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

2nfli ult. furnolineA +lift+ om9r first
consideration is bite iioaitn uI MS troops has just
raised the camps which he had established on the
banks of the river, and where the situation is un-
tiealthy, in order to place his men in the towns and
cantonments carefully prepared, where they
take up their winter quarters. He has organised
posts of observation, which will watch all the move-
ments of the enemy.
From Vienna, under date of the 3d, we learn
that a banking-house in that city received a letter
from Constantinople, which states that Lord de
Redcliffe intervened at the moment when the
Porte was recently on the point of contracting
is
a
loan with the house of Aleon and Co. ; and it
inferred from this that Namik Pacha will most
probably find the money he is in quest of at Lod ate
do
an.
From all that can be gathered from priv
letters from Constantinople, under date of the 21st
ult., the character of the interview between the
Sultan and the French Ambassador was rather
more warlike than appears in the official accounts.
One letter states that after an inspection of the
fleet, Admiral Hamelin published an order of the
day something to this effect :—" The ships of
France have not come to the Bosphorus for mere
purposes of parade ; I am sure, then, and I exPectl
that all and each will be ready to act at the firs'

signal." re
Klapka is gone to the seat of war in Asia, where
he will form a Magyar-Italian volunteer corps.
Wysocki, a Pole, is also forming a corps of his
countrymen. Three Poles, Major Wierzecki)
Sigismund Jordan, and Jagomir, are organising
legion, to be composed of Russian deserters. I,Uou
men and more have already turned their aline,.
against their former masters. It is the intention ot
the Porte to raise an army of 500,000 men, but in
order to effect this lath between 14 and 18 yee°
of age must be conscribed. At the soLe
time that General d'Hilliers advised the Tlir'"
not to reject too rudely the new mediatory projefo
of the Powers, he delivered into their hands 20,0
new guns of the same kind as those which did sue'
excellent service at Oltenitza. On the 20th hell
spected the fortifications, and in the evening au
on Lord Stratford, with whom he was closeted till
after midnight.
The report that the Turks are in want of provi'
sions is positively false. A vast quantity of stir
plies of all kinds, received from England, is lYi,u,g
at Varna.+ Omer Pasha has been since the 14-1'
November in Rasgrad, to which place reinforert
ment and supplies are forwarded every week.
is a singular fact that a great number of foreigners'
among whom are many Englishmen and Americas'
e with the last reinfoecements. Since the
mencement of hostilities, the Turks have lost ahnt'„
4,000 men, 1,300 of whom were either killed
battle or drowned. It is certain that the Tcr'
were still at Turna, where the Aluta falls into the
Danube, opposite Nicopolis, on the 18th. On the
15th a very sharp affair took place at Turns,
which, notwithstanding the assertions of the Oes:
Correspondenz to the contrary, the Russians we''"
worsted and put to flight. There is a citadesla l sari
rounded by a wall either at Turna or on an
close by, and this is in the hands of the Tan'"
The Porte positively rejects all further mediationi
Lord Stratford is said to have pledged his
for the repayment of the 30,000,000 of pia
(300,0001.) advanced to the Porte by Messrs. -1":;
tazzi. By advices of the 25th from Cattaroqe
learn that encounters have occurred between 1.0
Montenegrins and Turks attended with loss of
on both sides. The Hospodar of Servia has.„3/I,:t
nounced his intention to reform the Senate. livio
a single hundred-weight of goods now goes forte
Austria to the Principalities. The loss to
State and to private individuals is enormous.
Letters from St. Petersburg state that the
citement there is fully as great as at ConstantinoP;
Since the news of the engagements on the Dan it
reached the capital the greatest agitation has
_e.ft
isted, and no efforts have been wanting on the Flo
of the Government to stir up the amour prol'r,elo
well as the religious fanaticism of the people. 3:4
Czar passes different bodies of troops in reyl°,l,
almost every day, and is profuse in his distribtitl"
of honours and rewards.
The Patric says—" It is asserted that a ruln_.„,,t
having been spread about in the Turkish Abe
that an exchange of prisoners was about to es
effected in the usual manner according to the rT,o,
of war, the Russian prisoners sent to Omer 133C.Pee,
had supplicated him to take them into his servimf
affirming that the Turkish soldiers were far bet.
treated than the Russians. It appears that Ore''R,
Pacha has acceded to their demand, and that the':
men have been incorporated in the Chiistian rer
ments which Turkey is at present organising. „it
The Wanderer of Vienna of the 2d says
is positively stated that General Fischbach ho
completely evacuated Lesser Wallachia by order
Prince Gortschakoif, who is concentrating his f°7,
near Bucharest. The front of the Prince's arnk7„r,
turned towards Silistria, where the Turks have °c",iv
pied the isles of the Danube, and have throo.-ea
entrenchments. Ismail Pacha is, it is ;aid, oeentiof
in organising Lesser Wallachia. The intentfii°',lf
t. n
0. t.a m alatv v7—itlo
be carried into execution after the arrival
corps of Osten Sacken. The Russian gell'cler
who was killed at Oltenitza was Baron to
Plosen. Letters from the Lower Dallnibefortig
the 30th ult. state that the redoubts and
je
of the Turks near Kalafat are renlariitls
for their solidity ; and that they are aline' elf
more than 100 pieces of cannon. What I%A
explains the retreat of the Turks to Widdiu
their communications near that place are 0.1:000
open. To defend the forts of Kalafat froin
to 8,000 men will suffice. On the 30th the
sians still occupied their defensive position 1100
Krajowa. The weather is now more favours'
and the waters have subsided.
