The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 13.

A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will
be published as usual ON SATURDAYS.

IT has been found impossible to shut out
from India one large and influential profes-
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sion—that of free teachers of religious troth.
Missionaries proceed there in numbers, and in mature
age, with aims, ideas, and duties, that never have
been trained, clipped, or confined by the shears of
Leadenhall-street. They go amongst the natives,
preach to them, and write home, without fear of
high authorities, a grievous account of abuse, of
grievance, and of wrong. The Missionaries do their
duty, sad proclaim truth; but the religious view
of a people and of a social state is necessarily one-
sided. Suppose England visited by a body of foreign
Missionaries, and we may conceive what would be
their report. Should we not prefer having this
country visited at the same time by men of the world
—economists, politician's, commercial men ? Not only
would more maul truth be collected for foreign
iatermation, but more would also be elicited fur home
ow la the same way wo should strongly recom-
mend East India Directors, in their on o defence,
sad for their own aims, to send out mature English
Lawyers and lodges, and to open Julia for inde-
pendent /dogfish traders. We know that few of the
kcal Am settle in India, end that they thus re-
lies le Madam capital into that country, because
they Ind the administrative regime of India into-
Astable M the bee habits el the gaglishman.
A melbenporary joined. *manila, on the late
debeleotbeerese that the aetleseefllledartan may be
'emillieeptelelei with the sapped ideas and Mien-
Aims et Illegland thew& the to _a agents of
•Whill seamollost bibs Owes ma potentates who
AM Lumina I and ad ail mad latesistites is the
mewersi Ibessok Me poem met banged red
mod fob to Melon sad oderepresest then.
WWI BM Me wog to cornet this be to piss the 1
Mbar* psywlelleu awe in contact will Me ustwee
me batwing itaitislussa, Limb di nib(
their besseeswese to that their:Wray sad demisant
class whom they ascowarily suspect ?
Mr. MsnoLna made a singular declaration, when
-be seated his belief that India had been subjected to
ia order that its people might be converted
11.fthamity. This is sew doctrine from the India
Iblewls white was so bag the great obstacle to
Messy aorta in India. For our part, we fear
faeß tae dill obstacle to Englishmen converting
Illbilmais precisely the fact of England's being
U. country, and hence suspected of

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baring political and interested alum in preaching
Christianity to its races. Conquerors may impose
a religion by the sword, but the language of per-
suasion in their mouths has never been listened to
by the conquered people.
Mr. MANGLES knows very well that India was
. . .

subjected to England for far other &au religions'
pennon's, and that it is governed on far other prin.

ciples. India is a farm, olwhich the millions of serfs
have been crushed and &word and worked for the
benefit of some few thousand' of Englishmen. And
Mr. M tIiCaLLS, when he talks of the conversion of
the natives being achieved by the course of things,
the ?dissioneries themselves not too much interfering,
is merely dealing " soft eawder" to a popular interest.
If the Hindoos are to be converted, it will be by co-

dewing them with a portion of English ideas and
English feelings on common subjects. And these
may induce a belief in Christianity. But }Undoes
will never be converted by shutting them up, or con-
fining them to mere official contact with the Anglo-
Indiana.

We do not know what Mr. MANGLES wu aiming
at when he represented the Bengtles° to have the
timidity of monkeys. Are the Bears!Esc of a differ-'
cot race from other Hindoo tribes, some of them of
notorious fierceness? Or is the air of the Ganges
more unfavourable to manhood than that of many
hotter and lower regions south of it ? No. The de-
gradation of a race into cowards, like the Bengalese,
is the effect neither of birth nor clime, but of ad-
ministrative and social oppression. We could point
out races in Europe as degraded as the Bengalese,
and from the self-same cause.
The timidity or depression of a rue in no

excuse for not seeking to raise them to independent
and manly feeling, which can always be done
by a certain degree of freedom and a deliverance
from inch a state of oppression as that which
weighs on the people of Bengal. The Missionaries
deserve well of their cloth and country for having
signalised their dire oppression; and we recommend
them to insist and persist, and be in nowise tricked
or laid asleep by the Tartuffes of Leadenhall•atrect.
These men say now, when it suits their purpose,
that India was given them in order to its being
einistianised. But they will not stir a foot towards
any sigh result. Christianity is civilisation;
Cksintianity, where it is worth anything, is freedom.
Ana India will never progress to either, as long as
it twain the old, retrograde, rotten borough that
Amid traditions would make it.

