The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-01 00:00:00

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY-(THIS DAY.

Mr. Commissioner Holroyd was the commissioner of
the day, but there was no case of interest except that of
Mr. Keating, who had carried ou business as a chemist,
in St. Paul's-churchyard, and having been made bank-
rupt, proposed to his creditors to pay them in full if

allowed to conduct the business. Its success has met
the most sanguine expectations of the assignees, and by
consent of all parties the certificate meeting was further
adjourned, with an increased allowance and protection
enlarged.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-(THIS DAY.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
The following telegraphic dispatch dated Vienna
yesterday, is published to-day by a morning con-
temporary, with an intimation, however, that it
does not place much reliance in the statements
it contains :

" A private dispatch from Tameswar states that
26,000 Turks have Crossed the Danube, and occu-
pied Kalafat.
" From Orsova another dispatch says that
52,000 men have crossed, and that hostilities have
commenced.

" This news is believed in, although not authen-
Lcated."

The following authentic dispatch has since been
received from Vienna :—" 30,000 infantry and 400
cavalry, under the command of Omer Pacha,
passed the Danube at Kalafat, on the 27th inst.
A great number more were in the act of passing.
An encounter with the Russians was expected on
the 27th." _ _._

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The subjoined is dated Vienna, Oct. 27 :—" It
is asserted that the note of the Vienna Conference
has still a chance of being accepted, though,
of course it will, in such a case, be subjected
to some modifications. There is a rumour of
Baron Bruck being recalled from Constanti-
nople, to take the management of the Finances.
Baron Prokesch is mentioned as his successor.
Letters from Bucharest state that on the 18th inst.
Prince Gortschakoff ordered Baron Osten Sacken
to march at once into the Principalities, and take
the place of the corps of reserve in Moldavia.
Massar Pasha, the son of Redschid Pasha, has
arrived at Belgrade. The contingent of Servia is
to be increased by a force of 5,000 men. Up to the
22d inst. no change had taken place in the Russian
and Turkish positions at Giurgevo and Braila."
A telegraphic dispatch has been received at
Vienna yesterday, but not published, which states
that on the 23d (the day on which the first colli-
sion took place between the Turks and Russians),
the Russian Consul and his countrymen left Con-
stantinople, and embarked on board a Russian ship
which had been waiting there to carry them to
Odessa.

Accounts from Constantinople contradict the
excitement which appeared iii several of the Aus-
trian journals, that the Turkish Government had
commanded the political refugees in Turkey to
take service with their troops if they wished to
retain the allowance they receive.
The _Mats says :—" It has been announced that
the Russian flotilla had been attacked whilst it
ascended the Danube under the fire of the Turkish
fortress of Isactcha. Some journals now say that
by Art. 3 of the treaty of Adrianople, it is stipu-
lated that the Russian vessels of war cannot, in
ascending the Danube, pass beyond the point of
junction of that river with the Pruth. These jour-
nals add, that the junctions take place at Reni,
and that the fortress of Isactcha is some leagues
higher up. That is an error. The junction of the
Danube and the Pruth takes place, it is true, at
Reni ; but Reni is situate at a dozen leagues above,
and not below Isactcha."
The following information is given as to the new
turn which the Eastern question has taken. The
source whence it is derived is of unquestionable
authority. The much-talked-of and dreaded ma-
nifesto of the Emperor of Russia on the receipt of
the Turkish declaration of war now turns out to
have been a very pacific note from Prince Nessel-
rode, in which he informed the Four Powers that
the Emperor, his master, regretted extremely that
the Turks should have so misunderstood his
intentions as to have pushed matters to a
declaration of war ; that he deplored the
present state of suspense, and was most
anxious for its speedy termination. As the
readiest way of effecting this, and with a view
to the immediate evacuation of the Principalities,
he proposed that a Turkish Plenipotentiary should
proceed to Prince Gortschakoff's head-quarters,
and arrange the matter on the spot. This propo-
sition was declined by France and England, on
the ground that matters had gone too fal to allow
the difference between Russia and Turkey to be
arranged in this summary manner, but that those
Powers were ready to draw up a note, based on
the evacuation of the Principalities, in which
the portions of the Vienna note, which had
offended Turkish dignity, should be omitted or
explained in such a way as to leave no ground
for Russian interference with the sovereign
rights and prerogatives of the Sultan. Such a
note has been drawn up, has received the as-
sent and approbation of Austria and Prussia, as
well as of the representative of the Emperor Nicho-
las at Vienna, and is now on its way to Constanti-
nople, whither the intelligence of its advent has
been forwarded by telegraph. It is said the
French Government has received intelligence that
Lord Stratford has procured the assent of the Porte
to a note embodied in terms almost identical with
those of the document now on its way to Constantino-
ple. Such are the details of the present position of
the Eastern question which justify an expectation of
a speady arrangement. The reasons which have in-
duced the Emperor of Russia to submit so meekly to
the buffet dealt him on the cheek by his Ottoman
brother affird ample ground for speculation. Ig-
norance of the state of feeling as regards Turkey
in France and England, a mistaken notion of the
impossibility of an alliance between those Powers,
overweening confidence in his own resources,
and a contempt for those of his adversary, may,
in the first instance; have combined to induce
him to take a step which a better knowledge of
his own position now makes him desirous to re-
trace. Though no one faUcies that Turkey can
cope with Russia in a prolonged contest, yet the
chances of success for the Czar are materially les-
sened by the certainty that the first reverse of his
antagonist will bring to the succour of the van-
quished the fleets and, perhaps, other forces, of two
nations each able to contend with Russia single •
handed. The state of affairs in the Caucasus,
where it is now certain that the Russians have met
with great reverses, and the weakness of the army
of occupation in the principalities, decimated by
disease and dispirited by inaction, may also have
had their share in bringing the Emperor Nicholas
to a better frame of mind.

A Constantinople letter of the 17th, in the
Wanderer, of Vienna, gives the following ac-
account of the recent affair between the Rus-
sians and the troops of Schamyl :—" Schamyl
approached at the head of 20,000 men to within
nine miles of Tiflis. Prince Woronzoff had at the
time only 15,000 men, and he was beaten at first
on every point, but having received a roinforce-
ment of 15,000 men, the battle was resumed, and
Schamyl was forced to retreat. The Circassians
lost, it is said, 2,000 men ; the Russians confess to
a loss of 5,000 on their side."

The following telegraphic dispatch has been re-
ceived, dated Marseilles the 29th :—" The Cour-
rier de Marseille announces that the Caradoc,
which had arrived, left Constantinople, and pro-
ceeded to Aria and Prevesca, to drive from them
the Turkish garrisons, and to seize on Janina.
The Trieste Gazette, under date of Varna, 15th,
says :—" Tefik Pacha arrived here in the night of
the 7th, with the declaration of war. It was pro-
claimed on the 10th at Schumla, in presence of
30,000 men. The officers received orders to swear
on the four sacred books to obey the commands of
their superiors."