The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-11-09
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
THE ARAGO'S MAILS.
DESTRUCTION OF OTSCHAKOw.
Bread Demonstration in England.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
friday Morning, November Q, 1855.

Bread Demonstration in England.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
The steamer Arago arrived at New York on
Tuesday afternoon. Among her passengers are
Professor \. +. Moore, Count ID. Dion, Mr. W. Sin
| clair, U. s. N; aud Mr.. X. Healy, the American
artist; Hon X. NJ. McLane and family. and Gen
ODennell, of Baltimore; DR. Levert and family OF
Mobile. bearer of dcspatches A. Ravel Francois
Ravel and troupe for Nblo's Garden.
| The America arrived out at Liverpool on the
morning Of the 22d
The Unitcd States mail steamship Washington
| arrived off Cowes, route to Bremen, on the
morning of the 2lst ut
| .s THE WAR.
| CAPTURE OF KISBURN
The Arsgo brings 4 confirmation of the report OF
| the capture of kinburn by the allied armies The
| news was received by the English Admiralty on
the 2oth inst, by the following despatch from Sir
r. Lyons The three forts on the Kinburn Spit
mounting upwards of 20 guns, and garrisoned by
i,3O0 men, under Gen. kokonokitch capitulated to
the allied forces on the 18th October
The day before yesterday fiotilla of gun YES
seB forced the entrance into the Dniepcr and the
allied troops landed on the Spit to the southwark
of the forts thus BY their simultaneous operation
the retreat of the garrisons and the arrival of re-
inforcements were entirely cut off, that the forts
being bombarded to-day Q7th) by the mortar yes.
sells, gun vessels and French floating batteries and
being closely cannonadcd by the eleven line of bat
tie ships and frsates (having only two feet of water
under their kecls>, were soon obliged to surrender
Tho casualties in the fleets were very few but the
| enemy had As killed and 100 wounded steam
squadron under the orders of Rear Admirals Stew
art and Pclton, lie at anchor in the Dneper, and
command the entrance TO Nicholaeff and Cherson
| The forts occupied by the allied troops The
| prisoners were TO be sent to Constantinople.
Further dispatches, eonfirInatory of the above
were afterwards received in Vienna. There is
however, some little discrepancy as to the number
of prisoners who surrendered the despatch of Sir
y, yIn0r fipTn a ~ ,-a1
Lord Clarendon, via Vienna, at 1900.
The advantages which this victory will give to
the allied armies in the East are evidently great
BY this success they have doubtless opened to
themselves path into an important district of
Southern Russia, and, so says the London Times
may indulge reasonable hope of penetrating to the
buil1ing arsenal of the Russian feet, Nicoiaief BY
this success they have secured to themselves one
of the gates of the Dpieper and the fall of Otscha-
kow is next contemplated-a citadel which is very
| formidable, and has recently been strengthened-a
prophecy afterwards fulfilled
Marshal Pellissier'S despatch in reference to the
capture of kinburn received by the Minister of
War on the 23d ult. He says that the Anglo-French
division OF the army had actively contributed to
the success Of tho allied squadron. Having been
landed on the peninsula, about 5 kilometres from
the fortress 1t took up its position, and in the night
OF the 10th opened the trenches at 500 metres from
the works. When the feet commenced its heavy
nre on the 18th, two companies of Chasscurs under
cover n distance of 400 metref rom the bate
res wero able to keep up a fusillade on the Rus
sian srtllerymen at their guns. The field artillery
also played an effective part in the operation -
They were taken 1920 prisoners. including General
KoianoYitch and 40 officers with III pieces of can
non and q quantity of ammunition and stores
harshal Pellissier sent home the standard with the
arms of Russia, which foated over Knburn
The Times intimates that General Simpson, Com
mandern- Chief in the Crimea, is about to bo re-
called, and the Morning Herald further states that
Lieut.. Gen. Sir j. w. Codrington is to succeed HIM
Ile GLOBE, evening journal hat Oar
simpson is not recalled, IS there any intention
of recalling him. The i'll hsakth of the General the
diouo says unfits him for further service Ar
ran8ements were being made by the Government
to provide for successor but nothing had been de-
cided upon
Tho Consular corps at Odessa had addressed
the following to the Allied Admirals. THE pres
ence of the Allied fleets in Odessa roads creates a
fear OF bombardment In consequence the under
signed Generals and Consuls consider their
duty to call the attention Of their Excellencies the
Admirals, to tho dangers to which boulbardment
would expose the lives and properties of their re-
spected fellow subjects The undersigned take
the liberty to remind their E1celencies that the
city of Odessa shelters vast number of foreign
families, subject Of their Soveregns and that tho
largest portion of the movoable and immoyeable
property belongs to them. Consequently they
venture to hope that their Excellencies will spare
4 bombardment"
The Car Ind not arrived at Odesss on the 9th.
