BURFORD'S PANORAMA • DELHI.
Early last autumn there was a panorama of Delhi in the City ; anew and larger one now forms the fresh attraction at Burford's Panorama in Leicester Square. In contemplating the former, the mind speculated on the strength of the place, and the amount of work which" its reconquest would give us ; before the latter, we have no such anxieties, and are only curious about the damage done. Our army was encamped on the outside heights in the first panorama; in the second, it is within the walls, tussel- ling for life and death with Sepoy ruffians, and avenging outraged Eng- land and outraged nature upon- them to one's heart's content. The wild Sikhs and the intrepid little ghoorkas mingle with the British soldiery in the melee; elephants are tramping; the sons of the King of Delhi, with bands of other fugitives making the best of their way out of the city ; women wailing and appealing for protection; shot and shell storm- ing on the palace-walls, and concealing the breaches in a mantle of white smoke. The picture is painted by Mr. Burford, with the usual assist- , ance of Mr. Selma for the figures, after sketches by Captain Robert Smith, R.E. It is taken from the esplanade on the South-east of the . Palace, necessarily exoluding the Cashmere Gate and some other points.: of strong immediate interest, but comprising, besides the immense . red sandstone line of the palace-wall, the Jumraa Musjid, the principal • street named Chadni-chouk, the Great Bazaar, and a number of minor mosques and straggling buildings. Though inside the walls, the view rather gives the outskirts of the city, with the summits of conspicuous edifices, than an insight into the more populous and closely-built in- terior.
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