselosuse, so
that so aelessity for pressrun will eniat. The Queen her-
self will get no nearer view of the napalmed display this
that afforded from the windows of the palace; while the
densities attached to the royal ',trete*, with their wives
and families, will occupy a gallery austreeted sada the
palace windows ; and the families of the soldiers in Mil-
liner Barrer& are provided for by pasties erected is
the bursek-yard—a lug way from the seer of display,
hat suMeirtly near to lose aces of its sugallamos.
As appearances with reseed to the weather ere not par-
ticularly favourable, warns have been takes to peeper
the firework exhibitions should So night be shay, arises
having been yesterday primed for that pupas to be herd
if aressary. The streets throughout the wining were
thronged with people watching the prep:stirs for the
Illuminations. Many of the drips were sompleted, bat
others were unfinished, and from their state it seemed quite
probable thot night would COMO ea before they could be
finished. At Somerset hree the design bat ore gigantis
sad beautiful, occupy*: a large body of workmen
throughout the day manly to roped the lamps. At
the National Gallery the desists will be of an equally
elaborate description ; but the preparation at two o'clock
wore still very backward. At the Admiralty, all was
finished except the suspension of a portion of the lamps.
At the Horse Guards everything was la a forward wadi
tins, so as to enable the spectator to form some flat idea of
the extraordinary beauty of the des.p. At the Treasury
the Beal preparations were isompleted in good time, and
eilsibited an extensive outline of simplicity, combined
with harmony In colour and distils.
In the City and Strand many private astablishsents
exhibited their patriotism and love of peace by the most
extensive illuminative preparations is gee and luau, while
designs is laurel extend eloog the astir* fronts of may q
' the houses, and flap and banners fly in all direction,. It
would pelisses be unfair to ears individual Sitars
generally, but it is at the same time Just to menthes
that the Electric Telegraph Company, Birk-
iog waiers's, Drusamond's banking hoar, and other
firms to this neighbourhood sum to have vied with sash
other in producing something worthy of this great national
at..

In Leicester-square the Panoption is well worth a visit,
as is also the Great Globe; bat then is nothing else tallies
for spacial mention. The while frost of the former will
be gorgeous with Chinese hastens ; end the latter will dis-
play a transparsooy of the earth, which is ss perfect In
detail es It is beautiful in gum, design.
The Haymarket, judgiag from appearances, will be a
ousplete blase or light, as mat of the well known re
sorts of this night locality will exhibit either traepareneise
or designs in gas or lamps. Not a few of thus—including
Butt's—hove (+totally covered their devices so as to shroud
them from the eyes of jealous seighboars, wall the hoar
for "lighting up" shall arrive.
Along Regent-street the preparations are upon a scale
which promises to daubs the eyes of all beholden; bat
there are two traerpareacies above the rest of the designs
whisheAsUenge particular ettention. One b la the Quadrant,
and occupies the whole front of a house, and bean the fol-
lowing motto Esglsnd and Franco gaited, give Hope to
Hungary, Unity to Itely, sad Freedom to Poland." The
other is Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, t►a eminent music pub-
lishers, and russets artistic claims far beyond the ordinary
range. Kees by the light of day it bu a very striking so-
ranee', and conveys an Idea somewhat poetic. It is a
painting represenUag the fiats( of the sun from the sea,
with two female Stereo iteedlat on the shore, personify. I
lag Prance sad England, and swearing friendship over as
alter, from which the sassed Home of friendship 'primp ;
soldiers and sailors of bath stations standing near, and too-
aint.h the whole the simple word, " Concord."

Varm's auks* no pretensions to absolve* &molly, bot
shows a most tramparseey. in the Naha of which are *a
words " Viva In Baia, !"

