The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-27 00:00:00

TURKEY.

A letter from Constantinople, in the Moniteur,
says:—" In consequence of steps concerted between
the French and English Embassies at Constanti-
nople, the Porte has adopted measures to put an
end to the traffic in slaves iu the Black Sea. Two
Firmans emanating from sovereign authority pre-
scribe that no effort shall be neglected to attain
this object. A special order has been at the same
time sent to the Commander-in-Chief of the army
of Batoum to act very energetically against auy one
in Georgia, and on the coasts of Asia, who _shall
carry ou the trade in slaves."

RUSSIA.
The Invalide Russe, which hitherto has not
taken the least notice of the affair on the Alma,
or the seizure of Balaklava, published on the
14th instant an extraordinary supplement, for
the purpose of annout:cing "News from the
Black Sea." We subjoin the Invalide's news,
which appears to refer to one of the flying
visits made by our steamers to various points Of
the Russian coasts, for the purpose of distract-
ing the enemy during the more serious opera-
tions before Sebastopol. In the construction
of his story the writer appears to have strictly
f.llowed traditional models—the fighting priest,
the efficacious cross, and the " one man wounded,
being very familiar expedients in this class of Rus-
sian literature :

" On the 22d of Sept. (Oct. 4), at six o'eli,ek in the
morning, four steamers of the enemy, two of which were
under the English flag, and two were French, ap-
pr.,ached the Nichelas battery, provisionally erected
on Cape Otchakoff, in order to defend the entrance
to the estuary of the Dnieper. The Lieutenant'
Colonel of Horse Artillery Golovatcheff, who commands
the detachment cantonel near Otchakoff, immediately
took measures for repelling the enemy, whom he re'
ceived with red-hot balls fired from the battery. A
flotilla of five gun-boats, then at Otcbakeff, under the
command of Commander Endogouroff, opened its fire st
the same time. The steamers of the enemy, armed with
a great number of heavy guns, rained fur three hours
and a half balls, bombs, and rockets on our battery/
but without much injuring it. They themselves, after
being damaged, found themselves compelled to re:
tire, one atter the other, from out of the range 01
our guns. At ten in the morning all was over, the
inhabitants of the shore saw distinctly the steamers
of the enemy make for the island of Berezane, and
there bury their dead. On our side, one soldier ,
“lone wee wounded, and four- received contusions.
In his report, Lieutenant-Colonel Golovatcheff, con"
mending the detachment of Otchakoff, testifies to the
unshakeable firmness of the company of the sixth reserve
battalion of the regiment of Litomir Chasseurs, Which
manned the battery under the command of the second
captain Teteshoff ; he in particular highly praises the
coolness and courage of .Ensign Kryloff, of the Field ar-
tillery, whe directed the battery, as likewite the self-
denial of R. P. Gabriel Southkovski, priest of the
Otchakoff church, who repaired spontaneously with the
cross in his hand to the battery, and where he blessed its
defenders under the enemy's fire, and even helped thew►
to load their pieces."