The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-16 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The news from the seat of war adds very little
information to that published in the second supple-
ment of the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES of yester-
day. A telegraphic despatch has been. received,
announcing that the Turks had advanced upon
Bucharest., between the sth and 11th instant, and
were fighting there on Friday.
The main body of the Turks had crossed the
Danube.

We find the following items of intelligence in let-
ters from Constantinople of the 31st. One of them
says—" I am just in time to give -you the important
intelligence that the Sultan, in his speech, while at
the Grand Council of Justice to-day, declared that
in the spring he will join the army, and per-
sonally conduct military operations against
Russia. The greatest enthusiasm reigned in the
assembly, which was composed of all the
Pachas, civil and military, and most of the in-
fluential members of the Ulema. A proclamation
will be published containing the above important
declaration. All attempts to bring about peace are
now useless The Sultan, who, so far, has been
weak and undecided in his policy, has now crossed
over to the war party, and placed himself forward
as its leader. The people here are frantic in their
joy, and (1w :litre they will all follow the Sultan..
His Majesty, by a few words, has made himself
more popular than the greatest sovereign that ever
reigned over this people. Hostilities have com-
menced, both in Roumelia and Anatolia. We
know nothing positive up to the present moment,
the only official intelligence that has reached the
government being that 40 or 50 Turkish regulars,
belonging to the regiment commanded by Mus-
tapha Paella, had crossed the Danube at Turtokai,
and carried off eight or ten Russian soldiers. The
Egyptians had done the same thing at Maxin,
Letters from Varna, however, state that hostilities
had .occurred along the whole line of the Danube,
and that the steamer running between Ismail and
Odessa was fired at by the Turkish fortress of
Isaktchi, and her commander and fourteen men
were killed, and one passenger and several seaman
wounded. The celebrated Tossoun Pacha, Who
behaved with such daring courage during the last
war with Russia, has been named general of divi-
sion, and will command the army of Sophia. The
Porte has decided to form a foreign legion, to be
employed in Asia. About forty Poles have already
entered the service, but the majority here prefer to
wait for a new turn of events, whereby they can
serve their own country, _ _ .

Pj ivate letters from- Constantinople of the 31st
mention that intelligence received from Asia Minor
announce the capture, by the Turkish troops, of
five forts on the frontiers of Georgia. The first of
these forts is called Cartom, and was taken by the
Kurds ; the second, Entilee, by the contingent from
Damascus ; the third, Hermini, the foUrth, Istrat,
and the fifth, Kuchat, were captured by the Bashi-
Bozouks, or irregular troops. The same letters add
that the intelligence was believed to be correct in
Constantinople.
A private letter from Trebizond, of the 22nd ult.,
states that Abdi Pasha marched from Erzeroum.
through Kars, on the 12th October, at the head of
12,000 regular troops. 10,000 regulars had arrived
at his head-quarters from Kurdistan and Diarbekir;
15,000 rediffs are likewise encamped in the neigh-
bourhood of Kars, The government has called the
Bashi-Bozouks into active service. They are irre-
gular volunteers, armed with muskets, without
bayonets, with pistols, and a poinard with a broad
blade. There are nearly 36,000 of them between
Batoum and Kars. A Russian corps of 30,000 men
had been encamped for the previous twenty days
at the foot of the mountain which commands Alex-
andropol, distant twelve hours march from Kars
on the Georgian territory. Another corps of 15,000
men is encamped in the neighbourhood of Akhal-
zikh, which is intended to take possession of
Batoum by the mountains which command it,
whilst it is to be bombarded on the sea side by
ships of war. Fifteen hundred riflemen, armed
like the Chasseurs of Vincennes, were landed at
Trebizonde, on the 21st, from Turkish ships, toge-
ther with 0,000 lufau.tkx. Thu ac. Liuvp aiG well
armed and equipped. Twenty-two steam boats
were expected with additional troops for Erzeroum
and Kars. It was expected that. the Turkish govern-
ment would despatch 6,000 good troops from Con-
stantinople to Batoum the following vv cult. Thio
• was absolutely necessary, for Batoum was defended
by only 2,000 regular troops, and 6,000 Bashi-Bo-
zouks, who could not resist Russian troops prepar-
ing to attack it.
Another letter from Trebizonde announces that
the Russian fortress of Dariel, situate in Circassia
on the right bank of the Terek, between Mosdok
and Tiflis, was surrounded by the insurgent Ossette
and by a large force of Circassians, and that it was
on the point of falling into their power. The same
letter announces that the authentic details had
been received of the affair, which took place some
time .back, when 20,090 Russians lately arrived
in the country, were overpowered by Schamyl's
troops, and all that were not killed were made
prisoners, and are now at Ardiauskia, in Circassia.
A letter from Tunis, of the sth instant, an-
nounces that a Tunisslan brig, escorted by a
Turkish-shiP-of-war, had sailed the previous day
for Constantinople, with arms and amunition for
the Sultan.

We learn from Belgrade, that the national arm-
ing proceeds with astonishing rapidity. District
inspectors go from village to village examining
every man's rifle. The prince and people are of
one mind, and parties have disappeared, Plans
have been drawn for a system of fortifications for
the frontier.

The Paris correspondent of the Chronicle, says
that immense quantites of ammunition are in
course of being dispatched from Lyons to Toulon.

It --iexpected that the decree for the increase of
the Chasseurs de Vincennes will appear in a day
or two.

" The Turkish Ambassador in Paris," he adds,
" this morning sent off a telegraphic despatch to
his colleague at Vienna, requesting the earliest
information as to the expected battle at Oltenitza :
but up to the present hour nothing has arrived.
" A Wallachian boyard has arrived in Paris to-
day, direct from the seat of war. He declares that
the population of the Principalities are in a state
of the utmost exasperation against the Russians,
in consequence of the vexations to which they are
subjected from the Russian troops, and the inso-
lence of the Russian generals ; and that in the

event of a more decided advantage being gained
by the Turks, the whole country would be up in
arms against the invaders.
" Several of the guests invited to Fontainebleau
left Paris to-day for that place ; among them are
the Pope's Nuncio, and the Ministers of Austria,
Prussia, and Denmark. M. de Kisseleff is invited
from the 18th to the 22nd.; and, curiously enough,
Vely Pacha, the Turkish Ambassador, is invited
for the same time."