The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-21 00:00:00

AND TURKEY.

PROGRESS OF EVENTS.
Ac(Prom our Second Edition of Yesterday,)
kit the
to letters from Constantinople of the
;,_'' e steamers sent to enquire into the circum-
-078 attending the disaster at Sinope, returned
byte Bth,
.and fully 'confirmed the news brought
114,,,e Tait. Lord Stratford immediately sent off
tliat ',senger to his government. It was expected
th, illie combined fleets would immediately enter
trid it
Sea. The Turks were greatly excited,
gi it Was reported that their fleet under Admiral
ash rilt.e would attack Sebastopol, supported by the
110,,,, and French fleets. At Vienna it was
kV that the rec.nt reverses of the Turks would
jt!them desirous of peace.
ikd aJnva advices of the 12th, state that no battle
°ccurred up to that date.
Bucharest accounts of the 15th report no new
gyrations.
9ihkt Jassy,' a thanksgiving for the victory of
415Pe had been splendidly celebrated. The
~
'rian, Prussian, and Greek consuls were
'ed to attend, but did not appear.
Vie Times 'states in a leading article that the
man fleet has been guilty of an unprovoked act
aggression on the coast of Asia. In the confer-
ee
held at the British embassy, on the receipt of
news of the disaster at Sinope, Admiral Dundas
4110u5137 urged that the combined fleets should
m',7,ediately set sail, in order, if possible, to inter-
l' the Russian fleet before it could beat back
$4;) Sebastopol. This opinion was overruled by
French ambassador, and this is not the• first
4ion on which the movements of the British
rldron have been controlled by deference to the
oithtich officers. At present, however, it is impos-
,,, i4,,e te arraian the judgment, as we are in iguor-
't of the time state of the case. The admirals
4 Tveil, however, now probably entered the Black Sea.
r 4i he catastrophe at Sinope, and the consequences
3 state:i ~lc:h have probably already followed it, materially
Tlie jc ',7,mish the hope of peace, that the proposals last
Livers;'o, i'ito the Porte might otherwise have raised.
Pest
4 to
Constantinople correspondent of the Paris
rost`b q::)•al Des Debats says :—The rumour of the
ey Will'oltrure of the diplomatic relations between
ow 01 , tjand and Persia is officially confirmed, and
,t, Wlleti I,' Persia has concluded a treaty of alliance,
ore pl 9. I,trisive and defensive, with Russia against
f this 0,, q'key. • .
with
~fr ,r, FURTHER PARTICULARS:
,re Iv'te 4,741 e Debats of Monday publishes the instructions
eei,,i •,,e4 to the Ambassadors of the four Powers at
vas allot ~Ititantinople. In these instructions there is
. wit'4 t 43? Oneoint in which the four Powers show real
,itelltl.;d i'q)ect for p
the Porte. It is stated that the Porte
inn tiollot to be called upon to accept any of the condi-
,,ltilk! which it has hitherto rejected. On the other
atylio'ili: ()I,ti, however, no pledge is given that the Empe-
otittit'od ~,,,of Russia shall be constrained by the four
d0u.,"0, I.,"ers to accept the conditions of the Porte if
diclivigl, L'oved of by them ; and on the subject of the
60, co'lr 7aation of the Principalities, which is, said to
[6. 'fiet
~i 1 been made a sine qua non by the Porte, there is
gay ~t) kk, Word. It is probable that the four Powers
S'" 0 received from the Emperor of Russia a pro-
-4 %:e to comply with any arrangement on which
t, 413' may be agreed, but there is nothing to show
i. k t they are agreed as to the terms of arrange-
dent, and there is nothing to guarantee that
l'oltria and Prussia, or the former of these two
tie'Lere, will subscribe to anything in the way of
it,::tion to the Czar.
111„kie official Vienna Gazette publishes the follow-
th°°ll the subject of the sending of two French
1401 English
; ships of war into the Black Sea after
kti news from Sinope had been received at Con
tinople :
titt‘L've are empowered to state that the dispatch
lita".t, ese ships is unconnected with any design of
tok,llities, and should a further portion of the
tettiuined fleets enter the Black Sea, after the
thi tn of these two vessels, such expedition would
Ittl?1, have for its object the prevention of any
litAt'er collision between the Russian and Turkish
- tg.'.
iIT
vTiti 1, PETERSBURG, DEC. 9.—The Czar has pub-
tlt e'l a ukase, proclaiming the state of siege_
°llgout l%iitßessarabia and the. governments of
• 1115 n. aria Tauris, and placing those provinces
iheottr.tuiakl
ukase releases a portion of the crews of
Baltic fleet until the spring—viz.,. 28 men of
''-of :the crews of the guard, and 48 of those of
11, line, This measure is to remain in force till
I,tlth of March, 1854.
kti'lle Prefect of the Bouches du Rhone has cora-
tkillieated to the merchants of Marseilles a memo-
Apa,,rnn which the Porte has, given to the French
uassador at Constantinople. In this document
Wi 4ated that the provinces of Silistria, Varna,
ia,cid.,,ila, Belgrade, Nissa, Sophia, Scutaria, Alba-
lti -u ' osnia, Herzegovina, Trebizond, and Adri-
ite
tailie, being considered as military positions
terlu must supply food to the troops that are con-
-144t ‘rated in those localities, it has been resolved
teas the export of corn from the said provinces shall
44.1,17" e on the 13th inst., and until after the next
trevPst• The contracts which have been made
tor l°llB to the above date are to remain in full
it 4 ICorn may still be exported from Roumelia
Arabia.
