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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-06 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMEIRCIAL ADVERTISER

English miles towards Krajova, and formed an entrenched
camp for 8,000 men.
The whole of the Polish army is ordered to the Princi-
palities.
Advices from Bucharest, of Nov. 19th, inform us that
the Turks have maintained their position at the con-
fluence of the Salonitza and 'the Danube, near Hirsova,
in spite of the most strenuous efforts to dislodge them.
The 4th and sth Russian corps have, it is said, received
orders to proceed to Wallachia.
It is not thought that winter will interrupt the move-
ments of the Tukish troops on the Danube. Great pre-
parations for the spring campaign are being made by the
Russians. :Marshal Paskiewitsch has announced that he
means then to take the command of the army in the 111oldo-
Wallachian provinces ; but before doing so he hopes that
it will be composed of at least 200,000 men ready to take
the field, and a reserve of 100,000 men.
Letters from the theatre of war in Asia state that such
a large quantity of snow has fallen that military operations
are becoming impossible.
The Presse says that the Czar has addressed a new
manifesto to the European Powers; and further, that
Count Nesselrode has forwarded another note to the
Russian Ambassadors in France and England, respecting
the continuance of international relations between the
three countries.

The greatest excitement prevails in Affghanistan. Dost
Mahomed has declared to the Schah of Persia that the
Affghans are at war with the Russians, that he means to
attack them iu the direction of Chirvan, and that he is
resolved to march through the Persian territories, with
or without the Schah's consent. The lihan,of Bokhara
has been killed by a band of rioters, mostly Affghans.
His place is taken by his late Grand Vizier, au Affghan
Prince, called Ildhirim the Thunderbolt.
The Press of Saturday says :—" We have authority to
state, that the Court of St. Petersburg has addressed a
brief and conclusive note to the Governments of England
and France, announcing that no further negotiations, with
respect to the affairs of the East, will be listened to—that
the part of Russia is definitively taken—and that that part
is La Gueare.'"
The Times states that no communication from the
Emperor of Russia to the French and English Govern-
ments,-cutting short all further negotiations, and refer-
ring the decision of the. Eastern Question to the fortune
of war, has been received.
BUCIIIREST, 29th Nov.
The Russian war-steamer Wladimir has returned to
Sebastopol, from a cruise in. the Black Sea. She brought
in a 'Turkish vessel, with a cargo of pepper, and the
Egyptian war steamer, of 10 guns. This last-named vessel
was captured after a spirited engagement. The Russians
had two men killed and two wounded.

VIENNA, Nov. 28.
Letters from Bucharest state that large masses of
Russian troops were expected, and that the military pre-
parations decreed by Prince Gortschakoff were being
executed on a large scale. The Russian army was ex-
pected to be soon in a condition to take the offensive,
ORsovA, Nov.
The water in the Danube is lower than ever. The
heavy rains which have lately fallen caused some hopes of
the river becoming navigable near the Iron Gates, and that
the vessels loaded with corn at Giurna Severin might be
able to continue their voyage: This hope has been frus-
trated by the weather, which at present is cold and dry.