The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-25 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The following is given as the " Latest News" by
tho Vienna correspondent of a morning contempo-
rary under date of Nov. 21:
the main force of the Russians is moving towards Lesser
Wallachia, where it is said very stringent =assures will be
employed, em the people exhibit symptoms of an inclination
to rise against their Russian protectors. Two corps of
5,000 men each have been left near Oltenitza; the one at
Negoieschti, and the other at Dobreni (not marked).
Mention is also made of two extra batteries, four squadrons,
and 1,000 Cossacks beidg placed near Giergevo. On the
14th, 15th, and 18th the Turks made attempts, probably
feigned ones, to land opposite Nicopolis, Bistow, and
Rustclak. The Archduke Charles Ferdinand, the brother
of the Archduke Albrecht, has gone to Peterwardein to
take the command of the 10th army corps.
The accounts relative to the operations in Lower
Wallachia given by the German journals have been
very contradictory. Some have represented the
Turks as having taken possession of Krajowa, others
as having failed In their attempt, and been compelled
to retreat. The You Gazette, which arrived this
morning, gives a letter from Vienna, according to
which the statement of the Turks having entered
Krajowa was correct. General Fischbach, who was
charged to maintain that position, commenced his
retreat on the Bth. and the Turks occupied Krajowa,
Caoerl, Bassevida, and Bajolesi.
Letters of the 10th from Constantinople in the
Petrie say the news of the Russian fleet having
quitted Sebastopol is confirmed. A division had been
met in the Black Sea making sail for the month of
the Bosphorus.
Accounts from Constantinople to the 10th have
arrived, via Trieste. On the day before an aide-de-
camp of Omer Naha had reached the city with a
, announcing the aim of the Turkish arms
despatch,
m
itza. The following is a translation of the
principal passages of the balletin published on the
occasion:

Oa tad November 12,000 man crossed the Danube, and
took up • position at Oltenia', a village situated opposite •
little island (which had been occupied for three days) at
some distance from the lett bank of the Danube, at eight
hours' march from Bucharest, and where there is a sanita
post. Ohioans was occupied by 5,000 Russians, and their
resistance did not last loog. They were obliged to fall beak
on Buebanst. Oa the 4th a Russian cape creme* con-
sisting of 24 battalions of infantry, 3 regiments of cavalry,
• ..g.eoees of Ceeraeke, sad 32 pies. of artillery. an all
more than thirty thousand men, advanced on Oltenia' to
give battle. The imperial troops took measures for riCely-
tog them. The centre was commanded by Ahmed Paths,
the right wing by Monate& Puha and the left wing
by Ismail Pasha. Nadia Puha commanded the util-
laezaat Oltesitse, and Khaled Parka on the isle. The
commenced at half-past twelve, and at seven
o'clock all the Russian army was completely routed. it
left on the field of battle • mass of muskets, ammunition,
and baggage, which was conveyed to the asap of Omer
Puha. Upwards of 800 killed were found, without count-
isg those who during the combat were carried off in twenty
waggons as they fell, the Turks from humanity not attempt,
tag to prevent the removal. The Turkish army bad 13
killed and 72 wounded. Chiefs and soldiers did their duty,
and the report of Omer Poch* cites those who mat distin-
guished themselves.
All the vessels of the two fleets had arrived at
Constantinople, and had cast anchor iu the Bospho-
rus. The last vessels were towed in on the morning
of the 9th. A new division of the Turkish fleet was
preparing to sail on the evening of the 10th or the
11th for the Black Sea, where, according to the re-
ports of some captains of merchantmen, a certain
number of Russian vessels had been seen proceedii
towards the coast of Asia. The Porte had
received from the English and French am-
bassadors the assurance that it might, in
case of need, count on the effective co-operation of
France and England; and that it could send its fleet
into the Black Sea without fearing to leave the ca-
Gtal exposed to a coup de main. It was known that
eneral Baragaay d'liilliers, the new French ambas-
sador, was about to arrive.

