The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-25 00:00:00

TEE CRYSTAL PALACE

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The Approach of the New Season,
If May Day is no longer celebrated by rural
sports and dances round the Maypole—it is at least
marked for Londoners by one most exhilarating
festivity, the commencement annually of a new
season in the People's Palace and Garden down at
Sydenham. Astronomically viewed, the year begins
on the 20th of March, when the sun enters upon his
annual round of the zodiac at the sign of Aries.
Conventionally, since the Gregorian Calendar was
accepted by the nations of Christendom, the year
begins upon the Ist of January. Financially, the
year opens three months later. By Parliament it
has come to be inaugurated, intermediately, in the
first week or so of February. But—taking a
hint (as it happens very delightfully) from the
fashionable world of London, from the Belgravians
and Tyburnians, the Upper Ten Thousand, the
creme de la creme, the saunterers down Rotten'
Row, the loiterers round the Ring—the Crystal
Palace Company, yonder in their lovely haunt at
Sydenham, wisely begin their year, their season,
their annual round of festivities, upon no other dal
than May Day. Their new year, their Twelfth
Season begins, in this way, therefore, on Mon-
day next, the Ist of May, 1865. Between the first
of May and the 30th of April, that Annual Season
Ticket, that Guinea Ticket, runs (saving only,
alas that it should be so, upon Sundays) un-
interruptedly throughout the whole twelve'
month. It is—we do quite seriously believe,
everything considered, and beyond a moment's
doubt of it—the most wonderful guinea's worth
anywhere procurable—this Season Ticket to the
Crystal Palace. It is for the Londoner very much
what the Ring or the Lamp was to Aladdin in the
old Arabian story. Finger it ! and see what it does
not—that substitute for Aladdin's Ring or Lainn
the Guinea. Season Ticket to the Crystal Palace--
admit us to, us Londoners ! To a Fairy Palace of
gigantic dimensions and of exquisite beauty, to
begin ! To a Fairy Palace, moreover, that is reared
in the midst of a Fairy Garden of its own—the
Garden itself surrounded in turn by a radiant stretch
of the green country-side ! Within the Crystal Palace
—specimens of all the wonders, or at the least of
the very pick of all the wonders gathered together
from all the countries and peoples under the
sun. Not a mere gewgaw bazaar, either, is this
astonishing accumulation of curious, wonderful,
beautiful, or interesting objects, objects illustrative
of the ingenuity or of the genius of the human race
—it is not, in other words, so much mere lath
and plaster, veneer and tinsel. Take, as affording
instant evidence of this, take but the merest,
glance at some of the contents of merely one °L
the departments of that veritable Microcosm, the
Crystal Palace as it now is ! Turning into the
French Court, for example—look for a few seconds
at the display now on view there of Chinese jewels,
spoils from the Summer Palace of Pekin ! Booty
gained by that happy-go-lucky Captain in the French
army, M. de Negroni, who commanded in the
regiment which sacked that same Palace of the
Chinese Emperors. We should hardly mind 14
the way being, for once, given the sack (thus)
ourselves ! What do we see there in that
one department alone now actually on view in
the Crystal Palace ? Pinchbeck ? Glass beads ?
Shagreen ? Tin foil ? Well—instead of that—among
other trifles in the way of jewellery, a couple 0f
Diamonds, 50 carats each, each worth £15,000
sterling ! A Sapphire, two inches and a half in
diameter, weighing 742 carats, valued at (a mere
bagatelle!) about £166,000! And so on in regard to
other baubles littered about there—a single En*
weighing 24 carats, Emeralds like lumps of green,
light, and precious stones of various other kinds 0f
similar splendour in the way both of lustre and
of dimensions. Apart from these kind of
show-marvels, however, there are there, under
the crystal roof of the Palace, prominently visible
among the multitude of its decorations'
What ? Well, in regard Statuary—copies of all
the rarest Masterpieces of modern times and of anti-
quity ! In respect to Music—the hugest Orchestra
in the World—one of the noblest Organs—and an
accumulation each season (take this one as an
stance !) of all the most rarely-gifted performers that
can be gathered together from both the Opera"
Houses and elsewhere, Patti and Titjiens, 11lar1a
and Giuglini, Santley and Ronconi, with a radial)t
catalogue of other renowned artistes. Out 0'
doors—glancing into the gardens—the Fountains'
there, are the very largest ever constructed, far
beyond the Great Waters of St. Cloud and Ver"
sailles. Within the building—turning back again
for a saunter, let us say, down the Manu-
facturing Court—one may see any day there!
in a single afternoon, in action, the various pro'
cesses of pin making, needle making, silk weav:
ing, wood turning, medal striking, and so forth
It were needless, however, to attempt anything like
a succinct narrative of what the visitor may see, if
he cares to make use of his eyes, in this departmeu",
or in that department, to the right hand or to the
left, upstairs or downstairs, in that marvellous
world of wonders, put, as such wonders ought to be,
proverbially, under a glass case—here, as it happens'
under that most wonderful of all glass cases, the
glass case of the Crystal Palace ! Londoners are'
year by year, getting to be more and more familiar
with the glory and the beauty of it. And they are
now likely, thanks to the early prospect of the
Level Station being opened opposite the front of the
Centre Transept, they are now likely to be more
rapidly than ever brought into daily communica;
tion with:this the favourite haunt, already, of the
great mass of intelligent Londoners ! So that the
attractions of the Season Ticket, of the Guinea
Ticket for the whole year, to the Crystal Palace,
are fast multiplying—are, indeed, becoming so veil
obvious, at last, that what was recently looked 11P°11
as a luxury is beginning to be viewed rather iu
the light of a delightful necessity. There i 5
now no conceivable reason why every well-to-d°
household in this vast city of ours, peopled by three
millions of inhabitants, should not, for mere health ,4
sake, for health alike of mind and body, have,:
season ticket of its own to that Sans Souci of t'
People, the Crystal Palace and the Crystal Palace
,
Gardens, down yonder in that lovely neighbourho°
of Anerley, Penge, and Sydenham.

