The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-22 00:00:00

EV EN ING SUN

COSMORAMA ROOMS (ROOM 7), 209, REGENT-
STREET.

THE IVORY MODEL OF THE TAGE
AIMIAL, or Crown of Edifices, at AGRA, in the
East Indies.

There is at present an Exhibition at 209, Regent-street,
as elaborate a Model as was ever perhaps presented to pub-
lie view. It is a copy, in 'ivory, of the celebrated 'rage
Mahal, cne of the most remarkable edifices in modern Agra,
erected in 1650 by Khan Shah Jehan, the fifth Great Mogul,
as the cemetery of his favourite wife, Sultana Mehd Aliya.
This mausoleum is built entirely of white marble, and some
idea may be framed of its splendour, when it is stated to have
cost in its erection 60 lass of rupees, or 750,000/. The Model
occupies a space of nine square feet, and its height is six feet.
It is the work of Indian artiste, and while in point of extent it
is unmatchable, it is also ono of the finest specimens of that
minuteness of detail and delicate manipulation for which Indian
ivory working is so noted. The amount of labour bestowed on
this model must have been immense. It is not ' the hasty pro-
duct of a day,' but the result of many years' patient applica-
tion. All the multitudinous carvings and inlayings of the ori-
ginal building are expressed is the copy with every appearance
of exactness ; nor is the reseinklanee limited to the outside
alone : the interior is also finished in the same minute style,
and contains the tombs of the Shah and his Consort, exqui-
sitely and elaborately worked. On the whole, this model pre-
sents a ?urprising and beautiful effect, and terms one of the
most interesting exhibitions in the metropolis."—Morn. Chron.
Open from Ten to Six o'clock. Admission, Is. ; Book, 6d.

AiR. LAING'S NEW WORK.
On Thurs Jay, Dee. 30, will be published, in 1 vol. Bvo.
TOT E S of a TRAVELLER on the
SOCIAL and POLITICAL STATE of FRANCE,
PRUSSIA, SWITZERLAND, ITALY, and other Parts
of Europe, (luring the present Century. By SAMUEL
LAING, Esq. Author of " A Journal of a Three Years' Re-
sidence in Norway,'' and of " A Tour in Sweden."
. London . Longman, Brown, and Co.

MR. AINSWORTH'S NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE.
In 3 valr. Bvo., illtntrated with Twenty large Designs on
Stec?, by Franklin,
OLD SAINT PAUL'S:
A TALE of the PLAGUE and the FIRE.

By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Erg.
IS NOW READY.

"We prefer the two first volumes of Old Saint Paul's' to
any previous work of their author. Treated as a Tale of ad-
venture these volumes have 9-mat merit. The reader who has
once opened them will hardly be disposed to lay them down
again.' —Athena:tun.

V"
We are glad to meet Mr. Ainsworth again in the region
of historical romance, a department of literature in which he
has distinguished himself above almost every author of
the day. A better subjca than that which he has chosen for
his present volumes could not have been selected. Many pas-
sages remind us of the simple pathos and truthfulness of 13c-
foe."—Observer.

Hugh Cunningham, St. Martin's-pace, Trafalgar-square.

THEATRE noyAL, COVENT-GARDEN.

UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS,
THIS EVENING, DEC. 22,

Will be repeated the New Comedy, entitled COURT AND
ClTY.—Captain .Dangerfield, Mr. W. Lary; Sir Paladin
Scrup'e, Arr. W. Farces ; Sir Harry Whiffle, Mr. C. Ma-
thews ; Sir Hector Iturribush, Mr. Bartley ; Mr. Winning-
ton, Mr. Cooper; Humphrey Ilumbush, Mr. Harley: Lady
Whiffle, h!sd;ime Vestris ; Mrs. Charmington, Mrs. Nisbett;
Lady DangerelJ, Mrs. W. West; Barbara Bearbinder, Mrs.
W. Lace

After which, the New Farce, entitled UNITED SERVICE.
Captain Whistieborough, Mr. W. Farren; Capt. Pacific, RN.,
Mr. Bartley ; Rivet, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Euclid Barn, Mr.
Harley ; Airs. Coo, Mrs. Glover ; Mr:i. Walker, airs. Orger.
After which the Ballet Divertissement of THE WOODEN
LEG.—Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin,
Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, Mits
Jackson, &c.
Hours to be cpz.ned at balf-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3a. 6:I.;
First and Second Circles, bs. ; Second Price, tbi. 6d. ; Pit, 35.;
Sreosiel Price- -.; Gallery, Is. Tickoi an.t places for the
Boxes to be taken of Mr. GrOf!96o at the Box-eface, from Ten
till Ir,nr. wbere Season Tiekets may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be bad so'.ely of Ar. Andrea,., boox-selle!-,
167. New .1-3ond-street.

To-morrow, Norma, with Charles the Twelfth.