The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-26 00:00:00

THE PANIC AT ODESSA. ON THE ARRIVAL OF

TILE FLEET.

ODESSA, Oc-r. 8.
Four o'clock, p.m.—The flnt brigade of the 15th
Reserve Infantry Division has just entered the town
in long columns. They sre the regiments Lublin
and &mesa The men ere evidently quite exhausted
from their long march, and covered with dust from
head to foot. In marching through the streets some
of the men fall down from over-fatigue. They are
carried into the houses by the citizens and kindly
treated. An endless train of artillery follows, mag-
nificently honed. It is a beautiful sight. These
troops all come from the camp of the army of reserve
at NicolaitfE The intelligence of the approach of the
enemy's armada was telegraphed to the Emperor at
midnight. From the telegraph station on the villa of
General LiLlers more ships are sten approaching.
They appear to be in the 6111110 place u they were
the lest time.

Five o'clock.—A whole forest of masts is now
visible in the offiog. They appear to be sailing in
great order, and with admirable regularity. A vast
co.nmn of black smoke envelopes the horizon. With
a good glass one can distinguish them, and make
out plainly that they are of a large size. I counted
42, hut others are every moment corning into sight
round the point of the mountain and promontory of
Laogeron. In the meantime the regiments of Hussars
Count Radetzky, and Prince of Hesse-Cassel, belong-
ing to the 3rd Light Cavalry Diviwoo, are marching
through the streets in full uniform, and with their
bands playing at their head. They are going to the
great fountain on the square.
Bix o'olock.—There are now 76 sail in sight, and
every moment others round the promontory. A
panto has prized the inhabitants. All the street.
are regularly blocked up with carriages, carts, and
waggons of every description, into which the more
valuable furniture and goods and chattels of the in-
habitants are being packed as quickly as possible.
The general cry is Sauce qai pout, whilst at the cor-
ners of streets people gatner together in little knots
to communicate and learn in breathless anxiety and
with hurried wt.rds what each has to say. Some
state that the expedition is destined to operate
against the neighbouring town of Otchakoff, and that
the fleet is about to force the passage of the Dnieper,
and disembark an army there to march by land
towards ICherson and Perekop. Others pretend to
know the exact number of troops on board, which
they state to consist of 20,000 Turks and 33,000
French. Again, others know tor a positive certainty
that the object of the expedition is exclusively the
bombardment of this city. In the meantime the
hostile fleet has gradually approached and archored
at a distance of five wersts (three miles) from the
shore.

Seven o'clock.—The Emperor's Adjatant•Genersl,
General Lfiders, has just arrived from Nicolaieff.
Accompanied by the former ambassador at Constanti-
nople, Von Ozeroff, he is inspecting the troops at their
different stations, and is every where received with
load acclamations.

Eight o'clock.—The sea is envylc.ped in perfect
darkness. The enemy's ships have hoisted lanterns,
which at a distance have the appearance of stars,
serve to show their position.

Ocr. 9.

The night passed off with tranquillity. Dome
people assert they heard guns fired in the night,
and counted 40 reports. It might be their imagina-
tion, or it is possible they were signal guns. This
morning at sunrise three guns were fired on board the
fleet. No change is perceptible in their position
since last night. Four new 24-pounders have been
mounted this morning in the battery No. bithe em.
brasures widened, and the parapet heightened with
fresh earth to the extent of a couple of feet. All
this work has been executed by the soldiers. Behind
the Boulevard are several battalions destined to de-
fend the battery. They are seated on the ground so
as not to be seen, nor exposed to noneoessary danger.
In the meantime the panic of the inhabitants appears
to have reached its climax. Eierybody is making
hurried preparations to get away. Money is in
such demand that the counting houses of the
money-changers are beleaguered, and the agio
of metallio currency, which was yesterday at par,
has suddenly then to 20 per cent. The bakers
shops are beset by the people, who vehemently call
for bread, the price of which has risen to three times
its usual value. The most fabulous sums are wil-
lingly paid for the use of the most common waggon
and horses to convey the fainilies to a piece of satety.
Whilst all sorts of vehicles are quitting the town
loaded with children, furniture, bedding, and cook-
ing utensils, long convoys of ammunition waggons,
heavy artillery, baggage, military storm, and troops
—both cavalry and taantry--are pouring into the
town every moment, blocking up the streets, and
preventing the escape of the frightened inhabitants.
Sock jostlMg, contessioe, and noise on all aides!
Verily at this moment Odessa presents such a scene
of disorder and tear as must have been witnessed at
the Tower of Babel.

