The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-24 00:00:00

FURTHER PARICULARS

The rPetrie of Monday evening contradicts, on
the authority of letters from Constantinople of the
9th, several parts of the account given of the battle
Sinope in the St Petersburg journals. It states
that the Turkish frigates were much weaker in
number of cannon than the Russian report states ;
that the Russians fired upon the transports and
the town after the battle ; and that the Russians
behaved in the most barbarous manner to the Turk-
ish admiral when they made him prisoner.
A telegraphic dispatch, received this morning,
informed us that an insurrection had taken place in
the Crimea, in favour of Turkey, and that that was
the cause of a portion of the eorps of General Lu-
ders being sent there. Subsequent accounts, how-
ever, state that the report was unfounded.
The rupture between the courts of Turkey and
Persia is confirmed, and we have also positive in
formation of the departure of our Charge d'Affaires
from the Court of the Shah. It is stated that the
Russians have promised Persia support to raise
the Affghans against British rule. The debt of 50
millions due from Persia to the Russian govern-
ment will no longer be claimed ; but Persia must
side in the coming struggle against her fellow in
faith, the Ottoman.

The Times having intimated that the backward
policy or action of England was caused by an
anxiety Ito concede to the policy or wishes of
France, the French government felt annoyance at
a charge they declared the reverse, if fact. It is
stated in the ministerial circles that M. Drouyn de
Lhuys received yesterday a letter from the French
ambassador in London, informing the French go-
vernment that Lord Clarendon had assured him
that the Times had made these charges without au-
thority, and that the British government greatly
regretted to see such an article publised.
The correspondent of a London journal respect-
ing the object of the fleets in entering the Black
Sea says :—" The instructions given to the admirals
are to the effect that they shall stop all Russian
ships found cruising in the Black Sea, and force

them to return to Sebastopol, which port they will
not be allowed to leave till the conclusion of a
treaty of peace I need hardly say that this is a
serious and formidable step towards actual war,
but one of which I am convinced all England will
approve ; and, if we are to believe the Russians re•
siding in Paris, it is more than the Czar will sub-
mit to. We shall see I haVe reason to believe
that an announcement to this effect, coming from
the highest authority, will appear in the Belgian
papers within the next twenty-four hours. The
announcement will add that "France ought to have
confidence in the wisdom, and, at the same time,
in the energetic decision, of that man to whom she
has entrusted the sacred deposit of her honour." j
understand that, for some unexplained reason, the
wish is that this announcement should, in the first
instance, appear in the foreign papers.
The French Government is making quiet but
efficient preparations for war. At the Ministers de
la Guerre, plans are being prepared for the organi-
zation of 42 divisions, which will give an effective
force of 600,000 men. One of the great difficulties
is to find the money necessary to carry the measure
into execution.

" It is rumoured that the Sublime Porte, after

having received the note of the sth December, re-
peated its declaration that it was determined not
to enter into into negociations for the re-establish
meat of peace until after the evacuation of the
principalities. It is also rumoured that a very vio-
lent scene has occured between M. de Kisseleff
and Lord Cowley, on the subject of the affair at
Sinope.