40 our communication from Paris of the date of
atl:lclay, the writer says :—I was present yesterday
tti,:` political soirée, at which the discussion was
AZost entirely on the Eastern question. A South
titZtican diplomatist called attention to a circum-
-11,4.1.\4e which does not appear to have been before
the It‘xla rlv noticed. Alluding to the bulletin of
ofd /;letory of Sinope, which was posted up
laterialY at Odessa, he remarks that it was a calcu•
(IN' insult to England to call one of the vessels
0135A1.°Sed a British transport. This vessel, he
ell'rved was English, but it was a merchant vessel
frzt rtered,by the Turks, and had become a Turkish
itii,ll'Port. The name of British transport, would
Vear, said this diplomatist, to have been given
teothie Russian authorities to show the Russian
kt Pie that the Emperor will allow no country to
llverfere with his pretended rights, and that if she
tile 4. been a British man-of-war she would have had
to, same fate. The opinion expressed by the
eZ,Pany was, - that the denomination was acci-
til,'`al, but they admitted that the fact was
Par enough to merit notice.)
it lBe quicksilver in Fahrenheit's thermometer is
th 7 deg. and the ice already a foot thick here, so
the natural barrier of the Danube will soon
sale to be. Prince Gortschaltoff continually for-
evl:4s heavy artillery to -Giurgevo, which is now
khl.ected by means of a bridge of boats with the
aller Danubian island; where entrenchments
;;C been thrown up and heavy,artillery posted.
i,.'°llut Radetzky is very unwell.
1 ' was on the 30th of November, between 11 and
kil'clock in the day, that the action commenced,
t)a,,q it was about nightfall that the Taif heard in
IQ;,, direction of Sinope so loud an explosion as to
e"*.q those on board to believe that the Turkish
T 8 had blown up rather than surrender. "It is
lit?l'fluous to observe," adds my letter, " that the
tte? of the disaster has produced here general de--
terinn. The successes of Omar Pacha, his ex-
giti ent position on the Danube, the advantages
tc)l.-4ed by Selim Paella and Abdi Pacha in Asia, are
h, the moment forgotten in this disaster, and the
q' t% and eyes of all are turned towards the Eng-
Phi, and French fleets lying at anchor in the Bos-
,tls." In a postscript my correspondent says-
eti;„-Ole two squadrons are preparing to enter, in
kJ. of necessity, the Black Sea with the Turkish
til,"' Which has received orders to weigh anchor at
.iittrst signal. We hope that the event of Sinope
ItkiktProve to England and France that their diplo-
gyb fists are the dupes- •of the. base intrigues and
ll'lCerisy of Russia. I forgot to mention a rumor
Ilkt h circulates here, that it was an Austrian ship
1.11.1, gave information to the Russian fleet that the
kt.Ph flotilla was proceeding to Sinope."
'v •Lew .s.
ifti),,,,_, days since, a Turkish foraging party ad-
Ctiti7l at night to within three hours distance of
'tiller,uva, and carried off a large quantity of hay,
lk,118„4„„Ild. barley, before the Russians could collect
*No -"lcient force to attack them. On the 29th of
th ven])
1 Ilt, et, an officer of the Seminoff guard regi-
"lllh, was shot on the place of arms at St. Peters-
Ei Ab• H
L4kit, e had supplied Radzevitz, Prince Gort
Ipas()ff.l3 secretary, with the materials • for his
‘Eta, liable correspondence with Omar Pacha.
tQtql -ileitavitz, or Gadsevitz, as some correspondents.
(Hopis
, was shot at Bucharest' as soon as his
liy was discovered. The following Constan-
,cizetf letter, which has appeared in the Augsburg
ttirobarj; contains some suggestions relative to the
evoi,, le intentions of the Russians, which are not
' -4 of •
has•-i,_ interest
t.`'reacenenberg's corps, at and around Krajova,
41X,m_tved considerable reinforcements. Gene-
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toon train has been sent to Giurgevo, The
movements towards Hirsova and Giurgevo are
merely feints to distract the attention of the Turks;
for the only chance of a successful passage of the
river, as things now stand, is from Lesser Walla-
chia. My opinion is, that Dannenberg will throW
forwards a corps towards Kalafat, in order to occupy
the Turks at Widdin, and then direct his principal
force on Radujevatz, where, to the hest of my
belief, the Servian bank of the Danube is neither
occupied nor fortified. The two great questions
are, will Dannenberg have 50,000 or 60,000 men to
employ on such an expedition, and what will be
the conduct of the Servians ?"
Should the Russians really entertain any idea of
crossing the river at Radujevatz, and of proceed-
ing by way of Nissa to Sophia, the Turks are pre-
pared to receive them, for an entrenched camp,
surrounded by three rows of palisades, has been
formed at Nissa..