The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-29 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Advices from Bucharest of the 21st state that the Turks
have quitted the island near Oltenitza, and retired to
Turtukai. Their camp there during the last five days has
been almost deserted.
General Dannenberg, in consequence, left Budeschti on
the 22d with the chief part of his force, leaving 1200 men
and eight cannon behind

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 10.

The Turkish capital is in a state of joyful excitement.
A bulletin has been published, announcing that, on the4th
inst., Omar Pasha defeated the Russians at Oltenitza. On
that day the Russian general led 30,000 men against the
position which the Turks had taken up on the 2d and the
3d on the left bank of the Danube. The combat lasted
six hours. The Russians were routed, and left a large
number of muskets and large quantities of ammunition
on the field of battle. 800 Russians were killed in the en-
gagement, while the Turks had only 13 killed and 72
wounded. _ _ .

On the 10th instant all the vessels of the fleets of Great
Britain and France were concentrated in the Bosphorus.
A fresh division of the Turkish fleet was to enter the
Black Sea, where several Russian vessels had been ob-
served sailing for the coast of Asia.
The firm of Baltazzi has advanced the sum of 7,000,000 f.•
to the Porte: The loan is guaranteed by the tribute froas
Egypt:
The British steamer Fury, which arrived on the 7th,
has brought another draught of a note, which the Am-
bassadors of France and Great Britain are instructed to
recommend to the acceptance of Turkey ; but, since the
Porte did not seem inclined to accept the draught, it has
been withdrawn by Lord Redcliffe.
The fortress of baktscki. has not heen:destroyed by fire.
The Turks are throwing up new entrenchments.
The Hermannstacit Journal says highly credible
letter of the 11th, from Jassy, says that the corps of
Osten-Sacken, which was thirty-five days' march distant
when the order to advance' was given, cannot reach the
Pruth before the Ist of lii Jassy the Rus-
sians openly pressed a number of Jews, who could only
escape the military service' by paying a considerable sum.
It is rumoured in the Wallachian capital that the' son of
Prince'Vogorides, who was married and settlechin Bucha-
n 1;, had been sent in chains to St. Petersburg,. as a
consequence of his correspondence with Omer' Pfielia.,. in
which the movements of the' Russian troops were made
known, having been intercepted: Six Boyar& are. also-
said to have been sent to Siberia' for keeping.up •a, con-
nexion with Omer Pacha."
Wallachiim artillery has been sent to Brailow, only one'
battery having been there previously. Other Waliachian
troops, horse-and foot, await marching orders.
Advices from Constantinople or the'lsth instant have.
reached Paris' aria Marseilles. They 'announce the arrival:
of General Bainguay d'Hilliers.
It was asserted that the Austrian rnterntincio, 13arowdee
Bruck, and Majir Wildenbruck, the-Prussian negotiator.
had been recalled:
The second division of the Turkish fleet had entered tie,
Black Sea, for. tlio purpose of joining' Muchaver Pasha:R.
squadron.
Four hundred vessels are loading corn at Odessa.
ALEXAVIDRIA; Nov. 19.
10,000 auxiliaries were yesterday skived for Constar,-
tinople:
The Mahomedans-of Hindostan are in, a state of great
excitement.

