The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-23 00:00:00

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THE HANDEL FESTIVAL AT THE
CI rsTAL PALAU.

The second day of the great oeutenary has parsed
away, and, certainly, without any diminution at the aide
which bad attended the first. One drawback only could be
complained din yesterday's enjoyment, and that was the
ab-
seam of the Queen, who, It bad been expected, would presider
over the magnificent Te Dome composed in Deaner of her
&rat eatoster'e greatest victory. The royal box had ban
carefully decorated—the royal chair had been planed es the
dais, sad as banana and fashionable cudcadence had oolleeted,
mocha whose inducement for coming mat be set doers to,
the expectation of meeting their sovereign. Many were the
looks that were turned towerde the secant royal box during
the morning, and when Mr. Coma commuted without giving
the National Anthem, an on the preview day, it we at once
concluded that the postposszasat wee occasioned by en
tatizaatios that the royal party would arrive later In the day.
Thaw, epaulettes arose an to what Lad prevented her
Majesty's coming, and It was currently reported that the
swims Mom of a dietingulehed member of the royal family
ersa the cause. But whatever might bare been the muse that
kept the royal box vacant during the day,:empty it remained,
and the audiencehad ally to console tamale's with the
bops that Friday would be the fortunate day, and that on
that occasion Mr Majesty would be accompanied by UN
Prima Consort and the King of the Belgians. Than am
as taimesse influx of visitors from the country, and the Ms.
tispiliiiss &swim of the three great divkient of herMseselre
MIDI= aegis be bred is wavy seem if 1N 'rut
Waist.

The maser in Miele Um Crystal Palace was filled yee-
Imlay, aid the winierfil sleet with which the mimeo wee
bleed, west far I. prove that If the projectors had made any
mistake hi its samehtictioe, it me only ill Wog Jo', ge
years in advisee he meshes the Melee end requirensiets of
the DAY pane. It te teen prevail is anionstration that the
Nosh& see the mist nooskel Mien Is Zurope, for in ne
ohm emnfiry NMI mei a bed of amateur chorines, lam
ben smineed tesidomos nor hi any ether country esuld the
phenomena be whneemi of mon travelling three benhed
Mho Moly he the pismire of singing is am mike*
whiny ellhingh the collective result WY shgendeile
the Inikeldnal 'Uniondale was nothing ; or of
Mem *gin • strenuous violin in the band, who,
when at Mens, employ foam ,I,foo to 2,000 men in their own
ilashelei eat pay swap three or for thoesand pounds every
weak Y wage. AM their love of music is sot greater than
their themillnallen, for as they are the My people who can
sympathies pith ihe imgeety of Milton, sad appreciate the
wit, wisdom, ea limesee of likokspeare, so are they—and
this is the yeemiget boast at all, seeing that meek speaks an
ushered linsmse--the only gavial who can rise to the
sublimity ihmilefe glorious compositions. But Handal
cm eel be one Notice to by Made armies of choristers*
bathed by the pug el a Think) ems, and aided by the se-
cemienlmenb of an em ,_sue bead. As then, the people or
Bushel MI hew flendel, rid sa anything they require
must be shentellim, an wry ad its beat kind, the erection of
the CepMl Pala* MMus\ bah with far other intentions,
wet be teelmei at Wet amongst the happiest of
seridents i glebe is us the mere of bevies that which we
We hens ems hi the beet peeelble maw& la • mastic
dillsehles heMson been mans getever, its adminiatratioa
bee monied the difffeult dielphie of inseam audiences,
end people sea come to it In • ley kin the neechst corners
et the kingdom Neat to the nimicial West which the per-
ihrromice sae*, thane* Mita the inteske pima when
that performiace is elm* le semmenc& An the theism&
preeentrisehrtheNatienelAithem, or the Hallehojah chases,
is one of the most imbeds* things Is the world. Well
favourefolehlydresesedokseenreely ordered, a Bendel Festival
seems, is • spestesis d Mai en Ensnare= may well be
proud, mad he who nqglens to avail bimetal tithe last oppor.
tunny of waft It, aid ef formtag part of It, will havensem
to regret the minim kr the rest of his natural His. But
there is still mother part of the spectacle which he must not,
which we date be sworn he will not forget, sad that la the
eigLt of the great British people at luncheon. When the
disappearance of Mr. Costa yesterday from his lints
boa sanouncel that the half hour for refection had
arrived, the] .gay parterres of ladies bonnets which
W slowed over the area end galleries all the
messes, Ilse sown gigantic pelargonium show, the troop'
elteollseue hem, the heavy *toque of elderly connoisseurs,
an mild swap before your epee like a dissolving vlew; rs-
W4i the some orderly meow in which they had en-
MA but the tmulllkeet Britannic vigour the mo-
nist they eppeeeelei tae veins refreshment tables. We
ease " eselther at • peed eesdoestel celebration, during
whisk • efoolliar interval wee ellesel, end well we remember
is, enrprbe at the celerity wlllk white the lords of the mar
tics secured all the beet pleas at the omaters, ate up all the
fps, (husk all the homed& end left to the ladies the tem-
perate luxury of watching their tremeadoas prowess from
remote censers, Not so yesterday at the Crystal Palace.
The lodise were everywhere the AM cared for, and the hate
of prestMlgintios which were performed by gallant youths
in balsnalas wine kW, with the necessary goons, in one
had, whin they held aloft • pyramid of sandwiches in the
other, es they made their way through the crowd to the
fair object& of their care, afforded proof of a substantial
gallantry which we. worth an the bowies and limping in the
world. Neither the audience nor the chorus tingles &relit d
themselves of the second interval to leave their mate, but
when all was over, and when " Bee the conquering Hero'
had km tellyeajoyed, the whole vest assemblage becks up,
sad spread themselves over the beautiful geodetic ; and here
occurred pukes* the most novel and interesting episode la
the whole of the day's proceedings. The gentlemen choris-
ters, sunrise fatigued with their hard day's work, ext. wporked
Toed easociatione in various places, and, to the immense de
light of the public, mug a succession of glees and choruses to
the open air. Leeds vied with Bradford, and Mutt hewer
vowed it would not be outdone by Halifax. Bach had tine
taro, sad seek did ; their work so well that Paris was never
wee puede* as to the disposal of hie golden apple than was
the delighted sadism MI to which of the provincial month.
bed ma up the beet laws. Bo gnat was the enthusiasm
of balk Awry sad Waters, that it was only with mender-
able display of activity that the latest trains to town weed
owed.

