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expedients, or to Assume the itt i t iatire of making overtures
of conciliation. But if the Porte, hero ' g wore ..ntight.
cited as to her own interests, should hereafter lee disposed
to put forward or to reeeire fay ourably suet* tAt.lilllV4. it
will not he from tin Empenir that any olattaeles will tens
reel to their teeing taken into consideration. Such, sir, is
all that at present we me allowed to signify to you. it our
incertitude to to whether the thulium' Porte will Minn,
distely carry out the warlike projects which she lass just
adopted. State our e‘ chimed intentions to the Cabinet to
which you are secredited. They will once more attest the
desire of our august mister to eireituniciibe as much as
possible the eircle of hostilities, they take place in
spite of his wishes. and sib spare the cc ns spiences of them
to the rest of Europe. N

Tilt` JOlllll4ll de St. Prtenthentry containa
oflirixl announcement, from which it appears that an
embargo will he laid on Turkish vessels in Russian
harbottrit on the of November. After that elate
Turkish merchant vessels will be declaretl lawful
prizes, even though they may have other titan
Turkish property on board. Neutrals will enjoy
complete freedom, even after the commencement of
hostilities.

The same authority states that on the Tith of Oe •
toter the English merchants established in the capi-
tal had received from the Minister of finance, in the
name of the Emperor. the most satisfactory assn.
rances of proteetion to their persons and property, in
the possible event of a rupture between Russia and
England. They had addressed to the Emperor,
through M. de lintels, an expression of gratitude for
Stich a mark of his solicitude.
Liters from St. Petersburg of the :Ind inst. speak
of a fresh levy of recruits, to the extent of seven in
the thousand, having commenced throughout the
eastern part of the empire. The foundries and
arsenals are busy day and night, and munitions of
war are sent off to the south every day.
The Emperor had suffered for some days from an
attack of influenza. Ills departure for the principa-
lities was spoken of.
The Russian fleet in the Bailie was lawoming
frozen up in winter quarters at Cronstrult and Port
Battle, where they will have to remain till next
spring. They have been partially dismantled. This
fleet consists of twenty seven sail of-the line, exclu-
sive of frigates and smaller vessels. Oreat exertions
are represented as being made in the equipment of a
screw fleet of line-of-battle ships. Three si.gun
screw ships and two frigates were receiving their
machinery, which had arrived from this country.
Two other si's at Cronstadt, and one at St. Peters
burg, were building with expedition ; whilst one other,
together with a :11 gun screw frigate, had arrived at
Cronstsult from Archangel to be fitted out.
The Czar has ordered that all the Crown students
at the universities be gent to the army, without wait-
ing to complete their studies.
The Itussian Government has appointed a governor
for the two Danubian principalities.
The Paris I *nircrs publishes a letter from Bucha-
rest, of which it guarantees the authenticity, stating
that six Polish soldiers in Moldavia, who had read
the proclamation of the Emperor of Russia, 'solicited
their discharge, declining that, as Cathelies, they
could not conscientiously tight in defenee of the
(reek religion. This fact was communicated to the
Government of St. Petersburg, with a request for in-
struetions, and the answer received was, that the men
were to lee shot. The order was immediately carried
into execution.
The ,ripener Gazette of Berlin states that the
numerous desertions in the Russian army are owing
to the vast number of Poles forming part of it. The
Russian army also contains many Alussulmans,
Islamism being the religion of the majority of the
inhabitants of the southern and western provinces of
Asia; and there are even mosques in Poland. In
general the Mahomerlan population is about one-
eighteenth of the monlation of the whistle empire—
that is, :le millions. Their religious affairs ate
managed by two muftis at 11a, in the governments
of Orenburg, liaktschisstri, and Tauris. The com-
munes are administered by ulemas anal imans.
The Russian commissariat is said to be even more
deplorable now than it was during the Hungarian
war. The men, as a rule, get nothing but oatmeal
Mead, slops, anal spirits.
An army sur;.feon writes from Bucharest, on the
as follows :—" In utter ignorance of what is
going on a few miles from this place (for all commu-
nications anal reports are strictly forbidden), I write
these few lines just to say that we are quite overdone
with sick and wounded. Besides Brancovan, Kolza
( formerly a prison ), Kash's-oda, Michai woala, and
Sveuta Posinlni are full, and many other temporary
buildings have been opened. There is a great want
of surgeons, for already we have wounded soldiers
from Olten;tza, Kalarasch, Ginrgewo, Kalafat, and
from before Krajown. Judging from the transport
of sick Mid w.anuled, there must have hem very
hard fighting at those places. It is especially notices!
that a large proportion of the men have sword and
bayonet wounds, as if they had been engaged in a
hand-to .band conflict. The cholera has found victims
in all the detachments of the army, but its malignity

