New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-07
STATE OF EUROPE.

From Our Own Correspondent
LONDON, Tuesday, Oct %, 1855.
The allied feet carrying about ten thousand
men, and landing troops which from the Sth to the
l4th held Odessa in awe arrived on the evening Of
the 14th off Kinburn, which mears in Turkish
bread nose or promOniOIy." / have often
mentioned this place in my former letters as the
key to the Liman Of the Dneper and the bug.
The waters of these two great rivers Of Southern
Russia fall both into a common estuary resembling
a lake and commune AtiDg with the Black sea by a
channel about five miles broad, defended on the
eastern side by the fort Of Kinburn on the west by
the fort Of Otshakof. Important Russian military
establishments have grown up upon the banks of
both the rivers which empty here into the sea
Cherson on the DDieper contains the stores and
magazines for all the southern army of Russa it
IS the capital Of the province Taurida. the center
of the civil and political administration for all the
country between the Danube and the sea of AzOfl,
and next to Odessa is the most populous town
of New Russia, as the country around the
Black sea is called. Nikolai6f on the Bug is
smaller in extent, but still more important than
Cherson, all the ships of the Russian Black Sea
feet being built in the dOckyards of that place;
and we read but lately of the ceremonies with
which Car Alexander III laid down the keel fora
large line-of batte-shps to replace the Twelve
Apostles" sunk at Sevastopol The district be-
tween Kinbum and Cherson is, besides, very yalu-
able for Russia as one of the chief places for an
ufacturDg salt, of which the great empire of the
Car is in the greatest want. There are no salt
mines or salt springs in northern Russia or in the
midland provinces. All the supply for the empire
comes from the salt lakes Of Southern Russia
principally from the works on the spit of land
along the Liman of the Dnieper. 1t is rather
astonishing that such an important point as the
mouth of two important rivers, the key Of Cher
son and Nikolaeff, was not more strongly defended
by the Russians. After 3 bOmbardment of three
days from the feet, the allied troops having pre-
viously taken such position as to cut off the
retreat of the Russians, General Konikoft surren
dercd. About one thousand FIVE hundred men
seventy guns and large stores fell into the hands
of the yictors, whose loss was very unimportant.
need not say that the effect OF such blOodless
victory of the Allies, following closely the Russian
defeat at Kars, and the capture Of Sevastopol,
finally destroys the prestige of the Russian army.
The English papers believe now in an expedition
10 Nkolaieff; still at such an advanced season of
the year this operation looks somewhat dangerous,
unless the allied commanders are sure Of taking it
by coup de MAN. since siege is out Of theques
ton and bombardment by the feet scarcely pos
sible on account of the narrow channel Of the Bug
and IngHl commanded on both sides by land bat
teries | rather presume that Otshakof will nov
be taken aud in turn all the forts on the Black
and Danube, in order to exclude Russia from the
Eu1ine This seems so much the more probable
as the Allies have not spared even the wretched
town or rather village of Taman, on the Asistic
side of the Euxine, oppOsi e to kertch, though it
is not fortified and could not offer any resistance,
nor serve for the basis of any strateslcal opera.
ton. An advance against REM aud lsmail, on
the Danube is likewise probable.
Field marshal Pelissier works his way slowly
from the Baidar valley to the lights of the Belbek,
and we NAV soon hear OF decisive action, settling
the fate Of the Crimea. Austria, Prussia, and as
il is said even the King OF Belgium have tried to
ascertain at Paris and LONDON whether the tune
for negotiations has not yet arrived but all of them
net with fiat refusal; as to Prussau mediation,
Drouyn de lHuys said in = conversation with a
foreign diplomatist-" the Emperor might accept
the mediation Of the Lilliputian republic OF San
Marine, but not that of Prussia
The financial difficulties of France become still
more threatening, and most turbulent Winter is
anticipated on account Of the high bread prices.
The Moni,esr contained yesterday az srticle in
which, in Anticipation OF riots aid emeutes, the