THE BATTLE OF OLTENITZA.
A circumstantial account of the mitten between the
Russian and Turkish..forces, at Oltenitza has been trans-
mitted by the speehit military correspondent of the
Morning Chronicle- As-the details which have hitherto
reached . London had previously been sifted at Russian
head-quarters, the report of an impartial witness will be
acceptable to ;ill. The present despatch, then, dated from
Turtakai, on the 4th and sth instant, deseribes the action
which occurred on the former of these two days-as a very
fiercely contended affahi art both sides ; and,. in its:result,
as incely to exercise great influence, in a moral point of
vimiv, throughout thefwhole war. The complete repulse
of the • Russians, why: attacks were unule with great
energy and skill, must long be memorable-to the Turkish
troops, who will not have.been slow, either, to recognise
anomen which the writer alludes to, in a poetieal, strain,
saying that, had he laensitperstitious, he .should himself
have-drawn a good augury from the apperaunce.
"Early this mornin;(he.ebserves) the moon, a new one,
roseaccompanied by the morning star. * * * It
reminded one of the Turkish standard—path ?Ad, .with a
crescent and star in it;._asyen know."
After describing the,2Turkieli entrenchment, the-works
of -which had been prosecuted vigorously ow thepreceding
day, .the writer states that at one o'clock, p.m., .on the
4th,,the Russians commenced their attack,. The Cossacks
first advanced, being aov.ered by the Chasseurs..
A few shots were interchanged, mut by 2 rum) four
squadrons of cavalry and: .two guns dellimehed from the
village of Oltenitza, with_ about 500 er• 600. Cossacks in
skirmishing order. They were makingA reccenoisance ;
for -as soon as they laid received about siie or seven shots
from...the Turkish artillery in the entrenchment, with a
few, from the right ilenk of the Danube, they retired out
or shot, and remains& on the same spot watching the
Turks till nightfall. At second regiment of cavalry, with
twch•guns, likewise 1121Ide its appearance by a wood on the
read to Oltenitza, as well as a regiment of infantry with
the baggage. On the-part of the •Tick% a field battery- ,
otartillery, and a number of .boat-loads of infantry, were
sant as a reinforcement.
It is remarked, en, passant, that the Turkish troops,
rave every confidence• that things lrave changed since the,
Turks drew the sword to make conquests. Their
proved efficiency and the talent of the general who come
=lids them, are felt more strongly,every day. Writing.
:tier, on the nighitei the 4th, thanilte foregoing appears
to• have been committed to, papeie the witness of these
, events proceeds with his narrative 4, or rather re-states:it,
as follows :-
1 This day, (New, 4,) I hope will .I:se-memorable, as cat,it
,was fought as gallant an actiela as history can record.
':During the messing not a , soldier of the Russian fierce
was to be seen.. The whole country was scanned by eager
eyes straining themselves through, every imaginable species
of telescope, I ionoele, jumelle,Arc. They, howeverc,fiiiled
in detecting .aught but an empty village, and an open
plain. Later: a, cavalry pikke,4 was discovered, which led
people to suppose that they were not quite alone—a sup-
position meat fully realisek afterwards ; for at about
twelve, or half-past, the Russians gradually led out their•
forces on the plain. Twelve guns were placed asa battery
of position, at about 1,200 Cu 1,300 yards from the quaran-
tine station. Two bodice. of infantry—it remains to be
known whether they were regiments or battaliens—placed
themselves under coven- iii, a wood on the right of the
guns—their right. On their left rear were two more
bodies infantry, =di on their left two. more. It is
doubtful, as has be-evisaid, whether these were regiments
of throe battalions, the usual continental organization, or
simply single battalions ; and on this fact rests the possi,
bility,af forming ang..stimate of their force. In the former
case the infantry w,oula amount to 10,800anen—a number,,
it isimagiued, far4oo great ; and in the.latter to 3,600-
a number far toe-little, This calculation, takes a battalion,
of 600 each. -But( supposing them to, be of 1,000 eaele it
would give 6,000 men, which is not anihiprobable number.
On the Russian left were three regiments of cavalry
echelloned out of range, each having, two guns. There
was likewise; a body of Cossacks, to the amount perhaps, of
600. The batteries were worked by some 300 gunners,
giving a total of—at the medium calculation of tbeinfan-
try-3,900 men upon the field.
The Turks, if their report is to be trusted, lied in the
intrenehments three battalions and two, companies,
amounting to 2,400 men ; an the gunners,, 1.50„ and the
irregular cavalry as many more-2,700 men.
On looking at the above numbers, with the recollection
of the troops as they were in, the field, the- Russian force
appears undervalued. Be that as it may„ at one, p.m.,
the Russian artillery opened its fire, and was replied to
by the guns of the entrenchment, the grass of the battery
at the eastern end of the intrenchment before described,
and by the guns on the right bank of the river. The can-
nonade was kept up most vigorously on either side. The
Russians had their battery of position accurately es-
paced, each gun being placed at an equal distance
from its fellow,—the fruits of good drilling. Their
practice, as far as could be judged from this bank of
the river, was most excellent, their shells bursting beauti-
fully. They opened at a long distance, it is true ; but the
guns were no pop-guns to gallop with cavalry, but twelve.
pounders, such as are usually employed in similar circum-
stances. The remainder of the artillery appeared to
consist in the cavalry guns, or horse artillery, but attached
in pairs to regiments of cavalry, as was formerly the ease
in most European armies. Two of these guns took up as
flanking a position as the Argisch river would permit
them, but could not have caused much damage as enfila-
ders. On the Turkish right the other four guns opened
on the entrenchment. At 2 10 p.m., the Russian artillery
exploded one of the Turkish ammunition-waggons, or
limber-boxes. At 2 15 p.m. the infantry made their ap-
pearance from the Turkish left, emerging from under
cover of the wood, which they had most judiciously occu-
pied. This attack was seconded by the advance of the
infantry on the (Turkish) right of the battery of position,
and by the other regiments from the village. The chief
attack, the serious one rather, being on the left flank of
the entrenchment where it met the river—the only portion
not properly completed. Their advance was steady ; the
Turks plied the firelock vigorously, and after the enemy
had got up to perhaps fifty yards, they turned, and beat a
retreat to their snug little quarters in the wood. They
must have been very severely handled, as they were close
under the muzzles of the musketry, whose every bullet
surely found its billet. Just as they advanced, a second
and a similar explosion took place in the entrenchment—
sadly inopportune, as was doubtless thought by the Turks.
The Russian artillery redoubled its fire, and the cannonade
recommenced fiercely. It should have been stated that
the battery of position had come up to about 650 yards,
their shot reaching occasionally to the hitherward side of
the Danube, ant 0.10 POD.; a second attack of infant*,