The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-26 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The following has been received by Submarine
Telegraph, vie/ the Hague, from Trieste, Oct. 25,
five p.m..—
The Lloyd steamer has arrived from Constanti-
nople, with news to the 17th of October.
Prince Gortschakoff's reply had arrived.
General Prim is said to have obtained a
command.

The united fleets are advancing towards Gal-
ipoli.

The exportation of corn is forbidden by procla-
mation at Constantinople.
From Smyrna, Oct. 19, we learn that Janni
Katergi has been arrested. Koszta has left for
Boston. •

M. de Castelbajac, the son of the French am-
bassador at St. Petersburg, arrived in Paris on
Monday from the capital, the bearer of important
dispatches. They consist of the last note of the
Russian Cabinet on the subject of the declaration
of war, in which the Emperor declares that he can.
not but repel the hoslilities of Turkey. The Czar
adds, for the benefit of the few weak-minded per-
sons who still persist in believing in his moderation
and justice, " that he is still determined, in any
case, not to do anything that can in any way in-
terfere with the integrity of the Ottoman empire."
Dispatches were received in Paris yesterday,
dated Vienna, the 24th, which bring accounts from
Constantinople of the 15th. At that date, although
the combined fleets had not arrived before Constan-
tinople, they were daily expected, and the Govern-
ment was actively preparing for hostilities. The
answer of Prince Gortschakoff was looked upon by
the Divan as a decided refusal on the part of Russia
to evacuate the principalities, and orders had been
sent to Omer Pacha to commence active hostilities
forthwith. The dispatch adds that the Turks had
passed the ,Danube ; but it is unnecessary to say
that that assertion, to use a French phrase,
" merits confirmation." It is curious, however,
that the same news should arrive from both sides
at one and the same time ; and it renders it ex-
tremely probable that Omer Pacha will not delay
advancing on the enemy.
The German papers state that Omer Pacha has
not only commenced hostilities, but that he has
actually crossed the Danube at Oltemiza, and
beaten the Russians.

The last telegraphic message from Constantino/11A
is dated the 17th October. Nainik Pacha was then
about to start immediately for Paris and London,
as Extraordinary Commissioner, to contract a loan
for 4,000,0001. sterling.
The armaments were being zealously continued.
The National Gazette of Berlin states that the
Czar has given an assurance to Prussia and Austria
that he has no intention whatever to interfere in
the internal affairs of Turkey, and that though he
is ready to wage war, he is, however, disposed to
enter into an arrangement.
When the four principal English merchants of
St. Petersburg attended, according to request, the
hotel of the Minister of Finance on the 15th inst.,
the following communication was made to them by
that functionary :
"Gentlemen,—His Majesty having learned by the Eng-
lish journals that grave disquietudes existed relative to
the persons and property of English subjects whether
in Russia or in the Baltic, should war break out, has
charged me to inform you that whatever may happen,
the persons and property of English subjects, on sea and
land, shall be fully respected. I may add, that strong
hopes are entertained that peace will be maintained. At
all events, the conviction prevails that war will not break
out between Russia and England, whatever may be the
course of events in the East."

The Turkish government has officially recognised.
Schamyl and the other chiefs of the Circassian in-
surrection. It has given them titles correspond-
ing to their grades, and is sending them arms and
ammunition.

The Trieste Gazette gives the following from
Constantinople, 12th :—Within the last few days a
new effort has been made on the part of Austria in
favour of a pacific solution. On Wednesday last a
courier arrived from Vienna with conciliatory pro-
positions, but he came too late, for the declaration
of war had already been sent off to Omer Pacha
and read in all the mosques. Thenew proposition
sent by the Conference of Vienna appeared to the
Divan to be in manifest contradiction with the
Note of Count de Nesselrode, which sets forth the
motives why Russia has not accepted the modifica-
tions of the Porte. The new Greek Patriarch,
Mgr. Anthimos, immediately after his nomination,
went in great pomp to the Imperial Palace to pay
his respectful homage to the Sultan, who received
him very graciously, and assured him that the
government would always maintain the liberties
and franchises granted to the Christian populations,
but added that he expected that the newly-elected
Patriarch would on his side exert all his efforts to
respond to the magnanimous sentiments of his So-
vereign. Mgr. Anthimos afterwards received the
investiture from Reschid Pacha.

A letter from Bucharest, of the 12th, says :
" We are expecting to hear every day that hostili-
ties have commenced. Prince Stirbey is still here,
but the rumour runs that. he will before long take
his departure. The Minister of the Interior has
officially given notice to all persons holding forage
and other stores not to sell them too dear, as should
they do so, the Russians would not pay ready
money but give bills, and that for only part of the
price. The Russians are constructing round this
p
lace winter quarters in the ground (bordeij), con-
sisting of square excavations covered over with
small twigs and thatch, and having two openings
above, one to admit light and let out the smoke
and the other to serve as an entrance. In the an'
cient times the Wallachian peasants lived in such
holes, but not for a century past."
The sanitary accounts received from Wallachia
and Moldavia are not satisfactory. The Govern-
ment has sent Dr. Ley, Director of the Quarantine,
to the spot to collect information. It is certain
that Asiatic cholera has broken out at Jassy and
the neighbourhood, and has already made numer-
ous victims. The cattle which have been sent for
the supply of the Russian army have been attacked
with disease, and all along the road may be seen
trenches into which the bodies of the dead animals
have been thrown. The Austrian Government has,
in consequence, increased the period of the qua-
rantine.