VICTORIA LABOUR-MARKET.—The ;umber of 0-
migrants who arrived by sea in Victoria during the gloat',
of January last was 2,819, of whom 1,092 were froni
United Kingdom. The departures from Melbourne durill
the mouth wore 2,036 persons. The rates of wages ill ill;
colony were from £3O per annum for single farm labour°r
to £6O for married labourers without children, and fr°it,
,
£l5 for nursemaids to £35 for cooks. The number 01
migrants remaining at the Government depot in Mell)Orn°
on the 18th of January was 33.
dal
The Town Council of Rochdale held a
meeting on Saturday, to pass a vote of condolence witl-1,0-
widow of their late member. It was stated that the o.l'ior
tion had prevented this step being taken at all "rtivg
period, but the speeches which were made at the met
showed how sincerely the memory of Mr. Cobden `V`
revered in the borough.
Thei
THE IRISH REPRESENTATIVE PEERAG,-,•-"iisea
election of a representative peer to fill the vacancy ca l'o
by the death of the Earl of Desart has commenced.
to
understand that two candidates are in the field—V'larl
Gort, representing the Conservative interest ; and the,_,va
of Listowel, the Whig interest. The last ten elections ;co
passed off without a contest, none having taken plach° Apra
Lord Talbot de Malahide's unsuccessful contest
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[onel Stodare's New Magical
Entertainment

One of the best entertainments ever presented to
the public—and we say it with a full recollection of
Most of the conjurors that have appeared in London
for many years past—is now being nightly given by
Colonel Stodare in the Albert Smith Room at the
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. It is entitled " Magic
and Ventriloquism," and consists of two parts—
the first part magical, in which apparatus and other
mechanical contrivances are entirely dispensed with ;
and the second, . a very clever admixture of ventri-
loquism and magic. The neatness and dexterity of
all Colonel Stodare's tricks is perfectly astounding,
and such as creates the utmost bewilderment. To
all appearances we have a private gentleman
111 his elegantly furnished drawing-room per-
forming
accomplished tricks such as would defy the most
mplished conjuror to repeat, and all with-
out the slightest apparent aid. Combined with
excellence, there is a perfect novelty in the enter-
taizment, because all the tricks are new to the plea-
sure--seekers of the metropolis, and we candidly
confess each one seemed to us, last evening, to out-
rival its predecessor in perfection and ingenuity. It
would occupy too much space to give even an out-
line of the many illusions performed, but the pro-
duction of beautiful flowering plants from an ap-
parently empty paper cone was perfectly puzzling.
Then, again, his performance with the marked half-
crowns was a perfect wonder, but the manner in
which he managed to convey a full-grown lady
from sight of the audience was one of the most re-
markable and astonishing things ever accomplished
in the metropolis. As a ventriloquist, Col. Stodare
15 as good as he is a conjuror, and we can con
d recommend a visit to the new entertainment,
leeling assured that all who favour the Colonel with
a call will pass a pleasurable and delightful evening.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

REIGATE.
There is little doubt that the Hon. Edmund John Mon-
Mon-
Tson, the candidate for the representation of this borough in
heent, will be unopposed at the next general election.
Present member, Mr. Granville Leveson-Gower, at a
Meeting of the electors, announced that it was not his in-
tention to
A again solicit the support of the elector; and Mr
• b..... w ilkinson, who contested the borough with him,
—""Lng died, there seems to be no opposition to Mr. Mon-
SOIL The hon. gentleman has issued his address. He
--563---tAa" Principles are those which are universally
Liberal gait embodying the political creed of that great
Pa4rtY
fare of our Which has done so much to advance the wel-
ceutary, by extending to every class the bless-
Ma -ge of civil and religious liberty." Although a Church-
n, he declares himself in favour of the abolition of
sceihurencthioranstes,considering them an injustice to all who con-
iy
dissent from the doctrines of the Church. Mr.
Munsonu promises to explain his principles more fully at a
Meeting of the electors, to be held at an early period.

