The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-02 00:00:00

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RAILWAY

MADAME TUSSAUD sad SON'S EXHIBI-
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of Derreet, his loyal lihrsies Vr Duke et Omlsrldge. the to
power orl iireele el the hes* r. Varese art inte of
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whelming ere, and, though he made no sign of sur-
render, Admiral Brunt and 1 hlt that a garrison
which had bravely defended itself against so supe-
rior a force deserved every consideration' and we
therefore made the signal to cease firing, hoisted a
flag of truce, and sent on shore a summons, which
was accepted by the Governor, Major-General Koko-
novitcb, and the garrisons, consisting of 1,400 men,
marched out wi the bosom of war, laid down
their arms on the glaeis, sad, having surrendered
themselves as prisoners of war, they will be em-
barked in her Majesty's ship Vahan to-morrow.
The casualties in the alßed Stets are very few,
amounting in her Majesty's ships to only two
wounded. The loss of the essmy in killed and
wounded is, I tear, very severe.
In the three forts, will& have suffered considerably
by our fire, we found eighty-one guns and mortars
mounted, and an sispb supply of ammunition.
This morning the sassy has blown up the forts on
Otchakeff Polak whisk .ousted twenty-two guns,
and we learnt him a Polish demur, who asospad
la • bisilkosa baize the *ION that Ohs aeirt

were subdued by the accurate and well sustained
fire which was poured upon them by the ships
which you had placed to the westward of the Spit,
and by those of our own squadron on passing to
the eastward, this became unnecessary ; the whole
division, therefore, continued its course through the
channel, and anchored well inside Port Nicolaitff and
Otchakoff Point.

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Dunn, this time the four gunboats, Fancy,
Grinder, Boxer, and Clinker, did good service, by
placing themselves in such position u to throw a
flanking fire on the middle battery and Kinburn
Fort at the time our division passed within short
range.
Immediately on anchoring, I transferred my lag
to the Cracker, and, followed by the other gunboats,
ed close off the east front of Kinburn Fort, to
Cready to act as circumstances required, should the
enemy's fire, which at that moment had entirely
owed, be renewed; however, the necessity for fur•
thee action did not arias.
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wirx would not only have destroyed the
fort, but also the neighbouring dwellings.
I have abstained from entering into the particulars
of the proceedings of the squadron under the orders of
Rear-Admiral Sir R. Stewart, as he has so ably de-
scribed them in the letter which I have the honour to
enclose, from which their lordships will perceive that
I have received from him on this occasion, as, indeed,
I have on all others since I have had the good fortune
to have him u second in command, that valuable as-
sistance which might be expected from an officer of his
distinguished and acknowledged merits; and I beg
leave to add my testimony to his in praise of all the
officers, and especially Lieutenant Marryat and Mr.
Stocker, whom he recommends to their lordships'
favourable consideration.
To particularise the merit of the officers under
my command, where all have behaved admi-
rably, would be a difficult task indeed; but I beg
leave to mention that the same officers of the
Navy and the Royal Marine Artillery, who were in
the mortar vessels at the fall of Sebastopol, are in
them now, and that on this occasion. as before, they
have been under the direction of Captain Willcox
of the Odin, and Captain Digby of the Royal Marine
Artillery. Nor can I refrain from stating what I
believe to be the feeling of the whole fleet, that on
this expedition, as on that to Kutch, the talents and
indefatigable exertions of that very valuable officer,
Captain tipratt, of the Spitfire, and of those under
his command, entitle them to oar warmest thanks,
and deserve to be particularly mentioned.
I need hardly say that my distinguished colleague,
Admiral Brunt, and I have men with infinite astir
fusion our respective squadrons acting together as
one fieet.—l am, &c.,
(Signed) EDMUND LYONS,
Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.
The Secretary of the Admiralty.

Wirtriro.minlre;tlian to reeoref my grateful sense ofi
the very satisfactory manner in which the whole of
the ships under my orders took up their appointed
stations, sad of the manner in which all employed
performed their duty.
I think myself fortunate in baying for my tem-
porary flagship so efficient and well ordered a man-
of-war as the Valorous, and I feel much indebted to
Captain Buckle and his zealous First Lieutenant
Joseph Edye, for their unremitting attention and
amistanos.

lam delighted to add, that in conoerting with our
pliant Allies, the arrangements neoessary for carry-
ing into effect the present succeisful operations, I
have received the cordial support and concurrence of
my excellent colleague, Rear Admiral Odet Pellion.
The anxiety which you yourself ever feel to do full
judos to merit and exertion mast be my excites for
presuming to request your most favourable notice of
Lieutenant Muryat and Mr. Brooker. They have
had anxious, difficult, and dangerous work to per-
form, and they have each of them executed it admi-
rably.—l have, dec.,
(Signed) HOULSTON STEWART,
. 1 1

Rear-Admiral BM Edmond Lyons,
Bart., lee. &e., G.C.B.

