The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-10 00:00:00

TEI CRYSTAL PALAOL

The shareholders of the Crystal Palma Company

me models of Christian virtue. The ungestetul Public
laughs at them for their onfoetunste eqmeulation—unfor-
tunate, that is, in a pecuniary seese—ead, in return, they
give the laid ungrateful public dower show. Flower shows,
to be sum, are not now any nay gnat rarity, nor am they
in general any very great boon. If they are held in-doors
the freshness and plena= savour of the dowers only render
more stealing the disagreeableness of a hot and crowded
room. If they are held al from, why everybody knows
that it is sure to rain. A Chiswickl;te—tbsoretically one of
the most delightful things in the world—has actually become
• proverb ; and, in fact, considering the colds, and cone=
and emanmptions which might be traced to it, one is almost
=spend that it has not long since been suppressed ea •
public nuisance. Now, the Crystal Palace dower show, in
every good respect, out-Chia:kits Chiswick, and It is, more-
new, perfectly innocuous. Thefite yesterday was In this man-
ner &perfect triumph. The weather was so bed as possible—rest
that the rain, ea d soseetlesse the ase, was =intermittent.
but the showers were es frequent, and of so capricious a cha-
meter, that ao ow is Ids senses would have ventured beyond
the eight sage circle which constitutes the cabman's metro-
polis. Aa, however, London-bridge happens to be within
the boundary, nothing could be airier than to reach the rail-
way nation, and once there the visitor, whether Tereapeed
by a wish to see or to be sees, was in a pcoilion to {suet at
mg planet oonaideratione whatever. The result was that the
?aim wee crowded with well-dressed persons, and won
time chanting air of busy leisure which makes it the most
picturesque and agreeable place in the world. Gallantry
would den= rumen the idea that the Sowers wow as
ineignikont attraction, compared with the lovely ken
who placed their completions in contrast with the rose and
the lily ; but truth compels us to say, that for once the show
not unsuccessfully competed with the ladies. So low, ao
vaned, and so, in every lease of the word, perfect • eollsotion,
of food Manures probably never met the eye. Every fen.
tank beauty which " the gorgeous East with richest band"
showers on the tropics, or which adorns the soberer meadows
of more temperate sones, was represented on the =woks ;
and the mind a absolutely bewildered by any attempt to
recall the dazzling array of plants, with dimiliar end with
impronounceable names, or to decide which in its way moat
merited approbation. The show of fruit was equally splendid
It was difficult to appro.= the tables on which it
was =Feed, and to vanquish =opt.= the lercenous
• whichrtotatikt and odour of some of the speciosa=
Never, bed the universal
mowtharAur nee so sissy who with h•lf ; end
it was amusing to see law in many an old gentle-
man, " cheered with the grateful smell, looked on and
mailed." That nose ef the senses might he ungratified, the
band of the Coldsereams, and that ordinarily attached Is the
Palace, were in anandsnos, end played a well-chess ashe-
n= of popular sin; and there were also performances on the
great organ.
Altogether theft* was a great moms. It will be con-
tinued to-day and to-me:vow at the usual admission of one
shilling ; and three will, no doubt, be an inane= number of
visitors.