The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-20 00:00:00

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ROYAL IPA LI 1N OPERA CONCER'J S. • t
The SEASON wil, COMMENCE on FRIDAY, the Ist of
ILY, 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, Mademol,.elle Rosa Devries,
Mademoiselle Marai, Mademoiselle Didiee, Mademoiselle
Parepa, and Madame Bosio ; Signor Mario, Signor Ronconi,
_Signor Neri-Baraldi, Signor Gardoni. ;signor Graziani, Herr
Formes, Signor Tagliatico, 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 bands of Mr.
Costa, who will himself conduct a portion of the Concerts.
With the above assemblage of artistes, it is hardly neces-
-2'117 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 1,8, 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 one
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-
zaauces on their former visit attracted enthusiastic admira-
tion, for a Concert in the Centre Transept of the Palace, on
Saturday, the 6th of June.
X.8.---Both Classes of Season Tickets will be available for
this Concert.'

111. GRAND WATERWORKS.
The Displays of 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.
IV. FLOWER SHOWS
There will be Two Grand 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,
;""e, and 12th of August. The Winter Show on the 9th,
11th, 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 Wing of the Palace, has
proved so successful iu its capabilities for the effective dis-
' 147 of paintings, that it is the intention of the Directors to
bold therein, during the present season, Two Exhibitions of
the„, Works of Living Painters of all Schools.
xhe 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 the
sew,.
CsaAmio 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
Coll he Ceramic Court were responded to by the owners of
ec 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
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furthe-r 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.S.A.
INbIAR COURT AND GALLERY OF ENGINEERING MODELS.--In
each of these departments the Directors have to acknowledge
81tistance 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
earrings and works in ivory and bronze fabrics and works of
ad, granted with a liberality and 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
t• tho public. It will give the Directors great pleasure to
receive any further contributions with which they may be
favoured.
Tins 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 shipo
wn.
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.
Winn. 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 the
extensive view from the balconies, where powerful telescopes
are about to be placed.
TREIL—An object of great interest has lately been
'led to the contents of the Palace, which will remain on ex-
hibition during the whole of the coming season. The object
411" ed to is a portion of the trunk of the Wellingtonia Gi-
gantea or Mammoth Tree, being the largest of the group of
treesthose i
discovered in California. The portion erected in
;ue Tropical Transept, opposite the Abu Simbel figures, is no
Zee's !ban 103 feet in height, and 32 feet in diameter at the
EXKIEITING DEPARTMENT.—AII2OII2,It the branches of ludas-
tl7 Which now find important illustration in this department
may be mentioned the manufacture of gold and silver work
rd electro-plate, both domestic and artistic ; vulcanite and
'l4 rubber generally ; colour printing and typography ;
I.,lePier mule ornamental iron, fancy goods, other pro-
retiens of Birmingham; domestic furniture, chirch furni-
r'',° ; in stone, wood, metal, and fabric ; hardware gene-
; and especiallly the productions of Sheffield, in the
,ustry t filled by the manufacturers of that important centre of
ind.
.._CALtnik's COITAL—The arrangements announced on a for-
.Zeer occasion with the Government of Canada are now, the
ur.irectors are happy to report, complete. The Government of
Canada have undertaken to form and maintain in the Palace
a.ecollection which shall completely set forth the condition of
manufactures and other industry and resources of that
IMPertant colony.
The collection will be placed in the large Court lying be-
leen the News Room and the Stationery Court, immediately
J°lniolg' both the Nave and Centre Transept, and at present
"ceuPied by the sculpture of the German school.
ne o"7 PRODUCE COLLECTION, AND TRADE MUSEUIL,—The Tech-
°logical
portion of this department is rapidly approaching
cerepletion. It will comprise illustrations of all the chief
Manufactures of the United Kingdom, and specimens of the
Plroducts. animal, vegetable, and mineral, of Great Britain
414 the Colonies, as well as of other countries. It is believed
,bat it will be open to the public in the course of the present
liirarner„
Garden
department is situated in the Second Gallery on the
rden side of the Grand Transept.
Macrussav IN MOTION.—The Machinery will be in action
during' the season at such times as will be announced in the
detailed advertisements. The Machinery now in the depart-
ment comprises a complete set of machinery for spinning,
!arcling, warping, sizing, weaving, and all the other processes
for 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 MACHINERY.—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 Room.—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
iss periodicals and magazines.
In addition to this, advertisements and copies of now
works, both British and foreign, are displayed immediately
after publication.
FANCY FAIRS.—The Directors are prepared to afford accom-
modation to benevolent and other societies for holding 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
Ground is now complete, and that it will be thoroughly in
order for the approaching summer. Great care has been
taken in the formation 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 TICKETS.
The Directors have determined upon continuing the price
of Season Tickets of admission at the following rates, viz. :
L. SEASON TICKETS, AVAILABLE 30TH
APRIL, IST MAY, 1857, TO 30T
APRIL, 1858, Two GITINEAS:EACII,
These tickets will admit the holder on every occasion be-
tween May 1, 1857, and April 30, 1858, on which the Palace
iE open ; the four days of the Handel Festival, viz., the 13th,
15th, 17th, and 19th June only excepted.
IL SEASON TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM IST MAY, 1857, TO 30TH
Aram, 1858, ONE GUINEA EAcnl
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
jone, being the four days of the Handel Festival.
The Tickets will be issued on and after the 20th inst. ; and
211,.,,ay be obtained at the Crystal Palace ; at the 'Offices, of the
'uroPany 79, Lombard-street ;at the Offices of the London
and Brighton Railway Company, London-bridge,and Regent-
!lrcus Piccadilly ; Central Handel Festival Ticket Office, Exe-
ter Rall, and of the Company's agents.
Remittances for Season Tickets to be by post-office orders
Payable to George Grove.
It VIII. GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL,
tgives the Directors great gratification to be able to an-
eonee that they have entered into arrangements with the
Sacred Harmonic Society for a Grand Series of Three Perfor-
mances of Handel's Oratorios, to take place in the Centre
xransept of the Palace in the month of June.
n Ifer Majesty and H.R.H. Prince Albert have been graci-
.
v:11815' Pleased to extend their especial patronage to the festi-
tiu ele, and have expressed their intention of honouring it with
h' Presence,
For further particulars see special adver-
tisement.
RATES OF ADMISSION, RAILWAY ARRANGE-
MENTS, dre.
viz.ORDINARY RATES OF ADMISSION,—Theso remain as before,
p:—On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
ursdays, and Fridays
Saturdays Half-a-Crown.
A. Children under 12 years of age, Half-price
T whe Palace will be opened on Mondays at; 9 a.m. ; on
RealaYs, Wednesdays Thursdays, and Fridays, at 10 ; ex-
Closing
• eePting on the days of the Concerts by the Opera Company,
utl Which da and on Saturdays, it will be opened at 12 ;
dailyaybsOut sunset.
334ItirrrQA ItaudiveY.—Duiing the 'season the trains of the