The Press. — London, England, 1853-10-15 00:00:00

OCTOBER 13, 1853. ct ruts. it iv ill not act lint as the interest of mi d th e gotsl of the country dictate. We are, theiclono, itts that thele ii" reason for looking at the immediate future• with an anxious eye. We tail to nit:ecru the Mango of nottlientieity upon the warlike tepid% which reach us hour Vienna anti Paris. Should these reports he continued, still we believe it would be a very extivortlinary state of things. Hull one which we eau 1110%1 ,4 1. • foresee, which should make it possible for Prussia to take tip in relation to the ',resent tlitierenve any other position than that of a commanding iiciitreilitv." The Emperor of Austria returned from Warsaw on the 6th. - It is asserted that the New Five per Cent. Austrian Loan has been effected with the Rothschild!: at s 9. It amounts to 7,0(wt. 900 /. sterling. There is a clause declaring the contract invalid in ease of war. The Czar has conferred Rtissian orders o n e ighty officers of the Austrian army, and sent his p o i-ninth) Prince Metternich. Measures are being taken to reinforce the troops on the Austro-Turkish frontier. On the 1111) the nom,- Lloyd was confiscated. This measure is variously attributed to an article on the subject of the late Imperial ordinance touching the legal possession of real (immovable) property by Jews, or to certain athiees from Constantinople alstut the unfurling of the Hag of the Prophet. DEN MARK. The Danish Diet was opened in person by the King on the 4th instant. The speech from the throne was principally confined to the proposed modifications in the fundamental law of the kingdom, to which his Majesty I,egged the immediate and earnest attention of the I►iet. This will be a pre liminary step towards uniting the several States under one uniform system of government. King Leopold refused to see the Duchess of ()deans lately on her journey from England to tier many. When the Duchess land►d at Ostend she sent wont to the King of her atTival, exptsling to be reeeived by him as was always the ease on previous occasions. After some short delay, the King is stated to have deelined the interview, declaring that les exigences do its politique rendered it impossible for him to see her, and, to st►p all questioning, went oft at once to the palace of lacken. The ituchess proceeded to Malines, where she received into► her railway carriage General Changaritier, who remained with her as far as the frontier of Germany. HOLLAND. The Government have received a communication front the Pope, giving notice of the erection in Hol land, by his Holiness, of an archbishopric and blur bishoprics, and the nomination of an archbishop and four bishops. The local ►u►d public authorities, in accordance with the new law on religious liberty, will be enabled to communicate officially with the now dignitaries, provided the family names of the prelate!: be joined to their ecclesiastical SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the nth announce that MarAal Narvaez was expected in the e(aw,..e of a few (lays, but, after paying his respects to her Majesty, he was to proceed to Loja, his native place. ITALY. - - - - The Pontifical Government has prohibited the ex portation of wine, and extended until September, Ism, the exemption from duty accorded to foreign wines imported into the Roman Slates by .Civita Vecchia. Signor Gaetano) Giardini, the eminent jurisconsult, condemned to death by the Criminal Court at Naples toe toolitical (offences, has arrived safely in 'Twin, having remained concealed four years in his native country. RI'SSIA ANT) TURKEY. The intelligence which we were able to announce in a late edition last week respeeting the declaration of war by the Porte has been fully confirmed by late advices. The act Of the Divan is now formal: but the interval allowed for the evacuation of the Princi palities