The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-04 00:00:00

It is very I emarkable that the earliest report of three
events reached us via Paris, instead of through
Vienna, where it was known to the government, but
withheld from publicity.

CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 20.
It will scarcely be credited at this stage of our
affairs, that within these last few days the
Vienna note, pure and simple, has been again on the
tapis, and its adoption urgently pressed by certain
diplomatists, with divers commentaries and assu-
rances, implying a supplemental equivalent to the
rejected modifications of the Divan.
Tetik Pacha, bearer of the decision of the Porte to
the Commander-in-Chief, returned to Constantinople
on the 18th inst. He states that on the day after
his arrival at the camp an imposing ceremony took
place. The Hatti-Scherif was read, and the declara-
tion of war proclaimed in the presence of 30,000 men ;
who all protested on oath that they would defend to
the last their Sovereign and their country.
On the 13th inst., two officers started per steamer
Hervaz Bahri, from Varna, with instructions for the
camps of Batoun and Erzeroum.
Advice' from Varna, of the 17th inst., state that
several vessels had arrived there, laden with warlike
stores. Tho hledari Tidjaret steamer had also just
come into port, with 44 brass cannons and 30 mor-
tars, having also on board Vekil Hassan Pacha,
Roumeli Seraskier, and Kiretlu Moustafa Pacha-oglu,
chief of the irregular forces.
It is said that the Austrian steamer Schild, in her
last voyage, had towed some Russian war-ships as
tar as Bat-Ilk. The third Russian corps trarni le, it
is stated by the same correspondent, was passing at
that date the Moldo-Russian frontier.

The Russian mail steamer, due on the 14th, has
not yet come in, but is anxiously expected, with or-
ders to take the Russian Consul, M. Pisani, and
other officials who remained here after the departure
of the embassy. The Odessa mail steamer of the
16th delayed her departure two days, and quitted
port with Mr. Arggropoulo's family and other Rus-
sians on Tuesday last.
Advices from our sanitary officers along the Danube
confirm the accounts of cholera, dysentery, and inter-
mittent fever, with great mortality among the Rus-
sian forces ; whereas, singular enough, the Turks
are relatively speaking exempt from these diseases,
although exposed to the same influences of climate.
By letters of October 1, from the sanitary inspec-
tor at Erzeroum, we learn that the cholera had re- ,
appeared at Tehran, and its victims amounted from '
100 to 150 per day, in consequence of some regi-
meets from infected districts having been impru-
dently quartered there. These troops having been
removed, there had been, according to later accounts,
an improvement in the state of the public health.
The epidemic was also raging in the camp at Sul-
tanie, and had carried off great numbers, and many''
high functionaries, so that orders were issued for
disbanding, and the Shah was expected on the 18th
ult. at Tehran.
A French war-steamer, on the 12th instant, was
seen off the Peninsula of Cysicus, and the captain, in
reply to the sanitary officer, stated that he had to
sound the hat hours, by order of the Admiral, so that
we all hope soon to see the combined fleets in our
immediate vicinity.
The Friedland, after having been repaired, had
left port for Besika, but received orders on her way to
station at Gallipoli, where she has been ever since.
Lord Redeliffe, it is said, had an audience of four
hours with the ultan on the 18th instant, and has
at length, it appears, been invested with full powers
to act, as circumstances may require, and conformably
with his own well-known policy.