. 'WO are glad to learn that a loogreengaiheill
aggempereey, well-known toe the devotion it has
blame shows to the sham of decayed opiaicas 4U
lbenglelogieeleneeenellionMen of makiad, has been
411Inikp adopted ea the doily organ of the Con-
entreadve Party. Mar*, as we do from smarty all
sentiments mimed in tame pest by
Att jelling alluded to, we have never failed ar

recognise and respect its consistent adherence to the
unavailing. And differing as we feu 'we shatareeii
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most of the theories and maxima of &ate likely
be propounded by its new dittetabb we set 'di

feciedly rejoiced to find that so,numerically Od tar:
ritorially important a median of 'the community at
those wbo still call themselves Tories should at
length have found a medium for the diurnal
notation of their sayings and doings—a record
witarenato we may refer henceforth for each chi-
valrous effort to make the sun of progress stand
still in the political valley of Ajilon.
So long a time has now elapsed since the friends
of reaction had the pleasure of feeling that they had
a daily organ of character and circulation in their
hands, that we cannot be surprised at their being a
little elated at the event. It is, indeed, a circum-
stance worthy of celebration in bumpers of mous-
mulct r and as the festivities at a launch have been
not inaptly termed the ship's farewell to safety, so
we should feel disposed to dwell with pensive sym-
pathy on the echoes of the "long-continued cheers"
_ .

which doubtless mug throughout the halls of the
Carlton at the announcement of the interesting fact
we have recited.

True it is the fortunate barque has not been
actually built for this special service, and that, al-
though she now is to appear clipper-rigged, the old-
fashioned lines on which she was originally con-
structed may still be recognised in her tendency to
settle down in the water, and in rough weather to
roll heavily. But in the prevent period of calm,
when even the sarcastic and ambitious DismAw
looks

u placid as a pond, when Lord DEUS,' thinks
it safe to leave Lord MALMESBURT in charge during
his frequent Ills of absence from the Lords, our old
contemporary, when re-painted, re-gilt, and put into
thorough repair, may, and we hope will, glide
easily and pleasantly over the glassy sea. It will
perhaps be time enough some twelvemonth
hence to look into the bill of lading, or to
inquire of what items it is composed. For
the present the duty of a Tory organ is
little beyond that of a cruiser, occasionally seeming
to make sail, then suddenly laying to, or closely
awl/ the official shore. Vessels so employed
maim carry many pins, and still more rarely any
gesillaviurth mentioning. All they require is a trifle
',ballast, a steady captain, and an orderly crew, not
given to put off in boats without orders on rash ven-
tures or speculations of their own. How far the
Member for Bucks will find this to be a correct de-
scription of his ship's company we venture not to
inquire.

The day must come, however—and possibly it may
not be quite so distant as the mere jobbers in party
politics imagine—when both the great hereditary
factions whom' arms are for the present piled together
upon neutral ground, and whose once distinctive
colours mingle now in temporising truce, will find
themselves once more impelled to conflict, and hurried
into a renewal of their old collision ; whenever that
day comes ; the season of evasion and of equivoque
will have pulsed away. Men will not rally to a doubt-
ful call, or assemble to fight round a standard they
have never seen unfurled before. Long ere then it
must be the policy of the more sagacious leaders of
the Conservative party to accustom their followers
to some intelligible war cry, and to make their ears
familiar with some clear and unmistakeable sound.
What is that sound to be? What are the principles
of which the Herald is to give warning ? Apart
from all antecedents and recollections, and
supposing the who!' page of future politics to be
tabula rase—what ars to be the articles of Tory
faith es taught from the morning pulpit, to celebrate
whose dedication to the service of the party nearly
200 Peers and Commoners assembled in festive
solemnity on Saturday Is the tint of the newly
embroidered uniform to be deep purple or pale? Is
the daily ritual of party to be evangelically read, at
eapitalarly snag Are High Church notions or
Low Ohara doctrines to be declared orthodox ? Or
what is to be the tone adopted on the long
series of quaii-political, quasi-polemical ques-
tions, which, since the origin of what are
called constitutional parties in this country, have
incessantly divided them one from the other? Will
the organ of the Carlton advocate the maintenance
of .Maynooth, or its abandonment by the State to the
Propaganda? Will our contemporary advocate the
Patristic theory of marriage for which Lords Denny