The same journal contains a letter from C 011,4011
tinople, which declares that the Greek Pati,poof
had requested the Sultan to allow him to auv-041
parry his Majesty to Adrianople, to give a Pnre
the world that the Greek Church preferre
patronage of the Sultan to that of the Czar. 00
Mr. Whittal, a wealthy Smyrna merchalit.'4,oll
come forward and offered to support, at his P,'ol'
expense, the destitute families of the volunteelo°
militians of the village of Bournabat, vibf oife
proceeded to the army. This munificent
which will cost several thousands of pool'
been accepted, and Mr. Whittal has receive°•
collective thanks of the Ministers of the Pert
We find the following in the Patrie 01;1
" A letter from Constantinople, of the morniego:js/
20th ult., gives some details of the survey that ave.l;
been made of the mouths of the Danube. Thy 590
which had been called for by foreign cornMer_d'lol/
particularly by several large English houses, by pt
known that the Sulina, which is the most imP°OOO,J
the mouths of the river, is encumbered at this 5
the
by a great number of vessels which had sunk the „,
?IF!!
which threw great difficulties in the way of
tion. The situation of this part of the Dallubl,ll
more serious, as, according to treaties, Russia', tyS'
and the Porte are bound to keep it clear, All' es ;0
last-named Power has made frequent remonstref f P#
the subject, and faithfully performed her 133 r, f?currelfk
obligations. It results from these facts 09' of sj(
merchant vessels trading in corn with the porta .ft
lachia and Moldavia meet with great obstacles
passage." 1,,b0
The nomination of Sir Edmund Lyons' 01,0
shortly expected at Constantinople with a sq of
had given rise to the belief that a portilo
British fleet was to proceed to the Black delta )t
deed, several war steamers had been er
depart for that destination last week. Tlley
however, since received counter-orders. oftliird
The latest news from Asia confirms the sty, Pe4
Erivau. Winter was setting in with sever
it is doubtful whether there will be a C
campaign before next spring.
The forts that line the Bosphorus havedeploo,ll
scribed as in a most defenceless and .„e pe'ro
condition, having been neglected dare ,1
but they are, on the contrary, in a very gent, I'l.p!
as will be seen by the following staters _ reih,
has been made out at request 133.,1,0 W!;,1?,
man of experience, who has inspecteur;
line of fortifications on the BosPll°,,atteritd
defences of the Bosphorus consist ii.) jilt on roe
from 6 to 10 guns each, and in forts ouojets (se
sides of the stream, on the narrowest cross ~,er
canals, and so situated as to sustain,:ehertti,V
The batteries are placed on the niostanittie °ll,
tion of the Bosphorus, beginning _ and Asa .0;3
Constantinople, on both, the EuropealiLi beyon
side, and are continued all along, linetes cesse,_
bay of Buyukdere. There the batt,rlavack, One
the forts commence. At the 09_4?
European coast, there are two forif2, the fow
J usta, the other at Anatoli Isr.-avac'they are„l,
carrying 45, and the latter 30 gone ; the Viirlipt;
ated opposite to the two forts 011.,
note:1000A
and is delePunders,
side. The Bosphorus is at this peTb_ded hibagitir;
1,200 metres in width,
150 pieces of artillery, mostly 36-lnhe 130A,.01;
heavy fixed guns. This portion by WI%
could not be passed by a fleet, or
ii
Half
11011r.:03
in less than twenty minutes or Ifaur the clisgbei,oef!
other forts defend the passage (710 f the Bop
about about three miles, to the entrance _ the
At Buyuk-Liman and Kands9l%ir7o ong:oo,'
side, and at Fil Bournou and -r 400
the stream is at this point about 74
tole t° ..4.14 at
atic side, they have together ah_cllooo pietrtesuo/cli
n obs fox
They are almost as great a
__eeding o
sage of the Bosphorus as the pr
20 to 3 P-40
of
forts, each furnished with
_and the on,,trprece
the mouth of the Black
heavy artillery. They c011131_4, the Blak
the Bosphbrus. On the coast izivore::;o
N-113 311" Ole
are two other fortresses, ated
so a 8 t°
the
latter have been conatruc upon
landing of troops for an attar)
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