The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

NAPOLEON MUSEUM

Among the many exhibitions-now open fur the amuse-
ment of the holiday folks, we•know of none more jute
resting tha-, the Napoleon Museum. It is indeed an
illustration of history. We visited it yesterday, and
found it very well attended. The reduction of
the charge of admittance to a shilling has had
the effect of greatly increasing the number of visitors.

EASTER SUNDAY.

THE STEAMERS AND THE RAILWAYS.

The weather on Sunday was most auspicious. The
holiday folks were early stirring, and from sunrise till
sunset the pent-up artizans, their wives, and families,
were hastening down to Greenwich, Woolwich, Gra%es-
end, and other places, in the steam boats, or seeking a
cheap pleasure trip by the numerous railways.
Greenwich was, as usual, the chief place of resort for
the Londoners. There was of course no business done

in the fair, the amusements_ of which commence this
day, but it was filled with people continually passing
between the lines of booths and shows. The park was
also crowded, and this beautiful place was never seen to
greater advantag'. Numerous groups were continually
running up and down 1-loliday-hill, promenading the
green sward, or taking a view of the great metropolis
from the terrace in front of the Observatory, where the
old pensioners realised a good deal of money, by allow-
ing the visitors to peep through their telescopes.
Greenwich fair presents the usual appearance.
Richardson's travelling theatre, in which a tragedy
is to be performed in twenty minutes, and a pan to-
mine in half that time, during . the next thret days,
and the great Crown- and Anchor booth, being the
principal objects pf attraction. The tea rooms, pub-
lic houses, and Other places of entertainment, have
laid in great stores of provisions for the consump-
tion of the visitors. The trains on the Greenwich rail-
way were conning from London to that town, and vice
versa, every quarter of an hour during the day, and we
believe the numbercoonveyed each way did, not amount
to less than 15,000; but the numbers who chose that
expeditious mode of conveyance were trifling as com-
pared with the thousands brought don n by the steamers
of the Watermen's Company and thole of the Woolwich
and Greenwich Companies. Some thousands proceeded
to Woolwich and Greenwich via the Blackwell Railway
and the Brunswick wharf, at the terminus, was crowded
.during the day, and a b:ind of music, the expense of
which was defrayed by the directors, was in attendance.
There is an extensive prospect of the river and the op-
posite shore of Kent to he obtained from this wharf, and
it promises to be a favourite place of resort. on fine
Sun-lays. The warren at Woolwich, where the bands
of the Royal Artillery and another regiment, were play-
ing favourite airs during the afternoon, was covered
with well-dressed people. The Gravesend steamers also
conveyed good • freights of passengers, and there were
twenty vess►-ls employed in the traffic, who landed 10,000
persons, during the morning, at the Rosherville, Terrace.
and Town-piers, and brought them back •in the evening,
after they had ranged the fields in the vicinity of the
town, or dined at the various ordinaries.

The Brighton, . Dover, and Southampton Railways
only charged half fares between these places and Lon-
don; and also to Tunbridge and other towns one the
lines, and hundreds who had never seen those places b.—
fore, took advantage of the cheap rate of travelling to
visit them. The experiment is to be continued during
the Easter holidays, and is likely to answer well, and
thousands will be enabled to visit the beautiful scenery of
the home counties at tt small expense, and in a reasonable
space of time.

The number of passengers who filled the above bridge
steamers yesterday would almost defy calculation.
T►ere were not fewer than thirty iron and wooden
steamers continually calling at the various. piers, em-
barking and landing passengers. - Some of those boats
proceeded only as far as the Red House, others to Chel-
sea, a few to Putney, and five were solely engage in the
Richmond trade. A new steamer, called the Echo,
which left the Adelphi-pier for Richmond, steamed along
in fine style, and attracted a good deal of notice.
The extraordinary number of 105 steamers were em-
ployed yesterday on the Thames in the conveyance, viz,,
20 for Gravesend, 30 above-bridge, 11 watermen's
steamers, 12 of the old Woolwich and Greenwich Com-
pany, 3 of the Herne Bay Company, 2 (the Flirt and
Coquette), between Blackwell and Greenwich, 2 for
Southend and Sheerness, 1 for Ramsgate (the Queen
Victoria), the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal
(the vessels of the Margate and General Steam Naviga-
tion Company), and half-a-dozen steam-tugs. This is an
amount of steam power not surpassed on any other river
in the world.