and RRDESDAIR contended, in concert with the
Duke of NORFOLK and their half-way-to•ltoman
lordships the Bishops of SALISBCRT and ORFORD ?
Or will it espouse the Protestant principle of mar-
riage, and incite the Commons to preserve the
Divorce Bill against the subtleties and sophisms that
will be tried on anew during its passage through
the Lower House? What line will the morning
warder of Conservatism take on the question of
Church Rates—what upon the question of Jewish
eintkilities--what upon the still wider and more im-
portant one of primary education ? It may be all
tin will for a Bishop who can shut himself up in
spbsopal dignity and smile superciliously
out of his palace windows at popular discontent—
it may be all very well for him to compromise
the great candle question, or to compound for
erucifixeson the altar by crucifixes everywhere else.
But the necessities of a journal are not to be satis-
fied with medium words, and interminable quallilue
times, and balancing. between opposite opinions.
To win anything like a general hearing, and to win
anything like a real hold over the thoughts sal
memories of men, a preacher, whether he press
from behind a cushion or from behind a printing-
press, must be straightforward, plain, intelligible,
not to be confounded with men of different or hostile
sentiments. Between the two theories and practi-
cal bearing' of what is termed High and Low Church
there is the utmost and noist unconquerable repug-
nance: the philosophic litarateurs of the Carlton
Club may laugh at their internecine hate; but
the antagonism is a reality, a fact, a passionate im-
pulse, and no sham. We shall be curious to see
which side of the controversy the newly constituted
organ will espouse.

We regret to learn the Hon. Mrs. Dawson
Darner, 'Mow of Captain the Hon. Henry Dawson Donor,
AN., and 'mother of the Earl of Portarlington, died as

Friday kat, ahst • &art Blum

We regret to learn Vieeountees Gage was suddenly
wised as liatiwday samosa with spepkwy, sad eapirad at
twisty Wattle. air 10 o'clock the whaw

Captain Denham Mussy has arrived in town.
This 'anent young siker has bees warmly congratulated by
his friends et the Jusikc United Service Club on his rastars-
teas kr bola, whit& is now fully sitablianed, Steady res-
.

west el Ide weeds kiwi lerserreas, from which nithaser
recovery creel le!zpected.

Among tits sabsenbers to the Muteness testimo-
nial an the tellemem agraerastirea in tbe Howe of Cene•
mese Sall Roark, M.P; S 4 Jame Duke, Dart.,
DIL.P.; R. W. Crottard, 800, M.P.; T. Thrbfre, Eq.,
M.P.; C. S. Batter, Mao., M.P.; W. T. Conaland, Esc,
M.P.; W. CAW, Sp., M.P.; G. C. Glyn, Eat, M.P.;
S. Gamey, Beg., ; T. Hialsrf, M.P.; K. D.
Zudgeon. Req., M.P.; Z. W. Sthaskke, Seq., M.P.; M.
T. &NW Erb M.P. ; T. Y. Wappies,
It is slitislly annonneed in the Take that the
period *r "bleb tee Rog. Dr. Namur coneanted to ander-
tabs the per et bead et the Nikko University, "width
be ban forded mil bulk any la about to terminals." Dr.
Plegnaan, It I.pbded, Is amour to Mora to hie bone, Me
slurp Ulm; rd lie Masse iditaests.

