The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-30 00:00:00

Third Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of mines, sqnibs ...... , 4
3. Tourbillons
4. Discharge of -lb. lockets, parachute
5. Discharge of 10 inch shells, serpents
Fourth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of gold-streamers • • 4
3. Parachute shells 4
4. Discharge of 4-Ib. rockets. red and green
5. Discharge of SA-inch shells, blue and yellow 5O
fifth
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of mines, squibs
3. Tonrbillims 4O,
4. Discharge of 1-lb rockets, red and green........,,, lOO
5. Discharge of 10-inch shells, tailed stars lOO
.Sixth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteri, s of pearl streamers - 4
'. Parachute shells- • 4
4. Discharge of- A-lb. rockets, red .. 100
5. Discharge of 5 -inch shells, green "
Seventh Division.
-1. -Flight of rockets--
2. Batteries of mines, squi4s •
Tourbillons..
4. Discharge of rockets... .....
5. Discharge of rockets
Eighth Division.
1. Flight of rockets , .... 200
2. Bagel ies of gold streamers
3. Parachute shells 4
4. Discharge of i lb. rockets, blue and yellow
5. Discharge of 54 shells, variegated
Ninth Division. -
1. Pight of rockets
2. Batteries of:Mines, squibs
3. Tourbillons , . •
4. Discharge of .1-Ib. rockets, blue and-yellow
5. Diecharge of 10-itielfFihells, crackers
Tenth Divisien. •
_ .
1. Flight orrocketi-
2. Batteries of pearl streamers - 4.
3. Parachute shells

been duped. The juvenile shout of " Ho, gal-loon !"
will act with magic force in precipitating staid house-
holders and money-grubbing shopkeepers into the streets,
to watch the aerial.machine and its cargo of verdant-
greens in the progress from Vauxhall to the E;sex
marshes. The shrill scream of Punch at the corner of
the Adelphi will turn aside the sedate and podding mer-
chant or banker from his course City-ward ; and even
grave divines, learned barristers, and sage legislators,
f.rgetful alike of polemics, law, and politics, will stop
to enjoy a laugh at the freaks of the little wife-kirer,
The twang of a banjo, the scraping of a fiddle. and clat-
ter of the "bones," by a party of Whitectiapel diggers,
will sometimes have the effect of blocking up a thiirough-
fare for half-an-hour, and taxing the utmost energies of
a detachment of police to restore order and the usual
regu:arity of the traffic. And we doubt not that if the
famous Ramo Samee—we know not if he be longer in
the fL.-da—were announced to perform his joggling feats,
Ray in any public place in the metropolis, gratis ; or
that equally famous artist Pan to go t'irou4i) spree of
ins most. celebrated poses parliamentaires—,Jot to say
throw a summersault from the Treasury to the Victoria
tower—there would have been jest such another gather-
ing, animated by just the same sort of feeling—curiosity,
a love of sight-seeing, anything for the sake of excite-
ment—as we had the distinguished honour of inxin:,),
with in the Green Park last evening.
We, the public, were invited to partilipaA in the.
".peace rejoicings ;" we melt to "use the fireworks."
If there were any "rejoicings" on the occasion—in the
popular sense of rejoi&ng—they must be,541,14,f0r
where and- in-n—trefy different i•eifoti'frem the Green
Park, • for of all the multitude who flocked thither
we question if there were one in fifty who came

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.. 40
100
50

4. Discharge of -113. rockets, green ..
5. Discharge of I ineh ,hells, red.
Eleventh Division.
1. Flight of rockets
.
2. Batteries of wines, squibs • " 4
3. Teutbillons i - 40
4. Discharge of 1-lb rockets, parachute . . lOO
5. Discharge of 10 inch shells, gold and silver rain 50
Twelfth Division. • .
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of g -Id streamers
3. Parachute shells
4. Discharge of 4lb rockets, blue and yellow
5. Discharge of SOnch shells, green and red 5O
Thirteenth Division.
1. Flight of rockets . .
200
2. Batteries of mines, squibs 4
3. Ton, billons
4. Discharge of 1-lb. rockets, blue and yellow lOO
5. Discharge of 10 inch shells squibs lOO
Fourteenth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of pearl streamers
3. Parachute shells...

