The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-13 00:00:00

OF GRAND CAIRO.

Mr. Burford has just completed a magnificent pano-
rama of Cairo, the "City of the Caliphs," or, as the
inhabitants style it, " the mother of the world." It has
been prepared from drawings on the spot, by
D. Roberts, Esq., M.A., who has obtained
deserved celebrity for his beautiful drawings
of remarkable spots in the Holy Land. The view of the
city has been taken from the summits cf one of those
extraordinary mounds which formerly encircled the city,
and which not only impeded the free circulation of the
air, so absolutely necessary in sech a climate, but almost
invariably destroyed its salubrity by loading it with clouds
of that fine species of sand which proves so destructive to
the eye-sight of the natives during the peculiar seasons
which periodically visit that part of the world. The
majority of Mahomedan cities are beautiful and magni-
ficent in the extreme, but Cairo, from its hundreds
of mosques, whose handsome and noble domes,
cupolas. and elegantly decorated spiral minarets, which
tower high above the ordinary houses, has no equal in
that extraordinary land. We are not only presented
with a spacious view of that city, glowing in the noon•
day sun, but of the equally beautiful and equally interest-
ing surrounding country. In the distance, we behold the
Pyramids, the majestic Nile, the tombs of the Caliphs,
the Libyan mountains, the isle of Rhoda, Gezeeh, Old
Cairo, the great Mosque in the citadel, and the Pacha's
Palace. We have also beautiful groups of figures on
horseback, among whom are Mehemet Ali, Ibrahim
Pacha, Egyptian ladies riding, dancing girls,
boatmen of the Nile, &c., &c. A more pic-
turesque or life-like scene could not be presented
to the imagination so truthfully is it depicted on the
canvas. Most Egyptian cities are built on no regular
plan. The houses are of all- sizes and forms, and are
scattered about in the most extraordinary and inconvenient
manner ; the streets are miserably narrow and most
irregular ; but the general effect is thereby heightened.
Looking at Cairo as depicted on the panorama
scarcely a street can be perceived. The houses
have, with scarcely an exception, flat roofs, on which
the inmates congregate at certain periods of the day.
The panorama is beautifully and carefully painted, and
will be found one of the most interesting exhibitions to
be met with in London at the present moment.

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GRAVESEND, MARCH 12.-.-THE LATE COLLISION
ON THE RIVEIL—Mr. Carttar, coroner for the Western Divi-
sion; of Kent, having stated his intention not to hold an in-
quest on the bodies of the two men taken from out the
schooner sunk by the Queen Victoria steamer, and brought
to Gravesend by the undertaker Odden, the latter removed
them this morning from the store in which he had them in
keeping to the opposite side of the river, near Tilbury Fort,
where, it is presumed, an inquest will be held on them by the
coroner for Essex, within whose jurisdiction they were found.
Yesterday the vessel was taken from where she was run
ashore, after raising her at Shellbaven, and towed up to
London, where she now lies at Smooke's Wharf, Millwall.
Of the bodies of the two other persons drowned where she
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returns of Lord Conyngharu's committee, just made up, are
of the most satisfactory character. Many promises have
been received from Conservative voters, who declare they
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cannot support a Protectionist candidate in times like these.
All old friends are staunch, and many new ones acquired;
so that front all appearances the success of the Liberal cause
may be c.mfidently anticipated. —Kent Herald.
THE RENTAL OF IRELAND.--A Parliamentary
paper, issued on Friday, gives the aggregate net rental
value of all Ireland, as assessed to the poor-rate, at
13,187,4211.65. Bd.