RECOMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES IN ASIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 285, 25 July 1855, Page 4

RECOMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES IN ASIA.

[From the Invalide Russe.] In consequence of tlieir defeat on the 16Lh of June, 1854, on the Tciiolok, the Turks had been compelled to remain on the defensive along the frontiers of the Gouriel, and in order to cover their territory, they hud formed, near the villages of Leghoy and Okhtchamoury, two entrenched camp?, each of which they" had occupied with advanced detachments, to the number of 2,000 men. In the night between the 30th ami 31st of January, the chief of the Gouriel Militia, Second Captain Prince Gouriel, who was on this-frontier, attacked the Turkish camps with considerable success. Grossing the fron - tier near the bridge of Tcholok, he advanced rapidly on Leghoy, and vigorously charged the Turks who had advanced to meet him. .Notwithstanding his numerical superiority, the enemy was overthrown. The militiamen followed close upon his heels, and entered the entrenched camp, which, after expelling the Turks, they destroyed. In the meantime, the Turkish troops occupying the camp of Okhtchamoury proceeded in nil haste to succour Leghoy ; but they met in the way a sotuia of the Gouriel .Militia detachment belonging to the flag of David Djokeli, and after a protracted firing of musketry were put to flight. As soon as the first shots were fired at Leghoy, the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages of Gouriel, led on by the college assessor Matchavarjana, chief of Ozourgheti, and Prince Tavdghei'Hze, chief of the.Gouriel canton, came up 10 take part in the action. Their ready zeal proves the spirit that pervades the inhabitants of the frontiers, The Turks sustained a heavy loss in this affair. On our side we had four men killed and 39 wounded. More recent accounts from the Caucasus and Georgia show that the Russians are preparing to commence the campaign. General Mouravfeff, the new commander of the Trans-Caucasian army, has just completed a tour of inspection, in which lie has visited all the stations of the troops. His plans of attack and the number of p-oops to be placed at his disposal were fixed

under the sanction of the Emperor Nicholas, before he left St. Petersburgh. Important reinforcements had reached the general since his arrival in Georgia; these were two complete divisions of infantry, numbering nominally 14,000 men each, and accompanied by their artillery, and four regiments of light cavalry.