Irk down,
.11,
WINDSOR, EIAMT.egi
with the Priebe. Helena,
Leah% * Prince Artfiter,(=iiby the Drier of
M. 800. COMO. 114:043umeral
drove to Irthpleis Warr an *lay &harpoon. 1
The Primer Prises Prederlok Wither of Penedo, the
Friars, Royal, and Primers Allan drove to Clifden sod I
Thorns.% sithrled by the Her Pin Macdonald and
Calera Y. H.
The Deshmeee r ret, Leidy AVlD.reee, Mr Gorge
Casper, Callael the Haw C. B. sad Mr. Gibbs,
dined with the them, ea Priday, at Castle.
helsedsy, the Duress of Kant bit • visit to her
Mr7Jrwoltere to her deperuse kw Leak..
he Queen end Prime Alba leb Wiabee Coale for
Buckingham Pekoes at 3 eels* en Iletsseg alterram,
ec-
mmpanb by the Prier el Wskr the Felines Royal,
Prince Al**, Primo Adtar, thesismo Abs., Hausa,
sad Ludes, mad Plisse Wthler ef Praia. The
Royal etre cannel it the Dasher el Moreasble
Caroline therendlie. Marinahle Tem Lord
Couoya, Colonel the Measumble C. B.
General the Hodoenthle C. ,
Deo Cableel. 7.
Beyisou"Tdifr.W.miLleetwesi Canal, Ned BIM de
Moltke (in Stilollllo9 as new Feederta Wienif. Ma
royal party travelled by a smith Irk ea the Ong Wastes
Mahn, to the Paglea tweelar, tad Owe mitred
several et the Queen's corteges awl presesisittauLthillr
ham Paler aersted by • demehmer ef Lk*
Her Meje2S the Peter indeed etas piste ore,
before 4o' and woe reedvedwysteimmMendwis Of
Bre= babes Wykao,
and egraMll, cr.;
The Gem owl Prides by the Primus
Royal. ead the PrlaosAlbarkkae"Villta Pro.%
hoeourei the Ptinern's Three, with their reares in the
oweibb laatembeee want the Heim eit itbalk the
Has. Ovreire Covert/6, Lard Camp, MalerrAlemerel Rm.
'ash.P. H. Ileybear, BIM 6 Mehht.
PiteeeetWebe sairribetAlbed, etteadedlo.llltri
Girl thimomid, Ma. Gibbs, and
COIPIII, herresul the %than Oyer Haymarket Theatre,
with ask peennon on y
dateanithmby
entardey- bar 'edaPdnee, eri
theY Abase Ro- Polon hard, PrtheismPrincs Altos,Wales, Prince
Perri* William of Preset thealla.adkesapididesentlernen of
the court, and the doors* divine w-
rite la ths_ lbeekinglases Pthace. The
Bithop el Lend* thesermun
The Archer!' of Arils strived rtiordaY
aftereeth en a reit to the Qmott. His
was rear* en Landing at Portionouth,lll4B6llLord else:
litany, I=to bar Majesty, who attended the Arch-
duke in a train of the Boath-Weders Railway to
Loaha.
Al the Verashall pinta Adler Priem avert, Weeded
by Cobra P. H. lisyraear, eeedvel bb kapar6 hiehaws,
sad eseemperel Idea In awe the Queen's maw= to
BT=Venyt, Itatielea Minister at tide ask, awl
the gimes the sib el be Archduke, folbwei la two
thl 3•311
isepedgentreses arrived st a ,rtur prt oh o'clock
at IfiaghlwAssairabss, winos her artasied by the
ladle' la whim the 11t ef sear sed rude-
mon is yeah& seso the AsehiaketivolLrentod the
elder arab= et be royal Ise* * high**
The bits was sanded W Cent y, Count
Hadib, lima de Peat, loss dr Meth* Osptain Alphonse
Wreath, rid Dr. Tregher, elm were severity introduced
' to the Queen sod Princely the Araltheate.

A Cabinet Council was held es Saturday afternoon
at the Meld residence of the First Lord of the
Treesary, is Downing-street. The Ministers present
were—Viscount ?almosts', the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl
of Herrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Claren-
don, Mr. Secretary Labouehem, Lord Paroure,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles
Wood, the Eight Hon. It. Vernon Smith, Lord
Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Seines,
end the Duke of Argyll.

A thysitlies the .object of ths Scotch rabory Bard I
bad anlaherviaw with Viscount Pallemersion s Pithy. The
einsitesti of Lord Eklas, Lard Jobs Hay, Mr. H.
till'iqest.,tal:. Mr. Black, Mr Jams Matbssaa, Hos.
F. Naito, Mr. Mr. Da, Mr. noisy, lifr W. Ds-
ter, M. H. H. T. Qaetord, and Or H. P. Davie.
Alexasder Mans, Wilier' Gabes end Oman* Or hist
(agent), so a rispalsiiss trim flostiord, es smatters 'dating
to the Scottish Tsbilethsese Act bad ma laterrlow es Bete:-
day with the Lord Advocate ad 110301114
The Oxford University Oasseimmisasis ant en Friday last
at No. 17 Grist Qnswelreat Woramissfrar. Peseent The
Earl of lianrowlys Durbin, Mr. Judos
Coleridgo, and the less. Widgeon.
Mr. L. IL Hernrissed sad Mr. Memos jun.,
bad or tairretarri with Mt.
fircsotssy lehrealtere se Satur-
day at the Coirsdoi-elke.

