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

MONTENEGRO.

The Dalmatian journals bring particulars of Omer
Pacha's proclamation to the Montenegrins. The
Turkish general promises, as the price of their sub-
mission, the fullest enjoyment of religious liberty
and worship; also the right of self-gove .nmcat so
far as concerns the election of prefects and sous-pre-
fects (serdares and baserdares) for each naltia, re-
quiring these only to obey the orders of the Pacha
of Scutari in important affairs, and exemption from
taxation, with the exception of paying the salaries
of the prefects whom they elect. On these
offers each district is to decide separately and
for itself. The Ist inst. was looked forward
to as the probable date of a fierce struggle between
the Montenegrins and Turks. Omer I'acha had
sent .5,000 Arnauts to the aid of the I'acha of Scutari,
receiving himself 3,000 men from the corps crar»We
of Itoumelia.

A letter from "the Narenta," published in the
Vienna Lkositl, gives details of two fights in which
the mountaineers were unsuccessful. The Montene-
grins, it Is said, are required to display a terrible
energy to cope with the numerically superior foe.
Among the feats of valour recorded by this corres-
pondent is that of a peasant who was burned out of
his house at the engagement near Limugani. It is
said that he cut down a Turkish soldier, and having
attired himself in his enemy's dress went among the
Turks and returned safe to his brethren with three
heads. The Montenegrins have entcs-nched them-
selves strongly at Bir, not far from the head of the
Lake of Scutari, and thence command the plain
across which the road passes to the interior of Mon-
tenegro. This point they seem determined to hold
at any price, and Omer Pasha proposed to make
with the Pacha of Scutari a combined attack on this
place. The Turks have military possession of the
is.es of Vranina and Lesendra at the top of the lake,
and have mounted guns thereon.
'rho last number of the Triest Zeitung says It
is reported that the Montenegrins made a nocturnal
descent into the camp of Derwisch Paella (near Ora-
hove), in order to liberate the captive Wujatich.
Although they massacred several Turks, whose heads
they carried off, they did not effect their principal
object. It appears that there was a regular battle
between Omer Pacha's corps and the Montenegrins
on the Ist, but it is not known how it ended. In his
proclamation to the mountaineers, Omer Pacha pro-
mised that if they would submit to the Porte they
Should enjoy an autonomic government."
A brief notice of the configuration of Montenegro
will be of interest in its connexion with the progress
of the war. The country consists at present of eight
nahias, or districts, and is divided by the small river
Zeta into two sections. The river flows from
north to south, and discharges its waters
into tho lake of Scutari. On its left bank
lies the nahia Momcsa to the north, that
of Piperi in the south-west, that of Kntsha in
the south-east, and that of Bielopavitch, between
Moracksa and Piperi. These militia have been
subjected by Omer Paeha, who is no stranger
among them, having more than once induced them
by negotiation to withdraw themselves from the rule
of the Vladika ; thus they have not constantly been
comprised in Montenegro. We may now discern
Omer Pasha's plan of operations. Since the Sems-
kier has introduced Turkish troops from Nikisch in
the north, as well as from Podgorizza in the south,
into the valley of the Zeta, and himself cccupies at
Spuss a position in the same valey, it is clear that
he has resolved to secure himself in its occupa-
tion so as to cut off the subject from the rebel
nahias, iu order to reduce the latter in their
isolation. Ou the right bank of the Zeta lie the
nahias of Katunska, Czernitska, Njetschke, and
Leschanaka, which, surrounded on all sides by steep
and scarcely accessible mountains, constitute the pri-
mitive Montenegro. The five points of Omer
Pasha's operations are—north-west, Grahowo; north,
Nikitsch; south east, Podgorizza and Zabljak; and
south, Antivari.

The Triest Zeilung of the 4th contains a letter
from Vienna, which says that George Petrovich, the
Vice-President of the Montenegrin Senate, who left
Vienna about a week since, was persuaded that it
was not advisable that his countrymen should push
their resistance to the utmost ; on the contrary, Prince
Daniel was advised to seize the first opportunity of
effecting a decent compromise.

INDIA.