The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-19 00:00:00

BURFORD'S NEW PANORAMA.

This gentleman, who is never backward in the produc-
tion of novelties, has just completed, in time for the Easter
holiday-people, a splendid panorama of the city of Grenada,
including the fortress and palace of the AD t.mbra. The
historical interest of the romance which attaches to the
magnificent city of the Moors renders it well adapted for
the display of Mr. Burford's peculiar and unsurpassable
skill in scenic painting. Of this panorama it is scarcely
possible to give any adequate description—suffice it to say,
that all the most prominent objects and buildings in the
Moorish capital, as well as the beautiful plains and hills
that surround it, are depicted in a way that not only charms
the eye, but makes one almost think one is really looking
on nature itself. Those who have had opportunities of
judging of Mr. Burford's former panoramas can easily
imagine how congenial to him would be a subject which
offers such a scope for his pencil. Among the objects
pointed out is the estate of the Duke of Wellington, called
the Soto de Romer, which is situated at the base of the
rugged hills of the Sierra de Elvira. The panorama is by
Mr. Burford, assisted by Mr. H. E. Selons, and is said to
be taken from drawings by J. Unwins and Lady Louisa
Tenison.

THE NEW YORK CRYSTAL PALACE.—His Royal
Highness Prince Albert is among the contributors of works
of art to the Industrial Exhibition about to be opened at
New York on the 2d of May next. The portraits of her
Majesty, himself, Prince Arthur, and of the late Duke of
Wellington forming the picture painted by Winterhalter,
is his contribution. The Baron Marochetti has completed
a colossal equestrian statue of General Washington, which
is about to be embarked for the Exhibition. It is worthy
of the artist, and has the peculiar characteristics of his
style. Mr. Carew has executed a colossal statue of the late
Daniel Webster for the same place. It represents the
American statesman in the act of addressing the Senate.
The expression is very vigorous, and the likeness is said by
competent judges to be correct. The attitude and manner
of the portrait are dignified and simple. The State of
Missouri has appropriated 4,C30 dols. for its proper repre-
sentation at the opening of the Exhibition, and Congress
on the 26th of February last voted 20,000 dols. to defray
the expenses of the Turkish steam-frigate during her visit
to the New York World's Fair.
THE ECHIINGA DIGGINGS.--In the advices from
South Australia by the Sydney, the yield at the Echunga
diggings, near Adelaide, is not described as having been
very satisfactory. In a period of between three and four
months—namely, from the 23d of August to the Bth of
December—the number of licences issued was 1,136, out of
which there had been only 206 cases of renewal. For De-
cember the issue was 126, of which but 42 were renewals ;
and there was only one instance of a licence having been
carried on for the fourth month.
THE ISLE OF WIGHT TELEGRAPH.—The Isle of
Wight highway commissioners have refused permission
to the Electric Telegraph Company to erect a line of posts
for the telegraph wires along the road side between Yar-
mouth and her Majesty's marine residence at Osborne.
Yarmouth is the spot near which the submarine tele-
graphic communication across the Solent Sea is to be
made to connect the Isle of Wight telegraphically with
the mainland.

EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.—The ship Mary
Green sailed from Southampton yesterday morning, with
nearly 3C3 emigrants on board, bound for Adelaide. She
is the first emigrant ship which has been provisioned in
Southampton, and which has occasioned an outlay in that
town of 3,0001. Her owners wanted to sell her before she
started, and which caused her detention for a few days.
The difficulty in effecting her sale was found in her not
having a British register.

AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL COMPANY.-It ap-
pears that the accounts received by the Australian Agri-
cultural Company, by the Sydney mail steamer, are only
to the 19th of November. Captain Brownrigg, the new
superintendent, had arrived on the 16th at Sydney, whence
he immediately proceeded to Port Stephens, to assume the
charge of the company's affairs. The colonial government
had agreed to the boundary of the company's grant on the
Peel River being fixed at the mid channel of that river.
Trespassers on the company's land had been entirely re-
moved, but a renewal of the grant of licences to dig for
gold in the river bed was contemplated by the company's
officers, in conjunction 'with the Government and local
commissioner.

THE BRITISH AUSTRALIAN GOLD COMPANY have
advices from eleir agent, dated from the Sofala district,
New South Wales, to the effect that he had leased certain
claims on the Louisa Creek, the terms of payment being
one-fourth of the produce.
DOCKYARD EMIGRATION.—OH Thursday evening
Mrs. Chisholm attended a meeting of the shipwrights and
others employed in her Majesty's dockyard (Portsmouth),
and delivered a lecture on the most advisable means of
carrying out the objects of the Emigration and Loan So-
ciety they have recently established. The meeting was
held at the large room of the Beneficial Society in Kent-
street, Portsea, which was densely crowded on the occasion
by a very respectable body of people, a very large propor-
tion being ladies. A cordial vote of thanks, which Mrs.
Chisholm acknowledged, concluded the proceedings.

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SUICIDE OF A 13oi.—Yesterday an inquest was
held before Mr. W. Baker, at the Coal Meter's Arms,
Heath-street, Stepney, on the body of John Thos. Dunn,
aged 12 years. The deceased was son of a shoemaker, and
of a very irritable temper. On Sunday morning last, the
father boxed deceased's ears. The boy then left the house
and was not seen alive afterwards. On Monday morning
his body was found in the Regent's Canal, his trousers and
jacket pockets filled with granite stones which it is supposed
tho deceased had placed there to sink him. The jury re•
turned the verdict "Found dead in the Regent's Canal."