The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

RUSSIAN DESPATCHES.

A supplement to the I avatide Pulse of Aug. 18,
received by extraordinary express, contains the fol-

lowing :—_

--NEWS FROM ASIATIC TUJRKEY.

111 a report of July 23, dated from the camp near
the village of Tikme, Aide-de-Camp General Mou-
ravieff narrates the details of two reconnoitring
expeditions happily executed on July 15 and July
21, by the flying detachments of Major-General
Baklanoff and Colonel Kamkoff, commander of the
combined regiment No. 2 of the Cossacks of the
line. The object of these operations was to enclose
inure than ever the entrenched camp of Kars, and
to isolate the army of Anatolia, confined there,
from the provinces, which it ought to defend, and
from whence it could receive provisions.
Major-General Baklanoff's detachment left the
camp of Tikme on July 15, turned the eastern
'ide of Kars, and, showing itself on the north of
the place, dispersed a party of the enemy's foragers,
near the place where the Berdyk brook throws it-
self into the Kars Tchai. In this rencontre two
Turkish officers and seven men were taken prisoners
and seven Turks were killed.

Our detachment debouching then upon the Ar-
daban route reached the village of Blijny-Djealous
on the 16th of July, after a march of 50 versts, and
on the 17th appeared upon the principal route
leading from Kars to the sandjak of Ghel, where
it took some prisoners. On the 18th Major-Gene-
ral B tklanoff rejoined the main body of our forces
after exploring all the roads to the north of Kars
to a cor.siderable distance, and spreading alarm in
the neialibouring country without experiencing
the least loss.

Colonel Kamkoff obtained an equal success in his
excursion upon the Ghel route, the only communi-
cation which the garrison of Kars has preserved
with Erzeroutn. During this movement the elders
of the wandering Kurdish tribes received our troops
with bread and salt. Colonel Kamkoff, penetrat-
ing a great way in the parts little known of the
sandjak of Ghel, compelled the enemy's convoys,
who were pursuing this route, to disperse, and in-
terrupted every movement upon the route of Ghel,
so especially important to the army of Anatolia.
The straitened position of this latter army begins
to show itself by desertion ; the soldiers take refuge
not only in the neighbouring villages, but even in
our camp. At Kars the price of bread has tripled
in one month.

TILE RUSSIAN ADVANCE ON ERZEROUM.

The Presse d'Orient of Aug. 16 contains the fol-
lowing letter from a special correspondent at Tre-
bizond

TREBIZOND, Aro. 7.
Our anxiety continues ; we wait from hour to
hour the news of some grave event.
According to our last news from Erzeroum the
Russians, as I announced to you, had crossed the
Soghauli-Dagh. This has caused much astonish-
ment here, because the passes of the ridges of the
Soghanli mountain are difficult, and can easily be
defended by a small force. The troops at the dis-
posal of Mahommed Pacha at Erzeroum were suffi-
cient to stop the enemy at this point. The Rus-
sian brigade which reached the eastern declivities
of Soghanli-Dagh did not attempt this passage
alone ; it waited first for the brigade from Molla-
S oleyman.
This difficult position has then been crossed with-
out difficulty by the enemy. . . . It then
advanced upon Keupri-Keni, five hours' march
from Erzeroum, and the next day, August 3, to
Hassan-Kaleh, three hours' march from the city.
Everything tends to the belief at Erzeroum that
the city will be very soon attacked. Mahommed
Pacha has gone to meet the enemy. He has assem-
bled the troops, and has marched to meet the Rus-
sians at two leagues from Erzeroum, accompanied
by all the Bashi-Bazouks already:arrived. Matters
rest there ; a rencontre is imminent. The spirit of
the soldiers is good, and unless some unforeseen acci-
dent occur the enemy will find that he has not done
well to march to Erzeroum, and will encounter a
serious resistance before the unfinished fortifica-
tions of the city.
The population, as you may imagine, is in a
state of great anxiety ; many of the inhabitants
have left. ; some merchants have already arrived
here. The English consul is preparing to with-
draw, and the archives of the consulate have been
transferred for the present to Gumuch-Hane. The
French consul, M. Castagne, will not come to Tre-
bizond ; it is said he will go to the south. All that
we have here of ammunition, arms, and provisions
is leaving incessantly for Erzeroum.