The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-31 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY,

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By telegraphic despatch from Constantinople of
December 19, we learn that Halil Pasha, the
Sultan's brother-in-law, is named Minister of the
Interior ; Riza Pasha is the new Capitan Pasha.
Abdi Pasha has been recalled from Asia, and
25,000 Turks have received orders to retire from
Russian Armenia.
On the 15th, the four Powers presented a note,
demanding an armistice.
Halil Pacha's entrance into the Ministry is re-
garded as favourable to the project of peace.
The united fleets were still in the Bosphorus on
the 19th inst.
On the 20th a company of Wallachian militia
seized their newly-appointed Russian officers, beat
them soundly, and then deserted with five of them
to Kalafat.
The Trieste Zeitung asserts that the British
diplomatic agent at Teheran has renewed relations
with the Persian Government.
Turkish bulletins received via Vienna acknow-
ledge the evacuation of the Russian territory in

A despatch from Bucharest, dated 27th Dec.,
announces the departure of the English. Consul-
General from Bucharest for Rutschuk.
It is reported that the French Government has
received despatches from Constantinople of the 18th,
announcing that the Divan, which had been fixed
for the 20th, to deliberate on the propositions of
the Conference of Vienna, was held on the 18th ;
that it resolved to permit Redschid Pasha to ac-
cept those propositions, on condition that nothing
shall be proposed for the acceptance of the Porte
which has been already refused ; that all existing
treaties between Russia and Turkey shall be can-
celled ; and that it is on those terms the Divan
agrees to accept the guarantee of the Four Powers
for the evacuation of the Principalities after the
conclusion of peace. It is further stated that the
French Government, very much doubting that the
Emperor of Russia will accept the terms proposed
by the Conference of Vienna, sent a despatch on
the. 13th inst. to the Admirals in command of the
combined fleets, authorising them to ;titer the
Black Sea, should events render it necessary to do
so, and that positive orders were despatched on the
19th to the fleets to enter.
The French Government and the Russian Mi-
nister in Paris have received despatches from St.
Petersburg dated the 20th instant. These de-
spatches announce that the Emperor Nicholas
formally rejects the protocol and the note agreed to
at Vienna on the sth of December. If the con-
ference choose to send the propositions of Turkey
to St. Petersburg, they will be received and exa-
mined, but the Czar persists in declining to allow
any intervention on the part of Europe in a ques-
tion which concerns no power excepting Russia and
Turkey alone.
From this it is evident that there is not the re-
motest ground for the announcement made by some
German papers that the Czar had shown a disposi-
tion to send an ambassador to the conferences of
the four Powers. As regards the threat to send
the united squadrons, Russia affects not to feel the
slightest alarm, and professes that she is ready to
abide by the result. In presence of such a state of
things, nothing but war is possible. The Czar,
after having cajoled the other Powers as long as he
could with his professions of peaceful intentions,
has at length thrown off the mask.
It is thought that within the next few days we
shall have accounts of a mighty effort to be made
by the Russian general in the Lesser Wallachia to
take Kalafat, and to drive the Turks entirely across
the Danube. It is reported that the Russians
reckon on being in Constantinople before the end
of summer, and that they have already laid down
the plan of their campaign. They are to march to
Constantinople by Widdin, Sophia, and Adria-
nople.
The Russian Government bad considerably in-
creased the army of the Caucasus, and had ap-
pointed several Generals to serve under Prince
Woronzoff, the Commander-in-Chief.
A private letter from Constantinople of the 18th
inst. announces that the Sultan had decreed that a
nionutnent should be erected to the memory of the
brave officers of the Ottoman navy who had blown
up their ships at the battle of Sinope to save the
hpour of the Turkish flag.
Accounts from Malta of the 24th inst. state that
the British merchant to whom two vessels belonged
which were sunk at Sinope had addressed a demand
for compensation to the Russian Government. He
sets forth in his demand that his ships were at
anchor at a distance from the roads, that the
British flag was flying at the mainmast, and that
they -had-been; designedly sunk by the Russian
ships of war.
A recent letter from Krajova states that the
birthday of the Emperor Nicholas was celebrated
there with great éclat. From six to tea Russian
soldiers were quartered in every house, and prepara-
tions were being made to increase the same on the
20th inst., but as it was to last only for a day, it
was probable that the expected troops would push
on towards Kalafat, in the direction of which the
Russians were in possession of the villages for 16
miles. Since the skirmish between the Russian
and Turkish outposts on the 4th inst., nothing of
importance had occurred in Lesser Wallachia.
The Russian Invalide brings the official account
of the victory gained by Prince Bebutoff, Dec. 1, at
Ughulso, over the Turks. The latter had encamped
in the vicinity of Basch-Kadykblaer, and fortified
themselves upon the heights near by. The Russians
are said to have numbered about 10,000 men with
32 cannon, and the Turks, including Kurds and
other militia, 36,000 men, and 46 cannon. Soon
after the commencement of the cannonade, Prince
Bebutoff made a a bayonet attack, which turned
the enemy's right flank, while at the same
moment his left was attacked by four squad-
rons of dragoons. The battle lasted three
hours, and ended in a complete defeat of the
Turks. The latter were also pursued by the
victorious Russians until nightfall. The Russians
lost 317 killed, and 700 wounded. Among the
wounded was Major-General Prince Obetian who
received two shots in the bayonet attack. The
bulletin says that the Turks lost more than 1,500
killed, and" a still greater number of wounded; 24
cannon, 10 munition waggons, several banners, and
their entire camp, fell into hands of the Russians.
The Emperor of Russia has ordered rewards to be
given to all the officers who commanded in the
above engagement. The privates are to receive
military badges and two rubles a-piece.
According tb information received at Bucharest
on the 17th, the Russians were keeping up an active
cannonade at Gatsid, vis-a-vis to Ibraila, in order
to destroy several coffee-houses and other buildings
on the other side of the river. The pieces were
heavy, and every shot told. Strong detachments
of Russian troops were en route for Lesser Walla-
chia. On the night of the 16th, seven Cossacks
crossed the Danube from Giurgevo, in a small boat,
surprised a Turkish picket guard, and took one
prisoner, who was sent by the Russian general at
Giurgevo to Bucharest. On the 15th the Turks
again resumed their cannonade against Giurgevo,
and several balls came thundering into the town.
In fact not a day passes there without hostilities of
the same kind, and the inhabitants of the town
expect the worst.

