The Press.
London, England, 1854-09-09 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

The payments for everything purchased are made in
ready money; and Omer Pacha has contributed
thirty millions of piastres to the resources of Walla•
chin, to meet extraordinary expenses. One-halt of
this sum was paid in gold and silver, and the other
half in bank notes. The opposition to the reinstalls•
tion of Prince Stirbey is growing stronger every day,
and, owing to his former connection with Russia, it is
suspected that he will find !dile favour with the
Porte. A petition of the Boyards for his deposal,
submitted to Omer Pacha, had no less than 166 sig-
natures attached. He immediately sent it to Con•
stantinople for consideration, saying that he had no
power to decide in the matter. It. is stated as a
curious and significant circumstance that the Aus
trian Consul was the only public authority of Bu-
charest absent when Omer Pacha made his entry
into the city.
The Augsburg Gazette gives some details relative to
the arrangements entered into between Omer Pacha
and General Hess for the occupation of the princi•
palities by the Austrian troops. The Austrians, it
says, are to place garrisons in eighteen towns or large
villages of Lesser and Greater Wallachia, but all the
fords of the Danube, and all the to. tified points from
Kalafat to Galatz and Ibrail, are to receive Turkish
garrisons. Omer Pacha is to pass the Jalomnitza
with 60,000 infantry, "24,000 cavalry, and 1•lO pieces
of cannon, and to advance to the river of Dusco,
where he is to establish his head quarters. After the
Russians shall have evacuated Galatz and Ibtail, the
Turks are to continue their advances on both banks
of the Lower Sereth, and are to take up a position
there. _ _ _ . .

Baron Hess, Commander of the 3rd and 4th Aus-
trian army corps, issued the following proclamation
when the Austrian troops crossed the frontier:—

Inhabitants of Wallachia and Moldavia,—ln accordance with
a convention concluded between the Ewperor,my most gracious
Sovereign, and the Ports, the Austrian troops now euter the
pribeipalities. They will remove from you alt the evils of waf,
and bring you the blessings of peace. lieceiVe, then, those who
will care for your future peace and security with kindness and
confidence, and they will prove worthy of them by their beha-
viour, discipline, and subordination. The privileges granted to
you by the Sublime Porte will remain in full force, but I expect
from the authorities all possible assistance in providing proper
quarters and provisions for the troops, for whose necessities in.
deinnitication will always be made. From the people I expect
tranquillity and order, for every disturbance, or even a menace of
the seine by riutOtli persons or parties, will be punished with the
full severity of the law. All the authorities are now instructed
from this day forward (the date is not given) to apply in all mat-
ters to F.M.L. Count Coronini, who has been appointed by his
Majesty to the command, under my directions, of all the troops
in the two Danubian principalities, or to the military organs by
him nominated.

THE BATTLE OF KURUKDERE.
The details of this engagement, whose unfortunate
results seem to have fatally compromised the Turkish
fortunes in Asia, have been published by the Morning
Chronicle, as received from their military correspon •
dent, who witnessed and shared in the action. We
reprint the most interesting passages of his com-
munication :

On the 4th of August the Turkish army left the camp of
Hadji Velikoi at midnight, or, according to Turkish time,
at half•pa't five, and advanced on the Russian camp of
Kurukdere. The respective forces were as follows :

TURKISH INFANTRY.
12 battalions infantry (Arabistany), average strength,
300 men
20 ditto (Anatolian), ditto :150 men 7OOO
16 ditto (redif, or militia), ditto 550 men
ditto Rifles, 300 men 6OO