100
50

actuated by any such sentiment, Toe fact that the
whole affair was simply one of " prec&r.t." Fireworks
had been let off and public of illuininat.d on the re-
storation of peace in 1815, as well a on similar occasions
previously ; our red-tapists, therefore, decide that the
same must be done in 1856, unconscious, as it would
seem to u., how much the national mind has grown
above these things ; that it has come to regard the ex-
penditure for such purposes as mere wasteful extrava
gance, and is apt to speculate—vulgar soul- I—upon the
works of beneficence and charity which, ju nisly ap-
plied, the money might have effected. Bot. a truce to
these reflections, and let us come to the 'proceedings in
the Green-park.
The situation of this park is familiar to everybody.
Spacious and elevated, with the grnind gently sloping
from Piccadilly to Buckingham Palace and the Mall,
'perhaps there are few rites better adapted to a p}rotech-
nic display in or near the metropolis. It had t ,is fur-

. 200
• 4
• 4

4. Discharge of .-lb. rockets, bine
5. Discharge of 5?. inch sh-lls, yellow s+l
Fifteenth Division.
1. Flight of rof.kets
2. Batteries of urines, squibs
3 Tou. billows

ther advantage in the present instance, that bei. g fl tnke.l
on the east by the mansions of several of the prii,cipal
o“bility, it was, to a certain extent, protected again, t
those winds which are so unpleasantly suggestive if

4. Discharge of rockets, parachute .......
5. Discharge of IA) inch shells. taitea aura
Sixteenth Division.
1. Flight of rockets

rh.ums and catarrhs. llitht r. then, frorn eariy hour
in the evening, inoped large masses of the ponulaton,
ai to one of the chief centres of attraction. 117 ue, the

2. Batteries of gold streamers
3. Parachute shells
4. Discharge of A, lb. rockets, green and red lOO
5. Discharge of SA-inch shells, variegated
Seventeenth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
2. Batteries of minus, squibs
3. T.ur4illons
4. Discharge of 1-14. rockets, blue and yellow ...... 50
I, ")1-Ib. rockets, di' to '
5. Discharge of 10-inch shells, brilliant 5O
Eighteenth Division.
1. Flight of rockets 2lO
2. Batteries of pearl streamers 4
,
3. Parachute shells
4. Discharge of lb. rockets, yello.v
5. Discharge of 5:-inch shells, blue...
2.1. FBlai
tgtl,ietrio,f, roofck ets
mines,
Nineteenth Division.
squibs ....
4
3. Tourbillons
4. Discharge of ~-lb. rockets. parachute
5. Discharge of 10-inch shells, crackers 5O
Twentieth Division.
1. Flight of rockets
....

weather was anything but auspicious, an 1 involved score
deswiremens ; hut we have often seen it as ba.l at a Green •
wich fa'r, and even twice er thrice at a Derby.
sky was overcast, and although there was n., rain lb,
air was raw and cold, deprived of the genial warm. h of
r-prinv, verging-upon-suiumer, by a keen north east
wind. Cloaks, over-coats, and ; warn dresses
and woollen shawls, thiekotoled boots and shoes were,
therefore, the order of the day, and miserable were theN
who were without them. Nwer more h:rp le,,sly did Mark
Tapley and his (Tien I M Wirt C inzzlawit the
att erupt in the bush to be " j ly" Via" to-, pe,,p;,- wk.
through negligence or ye vit were thos u ,rtun Itely
circumstanced. To say tha';' the park was crowded on
the occasion would scarcJy convey an ad..l sate i
the actual state of things, for as the hour apprrecherl for
the introductory discharge of fiovvorks circulation was
almost entirely put a stop to. Of cure it would be ab-
surd to attempt a c imputation of the nuinberi pre•-eilt ;

2. Batteries of pl.' streamers.... . 4
3. Parachute sh.ll.
4. Discharge of 1 lb. ro,kots blue al.' yellow
5. Discharge of 50nch shells, green and red.. 5O
Twenty-first D.vision.
1. Flizlit of rockets 2OO
2. Batteries of mines, squibs
3. Tourbill,ms m 4O

we can only state that the space b -ovule i by Piccadilly,
Corstitution-hill, Birdcage-walk, nut] iigewater and
Sutherland Houses, were c ,vi red with cue vast mass of
people, and that within those li.nits three or four hun-
dred thousand people at least must have congregated.
Tits atistccratic mansiJus in trio tpi;i4hbourhood were

