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

RUSSIA.

We have received the St. Petersburg journals of
the 29th September.
The substance of the following telegraphic de-
spatch has already been given, but the version in
the Invalide Busse is somewhat different from that
transmitted by the wires :
The Invalide says--
""under date of the 26th of September Prince Gort-
schakoff has forwarded the following despatch :
" 'Yesterday the enemy left Eupatoria in considerable
force, amounting, according to the evaluation of the
General of Cavalry Schahelsky, to about 33,000 men,
and occupied on one side the village of Saki and on the
other the villages of Schabak, Orta-Mamai, and Tup-
Satruti, but after noon they withdrew. Oar outposts,
which bad momentarily fallen back, then resumed their
positions.
" 'Nothing new has taken place on our left flank.
" 'The enemy are increasing the fire of their mortars
against the north side of Sebastopol.
" .1 successful skirmish has taken place near Kertch,
between our Cossacks and an Anglo-French foraging
party. Twenty•five English and French hussars were
made prisoners in this affair.'
A telegraphic despatch, via Berlin, Oct. 7, pub-
lished in the Constitutionnel, says :
"The Invalide Russe, of the 30th of September, pub-
lishes a report from General "Mouravieff, to the effect
that on the 11th of September that General defeated
3,000 Turks 'and took prisoner the brave Ali Pasha.
He is, moreover, said to have captured four guns and
three standards.
" The Turks are said to !lave lost 400 men in this
affsir."

Another despatch says :
"An order of the Emperor Alexander prohibits the
exportation of coame grey cloth or any other colour„ by
the laud frontier of Poland and of European Russia."
No mention is made in the Russian bulletins of
the cavalry engagement at Eupatoria.
The Moscow Gazette announces the departure of
the Empress of Russia and her family from that
capital on their return to St. Petersburg.
MOSCOW, Sept. 25.—Tho idea of creating a new
steam navy at Nicolaieff to replace the Black Sea
fleet,
so ingloriously sunk and destroyed at Sebas-
topol, pompously announced. by the Russian or-

gans, seems likely to prove a failure, for it cannot
remain a secret that the resources of the country
are not of a nature to admit of ships of war being
built with the celerity so desirable. There are no
stores of dry and seasoned timber at Nicolaieff
suitable for shipbuilding. Whenever a stock is
required the Minister makes a contract with some
favourite, or whoever pays him the most handsome
bribe, who makes an advantageous sub-contract,
and thus the affair may pass through the hands of
ten or a dozen different persons, each of whom
makes
.a pretty picking of a Government contract ;
and when at length the timber is floated dow n
the Dnieper from up the country, it is found
to be quite green, full of sap, and generally
cut at the wrong time of the year ; consequently,
perfectly worthless, and totally unfit for imme-
diate use. The Emperor's shipbuilders at Nico-
laieff may celebrate the presence of their sove-
reign by laying down the keel of a 131-gun ship,
to compete with the Royal Albert, but the day of
its completion is far distant.