SALISBURY.
Whr' • Marsh issued an address to the electors on
ich ay evening, stating that domestic circumstances over
he had no Control render it necessary that he should
pay a short visit to his brother and his property in Aus-
tral.
la. Ire will not therefore be present at the election,
"[Lich he says will take place in July, but he expresses his
fc2llfidence that the electors will not " forget an absent
''encl• The hon. member adds :—" My political opinions
Inuat now be well known to you all, and I can only say
that I shall not swerve from those principles of indepen-
deuee 'which it has been my pride to adopt."
There is a probability of a close run, Mr. John Chapman,
and Mr. E. Hamilton, a brother of the bishop, being in the
held.

bIONEY MARKET

60MMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Money Market is showing easier symptoms
to-day. The inquiry has not been very large, and
capital being abundant, first-class paper has been
negotiated at 31, per cent., with exceptional opera-
tions at 34 per cent. In the Stock Exchange loans
have been charged 21 and 3 per cent.
During the last few days there has been an in-
creased business transacted in the' Foreign and
Colonial Produce Markets. Sugars have been in
fair demand at full rates, while a moderate amount
of business has been done in coffee, rice, and tea at
fibilner Prices. In tallow the dealings have been to
an average extent for both present oonsumption and
co speculation, and quotations have shown an up-
Ward movement.
There were no bullion operations at the Bank
Yesterday
£122 The London, from Melbourne, has arrived with
al
~..11)..e Prospectus has appeared of the London and
lediterranean Bank, with a capital of £2,000,000,
of
entinental
in shares of £2O each. The object is to amalgamate
o
Bank Corporation and the Bank
£looeBB- t• Landau and Co., of Alexandria. The
into shares °I the Continental are to be converted
amalgamated
e, ares
of t
new company of £2O each. The
transacti
their establishments are to liquidate all
directors °-- up to the present date. The
The pl are
very respectable.
Co 11 Plymouth Shipbuilding
lilL Dock and Ironworks
the i—°Y has been introduced to the notice of
tract nvesting classes by the International Con-
Coropany. It has been formed for the pur-
rase of purchasing the freehold property in Ply-
he called Queen Anne's shipyard, together with
also e business' which it is proposed to extend, and
the different branches of mechanical engineering.
lie▪ prersent docks will be much enlarged, and as
for ae
re no iron shipbuilding works in the locality
Pairing vessels outward bound, a large profit is
exPeoted to be reaped. The capital required is
i,42i_5(:),000 in shares of £25 each, and interest at the
cue of 6 per cent. is to be guaranteed for three
upon the amount paid up.
The report of the Asiatic Banking Corporation,
iuu be Presented on May 4, states the available ba-
lance at £70,439, and recommends a distribution at
the rate of 20 per cent. per annum. The preliminary
t"Penses of £8,484 are to be extinguished, £5,500
to be added to reserve, which, from premiums on
o be
shares, will amount, on the 30th of June next,
to £1.75,000, and £6,455 will remain to be carried
forward.
Mr. C. F. Kemp has to-day been appointed offi-
cial liquidator to the Factage Parisien (limited).
The following is from the Committee of the
Stock Exchange :

pril , 185.
The Committee for General Purposes Ahave24this day
Passed the following resolutions :
Resolved—That Wednesday, the 3d May, be fixed for
the settlement of transactions in the Varna Railway Com-
Party.

Resolved—That the arrangements for the issue and the
allotment of shares in the company being irregular and
Unsatisfactory a quotation be refused.

(Signed) FRANCIS LEVEIN, Secretary.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange have also
appointed Tuesday, May 2, a settling day in the
New £9 Shares of the Midland Railway Company
to be marked on the official lists.
The report of the Commercial Bank Corporation
of India and the East, in which is merged the Com-
taereial Bank of India, shows a balance of profit for
the year 1864 of £69,501 to be carried forward, after
payment for the first half of the year to the share-
holders of the Commercial Bank of India of a divi-
dendand bonus amounting to £45,000, and a dividend
for the second half of the year on the whole paid-up
capital of the Corporate Bank at the rate of 10 per
cent. per annum, amounting to £39,925. The reserve
fund now amounts to £73,301 transferred b £169,301, consisting of
y the Commercial Bank of
India, increased by £96,000, the pretniums on new
Shares issued by the Corporate Bank.

