The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-10 00:00:00

RUSSIAN REPORTS FROM THE CRIMEA.

PRINCE GORTCHAROFFS JOURNAL.

The Journal de St. Peterabourg of Aug. 2 contains
the following

trims FROM THE CRIMEA.

The journal of the military operations between July 171
end 22, resolved from Aidedweesp Prince Gortetekoff,
ocetains the Mewls' additional details reepeeting the pro-
grew of the siege works before Sebastopol, sad the situation
of stain to the Crimea dada; that period :
Ilinanotou—Deries the day the way, cede a

Find during the night a bootberdneent
now end then redoubling their efforts
lof our line of defence. A very rigour.

leis fire of Wulleura•eerebiniers wes kept up incessantly on
both sides both day and night. Our artillery energetically
replied to the besiegers, concentrating its fits upon the
batteries newly unyoked, or upon the lodgements or
approaches in ooa of coostruetion. This fire, ably di-
rected, often silenced the enemy's artillery and compelled
the besiegers to abandon their unfinished trenches.
"Besides repairing the damage caused to our fortifications,
we have laboured with much success to reinforce oar line of
defence, and also to establish new ba .
" The folloising are the most remarkable details of the
siege operations :
"' JOLT 17.—Following a very rigorous canunnsde
against several parts of the fortress, the besiegers, towards
6 o'clock in the evening, concentrated their fire upon the
gostislaff redoubt and the -Bellaire battery ;the fire from

our works compelled the enemy to stop his. His works to-
day consisted in finishiag his approaches against the Komi-
loff bution ; constructing a battery upon the left of
the ancient Kamtchatka lunette for acting upon the
No. 3 Bastion, commencing a lodgement above the Dock
ravine, before the Gervais batteries, and in finishing his
entonnoirs before Butioa No. 4. _ .

" Tim maxi' OF JULY 17,—Some volunteers of the
regiment of Okhotsk Chasseun, 120 in number, commanded
by Lieutenant Rytoff, and supported by three com-
panies of the same regiment, leaving the ;battery
' near Peressype, scaled the Msmelon Vert, and
taking advantage of the enemy's attention being drawn
towards the part called the Pain-de-Sucre, upon which 60
volunteers, taken from the Chanson, directed themselves,
commanded by Major Saloff, our brave men occupied and
destroyed two lodgements upon the Mamelon Vert. The
enemy retreated upon his bath trenches; audible secret post,
situated at the Pain-de-Sucre, took to flight. Our men
succeeded even in demolishing the lodgement which had
been occupied by the secret post, and returned with • total
loss of 12 wounded.

." JOLT 18.—Throughout today, excepting a few short
intervals, the enemy kept up a cannonade, and in the night
threw some bombs, directed chiefly against Bastions Nos. 5
and 6, and against the Schwarts sod Tchesme redoubts,
which replied vigorously. The batteries on the northern
side also took part in this cannonade.
" ' JULY 19.—Towards three o'clock in the afternoon the
French batteries situated upon the left flank of the attack,
commenced a well•sustained fire against the Rostislaff re-
doubt and against the Bastion No. 5. On our side all the
works on the right Sack of the line of defence
kept up a fire out less sustained against the be-
siegers. At the end of a cannonade of two hours, the artil-
lery of the place silenced that of the adversary, after dis-
mounting several pieces, and damaging a part of hie
embrasures. Throughout the following night our works
kept up an incessant fire upon the works of the besiegers.
The observations made this day from the Volokboff Tower
led to. the discovery that the enemy had supplied with
artillery the batteries erected before Kamiesch Bey.
" Jut"' 20.—The fire of the besiegers was principally
directed against the first, third, and fifth sections of the line
of defence; in the night he threw a great quantity
of bombs upon the works and in the city. At
9 in the morning the enemy fired a globe de
oompressiox, and at 3 in the afternoon a foornorna of an
ordinary mine, both directed against Bastion No. 4, but
they did us no great harm. Against the other parts of the
Hoe of defence the works of the besiegers consisted in open-
ing some embrasures in the English battery created against
Bastion No. 3; pushing on his approach towards the Korni-
loff Bastion, and is constructing two more:new ►odgements
before that work. The fire from the works mentioned consi-
derably impeded their labours.
" ' JULY 21.—We have not observed any new approaches
on the part cf the enemy, but his advanced trenches were
considerably increased in depth, width, and height. At
10 o'clock in the morning be sprang a mine from his eaten-
noire against Bastion No. 4, which slightly damaged a por-
tion of our galleries.
"'JULY 28, HALF PAST Tax, P.ll.—Yesterday the
enemy opened a violent canuonade upon Bastion No. 4; his
' fire lasted two hours and a half, and we replied with equal
effact. "