A little higher, es the opposite side of the street, there le
a most estauive deelp V gar, ocenpying the ostensive
front of the ortablishmest knows as Argyll Row. It is a
grand emblematical design Is gea, eonsisting of • brillisat
mown eseireed by laurel wreath, surmounted by the lags
of E &gland, Frame, Sardinia, and Turkey ; sup ported by two
stare of Britaswick, and beerlog the motto, Alms, Bola.
khya, Iskermase, and Sebastopol." Immediately opposite,
at Jay's mourning eitsblielseet, is another estssaive and
striking dreign in gee; and the joint effect of the two die-
' playa cannot fall to be overpowering to the eye. Atter
borough, UM silversmith, hes adopted a somewhat novel
coarse, the frost of the hoes• being converted into a tem
porary petters, by a profusion of flowers end evergreens
gratiefelly intermingled with plaster statues; from the
Rabid of which lamps will shoot forth theft rays is
varying and brilliant hoes. Messrs. Nicol and o•ho,
tredieines in this street also sabibit besstlfal design, and
perbspi there limo other street which will offer so mach
resod attraction.

Waterloo-place will be brilliant, but the drag= err, p-
uma, speektng, not of a novel character. There will, how-
ever, be a great blase of light, combined with the advantage
of the width of space from which to catch it favourably.
Pall-moll, as it always is on inch ocessione, will be as
attraction of the first segnitude. The Army and Navy
Club his a design of great event, econbiniag stars, =owls,
dap, sad laurel wreathe In profusion, the word Pesos"
la large letters being below the whole. The Athena.= has
a design in gas, bat being undoished it is only safe to say
that it will be lees 'labors= than that of its opposite neigh.
boar. The Refers, the Travellers', and the Carbon have
so devisee, ►et will light up the !eaves. above with their
basis' tuck= of ; while the United Service, the
Guards', and the University exhibit tasteful and extensive
designs. The Origami. Mee will be one of the deal
illsminstkas of the night, as there will be slag its whole
front stars, dap, sad crowns, la lamp, of varied colours,
postman a remarks's). solos of beauty of design and
=lour; and the sass may be rid of the witabliskaisat
at News. Hudias, a door el two further es.

Let Jassees-staire the Dale of Norfolk Ise bril-
liant devise is !saps; :ad It s sent door neighbour, the
Bisbee of Loades, the melee, else to leaps sad ia large
Was% "Este Papaw." There is wades else is this
limas to stalest ettestles.

-111. Jsease-street will be, fir sash a locality, singularly
dull. From *se sad of the street to the other there is
within new, and wally of the designs acs altogether la-
egalikeat._
_ _

-Of Ph:meanly the same may be said with more wises modi-
fication ; there, towever, the tope of the home, facing the
Green-park, sr, g Ily eovered with galleries emantand-
ing a full view of the drewerks.
Lord Palmerston inhibits the royal eyphin with a mown
sad star ; and the Duke of Wellington a design which
deesives to be witnessed.

Park-laze has little to induce a visit ; but like Piccadilly,
the roof, of its booths bees often bean made available for
galleries from which the fireworks in Hydr-park may be
viewed.

At the Albert Oats, the French Ambassador hos the ini-
tials N. E. and V. A., and surmounted by a crown, with
' the Imperial eagle above all.
In Belgravia there is a plentiful display of stars and
crowns, but little to tall for special notice. Baron Roths-
child, in Grosvenor-plass, has a magnidoent design in so
loafed lamps of the Royal initials, surrounded by a broad
wreath of laurel in rubies and emeralds; aad Ltrd Pae-
stum la Reignite sciusrr, displays on the two front' of his
resident)e designs in lamps of stars, crowns, and flogs ; and
the Russia' ambassador in Chesham•place, surrounds his
house with simple gas jets. The absence of striking designs
is this eriatoeretic and wealthy quarter of the metropolis, is
very marked, and gave Tile is some rather pointed goer
meats

la the baldness thoroughfares of Londoa the preparations
for Ulaabatir g appear to be pretty general, bat u far as
private houses are concerned it ap;eare to hare been taken
for granted that display was not looked for.
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On the sou.h side of the river in such estabridunents u that
of Yuen. Mandalay, and places of public resort, like large
taverns, the consumption of gas for illuminative purposes
bids fair to be extecsive ; nor are the suburbs without *eft-
aloud indiutiess of patriotic display.
_ . .

