The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-29 00:00:00

TURKEY

We have received our Constantinople corre
pondence of the 17th inst.

- It confirms the occupation of the Island of Sat
pents by the Russians. The Turkish Governmei'
had sent a naval officer to ascertain the exact natule,
and all the circumstances of this occupation. IV,.
representatives of the Western Powers and o',
Austria had taken up the matter. Marshy`
Pelissier was to have left on the 17th instant'
In reference to a portion of the above intelligence,
a letter from Paris doted Sunday evening says
The affair of the disputed possession of the LiP
of Serpents is now represented in a different ii!;llt'
Instead of the Russians being in possession of
island, it is said that they presented themselves
before it in order to erect a lighthouse and establ:slt
a post. The Turkish troops refused to allow Oleo'
to land, and the Russians retreated to Odessa t 0
wait for further orders."

THE EAST

MARSEILLES, Saturday.—The Carmel has ar
with Constantinople letters to the 17th.

evacuation of Turkey was rapidly going on. To;
English squadron will assemble forty vessels ,"
Buyulcdere. Admiral Lyons had arrived at CO.;
stantinople. The Austrian luternuncio and Lora
de Redcliffe had both given fetes to Marshal Pulls'
sier. Balaklava has been given up to the Rassioio,
The Russians are reinrorcing the garrison of Kars'
The English commissary h:ts nut yet berm a'l"
mitted to Kars. There are diff,metices b,:twcen the

members of the Bessarabiqn iwundary commis'
sion. The commission is sitting at Galati.
frigate Albatross, which left Kamiesilei on the 4111
inst , has arrived with 900 soldiers on board. Tb
steamer Meuse has brought 1,000:.'

- ~1.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

MARSEILLES, NIoNDAy, 4ur,),, 93.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviojoll
Company's steamship Valetta, W. Roberts maw!,
with the India and China mails, from Alexandria'
arrived this morning at 7a m. The mails were t°
leave at 9 a.m.

" YOUNG AMEEICA."—We have already announced the
return from Australia of our friend and enterprising,
fellow-townsman, George Francis Train, Esq., w;
has Rot only met with great business success bn"
earned for himself an enviable position among ttn'
leading merchants of the world. Mr. TrairP
history is replete with interest, and goes to prol
what can be accomplished by a determined will and
high-minded integrity. At a dinner given a f3`,
days since by Mr. Matthews, at the Revere lions?.
Mr. Train was among the invited guests. He wO
surrounded by many of the " solid men " of Bowl
—men whose eloquence has often captivated thronj'
assemblies,—but true to the natural instincts of
character, and following out the maxim that Yoi;n?,
America is bound to go "a head," he left the °CI,'
speakers in a position far behind, by branching out in `I
speech which alike astonished and delighted all present'
Tne Chelsea Telegraph and Pioneer, in giving a lie'
tailed account of the dinner, says :—" Isaac stelY.
bins, Esq., who, by the way, at an earlier stag::,
of the evening, made a neat response, had '
the credit of calling out or discovering a new stt,r;
by proposing, The Merchant Princes of Boston,
which was responded to by George. F. Train, E.,(1.:
of Australia, in a burst of patriotism eloquent beyo.,',,
13:Aid. We have some idea of trains, such as t
steamboat train, or a train of gunpowder, either ee
which were slow and inadequate illustrations of tll
train just started, and must conclude that this was 'lO
other than a veritable train of thought that poets base„
dreamed of, but which never became visible till nn'`,
Mr. Train took us all around the globe and distane',t
Puck. At every point of his line of travel, i:,

Met with a countryman ; there is now a genu
Yankee, just starting business on the banks of t,a
riN or Jordan ; another on the Mount of Olives, and a thy.
in the city of Jerusalem. Mr. T. is the ' Young Acherc'
of the New York Herald, in a March number of which 0, c,
0(
single paper contains no less than nine columns `3
foreign correspondence from his pen. He was Wee' g,
with loud and repeated cheers."—Boston Bee, Jul,'
1856.