The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-03-02 00:00:00

COSMORAMA.

We were gratified yesterday with a private view of this beautiful
panoramic exhibition. but owing to the crowd assembled we had
not the opportunity of surveying it so long or so conveniently as
we could have wished. It WAS thronged with company at an early
hour, and way filled with a succession of numerous visiters through-
out the day. In the Gallery of :hid and Africa we were struck
with the interesting Interior of the Church of the fluty Sepulchre
at Jet sapient, which la given with great grandeur of effect, height-
ened not a little by all those sublime associations which connect
themselves in every mind with this solemn memorial. This church
is composed of three churches, the Holy Sepulchre, Calvary,
and the Invention of the Holy Cross. This view represents the'
Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre, which is nroperly speaking, only the
great nave of this edifice. This chapel is lighted from the top
like the Pantheon at Rome, which it also resembles in shape.
The monument with a little dome which you see in the centre of
the l'hurch, has been built ova the spot where our Saviour is said
to have been buried.

The lamps in this chapel burn continually. Sixteen columns
forming seventeen arches, ornament the circumference of the
chapel, and support an upper gallery equally composed of sixteen
columns and seventeen arches smaller than the columns and arches
which support them. Over this Gallery are niches which were
formerly ornamented with mosaics, representing the twelve Apostles,
Saint Helena, the Emperor Constantine, and three other portraits
of persons not known.
rite Sabirrramean Gallery in Hindoilan is strikingly splendid.
In the rainy season a river falls from the top of the jiseade of this
cavern, which gives to its entrance the appearance of being closed
by a crystal curtain, formed by this magnificent cascade. This
view is taken while the entrance is covered with the waterfall here
described.

The Peak of Tenni.lß, the Temple of Palmyra, the Town of
Ceriues, in the Isle of Cyprus, and the Andre: Sarcophagi, near
Sidon, in Palestine, present each of them most impressive genies,
which, in absence, the imagination tan nowhere represent to itself
as correctly as through this medium. In the gallery to the right
is the Chu; ch of St. Paul at Rome, which was situated about a
mile from the gate to which it had given its name. This =a hill.
cent edifice was about a year ago struck with lightning, and was
consumet: in a few hours. The cedar which supported the roof
fell with a dreadful crash on the pavement, and burred withsuch
violence, that the marble columns were reduced to lime.

This once beautiful structure is here seen to the greatest advan-
tage; it is impossible to contemplate it without lamenting that it
can be seen only here.
The General J'iru• qf Rome is placed before the eye with the most
excellent effect; it struck us as being somewhat too highly coloured.
but this might probably be owing to the cloudiness of the day; a
brighter morning would probably have given it a warmer tone, and
made it appear to more advantage ; as it was, however, its general
effect was extremely good.—M o 'slur Erna. The ruins of the
Temple of Juno and the Port qt Corthogena are so well executed
as to make them equally attractive to the cognoscenti and to the
c immon cbserver. Hut the r•allry and village in Switzerland. as con-
nected with the birth of %Vinci-sat TELL, the founder of Swia.
liberty, has a charm independent of the exquisite richness and
beauty of the scenery, which rivets attention while it throws back
the memory to events linked with all the best feelings of the mind
and of the heart.
We shall take the earliest opportunity of revisiting these views,
and of examining chats:more in tlatail.