before hostilities are idisoblidy to begin is, by some accounts, stand lit four weeks, and by others al only fifteen days. The date from which the wino in either ease would commence is the Ist inst. The resolution on which this step was founded was passed ahnost unanimously at a grand council held on the .2toth ult. On the following 'lay on irafli was pub ikficol for the formation of two camps of :01,11011 men each, one for Constantinople and the other for Adrian pie. Bureaux were also opened in Constantinople voolunttwrs, and upwards of 4,4100 persons were enrolled on the first day. The puy is Iso piastres for cm alry and 1.20 for infantry. The iranol Vizier, the Seraskier, and several tither wealthy individuals, declared themselves ready to furnish the necessary fund's for organising a ramp of 34MN111 men. The clergy are stated to have °Wowed to place lion millions of piastres at the Sultan's disposal. The finnan by which the declaration of war was !malty ratified did not reveive the Sultan's signature until the sth inst. Before that date intelligence of the provo,itious made by the Czar at ()Was bad THE PRESS. reached Constantinople, but reduced, it is believed, no effect. R e &wind Paella has been chosen by the Divan to go us person to Pnetce tiortschakon, t h e vonituatider in chief of the Russian troops in the Datathein Principalities, to make kneels to bun the resolutions of the Porte. It is added that the Divan has decided s on at once raising the sites. live force of the army to :tsitiottlo men, by means of a fresh levy of 15,000. tienend Dembinski, it is said, is to hone the eon mould of 20,000 men in the Turkish army ; a n d Ovneral Klapkie celebrated for leis defence of the fortress of t.'et tttttttt t 1. to hold high tithes. in the same service. 'The 1 1110. 4 sl Nemours, his brother iii law, and the Duke of Sa‘e e 010111,4 001101, itecoluputo 4 l ii Oeneral Reins., after visiting the Russian army in Motto proveeileil to Ilse Turkish c amp, and remained at Selllllllht, the 1100 quarters of I Paella. The navigation of the Danube and the Black Seit is stopped, except to neutral vessels. All the remain ing Russian rune}' aria's have lett 'Turkey. Intelligence front the principalities states that the Russians have posted strong bodies of tr,sips, artillery, at the following points on the thumb,. at which it 14 (4,llWitlerell the passage of the r i ve r ito , be etfeeteol, viz.: at Bregovit, sit IL 1)01114 011110s1It . Widdin, at the ford of .Irkar Palatika, at the ford b e l o w Itschilora-Palsitika, at a pilot Mane the th of the Silty', at I-las, at Flimitinda, sit a point just to the east of I IllrgeWto, al a point lalween Kota ritza and Silistria, at it point seVt'll miles below Hinson", and, lastly, at Brailow. The movements of Russian instils were increasing. Fifteen loattalions of infantry and a park of thirty two pieces of artillery passed throsigh the 811th ult. tienend Litolers hod arrived there. The Russian army occupy four camps—sine at 0, short distance 11'0111 Bucharest, the second sit Alit jorela, the thirst sit Kalsistkaren, and the fourth at Serhatietski. Prince 11ortselinkodf has given no ti ce t o th e llosposlar Stirliey that Prince 11enschiled is for the future to superintend the government of the principalities. The Mission general had sent four hundred bill lock waggons to Biteharest to foto+ away the sick soldiers to rioschimi and Ittisen. The military hes. ',hails were thus emptied for the ineisient, but notices to quit in four days had liven served upon the occu piers sit six large Itionses, their dwellings being required for lazarettos. s evera l w a n a ,lo ao an d Msildnvian e ato di e „, h ave arrived at. Berlin, not being willing to await in their own country the course of events. An imperial ukase forbids any young men miller twenty-one years of age to have this ileminions of the Czar under any pretence whatever. Wills reran' to other persons, the facility of travelling in foreign countries is subject to new restriction's. The Russian tOovertiment has obtaitieol permission to navigate the Chinese river .Imour. 