The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-25 00:00:00

LATEST FO N NE WS.

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RUSSIA ,AND TURKEY.
The following has been received by Submarine
Telegraph, dated,

" VIENNA, THURSDAY NIGHT.
" We have advice's from Constantinople of the
14th. A rumour that an armistice for three months
had been concluded is officially contradicted.
" The combined fleets were still at Beycos. The
weather was boisterous.
" The Great Powers are endeavouring to induce
the belligerents to resume negotiations."
Advices from Bucharest of the 21st state that the
Turks have quitted the island near Oltenitza, and
retired to Turtukaf. Their camp there during the
last five days has been almost deserted. On the
22d the Turks were returning to their lines at
Schumla.
General Dannenberg, in consequence, left Bu-
deschti on the 22d with the chief part of his force,
leaving 1,200 men and eight cannon behind.
Unimportant skirmishes excepted, there is now
a cessation of hostilities along the whole of the
Moldo-Wallachian line.
Wallachian artillery has been sent to Brailow,
only one battery having been there previously.
Other Wallachian troops, horse and foot, await
marching orders. The n ative militia are already
actively co-operating with the Russians in cases of
surprise.
The Turks have taken a Russian man-of-war in
the Black Sea. The crew have arrived at Constan-
tinople. Particulars are wanting.
The Emperor of Russia, in reply to an inquiry
of Austria, states that he will still enter into nego-
tiations, if the Porte proposes a project of peace.
General Klapka arrived at Constantinople on the
10th. The Porte refused him a command. The
Spanish Government objects to General Prim hold-
ing a command in the Turkish army.
The accounts relative to the operations in Lower
Wallachia given by the German journals have been
very contradictory. Some have represented the
Turks as having taken possession of Krajowa, others
as having failed in their attempt, and been com-
pelled to retreat. The Voss Gazette, which arrived
yesterday, gives a letter from Vienna, according
to which the statement of the Turks having entered
Krajowa was correct. General Fischbach, who
was charged to maintain that position, commenced
his retreat on the Bth, and the Turks occupied
Krajowa, Cacerl, Russevida, and Bajolesi.
A private letter from Vienna, of the 21st, an-
nounces that recent news had been received from
the theatre of war, from which it appears that it is
the intention of ie Russians to assume the offen-
sive, and to attempt a great operation on the
Danube by crossing the river at Rustchuk and
Silistria. The road from those towns joins that
which leads to Shumla, which is, with Adrianople,
one of the boulevards of Constantinople. This
news may be considered as indicating an intention
on the part of the Russians to attack Constantinople
directly.
A private letter from Bucharest states that Prince
Gorbschakoff had ordered the Roman Catholic
church in that town to be closed.
The main force of the Russians is moving towards
Lesser 'Wallachia, where it is said very stringent
measures will be employed, as the people exhibit
symptoms of an inclination to rise against their
Russian protectors. Two corps of 5,000 men each
have been left near Oltenitza ; the one at Nego-
jetchti, and the other at Dobreni (not marked).
Mention is also made of two extra batteries, four
squadrons, and 1,000 Cossacks being placed near
Giurgevo. On the 14th, 15th, and 16th the Turks
made attempts, probably feigned ones, to laud op-
posite Nicopolis, Sistow, and Rustchuk. The
Archduke Charles Ferdinand, the brother of the
Archduke Albrecht, has gone to Peterwardein to
take the command of the 10th army corps.
The latest accounts from the frontiers of Poland
state that considerable reinforcements of Russian
troops are being sent to the theatre of war in Asia.
The Grand Duke Michael is to command the army
of reserve, which is to be despatched to the army
of Asia rather than to the Danube, where the Em-
peror considers his position good, and his troops
sufficient to keep the army opposed to him in check.
The following Russian bulletin, dated the 11th,
has been published at Bucharest :
"In the night of the 27th ult. (the Bth inst.), the chief
of the detachment of the Imperial troops, encamped in
the environs of Giurgevo, received information that great
numbers of Turks were being conveyed to the isle of
Mokan, situated opposite that town, and that they had
begun works for fortifying themselves, To baffle their
project, General Seimonoff on the 28th (the 9th) caused
to advance, under cover of a thick fog, eight pieces of
artillery, under the protection of a battalion of Tomsk,
and a light battery, protected by two squadrons of
hussars. The moment the fcg ceased, the interior of
the isle was assailed by the simultaneous fire of these
batteries. At the first discharge of cannon, the Turks
took to flight through the thick forest which covers the
i-land. Batteries raised on the right bank of the Danube
arid armed partly with the artillery taken from Routs-
chouk, and partly with the cannon of the Turkish
steamer stationed near the isle, responded to the fire of
the Russian artillery, without, however, occasioning the
least loss. The enemy threw themselves in the greatest
disorder into the boats stationed near the steamer, and
hastened to gain the right bank, completely abandoning
the isle of Mokan."

