The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-20 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT NORTHERN IO D H A E ILY TIMES. TUESDAY, DEcemamt 20, 1853. SECOND EDITION• [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] Northern Daily Times Ogles, Eight O'clock, a.m. EASTERN WAR. 01111 4 to letters from Constantinople of the ! , itl t iae steamers sent t o enquire into the circum attendino- the disaster at Sinope, returned 'p he 4 , B th, and ' ) fully confirmed the news brotight It4, e ! "if. Lord Stratford immediately sent off k 4 Csenger to his government. It was expected t he combined fleets would immediately enter elack Sea. Th e Tu r ks were greatly excited, , Was reported that their fleet under Admiral 4 (1 4 • e lvould attack Sebastopol, supported by the t ,, 184 and French fleets. At Vienna it was 'ved that the recent reve'r'ses of the Turks would k:!'llem desirous of peace. a i ) va advices of the 12th, state that no battle I.?c,curred up to that date. '``cuarest accounts of the 15th report no new 4 Ati ons. d t Jassy, a thanksgiving for the - Victory of (41 ,,e had been splendidly celebrated. The , Van, Prussian, and Greek consuls were to attend, but did not appear. 4 ,7 Times states in a leading article that the Zan. fleet has been guilty of an unprovoked act Tession on the coast of Asia: In the confer= held at the British embassy, On the receipt of Mt,,, of the disaster at Sinope, Admiral Dundas 'll 4 ,ously urged that the combined fleets shoUld 17 p t 'cliately set sail, in order, if possible, to inter ,'the Russian fleet before it could beat back t ,l'ebastopol. This opinion was overruled by F'!euch ambassador, and this is not the first —ou on which the movements of the British 4( trou have been controlled by deference to the i tl e eb officers. At present, however, it is imposz to arraign the. judgment, as we are ill iguor , of the true state of the ease. The admirals i; however ; now probably entered the Black Sea: catastrophe at Sinope, and the consequences . 4 have probably already followed it, materially t t li lish the hope of peace, that the proposals last Is to the Porte Might otherwise have raised. Ze Constantinople correspondent of the Paris ' 4l . Des Debate says :--;The rumour of the , L 're of the diplomatic relations between 'end and Persia is officially confirmed, and jersia has concluded a treaty of alliance, ,' it sive and defensive, with Russia against ey. THE MINISTRY. ke Herald says is as yet unknown whether George Grey has accepted the vacant Sec= ship, but little doubt is expressed in political "$ on that head: Chronicle says it is supposed he Will accept. xiclvertiser reports a difficulty in the way . ; ( se Sir G. Grey represents the borough of ~ y e til, which only contains a constituency of and consequently would be placed in the c 'r3 , ' ; of Lord John Russell's small borous, it is proposed to extinguish. gh cetion could therefore scarcely be expected. gat others now named for the office is Lord t tts MONDAY.—llourse---Three l s closed 14.011. , k , 1 . 1 1:1-a-half, 101.10: and Published by CHARLES WILLMER, of Stieet, at his General Printing and Stationery )lishment, 19, South John Street, Liverptsol: TVESDAYi DECEMBER 24 1853: