The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1855.

ADMIRAL LYONS AT TAOANROO.

The Journal de St. Pettriboinv publishes the fol-
lowing report from Lieutenant-General Krasnoff:
TAGANROG, Jona 3.
On the let and tad instant ten hostile steaming arrived in
the roads of Taganrog, and east anchor at the direst* of 16
minus (t worst equal to 5 ferioegs 12 poles) from the two.
Oa the 2nd towards the evening they were joined by a name-
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rows I hills of steamers and gunboats, end oa the 3rd, at 8
o'clock is the morning, the entire hostile fore* approached
the town. Four steamers took is tow some 60 of the small
boats, end cause within 1 went of On town. A yawl beerieg
• white flag having approached the Woronzoff leading place
with par.ementeires, I sent to demand why they were
come. I received for answer a summons to deliver up the
town of T■gsnrog, and to order my troops to leave it, as
otherwise it would be seized by the landing troops with force.
On the other band, it was promised that after the surrender
of the town the p ble inhabitants should be well
treated, and their property spared; but this provisions,
stores, end esteb!ishments of the Crows would be destroyed.
After consulting with Major 0 1 Count Tolstoi, Gover-
nor of Tegenrog,l ordered& reply to be" made that military
bonoor forbade me to surrender without ;combat • town

committed to me for defence, that our troops were ready to
die for the Emperor, and that if the enemy really wished Mil
spare the peaceable inhabitants he might land and soup ost-
aide the town the battle which should decide who should be
its mastere.".But the parlementaires had scarcely rejoiced
the flitilla when the enemy opened fire at half-past aloe
against ocr ancient tortreu, although there estate now in
that building only hospitals, over which the proper hosp3ll
fi ,g was waving. In the interval I had taken the following
assumes to defend the town : the defence of the principal
approach by the merited hill, leading from the quay to
Greek-street, I confided to Major-General Count Tolstoi
The detra•battalion of the puritan of Ta/smog bad been
posted near the escarpment, with about two hundred
Civilians hastily armed. In cue of an attack Count Tolstoi
was to advance with his infantry and three centurions et
Dos Cossacks. charge the enemy with the bayonet and
overthrow him, while a regiment was to take the
enemy in Sauk and so diode the affair. But in.'
Stead of descendiog as expected, the allies, after having'
bu. their steamers and fifty gunboats to bear
emits the dockyard, commenced an infernal cannonade,
abide was kept up for 611 ours. At the same time seven
al the enemy's large semis, armed with enormous Psi:bans
pm sad Cooper, rockets, remained anchored at • die-
inater, and concentrated their fire upon the town. Nothing
was turd but the roar of cannon, the bursting of 'hells.
The town was set on fire at CAI Bourse, in Greek-street, and
at the Gostinoi-road; and at half-past three the assailants
landed about 300 men, whom they seat towards the height
near the church of the Cur Coast .ntioe. This detachment
sommeneed a rifle fire behind some bushes, but at the Pith
old stement Count Tolstoi, confiding a company to Lieut.-
Colostel Mekedeasky, ordered hue to repulse the enemy.
Thu distinguished officer placed his men in an include,
protected by an orchard, instantly forced the enemy's in-
(entry to retire, then charging them vigorously with the
bayonet, routed and drove them down to their boats. The
I squadron then opened a *Me fire, which however only
lasted a quarter ...f an hour. The allies havirg convinced
themselves of the imposaibility of overeanitog Ennis*
troops by a mere cannonade, withdrew to a distance of II
werats preen the town, and on the following day put to sea,
making for llarloupol.
That ended this fresh act of impotent animosity directed
against a p actable and commercial city, which for so many
years had supported the West with its splendid wheat—
seminal a city that ought to have been sacred for England,
France, and especially Sardinia, in remembrance of the last
days of the Emperor Altiander, who bad heaped so many
beneflu upon that nation.
By the mist special favour el God our lose during this
bombardment was inconsiderable; a Cossack was killed;
the Bub Lieutenant Vakoff, attached to the ha,f battalion
in garrison, was severely wounded by two rile bullets in the
chest and head; the collegiate &suitor, Baron Franck,
attached to the military governor, Count Tolst‘i, received
a contusion in the head from the splinter of a shell, and
Major Bustnko, the head of the Taganrog police, had his
horse killed under him, and himself received a contusion ;
twelve men were wounded. Inquiries are being made, so as
to ascertain the number of the inhabitants lilted or
wounded, and of the houses burned or destroyed.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg contains the fol-
lowing news from the Crimea and the coast of the
Sea of Azoff :
The journal of the military operations in the Crimea in
faced yesterday (June 9), from Aide-de•Camp General
Priam Oortehakoff, contains the following details, which
4111111110ite his telegraphic despatch of June 3.
Before Sebastopol, from the 29th of May to the 3rd of
Jane, the besiegers have maintained but a very feeble
cannonade, which it increased fur a bilef interval
((ea June 1 for instance), especially against the
Qaarasiine Elation end the adjacent batteries. During
Ilse whole of this time our loss has been Witter.
00 wme days not greater than six, and that of the wounded
Wye. The enemy was busy in constructing fresh bat-
teries against the Flagstaff, Central, and Quarantine
bastions, and against the Mamelen lunette ; he completed
his trenches and actively d on his works in the bays
lof Kamiesh and Strelets. The explosions of small mining
itibainbers by the enemy against the Flagstaff bastion did u-
se h.rm, as was previously the case. On our side, we re-
paired the fortifications, ooastructed two fresh batteries and
time lodgments for the tharpshooten, effected a nom-
municatins between the redoubts of Selinghiask and
Tethys* sad advanced considerably the musing works
is front of the Central and Qterantine bastions.
Oa the 29:b of May, the enemy endeavoured to take one
of oar new lodgments near the Belinghiesk redoubt ; but,
!wised by the fire of our sharpshooters and of 90 men
from Count Diebitsh Zabalkaosky's regiment of infantry,
that had come to their stveour, he retired, leavieg In our
hands one wounded man and 5 muskets.
All was quiet in the detachment of Tchorgoun and before

