The Express. — London, England, 1855-10-26 00:00:00

IF etc Oxpreoo• TO CORRUPONDENTEL a leammas ineadid ix "Th• Swag,' Union Veda, papir, be at tie Ms. 10, D oe xii• by Tire *Vick on Ow bp IX 'abbot's,. BIOS WATIR , AT LONDON DRIDON. To Dv—Men es, 17. Attinasa. Te.ipagyow — v ' — 's•, Ilb. 117.. LONDON, FRIDAY, &TORRE 26. Tua details of the Rogan defeat at Kars which we publish to-day are mast important. It is clear that the Turks beat their enemies by fair fighting. The Russians came on against the isolated garrison of Hare—worn out by long privations, watches, and gauss —in most cisproportiants numbers. They pat forth all their force. The battle—as we learn from the letter of an English officer engaged in the affair, which appears in another column—listed seven hours and a half. Thrice—we learn from the despatch of our own correspondent—the Russians made good their footing within the entrenchments, and thrice the Turks drove them out at the point of the bayonet. The most moderate estimate of the loss of the defeated army is 2,000 killed and 6,000 wounded—proof sufficient of the obstinacy with which the fight was contested. " The Turks," writes the English officer to whose communication we have already alluded, "fought not like lions, but like fiends. I never saw such desperate recklessness of life." And yet he has witnessed many a well-oon tasted field. Our own correspondent informs us that " eight hundred Russians were slain before a redoubt defended by four hundred Turks." All Dormer is doubtless due to the European officers in command. " The defence"—we again quote from our military correspondent—" was commanded by dear old General Runt ; and when our General thanked him in the name of Queen Ificronia for his gallant repulse of the enemy, I thought the brave old boy would have burst his heart open, he was to proud." " Colonel LAMB," says our own corespondent, "distinguished himself in the contest, not only by his courage, but his skill. It was he who drove the enemy from the Inglis Tibia." Captain THOMPSON, though accident twirled to him a less prominent part in the fray than has usually fallen to his lot in the various resseontres that have taken place during the siege, amply justified the entire confidence re posed in him by General Wilma= and Colonel Late. Captain TIESDALS was ever foremost in the fight. And Mr. Clinger LL—the diplomatic amateur of arms—showed that he had true English blood in hie veins. But whilst we do justice to these skilled and valiant leaders, let us not forget that but for the pluck and bottom of their Turkish soldiers their heroism would have been in vain. It ought also to be kept in remembrance that, glorious though the 30th of September was for the gallant garrison at Hers, it was only the final effort of the distinguished courage and power of endorsees manifested by it during the whole siege. Indeed, Captain TEESDALE'S services date from a period con siderably anterior to the siege. He passed the whole of last winter at Kars. and during that time had much to bear. Colonel LAKE and Captain THOMPSON have been there since the beginning of spring. It is mainly owing to their lighthearted, persevering efforts that General WILLIAMS hastiest able to bring the garrison into such a state of efficiency. What these caws, and the troops under them, have had to seders since the complete investment of Kan, tazes the imagination to conceive. Constant expo sure to the inclemency of the weather, short supplies of food,iacessant and protracted watches that might have worn out the toughest constitutions. Horse leek and cat's flesh came to be regarded as dainty fare. As early as the Ist of July, the same officer whose letter we publish to-day, wrote:—" We have not siege ammunition for a week." Rewards were offered to all who would pick up and bring in Rus sian shot and unexploded shells; and these deadly missiles, whenever they fitted the calibre of the de fenders' guns, were sent back to their original owners. • The poor soldiers," writes the officer we have so often quoted, at an early period of the siege, " never get their full rations ; and many of them are twenty-eight mouths in arrears of pay. While such things are going on, it is a wonder to me that the soldiers don't lay down their arms, or desert by thousands; but, strange to say, desertions are very rare, and the men are in the best of spirit.. I thisk they ore the finest soldiers (or stuff to make soldiers of) that the world ems produce. Nothing comes amigo to them. They are in utter rags, and yet they never complain, although they are nearly always wet through. It would astonish you tome a regiment of them on parade: you could not pick out so badly dressed a lot oat of all the beggars in England." Under such circumstances did these heroes make good their stand against a farce far out-numberiog them, amply supplied with pro visions and all the munitions of war, from June to the end of September. They were the bulwark of the Ottoman Empire in Asia, which but for them could have offered no resistance to the advance of the Russians. Had Ears been taken, there was no Turkish army behind it to make a stand against the invaders. The detest of the Russians hie been se lapel sad senolusive as the gallantry of the garrison of Bars bas been unsurpassed. The attack of the 30th of September was a last effort on the part of the in- veal's!, army. The cholera had begin to appear in its ranks; and for a few days before it bad been observed that many of the tents of the ambulances, and even stores of provisions, had been sent off in the direction of Alex andropol. Their rout wee complete; they are utterly out of condition to take the field again during the present sumo. And there is reason to bops that they will not be allowed to retreat unmolested. If letters received in Erzeroom from the Bey of Livens (in Turkish Georgie) may be believed, OMER PACIIA had advanced, in the beginning of this month, as far as Urzughet, and was pushing on to Akaltzik, with a view to make a diversion is