animals of different sorts, with their names in Greek written below them, such as the rhinoceros, crocodile, and lynx.  Lower down are seen houses of various forms, temples, vessels of different constructions, particularly a galley of 32 oars, manned with armed blacks, and commanded by a white man; a tent with soldiers, a palm tree, flowers, a collation in an arbour, an altar of Anubis; in short, almost every circumstance imaginable in life.  The scene apparently lies in Egypt.  The figures are well drawn, the light and shadows happily disposed, and the colouring harmonious.  The stones which compose this very curious pavement are remarkably small which renders the effect peculiarly pleasing, from the neatness of its appearance.

W.G.C.

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PANORAMA OF STIRLING.

Stirling, or Strivelin, and its storied environs have furnished Mr. Burford with a new Panorama, of more than usual interest in its details.  The town is fraught with historical association, and the surrounding country is of picturesque and poetical character.  A Scottish poet describes its attractions in these enthusiastic lines: 

O! grander far than Windsor’s brow! 
And sweeter to the vale below! 
Whar Forth’s unrivalled windings flow
Through varied grain,
Brightening, I ween wi’ glittering glow,
Strevlina’s plain! 
There, raptured trace, (enthroned on hie)
The landscape stretching on the ee,
Frae Grampian hills down to the sea—­
A dazzling view—­
Corn, meadow, mansion, water, tree,
In varying hue. 
There, seated, mark, wi’ ardour keen,
The Skellock bright ’mang corn sae green,
The purple pea, and speckled bean,
A fragrant store—­
And vessels sailing, morn and een,
To Stirling’s shore. 
And Shaw park, gilt wi’ e’ening’s ray: 
And Embro castle, distant grey;
Wi’ Alva screened near Aichil brae,
’Mang grove and bower! 
And rich Clackmannan rising gay
Wi’ woods and tower.

Hector Macneill.

Stirling is seated on the river Forth, upon a precipitous basaltic rock, about one hundred feet from the level of the plain.  Upon the rock stands the Castle, from the outer court of which the present Panorama was sketched.  The town, in external appearance, bears a miniature resemblance to Edinburgh, being situate like the old town of that city, on the sloping ridge of a rock, running from east to west, the precipitous end of which is occupied by the Castle.  But, of the town itself, little is seen in the Panorama.  The view, as we have stated, is from the Castle, and is generally allowed to be one of the finest in Scotland.  Its scenery has many sublime and picturesque features, and has moreover been the site of some of the most stirring incidents in Scottish history; no less than twelve fields of battle, including three important ones fought by the first and second Edwards, being