&malaria.
In what concerns the operations of the enemy's squadron
in the Sea of AILS, the details transmitted to us by
• de-de-Camp General Prince Gortchakoff are, for
Ms most part, already known by his previous telegraphic
&spathes. In general, the entrants of oar enemies into
*k sea, announced so bombastically by them, hes been
dgnalised merely by the inglorieas devastation of our
masts, and the distraction of a few corn-magesines. But
la ben had in no respect the influence they anticipated on
eM pnersl progress of our operations is the Crimea. This
event was not unezmoted by us ; in feet, owing to local
circumstance., it was impossible to take measures for the
defence of Kerteh, with merely our land forms, spinet
my squadrons of the enemy stronger than usual. In case'
of • devout being made by c piderable forms the garri-
MIS of Kertch and Yenikele had previously received orders
to abandon and blow up the batteries of the coast, sou to pre-
vent their falling into the power of Me enemy loom detriment.
Therefore, as he had long expeeted rims Mewl as the'
part of the allies against the Sea of &PC, and ss hs. nee-
withstanding, deemed it immediate to keep I& aides hese
In • state of concentration, rather than disperse it fee
guarding all the coast-line, Prince Gort• bakoff had made
arrangements for having the greater part of the p Daisies;
destined for the troops in the Crimea beeleght to them by
land, notwithstanding all the advantages possessed by
water-carriage. In compasses among the cern mew
sines and the ships burned by this enemy along the sass
of the Sea of Asa!, there was but • small number
of those intended for carrying provisions for the troops. At
this int, as last year in the Sallie it has been the private
property of individuals that has chiefly suffered from the
cruelty of the enemy.
After making its appearance, as is well known, before
Berdiansk, Gueeitchi, and Arabs?, the allied squadron
made the town of Taganrog, celebrated (Jr its corn trade,
the new goal of its operations. bat here also this squadron
met with unespeeted resistance. The town was held by •
weak detachment of troops, under the superior eciemnand of
Lieut.-Gen. Krasnoff.

Ttittm.—A letter from Tunic of the 6th in the
Monitnis, says :—" Mohammed Bey to inaogurated kis
at:v.Bl4.in to power by soma administrative reforms isbidl
are, it it said, only the prelude to others still MOTO impor.
taut which be has in contemplation. The duty levied by this
government on the corn crops has been considerable di.
minishod, the redaction amounting to as much as 50 per
cent, on whey!, and 69 per cent. on barley. This duty is
estimated befits the harvest by agents who szasnias the
crops and flu the quantity to be paid in kind
by each grower. Another measure, not less advan-
, tageous, is a reduction of from 25 to 61 ear
conL of the duty on cattle, camels, mules, to ,
sold in the public markets, and which is paid by
the slur. Two monopolies, those of the manufacture of
lime and of bricks, haws also been abolished, so that any tuts
may now make those articles. The new Bey bus sot at
liberty • prince of his family, has only sow of &di Odium
Bev, assassinated in the eight of the 20th of December,
Tais prism, who was at that period only five yews
of age, has been ever since kept in close confinement is the
Palace of the Bade by the differ's% Beys who have seer
ended to the throne of Tunis sines the tragical death of his
father. Mohammed Bey has also ro•opeasd tho routs of
justice, which had remained closed for nearly three yeses,
during the illness of his perineum'. Every day, elixir*
Friday. any owe who has complaints to brie ir forward may
bo beard by the Bey hilaso.f, who immediately decides on
earl us cues. This has given the greatest
satisfaction."
The Canadian government has appropriated 6,0001.
gm the purchase of sued wheat, to distribute among desti-
tute settlements.