PANORAMA OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
A' agnificent view of Constantinople, taken from the most command- ing position in the city, now frill the largest circle of the Panorama is Leicester Square; and a scene at once so strange, interesting, and beaus tiful as is here brought beneath the eye, has not for a long time bean_pri- sented to the public. The claim of donstantinople to be acknowledged-F. the finest city in the world in point of situation and picturesque character, is well supported by the varied charms of the extensive and lovely pro- spect, that Messrs. Burford and Selous have so ably pictured from the drawings of Mr. W. J. Smith, of the British Embassy at Constantinople.
We will not attempt the description of a panorama that every one ought to go and see; and the pressure on our apace warns us to be content with calling attention to a work of extraordinary labour and skill, and a picture as full of beauties both of art and nature as ever converted a circle of painted canvass into a little world of enchantment.
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