DIORAMA OF THIS EVENTS OF THE WAR.
The last addition that had been made to the Diorama of the Events of the War, which may perhaps endure at the Gallery of Illustration as long as the war itself endures, brought the operations down to the construction of the Balaklava Railway. A further addition is now to be recorded,— consisting of the English Mortar-batteiT, the Redan and Rifle-pits, General Pelissier's Night-attack, and a picture illustrating Mr. Fergus- son's system of fortifications by earth-works with tiers of batteries one above the other. The Night-attack, all dim and dubious at first, and only brought out into definiteness at intervals as the imitative flashes from the discharge of cannon light up the combatants, is certainly as skilfully and boldly managed a diommie effect as we are acquainted with. As new' pictures are added, old ones drop out of the series, and those which belonged to the Danubian campaign are now very considerably curtailed ; the directors of the exhibition being rightly of opinion that the march of events diminishes the interest of those of remoter date, and that the thing required is to make their diorama successive in its scenes, rather than permanent, like the war it illustrates. Perhaps, if the con- flict lasts long enough, none of the original lot will at the end of the war and the diorama bear witness of their commencement.
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