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

bead cl the weeded whirs w rue up from the
elm iawards. Fees dewed by teams al
steal were Seim to ania. ekes the used.
whisk Ma real eta the shot% sad at sae plat
a stylieb-lesMag desehq, with its out-eider, dulled
shag at a peso the! wadi sot have dimmest say
mates, tim Sat ever raised the duet ea &Darby
day. The telegraph stadium oar at iMenals of
every Wee or her miles shag the most, sad emit
gmarally of a small round tower, out of whisk a
Mill smaller we rises to a height, in all. of sms
sixty or seventy fit, oa the top of which works the
INlNkaphant. Creeping thee slowly over the glom
see, we at length sighted the low spit et hod as
whisk Lallans stands. about 12 o'elask. and ease
alive earns abreast of the little island of Bergen, in
the math off the antrum to the bay, or like. of the
isms aims. The route freak Odessa to Oteltakeff the
meow this embouchure by a ferry, ale, to cut off the
oesamenisatioe a light detaohmeat ref English sad
Fria& gunboats was kit off the spot. As the die
twee theses to ear peewit aneltmage before the fort
is not numb beyond half-admen miler, a great
rectailaboai is thus thrown upon the enemy, ebeeld
they attempt any movement in this &mhos from
Odom. After a slow voyage of nearly eight hen,
we cast anchor off Ilabera at two p.m. The
wail's pan at whisk the passage had been
made, rendered meths he that day out of the
grouch's, bat it wee micheelsed throughout the ant
that the creeps &sell be landed at dawn of the fol-
===ff =cruise, NM*. @Meek be made immediately
afterwards. Duda; theism* of Sunday seising,
Admiral Stewart, to when the programme of the as-
malt me the leadership of the dying quadrat of
steam frigates, tommemeed his Sag from the Hanni-
bal to the Valorous, awl took op his ondaing-ground
off the extreme and of timbers Spit, with the view
of toadoedeg kb trigs* cased to the inset side of the
bay at day4St en -Monday cursing. The pump
through the narrow ME& between the extremity of
this tongue of sandbank and the opposite point, on
which stand the Castle of Nioolaia and the smell
town of Otehalleff, was made during the night by
some Fran& gunboats, whose commanders carried
their little vessels .ably through a gauntlet of
Ire from the enemy s gene on the sad
balmy, arid salbered them off the earth-
ashen he of the main fort before dawn.
About hall-peat I &sleek as Monday morning the
while dam beep% sanyleg with them cockedpro-
vide* he three- days, were transferred from the
ship mid, smeller yowls provided for
their med. after ocasile dial-
er/Ith emleamesmall mishaps in the shape of a dash-
ing,: eying to the extreme shallowness of the beach,
made geed a foram on the seetny's territory at •
point about St Who below the fort and village of
Lisbon. Is sill*en to the flee regiments of the
live, see battery el artillery, and a small deteshatent
of dragons, a total of four hundred marines wee, as
I have said, matributed from the six liee4l-battle
ships ; which raised our land force to a strength of
aserly live thousand men. For some mem best
karma to themeless the From& were again late is
their mcreemente, their whole faros hay's; lordly left
their ships by the hear at whisk ear sass
had 10161 t and as it was assessary that
additioaal time should be allowed them to throw up
some slight fieldwork. before the attack from the sea
should be bops, I need hardly say that by the time
this peolUnisary labour had been elided the see wes
far down to the heavens. The soesequeses was, that
the ships'. assault was of aseeesity doirrod till Tues-
day morning. In the meantime, about 9 am., the
sad fort had opened its artillery on • French gun-
boat, whose impatient masdwe had *ems within
saws is hie attempt to peas hem the opposite bay to
)sin the lest in the outside making.. The badl
shassiog power of the Freedmen expend him to
several &sharps of the enemy, sad he would pro-
bably have come off a loser by the tea, had
met the Sphyax, Ciptida Wilmot, dashed
elieiril
la lie draw off the Ire. Captsia Maim& s
le Ms vowel to the redone with as anprososesset
whisk IA aothieg to be desired, awl, as igaiefag a
amp et about 500 yards, pitched into the essay
wilt his keg thirty-twos in a manner that Noe called
eff his attendee hem the gunboat. The Russian,
hemmer, was not slow in turning his pietas as
the beget gems, sad made melt decent preise 1
sepshott the Sphyax—kailleg her twice—ghat the
resell was signalled from the flag-ship, and she drew
of eater Ire. Shortly after this prehmiaary
Ospals Spelt, who had been sounding andlie;t:
dein Wye in the Spitfire, returned, and reported to
the shied that a 4 the wowing preparations for
the eat I s of the thre-ef-battle ships had bc3n
sswgisisd. Thelma Lades baftst moos after
Wdisk mass% ad begs. to creep round to
anted satins, at a taw of some two knots
is bum

