The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

MARKETS FOR 3IANUFACTURES.

MANCRESTER.—AIthough a further advance in their rate
of discount by the Bank of England was thought probable,
the step that was taken on Thursday was quite unlooked for,
and on its becoming known a complete stop was put to all
transactions in this market. It was at once thought that a
considerable impediment to the ordinary course of business
transactions must arise, and especially so if the movement had
the effect of causing extreme measures to be adopted by the
local banks. Since Friday, although there was very little
business doing, less uneasiness was manifested, and seeing the
sound basis on which commercial credit rests at the present
time, the unlooked-for measure seemed to be regarded with
less apprehension, although great inconvenience must inevi-
tably be experienced. At the beginning of the week rather '
more animation was observable in the market, and as cotton
was somewhat dearer, buyers were less disposed to hold back.
On Tuesday this seemed changed again, and there was a very
lifeless market, any attempt to improve the position here by
the aid of the Liverpool cotton market proving futile, in the
face of large future supplies of the raw material, dear money,
and rising quotations for grain. The business of the day was
restricted, and no improvement existed either in demand or
prices--the latter being irregular, and somewhat lower. The
stocks of either cloths or yarns do not accumulate very rapidly,
and consequently there is no very extreme pressure of either
on the market. A slight extra concession beyond the general
reduction seems to be effective in obtaining purchasers, and
although the market has a very stagnant appearance, stocks
accumulate to a more limited extent than would be supposed.
Some large sales of skirtings may be noted this week, as was
also the case last; in both instances at low prices. The
Greek houses are still doing very little, their accounts being
anything but favourable. For Germany there is little doing ;
whilst the India accounts are not of a nature to increase the
operations for the East.—Manchester Courier.
ROCIIDALE.—A. very inanimate market considering the
time of the year, and the merchants show no disposition to
purchase at present. The wool market is much the same as
it has been for some weeks back.

HIIDDERSFIELD.—A very flat market, and no prospect of
any amendment for the present; the state of the money
market, and the advance in the price of wheat, being sufficient
to account for the state of things at present observable.
BRADFORD.—WooI : This market is in better supply than
for several months past, and prices in favour of the buyers.
Yarns : This branch of trade has been a profitless one for a
long time, in proof of which many spinners during the past
and present week have commenced working short time. The
price of wool has ruled so high that the margin left has•not
covered the cost of converting into yarns. Pieces : The
attendance of merchants at market is below an average ;
business may be termed quiet, buyers generally confining
their purchases to immediate wants. •

.
NOTTINGIIAM.—The improvement in the lace trade, noticed
last week, continues for plain goods and a few descriptions of
fancy articles, but the generality of houses engaged in the
fancy trade complain of inactivity. Low priced articles in
hosiery goods are chiefly sought for, while wrought or fashioned
hose are in but little demand. Not much doing in yarns, and
prices irregular.

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR.

VIENNA, Sunday evening.
The Oesterreichische Correspondenz asserts, on the au-
thority of a telegraphic communication from Odessa of the
17th, that at the same time that the allied fleets attacked Kin-
burn, 30,000 men were landed on the Peninsula of Tendra.
Nothing certain was known of the destination of these
troops.
Tendra is a long spit of land a little west of Perekop.

THE CAPTURE OF KINBURN.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCt. 20.

Lord Clarendon has received this day the following intelli-
gence from Her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Vienna, dated
Oct. 19 :

The allied fleets bombarded the three forts of Kinburn on
the 17th. The garrison of 1,500 men, and 70 guns, under
Gen. Konovitch, capitulated, and are sent prisoners to Con-
stantinople.
Loss of the Allies unimportant.
Russian loss 120 men.
The forts have been taken possession of by the Allies.
The fleets are at anchor at the entrance of the Dnieper.

The following telegraphic message from Rear• Admiral Sir
E. Lyons was received at the Admiralty on Saturday
evening : _

OFF THE MOUTH OF THE DNIEPEB, Oct. 17.
The three forts on the Kinburn Spit, mounting upwards of
70 guns, and garisoned by 1,300 men, under Gen. Konovitch,
have this day capitulated to the allied forces.
The day before yesterday a flotilla of gun-vessels forced the
entrance into the Dnieper, and the allied troops landed on the
spit to the southward of the forts ; thus, by their simultaneous
operation, the retreat of the garrison, and the arrival
of reinforcements were effectually cut off, so that the forts,being
bombarded to-day by the mortar-vessels, gun-vessels, and
French floating batteries, and being closely cannonaded by the
steam line-of-battle ships and frigates (having only two feet
of water under their keels), were soon obliged to surrender.
The casualties in the fleet were very few, but the enemy had
45 killed and 130 wounded. A steam squadron, under the
orders of Rear-Admirals Stewart and Pellion, lie at anchor in
the Dnieper, and command the entrance to Nicholaieff and
Kherson.

The forts are occupied by the allied troops.
The prisoners will be sent to Constantinople immediately.

THE RUSSIAN ACCOUNT.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 18.
The fortress of Kinburn resisted the allies by a very heavy
fire up to the 17th.

At -noon on that day the fire ceased, and at 3 p.m. the enemy
(the allies) entered the place.
Up to the 17th there was nothing new in the Crimea.

FRENCH ACCOUNT.
The Minister of Marine has received the following despatches
from Admiral Bruat

KINBURN, Oct. 17.
The fort of Kinburn and the new works constructed on the
peninsula are in our possession.
Our loss is unimportant.

