27 DECEMBER 1856, Page 18

lint Arts.

DIORAMA AT THE GREAT GLOBE.

Though the Russian war has been discontinued for some months, Russia and the scenes of the Baltic and the Crimean campaigns are still the lo- calities of greatest immediate popular interest ; and the enterprising pro- prietor of the Great Globe has taken these for the subject of a diorama which has just been opened there. The diorama, painted by Mr. Charles Marshall, after photographs and drawings by officers engaged in the war, travels to a considerable extent over the same ground which was pre- occupied by the artists of the Gallery of Illustration, though generally with less completeness and effect. It goes further into the interior of Russia, with views of Novgorod, Moscoyr, and, the Ural moun- tains; and individual features of St. Petersburg:; and takes a closer view of the Baltic shores. Starting-Imre, it passes Bothnia, and Finland, the Aland Isles, Sweaborg, Cronstadt, &c. ; and, after the glance into Russia, proceeds to the shores of the Danube and the Black Sea, and ends in the Crimea at the battle of the Alma. This scene, and the Coronation at Moscow—interesting for the view it presents of the gilding and painting of a Muscovite cathedral—are the principal figure- subjects of the diorama. The exterior view of Moscow is also pic- turesque ; and the moonlight scene of the Dardanelles, and that of Trebi- zond, with its cloudy mountains and bluest of blue seas, the sheltered crowded city, and the butterfly hues of the shipping, are effective paint- ings. There is something too much of gas-light conflagration, powder, and bang, ad captandum, in the forts blowing up, and men of war and cannon blazing away, at Bomarsund, Sinope, Odessa, and Alma.