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wi.ieh is double the diameter of the dome of St.
Paul's, will be converted into one vast concert ball,
enclosed on every side, its enormous arched roof
being screened from the sun by external coverings.
With perfect ventilation, the transept will thus
form by far the grandest concert-hall in the world,
with the most agreeaVe temperature possible.
The great stage will be fitted up with a suite of
royal boxes. As on the visit of his Imperial Ma-
jesty the Sultan, a reception-room, with floral
parterres and fountains, decorated with the choicest
specimens of sculpture, w ill lead from the royal
boxes to the outer or Queen's corridor (also appro-
priately decorated) overlooking the terraces and
gardens. On either side, and in immediate con-
tiguity to the royal boxes, raised seats will be
placed, which, from their elevation, will be among
the best positions iu the vast area for enjoying the
grand musical effects ; advertisements have just
been issued that they are on sale.

The fue-simile of Handel's autograph MS. of
"Messiah," photo-lithographed from the original iu
the Royal Library, by permission of her Majesty
the Queen, is all but complete, and will be ready for
delivery before the festival.
The last of the Metropolitan Choral Rehearsals,
under the direction of Mr. Costa, took place on
Friday evening last, at Exeter Hall. It was at-
tended by nearly two thousand two hundred
amateur London choralist3. Rehearsals have also
since been held at Bradford, for the Yorkshire con-
tingent, and at Birmingham for those from the
Midland districts, numbering nearly three hundred
singers in each place. Other rehearsals among the
local choirs and choral societies are occurring from
clay to day, and everything betokens a most success-
ful issue to this great musical celebration, which is
admitted on all hands to be as unparalleled in
extent and grandeur as it is unapproachable
throughout the world for excellence of performance.
In order to give some idea of the extent and
liberality of the arrangements which have been
made with the great railway companies for excur-
sion trains to the Palace during the Handel
Festival, the following particulars may be interest-

mg :--

On the Llndon and North-Western Railway,
and its numerous connecting lines, trains will run
on the 11th (day before the Great Rehearsal),
allowing either three or ten days for the return
jonrney from no less than 17G stations, including
all the principal towns in Wales, Lancashire,
Cheshire, Yorkshire, and the other important dis-
tricts traversed by these company's line:, The
second-class from Carnarvon and back (500 miles)
is 183. ; from Aberystwith aid back, 17s. Gd. ;
Leels and back, 133.; and the other fares are in
the same low ratio. Day excursions on the 12th
and 15th June will also run from Northampton and
Peterborough, and intermediate places, at a second
class return fare of ss.

By the Midland Railway, excursions for three or
ten days will run from nearly 100 stations in York-
shire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, Nottinghatnshir e,
&c., the second-class return fares from Liverpool
and Manchester being 153. Day excursions on
the 12th and 15th will also run from most of these
places at fares like the following :—Bradford and
back, 83. ; Derby, Leicester, or Nottingham and
back, Gs.
On the Great Northern Railway similar arrange-
ments have been made. The three or ten days ex-
cursions run from llalifax at 13.3. Gd. second-class
return ; York and back, 13s. The day excursions
oa this line are on the same liberal scale. A. train
will leave York at 12.15 a.m. cn the 12th June, and
calling at Doncaster, Retford, Newark, Grantham,
Stamford, and iatermeliate stations, will arrive at
King's-cross at a quarter-past 8 in the morning,
returning fro:n King's-cro33 at 8.33 the sane even-
ing. The fare fro.n York an-I back is only Bs.
E:ght shillings f 333 miles, with 11 hours, if de-
sired, in the Crystal Palace !
Oa the North Eastern Railway a train will ruu
onWedueslay, June 10, from Kelso, Berwick, Ala-
wick, Morpeth, and .11exhatn, to Newcastle, from
which town a train will start for Loudon early in
the morning of the 11th, returning to the North on
Thursday, June 18. For the entire journey from
Kelso to Loudon and back (G 92 miles), the second
class fare is only 255.

On the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
the South Eastern, South Western, London and
Brighton, London, Chatham, and Dover, and Great
Western Lines, corresponding arrangements for
excursions to the Festival have been snide.

A very important s will case commenced on Wednesday
in the Court of Probate, Dublin, before Judge Keatinge.
It was a suit to establish the will of the late Lady Esmonde,
by which, among other bequests, she left £30,006 to
Trinity College for the purpose of founding a college in thD
county of Wexford, in connection with the University cf
Dublin, to be called " The Grogan College." The deceased
lady, at the time of her marriage with Sir Thomas
EsmOncle, was the widow of the late Mr. Grogan Morgan,
of Johnstown Castle, who gave her by deed, a life interest
in his landed • estates, and made her the absolute owner
of his personal property, which was-considerable. On her
marriage with Sir Thomas Esmonde, in 1856, a marriage
settlement was executed, by which her life in-
terest in the Johnstown Castle estates, worth
from £15,C00 to 0.0,00 a year, and her personal estate,
was settled- in the strictest manner upon herself,
for her sole and separate use, and power was given to Ler
to dispose of all the personal property of which she was
possessed, by deed or by will, as she thought proper. The
will now in question was executed on the fith of August,
1857, about five months previous to the death of Lady
Esmonde. It is impeached by Sir Thomas Esmonde,
her husband, and Lord and Lady Granard, her son-
in-law and her daughter, on the ground that it was
obtained from her by undue influence, exercised and
practised by Mrs. Deane Morgan, the eldest daughter of
the testatrix, and the Rev. Edward Hughes, a Protestant
clergyman. The case of the executors is that lady
Esmonde was deeply attached to the Protestant
religion, that she supported Protestant charities in
the neighbourhood of Johnstown Castle, and that her
daughter, Lady Granard, having become a Roman
Catholic, she changed whatever testamentary inten-
tions she may have previously had in her favour,
and determined to devote her personal property to pur-
poses of a religious and of a Protestant character. Lady
Gran and has, by her mother's death, become entitled to
£12,000 a year, and Mrs. Deane Morgan to £5,000 a year.
Sir Thomas Esmonde, who is a Roman Catholic, is a man
of large property. The case is likely to last some days.