The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS. TUESDAY TVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1855.

THE FALL

' 'r

O,EBA,STOPOL.

COMPLETE
DESTRUCTION

OF THE

RUSSIAN FLEET.

Bannerol, HAI FALLEN.
All the bastions, earthworks, and granite foetal
@mho! the great karbosr—Malakhoff, Great and
Little Reda., Flagstaff, Central Tower, and Quaran-
tine Battery—the sea defences, Forts Alexander, St. .
Nicholas, and St. Peal; the second line of defenoe..o
the Garden and Barrack batteries, the Dockyas
.d,
Harbour, and Careening Bay, with the fall oar,
sweep of Sebastopol roads—all are in the po• ,rar of
the Allies.

TEA RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLIRT am P memo
UTTCPLY.

How many wit ships have bees cant and how
many burned we must wait to know, cad it matters
little, for all have been destroyed. Ti'ds language of
the osserals and admirels is explicit nee one of the
peed ships of Sinope could now be litlrtld to carry a
Mentehikoff to Constantinople.
• grand attack on Sebask.mal was made on
Satuday last, the evermore memorable Bth of
September, at noon, by storming the Malakhoff,
and the Little and Great Roden.. In all our
gallant allies, and our own brave troops, ef-
fected a lodgment, but such was the force of
the enemy's emeentrated artillery fire, and such
the strength of his reserve infantry, that only the
Malakhoff Gould be held. Here—within the enceinte
—the French firmly fined themselves, and defied all
attempts to dislodge them. While the troops on the
right were engaged at the Malakhoff, Naomi de
Sallee made a diversion on the other side of the town,
from the left attack, against the Central Bastion,
but] did not effect a permanent lodgment.
The Malakhoff has proved an all-sufficient en-
trance. It is not known that, beyond establishing
themselves in this work, the besiegers prosecuted the
attack : the enemy gave them no time. The Mask.
!off was taken on Saturday afternoon, and on Satee.l
day night the Bambini, in the exacerbation ei de.
@pair, began to sink their ships, blow up their maga-
eines, and burn their city. By Sunday morning last
Sebastopol was evacuated, and the communication

weended. l'he bridge sear Fort St. Paul has been
dun:eyed by the enemy.
14, I es engaged in ascertaining tbe 'amount el ear
ler, and I shall forward the malt en mast as I know
it exactly.

GE Everything is going en well.
We ere welching the sno temente of the enemy
•on the Tohernaye."
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null* of the first, it wee ..enewed partial, esietelli-
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DESPATCH FROrd ADMIRAL BRUAT.
PT 8/7311"33111..LAND ILNOZIIO TILIKIPAPE.)
WAN& o•qa OWN OOMBPONDINT4
PARIS, TIINIDAT MOILNUNI.

A Miettrylics despatch baldest been repaired from
Admiral Bract, It confirms the despatches of Gen.
Psliesi ir already received, and adds :
" A gale from the north kept the ships at anchor.
"The mortar-boats, to be enabled to fire, were
' obliged to enter Streletzka Bay.
" They fired 600 shells against the Quarantine
Bastion and Fort Alexander.

" The six English mortar-boat , also at anchor
in Btreletska Bey, fired about the seas number of
shells.

" Last night, violent explosions and vest conflagra-
tions made u suppose that the Russians were eva-
cuating the town.

"To-day ws ascertained that the Russian vessels
had been sunk.

" The bridge wu covered with troops retreating to
the north side.
" After 8 o'clock the bridge wu destroyed.
" Only a few steamers remain in the port,
anchored near Fort Catherine.
" I approached this morning the Quarantine bat-
teries on board the Brandon, and ascertained myself
that they are now evacuated.
" They have just blown up.
" Our soldiers have left their trenches, and are
spreading themselves in groups over the fortifications
of the town, which seem to be totally deserted."

DESPATCH FROM GENERAL LA MARMORA.
(mow ova owx oozziopoiroxirr.)

TURIN, MONDAY.

General La Marmon writes that the Russians have I
withdrawn from the town, after having set it on fire,
blown up all the public buildings and works of
defence, and sunk their last ship.
The Sardinians have lost forty men in the trenches.

The correspondent of La Presse, writing from St.
Petersburg, under date Sept. 1, rays :

Oa the receipt of Prise; Gorteirakofre despatch an-
nouncing the fellers at the Tohernaya, the Emperor
Alexander immediately summoned a Council of War, com-
posed of all his west competent generals. The Emperor
read the despatch to them, and a dissuasion took place u to
the new plea of operation to be adopted in order to restore
to the troops the moral outage which this defeat had shaken.
Thereupon the Emperor ordered an enquiry into the con-
duct of General Read. The Emperor, addressing Prince
llentchikoff, who, as well as General Denenberg, was pre-
sent, inquired why it was that the system of attack had not
been followed up when the enemy were snffsriag from die
ease, and had sot those reinforcements which now viable

them to fight with advantage. Prime Mentehikoff imme-
diately replied that they were famed to abandon the series
of successive attacks. in ocesequenee of the want
of powder. Upon this the Emperor quickly turned round
to Prises Dolgorooky, the Minister of War, and bitterly
upbraided him for his inconceivable negligence in not keep-
ing the army well supplied with all the necessary monitions
of war. Prism Dolgorosky gruffly mimed that the asser- 1
tion was (else, and that there had never been any want of
either provisions or maattioas in the C►ima or elsewhere.
Prince Mentehikoff retorted that the bliaister of War did
eat know what he was saying; and that a person who had
neither smelt nor burned powder was incompetent to give
an opinion on that question. If the Emperor had not dis-
solved the Council. by ordering General Aide•de•Camp
Count Alexis Orloff to institute an inquiry, with the view
of assertaiaing the truth of the two statemeute, no one
knows to what length the dispute might have gone.
The letter adds:

The COOlillaance of the war will destroy the mill-
tary reputation of Priam Gestehakeff, ae it has already
done with reseed to Prism Paskiewitcb, Prism Metathi-
koff, General Dannenberg, and many ethers. General Pe-
rowaki. kaown for his unfortusate ezpeditica to Shies,
and whose brother is Minister of the Apaaages, 4 already
spoken of es his successor.
Russia has been as unfortunate in her diplomatic
as in her military acts. The secant circular of
Coast Nesselrode remains without abet It was hoped
through the intervention of Austria to open up new ground
for negotiations with the Western Powers, bet the attempt
has not succeeded, and the Court of Vienna has declined to
interfere. However, Russia is dissatisfied with the timid
sad almost dandestine policy of the Cabinet of Berlin.

The Barrenhails of Hamburg quotes a letter from
Berlin, of the 7th, which gives the following u a
passage of Count Neseelrode's last despatch:—" The
uodersigned is oertsin that he is not mistaken as to
the sentiment' of the Emperor, his master, when he
admits that the wish of the late Emperor to take
into consideration, with the most perfect respect, any
proposition for peace, compatible with the honour
and dignity of his name and throne, is strongly
shared by the reigning Emperor."

SPAIN.

MADRID, Bar. 8.

An Admiralty Board is to be created is Spain.

The Court will return to Madrid about the middle
of September. General Imparter° haa completely
recovered from his late indiepositiou.

P♦PAL DIPLOMACY ♦T ♦ DISCOIIIIT.—Ths Venice
Ovens ebairves that the Papal Ste has so asados at pro.
wet is Spida, Bardtaia, Switzerland, Brasil, sad Now
Grand&

Parmorr.—Sir Janus Hadn't, British =buss-
dor to the Court of Tartu, hes mut SOW to the ocusualthre