INFORMATION FOR THE EASTER HOLIDAYS.
The following places are open to the admission of the
public, and may not be uninteresting to our readers during
the present holidays
St. Paul's Cathedral, open daily; charge to see all,
4s. 4d.
Tower of London, open daily; charge to see all, is.
Westminster Abbey, open daily; charge to see all, 6d.
The Monument, open daily; charge to see all, 6d.
Greenwich Hospital, open daily; charge to see all, 3d.
Custom House, open daily; free.
Mansion house, open daily ; free.
Guildhall, open daily ; free.
Duke of York's Column, open daily ; charge of 6d.
Adelaide Gallery, Strand, open daily ; charge of Is.
Polytechnic, Regent-street, open daily ; charge of Is.
Society of Arts, Adelphi, open daily, except Wednes-
day ; admission by order.
British Museum, Monday and Wednesday ; gratis.
Chinese Museum, Hyde Park, daily ; charge of is.
Napoleon Museum, Piccadilly, daily ; charge of Is.
Geological Museum, Craig's-court, daily ; gratis.
United Service Museum, Scotland-yard, daily ; by
order only:
Royal Military Repository, Woolwich, daily; gratis.
Cosmorama, Regent-street, daily ; charge of Is.
Burford's Panorama, Leicester-square, daily ; charge
of 18.
Diorama, Regent's Park, daily ; charge of Is.
National Gallery, Charing cross, daily ; gratis.
Royal Academy, Charing-cross daily ; charge of Is.
British Institution, Pall-mall, daily : charge of Is.
Dulwich Gallery (except Friday), daily ; gratis.
Society of Painters, Pall-mall, daily ; charge of ls.
Prize Cartoons, Suffolk-street, daily ' • charge of Is.
St. James's Gallery and Ancient Masters, daily ;
charge each of Is.—Evening Sun.

WILL OF GENERAL LORD LYNEDOCH.—.-The will
of this late eminent and veteran General, Knight Grand
Cross of the Bath, Knight of the most distinguished
Order of St. Michael and St. George, and styled
" Father of the Army," •has been proved in Doctors'
Commons by Andrew Murray and Robert. Stewart.
Esq., two of the executors, the Hon. Henry Trevor hair,
ing declined to act. The property within the province
of Canterbury has been sworn mid& 4,000 L, in
order to enable the executors to receive that amount
in London, the will having already been proved
in Scotland, where the bulk of his property (which
is very considerable) is situated. By this instru-
ment the following legacies (the only ones of pubic in-
terest) are given :—To the children or the late General
Sir John Hope, 5,000 i ; to Eliza Grame, daughter of
the late J. Grame, Esq., 1,0001, in testimony of his
esteem and regard ; to J. Goodsman, of Edinburgh, his
Lordship's late servant, 500/. ; and to all other servants
two years' wages, in addition to what may be due ; to
each of his trustees, 1001. The residue of his property
is bequeathed to various branches of his family, but it is
utterly impossible, within our limited space, to give any-
thing like an abstract of the will.—Britannin.
The Earl of Eglintonn has sold the great Eagle-
sham estate, one of the finest in the west of Scotland, to
A. Gilmour, Esq., late of Glasgow, for 217,000/. The
rental averages from 9,0001. to 10,0001. per annum.
An extraordinary passenger is booked for shipment
from Hull for Rotterdam next week, namely, a fine
rhinoceros, from Manchester, which will arrive, we un-
derstand, on Tuesday next.—,Eastern Counties Herald.
NOVEL NUTCRAGKERS.--.A• facetious writer in the
Bristol Timcs, in his reminiscences of the churches of
that city, relates that one of those Sacred edifices, hav-
ing been built on a had foundation, had declined so much
from the perpendicular,- that it oscillated very danger-
a usly, and that while the bells were being rung, it was
oi; unusual for boys to insert nuts in the opening cre-
vices of the walls to be cracked !—Very cool, this !