The performaes wee as e :cellist es it wee on Monday,
but we doubt whether It made so deep an impreesion on the
audience. If we may be entitled to judge from our own
Uslings of those of others, we should my that it did not by
any means. This neat; indeed, was to a certain extent
wrens/try; for the Hernah is the conformation of sublimity,
by the side of which every other work, even of the author
himself, must appear comparatively feeble. It lea Christiaa
epic, se great in its own breach of art as the "Paradise Lost''
in poetry. Handal's note* are the Moss, of inapirelits se
truly es the verde of Milton. Risco the penile of Baena
hen a love sod veseratiou for the 'twist which they have
net fend probably may never have) for any other work of
nnelal rats, however greed or tentlful. Bat there
Is menstaing more. The entertainment' (if we say
apply anti a word to anything so tenon end
noble) of Monday was one mighty whole—one
.Mims eoneeption carried to the highest pitch of which
the bans powers are capable : that of yesterday, with one
eseeptioe, wee a collection of fragments—we were almost
going to my • feast of 'craps ; every one of them beautiful
heilself, but deprived of much of Ps power, end even of its
bonny, by being tern from its place in the great work of
which It teens a part. There bail been no artist in the world
whom woeke are so remarkable .a those of Handel for unity
ill Assign ; for that perfect @agleam of nary part to the
object of the whole ; a quality which unspeakably enhancer
the power and beauty, not Gay of the whole, bat of every
separate part. And the conviction wee palatally forted spas
us, is more than on inseams, that this lack of eautimity
end entireness weakened the totem& of the perlarmanow
Of the Hotlines To Dams we do sot sprain —it wee a grand
whole, grandly produced; bat every other put of the per-
ieum*, is oar judgment at least, suffered in the manner
we ban endeavoured to poiat out.
The Dottier' Tr Dorm hes new been feenitiarly knows
Is the IWO It ;abbr. Compri swirly to MVO IS
WOOS of the dwelt service INNIS the Xing west to kis
royal ehepel he afier up &slabs tot the victory of Dettroges,
it amid net, trees its very nano sod object, be often mo-
aneL It wee fse nosy nen perferwad :smelly at the
Wiwi of Mesons of las Clap as 01. hors ; but stone this
Wirt hr boa sbets of be gnarl Assns, the Betting's
lb Doan bat owe* um bon bald la Lowto. Its pros
sat 1111.1,41111 tits opodso of tble peat ratessey COMIlle•
osolloo, bat boo so rt el some Myra awl poi Orb.