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No. 1623.1

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1853.

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SECOND EDITION.

envoys on the spot will probably have acted on the powers
given them in the event of a direct aggression by Russia
on the Turkish coast. It will remain with Her Majesty's
Ministers to aftbrd an effectual support to that decision by
the usual communication to Parliament, and by placing
our present relations with the Ottoman Empire in their
true shape. Every means of restoring peace being
exhausted, and the honour and naval force of England
being pledged to bring this dispute to a• successful ter-
mination by other means if all negotiations for peace
should fail, it would be unworthy of us to hesitate when
the course is clear before us. The English people are
resolved that Russia shall not dictate conditions to Europe,
or convert the Black Sea, with all the various interests
encompassing its shores, into a Russian lake. They
desire that a course of consummate hypocrisy should be
punished by a signal defeat, and that a stop should be put
to these aggressions. The Emperor, who began this
war without a disguise and without a pretext, is
carrying it on without disguise, and it therefore becomes
the imperative duty of the four powers who have so
recently recorded their determination to put an end to it,
to take all the measures which that object may demand.
No later news of importance from the Danube.
(From the Times.)
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Standard Office, Two o'clock, p.m

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

THE WAR IN THE EAST

The news of the Russian victory was brought to Odessa
by an aide-de-camp of Prince Menschikoff, and then for-
warded to Vienna by telegraph. It has been confirmed
by advices from Bucharest.
VIENNA., MONDAY.—The last Turkish vessels which
were destroyed had each 800 soldiers, besides artillerymen,
on board, and a large sum of money, being bound for the
East coast of the Black Sea. A fourteenth vessel escaped
undamaged. . .

The battle began at an hour's distance from Sinope.
On the 2nd nothing was known of the defeat at Constan-
tinople. The Turks were successful in Asia.
The Times contains a most important leading article,
stating that the news of the naval victory has now been
corroborated by several channels, and by a positive an-
nouncement in the official journal of France. War has
begun in earnest. Hostilities hitherto confined to the
occupation of the principalities and to a few partial en-
counters of the hostile armies appear to have assumed on
the Black Sea the character of direct aggression, and the
Emperor of Russia has thrown down the gauntlet to the
maritime powers precisely on that element on which they
are best prepared to meet him. The Times has thought
it its duty to uphold and defend the cause of peace, as
long as peace was compatible with the honour and dignity
of the country, and feels no regret that to the very last
it has adhered to a course of policy which a just concern
for the best interests of England and of the civilised
world required. But the Times has never concealed its
opinion that the events in the East might era ling compel
us to meet by a more resolute measure a sterner
alternative, and has repeatedly urged upon the
combined Governments of England and France the
necessity of being prepared with a plan of operations
adapted to such an emergency. If the news last received
be confirmed in the manner reported, the time for these

BUCHAREST, Nov. 30.—The Russians are pushing their
troops forward on the road to Kalafat. The Turks are
still engaged in fortifying that place.

The Turks are still'hofding the island of Mokan.
A hussian major was killed on the 26th in a skirmish

near Giurgevo.
VIENNA, DEC. 7.—lt is asserted that Austria and
Prussia declined signing the new draught of a note until
France and England promised to insist on the Divan ac-
cepting that note, independently of a collective declaration.
It is now thought that the Porte will accept the note, and
Austria hopes to obtain for that document the sanction of
the Czar.

FRANC'

PARIS, MONDAY.—On Saturday the price of Grain
rose one franc and twenty centimes per hectolitre in
almost all the markets in the district of Paris. At the
Bourse the rise in Funds was checked by the fall in Eng-
lish Consols. Threes closed at 75.95 ; Four-and-Halves,
1021.

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then remarks the
hanging over the details 'orthis important event. The
accounts received are altogether Russian statements. The
squadron was probably a convoy bound with troops and
arms for some point on the coast of Asia, and the most
probable version of the story appears to be that the Rus-
sian cruizers pursued this convoy into the roads of Sinope.
It has also been suggested that, as Sinope is a naval ar-
senal, it is possible some of the vessels destroyed were
hulks in that port. After some further comments upon
the reported details, the Times proceeds to say there can
be very little doubt as to the naval and political conse-
quences of the action. It tends to give the Russian navy
an ascendancy on the Black Sea which the Turks have
hitherto disputed, and it therefore behoves the maritime
allies of the Porte to supply that naval protection of
which he more than ever stands in need. If it should
turn out that the Russian squadron fell in with a convoy
bound for the army of Asia, and pursued those ships into
Sinope, this act may in some measure, in the present state
of warfare, be considered justifiable ; but if, as is equally
probable, these Russian ships were sent out from Sebas-
topol to burn, sink, and destroy the Turkish squadron,
not on the high seas, nor on the coast of Circassia, but at
anchor in their own fortified harbour, the proce,ading of

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at once of the assurance, till
now so pertinaciously repeated, of his desire to stand on
the defensive only ever since the Turkish declaration of
war. A more violent and offensive measure could not
have been resorted to, and the importance attached
to it by Russia may be inferred from the fact that Prince
Menschikoff hurried to St. Petersburg to lay the news of
this victory at the feet of the Czar. The effect this news
will have on Europe is not less serious. It dispels the
hope of the success of pacification, for the Times cannot
share the opinion that their success will lower in any
degree, the temper or pretensions of Russia, and it
Imposes
upon the allied fleets more peremptory duties. Indeed,
as this blow on the naval resources of Turkey interrupts
its communication with Trebizond and Batoam, it is
highly injurious to her Asiatic army, and all will be lost
if the command of the Black Sea were suffered to pass
into the hand of the enemy. The British Government

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gressive war. It dispose

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and its allies will have, from moment this news is con-
firmed, to deal with a state of affairs far more decided
and momentous than any which this question has yet
assumed, and the Times earnestly trusts the Cabinet
will prove itself equal to the emergency. It, indeed,
scarcely devolves on the Ministers of the Crown to deter-
" steps are to ben, taken, because the

mine what positive