The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-20 00:00:00

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A letter from Odessa, of the Gth, gives the fol-
lowing particulars as to the defensive works lately
erected in that city, as well as in those of Oczakoft;
Kinburn, and the environs :
"Our merchants have observed with some uneasiness
that, since the let of this month, two of the six war
steamers of the allies, which maintained so strict abloekade
here all the summer, have weighed anchor and stood out
to sea. The departure of those vessels was attributed
to an extraordinary motive. It was generally believed
that they were going to meet a formidable naval form!,
about to appear before our city, and expose it a second
time to the horrors of a bombardment. The greatest
alarm is visible on every countenance, notwithstand-
ing the afr of confidence assumed by the military
authorities. If this second misfortune should occur to
complete the ruin of our commerce, the magnificent
palace of Prince Woronzoff would be the first build-
ing knocked to pieces by the fire of the Allies. Our
military engineers have done their utmost to save it
from destruction. They have planted six howitzers
on a height close to the wall which separates the Prince's
garden from the Boulevard. The thickness of the wal
has been doubled, and embrasures have been opened in it
to enable a battery of field artillery placed in the Palace
Ccurt to play on the assailants. Besides the large
battery of 36 pieces erected last April, a second bat-
tery, of semicircular form, containing 12 guns, and com-
manding the roadstead, has been also erected. It is hoped
that the iatter will be sufficient to preventany hos-
tile vessel from entering the military port. Since sum-
mer the military engineers have constructed a new bat-
tery of 32 pieces of the largest calibre on the ground
to the west of the colonnade, which will sweep all the
approaches in the direction of the Peresip. There
are besides, at intervals along the garden terrace,
pieces of heavy calibre, which may at a moment's
notice be brought forward and form a second flying
battery of sixteen guns. I have been informed by per-
sons in the Commissariat at Nioolaieff and Kherson
that the passage between Kinburn and Oczakoff has
been rendered quite impracticable. Upwards of 50
boats laden with large stones and fragments of rocks
have been sunk along the channel over a space of at
lnast two verets, a narrow canal only having been left
for navigation. Thus vessels wishing to enter the Li-
man will have to pass quite close to the fortifications,
under the very guns of Kinburn. The latter is re-
garded as a fortress of the first class, owing to the im-
mense works thrown up around since the landing of
the Allies in the Crimea. The same process has
been gone
,through at the entrance of the Bug, which
is flanked by two large batteries on either side.
Ml the vessels the Russians could procure have been
sunk there, and no boat, however light its draught of
water may be, can enter the river. Only one very nar-
row passage now remains open for the Russian boats
which proceed from Nicolaieff to Kherson, Kinburn,
Oczakoff, and sometimes even to Odessa, on military
service ; but on the first appearance of danger, an im-
mense mass of stones, rocks, &c., heaped up along the
shore, will be thrown into the passage in order to block
it up completely."