favour of Kars. Many Georgian nobler are said to have waited upon him in order to tender their submission to the Porte. Omen' PACIIA CAR scarcely fail to be aware that his de portment in the Crimea has made an im pression that can only be removed by some decided mom in his new field. The temper of the Georgians and the demoralisation of the Raglan army, invite him to cross the frontier and rouse the Traoseatictud** populations subject to Russia spinet the Muscovites. In connexion with the " deeds of daring-do" which ve have been recording, these Sr. sous considers tics, which form themselves upon as, and appear to bs not altogether devoid of importune. General Altman wrote to oar Government that he mast bays some English oaken to drill the Turks, seed the gentlemen we have named above ware emit oat Whim I inconsequence. The best possible understandinexists between General WILLIAMS and the Mackie ; between the English and Turkish Assn. The usurper/nem is, that troops who were last year driven before the Russians, like Muff Wore the wind, have this year rivalled the exploits of their countrymen in Silistria. This shows of what the Turkish people are capable if judiciously managed and encouraged. In the Crimea everything has been done for them; they hays been snubbed, shouldered aide, and dictated to. In Anatolia they have been stimulated to act for them selves. The contequenoe of the way in which the Turks have been handled in the Crimea is, that people have begun to suspect that the resuscitation of the Ottoman empire is hopeless. The history of the siege of Kan is calculated to disabuse Western Europe of this erroneous impression ; but our Go vernment, whilst it has been prompt and careful to publish all the exploits of the Allies in the Crimea, has left us entirely in the dark as to the merito rious services of General Wimisms and his gal lant Staff, and of the noble spirit evinced by the Turkish soldiers under them. The cause of this reticence appears to be that the appointment of General WiLuokes being a political one, his reports are addressed to the English Ambassador at Constar). tinople, and forwarded by that functionary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. They are of oourse regarded, like all communications ad dressed to that mysterious establishment, as matters to be kept close under the seal of diplo matio secrecy. Official routine will not allow them to be published. And yet the advantage to be derived from breaking through this senseless routine is obvious. The publication of the reports of General WlLLwas would show what discipline and men of sense and spirit can make of the Turks. It I would rides the Turks in the estimation of Europe, and would show how useful oar Indian officers may be made, who have been accustomed to command Mabometans. For these reasons we do hope that Lord CLAILENDON will see the propriety of breaking through the traditional rules of his of and giving the reports of General WILLIAMS to the public. In making this suggestion we are quite disinterested, for the publication we recommend would be likely to render the public less eager to see the reports of our own correspondents. THE EXPREIP, FRIDAY EVV,7INO, OCTOBER 26 1R55. • LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD MOVEMENTS OF THE ALLIES. RUSSIAN DESPATCH. (117 IMMO TILIGHAPIL.) ST. PETERSBURG, THURSDAY. On the 22nd about 40,000 of the allied forces advanced from Eapatoria to Tulat.• The next day they reached the heights at Bchagadiauin, but retreated beyond Andatotschi on perceiving our (Russian) Lancers on their left flack. • A plies of this name omen on the map halt•wsp on the high road between liapatoris and eimpheropol. DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS AT KARS. (TROY WIZ OWN ERZER,OIIII, Oct. 5. Yesterday evening there arrived here an exprers with ktters of the 30th of September from Ears. The letters were written in the evening, and contained the intelligenoe that on the morning of that day the Russians invested Kars on all sides in full force. The batteries at Kars opened a murderous fire oe the besiegers. Three times did the Russians gain a footing in the Turkish retrenchments—and three times were they driven out by the Turks at the point of the bayonet. Colonel Lake distinguished himself in the contest, not only by his courage, but by hie skill. It was he who drove the enemy from the Inglis Table. Eight hundred Russians were slain before a redoubt defended by four hundred Turks. The firing lasted seven hours and a half, when the Russians took to flight. The Turks performed prodigies of valour, and the European officers—Colonel Lake and . . Captains Teesdale and Thompson distioguishcd themselves. Mr. Churchill, formerly altacki of our embassy from Persia, and now secretary to General Williams, commanded at one of the redoubts, and showed himself a thorough Englishman. A postscript of a letter of the lit instant adds, that the loss of the Russians is estimated at about eight or nine thousand killed or wounded. About four thousand corpses lie under the walls of Lars. The Turks are busied now in burying them. The enemy lost besides this a great quantity of stores i and about 300 prisoners were taken, amongst whom were many oMoers. Four guns are said to have been taken. The loss of the Turks is reckoned at about 730 killed and wounded. This great battle, which had so fortunate a termi ition—thanka to the skill of the commander, Grue -1 Williams—shows clearly enough that the Turkish soldier, when well led, is not only brave, but able to distinguish himself like the soldier of any other nation. At the same time it must con- TWOS Europe in general, and the Turkish government in particular, that the latter has no good native officers, shine, from the eommence mint of hostilities in Asia until the present moment, this is the only victory the Turks have gained, and this is owing to General Williams. When the Turks were ander native commanders they experienced nothing but defeats. I hope that by Tuesday we