The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-30 00:00:00

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RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
By electric telegraph, under date of yesterday,
from Vienna, we learn that the Turks are still in
Xalafat ; and that they have evacuated the island
of Mokan, opposite Rustschuk.
Baron Budberg, the recently appointed Corn-
inander-in-Chief, is still in St. Petersburg.
The Danube has overflowed its banks near Olte-
nitza and Giurgevo.
Our information from Constantinople up to the
16th, states that about 7,000 Bosnian and Albanian
Catholics have formed a free corps, and are about
to join the Ottoman army. Another corps of
Christians, Cossacks; is forming at Constantinople,
from the descenda:nts of the Greek refugees in the
days of the Czar.
'ma Catherine.
In a Cabin ~t Council held on the 14th inst., it
was resolves to reject the note proposed by France
and GrPdat Britain.
M.. de la Cour, late Ambassador of France, leaves
on the 17th in the Solon.
From Bucharest to the 17th we have no fresh
ultelligence of the movements of the Russian army.
The winter had set in, but still there was a pos-
sibility of proceeding with the military operations.
The Turks had not only retreated across the
Danube, but they had also marched their troops to
some distance from the river. The Russians, too,
bad fallen back upon the interior of Wallachia.
No news have yet been received from Abdi Paella,
who had marched into Georgia at the head of
40,000 men.

Twenty-five Turkish men-of-war have proceeded
into the Black Sea.

A Turkish transport, towed by a steamer, had
a very narrow escape, having been chased by several
Russian men-of-war. It had, however, safely
reached Trebizond.

The Constantinople correspondent of the Coma-
itztionne, in his letter of the 15th, says that four
English frigates—the Retribution, Tiger, Niger,
and Sampson, one of them carrying the flag of
Dundas—were to enter the Black Sea on
die 16th, to explore the European coast as far as
Varna ; while a division of four French steamers,
under the command of Admiral Hamelin, was to
take a similar cruize as far as Trebizond. Letters
dated a clay later (the 16th) state that the English
division, composed of the above steamers, had
actually entered the Black Sea, and had gone to
the Sulina mouth of the Danube, where, it was
said, the Russian authorities had detained a certain
number of merchantmen loaded with corn. The
French division had not moved.
The Sultan is to leave for Adrianople earlier than
Was announced. From Adrianople he is to proceed
to Schumla, Widdin, and Rustschuk.
General Baraguay d'Hilliers had his first audi-
ence of the Sultan on the 16th. M. de la Cour
left the same day for France. These letters throw
doubts on the recall of M. de Bruck, and say
nothing of that of M. de Wildenbruck.

The Pays confirms the fact of the departure of
the English ships for Sulina, and says that it is
not to be considered as an armed intervention.

The following is from the Vienna correspondent
of the Morning Chronicle, dated Nov. 24 :