Admiral Dundas had left Nassen, in the Vel
lington, and was gone to Stockholm, to pay his
respects to King Oscar.
ANOTHER BOSFLAGRATION AT sEBASTOPOI
The London Times correspondent, writing under
date OF Sunday, Sept 80, gives the following
count OF serious catastrophe in Sebastopol -
The enemy, having discovered the preparations
for throwing up batteries near Fort Alexander and
the ruins of Fort Paul, by the French and English
respectively, commenced heavy fire from the
northern works and forts this morning which they
continued throughout the day, and which, at times,
amounted to a cannonade. The French rnortars
replied to it with ygor aided by some guns on the
left. The Russians fired from Fort Michael from
Little Severnaya, and from the Harbor Spur Bat.
tery, and their shot went crashing through the ruin
ed houses, but did not create any very serious in
jury.
At O'Clock a serious accident took place. which
mas lnnicted some loss on the army, in depriving
thein OF considerable magazine of wood shell
from the Russians burst close to the barracks and
merchant sailor ran to look at the crater il formed
III the earth. Thence he entered the building it.
hel, ana sauntered about smoking his pipe till he
came TO some loofe gunp0wder, which, being of
scientific and eSperimentalizing turn of mind ho
trtd the effect of dropping several sparks from the
burning tobacco.
The powder, as is not unusual in such csscs ex-
pioded with violence, and blew up the sailor and
sentry outside. They were both dreadfuly burnt
AS the floor WAS covered with cartridges and loos,
powder tho fire caught and went leaping on by
MS ana starts to large quantity OF the
bustble matters
ooho touiu approach 10 stop the tre. 1t at last
caught the magazine, and the explosion blew out
the walls and ceilings of the central barracks
The flames set fire 10 the dry wood work and in
short time the whole pile Of buildings which were
OF admirable construction, was in a blaze The
conhagraton lasted till all that could be burnt was
consumed, and lighted up the sky at night TO n
great distance. All that remains of the Imperial
Barracks Of Sebastopol is a mass of charred and
blackened stones, split by the action of the fire
telegraphc despatch was received at the Ad-
iniraity, from Admiral Lyons, announcing that on
the morning of the 18th ult the Russians blew up
the forthcatons on Oschakow point mounting %
guns, and which were assailablc by the mortar
vessels of the Allies.
~ despatch from the Crimea states that the Rus
SANS continued to augment the defences of Sebas-
topol.
A Vienna paper states, the authority of a teIe-
grapic communication from Odessa. that Mt tho
same time the Allies attacked Kinbnrn 10000 men
wero landed on the peninsular of Tendra but no.
thing was known rs to their destination
Private letters received in Paris from officers in
the French army, state that it is believed that
Prince Gortschakoff seeing no possibility of keep
ing his communications open, and regularly re-
ceiving supplies was actually preparing to evacu-
ate the CTimea.
FRANCE.
A dreadful accident occurred on the 23d on the
Lyons Railway betwaen Thomerv and Moret Tho