Valorous, in Doieper Bay, Oct. 18. ,
Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that, in ,
pursuance of your orders, I hoisted my flag in her
Majesty's steam frigate Velurous on the afternoon of
the 14th instant, immediately after the arrival of the
allied fleets off Hinburn Spit, and proceeded, under
the able guidance of Captain Spratt, of the Spitfire,
to take up positions at the entrance of Dnieper Bay,
where, with the division of steam vessels placed
under my orders (as per margin),* and in company
with those wader the maim of ay esUsegue, Rear-
Admiral Odet Pillion, we remained in readiness to
force an eutrasos into the Dnieper for the purpose
directed by you of preventing,.as far as possible, any
reinforcements being thrown into the forts on Kin-
burn Spit, as well as to cut off the retreat of the gar-
rison, should either be attempted.
At 9 F.M. I instructed Lieutenant Joseph H. Mar-
ryat, of the Cracker, to take on board Mr. Edward
W. Booker, additional Master of the Spitfire, and
endeavour with him to determine the course of the
istricate channel through which we were to pass, and
Sio lay down buoys along the south side of it ; the
French having undertaken to perform the same
Wks on the north side.
I likewise directed Mr. Thomas Potter, Master of
Nis Furious (lent to do duty in the Valorous), to
with two boats of the Tribune,and, protected
the search for the spit on the north
bank, and on his return endeavour to place a
buoy on the edge of the shoal off Kinburn Spit,
that the entranoe of the channel might be assured.
As soon as the precoacerted signal was given, indi-
cating that this operation was effected, I despatched
the Fancy, Boxer, and Clinker, into Dnieper Bay,
with orders to anchor in such position as would best
point the right flank of our troops, upon the
disembarkation taking place, and to make that their
chief care, as long as there was any possibility of the
seamy threatening them.
During the night, Rear-Admiral (Met Pellion
also sent in the French gunboats for the same
purpose.
At daylight on the following morning I had the
satisfaction of observing all the gunboats, French
mid English, anchored safely to the north-eut of
/Lisburn Fort, and without any of them having
=stained damage, although the enemy had fired both
shot and shell and musketry at them during their
pelage io. Thus the chief part of the object you had
most anxiously in view wu accomplished.
While still in considerable doubt as to the extent
te which the channel for the larger ships was buoyed,
at 10 a.m. Lieutenant Marryat and Mr. Brooker cams
Is inform me that the work entrusted to them had
been completed, and that the latter officer we. ready
Is pilot the 'hips in. The sealous desire evinced by
Am aims le furnish me personally with their re-
port ea the dilleult navigation of theDnisperdeserves
mawarmest Masks, and the gallant manner in which
ant Marriat brought the Cr... out for that
purpose, under a very heavy fire from the whole of
the farts and batteries, elicited the admiration of all
who witnessed the proceeding.
We were now fully prepared to advance, and, in
obedience to your directions, awaited the signal for
general attack.
The whole of the proceedings of yesterday must be
already fully known to you; bat it is right that I
should state briefly the share taken in them by the
division you did me the honour to pleas under my
orders, which consisted of the ships and vessels as
already stated, reinforced by those named below.
It being necessary to advance in single line, it was
arranged that the ships should do so in the following
order:
Valorous—Captain C. H. M. Buckle, C. 8., bearing my
flag.
Fumes—Captain William Loring. C.B.
Asmodte (French), bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral
Odet halloo.
Cacique (French).
Sidon—Captain George Goldsmith.
Leopard—Ca Lain George Gifford, C.B.
Sane (French).
4'ator—Captain C. F.
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Stromboli—COesetander Cowper
Spiteful—Commander F. A. Shalt.
At coca, the signal being made from your flagship
to weigh, we proceeded through the channel, each
shy 'laming the Spit Worms sad Lisburn Fact
as they mate within range.
To Liwaftut.t Marryat, of the Cracker, is dye the
veardlog and piloting me through, which he
did Watt great judgment.
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'batteries, the Sidon, Leopard, Sank, and Gladiator,
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dell, and plateaux, dotted all aloe
wasted hamlets, green-domed al
mills, and villas of the Odessa g
4 pm., we entered the Roads, I
at various distances—the shortest
three miles and a half—from the h
sighting Caps Fontana we had seen
on that point vigorously telegraphing
and long before the ships had taken
lap, crowds of the townspeople thrc
line of the boulevard facing the sea, a
whence a good view of the fleet could
posing as the spectacle must have b
posed to think that there must also ha'
alloy of anxiety in the enjoyment of t
for nearly as far over the sea as the ey
were scattered the ships of the allied

