The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-18 00:00:00

£26,966,270 I £26,966,270
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Dated the 17th day of April, 1951.
BANKING DEPAITICIN T.

Proprietors 'Capital— 14,553,000
Rest 3,097,929
Public deposits (In-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ings-banks, and D-
ividend accounts) • • 4,723,323
Other deposits •• • • 10,164,340
Seven day and other
Bills.. •• .. •• .• .. 1,093,249

IGovernment secnri-

ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) .. 1 A• 086,798
Other securities .. .. 11,901,832
Notes •••• • • • • ...... 7,019,945
Gold and silver coin.. 623,266

£33,631,841

£33,631,841
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 17th day of April, 18.

BURFORD'S PANORAMA.

In expectation of the great influx of visitors to the
metropolis—visitors both native and foreign—Mr.
Burford has very judiciously resolved upon submitting
again to public view some of his most successful per-
formances. Among these, few have equalled, none
surpassed, his well-known Panorama of the Falls of
Niagara. As a specimen of landscape painting on a
colossal scale, as a representation of one of the wonders
of the world, as a faithful transcript from Nature in one
of her sublimest aspects, this splendid production com-
mands not only admiration but amazement. Scarcely
anything is wanting but the sound of the great
cataract to complete the illusion. Nothing can
convey a notion so animated, so glorious, so
actual. We stand before the semblance of
Niagara, and our thoughts almost involun-
tarily, without aid from the catalogue by
way of suggestion, revert to the emotions ex-
pressed by Byron, when he paused before the cataract
of Velino—

" The roar of waters! from the headlong height."
The eye watches the solid mass of the current
" cleave the wave-worn precipice;"
and then, glancing down from the brink,
" The fall of waters! rapid as the light,
The flashing mass foams, shaking the abyss."
Then it is the memory hints at the only want of the
panorama—the roar—that stupendous voice which
can be heard for miles, and which, as it were, re-
minded the Earl of Carlisle when he listened to it of
the most awful and wondrous sound in the universe.
"The hill of waters ! when they howl and hiss,
And boil in endless torture; while the sweat
Of their great agony, wrung out from this
Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet,
That gird the gulf around in pitiless horror set,"

only that here the rocks are of a generous brown,
yielding in their earthy covering nourishment to the
most luxurious vegetation. The painting, it may be
remembered by some, was taken originally by Mr.
Burford himself from Table Rock, a portion of
which overhangs the flood precipitously. Scanning
the picture cursorily, the travelled visitor will recog-
nize several familiar localities, such as the guide's house,
the ferry, the observatory, the rock called Prospect
Island, the distant town of Manchester, the Biddle
staircase, and then the series of cataracts—the
American Fall, the Lunar Fall, and the mightiest of
all the cataracts in the world, the Great
Horse-shoe Fall of Niegra. On one side we
observe the famous Rapids, where his horse
taking fright at a rattle-snake nearly led to the de-
struction of Chateaubriand. In another direction we
look, as it were, through the column of vapour, that
steams up eternal, like a cloud of spray, and showers
down again with a perpetual sparkling as of diamonds.
As we gaze we feel the truth of those golden num-
bers from " Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"—

" And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again,
Returns in an unceasing shower, which round
With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain,
Is an eternal April to the ground,
Making it all one emerald. How profound
The gulf ! and how the giant element,
From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound,
Crushing the cliffs which downward torn and rent
With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful
vent."
And looking across the expanse of waters at the foot
of Table Rock, towards Goat Island, we see the
exquisite rainbow growing out of the everlasting dew
at the touch of the sunbeam, to the phantasm resem-
bling which, at Velino, Lord Byron addressed the fol-
lowing verses:—
" Horribly beautiful! but on the verge,
From side to side, beneath the glittering morn,
An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge,
Like Hope upon a death-bed, and unworn.
Its steady dyes, whilst all around is torn
By the distracted waters, bears serene
Its brilliant hues, with all their beams unshorn;
Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene,
Love watching madness with unalterable mien."
As we have before observed, the panorama bears a
marvellous appearance of verisimilitude, and to say
this of any picture of Niagara is to pronounce its
eulogium. It may be remarked, then, in this
as in another of the revived masterpieces of Mr.
Burford's artistic powers—" Jerusalem"—the colours
are wonderfully preserved—brilliant, as if but re.
cently placed upon the canvas. Of the celebrated
panorama of Jerusalem it were needless to speak at
any length whatever. Those who have ever seen it
will not require anything to call it to their recollection.
And to excite the curiosity of others in its regard it
is only necessary to say .that it compressed into
one magnificent painting such localities as
these—the Pool of Bethesda, the Mount of As-
cension, the spot where Christ wept over the city, the
throne of Solomon, and the garden of Gethsemene.
These paintings, with the more recently produced
attractions of the establishment, will, we doubt not,
induce many of the visitors to the metropolis to wind
their way to the favoured haunts of all sight-seers—
Burford's Panorama.

