The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-01 00:00:00

OUR SQUADRON IN THE SEA

OF AZOFF.

We (Daily News) are favoured, by Lord Panmure,
with the following despatch, received yesterday at the
War-Odloe :
" SEBASTOPOL, 30= MAY, 1855.
„Letters received from Sir George Brown and
Sir E. Lyons of the 29th announce the destruction
by the enemy of four Russian war gteamers and
large depots of corn.
"The Allied ships have sumeeded in blowing up
a magazine at Arabat, and in destroying about 100
merchantmen. '
di Only one steam-ship remains of the enemy in
the Sea of Agoff."
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We (Daily Noce) receive the following intelligence
from the Secretary of the Admiralty :
" A telegraphic despatch has just been received at
the Admiralty with the intelligence that on the 22nd
of May, on the appearance of the allied squadron
before Berdianek, the Russians burnt four war
steamers and considerable stores of corn.
" On the 23rd the forts of Arabat were bombarded
and the powder magazines blown up.
" One hundred and six merchant vessels have been
destroyed ; and only one small Russian steamer re-
mains in the Sea of Azoff.
"Admiralty, May 31, 1855, 6.15 p.m."

THE AUSTRIAN ULTIMATUM TO RUSSIA.

(VlO3l THI

OP Tall DAILY PEWS.)
VIENNA, FLIDAT.

Austria's ultimatum to Russia demands that s pro-
gressive system of guarantees against any future
development of Russian preponderance in the Black
Sea, be introdooed by treaties into European laws of
nations generally.
The ultimatum has not yet been sent to St. Peters-
burg. but it has been communicated to England and
France for their approval.

SIGNAL ADVANTAGES
ITION OF THE KERTCH
EXPED.

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THE dates in the despatches received by Govern-
ment from the Sea of Azoff are rather perplexing.
According to those received by Lord PANYUPA the
troops disembarked at Kertch on the 24th ult.
(her MAJESTY'S trirth-day), and advanced to Yeoikals
on the 23th. According to the despatch received
bj
the Admiralty, which we publish to-day, the allied
squadron was before Berdiansk on the 22nd, and
bombarded the forts of Arabat on the 23rd. There
are, it is true, various ways in which these seeming
discrepancies may be reconciled. The ships of war 11
destined to sot against the harbours and forts of
the Sea of Azoff may have stood right on
through the Straits without waiting for the trans-
ports which conveyed the troops ; this they
might do with perfect safety, inasmuch as the enemy
are said to have blown up their fortifications on both
sides of the Straits, and fled as soon as the Allies
showed themselves. Or " the QUEEN'S birthday,"
on which the troops are said to have landed at
Kertcb, may mean the 21st ult.—the day on which
that anniversary was celebrated. It is, however, of
little use speculating on points of such secondary im-
portance: in the course of a week, or ten days, we
shall in all probability have the details of these opera-
tions. In the mean time let this satisfy us, that the
work in the Sea of Azoff, and the Straits which con-
nect it with the Euxine, goes bravely on.
In the Daily News of Tuesday last we described
minutely the narrow isthmus—between the bays of
Naffs, in the Rusin*, and Arabia, in the Sea of
Azoff—which connects the peninsula extending out-
ward from these bays to the Straits of Kutch with
what may be called the Crimean main. To the in-
formation we then communicated may now be added
that Berdiansk, the best harbour in the Sea of Azoff,
is ably on the north shore of that sea, due north of
the opening of the Straits of Kertch, and distant from
it rather more than a degree of longitude. Berdiansk
has of late years become the most important port for
the shipment of pain in the Sea of Azoff. The forts
of Arabat are constructed on the south side of the
Sea of Azoff, north of the centre of Haffs.Bay, at the
southern extremity of a narrow tongue of hard
sand, little more than a mile is breadth, and up-
wards of sixty miles in length, which extends
in a direction a little to the west of north
from Arabat to the Strait of Genitchi or Tonkoi,
separating the Sea of Azoff from a long salt lagoon
on the east and north shores of the Crimea, called
the Putrid Sea. The Breit of Genitchi is only one
hundred yards in breadth, and is the point at which
goods brought by land carriage from Taganrog and
Marisnopol cross to the Crimea. The possession of
Arabat will enable the Allies to cut off all communi-
tion by lead from the Don, the Volga, and the
Kuban to the Crimes, as the possession of Hertel
and Yenikale enables them to cut off all communi-
cation by sea. No further supplies of grain or iron
--of provisions or military stores—can now reach
the Russians in the Crimea from the eastern pro-
vinces of Russia. As soon as Arabat fall,, Haifa,
which is tut slightly fortified, must surrender, and
with a few ships of war stationed off Arabat and
Kaffe, and a line of earthworks thrown across frost
the one bay to the other, the Allies may bid debase,
to any attempt of the Russians to repossess then.
selves of the south-eutern peninsula of the Crimea.
Meanwhile the damage already done to the Rein•
sins in the Sea of Azoff and the Straits of Kerte
must be sensibly felt by them. All their fortification
os both aid.s of the Straits have been destroyed, sad
those of Arabat, if not already in our bands, base
been materially injured. The foundry at Kertch be
the masufacture of shot, shells, and Misill
balls has been destroyed. Large stores of corn 11111
the Straits and at Berdiansk have been befell
A Pot somber of war steamers and merchsin
view& have been captured or Oae bus- I
tired Russian pea have fallen trim& d tics
" Only one small Russian dome smasiss

