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

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 accompanied 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 and before whose bastions the
clioicest 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,riously, it can excite no wonder that
the Great Globe acquired a celebrity which
almost elevated it to the position of a national institu-
tion, and drew within its walis crowds of the most intelli-
gent of all classes. Crowds, in which were to be found
returned warners from the Crimea, w'bose repeated at-
tendance, and critical approval, of course, attested the
merit of the exhibition, and, in more than a personal
sense, 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 adding 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 Hel-
singfors ; anon, of Cronstadt on a scale of extramdinaay
magnitude. Now, of additions to the model of Sebas-
topol, step by step as the siege advanced, and the Blow
sap pierced its zigzag way towards the devoted city ;
anon, of a Russian infernal machine fished up and
robbed of its diableric 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 Re,lan and the Malakhoff, with their approaches on
a scale 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 I
enough." He has not yet, however, acquired a rough
notion even of the attractions Mr. Wyld holds forth.
A number of well-informed and studiously piain-spoken
lecturers are in attendance, and alternately enter
and
on. thean
intelligible exposition of the respective models,
events which lend them interest, so that it will be his
or her own fault if the visitor does not take away a
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pretty accurate notion of the localities in which hostilities
are being, or are likely to be, wage the daring and
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endurance of our troops, and of the difficulties encoun-
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