The Press.
London, England, 1853-08-06 00:00:00

GREECE.

The Bank of (Treece has declared a dividend of
41d. (15c., or at the rate of 8 1-3 per cent. per annum,
for the first quarter of 1853.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
The occupation of the Danubian principalities by
Russia has assumed a more serious character by the
usurpation of all authority respecting matters of
internal government and finance. The post-office
had, from the beginning, been invaded and managed
by Russian functionaries, and the local revenue is
now transferred into Russian keeping. Five millions
of piastres, which were in arrear from the Moldavian
principality, have accordingly been withheld, and the
reigning Prince Gliika has formally announced to
the Porte that, in conformity with superior orders
which he has received, all connection with Turkey is
severed, and the principality considers itself inde-
pendent of the Ottoman empire, and will in future
withhold the payment of all tribute. Wallachia was
hourly expected to signify a similar resolution. Or-
ders have been sent to both the Hospodars com-
manding them to quit the principalities, and retire
to the right bank of the Danube.
The consuls of England and France in the pro-
vinces have also received orders from their respective

Governments to lower their flags.
Accounts from Constantinople of the 19th mention
the arrival of the Egyptian fleet with 12,000 men on
board. The fleet was in quarantine.
The protest against the occupation of the princi-
palities has not produced the effect counted upon.
The Porte still continues its warlike preparations,
and about 15,0(X) men have lately passed through
Constantinople on their way to the army of the
Danube, which, including the fortresses, is about
100,0I11) strong. Ali Pacha has arrived from Smyrna.
The Czar has decreed a fresh levy of recruits of
seven in the 1,000 throughout the eastern ►art of the
empire. These recruits are destined to reinforce the
army and the navy. The Jews are to give two
recruits per thousand. The levy is to commence on
the Ist of November. _

The Emperor of Russia has, by a public mani-
festo, openly declared his intention of pushing the
cause of the Orthodox Greek Church to the utmost.

The Grand Duke Constantine arrived at Odessa
on the 17th ult. He has been appointed Grand
Admiral of the Fleets, and was about to proceed to
Sebastopol to inspect the two squadrons in the Black
Sea. _ _ _

In Servia, Prince Alexander was still urged by the
Senate to abdicate : he refuses compliance, and has
a strong party. A civil war is not improbable.

The Paris Constitittionswl gives the following ac-
count of the Russian army from a source which it
considers to be authentic :

" The Russian army is divided into the troops on active
service, the reserve, and the local troops. The active army,
of which the headquarters are at Warsaw, is composed of
18 divisions of infantry, or from 210,000 to 252,0110 men;
of 0 divisions of cavalry, or 28,000 men; of 72 batteries of

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foot artillery, or 12,960 men and 861 pieces of cannon ;
and of 6 batteries of mounted artillery, 720 men and 48
cannons. The whole force of the active army does not con-
sequently altogether make up 300,000 men, with 912 pieces
of cannon. The reserve is composed of the body guard,
the colonised grenadiers, two colonised corps of cavalry,
and of the sth and 6th depot battalions of the infantry re-
giments. The whole force of the body guards and colonised
grenadiers is 96,000 men and 320 pieces of cannon ; the
force of the two colonised bodies of cavalry is 24,000 men
and 40 pieces of cannon ; as to the force of the sth and Bth
battalions of infantry belonging to the reserve, it is almost
impossible to ascertain it with any certainty, as these bat-
talions are only destined in a certain measure to till up the
vacancies which occur in the regiments of the line in the
time of a campaign or of forced marches. The total num-
ber of the infantry regiments being 120, there would be
240 reserve battalions, or about 210,000 foot soldiers, if
these battalions were complete ; but, as they are constantly
sending their men to the regiments to which they belong,
their existence is rather nominal than effective. it would
be too much, in fact, to say that this part of the reserve
amounts to 151,114141 men, but we put down that amount for
the purpose of calculation, and then there will be a total
force of the whole reserve of 2.0,000 men and 360
pieces of cannon. The local troops are the corps of the
Caucacus, composed of three divisions of uffaiio7 and
twelve batteries of iOot artilley ; that of Finland with four
battalions ; that of Orenbourg, on the frontier of Turkestan,
with tOur battalions ; and that of Siberia with four batteries,
in all from 72,000 to 84,000 men and 288 pieces of cannon.
The regular army of Russia, therefore, consists of thirt,
divisions, or 120 regiments of infantry, and of fifteen divi-
sions, or sixty regiments of cavalry ; and counts, at most,
with the reserve and the depots, 628,000 men and 1,540
pieces of cannon, to which must be added from 30,000 to
50,000 Cossacks of various denominations, with their light
artillery, as well as the interior guard and the gendarmerie.
Out of that number there can really be disposed of in Eu-
rope only the active army, the body guards, the grenadiers,
and the two reserve bodies of cavalry, in all 420,01 K) men,
72,000 horses, and 1,272 cannon—a considerable force cer-
tainly, but not greater than others of the first-rate powers
can bring into the field in time of war.