The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-17 00:00:00

DESPATCH FROM PRINCE GORTCHAKOFF.

(From the Invalids Rune.)
A report has been received front the Aide-de-t...
General Prince Gortchakoff, dated April 30, con.
'plating his telegraphic despatches already published.
He says :
On the 24th of April the enemy's fire was mainly dl-
rested en the Central and Quarantine bastions, and on the
endoebta awl Jedguesta in their front. From the 25th to
the illOth the be el the besiegers w on the whole moderate.'
I'b• slumbered meta pat hers de combat, killed and wounded,
or mettassi, alneants to hem 100 to 176 daily.
The appessehes et the enemy meet with a powerful ob.
stein in the be etas esilikry of the place, and of the
musketry kcal eat led sews, which prevents their ad-
'man ; on the esesey's side the mining operations against
the Flagstaff beetles have bees confined to the explosion of
a miss on the verge of their central crater, with a view to
destroy one of oar galleries ; but the explodes did them
more damage then us, for it only destroyed dee het it ear
pliery, which was immediately repaired, whilst it destroyed
a portion of the enemy's crater.
-To prevent the French occupying an misses* situate
40 or 60 eagles@ in 'deems of the Central Belden, and
upon which they might easily haw ocemtreeted a battery
whisk would have taken is lank, at short rasp, half of
the tight fate of the Flagstaff Bastion, we coosetusted, us-
der the enemy's fire, in five days, two stress trembet,with
a private communication between them.
Those works were commenced in the night between the
24th and 26th of April ; special detachments were Wrested
with the operation, and they were supported by three bat-
talions of the Infantry Regiment Catheriathourg sad by
two battalions of the Aloxopol Chassesre, under the elder
sessmand of the bravo Major-General Khroustekeff. Ccea-
'Deader of the Find Brigade of the 16th Infantry
who already distinguished himself by his courage and talent
at the time of the defeat of the enemy when they attacked
the Seliaghinsk and Volbynla redoubts, on the night be-
tween the 24th and 26th March last.
On the 24th, at eight p.m. whilst our detachments
• their supportswere Wei prepared, the besiegers
opened a violent fire of musketry upon the works under
construction, end, after various rounds, made a charge upon
them in great force. Having driven back our advanced
troops, they commenced destroying the lodgments.
But then, by order of Major-General Kbssossiteff, Lino
tenant-Colossi Begseasky, in oosussad at the Ostluriss•
bong; Regiment, with drams beating awl MI Wised%
charged the French with the bayonet at the bead et ewe
lbattalion of his regiment, and drove them' beck. At aims
o'clock the enemy renewed the attack ; they were reesived,
I however, by a well-sustained lire, and compelled to rodeo to
their trenches, from which they kept up a fire of =Asti"
during the whole of the night.
Nevertheless the half destroyed lodgments remained in
our possession. Towards the morning of the 26th they
were already repaired, strengthened, and two new ones con-
structed behind the former ones. _

The vigour with which we maintained pessimism of these
works, and their qoastruetion under the very Mass fire of
the enemy, does the greatest honour to oar hugs and to
Major-General Klirousteheff, wider whose they
were oomsaiuseed. At different times our man hod to drive
hack the French at the point of the ha awl every
night the latter direct a heavy fire of artillery awl swasiestry
on this point. is thew engsgesnswe we have unhappily to
deplete among others the loss of °again Lysol& a young
oilier of brilliant pieta and of great gnostise.
Davin all this time, from the Ma Os the 30th of April,
the immay's lint remained et seam es before, mod did not
attempt mashie. assist ilsbesetpth
Beilythieg is Ole am ether Foists of the_psiniesula.
la terminal. this report, Aidelie-Camp Genseal Prince
Gortehakoff amiswes that on the 29th April, the anniver-
sary of the birthday of his Majesty the Emperor, after
divine Nuns cad a To DPISM in the priaeipal church of
&bamboo, be presses, of the commander and all the oM-
sae of the gamine, and after offering up prayers for the
gesesrealiss of the days of his Majesty, aad of all the
august imsethen of the imperial family, a salvo of 101
samosa balls we fired against the sway in honour of the
secede&