'This eiilleVS slum throws open the three Manteliou pnerinees, and shortens by two-thirsts the journey front the Russian possessions in America to Irklusk. The l'istrie denies that, Persia will support Riec.ia in the war with 'l'itikey, its has been stated in soutt• of the London journals. The %Mlle journal states Must all il1:01111441011 has broken out in Gripes+ sin the binders of Turkey. .1 letter frau Trelazimole, of September gives some interesting details sin the situation of the sur rounding country. 'the city, it says, was well for tified, and perfeetly 'wenn+ from any attack by Kea. The Turkish army ill .Isia Miner was tounerotts, in excellent order, and well roamnmussicsl. The Russian tromps sire inferior in nunilier, and sihnswt entirely eiiiicentratesl 111 Georgia and Cireassia, and the Ines shin cientnander-in chief, who resides in Tullis, hail fettled it necessary to send an editor of his staff to St. Petersburg to demand reinforcements. BE lINI I • DA. .li.o.onnts from this island of the 1-111 i Wt. slate that a malignant fever Lwl loreketi slut sin heard the conviet hulk Thames, and communicated tos the treiips iu liarnicks. (hit of lion cemiets only :No escatoeil the fever. and "se slued. The detaeliment of the sfith Regiment, consisting of :14 in noun, bad 1 rst. I oollivers, 110 iiii . ll, Ili women, and many children. The Sappers and Nliners out of too heel bast II 110'11 Aneing the deaths repoirls'il sirs. the suiting Licit teionist I iovelb•or, I'1•1111144 Philip 41.1, ('cloned lboyal Artillery, Captain llarefoott, adjutant, and wife. lett soldiers were in /104111611, and 1110 1111WIISI! was !or/weeding speedily and becoming fatal. Medical assistaiire haol town called for, and was being des patched feint Halifax. coilistiel Phillpootts was broodier el the Bisliiip of Exeter. Ilis I ' alll . ll writ, to have e mb a rk e d L iao 1-;ioglatid son the •:•:010l inst. ANI) The crlawl Ui.tll rrati.hrsi Trit , dt. tql and 31aNcillr, Wethiesllity. The tuktieipatuiry atsinitcl44:4 rvvvi% vtl by tvlegnirh state that the 559 American stinadtswi tinder . 1%1111111 %al q v p err y witc h e d j a pan on the sth tidy. but lett again on the Pith tidy. The ..itisiolron as, wi ll 1ve .. 1 ,,.d. but the opening of Japan Is postisitte4l mi ta th e , pring or Is:4. 'the rebellion in China was progressing. Pekin was l'Xitet'll`ll to hill andwith it the reigning dynasty. Mainifartitics were ill better (ICIIIIIIO. In 1110 Chill* markets tea was iu demand, aunt content higher. Raw silk and cassia also had risen. The English squadron 1111% destroyed a number of piratical ;milks on th e coa st s it . The 044'011111N I'll,lll Burundi are unsatisfactory. The war party at .k‘ a are .aid to be increasing its strength. 'the king alone t ic ot o t t.., %sr . I t tir 111 . W peo%inees arc OVerlllll with large Itanas sit volitorrs. %h 4) itly 010111 Wit,te VI Ilk the ilit i ti t t‘ni t z the inhabitants into Itluluah. These bands are so strong' that it has liven deemed mildest( to increase the tonse at retain.. Our troops lire vit•kt . The hale übtuinrd 110,04e5,41011 of I lend. 1)N11.:Ii commander of thio l ' tirkisli army on the 1 1 amilte is now 4.4 ail 111,4441 wit I 1 11s11 11114 g less Ilion the %hole fortunes of the I 'Minion empire. Charged with the li.voliovsbito of a force on which the streiwth and enthusiasm of the whole nation lin% liven and the first shock of contliet will fall, if the war al ready proclaimed by the Porte should develop into ay. Mal 1141•41 1111 14 . 5, the responsibilities of the earliest encounter will devolve solely upon himself. tin this result of the ilea battle, to a rave owl ialpressil 4 l4 . 