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and Jets cf.'Erlux will be resumed and continued during the
whole season. The upper system will play daily as heretofore;
and the Entire Display, embracing the Fountains of the
Grand Basins, the Water Temples, the Cascades, and the
whole of the Upper Fountains, ou occasions to be from time
---. to time announced.
IV. FLOWER SHOWS
There will be Two Grat.d Horticultural and Floricultural
Fetes during the present season :
The First on Saturday, the 30th of May ; and
The Second on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 9th,
10th, and 11th September.
V. POULTRY SHOWS.
There will be two Shows in the course of the coming season.
The Summer Show will take place on the 7th, Bth, 10th,
llth, and 12th of August. The Winter Show on the 9th,
llth, 12th, and 13th of January, 1858.
VI. GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS OF THE BUILDING.
EXHIBITIONS OF PICTURES.—The Picture Gallery, formed
during the past year in the North Wiug of the Palace, has
Proved so successful in its capabilities for the effective dis-
play of paintings, that it is the intention of the Directors to
hold therein, during the present season, Two Exhibitions of
the Works of Living Painters of all Schools.
The first of these Exhibitions will open in May, and con-
thine open during the Summer.
The Second will be a Winter Exhibition.
Exhibitions of Photographs will also be held in the upper
Portion of the Picture Gallery from time to time during the
Season.
CERAMIC COURT.—The Directors arc desirous to take the
• present opportunity of expressing their acknowledgments for
the kind and ready maner in which their requests for loans
for the Ceramic Court were responded to by the owners of
Collec ions of Porcelain and Pottery of the most rare, fragile.
and valuable descriptions.
It is very gratifying to the Directors to be able to say that
the further aid offered them is such as will enable them to
continue the Ceramic Court, for the present season, with a
number of additional specimens, exemplifying the capabilities
of the art in its most. elaborate branches.
The Collection will be, as before, under the superintendence
of Mr. Thomas Battam' F.
INDIAN COURT AND GALLERY OF ENGINEERING MODELS.- —ln
each of these departments the Directors have to acknowledge
assistance of the same gratifying nature as that in the Cera-
mic Court. By public companies and institutions, as well as
by private individuals, the Directors have been entrusted
with the most valuable and beautiful models, with costly
carvings and works in ivory and bronze fabrics and works of
art, granted with a liberality antl readiness for which they
cannot sufficiently express their obligations. They have thus
been enabled materially to improve the Indian Court, and
also to form a collection of models of engineering works, illus-
trating in a very complete manner that great branch of Bri-
tish skill and enterprise, surpassing any other now accessible
to the public. It will give the Directors great pleasure to
receive any further contributions with which they may be
favoured.
THE NAVAL MUSEUM. --The Exhibition under this denomina-
tion in the First and Second
Galleries of the North Transept,
fronting the Garden, now contains about :300 models of ships,
boats, and vessels of all
descriptions, affording an illustra-
tion of the progressive improvement in British naval architec-
ture and navigation during a period of 340 years. It also
contains specimens of new inventions connected with the im-
provement of navigation.
The Directors beg here also to acknowledge the ready and
extensive assistance which they have received from shipown-
ers, shipbuilders, engineers, and shipping companies, in form-
ing this very interesting and national collection, and at the
same time solicit the further aid of all parties who may have
the meansof extending it.
WATER TOWERS.—The Great Towers are now completed,
and arrangements have been made by which, for a small
charge, visitors to the Palace can ascend them, and enjoy th 6
extensive view from the balconies, whore powerful telescopes
are about to be placed,
MAMMOTH TREE.—An object of great interest has latelybeen
added to the contents of the Palace, which will remain on ex-
. hibition during the whole of the coming season. The object
alluded to is a portion of the trunk of the Wellingtonia Gi-
gantea, or Mammoth Tree, being the largest of the group of
those
trees discovered in California. The portion erected in •
Tropical Transept, opposite the Abu Simbel figures, is no
less than 103 feet in height, and 32 feet diameter at, the
base.
EXHIBITING DEPARTMENT.—Amongst the branches of hulas-
try which now find important illustration in this department
may be mentioned the manufacture of gold and silver work
and electroplate both domestic and artistic ; vulcanite and
India rubber generally ; colour printing and typography ;
Papier mache, ornamental iron, fancy goods, and other pro-
ductions of Birmingham ; domestic furniture, church furni-
ture ; in stone, wood, metal, and fabric ; hardware gene-
rally and especially the productions of Sheffield, in the
Court filled by the manufacturers of that important centre of
industry.
COURT.—The arrangements announced on a for-
mer occasion with the Government of Canada are now, the
Directors are happy to report, complete, . The Government of
the
have undertaken to form and maintain in the Palace
a._ collection which shall completely set forth the condition of
,z) naanufactures and other industr and resources of that
ImPerta.nt y
colony.
tv,The collection will be placed in the large Court lying be-
eell the N Room and the Stationery Court, immediately
ad; oi,s. News
".Ing both the Nave
©n
Centre Transept, and at present
--copied hy the sculpture of the German school.