4. Discharge of 1-16. rockets, green and red ....... , 109 generall}, all of them illuminated; but we uhserved little
4.—Diectierge,okettreeoeltebielle,4oo-sintesiteeir raidte-e----ele .:L-t.z.,--
- - tteau War eirit-1.17.437erb, rgrar. -4,;1,i3k inge4;ious in design.
Twenty-second Division. -
1. Flight of rockets ellile , Most of the devices seemed, in fact, to LaVer doee duty
2. Batteries of pearl streamers 4 I before. There was a constant repent ioe of crown., stars,
3. Parachute shells
53 'festoons, garlands, the Royal initials, awl Chinese lamps,
4. Discharge of ph. rockets, green and red
' 1-lb. ~ blue and yellow
5. Discharge of 10-i-ch shells 4 i-ih
Twenty-thud .cll
Division. mere, the façade of which was illuminated with four
1. Flight of rockets 2OO
2. Batteries of mines, squibs 4 columns in red lamps, the two outermost surmounted by
3. fourbillone
4. Discharge of 1-lb. rockets, green and red.. lOO whilst in front of the Duke of Sutherland's house was
5. Discharge of 10-inch sle lls, tailed stars .. 100
the word Peace, in enormous capitals, also of red lamps.
Twenty-fourth Division, Finale.
1. Fountain of 12 pr. gerbes .
2. Flight of rockets
3. Batteries of mines, squibs lO
pearl streamers
4 Parachute shells 6 by her Majesty,the Royal faiui.y, the many august visitors
5. Tourbillons
—of which we have given the programme above—we can
reen
Blue
7. Discharge of 10-inch shell s,
8 Yellow
nts
brillin.
8. Flight of rockets, 210, . 60,40, 1120,' 1400, 1680, I°° possibility of their being excelled. The fixel pieces were
1960, '24010,010 several of them, alike grand and original in design, espe-
Seyeral hours before the aperoach of night groups emily the Saxon hoop, the six-arm cross, the diamond
began to collect in Hyde Park, and as the evening piece, the six turning suns, and the two fountains of
advanced those groups formed into a mighty as-
twelve pair of ge-bes de feu, "God save the Queen,"
semblage. Piccadilly and Oxford-street, the two the pearl etreainere, and the flight of ten thousand
rockets, with which the exhibition ceucluded. But beau-
main thoroughfares leading to the park, became
tiful as all these undoubtedly were te the populac,.., no-
between eight and nine o'clock almost absolutely
thething
discharget o affue l
omorefre pleasureeke.s w h
ioree s a
were
impassable. But in the park itself there was for-so timed
tunately space enough for any amount of visitors and directed as to prsent a grLe,uping that for colour,
who could by any possibility collect within its pre. variety, and effect, we have never before witnessed. Let
cincts, and, as any one portion of it afforded al- ttihtneereaaifiebrufrant.cy theh high above
of
he huodiredwridoettrts, at a
most as good a position as another for witnessing out umerasbilnegetarigs in.cr'imson;iblueea2a'nd green;'awgialt:
the great sight which had brought so many thou- i a flight, and thousands of fiery serpents are pursuing one
sends of people together, there was no reason for r another through the air in the most eccentric and de-
s
an inconvenient crowding at any particular spot. mannervwieousee imaginable
showers
f
golden and
rain
nye t another
de
sc
eg, d
tht—lolya
1 ndl
One of the arrangements of the evening which de- I gently, and just disappearing as they approach the
' serve in our opinion special commendation was that earth.
there were no reserved seats for any class of visi-
beeAnstauoprye successful doisptla ew
y,
utheie tn, i
la nothithe could have
although
ng
e xhibition in
tors in any of the parks, and that people of every the Green Park last night, a sense of fatigue
rank met on a footing of perfect equality. began to be very generally manifestedbefore
long it was
The space specially set apart for the works occu- -',"
iusc'.ull)4i recollected—a
circumstance i rtchu mt ettha nc e. not to be wondered at when
pied per-naps some eight or len acres, enclosed Ipa,,t, 9 until 11 o'clock, duringe tirue
toheectitvphieodle 7 which
hm hall-
within a high boarding, and stretched in a quad- the ear was deafened by the constant doet,wmait7i,inpserainodi
rangular form along a portion of the park opposite reverberations, and the eye painte-1 by the dezzlieg iii-
that part of Park-lane lying aromidGrosvenor-gate. tehneuty.led and magnificence of the blaze of artitkiai light
the heavens and fluinined the sea of up-
At a few minutes before half-past nine o'clock the which
tiled the
first rocket shot up to announce that the spectacle One word as to the demeanour of the
of the night had just begun. Next followed a long occasion. It ww, in truth, deserving the highest credit
line of smothered fire, rolling masses of white and aNeodiscealacnurilactieidarttoinmake onhe
thereproud et his el; u,. tryrllell.
red smoke along the whole frontage of the enclosure. before the exhibitioguecilcoqungtueicecl 7hr:l-einwas aelsirraeluteled
A succession of splendid pyrotechnic displays then harniiess joking, and squibs and ci a( kers not a few were
ensued, among
0f
which the predominant devices were
somewhat recklessly flung around by Vie younger portion
masses of rockets, bursting into vast bouquets of outthe
ic. row,av i()du r
bduithn owt
ea shienagrie ouref orof o'l)is'etr.°v'e'd "StSobriety
the most brilliant green, pink, blue, and white j marked the bearing of all those hutieredm of thousands,
lights, or shaking out their delicate shooting figures and they separated, as they had assembled, if., the most
into gerbes or sheaves of wondrous grace and peaceable and orderly [Delmer.
beauty. We had also a profusion of revolving
wheels, stars, and other images, tilling the heavens
with floods of magical light, and dazzling and per-
plexing the eyes of the beholder. Our readers, how-
ever, will find these sights described more at length
in other portions of these columns ; and we close
this part of our notice of the business of the
evening by offering the willing testimony of our
unqualified admiration to the unexceptionable con-
duct of the vast mass of the people who assisted at

