The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-08 00:00:00

Tinan, u well as their aides-de-campand principal
alum.

The Sultan expressed to them also his gratitude for
the efforts of France in the present difficulty, and
how mach satisfaction he felt on seeing her splendid
fleet moored in the Bosphorus.
After the audience, the French Ambassador de-
'pitched per Ajaccio steamer, a secretary, M. de Ber-
themy, with a letter for Lord Redcliffe, who is still
at Therapia.
Monsieur and Madame De la Cour, with Messieurs
Bersolle and Magnan, started per Solon, on Saturday
last. On taking leave of M. Baragusy d'Hilliers, the
general observed, Aka facia eat ; to which M. De
la Cour replied, " Veus la ransasserez, mon general."
Intelligence from the Turkish ministers in London
and Vienna announces an intention of convoking a
congress to examine the points respecting the "reli-
gious immunities" on the surface of this interminable
question. The ministry, however, has declared that
any such project cannot be entertained for an instant
by the Sultan and his government.
Despatches from Abdi Pecha, commanding the
army of Anato:ia, reached this on the 18th inst., and
state that the Russians in the direction of Bsyazid
and Erdehan attempted to cross the frontier, but
were also repulsed in au action of some hours, and
with considerable loss.

The Seraskier also received despatches from Tei-
aoullah Pacha, governor of Tchildir, that the Rus-
sians had been defeated by the Turkish troops in
the neighbourhood of Akieka. The fact is undeniable.
The Turks have proved themselves in Alit and bravery
superior to the Russians in every encounter hitherto,
unless we must make an exception of lassactchi,
where their flotilla, you are aware, passed on and
destroyed a small impromptu battery, and even then
1 at the loss of the commander and 50 men.
Several English officers, spectators of the battle,
I have arrived with trophies iu the shape of medals,
arms, and different accoutrements from the field of
Oltenitza.

Mehemet Pacha, ex-Seraskier, is about to proceed
in a few days, with a view of inspecting the camps in
Anatolia. His sobriquet of " Muterdjim derives,
you are aware, from the circumstance of his having
translated the French military code, which has con-
tributed greatly to the present organisation of the
Turkish army. He is unquestionably one of the
best men 1 have met in Turkey, at he same time a
most distinguished officer.
A singular incident happened at Varna on the
2nd inst. A Russian frigate, without her colours,
entered the port of Varna, and after having remained
three or four hours without I.t or observation on
the part of the governor, quietly departed, and was
taken in tow by two steamers in the offing.
This circumstance has led to the dismissal

Of Abdullah Paella, who has arrived at
Consoantinople. It is to he hoped he is no relative
of the notorious Yussuf Pacha, mho traitorously sur-
rendered fur a c mate equivaleut that fortress during
the last war. Be that as it may, his successor,
Hussein Puha, is a man of energy and courage, full
of ardour for the national cause.

Dr. Castro, who has to examine the redifs previous
to their proceediug to cue camps, informs me that
ho is every day subject to serious altercations.
and even exposed to abuse, from these men whom, as
in duty bound, he may kayo pronounced unfit for
active service. They protest that " he rats dirt," un-

derstands nothing of his business; that they are per-
fectly sound wind and limb, and all ready for the
campaign.
There is a qumtion which has agitated the Ministry
and ambasadora for several days relative to the ex-
pediency of sending out the fleets in search of the
Russian division blockading, as yon are aware, the
coast between Sinope and Trebizonde. lam unable
to state to-day what resolution has been adopted on
this subject, but we are all in hopes that the old
French general will soon set thinFs a-going, and that
without delay. He is, if lam rightly informed, ac-
tive,indefatigable, up every morning at five o'clock, his
young gentlemen and staff all yawning, nodding,
and still hard at work at a most uncanonical hour.
Camp discipline, it appears, nod martial law have
been proclaimed at the French Palace.

A valued correspondent at Constantinople, writing
on the 21st of November, me :
" War continues, and the tr►umph of the Turkish
arms, both in Europe and Asia, continue also. Still
pacific negotiations are spoken of, and General Ila-
raguay d'Hilliers talks openly of the earnest
desire for peace on the part of France, btft, be adds,
it mast be peace now upon a basis acceptable to
Turkey. I have it from official quarters that Tur-
key has not less than 400,000 men under arms. I
heard the enumeration of them in detail, and
there daily arrive reinforcements far exceeding her
wants.

" Decidedly Tarkey is not the decaying corpse
men held her for. It will yet be seen that she can
put forward as much vitality for peaceful institu:
dons and commercial ameliorations, as for the sup-
port of all the evils and expenses of an unjust war
—a war which she could not refuse without the
crime of denationalising herself.
"She has given evidence of her resources, her
patriotism, and her wealth. When she comes forth
from this trial, as she will come forth, saved,
Europe will not despise her alliance nor her friend-
ship, and European capitalists will not be slow to
avail themselves of so new and useful an opening."

