SEBASTOPOL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 272, 7 March 1877, Page 3

SEBASTOPOL.

A uivufc ehango (says the London 7 ;»<■■'•<} , i.S DiUlillL: OVt'l- HtTt-totop-grain for export from districts north of j tlu; Sea uf A-zott' has been brought to potts ; of that sea; but the superior advantages j oU'ered by Bebasi:opoU with its magnificent j harbour never frozen over, have induced. I the Russian tfovonmient t" make it. a commercial port.. At the close of the war in IKjO, compensation was given to tl;o owners of property, but no attempt was made to rebuild the town, as there was no intimation given that its future character would be commercial, and it was generally presumed that it would remain in jruin.* until circumstances should enable Russia t> restore it in a fortified form. Hence the 'and was of no value, and: s«en yearn iv.;n the population may be said to have consisted, of the dockyard one division of the U>ctv EJegimeut of Foot. Bat since 187 U when a railway to. Lo»>vo was ronunenecd, to join the main Kharkotl' line, the town luis rapidly improved ; imd from the opening of the Una- tn January, IS7~>, ami the official announcement in March that the future of Sebast.pol was eommeruia!, its rise has become simply a ipiestion, of money, t'oumil Stanley, iiv his repot t this year from Odessa,, giving art account', of a recent visit to the Cruwa. states that he was much struck with the active movement displayed at SebastoV»l. tte says : —" Most extensive Custom houses and warehouses are being built there, and; mood rotvAs are being made to the wharves, «. mile itv length, heed with concrete, atonjSde which the largest! steamers can moor,. ac* completed. The vaitwav is l-T-'ight »li><V the t|ua}\ pr, ■ ■ '•'. : i he doors of the waruhonsts, so as to •■■iluc- to jj, nunimtSM* the «>st of tuatt- »% Ilexes atv springing up Vr tv&ry dtir ■■■h>xx. I* --wora-s uviaeat that Sebaato-

Pol is destined to be the ontkt for a large STain-ZTowingcotrntry. I fee! rpntc convinced that grain enn be shipped there cnn?uicrablv cheaper, not only than at the Sea of Az»ft" p«rt», but than at the present I prices of Odessa and Xieolnitff. Both these are farther fi Cerent inople than Sevastopol is, and t; ia-topol is nearer than Odessa to Moscow and bt lVtersb»rj;h by rati." Vice-Consul Harford, reporting from Sevastopol, says-: *' »V handsome radwav station has been erected on the site "of the «>W Greek battery, whence trains arrive and depart from Moscow, and a branch hue runs abut" the west side of the bay. The Malafcotl', Urdan, and Flag-staff .Batteries are be in" bid out as boulevards dedicated to England, Jlussca. and France. Several tarire "hotels one of them on the site of Fort Nicholas afford p'od accommodation, but the charges are hiyh." The population was estimated at 2r>,0«0 in the spring of tK~o. The Yiee-Consnl, reporting at that that period, describes the garrison as consisting of two divi:sions of f.?ie Kith Ue.iciinenit and a brii.;adc_ of Artillery, tiie other two divisions HU!>r!:er*-d at Sytnpheropol, find a T-.n-tjr sijuadron (."MO "strength) rawed in IWT-i bein.i; at Kskuh ! .s,ierui. and he «>l s.-rves that "the hory.sv are Osittcaatati, and though aruatl are verv hardy, and so easily tra-iried that three month* af"er the organisation of th« veyiment cvtry hoi-se lav down at sotmd of the tritnipt'C. He adds that the drift b>. iv of this corpri and t ; -e infantry is adiui;;ibie._ He sa.-s that the .-lunate"of the Crimea is dry for■ cereals and the principal prothution.'* ave sa!k and vine. Tlie wine comes crura thy 3»«t[t eoxst : most excellent clarets and sunteniert sold a* 1 Sebastopol fvnuv'->-.t. to :'*. Pr bo,-tte, fund he i< of opinion that the wine wotdd set! well in Knu-tand. lie sets no re;va->n why the extensive steppe.* of t <? U'H-th-West const shotdd not be utilised for shee[>-Eanniiig-. and a wool trade tstafdishyd. Ue comes t> the voiK'tusion that thottg'i want of e-H-rtal and t..e inttttenee of other pyrts may retard the pn>yr V ,s of Sj.;u-.t..p01, its ultimate eontnu rciat if.s y,>ojcr«r*'irc;i!l its heaif'V elcmt.tv.