The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-20 00:00:00

THE CRIMEA.

MARSEILLES, SATURDAY APTIRROON.
The Louqsor has arrived with news from Con-
stantinople of the 9th.
The works of the allies before the Malakhoff Tower
were almost completed when the courier left Ks-
miesch. The number of mortars had bees quintupled,
and the preparations were on the same formidable
scale.

The allied troops on the Tchernaya are on the qui
vine, daily expecting an attack. The scurvy has very
much diminished in the camps.
Omer Pacha goes back to the Crimea. He will
previously be solemnly invested by Lord Stratford de
Redcliffe with the Order of the Bath.

General Melinkoff is to replace General Totleben
as Directing Engineer in the defence of Sebastopol.

The Prom el' Orissa states that Prince Gortchalcoff
is recalled, to undertake the Ministry of War, and
that General Muravieff will succeed to the command
of the Russian forces in the Crimea. The latter
general will be succeeded in Asia by General Luders,
Count Osten•Sacken taking command of the troops in
Bessarabia.

The garrison of Erzeroum has been reinforced. The
Russians blockade Kars, bet do not attack the place.
The Kards in Russian pay intercept the roads to
Kam General. Vivian's Contingent was to leave Con-
stantinople for Asia on the 20th inst.

The Porte has sent three regiments to Tripoli to
uphold the authority of the Bey.

M. Dupin, sea., is about to bring oat a second
volume of his " Memoirs."

A very curious and highly interesting volume of '
the works of the late Madame Giserdin is about to be pub-
lished.

The mother of M. Rise Rome (Minister of Spain at
the outbreak of the last revolutloe) has died at Madrid from
cholera.

The Paris correspondent of the Independance Beige
roaches for the accuracy of the following aaeodote :—" At
Peictiers, fire days since, an octogenarian, possessing a for-
tune of 600,000 fr., and without heirs, caned Dumas's
"Moan Chrbto" to be read to him during an Illness. The
work charmed him. H. made enquiries about the author,
and learned that be had onee possessed, at St. Germain, in I
Lay*, a property to which he had given the name of his ro
manse, bat which einusastanses had obliged him to dispose et.
Without wing to ben more, the Invalid took a pea and
thus wrote to the prolific novelist : ' flir, lam old; I an ill ;
I us 'moderately rieh. Your 'Keen Christ,' has lately
boos read to me, and has geestly contributed to dieripate
geyetarai, mid Mania ay salawhige. Having as children,
and being likely to he, ere leaf. sand Imes, anon do
Win that lane pen of my forts.* to ea esther, to *boa
I ewe se mss►. I divide my fasten the* late two pens,
riving oat to the poor of Pointers, sad the ether to you.
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Duns heeltatedls believe to the mathentinty of this letter,
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THE BOMBARDMENT OF

SWEABORG.

DESPATCH FROM ADMIRAL PENAUD.
ON BOARD THE TOURVILLE, OFF
SWEABORO, Allover 11.

Monsieur le Ministre,—As I had the honour of
informing your Excellency in my letter of the 7th of
this month, Rear-Admiral Dundu and myself on

Monday last presented ourselves before Sweaborg,
with the combined squadron, intending to bombard
that place. On the Bth, at half-past seven in the
morning, six English bomb•ketches, each carrying
one mortar ; five French bomb-ketches, curing two
mortars; and a siege battery of four mortars of 27
centimetres, which during the six hours of darkneu
in the preceding nights I had placed on the islet of
Abraham at 2,000 metres from the place, opened
their fire against Sweaborg.
I am happy to report that this operation his been
perfectly successful ; it is not a mere cannonade that
the squadrons have directed upon Sweaborg.—it has
been areal bombardment, the serious results of which
have surpassed all my expectations.
In less than three hours after we began firing
bombe, we could perceive how considerable were the
ravages they were creating in the fortress. Nume-
rous conflagrations broke out rapidly on several points
at once, and we soon saw the flames rise above the
dome of the church situated is the northern part of the
isle East Swarto. This church was, so to speak, the
sole monument which seems to have been entirely
respected on the isles of Vargo and Swartii by our
projectiles. Four terrible explosions were speedily
heard ; the fire had reached magazines filled with gun-
powder and munitions of war. The two last explosions
especially were formidable ; they must have caused
the enemy enormous losses both in men and materiel.'
For several minutes we heard t►e detonations of the
bombs and shells, which covered the sea-board with
fragments of every description.
The bombardment ceased this morning at half-put
four ; it consequently listed two days and two nights,
during which period Sweaborg presented one vut
expanse of flame. The fire, which still continues to
rage, has nearly devoured the whole place and con-
sumed workshops, magazines, barracks, various
establishments belonging to the government, and a
great quantity of the materials of the arsenal.
The firing of our mortars and howitzers was so
true that the enemy, fearful of seeing the three-
decker which had been anchaed across the pass be-
tween Sweaborg and the island of Back-Holmen
entirely burned, withdrew that vessel into the har-
bour during the night.

The Russians have sustained a considerable check
and losses, the more sensible in that they have in-
flicted on us only the loss of one single English
seaman killed and a few slightly wounded. The
enemy's forts nevertheless replied vigorously to our
attack ; their fire slackened only at the instant of the
explosions I have mentioned ; but the precision
of our pieces of long range gave us an incontestable
superiority over that of the Russians.
Every man in the division has done his duty with
devotion, ardour, and courage. The spirit of the
crews has been admirable ; they have deserved well
of the Emperor and France.
I am extremely satisfied with the means of action
placed at my disposal. The bomb-ketches and gun-
boats rendered immense service; they perfectly
come up to all that WAS expected of these vessels.
The siege battery has produced most excellent re-
sults, and we may say that our best shots were fired
from one of the enemy's islets, on which we had
planted the French flag.
In this affair, as oil all occasions, since our flags
have been united, Rear-Admiral Dandu and myself
have acted with unanimity. The example of the
perfect understanding that subsists between the chiefs
has had the best effect on the crews in both squadron*,
who in truth formed only one crew daring the action.
Everyone had but a single object, that of Tieing who
should do the utmost possible injury to the enemy,
and the success obtained by a ship of either nation
wu applauded by the other with the same cries of
enthusiasm, as if they had been obtained by his own'
flag.
There can be no doubt, Monsieur le Ministre, that
the bombardment of Sweaborg will exercise great in-
fluence on the Russian populations, who are now
aware that their strongholds and arsenals are not com-
pletely sheltered from the attacks of the allied navies,
which can, and henceforth may, well trust to their
being able to visit with destruction the enemy's shores,
without receiving themselves any sensible injury.
In sending to you a circumstantial report of this

affair, Monsieur is Ministre, I shall have the honour
of addressing to you a demand for rewards to those
officers, seamen, and marines that moat distinguished
themselves in the combat.

I am, &c., the Rear-Admiral commanding in chief
the naval division of the Baltic, PRNAUD.

HAMBURG, AUGUST 15, Evorixo.

Three French gunboats, the Salve, Sainte Barbe,
and Arquebuae, have just entered the port of Cux-
haven.