shall have other de spatches from Kars. I will forward them without delay when they arrive. This evening I saw a letter written by a Bey of Livens (Turkish Georgia). He says that Omer Puba having concentrated his troops in Churuksti, had marched on Ursughet, and that he had made himself master of the place without much difficulty. He re ceived there a deputation from the Georgian nobility, who made their submission to the Porte in the name of the inhabitants of the district. According to this letter Omer Pacha was marching towards Akeltsick, for the purpose of making a di version in favour of Ears, and of ultimately coming to the assistance of that city. This last news tallies with that contained in letters received the day before yesterday, which say that Omer Pacha has communi cated with the Muhl: in Kars, telling him to main tain his position for twenty days, at the expiration of which he would be at Bars with hie army. He must be near there by this time; and it would be most fortunate if he should arrive in time to cut off the retreat of General Mourayieft; and be able to invest Alexandropol. P.B. Not one of the European officers at Kars was killed or wounded. (MIZE MN AN =OLIN' OPTICZI INCIAOND IN TEN sarns ) KARS, OCT. 1. Here las on the Karadagh agaio, none the worse for my late illness. Last night the Russians attacked as in force, and (between you and me and the poet) very nearly took Kan. The fight was a most bloody one, and lasted seven hours and a half, with out ono *soma's intermission. The Russians left upwards of 2,000 men dead on the field; and their loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners must have ex seeded 8,000 men. What do you think of us Kars chaps after that ? I was not actively urged, u they knew better than to attack my almost impreg nabis battery a second time; but I did great service with my heavy guns, and twice drove them out of a battery they had taken, and turned epos as. It was a nasty sight—the field—afterwards. It was com pletely fevered with dead bodies, mostly Russian, as our men did not lose mare than an or six hundred altogether. The defence was commanded by dear old General Rmeti; and when our general thanked him in the name of Queen Victoria, for his gallant re putes of the enemy, I thought the brave old boy would have bunt his heart open—he was so proud. The Turks fought—not like HODS, bat like fiends. I saw such desperate recklessness of life. You can form some idea of what a desperate business it was, when I tell you that the Russians had their whole force concentrated upon General Lustre division, which, with the reinforcements he afterwards re- oeived, did not amount to 8,000 men. The reports have just come in, and there are more than 3,000 killed on the aide of the enemy. Oar Paris correspondent's letter had not arrived at the hoar for going to preme, a fact easily amounted for by the state of the weather, referred to else where. A NEW FISHERIES COEPANY.—A prospectus his been issued of a eoestmey. to be called " The British and, Groat Grimsby Fisberies Coespsay." to be establisbed seder the Limited Liabilities Act is tbe:iirt lasteses, bet after wards to be governed seder a &mil Chatter, Of ►y a win! act of wilsetset. The amount of the capital is to be 200,0001., divided Leto shares of 10i. eaeb, EL per share to be payable epos alletoseet. - _ _ Upwards of 20,000 bullocks' shark hobos aro Imported aloataiy hoe llostheetptort from Reath Asiestee. TM bees of ma rieked out for cotton' purees, tad the net an mead mouro. _ _ It is semapated that about 2,000 invalids frees the crimes base already weed %halvah Detain, sad been e a . Audaissd there at the 'arenas et lord caw s m ine ituallearee arrival La that nutty as Leni-Lisatsesas. THE RUSSIANS IN THE CRIMEA. Oar, .21. Bektchi-Sergi is a Tartar town, and it; a military point of view not a tenable position. This is, how- ' ever, not the cue with Simphesopol, which is quite Raglan, and well fortified. A gentleman who has just returned from the Crimea states that even if the Allies were to take the latter town the Rassians would not necessarily be obliged to evacuate the Crimes, but that they must first be beaten and forced to retreat behind the line of the river Selghir. Pere kop has no running streams, and obtains its water from wells, which he describes as very deep. All about the north of the Crimea there is a great scarcity of good water. Perekop, if attacked, must soon fall, as the garrison is far from numerous, and they must sot expect any relief, as the army coming to their assistance could not supply itself with water. It is true that the Allies would also find difficulty in obtaining this necessary beverage, bat in the immediate neigh bourhood of the town there Sr. welts. Should the seat of war be extended at a later period to the interior of Russia, the operations from the Crimea mold not be made in the direction of Nicolaieff, on account of the vast extent of the intervening steppes ; but the base of the operations most be formed by the river Dniester. On the other hand, the distance from the frontiers of Moldavia to the fortress of Kaminiie is only two days' march through the steppes. However, the object of the Allies is confined at present to the conquest of the Crimea. zue Court. WINDSOR, OCT. 2.5. There was no addition to the royal dinner piety yesterday. - The &Gee, with the Princess Royal, walked in the Home-perk this ineeeteg. Prince Albert west oil elteottak The following haws bees iavitiid and are expected this afternoon :—Prinee Edward of Bare-Weimsr, the Portu guese Wishner sod the Comatose de Larradio, Sir Charles and Ledy Mazy Wood, and llsjor-amoral Sir Richard England. Sir Alezender Spearman had ea interview with the Chan cellor of the Er/chequer on Wednesday, at hie Oficial resi dence in Downing street. Despatches frog the Governor of West Australia, and ales from the Governor of Ceylon, were reseived poterdey at the Colonial Moo. RETURN OF HER MAJESTY AND PRINCE ALBERT TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE. This