The Wanderer contains a letter from Constanti-
nople of the 21st ult., which declares that the Greek
patriarch had requested the Sultan to allow him to
accompany his Majesty to Adrianople., to give a proof
to the world that the Greek church preterred the pa-
tronage of the Sultan to that of the Czar.

Th; Malta Times, in announcing Sir Edmund
Lyons's arrival on board the Terrible, affirms that he
will supersede Admiral Dundas in the command of
the fleet, the latter being appointed First Lord of
the Admiralty.
We read in the Constilutionnel:

Letters have been received from Constantinople tiii
Trieste to the 21st ult. The following is a summary sent
us by our correspondent of the third bulletin of the Turkish
armies:

" Some regiments of Cossacks and Wallachian Dua-
lism showed themselves on the 4th ult. in some villages in
the neighbourhood of Kalafat for the purpose of pillage.
As soon as Ismail l'acha was informed of their presence he
sallied out at the head of a body of regular troops to setack
them. At his approach the Russians took to flight, without
attempting any resistance, and were followed to some dis-
tance. Ismail Pacha then placed garrisons is: the different
villages and returned to Kalafat. On the 12th a serious
engagement took place. The Turkish irregular troops,
commanded by Giafer Bey, occupied the small island of
Mokan Oglon, at stout an hour's march from Routechouk,
and were engaged in fortifying it when eight battalions
of infantry, two regiments of cavalry, and a bat-
tery of twenty pieces of field artillery. forming part of
the Russian army at Giurgevo, took up a position op-
posite the island on the left bank of the Danube, and
opened a heavy fire of artillery and musketry on the Turks,
during which a number of troops embarked in gun-boats,
and endeavoured to effect a landing on the island. This
attack was, however, vigorously repulsed, and the Russians
were obliged to retreat after losing a great number of men.
From Asia, Abdi Pticha writes that the Turkish troops,
having met the Russisos who had crossed the frontier in the
neighbourhood of Bayazid, a battle took place, in which
the Russians we re defeated, and compelled to retreat.
Another affair took place some days after, at a distance of
two jor three hours's march from the fortress of Akiska.
The numbers were about equal on both sides, but the
Ottoman troops obtained the victory, mid the Russians fled
in disorder, after having experienced considerable loss.
" The Turkish division, which had gone to cruise in the
Black Sea, returned en the 19th to the Bosphorus, and
resumed its position before Buyukdete."

The Journal des Debuts says:
Accounts from Constantinople to the 21st have arrived.
They represent that it is entirely false that, as asserted by
the German journals, Kalafat bad been evacuated, and that
the Turks were beaten in a cattle on the road to Crajowa.
Ismail Pacha had not marched on Cr•jowa, and fur the
moment had received no orders to do so. fhe object which
the Turkish general proposed to himself in taking posse.
sion of Kalafat was solely to cut off from the Russians the
road to Servia, and to protect that province from the attack
with which the Keenan general had menaced it. By the
occupation of Kalafat the route to Servia was rendered im-
possible to the Russians, and the reserve of 40,000 men
which Turkey had been obliged to assemble at Soda in
order to protect Berrie, if necessary, could be disposed of.
Several English officers who were at the affair of Oltenitza
oft the 4th, and amongst them Lord Woreley, and
Captains Wilsons and Bathurst, had returned to
Constantinople. They declared that they were
surprised at the vigour which the Turkish
troops displayed, gni that experienced troops, French or
English, would not have been able to conduct themselves
with more courage or sangfroid. These officers expressed
en
opinion not very favourable to the Russian troops, such
as they were at that moment. Despatches from the governor
of Routachouk had been received, announcing that several
thousand irregular troops, under the orders of Matte Bey,
had taken possession of an island situated just below the
fortress of Routachouk, designated the island of Mokan
Onglon. On 12th November, whilst they were occupied in
constructing some fortifica!ions, seven or eight battalions
of Russian infantry, with more than 20 pieces of artillery,
and two regiments of cavalry, belonging to the division of
Olurgevo, ganged themselves in line of battle on the left
beak opposite the island, and after a sustained fire of
artillery and musketry, attempted by means of •
esnsiderable number of boats to effect a descent
in the island, and dislodge the Turks. The Russians
were repulsed with loss, and obliged to retire to the
kit bank, whence they continued to nightfall a sustained
fire against the island, which, nevertheless, remained in pos-
session of the Turkish troops. The report adds that the
le-s of the Russians in killed and wounded was consider-
able; whilst that of the Turks only amounted to three
killed and some few wounded. From the side of Asia, the
intelligence is also favourable. According to despatches
from Abdi Paella, an action took place not far from Bayazid
between the Russian troops, who had passed the Turkish
frontier, and were marching on that town, and a body of
Turkish troops sent out to rrrrr ttheir progress. After a cons-
het of length, the Russians were forced to withdraw in con-
fusion, leaving a considerable number of dead on the field
of battle. The other details of this action could not be
known until the next d. spatches arrived. Despatches
ban the governor of Tchilder, in Armenia, announced that
the Turkish troops had fallen in with a Russian corps, at
about two hours' distance from the RlP4il\ll fortress of
Ackiska, and after • sharp combat, had esmpletely worsted
the Russians, and forced them to withdraw in du -rder.
Lord Stratford de Radcliffe was still endeavouring to in-
duce the Ports to adopt the note of which mention was
lately made in preceding despatches. The negative reply
given to him had not, it was reported, discouraged him, and
he was still continuing his efforts to bring about an and.
eable The Porte has declared that no