never before floated in Odessa Roads.
fleet the excitement was great—
everybody did, that the town
object of attack and many I
was cracked at the expense o
beauties who could be seen radiant in
nets and millinery, promenading by
along the beach, or on the shaded b
Later in the afternoon, the Spitfire,
was despatched to take soundings i
Otchakoff; from which it was We
many," that Kinburn Fort was to be c
we had polished off Odessa, nobody
for a moment that our vast armat
brought to these waters against the
alone. Whatever might be the ere
respects of the arrangements made
mirals, they took care to shroud the
secresy at all events; for, though
effort to collect every scrap of intelli
in circulation, I was unable to lean
captains of the line-of-battle ships I
for certain, either as to the tim
attack. On Tuesday forenoon the S
(FROM Oillt OWN CORRESPONDENT.) having completed her ~,,,,,, and I
OFF KINBURN, Ocr 18. the largest ships could approach with
After two postponements of the day of ailing, yards of the fort. Ward-room gaud
those of the men-of-war and transports that had that the expedition would weigh an
embarked men, or materiel, at Balaklava, steamed over to Kinburn Point—about thirty.
round and joined the main body of the fleet in from Odessa—during the night, se
Hazateh Bay, on the afternoon of Saturday the 6th. troops by earliest dawn, and complel
Finally, about noon on the following day the whole the place and i:s garrison in one da:
weighed anchor, in company with the French however, again interposed to favor
squadros, and stood out to sea towards the north- for about 4 p.m., on Tuesday, • Iles
west. Up till then no one, except the captains of in, and, deepening as night drew
the various ships, knew anything of our destination; whole face of the sea with such a vs
but an hour or two later, the secret gradually leaked seldom to be met with five miles ft
oat that the point of rendezvous was four miles south- Half-an-hour or so after the first fleet
east of Odense. Though this settled the point uto blinding abomination had begun to a
Eupatoria—which rumour had mentioned as one of the water, the Agamemnon loomed
the three locales from, or against, which the force sea spectre, from the coast of Cilo4l
WWI to operate—it still left speculative subalterns her position near the flag-ship; but
room for betting on Odessa or Nicolaieff, not both she and every other vessel in
to mention the minor point of Hiatus Fort, which vanished into sooty nothingness, ani
had been mooted much later than either of the other till the following afternoon.
three as the probable object of attack ; and, woad- Evening again came on, but as th
ingly, " odds" were still given and taken as to which tinned low, the admirals gave no
of these two was to receive our visit. Before pro- ment ; and Thursday morning day
ceeding, however, to trace the further incidents of people of Odessa without bringing
the voyage hither, I may be permitted to correct and the presence of their foes. Then fo
add to the statement of the expedition's strength con- noon of rough weather, with rath
tared in my last, and necessarily hurried, letter from from the south-west, and as this,
the camp. When your readers reflect for a moment would render a landing on K.inbui
on the difficulty of any one individual's procuring doable, the flag-ships still remained
detailed information about a matter the particulars of day morning, however, the wind Tee
which were very properly kept secret from all but signal ordering the light squadron
the few big-wigs ashore and afloat, they will, I am and gunboats to weigh at noon,
sure, hold me guiltless of neglect, or wilful inset- rise of spirits; but noon passed aws
curacy, in giving so meagre and faulty a statement countermanded, and the sun went di
of the form to be employed, as was contained in that behind the domes and steeples of (
brief and hasty despatch. Unfortunately, a newspaper vessel having left her moorings.
correspondent is fettered by the same one-in-a-place whole of Saturday the weather was e
physical laws which control everybody else; and being sea hardly ruffled by a breath of wit
so unblessed with a power of übiquity, he cannot there was much signalling and count
garner in all the floating scraps of news which are oppressive ennui of our five day.
necessary to make a complete chronicle of the events wearisome expectation was doom
happening, or to happen, around him. Compelled unrelieved by any movement e
of necessity, too, to draw much of his information the greater part of a week we hi
