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      heard in abbey and in church , and at the soldier s funeral . We have noticed that the organ swell in the former is apt to injure the true and natural effect and that the dramatic accessories at the latter overno ^ er it ; and we repeat that the effect produced by its performance—also on Wednesday— -wherein the skilful organ performed his legitimate office , and no more , was an extremely fine illustration of the poiver of music . It was naturally anticipated that many persons would postpone their visit to the last day ; and in order to accommodate these , as well as to prevent confusion at the Palace , the ticket-office at Exeterhall was kept open until eleven o ' clock yesterday morning . Even after that hour stragglers arrived ,

      neither crushing nor crowding , nor discontent , that we could see , and seeing , in fact , that a musical mob » like one of smokers , is generally mildly disposed , we should hardly have looked for if . And we have another agreeable confession to make before closing our remarks ; anent some old enemies of ours—Messrs . Sawyer and Strange-r-or , we beg pardon , Mr . Frederick Strange—of the refreshment department . Cockneys as we are , we have often had a hone to pick with those who would , we thought , give us naught else , were we ever so poor , so rich , so hungry , or dainty . But Mr . Strange has at last , after long buffeting in the sea of public disapproval , we hope , caught sight of land . A month ago we would have advised no one to Lunch or dine at the Crystal Palace . "We have now the honour to report , for the advantage of those whom it may concern , and not without some

      gratifying recollections of our own , that we dined under Mr . Strange ' s ministration , at various prices , on the Rehearsal day , and on Monday and Wednesday . We found out that in the eighteen-penny diningroom we could get a good dinner of cold lamb , salad , and etceteras ( not beer , thou thirsty one ) : and we hare found the ordinary in the south-wing diningroom is by no means to be despised . Mr . Strange here showed much wisdom in confining his attentions to cold dishes , arid few of them . He now prints a very nice bill of fare , comprising—judiciously , if he wishes to profit by his trade—a limited number of articles . Of these the customer may dine a discretion or q Vindiscretiorii . if tie likes : and one who on a Handel centenary day has enjoyed a Mayonnaise of salmon , beurre aux capres , a good tongue , and cold fowl , besides very fair sweets ^ and a bottle of Closde Vougeot , has a right to be thankful , and may be allowed to testify accordingly .

      This Mayonnaise of salmon is a good thought . While salmon rivers run , and lettuce fields grow , we can have it in abundance . It may "be excellently flavoured at no great cost : —it is decidedly a " piece de resistance " you . ruay dine off , and dine off well , if you like . At a monster restaurant like this , where the caterer must be prepared to-day for- 2 , 000 , and tomorrow for 200 customers , the mayonnaise in question is a very politic introduction . The . Crystal Palace salads of former days were a feature . We have bitterly reviled several generations of the successors of those antique salads . Under Mr . Strange we have , a hope that a man of moderate means and with short time at his disposal may once more go to the Crystal Palace—really to dine .

      in the hope of being in time to secure admissions ; but in that respect they were disappointed , and their dilatoriness must have occasioned them some inconvenience in having , to obtaia the requisite pass at Sydenham . It will be remembered that at the experimental performance in 1857 , the last day was the most patronised , and it seems probable that the same is the case now . The arrangements for the second day of the present commemoration partook of a sectional character . First , there was the whole of the Te Deum , and then followed selections from Belshazzar , Saul , Samson , and Judas Maccabeus . The object of this variety was obviously to promote the convenience

      of her Majesty ; and the weather being magnificently fine , thousands must have gone to the Palace in the full expectation of seeing the Queen as well as listening to the music . Affairs of State , however , prevented the royal visit on Wednesday , and it being understood that it would take place to-day there was again a double inducement to be present . Elaborate and tasteful toilets were accordingly as much in the ascendant this forenoon as on Wednesday . The railways were besieged with whole armies of crinoline ; while the road was gay and animated to a degree . Costly west-end equipages mingled with unpretending broughams and cabs , and the different routes leading to Sydenham were choked with carmounted

      riages . Space , however , was kept by police to facilitate the progress of some great personages or other , and everything indicated that unusual visitors were expected . Nevertheless there were not wanting misgivings that the deatliof the HGrrand Duchess Dowager of Prussia , mother of the Princess of Prussia , and grandmother of the husband of the Princess Royal of England , would forbid the attendance of her Majesty to-day , and these fears appear to have been well founded , since we learn from a report dispatched at the last moment that the Prince Consort had arrived unattended by her Majesty . His royal highness was accompanied by the Princess Alice , the Princess

