The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-21 00:00:00

TURKEY AND EGYPT.

The following extracts will shew the great difference of the
accounts received from the east, and how much they are co-
loured by the politics of the journals furnishing the different
correspondence.
The news from Alexandria, brought to Marseilles by the
packet Seostris, reaches to the 26th of May, and in it we see
no trace of the events indicated by the last telegraphic des-
patch. According to this intelligence the Turkish army is
in the most difficult position, from the want of provisions.—
This contrasts singularly with this passage from the Smyrna
journal of the 22th of May.
" The Turkish army," says that journal, " is inured to all
sorts of fatigue, animated by the best spirit, and perfectly
supplied in every way. After the reports which have been
spread here of the defective organisation of the Turkish army,
they have been exceedingly astonished to learn by reports,
on which no doubt could be thrown, that it is in a very dif-
ferent position from that they pretended ; in fact that it has
a decided superiority without speaking (of its numbers, over
the Egyptian army. It has magazines on all the points it has
passed, and all kinds of service goes on in the most regular
manner."

In contrast with this passage we quote an extract from a
letter from Alexandria, dated May 26, published in the
Semaphore:—
"We are here in perfect security; nobody doubts but
that, if war does take place, the pacha will have more than
ever that victorious ascendancy which he exercised over the
Turkish army in the first campaign, which was beaten from
post to post as far as Koulah. Ibrahim Pacha has taken up
an admirable position for defence ; a corps of the Egyptian
army guards the Taurus, where fortifications have been con-
structed. From 16,000 to 20,000 horse and foot are ready
in the neighbourhood of Balbeck to make any movements
which they may be ordered. Ibrahim is in the neighbour-
hood of Aleppo with a corps of 50,000 men perfectly well
disciplined. It is true, they, say, that the Sultan's army
amounts to 100,000, and that in case of need, the Pachas of
Bagdad and Mossoul will furnish 20,000 more ; but Ibrahim
does not dread this superior force, and he writes to his father
that he cannot think that they seriously mean to attack him
with men ill-clothed, ill-fed, badly paid, and without discip-
line. Besides the Pacha of Bagdad would not easily resolve
to come to the aid of the Turks, being himself threatened by
the Egyptian General Kurchud, who, being already at Bas-
sora, could at any moment direct a formidable invasion of
Bedouins on Bagdad.
Mehemet Ali' our Pacha, appears more gay than ever ; he
is in perfect health. The long journey he has made has not
at all fatigued him.
Said Bey will leave for Europe, it is said, early in June.
The Neapolitan corvette, the Valereuse, has brought us the
Count de Syracuse, brother of the King of Naples.
It results from other correspondence of the Semaphore,
dated Constantinople, the 27th May, that 12 men-of-war
were ready to sail, under the command of the Vice-Admiral,
and that the remainder of the fleet would follow in a few days
after the first division. All this naval force will, doubtless,
parade as far as Smyrna, to return at the end of the season,
whilst it might be usefully employed in the Black Sea to
transport the troops, who would arrive quicker and at less
expense at the theatre of war by Trebisond and Erzerum.
But the Sultan must have the permission of Russia to enter
the Port-Euxine ; for lately, having sent two frigates to
Sinope for various materials, the Russian ambassador, who
saw them pass bel)re his residence at Buyukdere, went im-
mediately to the Porte to ask for an explanation of the entry
of these two frigates into the Black Sea.