is abated. On the other hand, typhus is very preys-
lent. t►ne of the great evils of the Russian army
hen. is the practice of lodging the men in huts par-
tially excavated in the earth, and not sufficiently
protected against the weather. The men cannot
stand against its injurious effects, especially in the
absence of fuel, of which there is a great lack. The
present state of likings cannot long continue without
leading to endemic and epidemic diseases, from
which may lletoen preserve us, in whose memories
the horrors of war and plague in the Balkan, in I$2U,
ars still fresh."

Aeeonling to the Vienna journals, Montenegro bt
perfectly tranquil. Prince I toilet's has forbidden bia
subjects to invade the Turkish territory•, and his
orders have been respected. The Wladika had re•
solved to remain neutral. Ile eras, however, arming
a body of regular troops.
It is said that the Titrks have obtained possession
Of several Russian forts in tieorgia and the Caucasus.
These forts are eartoor, which was taken by the
Kurds, Fuliler by the maps fr►m Itamaxcus, and
Sunnine Istrat and Ktichat by the Ilachillozouks,
or irregulars.
The property of Austrian subjet is at kalafat has
been placed under the special protection of duo
Paella. The Turks have not committed any plunder
there, and pay for the forage required for their
horses.

Since the :Nth ult. the communication between
(Watt awl (Msso has bevel intemtpted.
The Sultan's Kati has created the greatest
enthusiasm at Constantinople. Ilia Majesty will
pnweed in Alan' to Adrianople, where an arti” of
ltlo,lloo men will be collected ; from thence he will
proeeed to `heeds. and Bucharest, if the rood is
open ; it' not, he will comoiand in person, and attack
the Russians with 311.0.000 men. Orders have been
sent to the IWo‘illees to call under the standard all
Mussulmen between Is and 40 years of age. If
these onlem are obeS punetually, upwards of
150,000 men will be collected.
Ono thousand five hundred volunteers, mostly
belonging to wealthy families, arrived on the 3,1 Wed,
fr*iin Drumlin, and were immediately embarked fur
Varna.
Au Arab chief, belonging to the pnwince of
Aleppo, has idlered to ann and support, at his own
expense, a body of A,OOO irregulars. This splendid
offer has been &everted, and the Bey rewarded with
the Mejidie devonition of the :Id order.
The French Ambassador is stated to have offered
the services of Ceneral Borquet and six offices% of
rank to the Turkish t;overnment.
Poly Paella, the Ottoman Ambassador in Parts,
has purchased 10,IMMI new muskets 114111 carbines de
Vincennes, for which he at. once paid two of
francs.
On the 2nd inst. the long-expected arrival of the
English and French fleets was .witnessed in Con-
stantinople. At nine a.m. Admiral Dundas, in the
Retribution, passed the Seraglio Point, and shortly
after Admiral Hamelin, in the Gunter, entered the
port. The Vengeance entered at about midday, but
the Albion NW the French ships of the line could
not make head against the current, and anchored
outside the Seraglio Point until the following day.
The admirals paid their visits of ceremony to the
Turkish officials of um tine on the 4th inst.

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According to th►+ Pairie, the report of Scbiunyll
having eut oft' 2U,INNI ltioe,istin in the Caucasus is
well founded :

" A private letter front 'l'reltitteettl, of the 144th oft., an•
malacca that the Itsinitiate fort of Itarret, in 4 ireiumis, en
the right bank of the 'l'erek, between Sloadok Anti Teals,
wax toirrountletl I. the sintotbinitted linear% and a taro
hotly of irrassiants, and it wax on the point of falling into
their power. The name letter Klatt% an authentic the re•
port of the grand ankh. which took place in the Cauca'a
at the coil of the last to 1111 l tier, and in which a lint din
&minion ..f 2o,imin tints, recently arrived at the theatre of
war, had been xtirrottudetl and cut tat pieces by the troupe
of Sell/oily!. Snell of the !Wooden tothlirra as did not fall
wl•I'l• !IWO prisoners by the l'ircatotiaiste. It was at this
period that Prince Wuroiszoff, poirroistideil hy the 4 'Arcane
Attu tribes at Itarrel, watt requited by a 'tummies, rums
,tisrulie, which 111114 its el-litre .4 111Wratifin. at Krbashrpol.
and which prot..velleil by forced tuarehes to the relief of the
prince."