The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-27 00:00:00

THE WAR IN THE EAST.

Despatches are almost daily received by electric tele-
graph from Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg and
other points. We subjoin those which have been received
since our last :-- _

ST. PETERSBURG, DEC. 9.—The Czar has published a
Ukase, proclaiming the state of siege throughout Bessa-
rabia and the governments of Cherson and Taurus, and
placing those provinces under martial law. Another Ukase
releases a portion of the crews of the Baltic fleet until the
spring —viz., 28 men of each of the crews of the guard and
48 of those of the line. This measure is to remain in force
till the 13th of March, 1854.
VIENNA, TUESDAY.—The Oest. Correspondenz states,
under date Bucharest, Dec. 17 :—" The Persian Govern-
ment has offered Prince Woronzoff 30,000 auxiliaries, and
demanded the Russian commander for them, as you were
led to expect would prove to be the case. The Russian
attack on the fortress of Matsh, opposite Brailow, was a
complete failure."
BERLIN, TUESDAY.—On the 2nd of December, Prince
Beboutoff, in Asia, gained a victory over the Turks ; 24
guns were taken at the point of the bayonet, and the
Turks lost 1,500 men.
JASSAY, DEC. 9.-4,000 men of Osten-Sacken's corps
have passed through this town yesterday. General Osten-
Sacken is still at Kishaneff. The garrisons of Galatz and
Brailow are being reinforced. Mr. Gardner, the British
Consul at Jassay, has received Lord Redcliffe's instructions
leave the principality.
VIENNA, TUESDAY EVENING.—It is credibly asserted
that the combined English, French, and Turkish fleets
entered the Black Sea on the 10th. It is supposed that
their destination is Sebastopol. Three ships from each
squadron have been left to guard the approach to Constan-
tinople.
Telegraphic intelligence reached Paris from Constan-
-
tinople down to the 13th inst. The courier who conveyed
the collective note and.circular instructions of the Vienna
Conference had arrived, and the ambassadors of the Four
Powers proceeded at once to take these documents into
consideration.

A strict inquiry has been ordered into the causes of the
destruction of part of the Turkish fleet at Sinope, which
is attributed to the neglect of the Turkish authorities in
not recalling those vessels after they had been warned to
to do so, or to the want of timely information that the
Russian fleet was cruising off the coast of Asia.
The Sultan's reply to the collective note of the sth inst.
is expected to arrive at Vienna on the 26th.
M. Pouillade, the French consul in Wallachia, left
Galatz on the 4th inst. on board a Lloyd steamer, which
was bound for Constantinople. The Russians stopped
the steamer at the Sulina mouth, and compelled her to
proceed to Odessa.

CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. B.—General Prim and some
British officers arrived here yesterday from Omar Pasha's
head-quarters. _ _ _

The Furious and the Heron have come back from Varna.
An Austrian war steamer left yesterday for the Black
Sea. It is said that she is bound for Sinope, though
no one knows for what purpose.
BUCHAREST, DEC. 10.—Baron Budberg, the new Rus-
sian Commissioner, is disliked by the inhabitants of the
principality.
The Czar has granted a pension of 1,000 ducats per
month to the Princes Ghika and Stirbey. Prince Ghika's
debts, to the amount of 60,000 ducats, have been paid by
the Czar.

A letter from Constantinople, of the Bth instant, states
that a telegraphic despatch had been received there from
Omar Pasha, announcing that General Gortschakoff was
preparing to attack Kalafat with a considerable force, and'
to dislodge the Turks from their position. A report was
subsequently circulated that the attack had actually taken
place, and that the Russians had been repulsed, but the
Porte had not received any official despatch on the subject.
VIENNA, THURSDAY EVENING.—The Persian minister,
after breaking off diplomatic relations with the Porte,
retired to Bagdad.

The reason. why part of Luders' corps went to the
Crimea was, that there was an insurrection there on the
29th of November in favour of Turkey.
Advices from Constantinople, of the 12th instant, state
that the Porte has demanded the support of the fleets.
On the 10th, the ambassadors held a conference on the
subject, and resolved to await instructions.
The entire combined fleets are lying in the Bosphorus.
The populace is against England because they have not
sailed into the Black Saa.
One party is intriguing to get Ali Pacha made Minister
of Marine.

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