The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-12 00:00:00

CIRCASSIA.

The invalitle Russe of the Ist publishes some
details of the military operations which have lately
taken place by the Russians in the Caucasus ag tinst
Schamyl, of which we have had only a brief men-
tion. Prince Orbelian, wishing to occupy the
plateau of Salatavia, advanced towards that po,i.-
tott in the middle of Jun., with tea b tttalions of
infantry, seven squadrons of cavalry, and ten
pieces of artillery. Schamyl, having received in-
formation of the attack meditated against him,
caused all the families with their flocks to remove
from the villagesintothe interior, and then occupied
vie villages with bis troops. On the 4th July
he himself arrived at Salatavia with reinforcements.
He endeavoured to cut off the supplies of Prince
0 rbelian, in order to compel the Russians to retreat.
The intended manoeuvres of the Tcherkeses were
however betrayed, and they were themselves sur-
rounded and attacked on all sides at once. A small
!lumber of them only submit-63d, the others pre-
fort el to fight to the last, and 400 of them were
killed. Among them were Ismail Naib, the
aitemir of Salatavia, a cacti, and several other
notalile personages. The combat la,,ted five hours ;
the Russians, according to their report, bad only
three officers and eight soldiers killed and 44
wounded. Prince Orbalian attained the object of
his got possession of the important
post movement,of
satt and
Ivi
a.
The St. Petersburg accounts of the 4th inst.
mention a report sent to the Government on the Bth
ult. concerning a very brilliant affair which took
place on the 3il at Glendschick, on the coast of the
Black Sa. The report has been forwarded by
Major-General Filipson, the officer in command of
the Russian troops in those parts, and states that
the Filibustering troops, under the orders of a
certain Colonel Lepinsky, had been surprised by
the Russians landing troops under Major Benas-
chow, who had succeeded in capturing a large (pan-.
tity of powder, two rounds of grape-shot, 500
grenades, and other valuable stores of ammuni-
tion, which had been placed there in charge of
the garrison, and been thought quite se-
cure from any Russian attack. The Russians
are said to have had only eight men severely
wounded and two killed in storming the defensive
works and capturing the guns in position. The
whole affair appears to have taken place from the
too great confidence reposed in the courage of the
garrison to defend their position by Lepinsky, who
had otherwise used every precaution in fortifyine,
the point of danger, as far as science was concerned.
The Russian Government has given orders for
the construction of screw machinery for nine ships.
of-the-line, two corvettes, and ten galliots, besides
four transport ships. There are at present in the
camp of Peterhoff no less than 4,000 cadets be-
longing to the army, principally. in the branch of
artillery, and the Grand Duke Nicholas is often
employed in witnessing their exercise in gunnery.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
The Nord contains the following remarks on the
late diplomatic rupture at Constantinople :
" We have received letters which complete and
correct, in certain points, the details given as to
the nature and bearings of the proceedings of the
ambassadors of the four powers on the subject of
the elections of Moldavia. According to these
accounts, what to )k place was this :—The ambas-
sadors did not demand, as some of the Austrian
and English journals assert, the dismissal of the
caimacan, nor did thsy even demand, as most
journals have alleged, the pure and simple annul-
ment of the elections which they knew to be
stained with fraud ; they merely asked that a
strict verification of the elections should be pro-
ceeded to, in order to establish publicly and
clearly whether the prescriptions of the firman con-
voking the electors had been observed or violated.
At any other place than Constantinople, and on
any other occasion, people would only, have seen
in this proposition what it really meant—namely,
the desire to give to Europe and to the popula-
tions of the Ottoman empire a striking proof of
rwolup9ihrinmgigthhtehfaav faults and
been ascribed
good dispositions of the Ottoman government,
or of affording that government the opportunity of
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s the b committed,lin
zealand
a functionaries
acting from culpable motives. The