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

LATEST. FROM ABROAD.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
(BY BLIICTLIC TILZOR•?M.)
PARIS, FRIDAY.
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The Monittur states that the naval divisions,
French and English, have anchored in the Bosphorus•
The Admirals, Hamelin and Dundee, are at Con-
stantinople.
Hostilities nave commenced on the frontier of Asia
in the same manner u on the Danube.
In Asia the Turks have met with some success.

VIENNA, THURSDAY EVENING

The following conditions are insisted on in an
ultimatum presented by Omer nicht" to Prince
Gortscbskoff:

" All the strong places in the Principalities to be
given into the hands of the Turks immediately; the
complete evacuation of the Principalities as speedily
as possible, and a guarantee of all the Powers agaiust
similar invasion."

13EELIN, Nov. 9.

It is expected at St. Petersburg that the Emperor
would shortly leave for the south. Orders had been
sent to Kief for the immediate revision of the last
military census.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 27.

Reschid Pacha has inquired of M. Bruck whether,
in case of a war, the Russians will be allowed to
supply the Montenegrins with arms and the mate-
rials of war by the port of Cattaro.

A later despatch from Constantinople of the 31st
ult. announces a second conflict between the Rus-
sians and Turks, which took place on the Asiatic
coast of the Black Sea, and not far from Battoun.

BELGRADE, Nov. 3.

The official Gazette of the Bervian government
contains a decree by which every person capable of
bearing arms is ordered to possess himself of a good
serviceable rifle. Parties needing the article may
obtain it at cost price from the arsenal.
Prince Alexander has assured the Porte that no
foreign power will be allowed to violate the Servian
territory.

FRANCE.

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PARIS, Taraszizy EVENING.
The great fact of to-day, one of tar greater moment
than the battles of more or less importance on the
Danube, is contained in the despatch by which we
are informed that the Czar has thrown away the
scabbard. Thus while diplomacy at Constantinople
was pressing the Sultan to suspend hostilities to the
manifest disadvantage of the Turkish cause, Nicholas
was preparing a threatening and warlike manifesto
at St. Petersburg. The Piens expresses an opinion
that this manifesto must inevitably turn out Lord
Aberdeen.

The Moniteur publishes the same account of the
battle at Oltenitza, as was given in the Patrie
last night, and says, "it appears to be worthy of
credit." This is an important confirmation.
The Patrie, in two separate articles, speaks with
great severity of the Russian manifesto. In its latest
news it says : " In declaring that the Ottoman Porte
has violated treaties, and provoked the combat, the
Czar seems to forget that he is speaking
to the entire world, which knows the facts, and will
judge in the name of justice, right, and civilisation.
We are assured, for the rest, that the manifesto,
taken as a whole, is conceived in such a manner as to
justify the intention attributed to Russia in a letter
from St. Petersburg, of carrying on a war of exter-
mination against Turkey."
At the Bourse the confirmation of the engagement
of Oltenitza and the news from St. Petersburg, pro-
duced a fall of 30c. or 40c. in the rente. With that
extraordinary tenacity which has been the character-
istic of the last few dave, prices soon began, how-
ever, to recover, and at one time reached 73fr. 80e,
the last quotation of yesterday. At the close the fall
was only 20c. The railways generally declined but
little. Towards the close of the day it was rumoured
that another bloody battle had been fought between
the Turks and Russians, which had lasted 17 hours,
land was not concluded when the despatch left. This
is probably the same action as that alluded to in the
despatches which speak of a battle lasting 28 hours
on the 4th and Lth.

The despatches in the London journals which speak
of 3,000 Russians as engaged at Oltenitza, are evi-
dently erroneous. The number should be 9,000,
which, according to the authentic accounts, was the
force under General Pauloff.

It appears from a private letter in the Patric that
the Fort of Isachta was not burnt as the Russians
pretend. They merely succeeded in setting fire to a
little village in the neighbourhood, entirely composed
of wooden houses.

I learn to-day, from a good source, that General
Canrobert is going to St. Petersburg on a special
mission. This has been said more than once by way
of rumour, but if I am rightly informed, he will now
set out immediately, and his errand is one of vital
importance. In connection with this subject, I think
irht to mention a connected story I have just
heard, which I sincerely hope may not be tree, for
should it be so, it will appear that the English
government has been pursuing a course not only
discreditable to them, but perilous to the nation,
and one that may lead to infinite com-
plications. It is said then, that the Russian
minister in London, persevering in the policy
of seeking to sow dissension between France
and England, recently made very plausible
advances to the English cabinet, repeated in very
explicit terms the assurances so frequently made by
the Czar, of his pacific and moderate intentions, and
expressed on his part the utmost anxiety to accept
any reasonable terms of arrangement for the *lce of
peace. At the same time reasons were adroitly
alleged why it would be painful to the Czar to treat
with France, but it was strongly represented that a
proposition made by England alone would
have every chance of being accepted. It was
in pursuance of this intrigue that a plan was hit
upon in London for making the King of the Belgians
arbitrator. Leopold, however, saw at once that the
French Emperor, who has hitherto—apparently, at
least—aoted with such frank endiality in concert
with England throughout, would take umbrage at
any arrangement from the framing of which he had
been studiously excluded, and therefore excused him-
self un the ground of the delicacy of his position from
accepting the proposed office. There is reason to
believe that as soon as the plan for isolated negotia-
tion by the St. James's cabinet came to the know-
ledge of the court of St. Cloud, Louis Napoleon
did feel much hurt, and the appointment of General
Baragnay d'Hilliers to represent his own views in an
especial manner at Constantinople, was tho imme-
diate consequence. General Canrobert'a mission to
St. Petersburg is now said to be a further step in the
new direction given to French policy by the partial
success of Russian intrigues in London. He will, I
am told, be instructed to lay before the Czar an ul-
timatum drawn by France alone, upon the an-
swer to which the question of general peace
or general war will depend. It is to be
hoped that all this may be susceptible of
explanation, but it can serve no good purpose to
conceal the fact that great uneasiness is felt here
owing to the prevalence of rumours that the two
Western Powers arc not so fully agreed upon a course
of action as is generally represented and commonly
taken for granted.