The Press.
London, England, 1855-11-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, SA.TURDAY, NOV. 3, 1855.

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THE BALTIC ELEET.
Despatches from Dantsic of Thursday's date
announce that the Lightning had arrived, and was
to remain at that port further orders. The fleet
was still at Nargen. The weather continues
stormy.

From Hamburg we learn that the Ajax and Hogue
had arrived at Kiel. Other ships were expected
from the Baltic.

A letter from Berlin, dated the Ist inst., says :

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 Tchertkine, from the
Department of Mines.
The disasters of the war have produced inquiries which
are likely to lead to further changes of a remarkable cha-
racter.
The presence of the allied fleets in the Liman of the
Dnieper has produced great consternation. Their having
troops and engineers on board is thought to prove an in•
tention of making a permanent lodgment there.

The return of Lord Gifford for Totness will proba-
blylbe unopposed. Thus, the first appearance of this
ex-Conservative in the character of a Liberal will he
made as the representative of a pocket borough, and
the nominee of a Duke.

A late nnmber of Lo Spellatore Egiziano, pub-
lished in Cairo, statesfthat the direct transit by the
railway from Cairo to Alexandria, and vice venal, was
to commence on the Ist inst.

By letters from Bucharest, under date of the 19th
we learn that Prince Stirbey has carried out his in-
tention of resigning all public affairs into other
hands, until such time as he shall have recovered
his health completely.

THE BALTIC FLEET.
(From our Own Correspondent.)
OFF NARGEN, Oct. 23.
As the Baltic campaign of 1855 may now be con•
sidered at an end, it may not, perhaps, prove un-
interesting to your readers to take a retrospective
view of the past season. Let us first ask what pre-
parations should have been made, founded on the
reports resulting from the experience of the naval
and military commanders in the Baltic during the
season of 1854. To Sir Charles Napier (whose many
faults have made him so deservedly unpopular)
must be given the credit of having recommended the
use of vessels of light draught of water for the purpose
of destroying the enemy's stores and arsenals, such
as mortars, gun-boats, &c. The wiseacres in autho-
rity built what would doubtless have been suffi-
cient for the purpose intended had the Russians
remained inactive during the winter months; but it
has been a too common and unpardonable mistake
throughout the whole of this war to have quite over-
looked what we should have learned by the occur.
rences daily passing under our notice at the theatre
of action, namely, that we have to deal with an un-
tiring and indefatigable enemy, who, as far as his
resources have allowed him, has advanced step by
step with us, who has neglected no opportunity of
meeting new invention by new invention, and who is
not so egregiously foolish as to see preparations
being made to destroy his strongholds, without pre-
paring on his side to resist to the utmost our attacks
from whatever quarter. or by whatever method, they
are attempted. As a proof of this, Admiral Dundas
is sent to the Baltic, and, in the course of time, the
gun-boats and mortar-vessels join him off Cronstadt,
his intention being to force his way to the north side
of that islan4--when, to his astonishment, he found