The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-25 00:00:00

THE GREAT GLOBE.

Prior to the outbreak of the war this valuable exhibi-
tion was deservedly a place of fashionable resort. As an
object of curiosity, unique and imposing in its way, it
possessed considerable attractions. As a singularly
efficient school of instruction in a necessary branch of
knowledge its claims to support were greatly increased.
To have the relative positions and magnitude of the con-
tinents, islands, oceans, and seas, with their subdivisions,
tributaries, and peculiarities pointed out on a globe con-
structed on a scale so grand, and otherwise described in
the most striking manner by popular lecturers, who
aimed at being understood, was indeed a boon to be
sought after, and none the less likely to be appreciated
when acc)ropanied by the opportunity of witnessing
models of various relics of antiquity and articles of
vertu gratifying to an enlightened curiosity. But when
subsequent to the outbreak of hostilities a large and
accurate model of Sebastopol and its approaches, that
mighty fortress within acid before whose bastions the
ehoice,t troops of four nations combated for victory, a
victory in which the interests of liberty and civilisation
were involved, and for which the British soldier
struggled so gl iriourdy, it can excite no wonder that
Le Great Globe acquired a celebrity which
almost elevated it to the position of a national institu-
tion, and drew within its wal.s crowds of the most int.lli-
eent of all classes. Crowds, in which were ti be found
returned warner, from the Crimea, weesse repeated at-
tendance, and crilicat approval, of course, attested t, e
merit of the exhibition, and, in more than a personal
-arise, added to its attractions. Not content, however,
with pecuniary success, and the loudly expressed ap-
proval of his patrons, the enterprising and public spirited
proprietor has gone on aiding to the attractions of the
exhibition. Now in the shape of implements of warfare,
wearing apparel, and articles of utility and curiosity
captured from the Russians ; anon, of a gallery of por-
traits of military men and potentates connected with
the war. Now, of a fine model of Sweaborg and Hal-
singfors ; anon, of Cronstadt on a scale of extraordinary
magnitude. Now, of additions to the model of Sebas-
topol, step by step as the siege advanced, and the slow
•-ap pierced its zigzi-ig way towards the devoted city ;
anon, of a Russian infernal machine fished up and
robbed of its diablerie by British daring; and not un-
mindful of the arts of peace, of a splendid cabinet of
Irish bog-deal, enclosing a score or more of models in
Irish bog oak, of remarkable curiosities, illustrative of Irish
history. And last of all, previous to our visit, of a model
of the Redan and the Malakhoff, with their approaches on
a sceie sufficiently large to enable the visitor, with the
aid of the larger model, to appreciate the difficulties en-
countered by the allied troops, and more especially our
own, at the glorious consummation of the siege. The
reader by this time may be disposed to cry "Hold
enough." He has not yet, however, acquired a rough
notion even of the attractions Mr. Wyld bolds forth.
A number of well-informed and studiously plain
spoken
lecturers are in attendance, and alternately enter on an
intelligible exposition of the respective models, and the
events which lend them interest, so that it will be his
or her own fault if the visitor does not take away
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pretty accurate notion of the localities
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