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

FRANCE

THE OPERATIONS AT OENITCHI.
(FROM TILE CORRESPONDENT OP THE DAILY xzwe.)
PARIS, TUESDAY ETRNINO.

Although there is considerable discrepancy in
the wording of the several despatches nar-
rating the operations of the Allied Fleets at
Genitchi, or Genitschek, I feel little doubt that
they all relate to one sad the same affair,
which must have occurred on May 29th, the date
assigned in the Russian despatch, dated St. Peters-
burg yesterday. Neither the Moniteur nor the
note communicated by the admiralty to the Daily
News mention the date of the attack upon Ge-
"litchi. General Pelissier's despatch, dated Crimea,
June 2, 10 P.M., is founded upon a report from
Kertch of blay,3l, the date of Sir E. Lyons' despatch
from the same place. Two days we may suppose

were taken to send the news from Genitchi to Kertch
along the whole breadth of the sea of Azoff. Gart-
chakoff, after having doubtless slurred over as much
as he could our performances of the 20th, says, com-
placently, that on the 30th " We had not made any
fresh attack upon Genitachek." A fresh attack
would have been a very unnecessary proceed-
ing, if, u both the French and English govern-
ment despatches say, we had already "driven
the Russian force out of the place." Still
it is to be observed that neither the Monacar nor
the English Admiralty affirms that we are in poemi
sloe of Genitchi; that the place is taken is only Gull
inference, and an inference against the soundness of
which it may be objected that had the Allies been
muter. of the place, they would be more likely to
have appropriated the enemies eatables than to have
destroyed them. It is very remarkable that both the
Moniteur and the English despatch say that the pro-
visions were destroyed after the Russian forces had
bees driven out of the town, which would have been
a senseless proceeding had we the means of carrying
them away at leisure. Gortchakoff speaks of I
bombardment and the burning of the transports and
stores, as if done in the course of the attack, and
so far his account is the most probable. He adds
that our shallops were forced to retire before the
fire of two guns! While receiving this with all
reserve, our own despatches are, it mast be
admitted, far from clear. The Moniteur con-
arms Gortchakoff's statement that there was
a bombardment, while it says not a word of
the landing of sailors and marines mentioned in the
Admiralty note, which note, on the other hand,
sari nothing about a bombardment. As to the
private despatch dated Sebastopol, June 2, which
announces in terms the " taking" of Genitchi, it is
evident that it is a concoction made up from one
received yesterday afternoon from London. The im-
probability of the Allies having destroyed provisions,
which they might have taken seems to have occurred
to the concocters of this despatch, and therefore they
represented the Hessians as having destroyed them
themselves—a version which conflicts with all the
official despatches.

I am informed that at the review yesterday an
Englishman who pressed too closely upon the Em-
peror's cortege (doubtless out of innocent curiosity),
was cut down by a soldier. I do not know to what
extent he was injured.
The Lord Mayor of London arrived in Paris last
night, accompanied by several members of the cor-
poration.
The ball at the Hotel de Ville, at which the King
of Portugal and the Duke of Oporto are to be present,
is fixed for Monday next.
The Bourse was much calmer to day. The Rents
rose 10 c., closing at 70.50. Railways were very
firm, and several lines were in demand, at an im-
provement of 5 fr.

THE CARLIST MOVEMENT IN SPAIN.
MADRID, 4TH.—The Gazette publishes the decree
relative to the suspension of the Constitutional
guarantees. The regulation of the national militia
is in a conservative sense. Catalonia is declared in a
state of siege. The insurgents have disappeared from
Aragon.