The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-02 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Invalide Busse continues to publish Prince
Gortschakoff's account of the bombardment. It
says :

"To complete his telegraphic despatch, published on
the Bth (20th inst.), relative to the operations before
Sebastopol, from the 30th March (11th April) to the 3d
(15th) April, a report from Aide-de-camp General Prince
Gortschakoff, of this latter date, announces that the
enemy continue to cannonade the fortress with the
greatest vivacity during the day, and to bombard it
during the night. Notwithstanding the rapid! fire and
the concentration of the fire of their batteries, which
mount circa 350 guns, of which 80 are mortars, the loss
of our garrison cannot comparatively be considered very
great ; we have not had many guns dismounted, owing
to our fortifications being cut by a sufficient number of
traverses and to our batteries being sheltered by polings
(blindages).
" During the day the fire of our artillery is also inces-
sant • thanks to the coolness and skill with which it is
served, many of the enemy's guns have been dismounted,
awl the embrasures of some of the batteries knocked in.
All our damage is actively repaired during the night.
The dismounted guns are replaced by new ones, and the
losses of the garrison made good by reinforcements that
arrive, so that on the 3d (15th) April Sebastopol was as
strong as before'the bombardment."
To the above general statement of the heroic
deeds of the defenders of Sebastopol, Aide-de-
camp General Prince Gortschakoff adds some
details on the siege works, and on the operations
which have taken place durin o• the bombardment :
"On the 31st of March (12th' April) the enemy, in
superior numbers, made an attack upon the position
(logement) in front of bastion No. 5, but their first at-
tack was repulsed by the 2d battalion of the Chasseurs
de Kolyvan, under the orders of Lieutenant-Colonel
Temiriazeff. To explain the operations described below
it is indispensable to state that along the whole of our
line of defence small lorjemeirs (rifle pits) have been es-
tablished for our riflemen, situate nearer to the parallels
of the besiegers than to our own fortifications. The
enerny,fully appreciating the harm done byztliese rapidly
constructed defences, are now exerting every possible
effort to make us abandon them, but these attempt 4
cost them dearly, for on different occasions our advanced
chain has defeated them at the point of the bayonet, or
has drawn them under the sharp fire of grape of our
nearest works.

"On the above-named day, at 4 a.m., we managed an
explosion with the greatest success against the enemy's
galleries, directed towards Bastion No. 4. ( Nous fillies
muter on globe de compression.)
"In the night between the 31st of March and Ist of
April (12th to 13th April), the besiegers attempted to
carry the rifle pits situate in the ravine between Bastions
4 and 5. The riflemen of the Kolyvan and Catherine-
bourg regiments, who occupied them, charged them at
the point of the bayonet, and routed them.
" On the Ist (13th) April, our artillery silenced some
of the enemy's batter ieR, and blew up a powder magazine
in the great English battery, many of the embrasures of
which were destroyed.
" All this time the Allied fleet, consisting of 20 ships,
nine frigates, four corvettes, 22 stpainers, and four gun-
boats, remained inactive, anchored opposite Kamiesch
and Streietza bays ; but on the Ist (13th) April three
steamers were detached, which, after firing a few shots
at our fortifications, again rejoined the fleet.
" In the night between the let and 2d (13th and 14th)
April the garrison undertook works for connecting the
isolated rifle pits in front of bastions 5 and 6, so as to
take in flank and rear the trench dug by the besiegers
during the night between the 30th and 31st March
(11th-12th April).
" The enemy, perceiving this, twice attacked these
works, the second time with field artillery ;‘ but after a
hand-to hand fight and a discharge of grape they were
obliged to retire.
" Prince Gortsehakoff assures that these skirmishes
are quite to the taste of our volunteers, and offer them
opportunities for displaying their valour.
" On the same night, the besiegers attempted to carry
out a full sap, directed against the salient angle of Bas-
tion No. 4, but our file prevented them.
" On the 2d (14th) April, at daybreak, the enemy un-
masked two newly-constructed batteries, but, at the end
of two hours, our fire silenced one of them.