Abseil 120 p.m. oar own mortar-beats opened
ea the principal fort, from a range of
Mile ' Their pasties we =Wks, the
fray fleet aka kohl pitched into the entre
et the pile el buildings. The Itassians re-
glad without delay, and. to the astonish-
met of everybody, est their heavy shot far beyond
als distant firing point ;but but the aim was bad, and
seas of them ;Sudo the boats. The latter kept up their
Ire far some time, and at each disobarge knocked
timbers, tiles, sad ehesirea recileg aloft into the air
to all points of the amps All this, however, bat
poorly relieved or composted for the irksome impa-
tience with which every woo in oar feet awaited the
order for the large venial te weigh and go in for
their share in the istarteimest.

The subsequent menneesse of Monday give use
little byword. The Irma batteries fired a few
reuse ia callused= with ear mortar-boats, but,
from the distance of their mooring ground, did little
ahead. In the coons of the afternoon, towards
anamt, the village sledded burst into dames, fired
by the Amiens res. From the lest we I
scald see them carrying armfuls of bay and other
eombustibles hate the dimes, and in a minute or two I
sass, they come set, a thick volume of black
smoke rose up and ran cierling alcsg the '
tech of a whole row of dwellings. The wind
sees fanned the lire into throes, sad horn
that hoer until long after midnight—when nearly the '
whole village had ben mimed togarred and smoul-
dering reins--the red lid* rolled sad Maned almost
from ems to sea acmes the Spit. Thee passed sway
Monday mooing and sight : by dawn on Tuesday
wee eT .
morning am gape were again as the ON
is lastly towards dio
p farsignal. Breath,*
wee _ plane dosegbsat best at 7 a.m., and um
gdei that the sigma. to welA and stand
elid as given at 9 ealesit i bat Shoham beer acme
mil want iry without in any way banning tabs of
aserement. As dinner, however, win igeis massed
he 11 slush, it wee still believed that the Week
Mudd be milt in the afteenese, a hips which primed
to be as filmier as myths* boa oostribstod to he
ans ef disappointment ohms ear first day in
Odessa Roads. In die homes of die day a Iteesies
Jew bad hearted from the het teem tamp on ahem
and be gave es for the het hoe seem sslaYs Mier-
nation as to the strength of the gamines sin its pie-
pansies. foe defame. He reported he mobs, of
soldiers to be 1,600, which hue skies peeed to be as be
by only MO, and dmissed that the Wwn
nor, believing that the large ship amid net mem&
the forts within nags. bad reseil get to sorreeder
to the customs and smaller and het seemW
therefore upset them to show pesmms lOC The
Jew isforewd as at the same time that the genie=
ezroted the speedy 'prowls of a *Moog had hese
to its relief.
All this supplied additional reams for
tattoo ; as, bad bad weather come 00, to 11=
Beet farther out to sea, and twenty or thirty Itessises
horse down daring its coodeuenee to the ill 41 the
het, oar we sad the Praia 00 shore Newt ism
bees placed ins most withal situation. Te be enre,
the gunboats sight ham bees able to reeds, mese
meisteass, bet this would have been far to uneertain
to TOM them from very great daapr—to say
pethiag et the tomakearlat dMillficsi whisk most
have beau =primed.
Finally, however, on Wednesday morning, Sir
lidmand eigoallell to Ms fellow-admiral that he ison-
sidered the day to be as in every respect imitable,"
end that be was ready to go in. The hp of Ms
liestebello were seen busy is seensimies&g ordure
he pragmatism to all the Freesh ship. Their &M-
-iss batteries get up steam, sad moved further in,
"fries lirgr palmate whilst Sol
tho dt obits sit haeif