The Jou►nal de Se. Pelersbourg also contains an
account of the third bombardment of Genitchi, on
July 19. The Russian Prince Labanoff-Rostovsky

withdrew his troops, it says, in order to avoid nunc-
canary loss of life.
Genitcbi was thus exposed, elm net without defence, to a
third bombardment. The Allies, strong by their fleet, after
destroying with impunity the farms and the fishermen's
huts on the shore, drew nearer the city, evacuated by the
by the troops, and abandoned by its inhabitants, and directed
their pxjectiles against the temple of God, built on this
place, and upon which they concentrated their fire.
Towards 9 o'clock in the evening, several bombs thrown
upon the church burst in the roof, and canted a fire, from
which the WI alone escaped.
On July 20, the two steamers and the two goo-buts,
keeping Genital in sight, took to sea.

AN ORDER OF THE DAY BY PRINCE
OORTCHAKOFF.

A letter from ()Jesse gives the following curious
order of the day, issued by General Gortehakoff
In the time of the earliest wars of the Russians, the arch-
priests and other ecciesiutica of the Orthodox church,
have given their benedictions to the troops who were armed
for the defence of the country. This benediction, which
called for the presence of the sacred images in the midst of
our regiments, was the source of all our successes against
the enemy of the country. Thus the sacred and
mirscolous image of the Holy Virgin, the Mother)
of God, from Smolensk°, gave by its presence in'
th, army a aeries of victories to our arms, and led
our soldiers from Moscow to Paris. Now that all our coun-
trymen pray with fervour for us, his Eminence, the Metro-
polite
Philarete de Kijeff, after the example of ancient
times, has just blessed the troops confided to my command,
by taking from the catacombs of Kijeff the sacred and mi-
raculous image, which represents the ascension of the
mother of God, our celestial intercessor, and which in bye-
gene times was conferred by the mother of God on that
temple as a pledge of the eternal protection which is granted
to orthodox Howie. By a particular disposition of God,
the arrival of the sacred image took place simultaneously
with that of his High Eminence lanokenti, Archbishop of
Kherson and Taurido, whom the dangers of war have not
prevented from visiting his flock, and giving his benediction
to the troops who defend Sebastopol with so much heroism- On
the Sth of this month, his Eminence, in the besieged e:ty,while
the enemy's cannon were roaring, bleated the troops of the
garrison and of tte forts; he blessed them with the sacred
image of St. Mitophan, and in eloquent words wished them
fresh successes and victory. In the firm conviction that the
present made to the city of Sebastopol reproduces the sacred
and miraculous picture Jf the ascension of the mother of
God, which is in the catacombs of Kijeff, and that the bene-
dictions of our erchpriesta will be for as the pledge of fresh
triumphs, let us add to our strength, valiant comrades, by
the idea that our cause is just, and that the Emperor and
the country found on your heroism and your inflexi-
bility a well-justified hope.
Paine' GOATCHAI.OFF 11.

The above order of the day wes read on the 220 d
tilt. to the garrison of the Northern Fort, and after-
wards to all the troops who occupy the south of
Sebastopol.

BERLIN, THURSDAY.
The Prince of Prussia arrived here yesterday from
St. Petersburg.
The Prince left in the evening for Erdmansdorff,
where he will give an acoonnt to the King of his in-
terview with the Emperor Alexander.

TRIESTE, THURSDAY.

The Allies are demolishing the fortifications of
Anapa, contrary to the wishes of the Circassians,
who are, however, unable to oppose the fleet.
General Vivian has gone to the Black Sea, to
choose a landing place for troops somewhere near
Batoum.

TURIN, THURSDAY.

General Guillaume Pepe is dead.
General Percy, who is appointed by the British
Government to organise the Italian Legion, has
suited.