The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-20 00:00:00

TEE RUSSIAN WAR IN CIRCASSIA.

We read in the Caucasus the following account of
Russian operations against the Lesghian tribes:—
" The troops of the Lesghian detachment that
were operating in the mountains under the com-
mand of Lieutenant-General Baron Wrewsky have
returned to the plain, by which movement they
have completed the difficult enterprise undertaken,
with a view to destroy the commune of Didoi, and
open a route for communication in this mountainous
region, which is nearly inaccessible. We have al-
ready published accounts of the successive opera-
tions undertaken by the Lesghian detachment down
to the 2d of Septeatter; the commune of Didoi
was utterly laid waste, the aouls ruined, the har-
vests destroyed, and the troops have traced out
roads despite of the opposing natur4 obstacles and
the woods defending the houses of Cite inhabitants.
By these roads we shall be able to return among
them. Th- destruction of tha commune of Didoi
has terrified Schamyl. Although his forces were
concentrated in the Salatavia, the defence of which
is for him an affair of the gravest importance, he
nevertheless sent his son Kasi Mabomet with two
or three thousand men to Didoi. This considerable
number of enemies did not prevent the Lesghian
detachment from effecting its object as related
above. When it had destroyed the acids and har-
vests in the ravines of Kideras-Zkali, it passed on
to the rich aouls of Wezal and and Livened
them to the ground. From Capoutchi to Tonchetia,
the entire country of the enemy is devasW,ted. •
" On the 7th of September our troops set out on
their return msrob, but the mountaineers occupied
the heights looking down on the rear of the detach-
ment, and opened upon it a fire of artillery. Lieut.-
General Baron Wrewsky stopped the march, and
then attacked the enemy in three columns ; the
steep heights were carried by storm, and the enemy
fled to the defile of Kidera, hAviug thus opened a
passage for our troops along the crest of the moult-
ttwahoienue.nadOeemudr,yl one
in this affair amounted to one officer
fer,killed, a andl de
ad eleven
upon
elvdo.o nded ;
"On the Bth Sept the detachment passed to-
wards the frontier of the Kapentchin commune,
and on the 10th descended from the mountains to
Shouagheri."

ME SEPOT . J;I3RNAiIe watenforer News, a
liberal journal, states that the Nation newspaper has
been "kicked out" of the Conamercial News-room of
New Ross, the borough which formerly returned Mr.
G. Duffy to the Saxon Parliament. The -voting was as
follows :—For retaining the Nation, 15; agstinat, 34.
Its late Sepoy essays led to its expulsion, "which ~
moved by Dr. Howlett, a respectable Roman path olio
gentleman.

L—Oct. 19.

MIDDLES.
The criminal business of the October Quarter'
Sessions commenced yesterday morning, 'at Cler-
kenwell, before Mr. Bliss, Q.C., and a bench of
magistrates.
There were 58 prisoners for trial-47 charged
with felony, and 11 with misdemeanour.
Mr. Bliss delivered a short charge to the grand
jury.

The Rev. R. Maguire, the recently-elected in-
cumbent of Clerkenwell, attended, and went
through the ceremony of taking the oath of allegi-
ance.
William Thomas, 18, was indicted for feloniously
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of James
Hickman, and stealing therein a coat and ether
property, value 8/. 10s. He pleaded guilty.
Sentenced to one year's hard labour.
James Crayford, 49, was indicted under the first
section of an act of Lord Campbell's for unlaw-
fully having in his posssession by night a certain
instrument called a crowbar, with intent to break
and enter the dwelling-house of James Wagstaff.
He pleaded guilty.
Sentenced to three months' hard labour.
Michael Henry, 31, was indicted for unlawfully
and maliciously stabbing Edward Macdonald.
- It appeared that the prosecutor and some ac-
quaintances had been drinking at a public-house at
Wapping, whence they proceeded towards the
Thames Tunnel. They met the prisoner in com-
pany with a young woman, who spoke to the pro-
secutor. This ultimately led to a quarrel, and the
prisoner, after threatening to mark him for life,
drew out a knife and stabbed him with it in the
thigh, and severely bit him in the fleshy part of the
left arm. The wound in the thigh was in close
proximity to the femoral artery.
The jury found him guilty on the second count,
and the Court sentenced him to six months' hard
labour.
Elizabeth Hunt, marine store-dealer, in Victoria-
cove, Cambridge-heath-road, who was convicted
on Wednesday last of having feloniously received a
number a pewter-pots which had been stolen by
three boys from public-houses, was brought up for
judgment.
-Mr. Creasy said it was a most aggravated case, and
sentenced the prisoner to fouryears' penal servitude.
The boys, who pleaded guilty of stealing the pots,
were sentenced to seven days' imprisonment and to
be whipped.
Dennis Haydon, 30, a repulsive-looking man,
was indicted for unlawfully assaulting James Burt,
a police-constable, in the execution of his duty.
The jury found him guilty, and Mr. Creasy sen-
tenced him to be kept to hard labour for 14 calen-
dar months.