day her Majesty and his Royal Hightess Prince Albert, with the Royal sake, left Windsor Cues at ten :o'clock, cad travelled by a special trails on the South Western Railway to Waadswerth-station, and proceeded with the Royal salts in two carriages and pairs to Bachiog ham Palms, w►erc her Majesty arrived at tan minutes to clove' &aback. In attendants menthe Dubow of Atboll, Lady Frames Brats, Earl of Llatowol, sad Gleonal Mr Edwud Bowater, *a The directors of the Beath Welters Railway received her Majesty sad the Prices. The Duke of Somerest will have as audition of her Majesty at the beet Court at Wiadsor, sad will deliver up to the Queen the tailgate et the order worn by hie late father. The Doehese of Bumleach hu been admitted into the Catholic Church by Dr. Massaieg. The Duke of Sutherland and Lord Ronald Luaus Gower have arrived at laving Coatis on a visit to the Duke sad Duchess of Argyll. The Deaden oißozbargbe, and the Ladies Susan and Charlotte Tones Herr, hare left the Clareadea Hotel, Lnedos, for Floors Castle. John Hops Shaw, &q., one of the Leeds Magis trates, ►ae assoussed ►is isteutios of ntiriss from t►e Brush, bootees t►e Lord Chase*nor refuses to plea spos t►e semislesiss of t►e pease practiehti attomeys. We regret to stab that the Bishop of Loudon is serieasly ill, at his residue, at Pelham. The right rev. prolate has reatatly retuned fres a /hit to the coatiamt. Colonel Sibtioep, M.P., has forwarded to the County mad City Newe•rearas, Wowed sad framed, sepias of the portrait of himself ea bereeback, presented to hits by the taws of the South Liseelashire Militia. The Unarm of the hearty old M.P., will be preserved with ease, sot only by these whe admire bin politieelly but by limey who cos set sympathise with hie peculiar chows, —Stamford Iterewry. Brigadier-Geoeral Wooldridge left Dover early t• the week, by the past Chews, direct to the sett of war is the Crin es. Previously to the pliant cam's leaving the wag at flberaeliffe, the whole of the British Gersten Legion was paraded, w hes the Brigadier recolved front them a sfataltaaeoes and enthusiastic parties cheer. A Prussian otiose visited Canterbury this week, whose proseedinp were narrowly weighed by the coastal's levy, under the impression that he was an imposter, repre senting ►imself to hare been in the Turkish array, sad woueded at Odessa. ♦ few days ago he was bad before the saagiatiratos at Hastings, *barged with obtaining goods under false peetaness, but was discharged. The Lapis Gem& publishes the following letter from Danmark, nadir the date of October 17:—.. A good deal is said here about the arrive' of two members of the English parliasaeat, Sir Watkia W. Wpm and Sir Fitz roy Holly, who have done direct Irma London with tbe view of aseertaialug the state of the negotiating between Denmark cu the cue band. and North America, as shoo Prussia, as the other, respecting the Sated Dose. These gentlemen appear to attach • deckles iusportaace to the reselatioas w►ich Prussia will take in this affair. It is also said these patients!' bays been best by a great Linden banking-house, deeply iaterested I. the loam fee which Denmark has given, by way of security, t►e proclaim of the Sound toll." PRINCE ALBERT AND THE HUDDERSFIELD MECHA mos' litsmora.—The folk:mit, letter has been received by the secretary of the Redden',id Mechanist' Institution : Windsor Cent's, Oct. 20.-84,—1 have received the now MINIS of his Royal Highaese ti e Prince to inform you, in reply to your letter of the 13. h lest , that his Roy a l High ness has read with very doom pleasure the sesame therein amatalaed et the suesessful operation of the Huddersfield Meehsaire' ' , ciliation. His Royal Highs:tee WWI with you that the ease is an exceptiowei owe in respect to the sweat of iustructieu afforded and the number of recipients of it. His Royal Mahan' would be very glad to hear of very many similar sueseems. I am emniaaadmi to forward to yes the enclosed Moque for 261., which his Royal High awe would wish to be gives la one or more prises (at the nest distributlee). as the maoagiss committee may ledge best.—l utile ,C. H. PUIPTIL—To Freak Cason, Esq." A few days ago were married at the Cathedral, Moshe% Jemmy Gordon, aged sleety-am, to Mary Au demen. ed ARON*. This M the Math time for the woo nal se biejelsed la easulmeatel heady mil the IM F& dreibe "MM. le is *sly .beet Ibeee membe able Jemmy meld& a widower by the deed .1 W. fifth wife. THR AMIDUCIAN MAIM—LIVERPOOL, 'THURSDAY. —Letters for the Asia, for Boston end Halifax, will requir e to be petted at the Chanel Puat (See before 11 a.m. es the 27th Mot., with late fees instil 9 5.•., and finally, at the landiag stare until 10 a.m. A ehip letter bag Lie the Haile dipper, for Melbourne, will be mode up here ease day; Donets be peeled before IS a.m.. sal with at. hie t. 0.30 am. " With sincere regard, your friend and servant, " E. K KANE, Commanding Ecpedition. "George Peabody, Esq., London. F.S. I open this letter to inbound the arrival of Captain Hailstone and party, wbo must have passed us in Melville Bay. The Deicers and crews small well. I have cancelled my engagement with the Marione (Captain Amondson, to whom I am much indebted for his hdpi• Utility), and will proceed to New York with my countrymen. " May I beg you to either call spas or send to Sir Francis Beaufort a copy of this letter, se also to Lady Ftanklin sod Mr. Barrow, of the Admiralty? . . " Thera is no open water above the month of Smith's Sound (Milani Point of Caps Inglefield), so that my escape has been in all ruspecta providential. " I 11111, dear Sir, yours, E. K. Karla. " Supt./3, 1855." " House of Mr. Math, Royal Inspector, Godhays, North Greenland. " P.S , No. 2.—1 will report to the Secretory of the Ad. miralty, u also to the Royal Geographiml Society, as soon as I can airange my papers and charts. AU my domains:es are saved, but my collection of 1 history is sacrificed. I left the brig safe in Winter Heehaw. 