The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-17 00:00:00

from 15,000 to 20,000 men will be kept in readiness
at Malta, "to occupy Greece, if that country
should attempt anything against the Porte." The
correspondent of the Trieste Z eitung says :—" The
Russian expedition to Khiva has at -length
opened the eyes of the English gentlemen- here;
and they no longer take the trouble to con-
ceal their hostility towards Russia." M. de
Bruck has again promised that Austria will re-
main neutral, if no fugitives are employed in
Europe.
Austria has given the Porte tranquillizing assu-
rances in respect to Montenegro. A deputation
from Afghanistan has appeared at Teheran, and
invited •Persia, in case of war between Russia
and Turkey, to espouse the cause of the latter. It
is added that the invitation was couched in lan-
guage which made it very like an order. A hatti-
sherif of the Sultan, which was read at the Grand
Divan, at which his majesty presided, has caused
the greatest enthusiasm. The monarch expressed
in it the pleasure he felt at the firmness of his mi-
nisters and the loyalty of his people, and declared
that if the war was not at an end before the spring
he would gird on the sword of his fathers, and
place himself at the head of the army. The new
Greek Patriarch at Constantinople has presented
a most fulsome address to the Sultan.

The Russian government has appointed a
governor for the two Danubian Principalities.
A deputation from Affghanistan had arrived at
Teheran with an invitation that, in the event of a
war between Turkey and Russia, Persia should
take part in the contest against the latter country.
This requisition was framed very categorically, and
accompanied by a threat is case of refusal.
The Gazette, of Darmstadt, gives the communica-
tions made by Austria and Prussia to the Germanic
Diet. After announcing the extent to which he pro-
poses to disarm, the emperor says that he has no
intention to take part in the hostilities between
Turkey and Russia. On the contrary, he has chosen
the present moment for effecting a partial disarma-
ment, in order to give a new guarantee of his pacific
sentiments; and of his confidence in the amicable
termination of the dispute ; and that his govern-
ment ventures to encourage and to express the hope
that its attitude, and the tendency of its policy,
will find, in the deliberate judgment of the other
governments of Germany, such an appreciation as
will tranquillise their anxieties. In conclusion,
the emperor trusts that they will give him their
effective support and assistance. The Prussian
envoy expressedithe same sentiments.
The leading Vienna newspapers, the Lloyd, the
Ost, Deutsche Post, and the Wanderer, have all ar-
ticles bitterly complaining of the conduct of Russia,
which, considering the influence of the govern-
ment over journals in that capital, may be taken as
significant of the feeling of Austria.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Tuesday Evening.—There are reports to-
day of another victory of the Turks on the 7th or
Bth ; but as the letters from Vienna of the 11th
give accounts from Bucharest of the 9th, in which
it is stated that nothing had taken place since the
affair of Oltenitza, they were not believed.
The tone of the persons who surround the em-
peror has become very warlike, but it appears that,
with the exception of a few after-dinner phrases
by the emperor to military men, his language is
so pacific as to cause great mortification to the
gentlemen of his court, who are clamorous for war.
Up to the present hour no orders have been
given at the Ministry of War which would seem
to indicate an intention of sending troops to
Turkey, but I am positively assured that every
arrangement has been made for transporting.
28,000 men, if General Baraguay d'Hilliers should
inform the government that this measure is ne-
cessary towards the security of the Ottoman ter-
ritory. " A naval engineer of the first class at
Toulon has been ordered to hold himself in readi-
ness to proceed, with vessels recently built, to the
different ports of Algeria, to report upon their
capability for the transport of troops. Avowedly
these vessels are to convey troops to Algeria ; but
may it not be intended that they should take
others from Algeria to Turkey, if the war between
that country and Russia should be prolonged?