The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

THE WAR IN THE PRINCIPALITIES.

Account* of battles and skyntishei on the Danube
have reached England in most perplexing multiplicity
during the past week. Every telegraphic despatch
from the various sources of so called information
contradicts the statements of preceding messages,
and communicates some new intelligence, which,
in its turn, is declared false or exaggerated by later
'dykes.

The reports of some encounters between the Turke
and Russians, immediately after the former had
crossed the Danube, are, however, confirmed, as well
as the statement that the result had been favourable
to the Ottoman forces. The most important of these
engagements took plate, *wording to our anounce-
ment last week, at Oltenitza on the 4th inst. Since
then there would appear to have been no serious
collision—at most, nothing but skirmishes. This
conclusion is warranted by a telegraphic despatch
received by Vely l'acha, Ottoman .In►bassader in
Paris, from the Austrian Envoy of the Porte in
Vienna on Tuesday last, and which is confirmed by
the latest intelligence. The despatch states :—" The
communications from the theatre of war come down
to the I lth inst. At that period nothing decisive had
taken place."
The last advice,' front Bucharest are dated Novem-
ber 14. They announce that the Turks, after de-
stroying the fortifications at Oltenitsa, had recrossed
the Danube without being molested, The Russian
force concentrated round °Realty& amounted to
45,1100 men.

6n the Mill the Russian manifesto wait read in all
the churches of Bucharest.

Shots were conlinually exchanged near tiittrgevo.
Turks and Russians were both trying to get posses-
sion of the island of Mokauon.

General Engelhardt WAS ►ulvaneing from Hmilow
on Gomm Jahannitza with a brigade of the sth
corps. He had been replaced by a part of the reserve
of the 4th corps whirl► latterly entered Moldavia.
Thereservem were estimated at I'.'.,lNN► men.

This despatch Mlle through Vie' nua ou Thursday,
and is pronounced, on what authority we know not,
to be " authentic." Only the day before a despatch
of very different complexion travelled to England by
the same channel, stating that "the Turks hadalready
passed Bucharest, which was on tire in three places ;"
that the Miamians were retreating on emnatadt;
that fifteen thousand Turks hail been despatched to
intercept them through the principality of Servia ;
and that the Austrian tiovernment had ordered an
army corps to be immediately concentrated in t !coati&
But this message must doubtless* be considered Un-
authentic.

Some full, and apparently credible, details of the
engagement at Jiatotim, on the Asiatic frontier, are
communicated in a letter from Constantinople. It
appears that on Oct. llth .elim Dacha, with :I,ooii
regulars and as many Itashiboiouks, cro•owti the
Churnk Son rivulet, and attacked the Russian fort
named Chuketil l Nieolai on our maps), and after a
determined assault carried the place, which was
commanded by General Osgaroti, who had tinder his
orders three battalions of regulars, and 300 co,isfteks.
The Russians are stated to have suffered great losses,
as no quarter was given or taken. About WO fine
luaus were left dead, and the remainder, on with-
drawing from the fort, set fire to their barracks. The
Turks brought to Trebizond about QM) prisoners,
mostly wounded, and five Cossacks, one of whom is
lieutenant: they were sent on W Constentinork.