      Helena , the Count de Flanders , and a numerous suite . The royal party drove to the Crystal Palace in their open carriages , in scarlet liveries , proceeding by Vauxhall-bridge , South Lambeth , Stockwell , AJpharoad , and Brixton . They were received by Sir Joseph Paxton , Mr . Farquhar ( the chairman ) , Mr . Bowley ( the manager ) , Mr . Danby Seymour . M . P . Mr . Grove ( the secretary ) , and several other of the directors , who conducted the royal party to the state compartment fitted up in the first gallery of the eastern transept : and as his royal Highness the Prince

      Consort entered , the orchestra pealed forth the majestic strains of the National Anthem , the audience rising simultaneously with the orchestra . The solo parts were sung by Madame Clara Novello , Miss Dolby and Mr . Sims Hooves ; nnd it is needless to say the effect was grand and thrilling . After a pause of some minutos , Mr . Costa again waved his baton , and the orchestra forthwith commenced the oratorio of " Israel in Egypt , " Besides the ladies and gentlemen already named , Madame Rudersdorff , Madame Lomraens Sherrington , Mr . Weiss , and Signor Belletti lent their aid to the performance , which was listened

      of tlie spectacle which the auditory presented was not a little increased by the beauty of the roynl box . The weather was nil that could bo desired , and the close of the commemoration , like its opening , has been a coznploto success . With the exception of an inopportune storux on Monday , which will mightily profit laundresses and milliners , and which caused a good deal of annoyance to the thousands who woro particularly anxious , for divers urgent reasons—though they all came out to enjoy themselves—to got up to town " by the very

      in our time soon and helped in a good deal of management , aye , and mismanagement too . We ought to know something about it , and wo can affirm on the -words of that individual and collective Hydra , the " gontlomon of the press , " that the dexterity , mildness , and success with which Mr . Bowloy and his Sacred Harmonic stewards arranged the stowage was so remarkable as to deserve praise and thanks on all hands , The people wore symmetrically arranged in blocks , ample room for moving , arriving and departure being loft between those . There was

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      Italian Opkka , Drury Lake . —Mdlle . Titiens is a great dramatic singer . Her Valentino , ha " Gli Ugonotti " is her chef-dceuvre , and in her first performance of the part here on Thursday yreek she so far outdid all her previous efforts as to rouse an audience both critical and fashionable to a high pitch of enthusiasm . In the grand duo with liaoul de Nanjis , in the third'Sct—and , indeed , in the whole of that act—she was magnificent , and was ably supported by Giuglini as the hero . The cast was otherwise strong . Mdlle . Lemaire as Urbino ( the page—Mdme . Alboni ' s character ) has an excellent mezzosoprano voice , and much taste . To say that the Margarita de Vulois ( Mdlle . Brarobella ) and the

      Marcel ( Signqr Marini ) were more than respectable is perhaps hardly doing them justice j and it were as unjust to suppress a murmur at the one glaring orchestral shortcoming . We recognise the difficulty of extemporising so perfect a band as that of the rival Opera , which , as we have before said , has now been one and undivided for several years ; and we are no less aware that the peculiar cor Anglais freely used by Meyerbeer with remarkable effect in this groat work is an instrument not professed by a half dozen instrumentalists in London ; but still the intention of the composer and the menial peace of the connoisseur are so interfered with by th > o substitution of the oboe that some provision should really be made at a first class opera house to meet the

      legitimate requirements of the score . Mr . Douglas of the Stajskajrd announces that ho is making groat preparations for the production of the tragedy of ' Medea , " in which Miss Edith Horaud ( who lately attained so much repute by her enunciation of Antigone at the Crystal Palace musical performance of Mendelssohn ' s grand choruses ) will sustain tho character of the celebrated onchantrosB of Colchis . It will be probably produced next Saturday .

