6 JUNE 1857, Page 14

INDIAN DIORAMA.

The Great Globe in Leicester Square has lately added to its sources of information and attraction a Diorama of Upper India and the Ganges. The diorama is neither so elaborate, so spectacular, nor so exact to particular sites, as some others, and we fancy it is not new ; but, like all entertainments of the kind, it realizes to the eye by an immediate process what would take hours of verbal explanation, and remain much vaguer at the end of all. We begin with Calcutta, " the city of palaces" as it is called, or more truly, of the dullest and most monotonous collection of big edifices with which the coldness of modem Europe could have insulted the glow and colour of the East. Then comes the sacred city of Benams, comparatively innocent of "improvements" upon its barbaric picturesqueness; then Allahabad, the high quarteni of Thuggee; and Agra, leading up to that old marvel of sight-seers the Taj Mahal, or tomb of the wife of Shah Jehan. Faithpenances, dawk travelling, Juggernaut festival, and the like, vary the topography with peculiarities of national life.