4, E. K. K.un." Tnz LATE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE AT GLOUCESTiIt —The disappearance of the Rev. Mr. Farmer, curate of Rardick, on the eve of his intended marriage, as reported last week, still remains unexplained. Mills have been issued in this and the neighbouring counties, offering a reward of 101. to any person who may discover him, but hitherto the attempt has been fruitless. Many persons are under the impression that cn the night when the rev. gen. Osman was last teen (•bich was is open day at Gloucester), he was forcibly murdered, sod a man has been apprehended at Cirencester co suspicion. He was about to enlist in the army, and being unable to give an account of himself, and having, moreover, a few spots of blood on his clothes, the magirrates thought prnp'r to detain him, and he has been scot to Gloucester Gaol for safe custody for eirlit days, in order to give them time for farther foquiries.—Local paper. ELOPEMENT.—One day this week, the men on night duty at the Wellington Railway station here were aroused from their usual nightly quiet by the arrival of some interesting visitor., In the shape of a young lady and ber Inver, the former of whom bad, from ber own aceonot. ar ranged to decamp from the parental roil at the peaceful hour of midnight, bet from the fact of her having been beard by her brother lacing her stays (noisy things) gave the alarm, and put a stop, for a time, to the young lady'. flight. Love, however, was not to be baulked in this way, for, after having remained quiet for a couple of hours. she rose again, and took her departure from a quiet village not a thousand miles from Culmstock. where she was met by her faithful swain. As no train left until eight o'clock in the morning, they begat to fear discoveay, and were at their wits end for a place of refuge, feeling confident these would be given. They consequently let the men on night duty into tbe secret, and were, iu a short time, comfortably ensconced in the watchman's boa, where they enjoyed the blies of @whether's society snugly together (shere being scarcely more than room for one person) until daylight. The tole arrived, they took their departure for Taunton, where the young lady intended to draw upon her banker's for the " needful, further to prosecute their intended purpose, and as their Right was on the Wings of love, their whereabouts have not been further traced.—Sherbcrve• Amrttel. _ _ _ David Baker, a cottager, of Ulerby, has this year promo is his pardon a so►rot two foot la length, without " top sad tad," Gas foot la circumference, sad wolghiog 61ba. RUSSIA. THE SETTLEMENTS ON THE PACIFIC. ST. PETEKSbURG, Ocr. 16 The Marine *Manua publishes a despatch from the port captain of Ayan--a port belonging to the Rus sian American Trading Company on the coast of the Sea of Ochotsk—Captain Lieutenant Kaahewarvff, to Major-General Wentzel, Governor-General of Siberia, in which he states that on the 9th of July an English squadron, composed of two sailing hi , gates and • steamer, under the comma..d of Charles Frederick (?), appeared in the bay of A 3 an. As soon as their approach was perceived the inhabitants of the little town and the small garrison evacuated the place, "in obedience to the instructions received from the Governor-General." The enemy took away a quantity of deal., timber, and other materials be longing to the company. A small new iron steamer, also the property of the company, had been sunk in the port, but the enemy succeeded in raising it and blowing it up, whilst three smaller craft were car ried away by the frigates. They remained in the harbour for ten days, and put to sea on the 17th of July, when the inhabitants returned to their homes, and found that all their private property had been respected. The commodore of the squadron had published a proclamation to the inhabitants, inviting them to return to their dwellings, and promising them protection if they took no hostile step. while the crews were on shore to furnish the squadron with water and fuel. THE PANIC AT ODESSA. ON THE ARRIVAL OF TILE FLEET. ODESSA, Oc-r. 8. Four o'clock, p.m.—The flnt brigade of the 15th Reserve Infantry Division has just entered the town in long columns. They sre the regiments Lublin and &mesa The men ere evidently quite exhausted from their long march, and covered with dust from head to foot. In marching through the streets some of the men fall down from over-fatigue. They are carried into the houses by the citizens and kindly treated. An endless train of artillery follows, mag nificently honed. It is a beautiful sight. These troops all come from the camp of the army of reserve at NicolaitfE The intelligence of the approach of the enemy's armada was telegraphed to the Emperor at midnight. From the telegraph station on the villa of General LiLlers more ships are sten approaching. They appear to be in the 6111110 place u they were the lest time. Five o'clock.—A whole forest of masts is now visible in the offiog. They appear to be sailing in great order, and with admirable regularity. A vast co.nmn of black smoke envelopes the horizon. With a good glass one can distinguish them, and make out plainly that they are of a large size. I counted 42, hut others are every moment corning into sight round the point of the mountain and promontory of Laogeron. In the meantime the regiments of Hussars Count Radetzky, and Prince of Hesse-Cassel, belong ing to the 3rd Light Cavalry Diviwoo, are marching through the streets in full uniform, and with their bands playing at their head. They are going to the great fountain on the square. Bix o'olock.