111141 511114 . 1N1 11 14111,4, I. generailly the prognostic sof the whole war ; and this must depend in great measure 111%111 the indivi d ua l outrage rapacity of the coin milliliter on the sis,t. The character and qualifica tions of Omer Patin' are therefore, at this moment, 1111 l nor 11l European interest, anti the following Isis'. graphical details of his career iini worth rig•giiitula Like Most of the military chiefs in the Turkish Nen 14•4., the ra4 • 1111 is a foreigner and a renegade. Ile I. a Hid iVI . enSaill, 111141 Cunse'tllerdll loy nil .111%11'6111 sllbject . Ile vlls born ilk I pail lit a illagto situate in the circle isl e Oguliiii, I:I leagues from Fiume. Ills family name is Lattas. Ilis lather was Lieutenant .% olin Mist rats or of the circle ; his nude WAS priest. of the 1 lined I i reek Chitral. Ad mitted when %cry ening into the School Ninth' , main. of Thlll'lsl, mein' enlist 111 Tinllmyl% Rhin, atter having completed his studies with distinction, the soling Ladles entered into the corps of the hints et Chatissees, which in Austria is organised on a military fooling. In 1 ,4 :10,iii constspieneto of H Islis 1111414Tmlaillaillg with his superiors, he tied into 'lnv ite), and embraced Islamism. t'llosrew holm, who was then Seraskieri took hint under his protection, prosented him oubnissiton into the regular army, and attached him to his ptusionsl stint. Ile even goat, 111111 his Will'4 I iu I 1111 l Tinge, Who was sine or the richest heiresses 101 . l'oll , l4llllillosit l4. , 111141 114. daughter of tone of the Janissaries wh11.41. 11110 hi' 111441 4'1111.04 I 1,44 Iw eat (411 . hi !pen, when ihat 4•4411444 revolted against the Sultan ulnhnlou d .ln Is:13 Laitas, who had taken the name of I burr, was 061'1 of battalion, 4.1441 Was a 11114111114 , 41 aide 414. 4'llllll l amt interpreter u, lieuerH) ehrianowski, who hall ilium.. of the isiiitrui•tion of the I Ituanuu InsgSs enrululs 'd near Oilier was tlogievnirwiiril actively illiplo)ogl in the reorginsislit 0f the artio, and, still pro -1641.41 by Clisisrew I'll4llll, 1.101441114 . 41 siii•••••ssively inn portant, unsmiling mill 1111 l iii the meth ) . ' llia irtatlll4 .4 of Syria and the Albanian iiissirrig•tion isl e I In gave him tweasioon to distinguish himself, stool attracted too him the attention a the. Snit all. 111+ seas sent to linrdialal, Had stampeded in Admitting the ant l ' want' of that province, which was nearly independent of the hate. Ammonite s% in I /441.4 144 list v 1,1111104114 a the army sent to the 1 WWI Ilan 1.1 - vines, he 111114 e the authority of I Ile SIIIIBII - Veen's', Vi bile at the same time he restasitsl the sus ceptiloilit it's and privileges of those prtuntres, placed as they were snider the double Irrutvetion of 'Porky: and Russia. The year Istol Was the most Niihau period of the military earesor of I Inter l'acha. Nano I'' anuuuldrr in Chili . /if Ilt 'sill*, the principal 4 111 0 W hid' hail refused to reroginse the Iloal is, the new I irgastisatione sot' Ilia he 5555 hate', successfully, tlitongli with an inferior force, t' Heys of that i's stunt ry. At last he was sent to Mon negro, where he bound himself foor the first tit co l ling a 141411h11' id' 111,111111 tined. I inuiseistiati of Aitstiia pat a term to that. I' qpvilei hvfoore derisive ti' rat isms could I.e con 1111 l •teceol. the present slats' 1 toiler rosin' is sit Schuman, at betel 14' nearly lon,ot lis. is 111..41'614 4 41111144)i Ilg 11y 111 11. 1 1414114.0 1011, all W1'111014.4 Wilk ortify net Ili.. re Mid t which may eosin , the theatre of war. 11114'1 . Paella isRIM il years sir age, 'glow the 11611111 v 110;4111, lint 'Ai martial expression of countollance. speaks cllltHl fax ;lily the Sell lan, Ilse Italian, and the man bong WS* Ilse iliNiliTeet I' o ll 14 {lung; mitlertoook the olefolice of thus' refugees whose e• lieu bud been douttudvd b y.‘ustria and Ittmi