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lians and private citizens and gone direct from Constantinople to Sebastopol, as so many idlers and amateurs had done; but, having presented tby him. But they did not succeed in obtaining permission to go to Sebastopol, because the officers in command there had requested that no strastowed upon it. The first is a brief criticism of the defences of Sebastopol:-- From the preceding hasty and imperfect account of the defences of Sebastopol, it will appear how little foundation there was for the generally received accounts of the stupendous dimensions of the workand heroic infantry who defended them. Much stronger places than Sebastopol have often fallen under far less obstinate and well-combined attae can be no danger in expressing the conviction that the siege of Sebastopol called forth the most magnificent defence of fortifications that ccupied by the storming party, and thus the Malakoff, and with it Sebastopol, was won. The few Russians remaining in the work made a desperate