derstatios Isom the Licensed Victuallers' Defence Ae•
iodation had en interview with Sir William kiolesworth
yesterday at the *Mae of Public Works, in Whitehall-place.
The deputation cousisted of Mr. Benjamin Foster (Presi-
dent), Munn. White,llarrie, Butterfield, Hancock, Fisher,
Preece, All's, and Ashton.
Despatches from the Governor of Labuut were received
yesterday at the Colonial-ogles.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary, accompanied by the Hereditary
Grand Duchess of Mecklesburg•Strelits and family, leave
Cambridge Cottage, Kew, to•dy, for St. James's Palace,
for the season. The Duchess of Cambridge is about to give
n aria of dinner porties.
Yesterday evening the Earl and Countess of Derby
gave a select dinner party to his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge and a distinguished party of friends, at the
family mansion in St. Janies'esqaare. Later in the even-
', gag the noble countess threw open her saloons for the re•
I optics of a brilliant and numerous company.
The Duchess of Sutherland arrived at Stafford-
' home, last evening, from Trentham.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll returned to their
Ills, at Canspden-hill, Kensington, last evening.
On Wednesday the Duke of Bedford, who is now
elleyleg at Endsleigh, laid the foundation stone of a Chapel
dhows at Gulweithy. near Tavistock.
Sir William and Lady Molesworth entertained, at
ism, last evening, the Saxon Minister, the Earl and
Onnntees of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Vernon Smith,
M.P., and Mn. Vernon Smith, Loyd and Lady Cantor,
He Hon. Mn. Dye. Sombre, the Right Hon. Sir Charles
gad Lady Mary Wood, the Prussian Minister and Countess
de Bernstorff, Colonel Challenge, the Countess of Camper-
down and Lady Elisabeth Duncan, Mr. Duff, 31. P., and
Lady Agnes Da, and Mr. Beaumont, M.P.
Mr. H. D. Seymour, M.P., has delivered a lecture
el the Wet:auntie Atheism, on Southern Roads, the
1 Cassano, and the Crimea. Mr. Sotheroh, M.P., was in

he 'hair.
The Rev. Thomas William Onalow Hallward,
ILL., of University College, Orford, curate ofiLesden, his
(says a local paper) accepted the chaplainry to the thousand
,e navvies" who ale about prooseding to the Crimea to be
employed in the trenches before Sekastopol.
We (Chebniford Chronicle) understand that Lieut.
,of the West Ewes Militia, who was mentioned
last week as baring broken his arrest, 'stunted the follow-
ing day to his quarters, and was again placed under ease
arrest. His father, however, having ttled all pecusiary
slalom connected with the regiment, seand Lieut. Weaver
Whig sent in his resignation, he has, been released and
allowed to retire from the regiment.
Mr. Bass, M.P., said, at a meeting in Derby, the
other day, that " members of parliament were MOW' mm
went a little under a cloud."
The amount raised for the various objeets of the
Free Church of Scotland for the year ending March 81,
1856, was 308,0601.95. Bd.
The Caledonian Mercury says that Mr. Ceird, of
" high farming" celebrity, has taken a lease of Langley
Park Farm, Kent. Whether his doings in the field will be
as cthspicuons as his writings remains to be then.
The first monthly part of a new work of fiction by
Mr. Charles Dickens, will be published in N4vember.
The fountains of the Crystal Palace will make their
first display to-morrow, at the grand Ir..rticulturtl fete.
The committee of the Mendicity Society caution
the petal° against military impostors who are going about
begging, furnished with forged tart fiat's of discharge and
good conduct; the certificates, being printed on parchment,
and vary well *nested, are likely to deceive even face-
riethed persons. These vagabonds are otters clothed is
regimentals, and easy of them profess to bath bees at all
the battles in the Crimes.
A rendezvous for the enlistment of persons to serve
is the weeps of Engineers altsehed to the Turkish contingent
has bees opened la Casnoe-row, Westminster.