PRIMROSE-HILL AN 1) REGENT'S PARK.

The illuminations in and armini li,-genCs-park were
by no means of a brilliant character ; indeed, th .y
hated a very mild degree of joy for the peace oh tae par,
of the inhabitants of this quarter, to ju rgs, from appear-
ances. The terraces—ramely, Gloucester, Chester,
York, Sussex, Hanover, &c.—were more or less lit up,
but the devices offered no attempt at novelty ; a star, a
line of lamps, or a sprinkling co coloured paper lanterns,
were the ever-recurring lorniA, and the splendour of the
scene was by no means overpowering. In and around
Primrose-bill, however, the illuminations were excellent,
though the absence of novelty in a, raugetuent arid in
device was manifest on those points as well as in the ad-
jacent park. The letters V. R., or V. N., err V. R. arri
N. E., or the words " Peace," " Unity," " G')od will
on earth to miv,," or some sitniar phrase, were the
highest efforts at literature exhibited ; while in the
matter of device, as already sta.ed, a star was the pre-
vailing emblem.
Long before the hour official y announced for the
pyrotechnic display on Primrose-hill, a c rusiderahle
number of persons had c rliected withi.; the enclosure ;
but at no period of the night was their nurn.ers what
could be justly designated very large.
The fireworks on Primrose-iiid differed in some re li
-
spects from those in the parks, consisting, as they did,
almost entirely of what are called aerai pieces. The
elevated site, the unencumbered neighbourhood, and the
large space that could be enclosed without incouveni
ence to the public, were doubtless the causes why thi=
difference was made in the selection of pieces; and tb;•
result justified the arraugeme,d.
At half-past nine o'clock, the apprinted hour, accord-
:ugly the proceedings opened with a series 01 brilliaul
illuminations in white, green, and yellow fires, acc nipsused by a continuous discharge of maroors. This was fel-
!^sved by a flight of rocket., batteries
pearl i•trearner,=:
araehut shells, red and i.reen r•eket,;, bale airi
jeilow shells, batteries of mires, roquih,. tournillr n-,
,i,rp.,nts, gold streamers, tailed stars. p: ail silea-mls.
crackers tiro balloons, anti
green lehalls, variegated stool's,

this interesting exhibition. We did not happen to
see a single policvmen in the park during the
evening, and we may add, that if any policeman
were present upon the occasion, there did not at
any moment arise the slightest necessity for the
intervention of his authority.

We ought perhaps further to observe, that the
illumination of Lord Ward's mansion in Park-lane

attracted, in preAeuce even of the fireworks them-
selves, a portion of the public notice. The whole

exterior of this fine building was one glowing mass
of brilliant light, arranged in forms of Perfect sim-
plicity, but of the most dazzling effect.