from others, however careful he may be in sifting the same anchorage—why, nobody
fact from fiction, he can never guarantee the absolute our presence had in the meantime b
authenticity of every item he may record. So in the all along the north-eastern ooast
present instance: before closing my last letter from Nicolaieff, and kberson was, of con
Sebastopol, I did my utmost to ascertain all the certainty, es equally was the fact tt
known particulars both as to the force to be em- the time was being employed by U
played, and its destination, but—as the corrections three of these points, to give ns a
now to be given will show—with only partial sue- when and before whichever of the
ems. An hoar after ay latter had been despatched. Some feeble advocates of the dela]
I learned fuller and more accurate particulars, but as this strange inactivity, on the grout
the mail bags had been closed I was unable to for- deceive the Russians into the be'
ward them by the same post. oome against Odessa only, and thus
Having said this much by way of apology for the gather into it all their available trot
shortcomings of my last letter, I now give a car- of toast; but those who knew more
rooted, and, I believe, accurate, list of the military did, that • mere trick—if it were on
sad naval forces composing the expedition. Of land to blind the eyes of our oppo
troops, we supply five regiments, the 17th, 20th, however it might be intends
21st, 87th, and 63rd, forming the first brigade of the of time was in reality the greatest fi
Fourth Division, with one battery of field artillery, them next to weighing anchor
and 1,200 marines-800 of them from Balaklava and Itamiesch. It had, I believe, been t
the rest from the fieet—beaidss an adequate proper- tion of the expedition to surprif
Lion of land transport for the whole. Brigadier point to be attacked ; but whatever
Spencer, as I Dave before mentioned, is in command. have been hoped for from this, it hi
To this, the French contribute an additional force of become impossible, as all that men
about 3,500 men, under General Benin*, who con- an enemy would Dave been execute
mends in chief. Of ships, we furnish six screw line- in the meantime. On Saturday c
of-battle ships—the Royal Albert, St. Jean d'Acre, all minds were at length taken of
Agamemnon, Algiers, Hannibal, and Princess Royal; of suspense and expectation by the
thirteen steam frigates (or sloops), ten gunboats, ing orders for Sunday at daylil
five rocket-boats, and six mortar-boats, besides a go- having given up the intention of a
tills of transport' laden with war materiel. Our in the grey of the morning as they I
allies add four lift-at-barrio ships, nearly a score of on. Accordingly, at 6 a.m. on Sun
gun and mortar boats, and three heavy floating word all through the flee
bat-
was
levies—the whole allied Beet thus numbering of all that hour the vast flotilla got under
the
sign, from three-deckers to rocket-boats, about 90
slowly out of the Roads. The tardie
vessels. This may, I think, be relied upon as an men again acted as a drag-weight
accurate statement of the land and sea kraal for though steaming at led, than he
which compose the expedition; aad you will admit were compelled to stop altogether e
them to be sufficient for operations of no mean dill!-
yards, to avoid leaving the Montebel
culty and importance. What they have as yet junks far behind. Owing to this
achieved may be learned from the sequel. long before the steeples of the "
Owing to the inferior horse-power of the French faded out of view ; and, when the 4
liners, our vessels proceeded at little more this half reached a point from which the eye
speed, and it was therefore nearly one o'clock in the distinguish individual buildings, as
afternoon of Monday before we sighted Cape Fontana morning sunlight as ever fell fro
—about fifteen miles to the south-east of Odessa. As bathed and beautified the whole.
the fleet slowly approached this long line of very slowly along, at an avenge distal
picturesque and apparently well-cultivated oust, we miles from the high plasm' which
could make oat many &knot of anxious gazers crowd- nearly all the way from Odessa, th
ing along the show, to lOW the vast armada of their agaia at work, heralding our ap;
toes. Humble cottages, sad PratO:itione chateau:, tresses ahead. Along this owls
all slate poured forth their iliaitts to *look abroad which lay between Cape Fontes
epos the beautiful, though hostile, sight. From this Odessa, were to be seen pretty con
PAW:a to Odessa, the wait is a succession of wooded log alone or in groups, and viii