, PRODUCE COLLECTION, AND TRADE MUSEUM.—The Tech-
-I:l6l°gical portion of this department is rapidly approaching
completion. It will comprise illustrations of all the chief
btanufactures of the United Kingdom, and specimens of the
products. animal, vegetable, and mineral, of Great Britain
and the Colonies, as well as of other countries. It is believed
that it will be open to the public in the course of the present
'unn et%
The department is situated in the Second Gallery on the
kiarden side of the Grand Transept.
MACHINERY IN MOTION.—The Machinery will be in action
during the season at such times as will be announced in the
indefed advertisements. The Machinery now in the depart-
car
comprises a complete set of machinery for spinning,
sizing, weaving, and all the other processes
fording' 'warping'
the manufacture of cotton goods from the bale to the
thread, and from the thread to the finished piece ; and a great
variety of other machines.
AGRICULTURAL MACIIINERY.—The Department of Agricul-
tural Machinery and Implements has been considerably im-
proved during the past year. Specimens will 'be found there
of the portable steam engines and all the other new machines
of the chief manufacturers, and purchases can be made at the
same prices as at the warehouses of the makers.
READING ROM—The Company's Reading and News Room
is situated close to the Centre Transept, between it and the
German Sculpture Court ; it contains all the morning jour-
nals, the weekly papers, metropolitan and provincial,
and all
the periodicals and magaaines.
In addition to this, advertisements and copies of
works, both 'latish and foreign, are displayed
imm etlianteelwy
after publication.
FANCY FAIRS.—The Directors are prepared to afford accom-
modation
to benevolent and other societies for holdiholdingF
Fancy
Fairs in the Palace during the season.
CRICKET, ARCHERY, AND THE GROUNDS GENERALLY.—It gives
the Directors great pleasure to announce that the Cricket
Grout 3is now complete, and that it will be thoroughly in
oraler for the approaching summer. Great care has been
taken in the formati al of the ground, and they believe that
it will be found fully equal in extent and excellence to any
other in the neighbourhood of London.
The Archery Ground will be continued, as before, in the
Northern portion of the grounds, behind the Picture Gallery
Wing.

VII SEASON TICKTS.
The Directors have. determined upon Econtinuing the price
Of Season Tickets of admission at the following rates, viz.:--
I. SEASON TICKETS, AVAILABLE FROM IST MAY, 1857,_ To 30TH
APRIL, 1858, Two GUINEAS Emir.
These tickets will admit the holder on every occasion be-
btween May 1, 1857, and April 30, 1858, on which the Palace
°n : the four days of the Handel Festival, viz., the 13th,
th,Pe 17th, and 19th June only excepted.
• I. SEASON TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM IST MAY, 1857, TO 30TH
APRIL, 1858, ONE GUINEA EACH.
These tickets admit the holder on all occasions named
above, excepting the Opera Concerts, and the other Fridays
throughout the year, and the 13th, 15th, 17th, and 19th
June, being the four days of the Handel Festival.
may The Tickets will be issued on and after the 20th inst. ; and
be obtained at the Crystal Palace ; at the 'Offices of the
Company 79, Lombarcl-street ; at the Offices of the London
and Brighton Railway Company, London-bridge, and Regent=
rerens, Piccadilly; Central Handel Festival Ticket Office, Exe-
Hall, and of the Company's agents.
Remittances for Season Tickets to be by post-office orders
"gable to George Grove,
VIII. GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL.
It gives the Directors great gratification to be able to an-
!lounce that they have entered into arrangements with the
Sacred Harmonic Society for a Grand Series of Three Fedor-
tlances of • Transept of Handel's Oratorios, to take place in the Centre
the Palace in the month of June.
Her Majesty and H.R.H. Prince Albert have been grad-
p°WY pleased to extend their especial patronage to the festi-
Tit and have expressed their intention of honouring it with
en Presence. For further particulars see special adver-
Aaeusat
IX- RATES. OF ADMISSION, RAILWAY ARRANGE-
MENTS, dm.
O;i.ORDINARY RATES OF ADMISSION,—These remain as before,
hnzuesra:ss—tduraoydtsia,
;MsnOca Fridaysys , Tuesdays,
One Shilling.
• Half-a-Crown.
„„ Children under 12 years of age, Half-price. •
Palace will be opened on Mondays at 9 a.m. ; on
ues4ge, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at 10; ex-
elp;ninggon the days of the Concerts by the Opera Company,
en 'which days, and on Saturdays, it will be opened at 12 ;
daily about sunset.
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4114WAY.—Durieg the seasons the trains of the