—There are now 76 sail in sight, and every moment others round the promontory. A panto has prized the inhabitants. All the street. are regularly blocked up with carriages, carts, and waggons of every description, into which the more valuable furniture and goods and chattels of the in habitants are being packed as quickly as possible. The general cry is Sauce qai pout, whilst at the cor ners of streets people gatner together in little knots to communicate and learn in breathless anxiety and with hurried wt.rds what each has to say. Some state that the expedition is destined to operate against the neighbouring town of Otchakoff, and that the fleet is about to force the passage of the Dnieper, and disembark an army there to march by land towards ICherson and Perekop. Others pretend to know the exact number of troops on board, which they state to consist of 20,000 Turks and 33,000 French. Again, others know tor a positive certainty that the object of the expedition is exclusively the bombardment of this city. In the meantime the hostile fleet has gradually approached and archored at a distance of five wersts (three miles) from the shore. Seven o'clock.—The Emperor's Adjatant•Genersl, General Lfiders, has just arrived from Nicolaieff. Accompanied by the former ambassador at Constanti nople, Von Ozeroff, he is inspecting the troops at their different stations, and is every where received with load acclamations. Eight o'clock.—The sea is envylc.ped in perfect darkness. The enemy's ships have hoisted lanterns, which at a distance have the appearance of stars, serve to show their position. Ocr. 9. The night passed off with tranquillity. Dome people assert they heard guns fired in the night, and counted 40 reports. It might be their imagina tion, or it is possible they were signal guns. This morning at sunrise three guns were fired on board the fleet. No change is perceptible in their position since last night. Four new 24-pounders have been mounted this morning in the battery No. bithe em. brasures widened, and the parapet heightened with fresh earth to the extent of a couple of feet. All this work has been executed by the soldiers. Behind the Boulevard are several battalions destined to de fend the battery. They are seated on the ground so as not to be seen, nor exposed to noneoessary danger. In the meantime the panic of the inhabitants appears to have reached its climax. Eierybody is making hurried preparations to get away. Money is in such demand that the counting houses of the money-changers are beleaguered, and the agio of metallio currency, which was yesterday at par, has suddenly then to 20 per cent. The bakers shops are beset by the people, who vehemently call for bread, the price of which has risen to three times its usual value. The most fabulous sums are wil lingly paid for the use of the most common waggon and horses to convey the fainilies to a piece of satety. Whilst all sorts of vehicles are quitting the town loaded with children, furniture, bedding, and cook ing utensils, long convoys of ammunition waggons, heavy artillery, baggage, military storm, and troops —both cavalry and taantry--are pouring into the town every moment, blocking up the streets, and preventing the escape of the frightened inhabitants. Sock jostlMg, contessioe, and noise on all aides! Verily at this moment Odessa presents such a scene of disorder and tear as must have been witnessed at the Tower of Babel. MARCH OF THE CUIRASSIERS OF THE GUARD TO THE 13011TH. WARSAW. Ocr. 20. Great astoolahmeot has been expressed in our military circles that hitherto nose of the regimen's of the Guards have taken as settee part in the war in the Crimea; bat at length the moment appears to have arrived far them to have an oppuruioirr of measuring their Mete with the sootily. The,division of the Caiisteiere of the Inertial Omani, hitherto quartered here and in other parts of Poland, have put themselves in motion, and are gone to the south. They are to be replaced by the brigade of Lancers belonging to the second Light Cavalry division, under General 24ielnikoff, now in cantonments in the go vernment of Lublin. In the entire kingdom of Po land there are now only four regiments of regular cavalry of the above-named division, and in the neighbouring province of Lithuania is quartered a similar division of the reserve cavalry corps, under Lieut.-General 6: ilawald, with its head-quarters at Slonim. The division of Guards that has left us has taken the direo•ion of Kiew, and it is unknown whether on its arrival there it will form a part of the army of the centre, or be seat on without delay to the seat of war. These are the first regiments of Guards that have marched to the south, consequently the state ment that has appeared in certain newspapers of two regiments of the cavalry of the Guard having been already employed in the Crimea is devoid of truth. Although the Russians have sot hitherto bad any Cuirassiers at the theatre of war, it is considered here cot improbable that the destination of these Cuiras siers of the Guard is to oppose the French Cuirassiers. The Russian cavalry now in the Crimea is more than double the number of that of the Allied army. It is stated that General Korff is to be brought by fore a court. martial for the defeat he suffered on Michaelmas-day at Koughill, near Eupatoris, as it is alleged he was greatly to blame in neglectirg to station his out-posts in time. Lieutenant-General Prince Radziwill has succeeded General Korff in the command of the Light Cavalry in the Crimes. With regard to the corps of Grenadiers, which has been pushing on to the south, but has not yet been in action, we learn by the latest reports that they had arrived at Perekop, where they were halting for the present. whilst their advanced posts were even a few miles month. As it is well known here that only two divisions of these crack troops have been sent to the seat of war, and as each division con- sists of (our regiments (each regiment three battalions, and each battalion on the war-footing, 1,000 men), we can put down their force at 24,000. Adding to these about 6,000 more for artillery, Cossacks, and other troops in garrison at Perekop, we shall not be far from the truth in estimating the entire force at Perekop at about 30,000 men. It is therefore fortunate for Prince Gortchakoff that his rear is defended by such a large body of the Em peror's (said to be) best troops, which, under the present circumstances, are more than sufficient