The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-06 00:00:00

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A WORKING HAND.

WAR IN CIRCASSIA.

The following interesting particulars of some recent
military operations of the Circa,ssians under Shamil
have been communicated to the Dublin Erening Mail
from a correspondent on the Rhine, whose informant is
an officer just returned from the Russian frontier :
" After the retreat of the Russians last year from
Itchkeri, Shamil removed the seat of his government
from Dargo to Vedea, on a small stream called Hal
Rulso, about twelve miles further westward. The posi-
tion is a strong one, though too near the Russian posts
at Grosnaya and Vozdinjania. It is eighteen miles from
Telialdeeri, which is about eighteen miles south-east.
.Shamil's authority throughout the mountains was much
steengthened by the events of last year's campaign, so
disastrous to the Russian arms. He established a more
regular system of administration, and during the winter
exercised his power in various acts of hostility against
too Russiten frontier and depencies.
" At an early period he made an inroad across the
Sulakinto ',radii; he then crossed over the Corras into
Ahuska and Haramalki, and at one time he threatened
to break into the province of Kahetie. But these de-
monstrations socined principally intended to keep up the
confidence of the disaffected among the tribes which
have submitted to Russia, or to harass the Russian
troops, by compelling them to move during the incle-
mency of the winte r.. But he has lately accomplished an
enterprise more dating than any which he ever before
attempted.
"In the early part of April, Lieutenant-General
Freytag, who commands (en the left flank of the Russian
line of the Caucasu', receiv:ng notice that Shamil was
assembling a large force at Sbalii in Great Tchetchnaya,
six miles distant from Tchakkeri, messengers were in-
stantly sent in consequence to every part of the Russian
line, and four battalions were detached by Lieutenant-
General liarford, from Mondala, as a reinforcement to
Grosnaya.
" On the evening of the 25th April, Shamil moved
from Shalii, and crossing the Russian line of communi-
cation. between Grosnaya and Tschakkeri, he came on
the 27th upon the river Sundja, between the Russian
forts Kara::: Kitcha and Zahanyourt. The force he had
with him i.: stated to have consisted of from 6,000 to
8,000 infanti:v, 12,000 cavalry, and six guns. After
crossing the rivi`r he reached, on the 29th, Constanti•-
nofsky, the chief p.laee of the Little Kabards, whence he
rapidly advanced to ,the river Tcherek. He crossed that
river at a point opposite to the St 1, InitzE of Uricb, where
2,000 Russians, under ColonelSifkovick, were posted.
This small body maintainertheir ground with great bra-
very, but were at last overwheNed by the superior number
of their assailants.Shamil having' by this movement placed
himself on the great military row::
leading from Georgia
to Russia, moved along that road t Minaret, where it
was thought he would entrench hims'qlf, but probably
seeing that the position was open to attack in the
rear from Wladikowhas, as well as in front, e remained
there only a day, and then pushed forward into :he great
Kabarda, as far as the Tcherek, between the soueces of
which stream and at the foot of the central chain of the
Caucasus he established himself. In the meanwhile his
cavalry scoured the country, and the inhabitants rose
and joined him in considerable numbers ; and, having
collected their cattle and flocks, hastened away from the
country, and under escort of his detachments many of
them succeeded in reaching the strong country of Tche-
hikuaya. On the 8:11 of May, Shamil broke up his en-
campment on the Tcherek, and retired rapidly within his,
own territory, which he reached without any loss, and
with little opposition. He was, indeed, met at the con-
fluence of the Tcherek and Zeneisa by three Russian
battalions under Colonel Baron Miller Zacomelsky, but
they were compelled to give way before his superior

force.
" The Russian troops were not idle during all these
operations, but they were out-manoeuvred by the ra-
pidity of Shamil's movements. On the first intelligence
of Shamil's invasion, General Freytag, iiith six batta-
lions of infantry and 1,000 cavalry hasts'ned up the
river Soudja, and arrived at Fort Mazak-Kitcha on the
2.7 th April—the day on which Shamil cros,3ed that •
river lower down—and General Freytag followed Sha-
mil all through the Little Kabore, without ever .being
able to come up with him. But having afterward.;
formed a junction with Major-General Prince Gallitoin,
who commands in the Great liabore, the two generals
posted themselves in front of Kilehik, opposite t
Shamil's position on the Tcherek, but did not deems
themselves strong enough to attack him ; and Sha-
mil having began his retreat at night, or in a fog,.
the two generals were unable to molest him in.
that operation. General Nestoiroff attempted to co-
operate with them by a movement from Whadihowkas,
but he was prevented by a diversion made 1 y a body of
mountaineers, who at the same time that Shamil was
moving from Shelli, penetrated through the Tugoush
country, and came down upon the Georgian road, to the.
south of the Russian fort of Wadihowkas. General
Nestorrff was able afterwards to reach the Tcherek , but
too late to be of any use. Other detachments were or-
dered to advance from the Kuban and from Modka,
under Lieutenant-Generals Zavadowsky, Lobintzow, and
Kavalifsky, but they did not arrive in time.
" The whole line was, in fact, put on the alert, and
the troops of the sth corps, who were marching west-
ward, were ordered back; and a brigade of artillery,
which bad already crossed the Don to Rostoft, was or-
dered to return. Prince Woronzow came post from
Shemaki, near the Caspian, to take on the spot such
measures as these events might render necessary."