PANORAMA OF LTJCINOW.
Every British heart will confess that Lucknow was the right subject for the new picture at Burford's Panorama ; and the artistic eye will recognize that its value for pictorial purposes is scarcely inferior to its interest of association. The scene is rife with all kinds of natural beauty, forming a splendid background to the Oriental city of dome, minaret, mosque, and palace. The fine river Goomtee meanders through a wide extent Of open undulating country, luxuriant in massive vegetation which is not, on the whole, much unlike the general aspect of English scenery, only on a larger scale. The beholder is supposed to stand on the roof of the Residency, from which the sketches for the panorama, by Mr. Bland Hood Galland, were taken some little while before the breaking-out of the revolt. This deprives the view of some of the details which would be examined with the deepest interest ; various buildings of the Resi- dency and its dependencies are, however, included in the picture, as well as several "mosques, houses, gates, &c., occupied by the mutineers," and which have since become shapeless masses of ruin,"—a result, which even the most determined :esthetic can scarcely trouble himself for enough impartiality just now to mourn over.
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