The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-25 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

We have received the St. Petersburg journals of
the 17th of April.
A supplement to the Irmalide Russe publishes
the following :
.. .

" A report from Aide-de-Camp General Prince Gort-
schaluiff, dated March 25 (April 6), confirms his former
despltch on the situation of affairs before Sebastopoln up
to that date.

" The works of the besiegers advance generally with
extreme circumspection, and very slowly.
" The enemy has not undertaken new approaches
against the Selinghinsk and Volhynia Redoubts, but it
does not cease to cannonade them from his old batteries.
His chief fire is directed against the Kamtschatka Lu-
nette, against which the French have brought some field
pieces to bear in their approaches. .
" The obitinacy with which our troops defend those
advanced fortifications, which are nearer the enemy's
parallels than the ramparts of Sebastopol, is deserving of
the highest praise.
" ' Nothing of importance has occurred on other
points of the peninsula.' "
" This day 4th (16th) April, the following telegraphic
despatch has been received by way of Kieff, from Selias-
topol, from Aide-de-Camp-Gen ,ral Prinne G.,rtschakoff
" From the 26th to 28th March (6th to 9th Apri)
the enemy undertook nothing important, and scarcely
advanced his works against our entrenchments and
counter approaches.

• .
" On the 28th March (9th April) he opened a heavy
fire from alt his batteries, which continued till evening.
During the night the town was vigor:Jusly bombarded.
" ' On the 29th March (10th April) the bombardment
was renewed. We replied with success, doing condder-
able damage to the enemy. The loss ou our side amounts
to 833 men killed and wounded." "

A letter from Hamburg, of
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" The six English steamers
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Des-
perate, with the transport Mercator and the war corvetManly, were on the 15th at Elsinore. The English cap-
tains tains are endeavourinz to procure on those shores l
ex-
perienced pilots for the fleet of Admiral Dundas, which
is hourly expected at Copenhagen. Generals Paniutine
and Dik, commanding each an army corps stationed in
Poland, and who bad been summoned to Warsaw to
receive instfuctions from Marshal Paskiewitch,
thenitir
r
spective corps. All the Russian officers of the Guard
then at Warsaw, on Imre, bad been ordered to rejoin

their regiments, which were quartered round that city
to the distance of about 16 miles. It was ieleried from
the unusual movement observed for some dabs in the
staff of the army at Warsaw that some extraordinary
event was at hand. The Marshal received regu-
larly every day despatches fr 'ni Vienna, and read
all those forwarded to St. Petersburg. Neverthe-
less, a'though, on the 16th, all the co.nmanders of
troops in Poised had been ordered to return to their
posts, no movement of concentration had as yet taken
place on that day. Iturnen-e quantities of pr,vi-
sions are being stored at Riga and Revel for
the army of the Baltic, the organisation of which
is progressing rapidly. Along the entire coast of the
Gulf of Finland, between Libau and Cronstadt, there is
an extraordinary movement of troops of all arms. Re-
vel, being nearer Cronstadt than Riga, was last year
considerably fortified. The General-in-Chief of the new
army of the Baltic appears to have deemed the works
not sufficiently strong to resist a serious attack on the
part of the combined fleets. Hundreds of labourers and
soldiers have been occupied since the beginning of
March in erecting additional defences, which extend a
considerable distance inland, and are spacious enough to
protect an entire army corps. Wesenberg and Wiesen-
stein have been also placed in a respectable state of de-
fence, in order to arrest the progress of the enemy into
the country. The Russian engineers thought proper to
cover Estlionia with fortifications, on account of its
I vicinity to St. Petersburg."