THE RAILWAYS AND EXCURSION TRAlNS.—Yes-
terday, in consequence of the directors of the various railway
companies having made arrangements, dariri4 the holidays,
to allow return tickets in many cases, at single fare charges,
to and front the different towns on their several lines, a great
number of persons went by the different trains,while there were
numerous applications fur return tickets en the'other days, it
having been determined upon to afford similar accommoda-
tion, on most of the lines up to Tuesday next. The fol-
lowing are the arrangements entered into by the com-
panies :—By the East and West India Docks Junction to the
North-Western, trains will start from Camden Town,
Islington, Highbury, Kingsland, Hackney, &c., to take
passengers to Gravesend, vid Blackwell, from whence they
will proceed to Gravesend, at ls. 6d. each. The North
Kent Railway will also convey the holiday folks to
Gravesend, calling at Woolwich, the fares being, first
class, ls. 6d. ; second class, Is. ; and third class, 6d.
each. By the South Western, excursion tickets, to perform
a double journey, issued on Thursday (yesterday) will be
available until Tuesday. Open seated carriages will be at-
tached to the trains, by which the fare to Windsor will be
2s. each. There will be return tickets for the Isle of Wight,
Southampton, the New Forest, Hampshire, and Portland. On
the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway return
tickets are to be available to Brighton and back, and the
several trains along the line, from Friday to Monday, the
fares being 7s. 6d. first class, and 3s. 6d. third class. The
South-Eastern Railway has excursion trains to Boulogne
and back on Sunday, Monday. and Tuesday, to return any
day during Easter week. On Good Friday, Sunday, Monday,
and Tuesday, return tickets will be available, at single fares,
on the day they are issued, to Dover, Folkstone, &c. By
the Great Western return tickets are to be issued, cs also the
North-Western and Great Northern. The Eastern Counties,
in addition to allowing return tickets to the different stations
from the terminus at Shoreditch, have appointed a special
train on the occasion of the 2,000 Guineas Stakes at New-
market, on Tuesday next.
DEATH OF MR. JOHN STEPHENS, OF ADELAIDE.
—The Adelaide papers bring intelligence of the death of Mr.
John Stephens, proprietor and editor of the South Australian
Register. Mr. Stephens, we believe, was in the 47th year
of his age ; the nature of his disease is not mentioned. He
minister,
Stephens, andof younger was second son of the late Rev. John Stephens, Wesleyan
.;iton brother
thiser oc
of
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eJeoesae Joseph Rayner
gentle-
man was best known as a strong
opponent of the Wesleyan
Conference. In Adelaide he was much respected for his in-
telligence, probity, and incess.nt activity in following out
his own convictions of what tended to
the public good. He
was mainly instrumental in bringing to light the horrible
treatment to which female emigrants to Adelaide were in
some instances subjected by the captains and surgeons of
ships..—fatriet.
AN V,
_NORNIOUS Barry,
Esq., of
Abney House, Little Marlow, killed on Saturday lost a pike
in the river Thames, fronting his residence, which weighed
nearly 35,1). .
It was a female fish, and rivber out of condi-
tion. Had it been taken a little earlier in the season, it must
have weighed upwards of ineffectualof attempt to land
it, was compelled to shoot it.
TAR AND FEATIIERS.—The use of tar and feathers
in the punishment of crime is one of great antiquity.
Richard 1., in his voyage to the Holy Land, ordained thus :
" If any one be convicted of theft, let his headed he shaved,
like Champion's, let melted pitch be pou, po ,and
feathers shaken over it, that be may be
.known, and let
him be put ashore at the first land to which the ship ap-
proaches."
The Chancellor of the Exchequer end Lady Mary
Wood left town yesterday morning for their neat,
Hickleton gall, near Doncaster.