The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-09 00:00:00

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VIEW OF SEBASTOPOL.

Closing Prices
yesterday.

Business
this day.

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The proprietors of the Gallery of Illustration in Regent-
street seem determined to maintain their reputation
for bringing artistic skill of a high order to bear in the
pictorial illustration of places rendered peculiarly in-
teresting to the public by recent or passing events.
When attention was very generally directed to our great
Eastern dependencies, they presented us with a beauti-
ful diorama of the overland route to India, while the
rush of emigrants to the gold-producing colony of
Australia, and the discovery of the north-west passage,
led to the production of two panoramic works, the most
beautiful perhaps that have ever been exhibited in the
metropolis, the " Ocean Mail," and the "Arctic Regions."
The war between Russia and Turkey has also led to the
active employment of the clever artists of this estab-
lishment. Some time ago it was our pleasure to highly
commend two very fine views of the capitals of the con-
tending nations—Constantinople and St.
thel'
was
and last night a third, in the same series, was for
first time submitted to the criticism of the audience— 5
namely, an extensive view of the town of Sebastopol 5
with its capacious harbour, and well mounted and almost 2,
impregnable fort of which we have lately heard so much. 21
Next to the banks of the Danube, there is no part of the IA
world to which more interest now attaches. It was here 5(
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that the Retribution (ominous name by the by), with
characteristic English daring, entered boldly from the
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Black Sea with the message from the combined fleets, and 25
took up a position right under 700 guns, utterly regard- 18
less of the warning shots that passed through her
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rigging ; and it is for here also that the Fury, another St.
ominous name, has just departed from Constantinople
to demand the liberation of the English engineers S 5
t.
taken prisoners at the battle of Sinope, though the Czar 2
has already dismissed with disgrace the admiral who had St.
charge of the harbour when the Retribution arrived on
St.
a similar mission, and who showed a degree of forbear- Is-?.
ance which the Autocrat deemed wholly inexcusable. 10
Who knows also but this may be yet the scene of some
St.
bloody battle The harbour of this important maritime St.
situation is formed by an immense arm of the sea, which St.
has made for itself a deep bed, and penetrates inwards
St.
St.
upwards of 6 marine miles. Neither rocks nor shoals ob-
struct the navigation of this magnificent basin. The en- St.
trance is protected by a series of forts on both sides of
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the bay, which is 2) miles across. The guns, which are
71.),3
said by some to amount to 1,200, of large calibre, are
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so arranged as to be able to pour a tremendous cross St.
fire upon hostile ships ; but it appears that the stone
it
of which the fortifications are built is so soft that 14
cannon shot will stick in it as if it were only sand. 50
The harbour of Sebastopol also possesses four spaci- 20
ous creeks, which arc perfectly sheltered and of great 11
depth ; indeed, in one of them the largest three-decker 10
can lie at anchor within a few yards of the shore. St.
Between the two principal of these creeks stands the St.
august city, which the word Sebastopol is understood to 2,2
signify. On some of the rocks very ancient rings maybe a
occasionally observed, which are supposed by antiqua- St?
rians to have been used by the Greeks for securing their 50
boats ; if so, they serve to
than show that the water
the was mnow 25
uch 40
higher in those days at present, as ey
entirely out of reach for any such purpose. The new 25
view presents an open country, with the city of Sebas-
St.
topol on the opposite side of the harbour, in which
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groups of ships are lying at anchor. .
The whole does bilinite credit to Messrs. Grieve and St*
50
Telbin, the artists. 25
100

Business done St,
this day. 50

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1854•