The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-19 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE.

Good Friday Falls this year on the 3d of April. It is
always one of the great days at the Crystal Palace. For
the past few years the attendance has averaged between
40,000 and 50,000 on each Good Friday.
It has been the policy of the directors to make this
middle-class holiday as attractive as possible, to those whose
avocations allow them little more than Good Friday and
Christmas Day as days of leisure dur ng the year. A Con-
cert of Sacred Music, supported by the most talented
tertistes, is usually the principal special attraction of the
day. To see the vast but strictly orderly audience assem-
bled in the Great Transept of the Crystal Palace on a Good
Friday, joining heartily, with upturned faces, in the strains
of the Old Hundredth or the National Anthem, is one of
the grandest sights which can be witnessed.
For the coming Good Friday the special attractions are
unusually varied. Mr. Sims Reeves will sing three of his
greatest tenor songs, Madame Rudersdorff, Mr. Weiss, Mr,
Thomas Harper, Mr. Levy, and other artiste., will also
take part. The celebrated orchestral band of the company,
under the direction of Mr. Manna, considerably reinforced
and further strengthened by the band of the Coldstream
Guards, will perform some of the most celebrated instru-
mental works. The concert commences at three, and
usually lasts until a little past five. This is the first Good
Friday that has occurred since the completion of the roof
of the great Handel orchestra. Those who remember what
the effect of the music was last Good Friday will be sur-
prised to find how much the roof assists the sound, and
with what clearness and ease the solos can now be heard
in all parts of the transept, compared with what they for-
merly were. The entire floor of the Palace and the first
tier of galleries will be open to the public, admitted to the
Palace at the usual one shilling rate. The front rows of
seats in the great orchestra will be fitted up as reserved
aeats at half- a-crown, as will also the second and upper
galleries of the great transept. The back rows of seats on
the orchestra will be reserved at one shilling each, These
may be purchased on the Monday previous to the 3d of
April, at the Crystal Palace, or at No. 2, Exeter Hall.
The extension of the Kensington railway across the
Thames to Clapham Junction, affords facilities for visitors
from many parts hitherto debarred access to the Palace by
rail. Thus the South-Western trains now exchange traffic
at this station, and visitors from stations on the main line,
as well as on the branch line to Kew, Richmond, and Wind-
sor, can readily pass on to the Palace by changing at Clap- '
ham Junction. Tke entire service of the North London
system, extending from Fenchurch-streot by Bow, Stratford,
Islington, Highbury, Hampstead, and Kensington, Sec., is
also available by the Clapham Junction. Connected thereby,
trains from the Great 'Western, London.and North' estern,
and Great Eastern, can also be carried round to the palace by
means of the Clapham and Kensington Junction. When to
this is added the direct service of two of the southern lines
running into the Crystal Palace station,vizethe Brighton, and
the London, Chatham, and Dover Companies, as well as the
service to London-bridge of the South-Eastern Company,
it will be soen what increased facilities are now opened for
access to the Crystal Palace on great days.
Even this long list does not exhaust all the means of
reaching the palace, for besides the additional omnibuses
and other road conveyances always available on a day of
extraordinary attraction, the new route by the Metropolitan
Railway and omnibuses to the Elephant and Castle, from
thence by the Chatham and Dover trains to Herne
with a pleasant rural walk of about two miles to the palace,
will doubtless possess its attractions for the pedestrian.
As usual on Good Friday, the Palace will be opened at
nine in the morning, the concert will take place at threo. At
dusk it will be lighted up to enable those who like to spend
a long day amid its varied attractions, returning at leisure.
' As it happens to be full moon on the following morning,
those visitors who stay late will witness the palace by moon-
light. The palace will remain open for admission from nine
in the morning, and extra entrances and exits for excur-
sionists wil be provided.
For the Easter week a series of holiday amusements have
been provided, of which due notice will bo given.

THE SOUTHERNER.—This screw steamer has been

that the tine for action has not come ; if it is sug.. launched from the building-yard of Messrs. Pearse
gested to raise a voice in behalf of Poland, we are and Co. of Stockton, for the Confederates, and is the largest
begged to leave it to the Government; if We turn her
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our attention homewards, and think it advisable to beam, 38ft 2in ; depth of hold, 21ft ; tonnage, upwards of
to protect our lives and pockets from the kind 1,953. The engines of 300 horse power, constructed by
attentions of garotters, are warned against Messrs. Fossick and Hackworth, are fitted by super-heating
we
apparatus, and all other recent improvements for economis-
" panic legislation ; if we express a wish ing coal. She is reported to be built for a Liverpool house,
to redress the abuses of our Game Laws, the Home and Messrs. Pearce have orders for 8,000 tons of iron ship-
ping, nearly all for Liverpool houses.
Secretary, it is true, does not interfere, but the
11IETROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—Yesterday a
landed interest steps in and puts an effectual drag report was made on certain improvements recom-
on the wheel. Yesterday it was the same, except- mended by the Royal Commissioners in connection with
ing that Sir G. GREY no longer troubled himself to the Thames embankment. The report contains several re-
commendations as to the removal of the house in Abington-
keepM his promises. On a recent occasion when Mr.
street, and the making of a street from Blackfriars to the
by
BRADY and others of the metropolis.
BRADY proposed to introduce the Diseases Proven- Mansion-house. Some of the alterations are to be defrayed
that h
tion (Metropolis) Bill, Sir G. GREY said he would Am
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gladly consent to the introduction of such a measure. It is a curious fact
and
the second reading, the Home Secretary took a very paddlie,s thadv.s been,t built
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the Clyde, and that the steam-
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he said, fraught with difficulty, and the result of Greenock.
interference might be to prevent people using pub- ISIETROPOLITAN POLICE.—The annual accounts
lie con veyanees at all ! He suggested thu employ- show that onin this year the
runt of stretchers for the removal of those afflicted force tthed f 2 lst of January,er.ndt
6,117 conPstables, making 196
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contagious disorders, and said it would be expenditure upon this force, and upon the police in the
much the easiest way to apply to the nearest police- dockyards and at military stations, including also the re-
man to fetch one! As if any family wishing to tiring allowances, amounted in the year 1862 to £567,818.
The sum of £339,895 was raised by a Gd. rate upon the
remove a respectable servant suffering under small- parishes, computed on a rental of £13,59.5,818; and the
pox, typhus, or scarlet fever to the nearest hospital
sum of £113,298 (equal to one-third of the rate) was paid
would like to tend her openly through the streets,
tby the Treasury. A lar.-e sum was also borne by the
public purse for the service of police at the dockyards, and
on a stretcher, perhaps in
very inclement weather ! ' various public offices and establishments. Public cornpa-
The real cure would be to make it compulsory on
talcs and private individuals paid £5,943, and theatres £9lO.
parish authorities to have regular covered convey-
The Commissioners of the International Exhibition paid
£12,600, which was half the actual expense of the police
ances for this especial purpose. The expense would duty. The expense of the police courts, which is rather
be trifling indeed, while the advantage to public more than £49,000, was paid from the public purse. The
health would be very great. At present, according feeswh ahnd penaldties at the police courts amounted to £11,724
he Fever Hospital, the risk is are Char.gaesapfaoir 4,ecroatoj,ttehbeleEs Exchequer. Funeral expenses
to the S atieCes of t