Accounts from Constantinople to the 10th have
arrived. On the day before an aide-de-camp of
Omer Pacha had reached the city with a despatch,
announcing a real victory over the Russians, and
this had caused great joy amongst all classes of
the population. The following is a translation of
the principal passages of the bulletin published on
the occasion :

" On 2d November 12,000 men crossed the Danube,
and took up a position at Oltenitza, a village situated
opposite a little island (which had been occupie for three
days) at some distance from the left bank of the Danube,
at eight hours' march from Bucharest, and where there
is a sanitary post. Oltenitza was occupied by 5,000
Russians, and their resistance did not last long. They
were obliged to fail back on Bucharest. On the 4th a
Russian corps d'arntee, consisting of 24 battalions of in-
fantry, 3 regiments of cavalry, a regiment of Cossacks,
and 32 pieces of artillery, in all more than 30,000 men,
advanced on Oltenitza to give battle. The imperial
troops took measures for receiving them. The centre
was commanded by Ahmed Pacha, the right wing by
Moustafa Pacha, and the left wing by Ismail Pacha.
Nadja Pacha commanded the artillery at Oltenitza, and
Khaled Pacha on the isle. The action commenced at
half-past 12, and at 7 o'clock all the Russian army was
completely routed, It left on the fiel 1 of battle a mass
of muskets, ammunition, and baggage, which was con-
veyed to the camp of Omer Pacha. Upwards of 800
killed were found, without counting those who during
the combat were carried off in 20 waggons as they fell,
the Turks from humanity not attempting to prevent the
removal. The Turkish army had 13 killed and 72
wounded. Chiefs and soldiers did their duty, and the
report of Omer Pacha cites those who most distinguished
themselves.
All the vessels of the two fleets had arrived at Con-
stantinople, and had cast anchor in the Bosphorus.
The last vessels were towed in, in the morning of
the 9th. A new division of the Turkish fleet was
preparing to sail in the evening of the 10th or 11th
for the Black Sea, where, according to the reports
of some captains of merchantmen, a certain number
of Russian vessels had been seen proceeding towards
the coast of Asia. The Porte had received from
the English and French Ambassadors the assurance
that it might, in case of need, count on the effec-
tive co-operation of France and England ; and that
it could send its fleet into the Black Sea without
fearing to leave the capital exposed to a coup de
main. It was known that General Baraguay
hers, the new French Ambassador, was about to
arrive.

The Trieste Gazette has the following, under the
head of Constantinople, the 10th :—" A new pro-
ject of note has arrived here, and the English and
French Ambassadors are said to have received in-
structions to recommend the Porte to accept it.
It is not probable, however, that it will consent to
do so."

A letter from Constantinople of the 10th says
that the Turkish Government has obtained a loan
of 7,000,000 f. from the firm of Messrs. Baltazzi,
and that it is guaranteed by the Egyptian tribute.
A Vienna letter states that Prince Ghika, on his
arrival in that capital, paid a visit to the Turkish
Ambassador, but not to the Ambassador of Russia.
Prince Ghika will, it is said, remain at Vienna,
but Prince Stirbey will come to Paris.