The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-23 00:00:00

THE WAR.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

It instated from Paris that telegraphic intelligence
had reached that capital from Constantinople down
to the 13th inst. The courier who conveyed the
Collective Note and Circular Instructions of the
Vienna Conference had arrived, and the Ambassadors
of the Four Powers met at once to take these docu-
ments into consideration.

Several German journals mention a rumour at
Vienna that Russia has consented to send a plenipo-
tentiary to the new Conference. The journals in
giving this rumour, however, express an opinion that
it is not well-founded.

Despatches from Erzeroum of the 16th tilt. com-
municate some particulars which are of interest,
although relating to events anterior to the battle of
Akalzich, of which the Russian account was pub-
lished yesterday in the Daily News. According to
these despatches Mehemet Pacha, General of the Di-
vision of Bayazid, had penetrated the Russian terri-
tory, and occupied several villages situated near the
frontier, in the province of Erivan. Anxious to
profit by his first successes, he immediately advanced
upon the city of Erivan. At his approach the prin-
cipal persons and authorities advanced to meet him
in a body, and delivered the place up to him. The
Russians had evacuated it. Mehemet Pacha, think-
ing it unwise to enter Erivan at once, for fear of
stratagem, took up a position in the environs. This
event proves the sympathy of the inhabitants for the
Turks, and it was considered more than probable that
the Russians, having abandoned so important a place,
would also evacuate the whole province.
An account of the capture of the Turkish steamer,
the Medjire-Tedjaret, is given in the St. Petersburg
Journal. This account describes the steamer as a
transport of 200 Lurie power belonging to the Turk-
ish government, and it concludes by saying : "As
it yielded without striking a blow, and can be imme-
diately utilised, measures have already been taken
for sending it, after the usual quarantine, to Nico-
laieff, where it will be employed in the service of the
port." And this steamer was captured at the mo-
, ment when a score of Russian merchantmen were in
the Bosphorus, and might have been seized with the
Freatest facility ; and the Turkish government has
just extended the grace allowed to Russian traders.
The St. Petersburg journals have announced that
the Russian Baltic fleet has been dismantled, and
that the crews have been sent to their homes. ID
Order to fully understand the bearing of this measure
it is useful to mention that the Baltic fleet, which has
the best sailors in the Russian navy, were transferred
three months since to the Black Bea fleet, and only
fresh levied seamen remained at Croustade. It ca
' these men who base been sent to their homes for the
winter season, when the fleet of the Baltic cannot
move on account of the ice.

Letters from St. Petersburg state that the official
reports which were yesterday given in the Daily
News caused great enthusiasm there. ATe Dean;
was sung in the chapel of the palace in the presence
of the Emperor and his family and the whole of his
Court, the gaup, or the fortress pouring forth a salvo
at the sam. time; and by order of the Emperor a
Te Delon was perfumed in all the churches of the
capital, and the city was illuminated in the evening.
Several thousand copies of the reports were sent off to
the provinces, with an order for Te Deana throughout
the empire; everything, in fact, is dune by the Bus-
: sian government to keep up the religious enthusiasm
for war. A Turkish flag from Akal-Tsiehe was car-
ried about the city with great delight.
Omer Pacha was at Itustchuck on the 10th inst.
Despatches from Trieste and Berlin repeat the
story of Prince ltebutoff's victory over Abdi Pacha
on the let or 2nd inSt., mentioned yesterday in the
Daily News ; but, as all the accounts have evidently
a common origin, it cannot be said that they confirm
it. The action in which the Luke are alleged to