The Express.
London, England, 1856-02-20 00:00:00

OF FORT NICHOLAS.

(710111 LAST MOAT'S OAZITTZ.)

WAR DEPARTMENT, FIB 19.

Lord Namur* has received a despatch, of which
the followiag is a oopy, addressed to bia lordship by
General Sir William Codrington,K.C.B.:

Fzz. 4.

My Lord,—Manbal Pslimier informed me, a few days
ago, that this day Fort Nicholas would be destroyed, and
he mat *gala to say that at 1 o'clock p.m. the mines for
this purpose would be Ind.

Tbs 4.11 OM lite whole hullo., is well obtained from
the interior slope of the itedan-bill, and from other points
within the Ruselist Ilan.

The day wee nagailkeatly clear : every kicky on the
opposite side could be sees, every working party watched.
every soldkr that was budging in the sea ; oceea Goal shot
and shell were sent from the seamy to the Karabelnais and
the town, bat other ein nothing disturbed the maul appear-
awe of quiet, almost of desolation.
Oa our (the south) aide, we looked down en the large
ruin, d barracks Ia front, on the loner creek of the dock
yard, the quay, and the rossalas of Fort Paul, the ;neon.
inlet free the harbour on our left, beyond which stand the
roofless buildings of Behest'psl itself. There 1113 is the
well-remembered loog Ike of pointed arches, the casemate.
of the Interior of Fort Nieholas, of which the embrasures In
double liar pointed to seaward and away from us.
It juts oat lute the harbour built on au inter Wogs, of
land; Feet Coestan'ine forming a Caller bat more outward
defame Sec the sea appreesh ea the north.

Tbe sewn sad feeling et expectation wen of great in-
t not, for eanbest tangible pad of power end use.. was
to take plea, sad 106,000 Itin of powder were in the several
I ann.

At the hoar aused, a bent of snake, clitek and till*,
tolled icon one left of the ►.ildtag ; It was fshowed by
muftis; the heavy Gonad arrived, the stma were shot
late the ar sad Isis the sea; the esplostoes of the extreme
right end the entre angled at lit•le hitt reel into sae drift-
lag tined, which veiled the distraction bine.
The light if the eau pined beautifully on tie men of
smoke, of wkkh the !alter part ler nag sod heavily oft its
risk.. The breeze paadag It away over the manias of the
lowa, skewed t►at a low line of nia .as ell that reasoned
of the prides( Fort Nicholas, and one ataudiag ammo of
the harbour lay boned under in water..
The state of the docks has bee* given in detail in ay
lettere. They ere •ll destroyed, whilst the eart► sat rased-
fag lien Y ebakea 1.10 auks: basin, dock., init-en of
broken granite, sapetaas, gates, beams of iron, and of thabt r,
Si, tumbled lido .are liar of deetnetioa.

I ban, ote.,

W. J. Coaiworox, Geaerel Coroateadiag.
The Lord Posen, de. &e.

THE POLYPHEMUS.

ADMIRALTY, Pis. 20.

The following intelligence has this day been re-
ceived from Commander Fred. P. Warren, of her
Majesty's late sloop Polyphemus, dated Tigard,
Feb. 13:

• I have not been able up to the present date to
forward to their Lordships a correct list of each men
as have lost their lives. Eight bodies have, how-
ever, been found and interred. Those which have
been identified are the remains of Mr. Herbert,
master; Thos. Maltase, boatswain's mate; Samuel
Pearce, boy first clam; John Reynolds, captain after
guard; and Henry Forbes. captain forecastle."

THR SHIP MARIA.

(710 K 001

LISBON, Fai 9.

Information has been received here by private hand
that the Maria. Capt. J. H. Rumen, of Liverptol, has been
wrecked oa the esast of Algarve, near Lagos, where she
now lies. The hall still holds together, although the tim-
bers ere inatewkat 'drained sad open. la two or three
days, shield t►e weather continue fine, the whole of the
estgo will perhaps be discharged, sad these is a proba-
bility of the vessel Wog saved, sad seat t) Vii:a Nova de
Netball°.

M. Yvon, the painter, the author of a well-known
pict,re, representleg a same of the retreat of Mantua Ney
from Real a, ha.; bees commtia'oaed by the Mieister of
State to go to the Cr4ea, to make studies for &grand p c
tare of the tattles of Vet Malahoff.
_ _

The Epics,. of Madrid, says that since the tavola.
toe of July there have beet not fewer Van 22 cabinet
',busters ;—r wisely, is the Presidency of the Coate 1,1
(111spartero) ; I. the Miallstry of War, 1 (O'Donnell);
Mieletry of Marine, 2 ; Publ c Wor4s, 3 ; Foreign Ada rs,
3; Inter or, 3; Jost ce, 4; and Finance, 3.

T. Press* cr Orient publishes s letter from Adria-
sopls of the 31st Joinery, which states that Sawih Path,
bar bees 'oftener la his post of saw po.crnor of that
c ty. He twig retied h's adoiaistrat'on by certari acts of
jest ce, which were cot s tiered by the Turks a goof mass
for the Glen.

A letter from Rome of the 14th, in the °mete de
Leon, say" A great 'skeet of coavenation here is t'.c
masers oa to the Roo La Catholic rel eol of t' e
Rev. Dr. 01 it as, of the University of °idol.i, who
pabl ely aMarel Protestant sa in the ehcreh of Jest
on the brit day of Lc, t. Dr. 01 'has hat very
shortly before oilleatel in the Hoe eh ch, rch of the Porta
del Papolo, sad h cosier' os has elle tat the a rcat r se.-
sat 03 that it seers t",e co•sotcrpart of that of the Rev. Dr
Wilberforce, brother of the Dsop of 0 .for The Rev.
Dr Nowaaa has 1 ft ttis c ty to Totowa to Dkblia."