The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-19 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The St. Petersburg papers, of the 10th inst.,
contain an Imperial manifesto, ordering. a fresh
levy of troops on a more extensive scale than usual.
The following is the text. :

" We, Alexander the Second, by the grace of God
Emneror, &c.
" Ipastnuch as we, under the presant circurn,tances
f the war, c0.,-.lder it intli.penga.`,le t-t maintain our
armies a:,d fl.t.ts at their full complement, we emu-
—an.l—

1. The 13th partial levy, to the extent of 12 men
for evny 1,000 souls, shall he carried into execution
,in the basis of the ukase in this case specially addressed
to the A•lm;nistrative Senate in the following 17 Go-
vernments of the we•tern half of the empire :—Karkoff,
E-thland, Gro Inn, Kieff, Kowno, Cour.
land, Lifland, Mi,,sk, Mohileff, Podolia, Poltowa, Pskoff,
Tscllernigoff, Wilra, Witepsk, and Vo'lp.nia. 2. The
levy is to commence on June 13, 1855, and to finish on
.Tuly 13,h of the same year. 3 The Hebrews are to
be exempted from furnishing any recruits to this levy.
"Given at St. Petersburg, May 6 (April 24th in
the year 1855 after the birth of Christ, and in the Ist of
our reign. "ALEXANDER."
_ _

The-ukase which was addressed at the same time
to the Administrative Senate is as follows :

" By a manifesto issned to-day we have ordered the
execution of the 13th alternate partial levy of recruits in
17 governments of the western half of the empire, and
commend therefore-1. This levy is to begin on June
13, 1855, and to he ended by July 13, 1855. 2. The
money for providing the recruits with uniforms is to be
levied on the parties furnishing recruits, according to the
amount which those uniforms cost the commissariat de-
partment,—that is to say, 10 roubles 20 copecs silver.
"The military arrangements we have confided to our
Minister of War, and the successful execution and com-
pletion of th;s levy within the appointed time we commit
to the provident care of the Administrative Senate.

"ALEXANDER.
" St. Petersburg, May 6, 1855."
We have received the St. Petersburg journals of
of the 11th inst.

The invalide Russe publishes the following
" Aid--&-Catnp General Prince Gort4enakotf hag
sent, via Kieff, the following despatch, dat4d Sebastopol,
April 26 (6th May) :

Froin the 214 to the 24th April (31 to 6th May),
the enemy was chiefly occupied with increasing his bat-
teries, and strengthening the epaulments of his ap-
proaches against bastion 5. His heaviest fire was di-
rected against that bxstion and against bastion 4, and
the Sehnghinsk and Volbynia redoubts, but we replied
with success.

" Moreover, on the night between the 21st and 22d
April (34 to 4th May) the enemy fired two mines to
unite hie former entonnoirs, but that operation cawed t•
no damage ; on our side we annoyed thou ene ny with
smoke balls on different points of hig entonnoin.
"On the night between the 23,1 and 24th (sth and
6th May) a successful little sortie wag made from the
third section of links of defence, in which we took an
English officer and three men prisoners ; within these
few days our fire blew up three of the enemy's powder
mairazine,4.

"In the evening of the 21st of April (May 3) a por-
tion 4,f the enemy's fleet stood nut to sea with troons
nn hoard, estimated at. from 10,000 to 15,1)00 men, with
the intention of effectin, landirut. On the following
day the sqoalron pas-ed Yalta, taking, it was presumed,
the direction of Anapa."