CONSTANTINOPLE.
Mr. Burford has again seized occasion and the public by the forelock, with a view of Constantinople, just opened at his Panorama—in time for the war in the East and for the Christmas holidays together. The home- staying Englishman will here be able to conceive how much, apart from considerations of political importance, there is to attract a Russian Em- peror in the "Queen of Cities." For lightness, gorgeousness, and pic- turesque variety—for a continual succession of new beauties contrastingand enhancing each other—we can well believe that Constantinople stands peer- less; a mosque here with domes and minarets, there a palace, or a ceme- tery with its solemn and beautiful cypresses ; the blue Bosphorus on one side, the intenser purple of the Sea of Marmora on the other; and a line of hills, snow-whitened here and there, and all as lovely as majestic, in the distance. The sun is near its setting, between the Mosque of Su- leiman and the more European-looking Marine-foundry; and lights up a greater amount and degree of beauty in architectural tout ensemble, and in the as-it-were-arbitrary arrangements of lines which every turn pre- sents, than we remember to have seen in any of Mr. Burford's former scenes; numerous and picturesque as they have been.
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