The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-29 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The following telegraphic dispatch has been re-
ceived from Vienna, dated Vienna yesterday
evening :
CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 21.

The Porte, having heard of a new project of
compromise being negotiated, had suspended the
commencement of hostilities for the present.

DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.

The following is from Bucharest, October 18 :
It is said that Omer Pasha had informed Prince
Gortschakoff of his intention to occupy the Sultan's
territories (the Principalities) at once. He has
also, it is said, written to Stirbey, that he intends
entering Bucharest on the Ist of November.
On the 11th Prince Gortshakoff held a council
of war. It was resolved to evacuate the southern
part of Wallachia, evidently with a view to en-
ticing the Turks away from their intrenchments.
It is thought that the Turks are waiting for the
full moon to cross the Danube, and that they will
cross in two columns, at Widdin and Braila.
The Russian merchants are doing an excellent
business in English cottons, of which large quanti-
ties are stored in the Principalities. They send
them across the Pruth.

The intelligence of Russian hostile operations on
the Lower Danube, on the 23rd, as published in
Paris to-day, is contradicted by the Oesterreichische
Correspondenz.
Another telegraphic dispatch received also from
Vienna yesterday evening says :—" There is rea-
son to believe that an armistice has been concluded
between the Turkish and Russian armies."

A French Cabinet courier arrived on Tuesday
from St. Petersburg, by land, with dispatches for
his Government. The same courier brought dis-
patched from Sir H. Seymour, which were for-
warded forthwith to London. It does not appear
that the intelligence received here by this means
any way tends to throw a decisive light upon the
Emperor's intentions, beyond the presumption
that he will act strictly on the defensive.
The telegraphic dispatch, giving an account of
the opening of hostilities on the Danube, and which
appeared in the Sun of yesterday, was received by
the French Government from the Consul-General
of France at Bucharest, under date the 25th
October.

It is remarked that the dispatch says nothing of
the casualties on the side of the Turks, and it is
scarcely probable that M. Poujade, who is the
Consul-General at Bucharest, would have made an
omission of the kind. That silence give rise to se-
veral conjectures. It is affirmed that the dispatch
contains another sentence to the effect that the
Consul was in expectation of further details, and,
again that there are some details which are not
given. It is probable that if the amount of the loss
on the Russian side could be stated, some estimate
has also been made of that of the Turks. If we can
credit what is pretty generally rumoured, it would
appear that the affair was more serious than is re-
presented, that the fighting lasted some time, that
prisoners were taken on both sides, and that no
quarter was given.

Letters from Constantinople state that the Rus-
sian agent, M. Argyropulo, has had an interview
with the Russian internuncio, and has formally
placed the Russians in Turkey under his protec-
tion.

The Press has the following from its Brussels cor-
respondent :—" I have it from a good source that
there will positively be no new Russian manifesto.
It may be that Count Nesselrode will have endea-
voured to explain the conduct of his imperial master
in a circular dispatch to the Russian embassies abroad.
Letters from St. Petersburg state that Prince
Gortschakoff has fallen into disgrace, and will be re-
placed in his command of the Russian army of oc-
cupation in the principalities. On October 17 the
Sultan reviewed at Constantinople 26,000 men,
which were to leave next day for the army at Er-
zeroum. An official declaration of neutrality from
Austria in the conflict between Russia and Turkey
is shortly expected to be published."
The Patrie says—" It appears certain, according
to the latest letters, that the engagement which has
just taken place on the Danube is the result of a
movement of the Russian flotilla at Ismail to place
itself in communication with Ibraila, a port of
Wallachia situated on the left bank of the river.
The fortress of Isactcha is placed on the opposite
bank, on the middle point of distance between
Ismail and Reni, a fortification situated at the spot
where the Pruth falls into the Danube. In 1790
Gen. Suwarrow took Ismail by assault. It was at
that time a flourishing town, with 30,000 inhabi-
tants. The inhabitants were massacred, and the
town, which contained 17 magnificent mosques,
was reduced to ashes. The few of the inhabitants
who succeeded in escaping took refuge at Isactcha.'
a large village, near which the Turks afterwards
constructed a fortress which commands the river.
As to Ismail, a fortified town situated in Bessara-
bia, at the junction of the Repida with the Danube,
it has an excellent quarantine port, where the
Russian flotilla is stationed, which is destined to
place the army of invasion of the Danubian pro-
vinces in communication with the Black Sea, by
Ibraila, in Wallachia. Hitherto the navigation has
continued free, but in consequence of the declara-
tion of war the Turks have been obliged to make
efforts to stop it."
The subjoined is from Constantinople, Oct. 15 :
—Since the departure of the last mail, and late on
the same day, a change in the Ottoman Ministry
occurred, Mouktar Bey being dismissed from his
post of Minister of Finance, and Saafeti Pasha being
appointed in his stead. The latter Pasha has con-
siderable reputation for his financial talents. We
may add that this is not the first time he has en-
joyed. his present dignity. About seven or eight
years ago he was Minister of Finance, and was
dismissed on being detected in the most bare-
faced system of peculation and plunder, chiefly
through the representations of Sir Stratford
Canning. An entire change of Ministry seldom
occurs at once in Turkey, but the state of
public feeling is ascertained by some change like
the present, which is generally the forerunner of
further measures. It is anticipated that Riza
Pasha will soon be received into the Ministry ; in
short, that a more decided Turkish and warlike
element will be introduced. The lucky individual
to whom was entru%ted the manifesto or declaration
of war to be conveyed to the army of Omer Pasha
was received with the greatest enthusiasm. Ac-