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

LATEST NEWS.

VIENNA, SUNDAY EYEIVING.

The Oesterreichische Corresponden,-, asserts, on

the authority of a telegraphic communication from
Odessa of the 17th, that at the same time that
the allied fleets attacked Kinburn 30,000 meu
were landed on the Peninsula of Tendra.

Nothing certain was known of the destination

of these troops.

Tendra is a long spit of land a little west of

Perekop.

The Emperor Francis Joseph has returned from

Iscbzl.

MARSEILLES, SA TI7RDATs

The Cairo, with dates from Constantinople to
he 11th and the Crimea to the 9th, has arrived.
She brings 270 invalids.
Her despatches will leave by the 1 p.m. train.
The Lady Jocelyn, with the White Falcon in
:owf has left for the Crimea.

COPENHAGEN, OCT. 19.

Denmark, in a memorandum, after having do,

Oared that it has no intention to prejudge the
decisions of the Governments interested in the
question, points out that it would be possible to
take as the basis of the eventual purchase of the

Sound dues the quantity of merchandise which
passes the Sound and the Belts, combined with
the nationality of the vessels.

ATHENS, OCT. 13.
The Allied Ambassadors have refused to recog-

nixed the new Ministry.

THE CRIMEA.

Accounts from the Crimea to the 11th reached
Vienna on the 16th, via Varna. According to
these despatches it was thought that a grand en-
counter between the two armies would take place
about the 20th (this day), for it appeared quite im-
possible that the Russians were able to prevent the
French from advancing against Bakshi-Serai. Gen.
Gortschakoff had therefore only the alternative of
either accepting a battle, or making a retrograde
movement behind the Belbek, to endeavour to
reachSimpheropol. The journals trace out also
numerous plans of campaign, all probably as pro-
blematical as the news of a great battle on a fixed
day. They also speak of an account said to have
been received, in a letter from Bucharest of the
9th, of the appearance of a number of gun-boats
belonging to the combined fleet, off Ismail. The
bombardment of that strongly-fortified place of
Bessarabia is said by that account to have com-
menced. The journals, however, add that this
news has nothing of an official character in it, and
we can ourselves say that letters have reached
Paris from Bucharest of the 9th, which are silent
on this subject.
We read in the Post-Ampt Gazette :—" Accounts
have been received from Odessa to the 14th. Up
to the 12th gun-boats and transports full of troops
were daily joining the fleet. Great uncertainty
still prevails ai to the object of the expedition ;
and no one can help feeling that in consequence of
the most recent movements made by Marshal Pelis-
sier, it has become impossible for the Russian troops
to move from their central positions of Odessa,
Nicolaieff, Kherson, Perekop, and the points
which they occupy in the interior of the Crimea.
For this reason the persons near the Emperor
have approved of the measure recently adopted
by General Gortschakoff of removing part of the
troops which had been posted near Mackenzie's
farm into the valley of Bakshi-Serai. This
movement was tho more necessary as Marshal
Pelissier had succeeded, although with great diffi-
culty, in getting up 120 pieces of artillery on the
heights of Tchuliu, in order to support his opera-
tions in the Valley of the Baidar. It is probable
that Marshal Pelissier, when master of his position,
may send considerable reinforcements to Eupatoria,
so as to bring up the force at that place to 60,000
men."

SURRENDER OF KINBURN.
FRENCH OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.

Yesterday's Moniteur contains the following de-
spatches, in which Admiral Bruat narrates the facts
attending the surrender of Kinburn to the Allied
fleets :

The Minister of Marine has received from Ad-
miral Bruat the following despatches :
" KINBURN, OCT. 17. _

" The fort of Kinburn and the new works erected
on this peninsuli are in our power. Our loss is un-
important.

"KINBURN, OCT. 17.

"On the morning of the 14th of 'October the
squadron left the roadstead of Odessa as soon as
the heavy easterly winds, which had checked their
operations since the Bth of Oct., had ceased. In the
evening of the same day they anchored off Kinburn.
"In the night four French gun-boats—the Ti-
railleuse, Stridente, Meurtriere, and Mutine—sent
by Rear-Admiral Pellion, under the orders of Lieu-
teuant Allemand, of the Cacique sailed, with five
English gun-boats, through the pass of Otscha-
kow, and entered the Dneiper.
"The next day, Oct. 15, at daybreak, the troops
were landed at about 4,500 metres from the place
to the south of it. In the afternoon the bomb-
ketches opened their fire ; but they were obliged to
suspend it when night fell, on account of the swell,
which rendered the aim uncertain.

" The entire day of the 16th was nearly lost for
us, as the winds had veered round to the south-
west. The troops were occupied in entrenching
themselves and making reconnaissances towards
the south. The gun-boats in the Dnieper were
alone able to annoy the place.
"The wind having shifted to the north during
the night, we were engaged early in the morning,
Admiral Lyons and myself, in causing to be put
into execution the plan of attack arranged on the
previous evening, agreeably to the soundings taken
by Captain Spratt, of the Spitfire, and Lieutenant
Clone, of the Brandon, assisted by Messrs. Ploix
and Manen, hydrographic engineers. At twenty '
minutes past nine the three floating batteries, the
Devastation, Lave, and Tonnante, opened their
fire.
" The success they obtained on this day has an-
swered all the hopes of the Emperor. The ram-
part they battered presented very speedily and on
several points practicable breaches.
" The French and English mortar vessels opened
their fire at 45 minutes past nine. Their aim,
rectified by the signals of the paddle steamers,
was most admirably directed. I attribute to them
in a great measure the quick surrender of the place.
" The five French gun-boats, the Grenada,
Fleche, Mitraille, Flamme, and Alarme, sustained
by six English gun-boats, took up their positions
nearly at the same time as the mortar vessels.
Their aim ricochetted very advantageously the
open batteries (a barbette), which were contending
against the floating batteries.
As soon as the firing of the place had slackened,
our gun-boats advanced, at the signal given by the
Captain of the Grenada, M. Jaureguiberry, to the
line formed by the floating batteries. They were
accompanied in this movement by the English gun-
boats.
"Precisely at noon, the ships, followed by the
frigates' corvettes, and paddle-steamers, got up
steam. Tho ships formed on a front line ; they
cast anchor and lay with their broadsides to the
forts at a distance of 1,600 metres in 261 feet of
water. At the same moment, six English frigates
commanded by Rear-Admiral Stewart, and three
French frigates under the orders of Rear-Admiral
Pellion, the Asmodee, Cacique, and Sane, made
for the pass of 0 tschakow in order to take the forts
of Kinburn in the rear. The English ship, the
Hannibal, advanced to the middle of this pass.
Generals Bazaine and Spencer brought up their
riflemen and field pieces to about 400 metres from
the place.
" These bold manoeuvres 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-five minutes past one, observing that the
fort of Kinburn fired no longer, although the
northern works continued still to make use of their
mortars, Admiral Lyons and myself thought it
right to respect the courage of the brave fellows
we were fighting against; consequently we made
the signal to cease firing, and hoisted the flag of
truce, sending a French boat and an English one
on shore.
"The forts accepted the capitulation offered.
The garrison left the place with the honours of war
and gave themselves up as prisoners. Our troops
occupy all the Russian works.
"The capitulation stipulated that the plc

should be given up to us in the state it was then
in. We take possession, therefore, of the enemy's
stores and munitions. 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 our-
selves with forming hero a solid establishment."