The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-02 00:00:00

LATEST FROM ABROAD.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
The following telegraphic communication has been
received this morning by a commercial firm in the
City :

" VItNNA, Nov. 1.
" The communication with the Lower Danube is
entirely interrupted, in consequence of recent events."

THE BALTIC.
COPENHAGEN, Ocr. 26.

Private letters from the Island of Bornholm state
that several Russian ships of war—indeed a whole
fleet—have been seen cruising and manoeuvring to
the east of the island. The Imperial Russian war
steamer Ottwaschnoi has been in our roads since
last Saturday, and further out a Russian frigate is
at anchor.

TWO SICILIES.
NAPLES, Om 24.

M. Maupas, the French Minister, is reported to
have demanded permissiou to form a naval depot at
Brindisi, should circumstances render such necessary.

The Neapolitan funds have fallen to a war price :
Neapolitan Fives, 1061 ; Sicilian Fives, 99. Ex-
change on London, 554, and rising.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

Telegraphic despatches from Vienna announce
that Omer Pacha crossed the Danube in force on
Friday last from Widdin. Previous advices have
made us acquainted with the extensive pre-
parations conducted at this point under th; eye
of the Turkish commander point
the last three
weeks. The eyot midway between Widdin and
Kalafat was occupied by a Turkish force of 4,000
men on the 16th ult., and since this date batteries
have been erected, and a bridge thrown across from
the eyot to Kalafat, in Little Wallachia. Oa the
same day (the 16th ult.) also the Turks paid a preli-
minary visit of inspection to Kalafat, and, on the
28th, as we are now informed, the passage was
effected, with a force, variously stated, at from 20,000
to 50,000 men, the smaller quotation being accom-
panied by the remark that a great number more
were in the act of passing. If we give
this information, subject to the usual caution
generally applicable to telegraphic despatches, it
ought also to be said that it arrives with as many
recommendations to belief as can be expected of
communications by the same channel. -Omer Pacha's
intention of crossing the Danube has been manifested
in too many ways to be a subject of doubt, and, as
pointed out yesterday, the order which, according
to the Moniteur, was on the 21st ult. transmitted to
him from Constantinople, was not of a character to
interfere greatly with the previously formed pur-
poses of the General. In fact, however, it does not
appear that any order not to cross the Danube was
implied in the Sultan's message to Omer Pacha.
Even Prince Gortschakoff could not say that the
entrance of the whole Turkish army into Wallachia
was in itself an act of hostility. The Czar has not
yet pretended that the Principalities have ceased to
be a part of the Ottoman empire, and the mere pass-
age of the Danube by Omer Pacha's army would do
no more than bring about a de facto joint Russian
and Turkish occupation, such as took place un•
der Omer Pacha and General Luders in
1849, with no more right on the part of Russia
than in the present instance. It is not meant to
suggest that under actual circumstances the Turkish
commander would be likely to content himself with
such an inactive occupation of his master's territory,
in the unwarranted presence of a foreign force, but
while the diplomatic servants of many states are
understood to be busily engaged in adjusting the
difference between Russia and Turkey, it is well to
measure the value of events which seem calculated
to interfere with those efforts. Some of the de-
spatches which arrive from Vienna speak of an im-
mediate engagement which was expected. Such an
encounter may or may not have taken place; the
next telegraphic despatch may bear news of positive
hostilities, but at present we only know that Omer
Pacha has crossed from one section of his master's
territory to another. This fact, however, is suffi-
cient to dispose of the story of an "armistice," the
groundlessness of which was yesterday exposed in
these columns.

MALTA, Ocr. 26.
H.M.S. Caradoc arrived from Constantinople this
morning, at 6 a.m. She left Constantinople on Sun-
day, 23rd, and part of the French fleet off
Gallipoli. H.r.34Britannia, with part of the
English fleet, was below the first Castle. The whole
of both fleets were en route for Constantinople, but
it was blowing so hard that it rendered it impossible
for the steamers to tow.