The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-03 00:00:00

DIORAMA OF TILE HOLY LAND.

A grand moving diorama of the, scenery of the Holy
Land was opened for exhibition on Saturday, at the Gallery
of the New Water Colour Society, in Pall-mall. The
diorama is painted by Messrs. Warren, Bonomi, and Fahey,
who painted the beautiful diorama of the Nile. The
route of the Israelites from Ramases to Mount Sinai is first
represented, and thence the track
across
is ss the Desert to He-
bron, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem indicated. The shrine of
the Nativity is next shown; and. then the spectator is pre-
sented witha view of the Mediterrauean, on which he is
supposed to launch, and to pass successively Jaffa, Acre,
Mount Carmel, Tyre, and Sidon. Mount Lebanon with its
cedars is the next object 0f,,. importance presented, and it is
followed by the Lake of Tiberias, the Plain of Esdraelon,
Mount Tabor, Cana, Nazareth, and Samaria. Thus com-
mencing, as the description es presses it, where the Israelites
began their wanderings, and terminating among scenes
consecrated by the presence of our Saviour in the last year
of his stay on earth. At the conclusion a view of the inte-
rior of the Mosque of Omar is shown. This is painted from
the only drawing that is said ever to have been taken of that
jealously-guarded edifice, which occupies the site on which
Solomon's T,rnple stood. *1 he Diorama is beautifully
painted; the subjects are all treated in a most graceful and
artistic manner.

DIORAMA OF THE CAPE OF GOOD
HOPE AND NATAL.
A series of Dioramic Views from drawings by Mes3rs.
Angas, Bowler, Griffiths, and the Rev. Thornley Smith,
illustrative of the scenery of the Cape of Good Hope and Port
Natal are now on view at the Western Institution, Leicester-
square. Among the views are those of Table Bay, Cape of
Good Hope, Cape Town, the Villages Wynberg and Somerset
West, the Islet of Santa Cruz, Algoa Bay (Moonlight), Port
Elizabeth, Graham's Town, Mouth of the Umvoti, Natal
(Sunset), Umnonoti River (Evening), Haunts of the Hippo-
potamus, Inanda Kraal, Natal (Moonlight), Falls of the
Taitsa, Farm In New Germany, Cultivation of the Cotton
Plant, D'Urban, Port Natal, &c. These views are ad-
mirably painted, and cannot but be most interesting to per.
sons having friends in those colonies, or to intending emi-
grants.

JOANNA BAILLIB.—" If ever," says the Leader,
,here was a peaceful, honourable career, modest amidst its
aurels, and dignified in its seclu,iion, surely the career of
Joanna B Tillie, now closed in its eightv-ninrh year, deserves
that praise. From her seclusion she sent forth anonymously,
while yet a girl, works in the highest class of composition,
which took at once a lofty place among the works of her
contemporaries—those contemporaries having names that
" bear an emphasis"—and, although she gained a poet's
name, a renown "not loud, but deep," not the blatant,
placarded, noisy renown, which is noisy from its very
'
emptiness—but genuine, quiet, endurin admiration felt by
competent admirers ;—although her name came to
be associated with those of our literary giants,
Joanna Baillie preserved the
same unobtrusive g
dig-
nity, and to the last kept aloof from lionizing
circles and literary cliques. That quiet Scotch girl, reared
in a Manse near Glasgow, was not to have her head turned
by the incense of a world she divined rather than saw. And
yet—strange contradiction l--this sequestered mind did rot
choose for the sphere of its creations pastoral scenes of idyllic
quiet, but plunged into the great tumultuous world of Pas-
sion as agitated in the intenser forms of tragedy ! She has
now passed away.
.Honourable and honoured has been her
career, its placid uniformity untroubled by the distractions of
feverish popularity, untroubled by the jars and discords of
,
literary life, mixed up in no cliques, living like an English
gentlewoman, and dying as she lived
her loss as an event. She has lived her One cannot deplore
time. But if the news
of her death falls not like a calamity, it will yet bring a shade
of sadness over many minds, recalling their first acquaintance
with " Do Montfort" and " Henriquez."
MONUMENT TO JOUN BROOKS, OF MANCHESTER.—
Very recently we have had the gratification of inspecting, in
the studio of Mr. John Thomas, at No 9, Old Church-street,
Paddington, an exquisite marble' mausoleum"-.
lately completed
by him in memory of Mr. John Brooks
of
a very graceful,
lof Manchester. The
monument is a rather novel, and certainly
combination of the excellences of both sculpture and archi-
tecture. Its four sides contain, each in its respective niche,
statues of Integrity, Industry, CharF:y, and Commerce—ideal
figures, fraught with many suggestive beauties. Integrity
is represented with a book, inscribed " Truth," in one
hand,
and in the other a branch of oak. Charity is cherishing in
hey
arms a naked infant. Industry bears the spindle in her
grasp, and at her feet lies a cogged-wheel of the power loon).
Commerce has on her head a crown of Indian corn, and is
surrounded with symbols of merchandise and navigation.
The various details ecf the monument,
ingeniously introduced, round each of the niches oeing carved
—here a bough of the cotton plant, here a stalk of lilies, in
this part an oak branch, and in that a tall blade of wheat—
the niches being each surmounted by a blcssom of the poppy,
moreover, are very
the symbol of eternal sleep. Altogether the work reflects
the highest credit upon the skill and imagination of the
sculptor, while it forms a noble memorial of one of the most
nistinguished merchants of Manchester. In the same studio
we had also the pleasure of observing two noble figures,
hereafter to be erected in the Palace at Westminster—statues
of Cardinal Langton, and of Salisbury, thelarnous 4 Long
sword," among the barons of Runnymede. Not far from the
Earl of Salisbury, it was interesting to notice a representa-
tion of his beautiful but unfortunate mother, Fair Rosamond,
famous as the paramour of Henry 11. in the labyrinth at
Woodstock. Other productions of'a not dissimilar character
were actively in progress at the time of our visit to this in-
teresting establishment.