The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-28 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY

PROGRESS OF HOSTILITIES.
(From our Second Edition of Yesterday.)

VIENNA, Dec. 22.—A dispatch from the Austrian
envoy at Constantinople was on the 20th instant
communicated to the ambassadors of Great Britain,
France, and Prussia. The news it contained was,
on the whole, satisfactory. The Porte will send
a plenipotentiary to the conferences, provided the
Russians evacuate Moldavia and Wallachia. The
envoys of the three Powers have been instructed to
urge the Sultan not to insist on this condition,
and to assure him that the integrity of the Turkish
Empire is to be maintained, and that the
Principalities shall be restored as soon as the dis-
pute with Russia shall have been settled.
No later news from the Danube or from Asia.

The New Prussian Gazette states that the Emperor
of Russia has signified to the Cabinet of London,
through his ambassador, Baron Brunow, that he
will regard the entrance of the Anglo-French squa-
dron into the Black Sea as a declaration of war.
Lord Clarendon has replied, that England does
not desire war, but considers herself bound to pro-
tect the Turkish ports.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
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It is reported that the English and French
governments had now very little hope of a pacific
solution of the Eastern question, and that both.
France and England were about to make prepara-
tions for an expedition to the Baltic early in the
spring. Sir Charles Napier was to command the
English fleet in that sea.
Telegraphic dispatches from Constantinople of
the 16th state that at that date the fleets had not
entered the Black Sea; it is now all but certain
that such a movement would not take place before
the arrival of instructions from Paris and London.

A. correspondent of a London paper says, "It is
affirmed in Paris that the Divan accepts the re
sumption of negociations. Violent tempests had
taken place in the Black Sea. Eighty merchant.
vessels had been lost. The price of corn has risen
from 25 to 53 piastres. A number of vessels have
been freighted. War has been officially declared
by Persia. The rupture between the Schah and
the British representative has been notified by him
to the consuls. The whole Russian fleet has left
Sinope, after having stayed there for two days for
repairs.
According to private letters from Marseilles, the
Porte has accepted the new propositions of the
Conference on certain conditions.
The Porte will send a Plenipotentiary to th
conferences, provided the Russians evacute Mo
davia and Wallachia. The ambassadors of th
three Powers have been instructed to urge the
Sultan not to insist on this condition, and to as-

sure him that the integrity of the Turkish empire
is to be maintained, and that the Principalities
shall be restored as soon as the dispute with
Russia shall have been settled.

It was considered very unlikely that the Emperor
of Russia, after his late successes, would consent
to any negotiation based on the evacuation of the
principalities.

AUSTRALIA.
(From the Adelaide Observer, Oot. 1.)
PARLIAMENT BILL.

The bill for establishing a parliament in South
Australia, passed its third reading on Thursday in
the Legislative Council. On the question for the
third reading being put, Mr. Dutton moved that
the bill be read that day two months. A long dis-
cussion ensued, which ended in a division, when
the third reading was carried by a majority of four.
This majority would probably have been increased
to eight had the whole of the members been pre-
sent. Yesterday, Mr. Dutton moved " That an ad-
dress be presented to his excellency the lieutenant
governor, praying that as soon as the current busi-
ness of the present session shall be concluded, he
will dissolve the council, in order that the opinion
of the colonists may be taken on the proposed par-
liament bill." This motion was lost by a majority
of seven.