On the whole, it may safely bs said that, sboald the tight
be fine, the iliassinetions sod fireworks together will pre-
sent a sight of splendour which bas rarely been witnessed,
even by by the " oldest inhabitant," sad a by the "new
• generation."

_
While we write all is expeetatioa and suspense; f.r though
may us Arm in the hope that the weather will be pro-
pitiou, others are u eppnhensive that the elements will be
usfavourable, end teed more cr less to mar the beauty of
Use sane. The streets are, aeverthelen, occupied with
thrergiog multitudes, and the parks are gluing rapidly,
thousands of people hatriog some to the spot, with an ample
tronsion of creature comforts, to ena►le them to bold
out till night, prepared to speed the day beneath the
canopy of h , for the sake of Hearing a good place.
dace are defog in all direction., sad the bells of None of
chetahs" are nagging out their merry peals la honour of the
fete. The theatres have opened their doors far day per-
formancee, and " Pasch," with other iti aaaaa t exhibitor.,
suer behindhaad on such great occasions, attracts an out-
docr sodium at every quiet corner, and reaps a rich barren
of puce and halfpeass. Bands of mule parade the streets
everywhere, sad, in fact, it may be mid that the entire in-
habitants of Loadoa have thrown themselves ►urt and
soul tote the ollebratios of the great peace fete of 1866.

♦ farther statement of souse of tbe wore preadaest pub-
lie buildings to be illuminated will waist spostators to select
their resit.

CITY.

Gotuowaii —The illuminations of Guildhall will rover
the front of th►t adifloa facing King-stmet, from the roof
to t►e ground, its malls*, being all &Reel by beads of
ges; rod ft will alai boar the royal initials, sad the City
erne sad motto.

INDIA Room—Rich sad elaborate foliage, ite., in gee,
with appropriate devisee

Boi•7. Excamma.—Pestoom of lamps mania, round
the buildiag ; ever the principal 'mimeo.. a transparency,
wit► the inscriptioe, " The earth is the Lord's, sad the
Wiser thereof."

BANK or ENOLAND.—A brillisat der, fined t) nab of
the street Nape Meng the (rant le Threadneedle street.

POST-0711C1 —Transparency over the principti stream ;
in tke move, the Union Jack and Tricolour combined ; on
one side the init'ale V.R., earniouated by a crown; on the
other L N. and crown, with star &c.

Sr. PAUL'S 8C11001..--A tranopeteney 'bowleg the ha.
dale V.A., setzseented by s craws, sad bearing the Iseult).
ties Plea."

CIIITOM-HOUlll.—Tbe Casten-taus is szucted to look
vary Nu/midmost. The satin frost tubs, tbs river will be
illuminated with gu, sod it boo bun doeidod by tbs City
authorities to illuminati Billion/its Yorks; which imme-
diately adjoins it.

FISIMOMIZEIrm•Li.—One of the most costspienoss der
eorst,hos will be that of the Fishmongers' Company, near
Loudon-bridge. It consists of a royal crown, the royal ini-
tials, and the wcrd "Pease" at the bottim. Temple-bar
wili be illuminated with j. is of gas running along the top
and different proj•etions.
LONDON REDO, Tnimutne.—Tte @Ease of the London
and Br.ghten Railway will have a beading of gas running
along the ttp and sides of the prisepal face of the building,
with • very large reflecting star in the moire. The South-
fluters Mies will be lighted up only with aster.

Faxcitosea•s T Tzasszera.—The Blaekwall tie
sinus, in Fentharah- treat, will meant a beautiful ap-
pearance ; the to and old.. will bane beadisp of gas, mad
on the frost of the building will be four stadallioos, also is
gas, eentainisg the nun of the allies, &Iliad, France.
sad Budinla and Turley.