The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-19 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The following is a translation of the letter from
Omer Pacha to Prince Gortschakoff

" Monsieur le General,—lt is by the order of my
Government that I have the honour to address this
letter to your Excellency.
" Whilst the Sublime Porte has exhausted all
means of conciliation to maintain at once peace and
its own independence, the Court of Russia has not
ceased to raise difficulties in the way of any such
settlement, and has ended with the violation of
treaties—invading the two Principalities of Molda-
via and Wallachia, integral parts of the Ottoman
Empire.
" True to its pacific system, the Porte, instead of
exercising its right to make reprisals, confined itself
even then to protesting, and did not deviate from
tthe way that might lead to an arrangement.
' " Russia, on the contrary, far from evincing cor-
responding sentiments, has ended by rejecting the
proposals recommended by the august mediating
Courts—proposals which were alike necessary to
the honour and to the security of the Porte.
" There only remains for the latter the indis-
pensable necessity of war. But as the invasion of
the Principalities and the violation of treaties
which have attended it, are the veritable causes of
war, the Sublime Porte, as a last expression of its
pacific sentiments, proposes to your Excellency, by
my intervention, the evacuation of the two pro-
vinces, and grants for your decision a term of fif-
teen days, to date from the receipt of this letter.
If within this interval a negative answer shall
reach me from your Excellency, the commence-
ment of hostilities will be the natural consequence.
.

" While I have the honour to make this intima-
tion to your Excellency, I embrace the opportunity
to offer the assurances of my high esteem."
To this note, the Russian General Gortschakoff
has intimated that he " has no orders to commence
hostilities, nor to conclude peace, nor to evacuate
the Principalities."
A letter from St. Petersburg of the 10th, an-
nounces that the Emperor Nicholas had adopted
warlike measures of the highest importance. The
Russian army is formed into two divisions. The
first army is intended for great operations in Eu-
rope ; the second is reserved for local service. It
is ~said that the " army of Europe," which is at
present stationed in the west of Europe—of which
the principal corps occupy Russian Poland, and the
other corps, stationed in the rear, form the reserve
—is called to active service.

A letter from Warsaw, of the 9th inst., states
that the corps, under the command of General
Panjutin, stationed near that city, has received
orders to proceed to the Pruth.

Accounts from Constantinople of Oct. 6, state
that the manifesto, which has been looked for for
some days past, came out on the sth, the first day
of the Mouharem, the new year of the Mussul-
mans. Copies were handed over to two Chamber-
lains of the Imperial Palace, one of whom, Ahmed
Bey, is the son of Redschid. Pasha, and these func-
tionaries departed immediately ior the camp of
Omar Pasha, where they will read the document to
the troops assembled. On the sth inst. the mani-
festo was communicated to the different foreign
legations, and next day about 25,000 copies in va-
rious languages will be widely distributed.
It is understood that M. Argyropoulo, M.
Pisani, and all other employes of the Russian com-
mercial chancellerie, will receive their passports,
with a notice to leave the empire immediately. Be-
sides these official people, several Greeks, notorious
for their efforts in Russian propagandism, will re-
ceive a similar order. _ - . _

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with several persons of the democratic party in
Poland. He was taken before Omer Pasha, who,
it is said, was about to hang him forthwith.
The warlike activity of the Turks seems to have
reached its acme. During the last month they
have cast 100 cannon of various calibre, and the
day before yesterday these cannon, with all their
accoutrements complete, and the horses to drag
them, were sent to Adrianople, where an army of
reserve is being formed of 80,000 men. All the
horses necessary were furnished by the Pashas of
Constantinople. This army of reserve will be
composed of 25,000 Redifs, who are now in Con-
stantinople, chiefly small tradesmen ; of 6,000 vo-
lunteers, who have inscribed their names at the
Seraskeral within the last eight days • and of 25,000
Kurdish horsemen, all mounted and equipped at
the expense of the Beys of Kurdistan. These lat-
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Immense Barracks are being constructed on the
banks of the Danube, where the Russians intend to
pass the winter. General Gortschakoff has de-
manded of the Prince a heavy sum of money
for the construction of these barracks, which
has been paid. This expense will be included in
the debt imposed on the country for the occupation
of 1848 to 1851. The Wallachian Government is
obliged to contract a debt of six millions of piastres
(about 60,0001.) to meet the demands of General
Gortschakoff.

There has been no well authenticated case of
cholera in the Russian army, but they are said to
suffer much from dysentery. About 7,000 Russian
troops are in the Wallachian hospitals.
The Wanderer has advices of the 6th from Odes-
sa that the corps of General Luders was to receive
marching orders on the following day. On the
Ist the sth Cavalry division, under General
Panjutin, and the 2d under General Stael received
orders to advance to the Pruth. The Turks have
formed a third line of defence from the little river
Kameick, across the Balkan to Sophia. No credit
whatever is given to the Braila news of Omer
Pasha being recalled. The cause assigned for his
being in disgrace is his excessive partiality for the
revolutionary party. A Sardinian officer in the
camp at Shumla writes that the army under Omer
Pasha consists of 100,000 foot, 10 regiments of
cavalry, and 250 guns. This force is divided into
brigades of between 8,000 men and 10,000 men.
'The Lloyds of Vienna says there is in the army
of Omer Pacha such a number of refugees, the ma-

jority of whom are invested with command, that
the Austrian internuncio has thought proper to
remind the Ottoman Porte of its e ugagements on
that subject. Reschid. Pacha has promised that
orders should be immediately sent to the camp at
Schumla relative to such refugees as might be Aus-
trian subjects.
The Press of Vienna has the following from Con-
stantinople :—" Since the Sultan has sanctioned
the late resolutions of the Divan, he passes the day
in religious duties. The Sheikul ];slam visits his
Majesty every day, and gives him interpretations of
verses of the Koran relative to war. It is positively
stated that Abd-el-Kader has been asked whether,
in case of war, he would accept a command. Ne-
gotiations have taken place through the media-
tion of the Sheik-ul-Islam, and the Turks posi-
tively say that the Emir is disposed to accede
to the desire of the Ottoman Porte, but he wishes
in the first place to apply for the consent of the
French Government. He will have a command
in Asia should matters be brouglat to an under-
standing. Notwithstanding the warlike aspect of
things, it is still thought that a pacific solution
will be come to. Great reliance is placed on the
sentiments of the Emperor Nicholas. It is certain
that M. Argyropoulo, agent of Russ sia, had an in-
terview with Reschid Pacha before his departure.
It is concluded from this that :Russia, does not
desire war."