The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-15 00:00:00

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1 BELGRADE, OCT. 24.—Detachments of Austrian troops
keep a close watch on the Servian frontier. The concentra-
tion of a large corps on that frontier is mentioned as
probable.

FRANCE

—The trial of the persons -accused of conspir-
ing against the life of the Emperor commenced in the Advices from St. Petersburg of the 25th ult., in the
Court of Assizes, at Paris, on Monday. The Court was Dresden Journal, contain some details of the military
preparations in Russia. Besides the three corps in the
crowded to excess, and the case excited great interest.
The table was covered with swords, pistols, boxes, books, Danubian Principalities and Bessarabia, there is a fourth
and pamphlets, which had been seized on the accused or (moveable) corps in Volhynia and Podolia, and large masses
at their lodgings. Twenty-seven persons were brought of troops are concentrated in other places. At Krement-
to trial. The number of persons involved in the charges shuck are eight regiments of Cuirassiers and four regiments
was, at first, seventy-seven. 01 these, thirty-three were, of Lancers, and eight regiments of Dragoons are stationed
after an investigation, ordered for trial. Six, however, at Charkow. Besides these there are numerous pulks of
have taken flight, and the number of those who appeared j Cossacks ready to take the field. Large bodies of troops,
is therefore as above. The case is at yet concluded. It too, are marching to reinforce the army under Prince
has been decided in council that 25,000 men shall be sent Woronzoff.
to Turkey if the Emperor of Russia should persist in a It appears that it was not the fort of Isatchka, but a
course of aggression, or demand pecuniary indemnity as small town situate near that place, and bearing the same
the condition of his continuing it. Very little French name, that was burned by the fire of the Russian gun-boats.
news of any importance is to be added to the proceedings A communication from Constantinople states that the
against the accused, in the matter of the plot against Na- most perfect tranquillity prevailed, and that the pay of the
poleon. The Russian ambassador is among the number functionaries and the army were regularly kept up.
of personages invited to meet the Emperor at Fontaine- A despatch from Vienna states that the following are
bleau. Court civilities will not be misunderstood by M. the conditions insisted on in an ultimatum presented by
de Kisseleff as lessening the real difficulty between the Omer Pasha to Prince Gortschakoff :—" All the strong
Government he represents and that of Napoleon. places in the Principalities to be given into the hands of
BELGIIIM.—The Legislative Chambers were opened by the Turks immediately ; the complete evacuation of the
King in person on Tuesday last. His Majesty referred principalities as speedily as possible, and a guarantee of
~.4._ D," ,f Brabant and all the powers against similar invasion."

to the union between his son the nice of
the Archduchess Marie Henriette of Austria, a union
which the Chambers had applauded, and which had
been realised since the close of the last session. The re-
mainder of the speech included, among other topics, the
re-organisation of the military establishment, the produc-
tiveness of national imposts, the necessity of considering how
to lower the import duties on raw materials, the patent
laws, the forest code, and the law of forced expropriation ;
public inststruction, hygiene, and industrial science.
SPAIN.—M. Mendizabel, who held a prominent position
in the Spanish government during the regency of Espar-
tero, died at his residence in Madrid, on the morning of
the 3rd instant, of pulmonary catarrh.
DENMARK.—The new constitution proposed by the
Danish government will give Holstein, like Schleswig, her
special administration and legislature. In matters of state
it will, however, be placed equally with Schleswig under
the regime of a legislation common to all parts of the mo-
narchy, that is to say, on all questions affecting the crown,
the general finances, the army, and the navy.

••••
On the Asiatic borders the Turks are stated to have
obtained several decided advantages over the Russian army.
On the 2nd instant the English and French fleets,
under the command of Admirals Dundas and Hamelin,
anchored in the Bosphorus, and the commanders proceeded
to Constantinople.
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Five Russian officers, prisoners of war, arrived at Con-
stantinople on the 4th.
A telegraphic despatch states that
Cherkedy, a town in Asia

.e Turks have taken

25,000 Turks have crossed the Danube, at Widdin, into
Wallachia.

Fresh military levies are being raised in Egypt. The
son of Abbas Pacha has been named minister of war.

BERLIN, SUNDAY.—The Journal de Petersburg
contains an announcement from the minister of finance,
from which it appears that an embargo will be laid on
Turkish vessels in Russian harbours on November 22nd.
After that date Turkish merchant vessels will be declared
lawful prizes, even though they may have other than
Turkish.property on board. Neutrals will enjoy complete
freedom even after the commencement of hostilities.

The Paris journal Patrie has a Constantinople letter of
29th, stating that the Turkish fleet had chased some Rus-
sian vessels and driven them into Sebastopol. They were
a flotilla of gun-boats.

It is stated that in the Caucasus the Russians were
iven three leagues from their position, and the Turks

now occupy the Russian frontier

The Tiiraes' Paris correspondent writes, on Saturday.
that a report was current in political circles that the Turks
had been compelled to recross the Danube, with immense
loss, having been defeated under the walls of Bucharest,
by Gortschakoff, with whom Dannenberg had formed a
junction. On inquiring in a quarter generally well-informed,
the writer was told that a private telegraphic despatch
was said to have been received, and that no such news had
been received in official quarters. The report had obtained
a certain degree of credit.

The Paris correspondent of the Chronicle states that
the French Government received on Friday night a tele-
graphic despatch from its Consul at Bucharest, announcing
a serious engageraent in the neighbourhood of that place,
in which, says the despatch, " the Russians attribute to
themselves the victory."