The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-26 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The following telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna,
Wednesday, has boon received :
" Very tranquillising advices have been received
from St. Petersburg, of the 18th inst.

" The Czar is reported to be inclined to accept,
though conditionally, the basis of a project of
ileac°.
" The Czar declines the responsibility of de-
claring war.
"People at Vienna think that this will secure to
him the support of the German Powers."
The following is from Constantinople, Jan. 16 :
" There is a report that the Russians have taken
Kars.

" The combined fleets were at Sinope and Varna.
" Armaments continue.
" The Czar's answer to the Turkish propositions
is not expected till the middle of February.
" Persia will, it is now said, remain neuter.
" The Porte is sending additional reinforcements
to Batoum for the army in Asia."
Letters from Berlin to the Pays state that the
last news from St. Petersburg has greatly excited
the Prussian Government. The feeling of the
Czar was still against the propositions of France
and England, and but little hope is entertained
that the note will be accepted. Well-informed
statesmen, however, think that the Czar, while he
adheres to his resolution to treat alone with Turkey,
without the intervention of any other Power, will
nevertheless give an evasive answer, so as to allow
him not to recal his Ambassadors from London and
Paris. Ho will also try to make some new attempts
at the German Courts, and throw on the Western
Powers all the burden of events in theßlack Sea,
as regards any new net on their part tending to a
declaration of war, and the signal of an open rup-
ture. His overtures with a view of bringing about
another interview between the three Sovereigns
were received at Vienna, and more especially at
Berlin, with great reserve.

Official advices from St. Petersburg, of the 16th
inst., state that the Emperor makes no immediate
cases MU of the entrance of the combined fleets
into the Black Sea. He awaits a written communi-
cation, touching the object and import of the
measure.

The semi-official Prussian Correspondence pub-
lishes an article respecting the excitement of the
money market. After denying the rumours re-
specting the recal of the Russian ambassadors from
London and Paris, it states that nothing justifies
the supposition that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg
had resolved to reject the proposition of arrange-
ment transmitted from Vienna. On the contrary,
there is good reason for believing that the Czar, out
of regard for the friendship and mutual confidence
existing between himself and the great German
Powers, will not refuse to take into just conside-
ration the conciliatory representations which have
just been addressed from Berlin and Vienna to the
Court of Russia.

Advices direct from St. Petersburg of the 17th,
state that a ukaso has been issued calling the sea-
men of the Baltic fleet to rejoin the ships Iby the
15th of March. The concentrations are to take
place at Cronstadt, Reval, and Sweaborg.
It is confirmed (says the Vienna Lloyd of the
22d) that an issue of 60,000,000 paper roubles is
to be made at St. Petersburg to meet tile charges
of the war.

The Patric states that since the Vienna protocol
of Jan. 13, the Cabinet of St. Petersburg has de-
manded. of Austria and Prussia a decided and
formal declaration of their intended course of
action.

The Independance contradicts the report that
England and France had sent a note to the Cabi-
nets of Vienna and Berlin calling upon them to
abandon their neutrality and take a decided atti-
tude.

On the 7th two steamers of the English fleet ap-
peared. before Sebastopol, to announce officially to
the Admiral there that the fleets had entered the
Black Sea, having left the Bosphorus on the 4th.
The two steamers then departed to join the
fleets, which were to sail towards Batoum. Since
then no vessel—French, English, or Turkish—had
been seeu before Sebastopol.
The Russian sleet was distributed at different
points.

A despatch from Bucharest, dated Jan. 19th,
states that two thousand Turks crossed the Danube
at Kallarasch, and killed the Cossack outposts.
Russian reinforcements were arriving. The Turks
retired to the right bank.

A later despatch from Bucharest, dated Jan. 21,
says—General Aurop liar been commanded not to
attack Kalafat until further orders, when Prince
Gortschakoff shall have returned from his country
inspections.

Advises from Krajowa, of the 21st inst., state
that Prince Gortseliakoff will remove his head-
quarters to Boleschti.

A renewed expedition against Kalafat was shortly
expected.
Tho report that the Russians had crossed the
Danube at Silistria was not confirmed.
Tho Turks crossed the Danube near Turnul. An
engagement ensued. The Turks returned to
Nikopoli.
The Russians had returned to Galatz, from an
expedition to the right bank.
A telegraphic despatch from Hermannstadt an-
nounces that Prince Gortschakoff had arrived at
Radowan on the 21st. The concentration of
General Aurop's corps was completed. This de-
spatch confirms the rumour mentioned in the
Krajowa, advices as to a fresh movement against
Kalafat. The reported movements of the Russians
on or across the Danube at Roni, Matschin, or
Silistria, were considered of little military im-
portance.

From Adrianople, Jan. 6, we learn that all the
preparations are made for the arrival of the Sultan,
which is to take place in March. Numerous articles
of furniture, as also 800 domestics and 500 horses,
have already been despatched. The retinue of the
Sultan will consist of 1,000 persons.
A Belgrade despatch of the 10th Jan. says that
Izzet Pacha demanded the expulsion of all Russians
from Servia, and that the Russian Consul Muchin
should discontinue his visits to Belgrade. Com-
pliance has been refused, and great excitement
prevailed.
The Independance of Brussels publishes a tele-
graphic despatch from Trieste, founded on intelli-
gence brought by the overland India mail, in which
it is said that the Persian port of Bushire is blockaded
by a British corvette, and that a schooner and war
steamer had also been sent into the Persian Gulf.

A bulletin published at St. Petersburg on the
17th inst. shows that the Russian troops in Asia
are in winter quarters, within their own frontiers,
and that at present no military operations are in
progress.
The grand attack upon Kalafat appears to have
been fixed for the 18th of January, the day of the
baptism of the waters. It was immediately after
that religious ceremony that the Russian army,
still under its impression, was to march with the
banner of the Cross displayed .against the Turks.
It is estimated that the capture of this place (if
captured) will cost the Russians at least 10,000
men. There was much discouragement among the
troops in consequence. Owing to the defeat on
the 6th, however, it is probable that the day was
postponed.
The Russians estimate their forces in Lesser
Wallachia at 44,000, and those of Ismail Pacha in
the entrenchments and on the islandat from 25,000
to 30,000, but these numbers appear exaggerated.
We have just been informed that on the 6th, near
Kalafat, the Turks achieved a success. A great
number of killed and wounded was reported, and
the capture of 29 guns. The Russian bulletin had
not yet been issued.