The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-29 00:00:00

OPENING OF THE PRUSSIAN

Yesterday (Monday) morning, the Prussian
Chambers were opened by Baron Manteuffel, Minis-
ter President. The speech referred almost entirely
to matters of merely domestic interest, but at its
conclusion it was said that " Their deliberations com-
menced at a period of great anxiety as regarded ex-
ternal affairs, and at a time when the peace of Europe
might be disturbed by complications in the East.
The government neither could nor would conceal the
fact that this anxiety was founded on facts, but still
it was prepared to look with confidence on the future.
Prussia, supported by her own strength, and fully
conscious of her own power, would continue, as here-
tofore, her efforts in every direction to maintain peace,
and would hold in the cause of peace and moderation
an independent and impartial tone throughout the
whole of this difficult question. Providence bad
placed in Prussia a King at the head of an united,
valiant, and patriotic people, and the govern-
ment, on every occasion on which it might be called
on to act, would be solely guided by the true inte-
rests of the nation, which were inseparable from
those of the crown."

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

Prince Gortechakoff has seized and imprisoned the
Boyar Kostakar Grazean, the head of one of the
noblest families in Wallachia, with three of his
friends.

The Auysburg Gazette has intelligence from
Poland of the approaching recall of MM. Kisseleff
and Brunnow, Russian Ministers at Paris and London•
Bodies of troops are continually leaving Poland for
the south.

Letters from Constantinople, of Nov. 16, state that
Dost Mahomed has announced to the Shah of Persia
his intention of making war against the Russians,
and marching against them through the territories
of the Shah.

General Baraguay d'Hilliers had made his first
official appearance at the divan.
Letters from Vienna, under date of 28th instant,
state that the rumours which have lately been in
circulation, of the crossing of the Danube by the
Russians, are erroneous. The Turks are slid in force
at Kalafat.

PARIS, TtEADAY.

Prices at the Bourse have declined to day : the
Three per Cents. fell 00c., and the Four-and-a-Half
per Cents. 20c. Closing prices : Four-and•a-Half
per Cent. Rentes, 99.90. Three per Cents., 74.30.

SPAIN.

The Senate elected, ou the 21st, its four secreta-
ries, three of whom were returned by the opposition.
Lord Howden has left Paris for Madrid, to rebume
his functions as ambassador at that court.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

CONSTAN fINOPLE, Not•. 11.
In my last I mentioned the appointment of Fuad
Effendi as political commissioner at the camp of
Omer Pacha. His duties were not very clearly de-
fined in the title of his office, but it is now said that
a part of his mission is to carry to Omer Pacha orders
to suspend hostilities and to explain the reasons of
this measure. You will remember that it was Fead
Effendi who acted as Imperial Ottoman commissioner
in the Principalities dunog the last occupation, and
that he negotiated the arrangement of 1848 with
General Kotzebue, the Russian diplomatist. Is it not
remarkable that at the moment of Fuad Effendi's
departure, we learn that this same General
Kotzebue is at Prince Gortschakors head-quarters ?
Is it impossible that these two personages may by
some chance meet somewhere and concert such a
compromise as must sooner or later end this strife ?
Fuad Effendi, it is true, was dismissed in the spring
at the express demand of the Czar, by the mouth of
Menchikoff, but Russia would not refuse any conces-
sion by Turkey, merely because it was offered by a
distasteful agent.
Lord Stratford de Radcliffe is still indefatigable
in his endeavours to bring about an arrangement of
the present difficulty, before the war grows more
desperate and its theatre is extended. The difficulties
are immense, and seem insuperable, looking exter-
nally at the quarrel ; yet I believe that there is still
a most sincere desire on the part of the Ottoman
government to accept any arrangement which would
leave to Turkey the rights of a sovereign state, and
the liberty of developing herself internally according
to the necessities of the times.

The combined squadrons lie at anchor at Beycos,
and a noble figure they make. The Turkish naval
division, under our countryman, Muchever Pacha, is
cruising in the Black Sea. Reports arrive of colli-
sions which have taken place with Russian ships of
war, which are known to be out at sea. The govern-
ment publishes nothing on the subject, but it is not
to be supposed that the ships have left the Bosphorus
for nothing at all. Notwithstanding the general joy
with which the accounts of vieories from the armies
of Asia and the Danube have been received, the
greatest calm prevails among the population.