A letter from Constantinople, of the 10th, says,
that the Turkish government has obtained a loan of
7,000,006 fr. from the firm of Messrs. Baltazzi, and
that it is teed by the Egyptian tribute.
The Trawkrer learns, by official statements of the

14th from Bucharest, that Prince Gortschakoff has
"assumed the offensive." The meseing of which
statement it would be difficult to fix. Prince Gorts-
chakoff was at Bucharest on the 14th, and from the
accounts of the Amtria* Cuerespoodotce he appeared
considerably obfuscated by the strange movements
of the Turks, apprehending that they had only left
Oltenitsa to play him some trick higher up the
river. The Ottoman general acts as not willing to
clear up his doubts, for on the 13th the Turks took
the Russians by surprise at Turns, opposite Nicopoli,
and having done considerable mischief retired.
The Austrian Correspundeses says that the affair
does not seem to have been very important, as men-
tion is made only of a few dead and wounded on either
side. It, however, is important enough to occupy
the serious attention of Russian commcnder-in-chief,
who has been compelled to dislocate the forces he
had concentrated at Kalafat.
The latest accounts received from the eastern coast
of the Black Sea show that Abdi Pacha and Schamyl
are working in concert. While the Turkish army
under Abdi Pacha is advancing along the coast of the
Black Sea to the north, in order to attack the Russian
line of fortresses in Abasian territory, Schamyl is
advancing through the interior, on the Terek, in a
parallel direction towards the Pass of Daniel. The
Pass of Dan el is the great military road on which
Russia depends for the preservation of her communi-
cation with the Tnas-Caucasian provinces. Should the
Circassian chief succeed in his undertaking, Tiflis,
and, indeed, the whole of Georgia, would be in immi-
nent danger. All supplies and reiliforcemet As must be
sent by sea, with the chance of never arriving at their 1
destination, while by land Prince 11'oronzow's line of
retreat is cut off. Russia is at this moment occupied at
one and the same time on the Danube, in the Caucasus,
and in the Black Sea. Are her military and financial
Iresouroes equal to the task ? There is strong reason
to doubt it. The present war was not a sudden
thought. Before Menchikoff arrived at Constant'
Inople he was reviewing " armies," in Bessarabia,
which the Russian press of all nations assured us
only waited the word to go forth and overrun
Turkey. And now these armies where are they ?
They are broken up. As nearly as can be ascer-
tained fifty-fivethousand men crossed the Pruth in
IJuly, and of these not more at the most than forty
thousand can now be accounted for without the aid of
the hospital surgeon. The rest have melted away
or are melting away, as 25,000 men melt away every
year in the government of Caucasus, and as 20,000
melted away in the brief Hungarian campaign.
General Gortschakoff sends in haste to Bessarabia
for the reinforce:heats which he believed awaited
him there, and they do not come. It was announced
that they were to cross the Pruth on the 4th instant,
but the 7th arrived, and they were not at the Pruth ;
then the 9th was to be the day, and the Austrian te-
legraph announced their arrival accordingly. But
we have now letters of the 11th, and at that date no
Osten Sackens corps had reached the frontier river.
The truth can no longer be concealed. The men have
been already sent to the Caucasus to attempt to hold
the warlike Schamyl and his Lesghis and Tschetchcn
in check. The deficiency has to be supplied in haste,
as it best may, and now probably weeks must elapse
before authentic reports of a new crossing of the Pruth
by a corps can arrive. .

At Aleppo two Sheiks have offered to equip the
volunteers of that town at their own expense. A
certain Ali-Nek Scherif Zade, who is described as a
rich and strikingly handsome young man, has been
appointed their leader. The Piicha girded a splen-
did sabre round the waist of the new chief, and the
Grand Sheik blessed his flag. The appointment of
this young man has produced a very good impres-
sion on the Christians, as they well know that the
newly appointed chief has both the wi'l and the
power to prevent any fanatical outbreak. 60,000
men, under the command of Islchrmed Rushdi Puha,
are to be assembled at Adrianople.
"A letter from Aleppo," says the Culoyne Gazette,
" mentions an extraordinary fact in the annals of
Islamism—namely, that the ulemas have fraternised
with the Christian priests, and that on a recent occa-
sion, they drank in common to the annihilation of the
Muscovites."
With a purposed fickleness, a contemporary, who
has lately lauded Omer Pacha's military combina-
tions, now represents that it has been necessary to
send Fuad Effendi to the Turkish Marshal to restrain
his military ardour, and to prevent " the recurrence
of inattention to the wishes of the government."
While it is probable that by this time Omer Pacha
has received and obeyed instructions requiring him
to recroas the Danube or confine himself to Kalafat,
nothing is more certain than that the best possible
understanding exists between the Marshal and the
government. The Sultan and his ministers fully
comprehend the necessity for leaving much to the
discretion of a commander placed in circumstances so
difficult as those which surround Omer Pacha, while
the retrograde movement from Oltenitza shows that
the Porte has confided its military affairs to a cap-
tain as prudent as he is bold. The appointment of
Faad Effendi, the intimate friend of Omer Pacha,
to the post of political chief on the Danube is a
proof that the Porte has no feelings of distrust in
this matter.