The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-05 00:00:00

LATEST FROM ABROAD.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

By derpatches received via' Semlin from Constanti-
nople of the 26th ult. we learn a fact for which the
evasive announcement of
_the Moniteur will have

prepared the public—namely, that the Porte had tot
definitively resolved upon its formal answer to the
last Vienna note.

GERMANY.

VIENNA, TUE,:rAY.

Closing prices: Austrian Five per Cent. Metal:ice,
931. Exchange on London, 11.23. Bank stares,
1,372. This bourse shows flatness.

FRANKFORT, Tcr.DA Y.

Austrian Five per Cent. Metalling, 7ts„. Spanish
Three per Cents., 401; ditto, Deferred, 211. These
prices also exhibit a fall.

THE WAR.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

In opposition to the news lately published by
many of the Vienna papers, attributing to Prince
Oortechakoff the project of attacking Kalafat, the
Frankfurt Post .Amt Gazette has information from
Bucharest announcing that the Russian commander
at Krajowa has received express orders to remain on
the defensive. The news, too, that the Turks ate
about to abandon Kalafat, where they have so
strongly entrenched themselves, continues to be re-
peated, although its absurdity is apparent. The
truth is that the garrison is relieved every 48 hours,
a great movement of troops is consequently percep-
tible, and hence these rumours of an evacuation. The
following is the letter of the Post Anti Gazette :
Letters from Bucharest state that General Ann p had
returned to that place from his mission at Krajuwa. It is
stated that he had conveytel to General Fischbach new in-
structions to maintain the defensive. It is added that
Prince Gortschakoff will not make any offensive movement,
and that he will retire with his troops behind the Altflys
in the event of the Turks advancing. The news is con-
firmed that a part of the Turkish mops who had taken up
a position at Kalafat have returned to Widdin. That place
has now a garrison of 50,000 men under Semi Luba. The
troops concentrated at lialafat are commanded by Achatei
Pacha. Omer Pacha is now at Widdin. On the 6tb I.
was at Rustjouck, the garrison of which has been doubled
On the 16th a report was current at Widdin that the Turk
proposed to cross the Danube at Rustjouck.
While noticing false rumours we may point out on
of the latest audacities of the Vienna telegraph. Ger
Guyon, of Hungarian celebrity, is said to have bee
murdered by his own troops, somewhere near Br
toun. The General, however, holds at present no con
mend in the Ottoman service, although invested wit
the rank of Pacha. He was last heard of at Dame
ens, where he resided, in ardent expectation of tt
day which would permit him once more to wield tt
sword against the enemy of his adopted country.
The :Veto Prussian Gazette of the 29th ult. col
firms the account already given of the Emperor
Russia having ordered that all the forces in his to
pire shall be placed on a war footing.
We read in the Brussels journals of Dec. ?.
" Count de Reizet, First Secretary of the Free
embassy at St. Petersburg, passed through Brass
yesterday morning, and proceeded on to Berlin."
A correspondent of the ',dependance Beige as:
"The fact of an ultimatnm having lately been st
to the Czar is confirmed. It appears, however, tl
this ultimatum is in no way calculated to hurt
feelings. It was sent to the Czar by the Empe
Napoleon, in accord with the English Cabinet,
tween which and Napoleon 111. Lord l'almers
acted as a mediator."
The hitherto staunch advocate of Russia, the
semblee, makes a show of throwing up its brief.
Tuesday it said :—" This struggle may shake
world, and we see it commence with the deei
grief. We cannot, however, dissimulate the re
we feel at seeing a great power, which has fe
long a time given proofs of moderation, which
always avoided separating its interests from the,.
Europe, and which appeared to be a barrier
resisting force against the revolution, now a'
Reed to be hurried into a course of policy prods
such deplorable consequences."
'the Cassel Gazette contains the following i
Bucharest of the 23rd ult.:
The follossiog are the particulars of the affair at Nat
On the 11th, two Russian gun-omits had proceeded
Braila to Matchin, and the day after, three others as:
steamers followed. Two of the boats were Wsilac
The object of this expedition, which was
the command of General Engelhardt, was b
@troy the Turkish battery of Matchin. The
nomads was exceedingiy sharp, and continued
evening of the 13th. A steamer then; returned to I
Os the 14th the combat recommenced. Two K
battalions succeeded in gaining the right honk, but
were obliged to retreat, alter having destroyed two Ti
batteries. It is said that General Engelhardt was wo
in the head. For some days back the Russians have
oecupyiog the Wallachia° i.le in front of Breda. 2
count from Braila states that the Russians had socar
destroying the land batteries of the Turks. No one
to leave Braila. At present it is said that the army s
out on the 24th from Braila and Galate, to cross tl
nubs. It is not true that klatchin has been burnt,
lit true that the Russians crossed the Danube on the 1
four Foists. In spite of the dreadful state of the rum
army is in movement.
The correspondent of the Indepemianee
writes word from Bucharest, on Dec. 21, that
is no truth in the report concerning the arri
General Osten-Siteken's army corps in Wal
The General, he says, is still with his divis
Bessarabia,
_where the troops will in all prob
be compelled to remain on account of the heavy
I The plains are inundated, and any one acqu
with the Danubian provinces will easily see b
circumstance alone, that the movement of tr,
impossible. If the weather were favourable
would require 18 days of forced marches to
Bucharest from Pruth.
It was not considered probable that the
who had been fortifying Kalafat in the dire
Rrajows, with such numerous works, would a
that position without an obstinate strugg
I doubt was entertained that very herd fightini
soon take place, supposing the Russians re
tended to drive their enemies back to th
bank of the Danube.
Several generals, among them General
berg,. were to leave Bucharest on the 21
Keepers.
We learn from Vienna, Dec. 28, that the
Osman Pacha, who was taken to &bast
not yet out of danger. His shattered li
suffered two amputations. All the
captured by the Russians, such as sabres, kr
and the like, have the stamps of French me
rers on them. On the 20th, a second enmi
gads of Russian troops marched from Beef
' Krsjowa, where a largo force is being cane
The Turks are well informed respecting eve
went at Russian head quarters. The writ
article we are now giving ventures to pre
the Russians, when they actually do attack
will be out of their reckoning, and fiud
flown, as they did at Oltenitza—perhaps I
late, that the enemy had crossed the Dauu
where else. It was generally believed, bu
sufficient grounds, that OmerVacha was nu
the head of 60,000 men from Kalafat on
The Russians on their part have thrown
entrenchments, not only around Bucharest
the village Badesbi and the road leach
About a league off the village they have
camp, proofs that their so-talked-of etfeet
tions and their passages of the Danube at
rent points are adjourned sine die. FLe
purpose these entrenchments, if they rca
to advance? Napoleon. on his march fruit
Moscow, never threw up one. Thtit oh
fore, appears to be to impede the dreaded
the Turks.
The Cronstadt Gazette of the 23th
dares that there is no truth whatever in
nious assertions that the Christians w
oppressed by the Turks. All that the
farmer has to yield to the army is a tithe
duce, for which ho is paid one-halt in ready
the other by a receipt, which will be rep
more fortunate times.