The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-23 00:00:00

CRYS TA L PALACE.-SEASON 1857-8.
PROGRAMME.

The, Directors beg to announce that they have made the
following arrangements for the ensuing season :
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA CONCERIS.
The SEASON will COMMENCE on FRIDAY, the Ist of
May, with a,Grand Morning Concert by the artistes of the
Royal Italian Opera. These Concerts having been honoured
last year by such general approbation, the Directors have en.
tered into arrangements with Mr. Gye to give a similar Series
of Twelve Concerts during the present season.
These Concerts will be supported by the following cele-
brated artistes :—Madame Grisi, Mademoiselle Rosa Devdes,
Mademoiselle Marai, Mademoiselle Didiee, Mademoiselle
Parepa' and Madame Rosie ; Signor Mario, Signor Ronconi,
Signor Nerl-Baraldi, Signor Gardoni. t4igner Graziani, Herr
Formes, Signor Tagliafico, Monsieur Zegler, Signor Polonini,
and Signor Lablache.
The Grand Orchestra of the Royal Italian Opera,' with ad-
ditional performers, and also the celebrated Chorus, are en-
gaged for the whole series.
The musical direction of the whole is in the hands of Mr.
Costa, who will himself conduct a portion of the Concerts.
With the above assemblage of artistes, it is hardly neces-
sary for the Directors to state that the performances will be of
the highest class, and capable of very great variety.
The Concerts will take place on the following Fridays, viz :
--May.l, 8, 15, 22, and 29 ; June 5 and 26 ; July 3, 10, 17,
24, and 31.
The space allotted to the Concert Room last year (extensive
as it was) having been found inadequate to accommodate the
audiences, the Directors have this season determined to give
the Concerts in the Great Transept,
The Two Guinea, Season Tickets will also be available for
these Concerts. Transferable tickets will also be issued.for
each Concert at 7s. 6d. each ; which tickets can be obtained
at the Company's offices, or of any of the agents.
In compliance with a desire which was universally expressed
last season, a limited number of reserved stalls will be set
apart, which may be taken.for the series of 12 concerts at oue
guinea each stall, or at half-a-crown each for a single concert.
11. CONCERT OF THE COLOGNE CHORAL UNION.
The Directors have made arrangements with the Cologne
Choral Union (Coiner Manner Gesang Verein), whose perfor-
mances on their former visit attracted enthusiastic admira-
tion, for a Concert in the Centre Transept of the Palace, on
Saturday, the 6th of June.
N.8.--Roth Classes of Season Tickets will be available for
this Concert.

111, GRAND WATERWORKS.
The Displays pf the vast System of Fountains, Cascades,
and _Jets d'Eaux 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, on occasions to be from time
to time announced.
IT. FLOWER SHOWS
There will be Two Grai.d Hoiticultural 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, I.2th, 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 Wing 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-
tinue 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 'he

CERAMIC COURT.—The Directors are 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
Mr. Thomas l3attam, F.S. A.
INDIAN COURT AND GALLERY OF ENGINEERING MODELS.—In
-
each of these departments the Diilectors have to acknowledge
aasistance of the same gratifying natnre as that in the Cent-
Mie 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 fabries and works of
art, granted with a liberality anti 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.