O. At Paris, this day, according Two
to Mr.CLOCK Reuter's
telegram the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 30c.
Fiat.

The English Stock Market has been very ani-
mated and buoyant, and a rise of about per cent.
o'las
thtaken place in the Funds. The improving state
f e produce markets, and the idea that a large
N3ansion of trade will succeed the close of the
American war, have contributed to the encouraging
5914 tate of affairs. Consols are 91i I for money, and
for the account. The New Threes and Re-
duced Annuities are 89i ; Exchequer Bills, ss.
88' prey. ; India 0 per Ceuta" 106 f Mir ; En-

faced 4 per Cents., 90 ; ditto 5 per Cents., 102
103 ; and ditto 5 per Cents., 1091.

-In the Foreign Stock Market there is not much
activity, and prices. are flatter. Turkish 6 per
Cents., 1862, are 73i / ;" ditto Consolides, 53/ 54 ;
Mexican, 24 4 ; ditto New, 24 ; Greek, 201 ;
Spanish Passive, 311 ; ditto Certificates, 16f 4 ;
Italian, 641 ; and Confederate Loan, 13 15.
In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been rather active, and prices have shown increased
firmness. Metropolitan, and Lancashire, and York-
shire have each improved £2 ; Great Northern A
Stock, £1 10s. ; Great Western, North Western,
and Midland, each 15s. ; Caledonian, 10s. ; and
Great Eastern, and North Eastern (Berwick), each
58.

The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in fair
request, and fully sustain former rates, particularly
the Canadian undertakings.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares show little ani-
mation, and prices in some instances are a shade
flatter. Union of London have receded to 53i 54;
Agra and Mastermau to 115 ; Chartered of India,
Australia, and China to 261; Peninsula and Orien-
tal Steam to 84i ; and Royal Mail Steam to 1024.
The following are the current quotations of some
of the 'principal new undertakings :—London and
Mediterranean Bank, 1 2 prem. ; Plymouth Ship-
building and Dock Company, 1 2 prem. ; Colonial
and General Land Credit, 1i 2 prem. ; South
African Land and Finance, 1 2 prem. ; Rio de
Janeiro Gas, 1 1f prem. ; Anglo-Egyptian Navi-
gation, 3 3f prem. ; Russian (Vyksounsky Iron
Works), 1 1i prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Do. Account, May 9 9l
o per Cent. Reduced B9l
New 3 per Cent 894 1 9 1
New 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent —
Do. £5OO
Do. £lOO and £2OO
Bank of England Stock, 54 per Cent 5 8
Do Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 104 per Cent., AprillB74 —
Do Account '
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do. Account
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 •

Do. Certificatei —
Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent 9O
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 5 per Cent, May 1879 lo9f
Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 —
Do. Bonds, £l,OOO —
Do. under £l,OOO
TORICIGN TUNDB—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Do I per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Chili= 6 per Cent
Do. 44 per Cent
Colombian 6 per Cent.
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Do 5 per Cent., 1864
Do. Scrip, £55 paid
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
Do. 4 per Cent., 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid
Danubian Principalities
Do 1.86 paid —
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do., Provisional Land Warrant —
Egyptian 7 per Cent 964
Do., Second Issue 97 6
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. 1864 934 4
Do Scrip, ab paid
Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do. Coupons
.
Do Account 8
Guatemala 5 per Cent.
Do. 1839 and 1850
Italian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway)
Do 1865
Do Scrip, £424 paid . 414 dis
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Do. Account

IX 1864..
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French....
Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c
Montevidean 6 per Cent, £3O paid
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada
Do 2 per Cent
Do Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 41 per Cent.
Do .3 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 41 per Cent., 1862
Do. Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do Account
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3,
Do Account 4Bl 71
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St~
Do 41 per Cent., 1850
Do 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do 1864
Sardinian 5 per Cent —
Do. Account
Spanish 3 per CAA
Do Account
Do New Deferred —
Do Account
Do Passive —
Do Account 3l} 1
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Do Account l6l
Swedish 4 per Cent. —
Do. 41 per Cent. 1864
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —
Do Account 7lj
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account
Do. £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1863
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent —
Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do. Account
Do. 6 per Cent, 1862 —
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1864 4O
Do. 11 per Cent —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent., En. 10 Florins
Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certiti—des 961
French Relates, 3 per Cent.

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73

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Do. Account
:talian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 2M.
Do. Account

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols
Do Account 914

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