      and many single figures recently added , which are very well worth being mentioned in a more specific manner , but for which we have not space . The general appearance of the gallery is magnificent , and corresponds with the sumptuous costumes of the effigies which form the collection . ' During Whitsun holidays the crowd of visitors was greater than we ever remember to have seen assembled on former occasions . . The following distinguised persons honoured the Drury Lane Royal Italian Opera with their presence last week : —The Baron Brunnow , Russian Ambassador and party , His Grace the Duke of Bedford and party , the Lord Sandys , Lady Knatchbull , Lord and Lady Saltoun , Lady Hall , Lady A . Willougbby-, Lady F . Russell , Sir John Lowther , Bart . ; Sir William Obdy , Bart . ; Miss Burdett Coutts' party , Captain Clayton , R . N ., and Mrs . Clayton ; Major-General Sir A . Wandford , Mrs . Howard , Colonel Luke White , C . C . Martin , Esq . ; Captain Walter , Major Purvis , C . Hudson , Esq . ; J . Aray , Esq . ; A . J . Curtis , Esq . ; M . T . Norris , Esq ., &c .

      Madam * : Tubsaud ' s . —A group has just boon added to the collection of Madame Tusaaud , of which it is not too mucli to speak in unqualified praise . This is a group of children , scions of tlie royal house of Hanover : Whoever the artist may bo by whom this group has been modelloditdpeshlrn great credit . Tho colouring of the heads and limbs of tho children is a perfect imitation of life , and the minuter accessories are so complete as to leave nothing to bo aUUea to the tfonoral oflfcet . There are many other groups

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      GERMANY AND THE FRENCH PRESS . The language of the German press with respect to France is remarked on by the Constitutionnel as highly unbecoming and unjustifiable . The Emperor Napoleon , it declares , has undertaken the war in Italy only for the single object of freeing that fine country from tyrannical rule , and has no intention of attacking Germany or any other country . Hence , it says , the apprehensions expressed by the German press are unfounded , and the armament of the various States amounts to a positive menace . . It then says : — . . ' ¦

      . "We are told of M . Kossuth and General Ivlapka . the former of whom , says the Austrian partisans , is gone to Italy with a French passport ; while the latter has published a proclamation to the Hungarians dated from the Imperial head quarters . Not one word of all this is true . The Imperial government has nothing whatever to do with the proceedings or attempts of those two refugees ; but France can scarcely be expected to deprive them of their liberty for the greater security of Austria . Besides , neither is in the habit of

      Kossuth npr General KJapka accepting a mission from any one ; and when one of the English journals , friendly to Austria , speaks of them as agents of the French government , it misrepresents their position , and at the same time throws doubt on the straightforward conduct of France . We cannot affect to be surprised if the Hungarians do not feel quite happy under the Austrian yoke ; but we must hot confound causes altogether distinct . We are in Italy for a determined object , which has nothing threatening for European

      ftiternational rights . " Certain foreign journals assert that French intrigue is active on the banks of the Danube , in creating embarrasments for Turkey , and exciting the Roman principalities against her government . To these insinuations we give the most positive denial . On the very day of the Emperor ' s departure for the army of Italy , Count Wale «• ski informed Lord Cowley of the intentions and views of his Majesty on that delicate question . Such a declaration ought to suffice , as the Imperial government has given no one the right to question the sincerity of its language . "

      The New Snlsniifi-s . —In a common hall to-day held under the presidency of the Lord Mayor , Mr . Alderman Phillips and Mr . Alderman Gabriel were elected Sheriffs of London and Middlesex for the ensuing year . Mr . B . Scott was re-elected Chamberlain , and the other annual officials wore also reappointcd .

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      At a sale of music and instruments tit INIossrs , Puttick & Simpson ' s , in Leicester-square , on riiurtiday , a violin , described ns "by Stradiuunus , of full size , extremely beautiful , and in tho most Perfect condition , " was knocked clown at 240 / . ; and uviolon , collo , tho succeeding lot , 12 »/ . The official journal , LaLowhardta , l > ul > iMicd at & ! 5 k < 3 £ S ! r 5 & tan to bo reinstated in their offlcoa to address pet tions to that effect to tho governor ot Lo . nbardy with exact statements of tho circumstancca . The Police Gazette of St . Petersburg publishes a notico to the inhabitants to tho effect that several . * . « nf oholora had lately appoarcd In that city , and

      , „ , noints out tho best meads to bo adopted to avoid tho disease . Everyone is recommonded to bowaro of trotting suddenly chilled when warm ¦ , not to overload the stomach ; to abstain from iced beveragci , and at tho first appearance of any derangement in tho digestive organs to have rooourso to medical advice . A latter from Rome in the Journal

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 25, 1859, page 767, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2300/page/11/