to check any force that the Allies can land at Kinburn to attack Perekop from the north. This knowledge may, perhaps, explain the otherwise extraordinary tactics of Prince Gortchakoff, in not taking active measures to cover his lane of retreat, when he is fully aware—and has himself telegraphed the fact—that the Allies have organised a general concentric advance on his centre and both flanks, to oblige him to fall back on Perekop. DR. KANE'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The last mail from New York brought intelligence of the safety of Dr. Kane, who in May, 1853, sailed in com mand of en expedition fitted out at the cost of Mr. Grinnell, of New York, and Mr. George Peabody, of London, in search of Sr John Franklin. Considerable apprehensions bud been eavertained regarding his fate, and several months back some Government vessels wire despatched in the hope of meetieg with him. The follou lug letter, containing the first announcement of his explorations, reached London yes terday afternoon : " Godhavn, North Greenland, Sept. 12. "My dear Sir,—l have only time to report to you the safe arrival of our party at Godhava, whence we have taken passage to England in the Danish brig Mariana. " The explorations of our party embraced the entire shores of Smith's Sound, and a new channel expanding from its north eastern curve into an open Polar sea. This great wetercourse embraced an area of 3,000 square miles cntwely free from ice. It washed • bold and mountainous coast, which has been chartered as high as let. 82.30. . . " Smith's Sound terosiaatcs - in an extensive bay, which bears your name, and the coast of Greenland, after being followed unt;l it faced the nortn, was found cemented to the continent of America by a stupendous glacier which checked our further progress towards the Atlantic. " Throughout thi, long extent of new coast, the re 'tat of much hard travel and exposure, I have found no tracts of the lost party whose search instigated your own connexion with out eapvtlition. " The past two winters exceeded in ity any that have before been recorded. Both scurvy and lacked jaw em barrassed our efficiency, and our doge, to the number of 57, peristod of this latter scourge. A 131110 of 81 inqes of solid ice interposed between us and t►e nearest water, and to have remained • third winter would have proved fatal. "On the 17th of May, with a carefully matured organi zation of boats and sledges, I abandoned the brig and c:ta meowed our journey over the floes. We supplied ourselves with animal food entirely by our guns, rod transported our sick in separate sledges. Atter a travel of 1,300 miles, and an exposure in open air of 84 days, we reached Upernavik in health and safety. " It is right that while announcing our own restoration to the world I should mention the death of three of our party. These brave men pedaled in the direct discharge of the duties of search, and are entitled to the grateful re collection of their comrades and commander. THE PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION. (IPHOX 01:11 OWN PARK Oct 23 THR RR-OPENING. • Nearly six thousand people connected with the Exhibition have now signed the petition prayiag ty it may be re-opened on the let ot next May. limi er° many reasons to be adduced in favour of thi petition, the meet important being the very * t i t time during which the complete Exhibition has n ot before the public. It may be fairly said that tea months ago only the workmen were not out of fig buildings. A second reason is the disfaeoos with which foreigners were led to disregard. the p affair, having read the reports of the palmate; t h% wretchedly ut finiahed state in which everything p. peered on the 15th of last May. It is perfectly el% that people who came to Path to see the Exhibiti on • last June have no better idea of its present brilliant appearance than they have who have been concept t o turn over pale views of it. Last Jane th e paapna-i building was not opened; the gardens Were Sedi; l w a o id rks on h t o. ; p the Las lon t long June machinerywasnothing gallerywshoin7ol. the eastern or western galleries of the main Last June all kinds of absurd regulations wearied visitors. Last Jane there was no kind of clue tett* contents of the buildings in English. In short, t h e Universal Exhibition of last June cannot be ani . pared with that of the present October. I own that it has often struck me lately, as I have veered about the testetully-arranged courts and galleries td the Palace, that it would be a pity t o break le so splendid a show so soon after its'completion,ni e especially as the vigorous regime which now govetse • the affair gives symptoms of intellectual astray. For instance, the recent creation of the Exhibitien the Cheapness ot All Nations (on which I hats already forwarded you two short reports) is evident of activity well directed. And I believe that if the deputation which is to wait upon the Minister d Public Works to-morrow, and on the Enamor re Saturday next, succeeds in obtaining the re.openiog in May, active measures will be at once resorted to in order to make this Exhibition of Cheapatengran feature next summer. It is obviously in the intent of English manufacturers, therefore, to press for the re-opening, siege in an Exhibition of Cheeps. they could not tail to take the lead in the manaketus d the great articles of consumption among the voting chases. This year we have seen a splendidezhibitica of the luxuries of all nations: will, in the face albs hard times now advancing towards the vorkied populations of Europe, it behoves every goverment to inquire narrowly into the means by what* may be cheapened; new kinds of food Wrested; economic systems of cooking adopted ; new fielded production opened. In an Exhibition of Chiapas, fairly and fully carried out, many of these impittalt lessons may be learned; therefore it appears tons that the Exhibition should be shut at the fied sign of winter, to undergo many useful chup before the let of Mar next. It is