The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-22 00:00:00

FRENCH OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.

Yesterday's ifonueur contains the following de-
spatches, is which Admiral Brost narrates the facts
attending the surrender of /Unbars to the Allied
Bests :

The folinktor of Marino has received from Admiral
Bract the following despatches:

I' IEIIMMIX, Om. 17.
" The fort of Kinburn and the new works erected
on this peninsula are in our power. Our lose is un-
important.

I, KINBURN, Oar. 17.

"On the morning of the 14th of October the
squadron left the roadstead of Odom as soon as the
heavy easterly winds, which had checked their op.-
rations since the Bth of October, had ceased. In the
evening of the same day they anchored off /Unbars.
"In the night four French gonboate—the Tina-
lens., Strident., Meurtriere, and Matins—sent by
_ _

Rear-Admiral Ballots, under the orders of Lint.
Alientand, of the Cacique, tailed with five English
gunboats through the pad of Otoohakow, and entered
the Dnieper.
" The next day, 0ct.15, at day-break, the troops
___ _ _

wen landed at :boat 4,500 metres-from the place io
the south of it. In the aftranonn the bomb-ketehee
opened their fire; but they were obliged to suspend
it when night fell, on account of the swell, which
rendered the aim uncertain.

"The satire day of the 16th was nearly lost for us,

as the winds WA veered round to the south-west.
no troops were occupied in entrenching themselves
and making recannaimeanoes towards the south. The
gunboats in the Dnieper were alone able to annoy
the place.

"The wind having shifted to the north daring the
night, we were engaged early in the morning,
Admiral Lyons and myseU, in causing to be put
into execution the plan of attack arranged on the
previous evening, agreeably to the soundings taken
by Captain Bpratt, of the Spitfire, and Lieutenant
Close, of the Brandon, assisted by Messrs. Ploix and
Manes, hydrographk engineers. At 20 minutes
pest 9 the three floating batteries, the Devastation,
Lave, and Tosnants, opened their the.
" The sowed they obtained on this day hes an.
awned all the hopes of the Emperor. The rampart'
they battered presented very speedily and on several
points predicable breaches.

. -
"The French and English mortar vessels opened
their fire at 46 minutes peat 9. Their aim, rectified
by the signals of the paddle steamer, was most ad-
mirably directed. I attribute to them in a great
measure the quick surrender of the plane.
"The five French gunboats, the Greaade, niche
Flamm, and Alarm*, sustained by six
English gunboats, took up their positions nearly at
the same time as the mortar vessels. Their aim
riooehetted very advantageously the open batteries
(a baraate), which were contending against the
floating lanais..
" Aa soon as the firing of the place had slackened,

our gunboat' advaneed;at the signal given by the
Captain of the Grenade, M. Janregniberry, to the
line formed by the floating battering. They were
accompanied in this movement by the English gun-
boats.

,4 Precisely at •oos, the ship. followed by the hi-

gates, carveUm and paddle.stiamers, got tip steam.
The ships famed on a front line; they oast anchor
and lay with their broadsides to the forts at • die.
tunas of 1,600 metres in 261 feet of water. At the
same moment, six English frigates commanded by
Rear-Admiral Stewartand three French frigates under
the orders of Rear-Admiral Pillion, the Aemodhe,
Cacique, and Sankmade foe the pus of Otschakow in
order to take the forts of Lisburn in the rear. The
English ship, the Hannibal, advanced to the middle
of this pass. Generals Bauble and Spencer brought
up their riflemen sad field-pieces to about 400 metres
from the place.
" These bold manouvres and the imposing front
presented by the nine French and English ships,
broadsides on and bowsprit to stern, thundering with
all their guns, had a decisive effect. At thirty-live
minutes poet one, observing that the fort of 'Unborn
fired no longer, although the northern works con-
tinued still to make use of their mortars, Admiral
Lyons and myself thought it right to respect the
courage of the heave Mows we were fighting
spinet ; etmarquently we made the signal to cease
firing, and hoisted the flag of trace, sending a French
boat and an English one on shore.
"The forts •eespted the capitulation offered. The
garrison left the place with the honours of war and
gave themselves up a prisoners. Our troops occupy
all the Russian works.

"Tile capitalatioa stipslated that the plass should be

given up to us in the state it was then in. We take
possession, therefore, of the enemy's stores and maul-
dons. Admiral Lyons and myself are sending the
surgeons of the two squadrons to tend the Russian
wounded, numbering about eighty.
"The number of prisoners is from twelve to fifteen
hundred. We are going to occupy ourselves with
forming hare a solid establishment."

The following telegraphio menage has been re-
ceived from Itear-Admiral Sir E. Lyons :

" Off the Mouth of the Dnieper, Oct. 17.

"The three forts in the /Unbars ipit, mounting
upwards et 70 guns, and garrisoned by 1,300 men,
sada. Cameral Konowiteh, have this day capitulated
to the Allied forms.

The day before yesterday a flotilla of gun-
rem& forced the entrance into the Dnieper, and
the Allied troops landed on the spit to the south-
ward of the forts; thus, by their simultaneous opera-
Lion, the retreat of the garrisons and the arrival of

rehrioreemesta were effectually ant off, so that tire
forts being bombarded to-day by the mortar-reside,

gen-vemals, and French floating batteries, and being
closely cannonaded by the steam line of battle ships
and frigates (haring only two fest of water under
their keels), wen soon obliged to surrender. The
manalties in the fleet were very few. bet the enemy
had 46 killed and 130 wounded. A Mama squadron,
under the orders of Rear-Admirals Stewart sad
Mims, lie at anchor in the Dnieper, and command
the entrance to Nicolaieff and Kilauea.

The forte are occupied by the Allied troops.
The Osamu will be oat to Constantinople ham-
diatelp

OP KINBURN.

Yesterday's Mandator eanteise the fellewiag
" The waters of the Hog wad the Dnieper debeaeh
fate the ese by a single blush. After forming a
lake, when they bleed, the two riven Bow together,
between Oteettakow an the aorth, sad /Unbent en the
math, *magi a sorrow shame' of variable depth,

(18 feat the minimum), mach nearer Linbarn than
Otoehakow.

" Oteekakow, on the right shore, to built on the top
of a eliff of middling height, adrandeg is an mate
angle straight to the south, and throwing oat a low
fiat as which rises a fort of Genoese origin, in a
very dilapidated state. A battery of nine guns of
large calibre, recently erected on the eliff outside the
&easel, taking it in enfilade, but at a long range, com-
pletes the defames of this side, without pemenfieg any
serious obstacles.

It is on the left shore, on the tongue of and
formed by the alluvial deposits of the two rivers, that
the citadel of Kinburn is built, oommandieg the
passage much nearer, as its guns act both outside and
inside, constituting in a word the sole defence of the
mouth of the Dnieper.
di The citadel of /Coburn is a hornwork of 'meow!,
with earthen parapets, surrounded by a moat where-
ever it is not washed by the sea, containing barracks
and other buildings, the reefs and chimneys of which
are visible above the rampart. It is armed in all its
faces, having one tier of guns covered and ossemated,
which tier is crowned by a battery a barbette, the
whole possibly presenting some sixty guns, half of
which sweep the sea outside, from the south-east to

" Kinburn has the war-flag always flying, the sign
of armament, and contains a garrison of two thousand
men, not including the military colonists settled out-
side, in a village regularly built, to the south, and
within range of the hat guns. Two fresh batteries
were lately erected to the north-west of the fortress."