PROGRAMME OF THE HOLYDAY SIGHTS.
Acconorxo to our custom at this season, we will briefly enumerate the various exhibitions and other places of amusement that will be open in London during the Easter-week.
First of the free sights—the Metropolis and its suburbs teeming with happy faces in search of enjoyment are in themselves a delightful sight-- there are the British Museum and the National Gallery, with their treasures of' art and nature. For those who go further afield, tiara are the College and Gallery of Pictures, at the pretty village of Dulwich, with its Corps and Monnt.os ; and Hampton Court, where are the Cartoons of RAPHAEL, and a pictorial procession of the beauties, worthies, and poter:tates of Englund ; and the stately old palace of red brick, like a ruddy-faced veteran, with its formal gardens, and the noble avenues of Bushey Park. Nor must we forget Greenwich, for the sake of the Palace Hospital, its colonnades swarming with pensioners, basking in the sun like so many superannuated blue-bottles, and. its Park alive with holyday -folks, not the less picturesque for being on the balks of the Thames and crowded wills Cocknies.
A shilling will obtain admission to each of the following places. The Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's Park, will doubtless have more visitors than usual. to see the portly matron Chimpanzee, and her in- different, insignificant brute of a husband; and the lady Giraffe, in her interesting condition—unless, indeed, she should be confined to the lying-in stable. The Surry Zoological Gardens offer the usual attrac- tions to the folks over the water. To the lovers of mechanical and scientific curiosities, the Polytechnic Institution, in Regent Street, offers the imique attractions of a descent in the diving-bell, without danger or wet, and only the inconvenience of momentary closeness; and the sight of a diver working under water—sending up a column of air that bubbles like a spring, and looking in his air-helmet like stunts huge insect emerging from the surface : it boasts also a hydro-oxygen microscope, exhibited in a commodious theatre, and a variety of' inge- nutlike: similar to those of the Adelaide Gallery in the Strand ; which has its microscope also, and the steam-gun to set off against the diving- bell.
The Panorama. of London, at the Colosseum, and those of Rome and the Coliseum, in I Adeester Square; the Cosmorama, in liegent Street ; the model of the Battle of Waterloo, at the Egyptian Hall, Pic- cadilly : the Armoury at the Tower, and that of the Gothic Hall, NeW 13011d Street, may be classed among. popular exhibitions. The Diorama was announced to reopen, hut as yet we have heard nothing of it. The Gallery of the British Institutiou. in Pall Mall, and that of' the Society of British Artists, in Suf101k Street, will more exclusively attract the pi it ure-seers.
All the Theatres will be open, the A delphi excepted. At Covent Gar- den, Sir Lryros Bohm:Ws play of Richelieu, which we bear is drawing crowds every night it is played, will he l'ollowed by a revival of' the old poptiler melodrama Lido/Alai; the new romantic drama not being yet Pet hcoming. Ihstry produces a proper Easter- piece, The Kin!' due to follow Ilt:Nisincsr's opera, 77ic (;;psy's II'orning, On 31onday; but BARNETT'S Farina/I is to Le played in the mimic- of the week. The i lay market Easter-piece, 77w /)t sit and _north, Pints( iv:, is postponed till kite in the week ; but Powisit appears on Monday, in O'F/ona;!aor root /he Fairim ; and there are two or three lively threes beside ; and ccli " ;Ism:tiding erchestrit" is announced as a novel feature. At the ( fly ni pie, Est, US kJ/ilk 11 View. will throw his line into the over- Ilowieg audience, and hoek tip both " loaves and fiche's" for the trea- sury : VEsTets is to bv Ma oat n the .111 ilhma id, and sing " Come live with me met he my love.'"I'lle Lyceum opens with a new company, tinder the nuteagetto lit of 31r. 31. Prxi.sv ; with Mrs. ST1RLINI;, who is to reintesent 1.ctcIc Jiro,/ slientoyme, and a host of " first ap- pearencvs t" the title of the afterpieee, The Siker Crowell!, or the Oath 1:1 I cc"i,,;ner, is of the true Easter character. The Nett Slr1111(1 111S0 openS, :11111 last, not least, the " veritable troop of luenkies, dtais, awl emnplete corps of' hrute.perfimuers—w ill appear at the
St. James's.
Apropos of IsosIs—the two lions, " the I: Mg of Prnssio," ouch his plebeian fellow paptive, " Bobliy," who were exhibited at this theatre, both died, stiddellly, Within a day or two ot' each other : they have been sithjoet ell to a pest nywieta examination, (poison having been suspected, as it used to be in the cases of sudden decease of great characters,) and a verdict of " natural death " has been recorded by the surgeons. The Tulles says they died of mortilication—at being superseded by their ignoble successors : but we tire credibly informed that the mor- tification arose from their losing the nightly spectacle of thy; theatre, brilliant with gas-light, gilding, und handsome faces, and the excite- ment of applause.
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