The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-10 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN I',;EWS.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The following has just been received by subma-
rine and European telegraph, dated Constrntinople,
Oct. 31:

" Great dearness prevails. Another million
of paper money has been issued. Namik
Pacha has left for Paris. Lebanon is dis_
turbed. In Asia Selim Pacha has crossed the
Russian frontier. A conflict has taken place near
Battoum which has caused much sensation. The
Porte has resolVed that Austrian refugees shall
not be employed in the army operations in Europe.
Movements and levies of troops continue. The
city is tranquil.
" The Russian Consul-General has left Smyrna for
Athens.
Telegraphic despatches just received from Vi-
enna, state that accounts from Bucharest report a
battle and 14 superior Russian officers killed. The
Turks remained masters of the field, and the Rus-
sians were retreating on Bucharest.
Prince Stirbey, the Hospodar of Wallachia, ar-
rived at Vienna on the sth. The arrival of the
Hospodar of Moldavia is expected.
Another despatch from Vienna gives additional
details of the position of the belligerent forces
previous to the battle. Large bodies of Turk-
ish troops were concentrated around Widdin. A
-bridge and tete-de-pont had been constructed at
Kalafat, which served as the basis of the opera-
tions of the Turkish army.. The Russian corps of
Dannenberg opposed to the Turks at this point
numbered from 30,000 to 40,000 men, and was
spread en echelon between Krajoua and Slatina.
The Vienna Presse states that the Czar has in-
formed the Vladika of his wish to have the sup-
port of the Montenegrins. The war against the
Turks was a sacred and patriotic war, and it was
the duty of the Montenegrins to take part in it.
The Stockholm Aftonblad announces the arrival
of a Russian squadron at Helsingfors, a seaport in
Finland.
The Turkish embassy in Paris received a tele-
graphic dispatch from the Turkish ambassador at
Vienna, to the following effect :—On the 3d inst.
the Turks forced the passage of the Danube, oppo-
site Oltenitza. After a prolonged cannonading,
the Turkish general, with a division of his army of
12,000 men, succeeded in occupying the opposite
bank. The Russian General Pauloff made a des-
perate effort to oppose the forming of the Turkish
army. The Turks charged the enemy at the point
of the bayonet, and drove back the Russians.
They occupied Oltenitza, where they fortified
themselves hastily. The despatch adds that the
Russians have lost 400 men, among whom there

are some officers.
A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated the
7th, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" Letters have
been received from Bucharest to the 3d. On the
Ist the Turks attacked Giurgevo, and endeavoured
to effect a landing. After a sharp cannonade the
Russians repulsed the Turks. It is said that two
Turkish gun-boats were sunk. The Turks have
also attempted to pass the river, near Altanitza
and at Kalarasch, where the Danube divides itself
into several arms. They have, it is said, suc-
ceeded in establishing themselves on the islands of
•
the river."
Letters from Constantinople of the 27th ult.
inform us that there had just been received from
head-quarters the news of an engagement having
taken place on the Danube between a party of
Cossacks and a small Egyptian corps, who had
been provoked by the former. The Egyptiana threw
themselves into boats, and crossed the Danube.
There were some killed on both sides. The pre-
cise date of this skirmish is not stated, but it
must be contemporary, if not prior, to the affair of
Isactcha, since the latter was not known at Con-
stantinople at the above date. The news of this
commencement of hostilities, which took place be-
fore the arrival of the counter-order at head-
quarters, had produced some sensation at Con-
stantinople.
A letter from Vienna of the sth, in the Co-
logne Gazette, says :—" The last accounts from the
Principalities are to the 3d at noon. Prince Gorts-
chakoff had not quitted Bucharest, therefore the
report of his departure for Krajowa, the theatre
of war, is incorrect. No serious recontre had taken
place between the Russians and the Turks on all the
line of the Danube. The Asiatic cholera had broken
out among the Turkish troops, having been brought
by Russian deserters, who arrive every day in
great numbers. They will consequently be no
longer conducted to the head-quarters at Schumla,
but sent to Varna. The account of the meet-
ing of a European Congress in London does not
merit belief. On the contrary, it appears that
it has been declared, in a high quarter, that the
time for diplomatic negotiations had passed, and
that it was necessary to wait for the progress of
events. Prince Stirbey, Hospodar of Wallachia,
has arrived to-day,• and alighted at the Hotel of
the Roman Emperor. Prince Ghika, the Hospo-
dar of Moldavia, is expected in a few days.
The Emperor is gone to hunt at Holitsch, and
will remain there until to-morrow. Count Giulai
has left to-day for Milan."—Another letter from
Vienna, of the same date, in the Post Ampt Ga-
zette;of Frankfort, says No one here doubts
the meeting of a European Congress in London.
It is thought that the Conference will soon termi-
nate its deliberations on the propositions sent by
the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. These propositions
will be communicated to the Congress of London,
and will form the bases of the negotiations. M. de
Brunow, Russian ambassador at the Court of St.
James's, made this, it is said, a sine qua non."
The rational German Gazette gives the follow-
ing new version of the reply of Prince Gortschakoff
to the declaration of war :—" The Commandant-in-
Chief of the army of occupation has no order from
his sovereign either to advance, or to attack, or to
evacuate the Principalities."
The Presse of Vienna of the sth says :—" A
letter from Bucharest states that the order given
on the 21st ult. at Copstantinople not to com-
mence hostilities was received too late by Omer
Pacha at Schumla. The Tartar, who carried the
order, met with an accident on the road ; his horse
fell dead under him, and he lost 12 hours before
he could procure another. The order of the Sultan
to Omer. Pacha was, it is said, couched in the fol-
lowing terms :—" Even in case hostilities shall have
commenced, avoid a battle." It is thought that
Prince Gortschakoff is endeavouring to establish a
communication between the centre and the corps of
Dannenberg by an intermediate corps, of which it
is positively stated that the Wallachia militia will
form part."

The proclamation establishing martial-law at
Bucharest, orders :

"1. All merchant vessels' whether Russian or carry-
ing the Moldo-Wallachian flag, are from this day to
cease to navigate the Danube, and to remain in the
places where they may now be.-2. Allirelation between
the two banks of the river are interrupted, and there
shall not be sold to the Turks either wheat, salt, or any
other article. Persons disobeying this order will be
tried by martial •law.-3. All those who shall keep up
any correspondence or other relations with the Turks
shall also be tried by martial-law,"

The Wanderer of Vienna says the injury which
is inflicted upon Austria by the present state of
things in the East may easily be conceived, when
it is considered that the commerce of Austria with
Turkey, in imports and exports, amounts to nearly
150 millions of francs.

A letter from Warsaw of the 2d, states that
Prince Paskievitsch, who was said to have left for
the army of the Danube, had just returned to
Warsaw from Hommel.

Since the departure of Prince Menschikoff the
Grand Duke Constantine is charged, ad interim,
with the directions of the Department of Marine.
A letter from Belgrade of the 21st ult. announces
that Austria is keeping a strict watch on Servia.
A report was current that an Austrian coro of ob-
servation is about to he stationed on the northern
frontier of that province.