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ses ms 10 progress slowly.
A Turkish brigade from shunIs entered u
fortress Of siisiria on the islh ult.
On .ae llsh June. he Turks made q tremsn.
dous soris from silisiria and attacked The Rzs.
SLAMS with great fury. Gen. Schilders was dan
gerOusly wounded and bad to be removed e
KAlarash. hwaslhOughs that a body OftrOops
despatched from shumls appeared there, and
that on the 18th the Russians sprung .beir
mine before siastria Without doing any dam
age to The walls. The Russian slorming coI-
umns we're prepared 10 noun. the expected
breach but were attacked on three sides by
the Turks. fearful slaughter took place. and
the Russians fled in terrific disorder. The
Russians were employed on the i4th and 18Th
in removing their dead Three Russian Gen
erals were wounded, and al the Russian siege.
works were totally destroyed
The same day the garrison Of Rutschuk
w.nt over TO the Island Of Mokan, and DESTROY
ed all the Russian works there.
The death Of Musha Pasha, in Silistria, Is
con armed He was killed BY grenade after
an assault which Sas gallsllly repulsed. He
refused 1000. 600 roube, offered him by
Prince Paskvwitch
The Turks have driven the Russians out Of
Turtukai. They have also strengthened their
garrison at Rutsehuk. The operations against
Slllstria are said to he suspended.
Gen. Paskievitch who was on his way to
Jassy, is said TO have been ordered to return
and take Sllisria at any cost.
The Austrian summons to Russia to evacuate
the municipalities, had caused great excitement
10 St Petersburgh. and the answer was under
discussion.
TeIegrsphie dispatches from Vienna state
that q convention has been concluded at Cen.
stantinople between Austria and the Porte,rel-
alive to the Danubian Prinepslities. It's
principal conditions are that if Russia voun-
tarialy relires. the Austrian troops will enter
the princpaliies and form defence between
Russia and Turkey. II Russia refuses to re-
tire. Anstria will take such measures as may
appear necessary to compel her to do so.
A dispatch fr,m Trebizond states that the
Russians had been surprised and beaten by
the Cireassians in the Dari,l Pass.
10000 Austrian troops we're nnder march
from Bohemia towards the Eastern frontier
vi the Austrian garrisons were being reinior.
ced, and all the disposable troops were to be
concentrated in Vienna
The Gazette confirms the destruction by Ad-
miral Pumbridge's squadron, Of vharves. gun.
boats, timber. &c, at Veheustadt IN on th, 3Olh
May, aud at Wesbok on June 1
Russian despatch says that heir soldiers
defeated two Turkish brgades with 600 cav
airy and 40 guns. In an action on the 18Th
Gen Schlders received wound which render
ed the amputation of his leg necessary, and
rince Gortsch kotf received confusion.
Luders is said to be wounded three Rus
SLAMS Generals Killed. In addition, the most
ruinous divisions are reported among them.
THE BALTIC
brings us news four days later By it is ascer.
tanned that again an act has closed in the great
Eastern tragedy; the siege Of Slstra has been
raised and the Russians are in fullretreat The
history of this siege is most remarkable.
1t was in the last days of March that Gentr-
al Luders crossed the Danube and occupied the
little forts OF Isaktsha, Matcnin and Tultsha
and advanced to the wall of Trajan. without
meeting with great resistance. Still he had to
temain in the Dobrodja for full SIX weeks, not
being strong enough to encounter Omer Pa.
sha's army, encamped at that time on the
heights Of Bassardjik.
The fort of Hirsova was likewise taken BY
the Russians in April, but Rassova though
nearly destroyed BY Russian shells, held out.
Ssiria was bombarted from across the Dam
ube for about three weeks, and the Danube Is
land also occupied by the Russians. The RI
sing of the nver delayed the operations but at
last. in the beginning of May, Luders could
advance and invest the fortress by land
The siege commenced on the l7th, when the
communication with Shumla was interrupted.
The first attack of the Russians having been
repulsed, Gen. schilders began his mining Op-
erations.
On the S8th the first great assault was att
tempted by the besieging army, when Gen.
Selvan was killed, Count 0rloff mortally, and
Gen. Popo6 slightly wounded.
After the attack on the Goth May which was
described as sarguinary the Russians retired. :
to prepare for fresh assault on the Sist.--
They advanced with all their caliber and force
and renewed the assault in the same order as
before. After prolonged and bloody strug.
gle. The Russians were repulsed, and the same
evening. under flag Of truce, demanded per-
mission to take off their dead. who we're not
less than two thousand.
On the Cd June the general assault took
nlaoe. while The Russian fotiIla homharded the