The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-27 00:00:00

PROGRESS OF HOSTILITIES

The following are the latest accounts of the pro-
gress of the Eastern question, collected from every
quarter :
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VIENNA, SATURDAY MORNING.—We have advices
from Constantinople to the 16th instant. The
Vienna Note reached Constantinople on the 15th,
when Redschid Pacha had an interview with the
foreign ministers. He promised to do his utmost
for the furtherance of peace at the Grand Divan,
which was to meet on the 20th, but thought that
the conduct of Persia and Russia would render an
arrangement very difficult.
The correspondent of one London journal says :
—" The demand for the combined fleets to enter
the Black Sea had been refused, because the fleet
destroyed at Sinope was under orders to convey
ammunition, &c., to Circassia, with a view to in-
duce Russian subjects to revolt." The other ac-
counts do not confirm this report.
Both the Turkish minister in Persia, and the
Persian minister at Constantinople, have quitted
their posts, contrary to the advice of the French
and English ministers. The Turks are preparing
for an expedition against Sebastopol.
VIENNA, SATURDAY EVENING.—The Persians and
Russians have opened a direct communication
The Russian General Yermoloff is to command
the Persian force.

By advices from Tiflis of the 2nd, we learn that
the Persian Beglerbegs on the frontier have received
orders to prepare quarters for the reception of
troops.
BUCHAREST, DEC. 16.—0 n the 12th, 13th, and 14th
inst., large masses of Russian troops were marching
upon Lesser Wallachia- Prince Gortschakoff has
taken the command of the troops in that part of the
country.
BELGRADE, DEC. 16.—The Russian court has given
an evasive answer to the Servian complaint respect-
ing the dangerous proximity of the ex-Prince Mi-
losch to the Servian frontier.
M. de Fonton has been appointed by the Empe-
ror of Russia Imperial Commissioner in Servia.
Firing takes place daily between Giurgevo and
Rutschuk.
34,000 troops are destined for Little Wallachia.
The accounts in the second editions of the Lon-
don morning papers of yesterday, or of the evening
journals, do not enable us to add any news of a
later date from the Danube or the seat of hostili-
ties in Asia; and there has not been published
any authentic intelligence respecting the move-
ments of the combined fleets.
The Austrian minister in Paris is stated to have
declared that it is impossible for Austria to remain
passive, and permit the Emperor of Russia to pro-
ceed in a career of ambition which would be fatal to
the balance of power in Europe, and to the interest
of Germany. Changes in the French cabinet are
no longer spoken of, and ministers are now firmly
united.

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The Patrie contains the following :
"We have never doubted that the French Go-
vernment which has taken in hand the affair of the
Levant, the cause of humanity and of violated
treaties, would adopt when the proper time came
a decision worthy of itself and of France, the
massacre of Sinope, which has no precedent ex-
cepting in the annals of the Lower Empire, has
made throughout the whole of kurope an immense
and painful sensation. It creates for the civilised
nations a new position. The Independent Belge
published information as to the new attitude of
France, which we are persuaded will be received
with a lively sentiment of gratification. We think
it our duty to call in a most particular manner the
attention of our readers to the following passage.
The Government of the Empire, if my informa-
tion be correct, had put the question to the British
Cabinet in terms of such distinctness, that any
escape, any compromise, became impossible.'"