•FHE HANDEL FESTIVAL

At the end of the selection from Judas Marealwass,
on Saturday, there was an interval of half
hour, during which the performers 'pd the com-
pany took refreshments. When the cho-
risters returned to the orchestra, they were differently
arranged. Hitherto they had been placed, in the
ordinary way, in four divisions; the sopranos and
altos at the two sides, and the tenors and basses in
the middle. But, as the rest of the rehearsal was
to consist of the double choruses from Israel in Egypt,
the singers were formed into two antiphonal choirs,
divided into eight (instead of four) vocal masses.
Those stupendous compositions tried the powers of
the choral band more than anything that had gone
before. But still the effect wan satisfactory. With•
out enumerating all these choruses, we may say
that the most remarkable among them—" He spake
the word," "He gave them hailstone," Ile sent
• thick darkness," " lie rebuked the Red Sea," and
the grand conclusion, " The Lurd shall reign for
ever and eves"—were sung with wonderful clearness
and indescribable effect. me solo passage, entirely
unaccompanied, "Sing unto the Lord, for he bath
triumphed gloriously,' was a triumphant effort of
vocal power on the part of Clara Novelle which
we do not believe another singer in England could
have achieved. The rehearsal terminated with
Costa's magnificent arrangement of " Gud save the
Queen."
The rehearsal ended about three o'clock.

The apace occupied by the orchestra alone
at the Crystal Palace is an am of 108 feet wide
by 110 feet deep, an extent exceeding the entire
capacity of any other music-hall in this country.
The orchestra, in the form of a curve, rises from the
floor at a front elevation of 8 feet, sod is then car-
ried, in a series of semi-circular steps, varying from
10 to 15 inches each, to a total height of 47 feet.
Those rises are 34 in number, of which 11 are appro-
priated to the band, and 23 to the chorus. Ample
room has been given to the performers. The violins
have 13 square feet, and the double basses and
violoncellos 24 square feet for each desk. The cho-
risters are all seated on raised benches ; each person
having 21 inches in width by 30 inches in depth.
The organ, the greatest and most powerful ever con-
structed, stands in the usual position at the back of
the orchestra, the rows of choristers on each
side rising to the level of its summit. The in-
strumental band consists of 130 first and second
60 violas, 100 violoncellos and double-
basses (equal numbers of cub), K flutes, 8 oboes, 8
clarinets,. 8 bassoons, 12 horns, 6 trumpets, 6 cor-
nets, 3 ophicleides, 8 serpents, 9 trombones, 2 pairs
of kettle-drums, 1 large long-drum, and 8 side (or
military) drams—in all 385 performers, arranged at
202 desks. The chorus, originally intended to con-
sist of 2,000 voices, slightly exceeds that number;
so that taking into account the chorus, the instru-
mental performers, and the principal solo-singers,
this tuneful host is fully two thousandjfre hundred
strong. The immense drum made by 6lr. Itistin for
the festival, standing in the centre, between the organ
and the band, is a conspicuous object. It is between
six and seven feet in diameter; and when gently
struck produces a rich and beautiful musical tone,
resembling a deep pedal-pipe of an organ. When
struck with force, its sound is like the report of a
cannon. Such au instrument requires to be used
with the utmost discretion.

At the close et the probationary performance Mr.
Costa mamma the superintendent. of the maims London
end peoviadal tussle of the ahem; with whom it
yes armpit that the soprano. and shoe should
Amp Omen yMh the nem and bonne la the orchestra.
Tb. idea wee ham slam the Mbar tembsee of the
Moms vet am M stalimed in the man which meet
artaialy peeve advantegeene to the amend Abet, since
Aar* the rehired it wee mom then ones ememiced that
the mile venom went beard with mach greater dialbetnee.
than the Mhos. present, the sepal of the mamba will
derive an additional pace farm the fact of the HA ladies of
the charm being so placed as to ha vfaibi. from all parts of
the area and galleries.
We need scarcely state that the performances come of
to-day, Wednesday, and Friday, sad that the oratorios se-
lected ate the )(arida, !ago Mama& our sod broil in
Nyypt. After Joist Morahan on Wednesday it is in-
tended that the " Old Ilundreth halo."—which made so
profound an itapremion at the inauguration of the Crystal
Poises in 1854—absU be sung. One verse will be gives in
anima by the whole of the 2,000 voices.
Ths !bimetal suma of the Handel Festival is, we have
good reason to believe, placed beyond a question. By agree-
ment with the Crystal Palace Company the committee of the
Sacred Romanic Society bound themselves not to ex-
ceed a stated outlay, and the !Mite proposed and adoptd
have not been transgressed. Previous to the rehearsal on
Saturday it va. calculated that a profit of between 3,0001.
earl 4,0001. over and above expemes had already been
milked ; and, ea on such creations a huge number of per-
sons invariably defer securing place. until the eleventh boor,
a tuatesial additka may reasonably be counted on. It it as
well to suggest, for the benefit of the public, that, although
ticket. for the performances may be obtained, as usual, at
the eatranee of the, Crystal Palace, it will Pare both time
sad trouble to apply for them in advance, either at the cen-
tral office, in Easter Hell, or et the breach oaten 70, Lont-
bard-street, both of which are open at eight a.m..
. _

