The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-09 00:00:00

" The loss on the Turkish side is not known.

4,000 Turks occupy Kalarache, 2,000 have estab-
lished themselves on an island in front of Giurgevo,
and 12,000 are in Lesser Wallachia."
Another telegraphic despatch received direct from
Vienna, states that from the 4th to the sth the
Turks occupied the island near Oltenitza, and
crossed unobserved to Wallachia at dawn. When
seen, a battle ensued which lasted 28 hours. The
result is unknown.

It is rumoured that Giurgevo was taken by
storm.

Turtukai and Oltenitza are towns on the right
and left banks of the Danube, between Rustchuk
and Silistria, on the direct route to Bucharest.
Higher up the river, and opposite to Rustchuk,
lies Giurgevo, from which another road leads to
Bucharest. Still ascending the river, we come to
Rahova, a town on the right bank, opposite to
which lies Kalarache, at the junction of the Schyl
and Danube. The troops in Lesser Wallachia are
those which crossed from Widdin, which forms the
extreme left of the Turkish line.

The Hospodar Stirbey has left Bucharest for
Vienna. His departure has been officially an-
nounced to the representatives of the foreign
Powers. The Government is carried on by a Com-
mission, and the Russians have seized' all the public
funds and treasuries.

The prices of goods and victuals have been fixed
at a very low rate by the military authorities.
Whenever any dealer asks high prices he is at once
seized and flogged by the soldiers who superintend
'the public markets.

War seems imminent. The Russians in their
entrenchments on the left bank of the Danube
make no preparations to cross that river. The
consuls of France and Great Britain expect instruc-
tions from their Governments, authorising them to
leave the country.

Intelligence from Constantinople up to the 27th
Oct., says—the removal of Abdi Pasha from the
command of the army in Asia is mentioned as pro-
bable.

It is said that the Russian troops in the Princi-
palities are suffering from typhus, and that the
number of combatants is reduced to 85,000. It
will take six weeks before the reserve can come up
from Bessarabia.

Another account from Vienna, dated Bucharest,
Nov. 5, says :—The Turks, availing themselves of
a thick fog, took possession of an island opposite
Turtukan, and then landed on the left shore ; the
reconnoitering division was repulsed. The Russian
vanguard threw the Turks back upon their entrench-
ments along the river.
Yesterday the Turks attempted a passage near
Giurgevo, Oltenitza, and Slobodzie.
At Giurgevo they were repulsed.
At Oltenitza they crossed ; a twenty-eight hours'
cannonade ensued ; the Russians also here repelled
them.

At Giurgevo they fired upon a steamer coming
from Hirsova, and then transported her to the
Turkish shore.

Prince Gortschakoff went to Giurgevo to-day.
The Austrian embassy has sent a circular to all
the representatives of other nations at Constanti-
nople, officially announcing that the Emperor of
Austria has taken all Russian subjects and interests
under his protection, during the actual state of
war between Turkey and Russia.
The remaining members of the Russian embassy
and consulate left Constantinople for Odessa, on
board an Austrian steamer, which had been hired
especially for that purpose.
It appears, from information received up to Oct.
27, that in Constantinople all fears of disturbances,
and all bad feeling towards the Christians, which
were so evident but a few weeks since, have eva-
porated with the declaration of war ; and, to judge
by the aspect of the city, it would be little ima-
gined that its inhabitants were of so belligerent a
disposition as to have insisted on vindicating their
rights by the sword.
A great many British officers left by the Tues-
day's boat for Varna and Schumla. Lord Worsley,
Colonel Buckley, and others, were amongst • the
number.

Numerous conferences were held last week be-
tween the representatives of the four Powers, and
between them and the Ministers of the Porte.

The New Prussian Correspondence of Berlin,
which has the reputation of being semi-official,
states that Lord Stratford de Redoliffe has pre-
sented to the Porte, on the part of England, a new
project of arrangement, which is not to be submitted
to the Emperor of Russia until it shall have been
accepted by the Sultan.
The Cologne Gazette, under date of Berlin, sth,
says :—" It is positively stated that the Britisb.
Cabinet has invited all the Courts, represented
at the Conference of Vienna, to recommend
to the Ottoman Porte the new project of me-
diation, by a collective note of the Ambassa-
dors of the Four Powers. The contents of this
note relate, it is said, to the treaty of 1841, in
which the Five Powers guarantee to the Sultan
the inviolability of his sovereign rights, and
express the sincere desire of seeing the tran-
quility of his Empire consolidated. In the project
of the collective note, the assurance given by the
treaty of 1841, is renewed. The note does not
contain any fresh guarantee. The question is to
know whether this note, which as yet is only a
project, will 'obtain the approbation of the other
Powers represented in the conference. England
and France are alone in accord."

Direct and positive news up to the 28th has
reached the Wanderer from Omer Pasha's camp.
On the preceding day, by 12 o'clock, 12,400 men
had passed the river at Kalafat. On the 27th,
Omer Pasha was certainly on the right bank
of the river. The vanguard of the corps ad-
vancing from Sophia had reached Widdin. The
troops which have already entered. Wallachia
will form the left wing of the corps which is to
operate in the Principalities. Their first des-
tination will-be Krajova, and as soon as the other
troops have [advanced to their support, the river
will be crossed at other places. (This has pro-
bably occurred, but the Russian despatch relative
to Giurgevo is far from being clear.) The news
that 6,000 Russian horse are in Krajova deserves
no credit, but it is certain that the 2,000
Lancers, who pushed on in forced marches from
Slatina to Krajova, were the vanguard of
an advancing corps. The intelligence that
Danneberg's army-corps of forty thousand men
and more, is already in Lesser Wallachia, and
its place filled up by Osten-Sacker's corps, is
positively false. Up to the 25th of October, Ohn-
Sacken's troops had not crossed the Pruth, and
it is impossible that they can be placed between
Bucharest and Giurgiu in the first half of Novem-
ber, unless steamers are employed, which is not very
probable. It must be observed that, in the cam-
paigns of 1828 and 1829, the Russians never ope-
rated with more than 15,000 men, although hosti-
lities were carried on during the whnle winter.
The news of the passage of the river created a great
ferment in Wallachia, and in some places there
were even demonstrations against the Liissians.
This is probably the reason why the state of siege
was proclaimed, a measure to which the Russians
never before resorted in these countries. Namik
Pasha, aecording to a telegraphic despatch of the
26th, was still at Constantinople, waiting for de-
spatches from the Turkish Embassy in Vienna,
after the receipt of which he was to proceed to
London without further loss of time, on board an
English steamer. It is not improbable that he
may have a diplomatic as yell as a financial mission.
The following note was addressed officially by the
Sublime Porte to the representatives of Austria
and Prussia, dated (18th of the Mouharrem, 1270,)
21st October, 1853
"It is a matter of public notoriety that Russia, in
violating existing treaties by the occupation of the two
Principalities, has committed an act of a nature to
justify war, and has, by creating all kinds of difficulties,
compelled the Sublime Porto to take up arms for
the defence of her rights, whilst the Ottoman Govern-
ment, with the desire of maintaining peace, pur-
sued on the contrary a conciliatory line of conduct,
and replete with moderation. In virtue of the treaty
of 1841, the Straits of the Dardanelles and the Black
Sea were closed against foreign ships of war, but the
state of war produced by the acts of the Russian
Cabinet has placed the Sublime Porte under the ne.