A letter from Constantinople of the 16th states
that the Porte has published a circular ordering that
the Turkish authorities who may during the delay
accorded have relations with Russian merchant
vessels shall observe a conciliatory conduct, and
even render them service when opportunities occur.
The Post Ampt Gazette contains a letter from
Vienna of the 23d, which says :—" The Turks have
not evacuated the island of Mokan, as is proved by
the last letters from Bucharest. On the 14th ad-
ditional troops were sent to Krajowa. The rumour
of the Turks having passed at Giurgevo and of the
great battle fought at Kalafat is not true. Russian
troops are also occupying Karakal."
A letter from Athens, 16th, states that Ismail
Paella has forbidden the entrance into Smyrna of
the Athens Sieele, on account of its having pub-
lished an article exciting the Greeks to revolt
against the Sultan, and co-operate in the destruc-
tion of the Ottoman Empire.

Galignani gives the following summary of news
from Constantinople, up to the 15th of December :
—The Sultan and all the population were painfully
affected at the disaster of Sinope ; it was generally
believed that the Capitan Pacha. (Minister of Ma-
rine) would be dismissed as mainly responsible for
it—he having, as alleged, given Osman Pacha posi-
tive orders to remain in the Bay of Sinope, though
the French Admiral several times pointed out to
him the danger of his so doing. A popular demon-
stration had been made against the Capitan Pacha.

REPORT OF DR. PIRAUD, OF THE MOGA-
DOR, TO HIS COMMANDING OFFICER.
MOGNDOR, Dec. 8, 1853.—Owing to my inces-
sant occupations I am only enabled to report sum-
marily in regard to the mission confided to the
medical officers of the Mogador at Sinope. After
having received your instructions, and come ac-
cordingly to an understanding with my colleague
of the English frigate, I went on shore on the
7th inst., at 7 a.m., with Messrs. Louvel (Mogador),
Vincent (Valmy), Aiguier (Friedland), Feuillet
(Jena), and the medical staff of the Retribution were
just in the act of quitting their ship to join us, and
co-operate in our labours. M. Bertrand, mean-
time, one of the surgeons of our ship, had been left
on board, to make all the necessary preparations
for the reception of the wounded. Immediately
on landing, I proposed to the English surgeon-
major to divide the coffee-house, sheds, and huts
at our disposal, in order to allow each party to act
with greater freedom, and thus facilitate and
lighten our labours. The English surgeon accord-
ingly took possession of the department nearest the
landing-place, and the French the two others. It
was evident, generally speaking, that we had to
deal with very severe cases—comminutive fractures
of the limbs, and with wounds of serious extent.
" Penetrated with the object of our mission, after
having examined and dressed the wounded, I regis-
tered, to be conveyed on board, all such as offered
the smallest chance of recovery. Whoever could
have beheld these poor fellows, huddled together
in an infected atmosphere, and in utter destitu-
tion, must surely have felt and acted as I have, and
shown great liberality in respect to the numbers to
be transferred to our ship. Hence, out of 21 suf-
ferers contained in the lesser department confided
to my care, 18 were registered to take with us ;
the other three were dying, and in a state of
frightful mutilation. After two hours' dressings,
and having performed a most urgent amputation of
the right arm, I proceeded with my colleagues of
the Mogador to the other more spacious compart-
ment, containing wounds of every description, but
especially very extensive burns, and some of which
had mummified whole extremities. Burns are, in
general, the predominating variety or wound ; and
the cause naturally arising from the issue of the
combat, inasmuch as all the Turkish ships were
either burnt or blown up. Here again, time per-
mitting it, we were again enabled to amputate
another arm, whereof the whole inferior portion
had been pounded (broyee) by a projectile.
" Altogether from these two localities, compris-
ing some sufferers brought at the moment of our
departure from the neighbouring villages, 54 dan-
gerous wound-cases were conveyed to the Mogador,
besides 33 others less important, which had been
already sent in a boat of the country. Total, 87.
" From seven in the morning till four p.m.,
dressings were continued with all the care and assi-
duity practicable under such circumstances.
" The generous sentiments of humanity which
animated the medical staff under my orders are be-
yond all praise. Incontemplating the ruinsandcom-
plete desolation of this unfortunate town; to bring
with the greatest number possible of these poor
sufferers, was the common object of all. On my
arrival, and subsequently, I experienced heartfelt
satisfaction at having taken with me some in a
most precarious but not altogether hopeless state ;
and really, the courage of these poor fellows was
admirable, and indescribable, and they soon rat-