The nuerlets of pavans who.-have come to London on
purpose to attend the Handel Penfield will doubtless exer-
cise a beneficial infinemee eloewhere. Not to name the
Opera and other theatres, ws may point to places which it is
more edifying to see crowded. Westmiester Abbey, for ex-
ample, was filled to overflowing yesterday moaning by an
attentive sod devout congregation, connoting In • large
aoswe of provincials.
Dinners will be provided on each day for 6,000 people. In
the intervals between the parts of the oratorios, a &deal-
ment of welters will sally forth, bearing trays filled with small
bottles of sherry, each having a small glass tumbler un the
top, sad followed by szt attendant genius with packets of bis-
cuits or Crystal Palace too cakes. The wanta of about 2,000
persons will be thus provided for. Chas on the heels of
" Shiny, sir," will follow another detachment with glasses
of ice ; there tiresome thousands of these—an iceberg or frozen
avalanche must surely have wandered to Sydenham I The
long succession of trays of ice have been snpplied from
reaervoirs, each containing several hundreds of them glasses
filled with the freezing luxury. Over and around them
are peeked large quantities of rough ire, and, so •
consequence, glance and their contents are of the same
temperature, and this rooting refreshment is not served in
that semi-Auld condition which too frequently makes one be-
hove in the existence of such a thing 11s warm ice Three
thousand more of the vast audience arc thus supplied with
crakes and ices. A spectacle more curious than that of 6,000
elsgantly-dnesed ladies end gentlemen sipping sherry and
eating teem has seldom been presented to the public. It is
worth half that peke of ea admission ticket to look on from
the oreheetes at this tremendous feeding operation. A thou.
sand or more perm= may be supplied with pale ale on
draught through lee, near the angles of the transept, All
, the resource* are not yet exhausted—the teetotaller and eco-
nomical are told that gleans of iced water and tumblers of
foe, and carafes of that beverage which cools but not
inebriates—eau frappe—are supplied at the most annierste

cost.
We may just bite to the visitors the greet adoentage
which it will be, and the greet km of time It will avert, if
they will supply themselves with the necemery mull change,
Id eat, la. 64. he the ems& bottled dewy, 6d. for the packet
of biscuits er flee sakes, bd. he the kr, dd. for the pint of
ale, 6d. for the ears& at ass hsppi, end a eopper penny for
o glass el iced wear. It will aged some melte Information
also to state that the dinner supplied la the buikbeg, cas-
eating of cold roast beef or veal end ham pie, will be Is. tht. ;
chicken, with ham or tongue, 2a. ed.; while in the dining-
room, Belo" gad emelt wing, the dinner, conflating of a
math larger range of ertkles, will be furnished at a nuiform
rota of es. per head. Remy attempt baa been made by the '
ens/rectors to make their list of prime, which are the some es
on ordinary days, brown to the deters, end thus to prevent
that extortion to which, on occaaimas of this set, so many
pa.sai are subjected.
At the rduatiest ce Saturday the number of deism woe
6,514.
To earselnde, if the accommodation for deters by rail be
as well and se expeditiously conducted as on Saturday, there
will be no lemon to apprehend the slighted difficulty in
appromelthig the Crystal Palace by that method of convey-
ance; while, on the other band, the weahliy owners of ear-
Hanes and braegbants, together with the lees pretending
charterers of cabs and other vehicles on hire, will be pleated
to hers dad a gad of the dud has bus laid mi the
reed leading from Dulwich to the Palace, so that the extra
halfpenny extorted at the turnpike will be so /sager mgrs.
rated by the incenvenitsce of a stmocen.