The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-07 00:00:00

Russian general who was killed in that battle was

a Baron Plosen.
In Moldavia affairs are conducted in the most ab-
solute manner by General Urusoff. The Jews in
particular are the victims of his brutality. Some
Austrian Jews, who believed that, as foreigners,
they were entitled to a different sort of treatment,
were peremptorily told to go to Lemberg, in Aus-
tria. They had to invoke the protection of the
Austrian Consul-General.
At Jassy not less than 18 large houses, belonging
to different Boyars, have been converted into hos-
pitals.
The Turkish garrison at Kalafat is changed every
other day, the troops being relieved from Widdin.
It is supposed that this circumstance gave rise to
the incorrect report that Kalafat had been evacu-
ated by the Turkish forces.
A similar regulation is observed at Mokan. The
Turks passing to and fro incessantly alarm the
Russians at Giurgevo, who, not being relieved,
suffer exceedingly.
From Constantinople, under date of the 21st
ult., we learn that the Turks, under Abdi Pacha
and Kherim Pacha, have gained new successes in
Asia.
Abdi Pasha's repOrt of the 6th of November
states that on the Ist of that month the Turks at-
tacked and routed a Russian corps in the province
of Bayazid. On the 4th a serious engagement
took place near the fortress of Akeska, and ended
in the defeat of the Russians.
The Russians, under Generals Nestorow and Ar-
gutinski, were defeated near Achirka and Achalt-
zik with great loss. After a battle of several
hours' duration, they left their wounded and a
quantity of baggage and ammunition in the hands
of the Ottomans.
Several villages on the Russian territory have
been occupied by the Turks.
The number of deserters from the enemy is so
extraordinary, that it is in contemplation to form
a Russian legion, to be led against their former
masters.
The Triest Zeitung has letters from Constanti-
nople of the 21st ult., stating that M. de la Cour
had taken leave of the Sultan. The latter sent
him a splendid snuff-box with his portrait in dia-
monds.
The enthusiasm and patriotism of the Turks in-
crease from day to day. Voluntary contributions
are received from all parts of the empire, and Con-
stantinople alone has raised 150,000,000 piastres
for the maintenance of the army of the Asiatic
Turks, who appear in crowds at the conscription
offices. Each Eyalet has td supply 1,500 cavalry
and 6,500 infantry, and this is done with the great-
est readiness. The cavalry goes to Erzeroum, the
infantry to Constantinople. The Druses of tie
Lebanon have offered to send 2,000 men, but they
demand that the Christians shall be disarmed be-
fore they depart. The other Druses display ~r
greater military ardour, and the volunteers w. d
proceed to the seat of war under their Emir Emin,
who leaves his son, a youth of 16, as his deputy.
Th 1,151). +lw, Maronites have also
offered the assistance of their people. The S6-1-1'
officers who accompanied the French diplomatists
have already quitted Constantinople. Col. Fleury,
with his aide-de-camp, has gone to Batoum. Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Lavoix and Messrs. Berton and
Houche, officers of engineers, have gone to Schumla
and Widdin.
Three Polish officers, Colonel Zamoyski, a near
relative of Prince Czartoryski, Colonel Boreanski,
and Colonel Bystrzanski, have been appointed
generals of brigade in the Turkish service ; and a
fourth Polish officer, General Chrzaowski, has been
nominated general of division in the same service.
The last-named was an officer in the Russian army
during the war with Turkey in 1828.
A letter from Warsaw of the Ist, in the Breslau
Gazette, says :—" Intelligence has been received at
St. Petersburg front the Caucasus, announcing that
the Russians have made several tempts to retake
the fort of Nikolajeff, but without success, and
with a great loss of men. The levies for the reserve
have never been greater in the Russian empire
than at present, and particularly in the govern-
ments of Wilna and Kowno. A great number of
children, of from 10 to 12 years of age, have been
carried away, for the purpose of being brought up
in the military schools. This measure has fallen
most heavily on the Jews."
A letter from Jassy of the 25th ult., in the
Prussian Correspondence, says :—" Prince Unizoff,
provisional administrator of Moldavia, has declared
to the Jews that they are to furnish recruits for
the militia of that province. General Osten-Sacken
was expected to arrive in eight or ten days, with
20,000 men, at Jassy."
Letters from Bucharest show that the Russian
administration of affairs in Wallachia and Moldavia
is characterised by the most complete disregard of
rights of all kinds. The governing council left behind.
by Prince Stirbey is daily insulted, and made to feel
the enthralment of the country at every turn. The
Russian authorities have refused to allow the
despatches of the British and Turkish Consuls-
General to be conveyed to Constantinople via
Giurgewo and Rustchuk as heretofore, and per-
mission was refused even to the Consuls-General
themselves to travel by that route, so that they
had no choice but to kayo the stormy Black Sea.
M. Poujade, the French Consul-General, left Bu-
charest on the 22nd ult., and the English Consul-
General was expected immediately to follow him.
Both consuls have remained until they could do so
no longer with dignity.
Mahomud Effendi, a celebrated Cheikh of Da-
mascus, has raised a standard for volunteers, and,
like Peter the Hermit, was preaching the holy war.
By last accounts he was at Aleppo, on his way to
Constantinople, and was followed by upwards of
12,000 Arabs and Turks. This Mahmoud Effendi
is the brother of Cheikh Haled Bey—a man held
in great veneration by the Mahommedans.
The new rediffs of Anatolia and Rumelia a ,t•
arriving daily by hundreds. Daring the last ten
days upwards of 17,000 have gone to Shumla.
It is said the Turkish Government is much
pleased with the conduct of Selim Pacha in Asia,
who commands the army on the side of Gouriel.
We also learn that the Russians, with what
truth we will not attempt to say, have no intention
of attempting anything by sea. The Turkish fleet
lies at Buyukdere, carrying, together with the
Egyptian, upwards of 2,000 guns—eight ships of
the line, seven frigates, eight corvettes, nine brigs,
and eight or ten steamers. Two divisions have
been out in the Black Sea on a cruise. That under
Muhawer Paella (Captain Slade) has returned from
its cruise. It is said that one of the frigates got
astray in a gale, and has not since been seen. This
squadron has been absent from the Bosphorus 18
days. When first they got out of the Strait, from
300 to 400 men were taken with sea-sickness. The
Turks are very good men at their guns, very obe-
dient, and would fight well ; the Turkish ships in
the Bosphorus are formidable floating batteries.
The British and French squadrons are lying at
Beycos in the Bosphorous, opposite the British and
French embassies. Hitherto their duties have
been limited to barking, not biting—salutes and
signals. As they were one by one towed past Con-
stantinople, the inhabitants of Stamboul, who had
never seen such a number of foreign ships of war
near their capital, got on the house-tops for the
purpose of having a good. view. It is very odd
how the lower orders in Turkey explain their ap-
pearance. They coolly say that the Sultan, whom
they look upon as the lord of the world, ordered
those fellows, the Christians, to send him some
ships to go and help to fight those pessavengs, the
Russians. The lower orders in Turkey still have
the most exaggerated ideas of the power and wealth
of the Sultan.
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