The Cosmorama.
This very ingenious exhibition has increased its claims to the pubEc patronagc, by a change of the views. Thlose which it con- tains at prcsent are not only executed with greatcr skill than some of thnse formerly cxhibited,but they are also of a much moreintereating character.Thatwhich is perhaps the most likelv to command univer- sal attention,is aview of Rome from Mount Janiculum. It seems to havc been taken princpally from Piranesi's admirable etching.s, and is upon .such a scale, as to show with grat distincetnss all the re- markable places and buildings of the eternal ity. The ruins may be clearly traced in the several quarters, and tle general effecteon- fsms the truth of Poor Lord Byron's apostrophe-.. '- Thy very weeds; are beautiful,_ t( C O O O O a Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin grac'd " With an immaculatechann wh-ch cannot bedefac'd." lBetter painted, and only second in interest to the viewof Rome, are thosse of Ruins at Taormina, with Etna in the distance, and of the Temples of Jtno,and of Concord, at Agrigentum, in Sicily. An- other of the scenes represents the splendid nave of the church of San PdOTo, fuora deile mnurc, near Rome, wvhich was burned nearly two years ago,when the porphyry pillars and the cedar roof for which it was sO Zustly celebrated were wholly destroyed. The other views on thisSide of the gallery are the po;t of Carthagena, the town of Philadelphia, and the valley of Scbechen, in the Canton of Uri,witb the villagc of Bruglen, the birth-place of William Tell. Tn the opposite gallery there is a well-painted view of the island of PhiAor, showing ruins of the Ternple of Osiris ; and there is elso a view of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem; ;another of a ruined Temple at Palmyra; a view of the town of Cerines, in tlic island of Cyprus, and of sonic ancient sarcophagi, neAr Sidon, in Palestine: but that whielh is the most curious, and at this moment highly intereing, is a view of an excavation near the Tower of t7ora, in HXindotan. It is a ons6 suheeinrancasi gallery supported by massy pillars cut out of the hard rock. The end of this gal- lery LS shut up duri2g forur months of the year by a cascade whicli fslis from the top of thle rock, and forms at once a liquid veil and a barricr. When the hhcat of the summer has dried up the river which makes this cascade, a beautifal prospect of the valley anti lawn of Elora is sees from the opening. The last view represents the Peak of Tenerifie, at sunset. The rich colour of the clouds is beautifully and effectively contrasted with the dazzling snow-top of the Peak. There is, perbahas no exbibition in London which presents more legitimate claims tnan this to the encouragement of the public. Tlie exfuahon, as well as the selection of the scenes,are highlv creditable. Tetreat meritof the collection is that itrecals to thenem'ory scenes es have been in some measure forgotten, and describes those which the greater part of the inhabitants of the nmetropolis can never hopeto see, with a fidelity and an approach to reality far superior to written descreptions,or to ordinary drawings_and engravings. TIlE COSMORAMA.