(Second Despatch.)
•KINBUSN, Oct. 17.
On the morning of the 14th of October, the allied squadrons
quitted the roads of Odessa, as soon as the strong westerly
winds, which bad impeded their operations ever since the Bth,
had ceased. On the same evening they anchored off Kinburn.
In the night four French gunboats— La Tirailleuse, la
Stridente, la Meurtriere, and la 3lutine, despatched by Rear-
Admiral Pellion under the orders of Lieutenant Allemand, of
the Cacique, with five English gunboats, passed the Strait
of Oczakoff, and entered the Dnieper.
On the 15th, at daybreak, the troops were landed at about
4,500 metres to the south of the place. In the afternoon the
mortarboats commenced their fire, but were compelled to sus-
pend it when night closed in, on account of the swell, which
rendered their range uncertain.
The day of the 16th was nearly lost to us, the wind having
again changed to the south-west. The troops were engaged
in intrenching themselves, and making a reconnaissance to
the south. The gunboats in the Dnieper only were able to
annoy the place by their fire.
The wind having gone round to the north during the night,
Admiral Lyons and myself have been engaged since this morn-
ing (the 17th) in carrying into execution the plan of attack we
had arranged on the previous evening, according to the sound-
ings taken by Captain Spratt, of the Spitfire, and Lieutenant
Clone, of the Brandon, assisted by MM. Ploix and Manen
hydrographic engineers. At twenty minutes past nine o'clock
the floating batteries La Devastation, La Lave, and La Ton-
nante opened their fire.

The success they obtained during the day fulfills every
hope of the Emperor. The rampart against which they
directed their fire soon presented practicable breaches on
several points.
The French and English mortarboats opened their fire at a
quarter to ten o'clock ; their aim, rectified by signals from
the advice-boats, was admirably directed. I attribute to them
a great part in the speedy surrender of the fort.
Five French gunboats, la Grenade, la Fleche, la Mitraille,
la Flamme, and l'Alarme, supported by six English gunboats,
took up their position almost at the same time as the mortar-
vessels. Their ricochetting fire told with effect on the guns
that were opposed to our floating batteries.
As soon as the fire from the fort slackened, our gunboats,
on a signal from the captain of la Grenade, M. Jaureguiberry,
were moved up to the line of floating batteries. They were
accompanied in this movement by the English gunboats.
Precisely at noon the steamers, followed by the frigates,
corvettes, and advice-boats, were got under way. The steamers
formed in line, anchored in 26-feet water, with their broad-
sides to the forts, and at a distance of 1,600 metres from
them. At the same moment six English frigates, led by
Rear-Admiral Stewart, and three French frigates, L'Asmodee,
Le Cacique, and Le Sand, under the orders of Rear-Admiral
Pellion, entered the Strait of OczakoCto take the forts of
Kinburn in reverse. The English ship Hannibal advanced to
the middle of the strait. General Bazaine and General

Spencer sent forward their skirmishers and field-pieces to
about 400 metres from the place. ~„.
These bold manoeuvres, and the imposing front presented
by the nine French and English vessels, in close line, broad-
side on, thundering from all their guns, had a decisive
effect. At 35 minutes after 1, observing that the fort of Kin-
burn had ceased to fire, although the batteries on the north
continued to serve their mortars, Admiral Lyons and myself
thought it right to respect the courage of the brave men we
were fighting; we therefore made the signal to cease firing,
and hoisted a flag of truce, at the same time sending.on shore
a French and English boat.
The forts accepted the capitulation offered. The garrison
surrendered themselves prisoners, and were allowed to march
out of the place with the honours of war. The Russian
works are now occupied by our troops.
By the terms of the capitulation it was agreed that the
place should be given up to us in the state in which
it was at the moment of surrender. We have there-
fore taken possession of all the stores and ammunition of
the enemy. Admiral Lyons and myself sent surgeons from
both squadrons to attend to the wounded of the garrison,
about 80 in number.

There are from 1,200 to 1,500 prisoners. We intend to
organize here a permanent establishment.

The Moniteur also contains the following note on Kin•
burn :

The waters of the Bug and the Dnieper fall into the sea by
a single channel. After forming a lake, in which they mingle,
the two rivers run together between Oczakoff to the north and
Kinburn to the south, in a narrow channel of varying depth,
the minimum being 15 feet, much nearer to Kinburn than to
Oczakoff. The latter place, on the right bank, is built on the
summit of a cliff of moderate height, advancing in a sharp
angle straight to the south, and projecting a low point, on
which there is an ancient fort of Genoese construction, in bad
condition. A battery of nine guns_ of large calibre, recently
constructed beyond the channel and enfilading it, but at a long
range, completes the defence on this side, without presenting
any serious obstacle. _

It is on the left bank, upon the tongue of sand formed by
the alluvial deposits of both rivers, that the citadel of Kinburn
is built. It commands the passage in both directions, up and
down, forming, in a word, the only defence of the mouth of
the Dnieper.

The fortress of Kinburn is a hornwork of masonry with
parapets of earth, surrounded by a ditch where it is not
washed by the sea, containing barracks and other buildings,
of which the roofs and chimneys can be seen above the ram-
parts. It is armed on every face, presenting one tier of guns
in covered casemates, with a battery above them ; it mounts
in all about 60 cannon, of which half fire seawards from the
S.E to the N.N.W.

Kinburn contained a garrison of 2,000 men, without reckon-
ing the military colonists established outside on the walls
in a regularly-built village, to the south, and about a cannon
shot from the place. Two new batteries have been recently
built to the north-east of the fortress.

[BY ELECTRIC & INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPHS.]

LONDON, Monday Night.
A meeting 9f Cabinet Ministers was held at the War De-
partment to-day. There were present, Lord Panmure, Lord
Palmerston, Lord Granville, Sir G. Grey, and Sir C. Wood.
A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office this
afternoon.

With the exception of Sir W. Molesworth's death, at noon
to-day, there is no news of importance.
The rumours in the Crimean and Continental letters, as to
the future movements of the Allies, are unworthy of notice.