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The Panopticon.—This Institution In Leicester-square, has been re-opened under new management and with several new attractions.1 There are lectures on various scientific subjects, including electricity, with• demonstrations on the gigantic machine which occupies so conspicuous a position in the rotunda. The siase of this machine is startling, and a shock from it would probably be sudden death. Its revolving glass plate is ten feet in diameter, and weighs nine hundred weight; it presents to the rubbers sixty-six square feet of glass for the collection of electricity. The illumination of the fountain in the centre is perhaps the most striking thing to be seen in London. By some recently discovered process, lights of different colours are made to follow the path of the water, and the fountain is made to present the appearance of a jet of liquid fire shooting up to the top of the high dome and falling in a cloud of 1 luminous spray. Or the colour is changed to scarlet,1 and a lurid stream starts up from the basin, and at I length breaking into mist at the top, presents the ap-I pearance. of a richly-coloured summer cloud, ever chang-I ing its shape. A series of dioramic dissolving views I represent Verona, inside its walls and outside, and is 1 concluded by a gorgeous exhibition of chromatrope. The 1 managers have shown great judgment in providing plenty I of music. Besides the performances on the grand j organ by Mr. Best, which are already well known in 1 London, there is a company of madrigal singers, I and another of Flugel-horn players, one or other of which may be heard every time of exhibition. The I more serious parts of the performances include, lectures I on metals, on navigation, pneumatics, natural magic, c.Hints to Poets.—We (New York Independent) areI. II t • . I VI * I .V k . .
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Weekly News and Chronicle
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Oct 21, 1854
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