TuRNavAL 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-
t
tr of the progressive improvement in British naval arehitec-
cont:id navigation during a, period of 310 years. It also
provemusenste Oft:ligation.
s of new inventions connected with the im-
. 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
tune time solicit the farther aid of all parties who may have
the meansof extending it.
a'Wang TOWERS.—The Great Towers are now completed,.
ld
e arrangements have been made by which, for a small
i°lo.2:4,visitors to the Palace can ascend them, and enjoy the
are about a view! from the Weenies, where powerful telescopes
to be placed.
3430411TH TREE.---An object of great interest has lately been
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-
lgantea, or Mammoth Tree, being the largest of the group of
&those trees discovered in California. The portion erected in
the Tropical Transept, opposite the Abu Simbel figures, is no
;esti than 103 feet in height, and 32 feet in diameter at the
ease.
POCHIBITING DEPARTMENT.—Amongst the branches of indus-
try. Which now find important illustration in this department
flay be mentioned the manufacture of gold and silver work
and I
electro-plate, both domestic and artistic ; vulcanite and
•
aella rubber generally ; colour printing and typography ;
l'aPier /nuke, ornamental iron, fancy goods, and other pro-
ittetions of Birmingham ; domestic furniture, church furni-
tare ; in stone, wood, metal, and fabric ; hardware gene-
rally • and especially the productionser of Sheffield, in the
Court' filled by the manufacturs of that important centre of
industry.
ICAUDIAN COURT.—The arrangements announced on a for-
)11. occasion with the Government of Canada are now, the
're ctors are happy to report, complete. The Government of
aeada have undertaken to form and maintain in the Palace
It%collection which shall completely set forth the condition of
,ae manufactures and other industry and resources of that
'lnPortant colony.
t The collection will be placed in the large Court lying be-
wdieTthe News Room and the Stationery Court, immediately
'cning both the Nave and Centre Transept, and at present
ied by the sculpture of the German school.
,RODUCE COLLECTION, AND TRADE MUSEUM.—The Tech-
en ea, portion of this department is rapidly approaching
„44Pletion. It will comprise illustrations of all the chief
.Zannfactures of the United Kingdom, and specimens of the
vftducts. animal, vegetable, and mineral, of Great Britain
It!lci the Colonies, as well as of other countries. It is believed
"let it will be open to the pUblic in the course of the present
,rnansater.
Arden department is situated in the Second Gallery on the
rden side of the Grand Transept.
IMACHINERY IN MOTION.—The Machinery will be in action
erg the season at such times as will be announced in the
sled advertisements.o The Machinery now in the depart-
'bent comprises a complete set of machinery for spinning,
erafding, warping, sizing, weaving, and all the other processes
ter the manufacture of cotton goods from the bale to the
p read, and from the thread to the finished piece ; and a great
kiety of other machines.
4 AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.—The Department of Agricul-
nral Machinery and Implements has been considerably im-
ofoved during the past yar. Speciens will 'be found there
the portable steam engines and allm the other new machines
the chief manufacturers, and purchases can be made at the
same prices as at the warehouses of the makers.
ItseniNG R00m.2--The Company's Reading and News Room
6i situated close to the Centre Transept, between it and the
oarsman Sculpture Court ; it contains all the morning jour-
t
i 7 s, the weekly papers, metropolitan and provincial, and all
e
Periodicals and magazines.
addition to this, advertisements and copies of new
afters. both British and foreign, arc displayed immediately
1' Publication.
niodtp P.:m.o.—The Directors are prepared to afford accom
Pa,ii.;`On to benevolent and other societies for holding Fancy
e ,n the Palace during the season.
the tlitiPtr, ARCHERY, AND THE GROUNDS GENERALLY. —lt gives
Di T,
great pleasure to announce that the Cricket
orderi
rentld is now complete, and that it will be thoroughly in
ta.e fer the approaching summer. Great care has been
it ru the formati in of the ground, and they believe that
oth:`•'Jo found fully equal in extent and excellence to any
rix; in the neighbourhood
ill of London.
Nortiei Archery Ground wbe continn, d, as before, in the
Win ern portion of the grounds, behind the Picture Gallery
g•

VII. SEASON TICKETS.
orThsee Directors have determined upon continuing the price
I. g.,.48°11 Tickets of admission at the following rates,
--"Asex TICKETS, AVAILABLE FROM IST MAY, 1857, TO 30
APRIL, 1858, Two GUINEAS EACH,
These tickets will admit the holder on every occasion
i./.4en May 1, 1857, and April 30, 1858, on which the Palace
f; the four days of the Handel Festival, viz., the 13th,
ith, the
and 1 Sa4ex TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM IST MAY, 1857, TO' 30TH
APRIL, 1858, ONE GUINEA EACH.
t,These tiekets admit the holder on all occasions named
rve, excepting the Opera Concerts, and the other Fridays
i'reughout the year, and the 13th, 15th, 17th, and 19th
Jun The e being the four days of the Handel Festival.
Tickets will be issued on and after the 20th inst. ; and
belaY be obtained at the Crystal Palace ; at the 'Offices of the
,1111PanY, 79, Lombard-street ;at the Offices of the London
Brigh,ton Railway Company, London-bridge, and Regent-
ter
circus Piccadilly ; Central Handel Festival Ticket Office, Exe-
Hall, and of the Company's agents.
llemittances for Season Tickets to be by post-office orders
Payable to George Grove. •
VIII. GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL.
' enlt gives the Directors great gratification to be able to an-
nce that they have entered into arrangements with the
_acted Harmonic Society for a Grand Series of Three Perfor
Zranees of Handel's Oratorios, to take place in the Centre
....anept of the Palace in the month of June.
....11,er Majesty and H.R.H. Prince Albert have been raci-
thePleased to extend their especial patronage to the g
fcsti-
.rand have expressed their intention of honouring it with
presence. For further particulars see special adver-
iseinent
1)(- RATES OF ADMISSION, RAILWAY ARRANGE-
MENTS,&c.
viz.. RATES op Anmissiox,—These remain as before,
:on
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
On Saturdays
Thursdays, and Fridays
One Shilling.
lial
Children under 12 years of age, Half-priee. a•Crown.
Tue
The Palace will be opened on Mondays at 9 a.m.
sdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at 10 ; on
nex
ting,on the days of the Concerts by the' Opera Compan.
e which days, and on Saturdays, it will be opened at 12
closing daily about sunset.
13410111'0N RAILWAY.—During the season, the traius:of the