The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-15 00:00:00

BEA OF AZOFF, &o.

Copies of certain correspondence that has passed
homage the Admiralty and Via► Admiral D. Dandas,
spooling the b °shade of the Boa of Atoll, and the neaten
shores of the Crimea, and the bombardment of Odessa.

(No. 822.)—Copy of a letter from the Secretary to the
Admiralty to Vice-Admiral D. Dandas.
Admiralty, October 13, 1854.
Br,—l am ootareanded by my Lords Commiseionen of ,
the Admiralty, with reference to the operations of the fleet
soder you orders, to call your special and puticalu atten-
tion to the aeoessity of exercising the utmoat vigilance and
care in preventing the movement of craft of all descriptions
proceeding out of the Bay of Kherson and the River
Dniester; and I eat to sigalfy their directioas to you to
take every prismatic, is your power to prevent comninni•
cation with the Crimes from ports in that direction.
Yy Lords are farther of opinion that whenever the means
at your disposal will admit, proper mamma should be
concerted with your °oneness in command of the allied
forces, for obtaining an entrance by the Oalf of Kertch
Into the Sea of Asoff, with a view to interrupt the r.onsain-
siltation, of the enemy with the eastern shores of the
Crimea, to which their Lordahipe have always attached the
greatest importance.
Ia concert, likewise, with your colleague, my Lords con-
sider that no opportuaities should be lost to auk the
attention of the enemy by frequent attacks upon all puts
of the oust, extending from the mouths of the Danube to
the Isthmus of Perekop, and that any proper opportunity
for the bombardment of Odesaa should not be emitted.—l
am, &e., (Signed) W. A. B. Rasmus.

(No. 641).—Bit:sets of a Despatch from Vice-Ad
Banda, to the Secretary of the Admiralty ; dated " Bri-
tannia," off the Hoesch., Oct. 27, 1854.
(Received Nov. 12.)
Bir,—With referents to your letter, No. 622, of the 13th
inst., I beg you will acquaint the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty that the Siam and loilemble, together with
two French steamers of war have been most active • • •
in preventing any force from enuring the Crimea from
Odessa by the Bay of Shensi& • • • I have always
been fully aware of the value of the Sea of Aeoff to the
enemy, and that mild only be attained by the possession of
Kermit. Some weeks ago I urged that 2,000 men should
be embarked for that place; but their Lordships are aware
that, from disease and the action at Alma, oar troops have
suffered great loss, and the French Admiral, when he ap-
plied to his Geaeral for assistance to attack Kertcb, was
told of the impossibility of sending a maa. The last report,
by a neutral, that we have is, that-the navigation through
the straits of Kerteh is entirely primates' by ithe enemy
Making ships and stones ; and, under striating circum-
stances, all I am do is, when I have steamers to spare from
the duty has; to send them off the port, to damage the
enemy as mash as possible.
It is necessary to observe that no troops bars ever pared
by ese Moe from Asap, all p by land through Kutch,
and that the Wasp, which vessel recently arrived from off
Amapa and Soujak, reports that the garrisons of those places
are 8,000 or 10,000 strong, so that without a military form
it is impemible for me to sot.
• • • • •
(Signed) J. W. D. Dmicom.

(No. 671.)—Extract of a letter from Vice-Admiral Dundee
he the Seeretery of the Admiralty ; with enclosure ham
Via-Admiral Hamelin; dated Britannia, off the Reach%
November 8,1864.
(Received November 22.)
Sis,—l beg you will atqaaint the Lads Commissioners
of the Admiralty that on the arrival of the Sphinx, Gladi-
stor, and Stromboli, I prepared a squadron for the purpose
of bombarding Odessa, sad hays obtained the sweat of
Viesi-Admiral Hamelin for the so-operation of the Farah
stain frigate Osage,. already employed off Odessa with
Captain Goldsmith of the Sidon.
2. Yesterday I received from Admiral Hamelin &letter,
of will& I enclose a Dopy, snd I have cosisquently poet-
rasa the bombardment for the present.
• • • • •
I here, Ake.,
(Biased) J. W. D. DOIDAS.

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