MARCH OF THE CUIRASSIERS OF THE GUARD
TO THE 13011TH.
WARSAW. Ocr. 20.
Great astoolahmeot has been expressed in our
military circles that hitherto nose of the regimen's
of the Guards have taken as settee part in the war
in the Crimea; bat at length the moment appears to
have arrived far them to have an oppuruioirr of
measuring their Mete with the sootily. The,division
of the Caiisteiere of the Inertial Omani, hitherto

quartered here and in other parts of Poland, have put
themselves in motion, and are gone to the south.
They are to be replaced by the brigade of Lancers
belonging to the second Light Cavalry division, under
General 24ielnikoff, now in cantonments in the go-
vernment of Lublin. In the entire kingdom of Po-
land there are now only four regiments of regular
cavalry of the above-named division, and in the
neighbouring province of Lithuania is quartered a
similar division of the reserve cavalry corps, under
Lieut.-General 6: ilawald, with its head-quarters at
Slonim.
The division of Guards that has left us has taken
the direo•ion of Kiew, and it is unknown whether
on its arrival there it will form a part of the army of
the centre, or be seat on without delay to the seat
of war. These are the first regiments of Guards that
have marched to the south, consequently the state-
ment that has appeared in certain newspapers of two
regiments of the cavalry of the Guard having been
already employed in the Crimea is devoid of truth.
Although the Russians have sot hitherto bad any
Cuirassiers at the theatre of war, it is considered here
cot improbable that the destination of these Cuiras-
siers of the Guard is to oppose the French Cuirassiers.
The Russian cavalry now in the Crimea is more than
double the number of that of the Allied army.
It is stated that General Korff is to be brought by-
fore a court. martial for the defeat he suffered on
Michaelmas-day at Koughill, near Eupatoris, as it is
alleged he was greatly to blame in neglectirg to
station his out-posts in time. Lieutenant-General
Prince Radziwill has succeeded General Korff in the
command of the Light Cavalry in the Crimes.
With regard to the corps of Grenadiers, which has
been pushing on to the south, but has not yet been in
action, we learn by the latest reports that they had
arrived at Perekop, where they were halting for the
present. whilst their advanced posts were even a
few miles month. As it is well known here that only
two divisions of these crack troops have been sent
to the seat of war, and as each division con-
sists of (our regiments (each regiment three
battalions, and each battalion on the war-footing,
1,000 men), we can put down their force at 24,000.
Adding to these about 6,000 more for artillery,
Cossacks, and other troops in garrison at Perekop,
we shall not be far from the truth in estimating the
entire force at Perekop at about 30,000 men. It is
therefore fortunate for Prince Gortchakoff that his
rear is defended by such a large body of the Em-
peror's (said to be) best troops, which, under the
present circumstances, are more than sufficient to
check any force that the Allies can land at Kinburn
to attack Perekop from the north. This knowledge
may, perhaps, explain the otherwise extraordinary
tactics of Prince Gortchakoff, in not taking active
measures to cover his lane of retreat, when he is fully
aware—and has himself telegraphed the fact—that
the Allies have organised a general concentric advance
on his centre and both flanks, to oblige him to fall
back on Perekop.

DR. KANE'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

The last mail from New York brought intelligence
of the safety of Dr. Kane, who in May, 1853, sailed in com-
mand of en expedition fitted out at the cost of Mr. Grinnell,
of New York, and Mr. George Peabody, of London, in
search of Sr John Franklin. Considerable apprehensions
bud been eavertained regarding his fate, and several months
back some Government vessels wire despatched in the hope
of meetieg with him. The follou lug letter, containing the
first announcement of his explorations, reached London yes-
terday afternoon :
" Godhavn, North Greenland, Sept. 12.

"My dear Sir,—l have only time to report to you the
safe arrival of our party at Godhava, whence we have taken
passage to England in the Danish brig Mariana.
" The explorations of our party embraced the entire
shores of Smith's Sound, and a new channel expanding from
its north eastern curve into an open Polar sea. This great
wetercourse embraced an area of 3,000 square miles cntwely
free from ice. It washed • bold and mountainous coast,
which has been chartered as high as let. 82.30.
. .

" Smith's Sound terosiaatcs- in an extensive bay, which
bears your name, and the coast of Greenland, after being
followed unt;l it faced the nortn, was found cemented to the
continent of America by a stupendous glacier which checked
our further progress towards the Atlantic.
" Throughout thi, long extent of new coast, the re 'tat of
much hard travel and exposure, I have found no tracts of
the lost party whose search instigated your own connexion
with out eapvtlition.
" The past two winters exceeded in ity any that have
before been recorded. Both scurvy and lacked jaw em-
barrassed our efficiency, and our doge, to the number of
57, peristod of this latter scourge. A 131110 of 81 inqes of
solid ice interposed between us and t►e nearest water, and
to have remained • third winter would have proved fatal.
"On the 17th of May, with a carefully matured organi-
zation of boats and sledges, I abandoned the brig and c:ta-
meowed our journey over the floes. We supplied ourselves
with animal food entirely by our guns, rod transported our
sick in separate sledges. Atter a travel of 1,300 miles, and
an exposure in open air of 84 days, we reached Upernavik
in health and safety.

" It is right that while announcing our own restoration
to the world I should mention the death of three of our
party. These brave men pedaled in the direct discharge
of the duties of search, and are entitled to the grateful re-
collection of their comrades and commander.