The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-27 00:00:00

EXHIBITIONS.

BURFORD'S PANORAMA OF MOSCOW.
This is one of the most successful of Mr. Burford's
panoramas. If we were inclined to be hypercritical we
might wish, indeed, that the ancient Tartar city had beta
eet in the mind of the painter. instead of the modemuEruPromPmean tremlation of the same. But we believe that the
millet wee right. "God and the Czar," the Czar being first,
is the Mudjik formula, and what the Czar is, must be, in
certain sense, the mould of the typo mound which every-
thing in Russia meat be fashioned. European Czars will
succeed in making Moscow a European City. The painter
has therefore, perhaps, not done wrong In (homing the
esplanade of the Kremlin as the point to which all
his sketches converge as to a centre. There is en
evident tendency to Europeanism in the buildings imam-
diately adjacent to the central point. We mire the Tereene,
the ancient 'Ferrer palare glaring with "barbaric pearl
and gold," and are obliged to put up with Alexander
Talmo, kugo but monotonous, and full of European little-
ness. It is one insignificant atom multiplied by • million.
In the same manner most of the buildrees in the near dire
tame tell of modern timee rather than of the old Tartar
period. The mend tableau in the picture represents the
solemn entry of the Emperor Alexander at the period of the
coronation. Everything here has a European flavour.
There is, indeed, a squadron of the Black Sea Comas el
the Guard, and there are the Asiatic representatives of the
=time, subject to Ramie, but they are in the dis-
tant*, and the principal figures are deemed in Europtem
costumes, gorgeous but not picturesque. It is a magma-
cent prereesion no doubt. The chief officer of the palace, the
grand master of the ceremonies, the chief court marshal, a
most imposing figure with the sceptre in hie hand, the
hundreds of otticers,functioneries, and other, and, above all,
the Emperor himself, together form a pageant which is net
to be equalled in any European capital. But we rniea the
Asiatic clement. TIM, however, we get on turning one
attention to the city. Our eyes are first directed to the
curious towers of the Kremlin, with Byzantine windows and
pointed roofs. Then we notice the Brevitiaiya Gate, with
its tower and ample by the side, all thoroughly Asiatic.
Then mimes the Cathedral of the Annunciation, with its
gala
copper roof and golden domes, and the Cathedral
of St. Michael and that of the Twelve Apatite*,
equally pigeons and characteristic. And everywhere
in the old city of the Crete are mattered donne
and tower,. mid minaret., which tell of the ancient
Tartar origin of the city. And how characterietie of Russet
is the monster bell, conspicuous autongot all tintinnabulary
rival,. RS Mont Blanc amongst mountains. The painting in
so admirable in point of drawing that the bell, although dis-
tent, gives the spectatorius ideaof its astonishing magnitude.
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dedicated. Far beyond the precincts of the Kremlin stretches
the pieturreque city, gorgeous with tower, and steeple, and
minaret. The effect is, as is generally the cure with Mr.
Burford's work.. perfect. Although we saw the picture for
the first time under the disadvantage of imperfect light, a
heavy rain rendering the thick atmosphere more than usually
impervious to light, the view wee superb. Mr. Burford has
by this panorama established another claim to the gratitudie
of those who, without his aid, would never have been able to
fern, any vivid picture of lands and cities which have ink-
restod their imagination.

THE LATE PARLIAAIENT.—The expense of the
late parliament. 11 r the year end, d the 31st March last, wee
1(12,M., of v. Web the Speaker's salary was 5,0001. The
salaries, (sc., of the othors of both hous, 81,2761., and the
printing of the two houses, 73,9511.