The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-30 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS

There seems little reason now to doubt that
• Turkey has acceded to the new project of the four
Powers for bringing abbut an accommodation of
the Eastern embroglio. What itussia will do re-
mains to be seen, as also the steps if any, the
Powers are 'prepared to take in case Russia should
refuse, whether their action will be joint, or whe-
ther France and England will not again be left
alone.. It was announced some days since that
instructions had been sent out, the effect of which
would probably be the entrance of the fleets into
the Black Sea, and we now learn from Paris that
"the good understanding between the English and
French governments has been further cemented by,
a very important act. In virtue of the line of
policy agreed to between the two governments, a
draft was sent to Luadon on Saturday last of a de-
claration to be drawn up by the two governments,
and communicated to Russia in their joint names.
In that declaration it is intimated that France and
England will not permit Russia and Turkey to
/flake war against each other in the Black Sea, and
that they accordingly interdict them from doing so."
There can be no doubt but that Turkey will be de-
lighted with an arrangement_which will render the
Russian- fleet innexious; but will Russia take it
easily ? •
The. Count Pourtales, some time Prussian minis-
ter at Constantinople,• has arrived here on a spe-
cial mission relative to the Eastern-question, from
Which it is not unreasonable to hope a closer union
'and more identical policy betwen Prussia and •
France and England may result.
If the following announcement, which appeared
in a London journal. yesterday evening, be true,
there seems little reason to suppose that Russia '
will agree to anything except " War to the
death." The announcement is as follows :
VIENNA, WEDNESDAY.—Letters from Constanti-
nople of the 16th instant; mention an attempt
.ef the Russians to set fire to the allied fleet at the
entrance of the Bosphorus. A fireship was sent,
but- it was seen .from the forts, and stopped
by their artillery. A statement such as this.
;which is as, yet unconfirmed by Constantinople let-
ters of the same date, must be received with theut-
raost•caution.

Another dispatch in the same journal, from
"an occasional correspondent at Syra," says :
"Lord Dudley Stuart has preceded us to Con-
etantinople; on board the Liverpool screw steamer.
It is said that his lordship's intention in visit-
ing Constantinople is to persuade the Sultan to
accept the services of the Polish refugees, it being
believed that a: general desertion .of Poles serving
in: Russian regiments would take place if they
Were sure of being received in a corps of their
Own countrymen on entering the Turkish terri-
tory, It is - also reported that his lordship advo-
cates a level: of the Christian subjects of the Porte,
a step which would certainly settle the question as
to the Russian or. Turkish leaning of the Rayahs.
besertion to the Russians.from such a corps would
terbaps be as frequent as Polish desertions from
lissian regiments."
PR USSIA. •

Letters from Berlin of the 25th December, state
that tile question has been mooted in the Cham-
beM}other the ambassadors of Prussia and
Austria should not be blamed for having been pre-
sent at the Te Deum at St. Petersburg, in honor of
the " victory" of Sinone. The idea was, however,
-given up.
The Catholic party numbers sixty members in
the Second Chamber, where it exercises a very
great influence on the deliberations.