The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-04 00:00:00

THE BOMBARDMENT OF GENITCIII.

The In valide .Russe says—
" The report which accompanied the journal of opera-
tions contains later details of the hostilities against Ge•
nitchi from the 22d to the 27th June (4th to 9th July).
" On the morning of the 223 of June (4th of July) a
French steamer arrived before Genitchi, and wit h a gun-
boat, opened a heavy fire acrainst the town, which lasted
from 10 in the morning ti!l 2 p.m. In the evening they
were joined by a corvette. During the night these vessels
did not fire, but on the 23d of June (sth of July), at 3.30
a.m., they commenced bombarding the town, firing by
prefererice against the building containing the corps de
garde and against the reserve placed upon the incline
which leads from the town to the port. At noon a screw
frigate appeared at sea, about 10 versts off Genitschi. On
a signal given by her, the steamer and corvette ceased
firing, joined her, and about 3 p.m. they disappeared in
company, leaving only the gun-boat before the town,
which did not fire during the day, but which fired rockets
at night and a shell which broke the cable of the ferry
boat. During the bombardment we had no mon killed,
the troops remained in the town, and the passage of salt
waggons which had remained at the other side of the
strait was happily effected during the night.
"On the 24th of June (6th of July), at 3 p.m., a
squadron was signalled out at sea, steering towards the
town, consisting of two screw-frigates, two steamers, two
screw-brigs, and two steam bratzers (small boats for land-
ing troops). Prince Labanoff, in command of the troops
at Genitcbi, ordered those in the town to take up a po-
sition on the beach, and ordered five sloops from Azoff
to cast anchor opposite the entrance to the Putrid Sea.
"On the evening of the same day two gen-boat§ with
guns of heavy calibre joined those already before the
town. The rest of the squadron remained iri line at a
distance of about ten versts from the post 4vTupying the
space between the Spit to the island of Birutchevsky
All these arrangements made Prince Labanoff sup-
pose that the enemy intended effecting a land-
ing, or to force the entrance of the Sivasch (Putrid
Sea), through the Tchougar Straits. During
the whole of the next day, 25th of June (7th of July),
two gun-boats and a. French steamer bombarded Ge-
nitchi, firing by preference on the finest houses of the
place. The enemy, it seems, had no concerted plan, for
as yet only two or three vessels had approached the
town ; the number of those at sea varied at different
times of the day.
3,1" During the night between the 26th and 27th of
June (Bth to 9th July) the gun-beats and the steamer
opened a very heavy fire ; sho% and shell fell into the
Slobodka, where the troops were quartered. On the
27th (9th of July), at noon, one of the gun-boats went up
the coast where the Slobodka is situate, and having
reached the Cape which closes the gulf of Genitchi, she
fired a shell, which burst and wounded a soldier of the
6th reserve battalion of the Moscow Regiment.

"At 9 p.m. Prince Labanoff Rostovsky was informed
that an enemy's boat was pulling towards the Slobodka,
probably with the intention of setting fire to it, hut the
fire of our infantry, supported by Cossacks, stopped the
boat at about 100 yards from the shore and compelled it
to return. The gun-boats then opened a heavy fire,
which lasted for three hours and threw rockets during
the night, which set fire to the town in two or three
places, but it was soon got under. During this time
the enemy's vessels were occupied destroying the farm
houses near the coast, and the fisheries of the island of
Birutechevsky.
" To reinforce the detachment occupying Genitchi,
Aide-de-Camp General Prince Gortschakoff has thought
it indispensable to send a considerable number of troops
there, under Lieutenant-General Ryjoff. To this de-
tachment are added Cossacks of the Sea of A zoff, under
Colonel Brakovitch, troops known for their bravery and
daring as sailors.
"It is indispensable to add, in conclusion, that the
steamers which showed themselves on the 21st of June
(3d of July) before Berdiansk, remained there about 24
hours, cud then left for Kertch, without having done
any additional harm to the town."

The Trieste Gazette, of the 28th ult., says :
" Some alarm has been excited by the fact that a di-
sease very closely resembling the plague has recently
broken out in the neighbourhood of Valona, in
Turkish Albania. The maritime inspector of Dal-
matia immediately subjected all arrivals on the
coast of that country from Albania to quarantine
regulations. The Austrian government has just
extended this measure to all other parts of its coast,
and Dr. Maganza, attached to the Lazaretto of this
place, has been sent into Albania to study the com-
plaint, and report to the government on it."

A- letter from Aleppo states that the commerce
of that place, instead of being injured by the
events going on in the Ottoman empire, has been
improved by it, as a great part of the commercial
relations which Mesopotamia and Kurdistan for-
merly kept up with the Black Sea are now directed
towards Aleppo.

Several of the journals have mentioned the death
of the ex-Prince of Wallachia, Alexandre Ghika.
It appears that it is not he who has expired, but
an ex Minister of Finance of Wallachia of the same
name, and a distant relative of the ex-Hospodar.

Aletter from Montenegro, in the German Journal
of Frankfort, states that Prince Danielo has ob-
tained leave from the Court of St. Petersburg that
six young Montenegrins shall be received gratui-
tously into the military institutions of that city.
In consequence six youths were on the point of
setting out for the Russian capital, and amongst
them was the son of his brother Mirka, President
of the Senate, and a son of his sister.

A seizure of arms was effected on the 28th ult.
at Recco, on the coast of La Specia, by the police
of Genoa, it having been ascertained that a fresh
invasion of refugees was contemplated.

A letter from Milan of the 28th ult., in the
Opinione of Turin, says :—" Notwithstanding all
official assertions to the contrary, the Austrian
army of Italy is being considerably increased.
There are 44,000 men in Lombardy, and more
than that number in the Venetian provinces. The
recruits who were under drill have 1:well illorPo

rated in the regiments of Italy, Which have thus
been increased by one-third. For some days Pas
a great number of passports for France have bees
refused."

A letter from Vienna, of the 28th ult., in the
liamb(trg Correspondent, , prO-
hazy, the Austrian ambassador at Berlin
ceeded yesterday to . his estates in Illineci
says :—‘4 Count Ebter.
During the course of the last few days be hasla.,
several interviews with Count do Buol, and
1 la
Cabinet
taken ,that, in consequence of the vote which bat
taken place at Frankfort, the Austrian biner
they
does not intend for the present to take any far,
steps relative to the German question."

Spener's Gazette, of Berlin, contains a letter frora
Vienna which states that M. de Proketsch-Osdte4
president of the Frankfort Diet, was suramone, to
telegraph to Vienna, where he was
arrive before the Emperor's departure for Isle
It was said that this summons was in consequelh
of the resolution come the Diet on the 2°`
to by
July.
expecteu.i.