" In the night between the 2d and 3d (14th and 15th)
of April, our secret post established in the ravine be-
tween bastions 5 and 6, perceiving that the enemy had
commenced works near the cemetery, sent information
thereof to bastion No. 5.

" Five rounds of grape then silenced the works com-
menced, and, although they were resumed an hour
later, our grape again compelled the enemy to retire,
leaving 30 killed upon the ground. On the same night
the bombardment of the fortress was not so brisk.

" On the 3d (15th) April all the attempts of the be-
siegers to continue their works of full sap, or to convert
into trenches the rifle-pits in front of bastion No. 5, were
stopped by the well-directed fire of the artillery of the
place.
" The loss suffered by the garrison, from the 30th
March to the 3d April (11th to 15th April), consists in 7
subalterns and 436 men killed ; 6 superior officers, 34
subaltern officers, and 1,899 men wounded. Unhap-
pily, Lieut. Titoff, of the navy, Capt. Stchiegloff, of the
Tobolsk Regiment, Capt. Privatecheff, and Lieut. Sou-
kanhoff, of the Kolyvan Regiment, all distinguished
officers, are among the slain. Among the officers
seriously wounded are Colonel Zagoskine, com-
mander of the 10th artillery brigade, and who
commanded the land troops of the 2d section (of the
line of defence), Lieutenant-Colonel Terniriazeff, com-
mander of the Kolyvan Chasseurs (since dead), and Col.
Louschkoff, commander of the Volhynia regiment, most
intelligent officers, distinguished for personal valour."
Prince Gortschakoff concludes his report as fol-
lows :

"On beholding the intrepidity, it might be said even
the gaiety of the garrison of Sebastopol, in the midst
of the most distressing works, executed almost without
a moment's respite, under a terrible fire, which has con-
tinued without interruption for the last six days, it is im-
possible not to feel proud of bearing the name of Russian."
An extraordinary supplement of the Invalide
Russe publishes the following despatch from Prince
Gortschakoff, the substance of which we have
already published
Aide-de-Camp General Prince Gortschakoff an-
nounces from Sebastopol, under date of the 7th (19th)
April, by telegraph from Sieff, that the fire of the enemy
was slacker during the 4tb, sth, and 6th (16th, 17th,
and 18th) April, than on the preceding days. Our bat-
teries replied with success, especially by a very sharp
firs against the ground in front of Bastion 4, so as to
obstruct the works renewed with energy by the besiegers
on that point.
" Our damage is repaired during the night.
"In the nigh( between the 6th and 7th (18th and
19th) of April a sortie was made by a battalion to de-
stroy the approaches nearest to the place. It was crowned
with complete success, and attended with little loss.
" In general the losses of the garrison during the last
few days have been less than on the preceding days."

RUSSlA.—Advices from St. Petersburg of the 21st of
April sLte that the weather was mild, and that the ice
in the Neva had broken up on the preceding day. Open
water was therefore expected in about a fortnight at
Cronstadt. From Riga the dates are to the 23d of April,
when the weather was fine, but cold. There was only
9 feet of water on the bar, and some dredging would be
required in order to get vessels lying at Bolderaa to sea.
"The British Admiralty," it is remarked, " who at first
permitted them to proceed, now make some restriction►,"
THE LATE REGENT'S-PARK DIORAMA.—The sprendid
building in Regent's-park, known as the Diorama, was
yesterday converted by solemn services into a Baptist
chapel, the principal portion of thenecessary funds hav-
ing been supplied, it is understood, by Sir Samuel Mor-
ton Peto, M.P. The Rev. Wm. Landells of Birming-
ham is to be the officiating minister of the newly-formed
place of worship.
BURANELLI, THE MURDERER.—A post mortent exami-
nation of the body was made on Monday by the medical
superintendent of St. Luke's Hospital, when. the
brain and its membranes were found to be perfectly
healthy, thus confirming the opinion of the jury as to
the sanity of the man, and his consequent responsibility
for the crimes into which his vicious nature had impelled
him.