a arrangement. ..
tiation could be entered into unless the Principalities wire
first evacuated, and that though it bad formerly, in a spirit
of conciliation, offered terms similar to those now expressed
in the note in question, yet as the menacing attitude of
Russia had forced Turkey to place herself on a war footing
at an enormous sacrifice, it did not consider itself bound by
its preceding offers. Sorry Paeha, appointed to the com-
mand of the irregular troops of Entrai', embarked on the
19th November in the Austrian post-ofiLie packet for Tre-
birmil. Letters had been received from the Spanish Ge-
neral Prim, dated from the head-quarters of Omer Pacha,
announcing his intention to return to Constantinople al-
most immediately, in order to get rid of a slow fever which
bad seized him in the low grounds of the Danube. He in-
tended remaining there during the winter season, when
hostilities would of necessity he suspended. The most pro-
found tranquillity continued to prevail at Constantinople.
The Russian military paper called the Ittralith,
says that in the desperate encounter between the
Wladimir war steamer and the Egyptian steam
sloop, the captain of the latter was killed. The
Russian lieutenant Gelezenoff also fell.
Accounts from the Danube state that between the
14th and 24th of November above 400 of the Russian
soldiers wounded at Oltenitza died in hospital. This
number does not include fifteen officers and three
colonels. who have died in the same period of wounds
received at the same place.
The sanitary conuition of the Russian army
anything but satisfactory. The Monastery of Cotro-
cheney, the late summer residence of Prince Stirbey,
the ancieut Consulate of France, and several other
private buildings, have been converted into hospitals.
A letter from the Polish frontier, dated December
1, contains the following :--At the commencement
of winter in every year a general seizure of men re-
quired fur military service takes place throughout
Russian Poland; and, under the name of the Brinks
is universally dreaded. The day on which it takes
place is one of horror and woe throughout the land.
Seldom, indeed, does the unhappy conscript ever see
his home again. In the course of last week, that is
to say, on the night of the 23.4 th of November, a
Branka of this kind was executed throughout Rus-
sian Poland. The villaes and hamlets which at
other times have been milled On to supply one or two

ince, hale this time had to furnish6lclu, d t
and this as a general rule. The Branka is estimated
at 50,000 men.
The Cologne fin:dle contains the following tele..
graphic despatch :—" The coati ri rice of reprisenta-
ayes of the Four I'owers here mill to-morrow send
to Constantinople a new pr jeer of arrangerutut.
The negotiations fur peace will be continued accord-
ing to this proposal, although hoqilities b"„ty t
have been suspended."
Advice, from Constantinople of the 24th Novem-
ber, in the Ust Deutsche I'ost, state :—" England
desires a three months armistice. Lord Redeliffs
had a five hours' audience with the Sultan, with a
view to obtain the consent whieh the Ministers had
refused. M. de Bruck had presented a memorandum
pointing out. the necessity of peace. An extraordi-
nary C mind of Mini-stens was convened in conse-
queuce."
General Innzoff, provisionally administering the
government of Moldavia, was acting there in a most
arbitrary manner. He has just completed an inspec.
tion of the public and private establishments. When
he visited the Jews Ho-pital, he received its three-
tors very badly. The banker Kahane having ventured
to remind him that he and several others were Aus-
trian subjects, the general answered roughly, "Well,
then, if you are Austrians, be off to Lemberg:"rs „a
Israelite, a subject of Russia, he said, " If ails of you
stir, I will take you by your beards." Upon this the
Austrian subjects invoked the protection of their
consul-general, Baron Von Testa. General Cruzoff,
on his part, hue demanded that the banker KahanF
should be conducted to the frontier by gensdarmes.
Baron Von Testa has, however, obtained for him
some satisfaction for this injury, by declaring that he
was ready to go himself; although he had not re-
ceived any orders to that effect from his government.
The Moldavian postmasters have received orders not
to furnish post-horses to any persons but Russian
couriers.

The Porte having declined to receive any compen-
sation for the repairs of the Friedland—repairs
which cost 300,000fr.—General fla-aguay &Whets
made a present to the Sultan of 2,300 Vincennes
rake.

It is positively stated," says the Potpie," that in
consequence of a report made on the subject of the
last survey of the mouths of the Danube, the most
urgent works are about to be immediately executed
in order to clear the passage of the Salina."
The last accounts received from the Danubian pm.
vinces state that General Uruzoff, who commands in
Moldavia, and who has been the object of an ener-
getic remonstrance on the part of the foreign consuls
and agents, has just been recalled by Prince Gorts•
chakoff, and appotnted to another service.