The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-28 00:00:00

TURKEY.

The latest telegraphic dispatch from Constanti-
nople states that " affairs continue tranquil. Rifaat
Pacha shows himself decidedly favourable to the
demands of Russia. Notwithstanding, at the date
of the latest intelligence received from the Black
Sea, military movements continued at Odessa.
General Luders was concentrating three corps
d' armee on the frontiers. Prince Menschikoff has
sent to the Russian Consul at Jerusalem dispatches
relative to the question of the Holy Cities. The
Porte appears to settle the differences with Russia
amicably. The funds have risen."
We read in the Debats :—" We have received
accounts from Constantinople vid Vienna. Prince
Menschikoff had his audience of the Sultan on the
9th, and made known to him the demands of his
Government. As faras has already transpired, these
demands differ in many respects from what had been
at first announced ; the Russian ultimatum is said
to be much less severe and of more easy accept-
ance. The language of Prince Menschikoff is,
moreover, said to have been very moderate, and
the Sultan and the Envoy-Extraordinary of the
Emperor Nicholas are said to have parted well
satisfied with each other."
Dispatches from Constantinople announce that
important conferences are about to take place in
that city between the representatives of Turkey,
Russia, and France, on the subject of the guardian-
ship of the Holy Places. Austria has demanded to
be admitted to these conferences, and it is expected
that this demand will be acceded to by the other
great powers ; but England will not take part in
these discussions, alleging that she has no interest
in the matter in question.
The Turkish Government has decided to permit
the construction of the proposed railway from Con-
stantinople to Belgrade..
The Courrier de Marseille, of the 23d, says—
" The departure of the squadron from Toulon was
accidentally delayed 24 hours, so that it was only
this day that it must have sailed."
The Constitutionnel gives an account of a dis-
astrous battle which took place between the army
of Omer Pacha and the Montenegrin army after
the cessation of hostilities had been agreed to. The
news of the suspension of arms having reached
Omer Pacha, he withdrew his troops, but the
Montenegrins having received no information of
the kind, attacked him on the 25th, and slaugh-
tered a vast number of the Turks. Omer Pacha
was not able to reach Podgoritza till the next day.
By the last accounts the Turkish army was concen-
centrated at Scutari.
Letters from Cattaro, in the Lloyd of Vienna,
announce the arrival thero on the preceding day of
the Vladika of Montenegro, with several of his
chiefs, to thank the Emperor of Austria for the
protection he afforded to the mountaineers in the
late struggle. The Voivode of Grahovo died at
Globug on the 4th. From later accounts of the
13th, in the same paper, it appears that the Vladika
left Cattaro on that day, in company with Lieut.-
Col. Stratomirovitsch and other Austrian officers,
and the Russian Commissaries Kowalewski and
Berger, to inquire into the truth of the allegations
of Omer Pacha against the population of Piperi,
whom he accuses of having attacked the Turkish
troops in their garrisons. Omer Pacha still has
his troops concentrated at Sputz, Podgoritza, and
Antivari.