The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-31 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The Moniteur of yesterday (Sunday) makes the
following important announcement :
" The Government has received dispatches from
the French Ambassador at Constantinople, dated
21st October. The reply of Prince Gortschakoff
was considered negative. Nevertheless, at the re-
quest of the representatives of the Four Powers,
the Porte had given orders to adjourn hostilities
to the Ist November.

" In case hostilities should have been commenced,
the order was to be considered as null (non avenu).
The fleets were to pass the Dardanelles on the fol-
lowing day."
A private telegraphic dispatch from Marseilles,
of the 29th inst., states that on the 23d, when the
Caradoc sailed, the two fleets had not left Besika
Bay, and that owing to the badness of the weather
they had not proceeded to the Sea of Marmora on
the 22d. Admiral Tinan, with three vessels, had,
however, managed to reach Gallipoli, and Admiral
Dundas had proceeded to the first castle of the
Dardanelles.

A telegraphic message from Vienna dated yes-
terday (Sunday) says :
" Yesterday the new project arrived here from
Loudon, and was sent to Constantinople. It con-
sists of the Vienna Note deprived of the objection-
able passages which, remodelled, render the Turk-
ish modifications superfluous, and, being agreeable
to the Olmutz concessions, will satisfy Russia. The
present armistice has been obtained in connexion
herewith. Turkey is expected to accept these
terms, and if so, Russia also.
" Nothing important from the Lower Danube.
The Russians have made no attempt to cross that
river."

The following is from Belgrade, Oct. 18 :—Omer
Pasha, being informed that the Russians had
evacuated Kalafat, sent a patrol to that place,
which encountered a detachment of Don Cossacks.
The two parties were equally seized with a panic,
and each evacuated the place in great disorder.
The Turks, however, came back with fresh forces,
and fortified an island in the vicinity of Widdin.
The Russians are still concentrating their troops
at Bucharest.

The following is from Constantinople, dated Oc
17 :

The armaments of the Porte continue with re-
newed zeal. This morning 800 men leave for the
army in Asia. This is a body of riflemen, who
have been organized on the system of the Chasseurs
de Vincennes, under the superintendence of M.
d'Anglars, a French officer. Artillery and trans-
ports of ammunition and troops are daily forwarded,
both to the army in Europe and in Asia.
Namik Pacha is to leave for Paris and London,
an extraordinary commissary, charged with the
negotiation of aloan of four millions sterling. In-
dependent of this object, it is said that his mission
will also have an important political character.
Constantinople has been very quiet since the de-
claration of war. It is not improbable that the
arrival of the combined fleets at the Golden Horn
may be simultaneous with the commencement of
hostilities. Great efforts are being made to induce
the Porte to extend the fifteen days' time given for
the evacuation of the principalities for eight days
longer.
The following is a brief communication from the
head-quarters of the Turkish army, dated Schumla,
Oct. 10 :—" On the Bth a• general order was read
to the assembled troops. They took an oath,
swearing to die for their religion and their country.
Two days ago the order was sent to Prince Gorts-
chakoff to evacuate the principalities in a brief
time. Hostilities aro to commence shortly. You
will be anxious to know what we are going to do.
All I can say is that I trust Omer Pacha will have
well laid his plans. General Prim is laid up with
a fever, which seems very obstinate. Yesterday
Colonel Bund, an Austrian staff officer, and M. de
Bruck, the son of the Austrian ambassador, ar-
rived here."

A letter from Constantinople announces that a
naval division had been formed there, consisting
of 12 ships of the line, eight frigates, four corvettes,
and three brigs, to protect the north coast of the
Black Sea. ThOse ships are well found in every
respect, and amongst them are seven steam frigates
or corvettes.
It appears that whilst a diminution of the Aus-

trian army is announced at Vienna, the Austrian
Generals commanding in Italy and Hungary, far
from discharging any of their troops, are demand-
ing reinforcements.
The last dispatch from Warsaw, Oct. 22, says
that reinforcements have been sent off to the
Crimea. The impregnability of Sebastopol is con-
sidered past question. The Circassians have lately
exhibited wonderful activity, and have pressed
down to the coast of the Black Sea. Forts
Gortogojewsk and Tenginsk have been completely
demolished, and the Russians so hard pressed that
a number of their priests, who were carrying crosses
to stimulate the soldiers, were left dead upon
the field. Three Russian brigades have been sent
from Tortum to the Turkish frontier. Osten
Sacken's corps still halts in Volhinia. A portion
of the corps of General Luders is still on the Rus-
sian side of the Pruth. .

It has already been announced that the Russian
Minister of Finance had given to a deputation of
the English merchants residing at St. Petersburg
the most formal assurance that, in the event of a
war with Turkey, they should not suffer in any
way, either in person or property. One of the
members of the deputation having asked if English
vessels would be exempted from vexatious pro-
ceedings in any case, the Minister replied that he
could not reply to this categorically without having
first received the orders of the Emperor. Two days
afterwards the Minister declared in a new inter-
view that the Emperor would be guided on this
subject entirely by the course that England should
pursue.
The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort contains a
letter from Bucharest of the 18th, which says
" Since I wrote last, nothing has transpired of any
decisive event on the Danube,,but it is said that
the Turks have completed bridges over the river
near Rustjuck and Braila. Yesterday a courier
arrived with letters to General Mereskou, com-
mander of the Wallachian militia, announcing that
these troops were to leave the barracks which they
occupied near the town, and that the Russians
were, to enter them. It is said that General Gorts-
chakoff has but little confidence in our troops, and
that he has even proposed to Prince Stirbey to
disarm them. They are about 18,000 in number.
The Russian General-in-Chief has also expressed
desire to see the administrative authorities and
tribunals of Braila, Kalara,sh, and Turnoal, sent
into the interior of the country. The object of the
General appears to be to insure a greater amount
of protection to the Russian subjects residing in
Wallachia."