The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

THE DESTINATION OF THE ALLIED
FLEETS.

♦IENNA, Oct. 9.

Intelligence has been received here that the secret
expediting of the allied fleets is destined for the
Liman of the Dnieper, a bay or estuary of which but
little is known. The entrains is guarded by the
towns of Otacbakowon the northern side and Kinbere
on the month, and is not much more than a mil. wide.
The former is known In history, for it was here that
the Turkish garrison defended themselves in the
campaign of 1788 with great bravery and success
against the Russian,. and it was only after a siege of
several months that Potemkin, the eccentric favourite
of Catherine, was enabled to take it. There are, it is
true, Russian charts of the Liman of the Dnieper,
but mush reliance cannot be placed ea their correct-
ness, partly from the annual alterations in the tide-
way formed by the fitful discharge of Its waters. and
partly from the surVeys not having been confided to
very accurate and conscientious persons. It is, how-
ever, expected that this is a difficulty whisk the
science and intelligence of the naval dims of the
allies will soon find means to overcome, and if the
shallowness of the water precludes the entrance of the
line-of-battls ships, it must, on the other hand, pre-
vent the coming out of the Russian liner vessels,
whilst there is nothing to hinder the sailboats
and other small craft of the allies from eateries,
and making a sweep of the coast, es they did in the
Sea of Asoff. At the extreme eastern end of the
gulf and on the north bank of the Dnieper is situated
Cherson, the principal town and seat of government
of the province, celebrated for the famous vaunt of
the Empress Catherine, who wrote on the gate of the
city "Road to Constantinople." This province, which
was torn from Turkey and incorporated with Russia
ten years later than the Crimea (1792), is a mush
more extensive territory this Tenets.
Nieolaieff appears at present to be the especial
object of the Emparm's paternal affection, and the
most gig tie efforts are being made to render it a
'mond I, es it is now the principal naval
establishment in the south. Five-and-twenty years
ago it had never been heard of out of Russia, and
owes its sudden rise to the genius and energy of Ad-
miral Lazareff. It is situated at the *influence of
the Bag and the Ingo', and surrounded by a barren
and flat steppe. There is no bridge here across the
rivers, and the communication between the two shores
is kept up by means of flat-bottomed boats or ferries.
The population at present amounts to 38,087 persons,
inhabiting 4,998 houses. The town contains six
licueo-Oreek churches, besides a catholic and a Lu-
theran one, and two synegogues (one for the Jews
and the other for the Karaites). Amongst the more
important end striking buildings are the Admiralty
and several magnificent barracks of three stories each,
capable of accommodating 26,000 men. Within the
I.st few years an immense quantity of guns and
ammunition had bean accumulated at Nicolaieff,
but a great part of them were sent to Sebastopol,
and are now lost to the Russians. On the banks of
the Ingul ao esplanade has been planted. which leads
to an oasis in the desert called Soho! Feet** a pic-
toren.* spot, three miles from Nicol wogs, there
is the public garden of Speak, and a Wpit et pare
water, which is coadoeted by as eqeeinsB bite the
town, and supplies the inhabitants endeetmely, as
there are no welle,end the water of the when is ter-