The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

THE OPERATIONS ON THE. DNIEPER.
A supplement to the Invalide Russe of the 21st October
publishes a continuation of the series of telegraphic despatches
forwarded from Nicholaieff to St. Petersburg, by order of the
Emperor :

NlcsoLAlErr, Oct. 20, 11.50, p.m.
Up to half-past six this morning the enemy had undertaken
nothing new, and remained in the positions they had taken
up last night—that is, with the greater part of their force near
the Spit of Kinburn, to the west and south, and 36 vessels,
steamers and gun-boats, in the road of Oczakoff.
At half-past seven, 13 gun-boats and five mortar-boats
ascended the liman, and at half-past ten entered the Bug.
At noon they were followed by six steamers and three other
gun-boats.
All these vessels proceeded up the stream, and anchored at
some distance from its embouchure. A part of this force was
detached, and directed towards the mouth of the Dnieper ;
another continued to ascend the Bug, preceded by row-boats,
taking soundings in the river.
At half-past three, when the flotilla had arrived opposite
the Volosch-kaia point, a field battery we had posted on it
opened fire on the advancing vessels, which stopped, and
returned it. The cannonade continued on both sides for more
than an hour. The enemy's boats then retired, descended the
river, and rejoined the rest of the force anchored off the em-
bouchure of the Bug.
The extraordinary supplements of the Invalide Russe con-
tinue the series of the telegraphic despatches sent daily from
Nicholaieff to St. Petersburg by order of the Emperor.
NICITOLLIBFP,Oct. 22.

There has been no change in the position of the enemy ;
the main body of their fleet is still at anchor near the Spit of
Kinburn, and the detachments of light boats in the road of
Oczakoff and the embouchure of the Bug.
This morning some of these boats again ascended both the
Bug and the Dnieper, but only for short distances, and soon
returned to their anchorage. Those which came up the Bug
did not even reach the point where they yesterday exchanged
some cannon shot with our artillery.
The troops the enemy has landed are posted between the
suburb and the citadel of Kinburn.

NICTIOLAIEFF, Oct. 23.
The position of the enemy's squadron off Kinburn has not
been changed. Their steamers and floating batteries are in
the Oczakoff roads, in the embouchure of the Bug, opposite
the village of Parntino, and in the embouchure of Dnieper,
between Stanislay and Rybaltchiz.
At the mouth of the Dnieper the enemy is actively engaged
in taking soundings along the southern bank of the river.
The number of troops landed on the Spit of Kinburn has
not been increased.
According to the statement of three English sailors, who
having ventured on shore, were made prisoners by the Cos.
sacks of one of our detachments, a part of the invading army
of the enemy is still on board the vessels of the fleet ; it
amounts, including the troops disembarked, to about 15,000
men.

BERLIN, Thursday.
We have rumours of enforced changes in the higher ranks
of the Russian officials.
Count Kleinmichel, the Minister of Roads and Public
Works, is to be replaced by General Tehertkine, from the
Department of Mines.
The disasters of the war have produced inquiries, which are
likely to lead to farther changes of a remarkable character.
The presence of the allied fleets in the Liman of the Dnieper