confidently belied that this plan will be adopted, and that in this ee the medals and decorations will be distributed, ace in the Palace of Industry, as at present irrupt nor on the 15th proximo, but in the um salons of the Louvre, and on the 2nd of sat December. Should the Emperor, on the se trary, decline to have the Exhibition re-opened, fit nave (in other words, the attractive part of the lads trial show) will close on Wednesday next, to an way for the miles of seats that are to be built to* commodate the state dignitaries, foreign resents dyes, juror., and exhibitors, who will take putiatis 'distribution of rewards by the F mperor. As a mark of the Imperial favour, M. d'Avilsods zspsssnted Portugal at the International Statistial Congress here, has been created an officer of the Is. gion of Honour. And here I mcy call the Seen of your readers to the excellent figure Portage has made in the Exhibition, particularly in the sample of cereale, which are said to equal any in theist collection arranged in the Annexe. These emu are accounted for by the mixture of French se Bsp lisp names amongst the Portuguese exhibaore. Mr. J. Forester, for instance, the exhibitor of a splendid collection of Portuguese cereals, is an Engliehau; and an exhibitor of Portugnen cloths (M. Luttrell a Frenchman. Then in bilks Portugal mats a good show—witness those of M. Marcelioo Pimentel; while in printed cottons and linens her display I poor. SAW there are some good stockings, and ems promising lace—altogether enough to prove the there is a commercial activity growing up in Lithalf and that the government is beginning to see tie wisdom of calling to its aid the intelligens, tie vigour, and the culture of foreigners. It this way, under the splendid auspices of Colbert, great industries took root in France. Joe lery, for instance, like that exhibited 11 M. Ise Pereira Mochas, deserves nee even from English and Frame's maniacs:ea Spain is the close neighbour of Portugal in the northern gallery of the Palace ot Industry. Mee here the careful visitor may notice eigns of include in Spain for which she does not get credit shred. Thus the silks of M. Juan Eseuder are aid to rival those of Lyons—and beat them, if I am not moth mistaken, in that important element, cheapen. . Certainly, M. Escuder at the head of a manakt tore that is, perhaps, the first in his country . . Al. other Barcelona manufacturer, M. Ise Rog, be sent some imitation China crepe shawls, one of which, a white one, is said to equal any sample of this mane facture exhibited by France. Then there are sample of ribands, hosiery, bilk hats (sombreros), shawls of cotton and wool mixed, from various Spsoish sea facturers, of 00 mean quality. It is to be e x p ecte that in t he ' country where the mantilla is warn the manufacture of lace will be carried on with vigem The Spanish section of the Exhibition satisfies the expectation. There are some fine blondes sod tulle in the Spanish cases. Then the Spanish gloves us remarkable : some, from their extreme setae" may be crammed into a nutshell. The collection is eludes several pairs made for the Empress Ear* Then there is come admirably executed Spanish twee Lure from Bard's Brothers, of Barcelona, and ethos Many visitors have probably remarked the dense secrataire, in marpterie, exhibited by this hoes. Turning from the hopeful exhibitions of Sp een ' Portugal to a more general point of interest, 1 2 inform your readers that the belief among informed people here is that England will carry e few prizes. Her display is generally allowed to M weak on the whole. There are, however, one or tie British exhibitors clearly marked out for hone-. as the Minton., the Elkingtent, Jackson end Grease &c. ; just as in the French department Henri PA. who received the prize medal at oar Exhibition .M 1851, is certain to be similarly rewarded on r_ occasion. The books he has exhibited -0 tf, " Caucase Pittoresque," and the "Numistnatiamt Inscriptions Cypriotes" by the great art-perm r, , D L Duke Fontaine L a iOnyen.: abiee k himPimswe_ll m atathisoutdiamondas o ettice ,of first French printer.. The "Book of Mareiefit upon which he spent eight years labour, Muslim: by T. Johannot and others, is also cited as • rentsu able specimen of rich printing. Of course, theFim medal could not be given to the Imperial Primal!' office, much es its exhibitions may deserve it- Tr dividuale can hardly rival the resources of a sta t e establishment. It may be interesting, in conclusioo, to j: your readers that the crowds in the Exhi bition on the increase, and that Guidant's daily pe w ince. on Beard's grand piano are alone worth 1 . . visit. I subjoin n circular issued by the British coma i. ' lion to the exhibitors: Barnett COMMlSSlON.—Ezhibitors who may &Ol t :: present specimens of their productions and models to government, for public eshibitiv,n in London, ITS 761 .„,.. to signify their intention to Captain Foake,.M.E eery, a respects machinery, and Mr. Pichard Tboali•••._ Superintendent of Arrangemtnt, as respects other Mars, Such artiel , s, with thous of the Trade Museum , forig°A. 1831, will be ezhioited forthwith in pl ce provided for so. purpose. Funeral FOWICE, Capt. R•E Bee. A LION AT LAROIL—The population of the ()n i l: Rousse, at Lyous. assembled in the Orsnde Plate. a "" days ago. for :he annual fits, wore astonished to see eh: lion, which bad escaped from a travelling inevie nb im. vitae, calmly towards them; they fled is every a t but the lion takirg so to*. continwi his proce ss& to • pl ce called Les Teel', and there su dd en ly leaped Milli poor doukey, which was tied to a post, aod vat:sir!, his teeth. O him. The king of eke fore st then n plaoed himself en the ground near his victim, mid, at° - while, allowed himself to be conveyed back to the by hi; keepers.—Galigriani. 4••• 4 •mW them • It t divi, fedi to ea vett wit out the WI IVO iegl 0001 and a pa for aPP Mr. Mr. thw tim , wbc arri stet wad wit be abo tba , and Pro, He self and thei hto BO 1 WE othl ban freq fee+, PRI 185