VIENNA, Nov. 23.
Letters from Bucharest inform us that the native
soldiery of Wallachia have been definitively incor-
porated with the Russian army to fight against their
own sovereign. This is the act of the pharisaical
Nicholas, who, after the conquest of Hungary, when
the Hussar regiments of that country were re-or-
ganised, refused to allow a regiment to retain his
name because it had fought against Austria, and re-
quested the young Emperor to give him another
regiment.
fbe government has received and published the
following telegraphic despatch:
BUCHAREST, Nov. 21.
General Dannenherg hat informed Prince Gortsebakoff
that the Turks have not only quitted Oltenitze, but also the
islands in the neighbourhood, awl retired to Turtukai. As
the vamp at Turtuksi, which was composed of 20,000 men,
has been almost forsaken during the last tire days, General
Dinnenberg will quit Budeschti to-morrow, leaving behind
him eight infantry companies, eight guns, sad 300 Cossacks.
With the exception of unimportant skirmishes, hostilities
Lave ceased along the whole Moldo-Wallechian line. The
doe before yesterday, the Wallachian artillery, consisting of
eight stuns and the men working them, received orders to
, man li to Braila, and to place themselves under the cm-
, mend of the (Russian) General Engelhardt. The ether
W..llachian troops, us well cavalry as infantry, also expect
to reee,se marching orders. The frontier-guard is in activity,
.sad has already iissisted the Russians in warding off several
sudden attacks.

Letters have been received both in London and
Vienna from C.mstantinople of the 14th, in which it
is alleged that three British war steamers entered
the Black Sea on the 13th. One correspondent thus
specifies the ships:—The Niger, 14 guns, Captain
Heath; the Wasp, Captain Lord John Hay ; and the
Samson, steam-frigate, 28 guns. Three French
steamers, it is said, have likewise left for the same

destination ; and some British and French line ot-
battle ships are to follow. In opposition to this state-
ment, other letters of the same date maintain that no
vessels of either of the cauibined squadron had left

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the Bosphorus.
The Journal de Onatantinolde, of the 14th, gives
the following details of the affair at Oltenitza, as ga-
thered from the corrected translations of the des-
patches of the Turkish commanders:—
It was stated that at that place 12,000 of the Imperial
troops combated 30,000 Russians; that the Imperialists had,
beture the action, received reinforcements, end that the
battle lasted from ter past twelve to seven o'clock. In
translating the Turkish bulletin into French, batta-
lions were mistaken for regiments. When the action
commenced, the Imperial troupe consisted of three hot-
ted:eta, and not of three regiments, and during the avian
Omer Pacha sent a fourth battalion to Minim. Instead,
then, of 12,000 men, the Imperial troops only amounted to
a little more than 3,000 ; and they, in four hours, not in
seven, routed the Russian army, with the aid of the artillery
of the Quarantine of Oltenitza, of the isle on the Danube,
and of the fort of Tortokai. In four hours this artillery
fired 1,500 balls. The following is a list of the forces
which gained the victory of the 4th : —At the
begianiog of the action, three battalions of regu-
lar troops of 800 men each; dating the action an ad-
ditional battalion of regulars ; two companies of the Im-
perial Guard of Sd men each ; two companies of carabineers
(like those of Vincennes) of 100 men each ; a battery of 6
pieces; a company of toot artillery: 10 pieces in battery on
the island ; and tautly, 22 large pieces in the fort of Torto-
kai. Altogether there were 3,700 men end 38 pieces of
artillery, against 25,000 or 30,1100 Russian. and 32 pieces of
artiliery. The Imperial troops were entrenched near the
Quarantine of Olteuitsa; and they only lost, in consequence
of their good position, two sergeants, a corporal, and 11
soldiers ; they had 76 wounded. Amongst the wounded
is Ahmed Pacha, who commanded at the Quarantine.
Although he received in the left hand a serious wound, he
did cot cease to combat so long os the action lasted. Arab
Pacha, who commanded at the battery of Oltenitzt, pointed
himself the gun which killed a Russian general, whose name
is not yet known. Tile success of this battle, iu which
the Imperial troops lost so few men, whilst the loss
of the Russians was several thousands, was owing in
great part to the Turkish artillery, and especially
to the large pieces of the tort or Turtokai ; the latter
made such frightful ravages in the Russian army that the
chiefs, in order to oblige their soldiers to march, killed, it is
said,',a dozen men with their own swords. Lord Worsley,
Captains Bathurst and Herbert Wilson, and Lieutenants
Buckley, two brothers, all officers of the Guards of the
Queen of England, and General Prim, were at Tortokai
with Omer radio, and when the battle was over, they
warmly embraced hint, end cordially con;ratulated him
on the results of the glorious day.