"Whatever opinions may be elsewhere entertained as
to the fact that a part of the English and French fleets
have entered the Black Sea, you may rely upon it that
it has created considerable uneasiness in the minds of
people here. The latter say that this fact fills up the
measure of Western demonstrations against Russia to
the very brim. There can be no doubt that the Empe-
ror Nicholas will entirely coincide in this view. In
certain Russian circles it is thought the foreign policy
of my Lords Aberdeen and Clarendon is not very popular
in England ; that the present Cabinet at home is likely to
be in the minority when Parliament meets, and that, con-
sequently, certain other members of her Majesty's Ministry
are preparing for this event by urging on matters in
the Orient to a crisis. A Russian nobleman of
distinction told me plainly, 'lf the English want to
have a war, depend upon it their wish shall be grati-
fied. If Russia is put to it, she will carry on a war for
twenty years. You English may go and burn our sea-
port towns in the Black Sea, and even in the Baltic ;
but in so doing you will burn property which, to an
enormous amount, has already been paid for by English
capital. You may destroy our fleets also ; and what do
we care ? Our ships have never been of much use to
us ; and better, perhaps, if we had never had any. Make
the attempt, and we shall see who will hold out the long-
est. But, do what you may, you will find out to your cost
that Europe at large, and English commerce in paxticu-
IlLr, will suffer more severely by a long continental
ar than Russia. The predominating influence of
Russia at Constantinople is well worth fighting for.' The
Name nobleman added : ' The policy of the English
Cabinet is no longer what it used to be—that is,
straightforward. A more honourable statesman than
the Earl of Aberdeen does not exist ; but he is goaded
on by other members of her Majesty's Ministry to acts
Which must necessarily involve a European war. If the
English Parliament were to meet at this moment, the,
irresolute policy of the Cabinet would probably be con-
demned by the majority of the representatives of the
bation, and Ministers would be in the minority. By
Sending the English and French vessels of war into
the Black Sea, Russian vessels of war may easily
come into a conflict with them ; and what would be
the consequence ? Nevertheless, the project of a
Peace Congress at London is proposed by the
Western Powers to the Emperor Nicholas. How can
the latter have any confidence in the impartiality of
their judgment of his demands on Turkey ? If it be
thought that Russia will allow herself to be bullied out
of her rights, it is a grand mistake. Russia will know
how to maintain her position • she will accept the chal-
lenge whenever the Western 'Powers throw down the
gauntlet to her. The sooner therefore the Western
Powers show their true colours the better. The Earl
of Aberdeen will probably resign if it must come to a
European war. Lord John Russell will try hard for
the Premiership—that we'know. But of all men, we
Russians would be glad, in that case, to see placed at
the head of affairs, is Lord Palmerston, for we shall
Prefer to have to deal with the bold, resolute, and
,/nanly policy of that statesman. On the other
nand, if Turkey be so much more vigorous, and
Possess so much more vitality, than it is supposed
We gave her credit for—well, then, what need of a
European war, and all the incalculable and horrify-
ing calamities it must entail ? Why not let Russia fight
it out with Turkey alone ?' This, then, is the language
held by one of the cleverest and most peace-loving men
that Russia can boast of. I thought it might be both
useful and interesting to your readers to be made ac-
quainted with the outlines of this conversation. Of
Zourse, these views are those of a genuine high-minded
Russian nobleman, who would shed the last life-drop of
I.!ia blood for his oountry. As such, I have attempted
faithfully to reproduce them ; but I abstain from all
animadversions hereon, which would ill become me under
the circumstances of the case. I would only add that
certain allusions were also made to the late unimportant
fair of the Russians at Shiva, and to the circumstance
that that frontier of British India would be safer in the
vicinity of a friend than of an enemy. In short, true
Russian blood is up. I see, therefore, but little chance
at present for pacific endeavours in this quarter."

FRANCE.
At the hour of our going to press, the French
mail had not arrived.

We obtain the following by electric telegraph :
Despatches from Constantinople of the 15th
reached Paris on Tuesday for the Turkish Ambas-
sador ; but as his Excellency had left for Fontaine-
bleau, they were forwarded to him unopened.
The Minister of the Marine has given orders to
t:_oceed with all possible despatch with the Louis
44 V. man-of-war, of 120 guns, and the Ulm screw-
, Tamer, of 100 guns, now building at Rochefort.
The Louis XIV. is to be launched on the 28th of
February, and the Ulm on the 14th of April next.
has
first and only notice of the " fusion" which
r 44 appeared in any Parisian journal, is the fol-
°Wing few lines in the Siecle :—During the last
eek there has been a talk about the fusion. The
dike de Nemours has paid a visit to the Count de
bitaMbord. The demeanour of the visitor and the
est was agreed upon beforehand. The words to
fe used were as completely settled as if a speech
:Pp. the Throne had been in question. To escape
susceptibilities, the august personages addressed
j' ring,
other by the innocent expression, " Good
j°l.lling, cousin." A proces verbal of the audience
in circulation, which the royalist journals will no
doubt, give us.
h,„l/4'everal individuals were lately arrested at Or-
011s, for spreading the false report that an erneute
ant broken out at Gien, and that the mayor and
I,ls Prefect had been hanged by the populace.
tiZree of these persons have been sentenced to 15
and 5f imprisonment and two others to fines of 15f.
..
401,;," is said in a Berlin journal that couriers are
pet constantly passing between Paris and St.
atajz'sburg, and the French Government has lately
of The Konigsberg
two additional messengers at the terminus
Konigsberg Railway.
tie„.'3le, Bourse opened yesterday with great steadi-
V 47,,,
.but it closed at a decline. The Three per
11,144! closed at 74f. 25c. for the end of the month,
01121 e Pour-and-a-Half Zl, per Cents. at 99f. 90c.
1,68 Railway Shares, 1,162 f. 50c. ; Rouen,
86-2 r 50c. ; Havre, 497 f. 50c. ; Great orthern,
60,:°,„c• 3 Paris and Strasburg, 815 f. ; Paris and
Weak'; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 750 f. ;
051. Gee France, 695 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette,
3at Central, 517 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Ge-