THE OCEAN MAIL.
This week the Gallery of Illustration has been reopened with a new dio- rama by Messrs. Grieve and Telbin, illustrative of the route taken, or to be taken, by the Ocean Mail Steamers, via the Cape, India, and Australia. The Journey commences at Plymouth Sound : and, among many other points of interest on the ship's course, we may cite as noticeable for success in beauty of effect, or scene, the Isle of Ascension by moonlight, Cape Town, (a substantial, handsome-looking city,) Point de Galle in Ceylon, and Sydney Cove. We get a sight of an encampment at the Ophir dig- Pngs ; and in the last view, which is of Mount Alexander diggings, real vitality is given to the scene by the introduction into the foreground of actual living men, busily engaged with pickaxe and cradle in the various
operations appertaining to gold-finding. A descriptive lecture by Mr. Stocqueler is interspersed ; and on the whole this diorama bids fair to be as successful as that of the Overland Mail.
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