The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

victorious.. It-appears that Selim Pacha, the
Turkish Commander-in chief at Batum, hearing
that the Russians were erecting fortifications at the
other side of the Tchuruksuju, sent a detachment
of troops to reconnoitre. The Russians, on this,
attacked the Turks, and a skirmish ensued. On
this news reac,hing Selim Paella, he advanced with
a portion of the army of Batum, forcing his pas-
sage across the Tchuruksuju (a border riveo,
attacking the Russians, and driving them back
successfully. Selim Paella, is stated to have pushed
on in the direction of Sukjedi on one side, and
Oreli on the other. This move leads to the belief
that he purposes joining the great army, which
stands under the orders of Abdi Pacha, and is
stationed near Kars."

The Breslau Journal contains intelligence from
Constantinople, according to which " a body of
twenty thousand Russians, on their march from
Daghestan to the Turkish frontier (?), were sud-
denly attacked in the gorges of Zakorwly by thirty
thousand mountaineers, and completely routed."
The intelligence conveyed to this journal from the
East must be received with all due caution. Other
journals assert, upon authority of letters from Bos-
nia, that great fermentation exists in Montenegro,
and that the prince, who Was recently rescued from
well-merited chastisement, is no Way disposed to
favour an outbreak, so as to, produce a diversion in
the rear of the Turkish army, in case serious hos-
tilities should ensue.

Other letters from Constantinople of the 27th
ult., by the Tabor, state that the greater portion of
the French fleet were anchored at Lampsaki, oppo-
site to Gallipoli. The combined fleet would occupy
three different points. One opposite the Darda-
nelles,
the second at Gallipoli, and the third at
Beicos, in the Bosphorus, opposite therapia.
The Paris correspondent of the Times says—ln
the accounts received from Constantinople and
elsewhere, the hope is still expressed that means
will, after all, be' found of arriving at a peaceftil
solution of the quarrel ; but it is right to add, that
these hopes are not expresSed with much warmth,
and that they are but slightly participated in by
people here. It has been asserted in a quarter
which is often semi officially informed, that the
time for notes and projects of arrangement is
rapidly slipping away, and that the Emperor
Louis Napoleon, tired and baffled in his repeated
attempts, in conjunction with England, has made
up his mind to a more determined policy from
this moment forward ; certain as he appears to be
that England is with him. The suspicions, un-
founded, as no doubt they are, that attempts were
recently made to wean England from a common
action, should that action assume a less forbearing
character, have been dissipated, and the Emperor,
notwithstanding his habitual reserve, is said to
have, within the last few days, expressed his
thoUghts very frankly.
The Constantinople letter of the Journal des
Debats, dated 26th October, which arrived at Mart
seilles by the Thabor, contains a copy of the note
transmitted to the Porte on the 20th October, by
M. de Bruck, the Austrian Internuncio. The fol-
loWing is the note :--

" CONFIDENTIAL PROJECT

"In unanimously advising the Sublime Porte to adopt
the project of notes agreed to at Vienna, the Courts of
Austria, France, England, and Prussia, are penetrated
with the conviction that this document does not in any
.way violate the sovereign rights and the dignity of his
Majesty the Sultan.
" This conviction is founded on the positive assurances
that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg has given, with respect
to the intentions which animate his Majesty, the Emperor
of Russia in demanding a general guarantee of the reli-
gious immunities accorded by the Sultan to the Greek
Church in his Empire.
"It follows from these assurances that in demanding, in
virtue of the principle laid down in the Treaty of Kainardji,
that the Greek worship and clergy should continue to enjoy
their spiritual privileges under the cegis of their Sovereign,
the Emperor demands nothing contrary to the independence
and the rights of the Sultan, nothing which implies an in-
tention of intermeddling in the interior affairs of the Otto-
man Empire.
"What the Emperor of Russia wishes is, the strict
maintenance of the religious statu quo of his worship—
to wit, an entire equality of rights and immunities between
the Greek Church and the other Christian communities
subject to the Porte, and consequently the enjoyment in
favour of the Greek Church .of the advantages accorded to
these communities. He does not mean to resuscitate the
privileges of the Greek Church which have fallen into desue-
tude by the effect of time or of administrative changes, but

he deniands that the Sultan should make it participate in
all the advantages which he will accord hereafter to other
Christian rites. .

"The Imperial Cabinet of Austria wishes, consequently,
not to dcubt that the Sublime Porte, in contemplating
once more, with all the serious attention that the gravity of
the 'situation requires, the explanation given by Russia,
with the object of stating precisely the nature and extent of
her demands, will decide on the pure and simple adoption of
the Vienna Note.

" That adoption, while ensuring to the Ottoman govern-
ment a new title to the sympathy and the support of the
Powers which have advised it
_to take the step, offers
..to it

at the same time a means equally prompt and lio'nourable to
operate its frank reconciliation with the Russian empire—a_
reconciliation which so many all-important interests so im-
peratively require."

The correspondent adds

" This note was the result of the conference of Olmutz,
which appeared at the moment to be ignorant of the decla-
ration of war by Turkey. Immediately after M. de Bruck,
Colonel Wildenbruck arrived from Prussia with a project,
which was only a copy of the Austrian project. M. de Bruck
did not insist much, but the Prussian came several times
back to the charge. He did not succeed better. The Porte
is quite decided on war. Redschid Pacha declares loudly,
and has repeated this morning, in my presence, that the
Turks were determined to perish rather than ever to accept
the Vienna Note. In their eyes this new project of note
presented to them as a guarantee from Europe, is not better
than the note of the conference, and they have rejected it
without even discussing it. At bottom, those among them who
know a little of European politics, appear to be persuaded
that Europe will not allow them to perish, that morally they
will gain something by attempting the way of arms, even if
they should`..be beaten ; and that, finally, Europe is too
deeply interested in preventing war, not to exert itself to
force the Emperor of Russia to yield his pretensions, since
they themselves have gone to the utmost limit possible in
the way of concession ; and that they have made up their
minds to die with arms in their hands rather than make fur-
ther concessions. The Turks have, therefore, absolutely re-
jected this new
i project. To the reasons which have deter-
mined them t must be added that, at the same time
that this project was submitted to them in the name of
the Four Powers, there arrived also from France and
England the answer—the contre coup of the note—
by which Count Nesselrode explained his manner of un-
derstanding the Vienna note. That answer, that
contre coup was the advice given to the Porte by the
two Western Powers not to accept the Vienna note, accom-
panied by clear and frank promises of support and assist-
ance. The Turks have therefore deemed themselves entitled
to consider these new propositions as non avenus, and the
answer to these new overtures is the entry of the fleets.
They have several days since passed the Dardanelles, but
they have not yet appeared before Constantinople.
" While the propositions of Prussia and Austria were re-
jected, the Turks listened to England and France, and it
was on their demand that the orders were sent to the army
of the Danube and of Asia to stop a little before commenc-
ing hostilities ; nevertheless, the new delay fixed on is very