The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-28 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Invalide Busse announces and explains th•
evacuation of Anapa :
"As far back as March of last year, when the enemy's
fleets entered the Black Sea, it was deemed indispensable
to suppress the greater number of the fortresses along
the coast. All these points have been occupier, by us solely
with the object of keeping in check the mountaineers
of the coast, and not to defend the coast against
powerful fleets of the Maritime Powers of Europe.
Garrisons were left only at Anapa and Novorossiisk,
because those two points having safe land communica-
tions with the Caucasus line, could be evacuated at a
short notice if the events of the war should render such
an evacuation necessary. _

"Now that the enemy has occupied Kertch and Yeni-
kale, and possesses a powerful squadron, with troops on
board, in so close vicinity to Anapa and Novorossiisk,
he might easily in a very short time land the latter on
the Caucasian shore, and thus place our fortresses in
imminent danger. In fact, Novorossiisk, defended only
uy field fortifications, to guarantee it against the attacks
of the mountaineers, and Anapa itself, an old Turkish
fortress, of irregular construction, offered none of the
desired conditions for any chance of success against a
double attack by land and sea by an enemy with a power.
fal artillery and naval force at command ; consequently,
a longer occupation of those points and the defence of
their lines of communication could not have had any
other result than to prevent us giving to a considerable
portion of our troops a destination more suitable to the
moment.

" From these considerations Aide-de-Camp General
Chomoutoff, Ataman locust tenens of the Cossacks of the
Don, who holds the chief command in the territory of
the Cossacks of the Black Sea, resolved on the 17th
(29th) of Mey to evacuate first Novorossiisk as the point
most distant from the Kuban, and then submitted to a
council of war convoked by him the question of how far
the occupation of Anapa was necessary.
"Taking into consideration the weakness of the works
of defence of the fortress, the difficulty of maintaining a
strong garrison there owing to the deficiency of water, the
necessity there would be of organising there an active
reserve to keep up the communications with that de-
tached point, and, finally, the circumstance that the
advantages its occupation afforded had ceased to exist,
the council of war, which, under the presidency of
General Chomoutoff, consisted of Lieut.-General Kozlov-
sky, in temporary command of the troops on the Cau-
casus and of the Cossacks of the Black Sea, Vice-Admi-
ral Serebriakoff, Major-General Lobko, and Colonels of
the Staff Doubrovo and Sitschinsky, decided on the 22d
of May (3d June), that Anapa should be evacuated, and
its garrison transferred to the territory of the Cossacks
of the Black Sea.
"Conformable to that decision of the council of war
Anapa was immediately evacuated ; everything con-
nected with the hospital and offices that could be easily
removed was carried off; the guns were rendered un-
serviceable, the fortifications blown up, the buildings set
fire to, ant on the 28th May (9th of June) the garrison
was finally withdrawn. Its retreat was happily effected.
Simultaneously with the evacuation of Anapa the neigh-
bouring stanitsas of the military transkuban colonists
were suppressed.
" The measure taken by Aide-de-Camp Gan. Chomou-
toff will, under actual circumstances, have the essential
advantage of concentrating all his forces the better to
defend the country under his command, and to repuise
the attacks of the enemy against it."
The Invalide Busse also announces the attack
upon Marioupol and Yeisk (Gheisk) by the allied
squadrons. It adds—.

" Oa the 7th of June the squadron also appeared be-
fore Temruk, but a strong wind sprung up, which soon
became a tempest, and compelled the ships to go out to
sea."

The Northern, Bee of St. Petersburg, of the 18th,
says :

" General Krasnoff annexes to his report of the 6th
that of Lieut,•Col. Kastrinkoff, commanding a regiment
of Cossacks, whieii is dated the 5Lh, aryl '4;1,3'8 Ma-
rioupol yest.N.tlay shared the fate of Tagatiro4. OP the
4th, at half-past, six in the evening,- several enemy's
steamer 3, whiel►•liad (mine from Taganrog, took up a po.
sition in the roa,istead of Marioupol, and on the follow-
ing morning they committted the crime of bombarding
our innocent and defenceless town. Without entering
into the details of this infernal aotion, Lieut.-Col. Kastrin

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koff confines himself to declaring that long before the
bombardment almost all the inhabitants had had time
to leave the town, and that the treasures belonging to
the Crown bad been saved. The commandants of the
line of advanced posts on the coast informed General
Krasnoff that the same ves'sel afterwards returned to
Taganrog, probably with the intention of renewing their
criminal attacks. Convinced that the enemy are not
yet satisfied with pillage and destruction, I am,' he says,
`taking the necessary measures to prevent them from
obtaining a footing on the soil of our Holy Russia.' "
The Military Governor of St. Petersburg had
issued the following notification of the movements
of the allied squadron in the Gulf of Finland :--
"On the 3d (15th) June a screw liner and a frigate of
the enemy were cruising off Cronstadt.
"On the 4th (16th) June there was no change visible
in the position of the fleet,"