The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

TURKEY.

The accounts from the East are so varied and contra-
dictory, that to attempt to reconcile them one with
another would be altogether a fruitless task. Their general
tone, however, seems to be pacific.
The armaments at Odessa are proceeding with extraor-
dinary rapidity. The town has quite the appearance of a
camp. It is probable that the Russian Councillor of Le-
gation, Ozeroff, has arrived at Odessa.
Omer Pasha is constructing a fortified camp near
Shumla. The mountains, which form a semi-circular
amphitheatre around the Bulgarian city, are being crowned
with walls of earth like those which give so much trouble
to the Russians in 1828. On the 9th, Omer Pasha sum-
moned the Servian Government to send its contingent, ,
with General Knicanin, to his head-quarters. The Hos-
podar demanded three days for consideration.
Accoents up to the 20th have reached Paris from Con-
stantinople. A protest had been issued by the Sublime
Porte against the Russian invasion of the Principalities.
The substance of the document, which is of great length,
may be gathered from the following abstract :—The Porte
states that it is difficult to reconcile the invasion of loyal
and tranquil provinces with the pacific declaration from
St. Petersburgh, and the treaty of 1841. It says that
Prince Menschikoff's negociations were at first con-
fined to the question of the Holy Places, and that
it was not until that question was settled in a manner
satisfactory to all parties, that another demand was
put forward. The reasons, already so well known,
for refusing this demand are then given, and the
solemn and spontaneous guarantees of the Sultan,
for the immunities of the Greek Churches, are referred to.
It is incontestibly evident, (continues the protest) that
the independence of a sovereign state is null if among its
attributions is not preserved that of refusing, without
offence, a demand which is unauthorised by treaties, and
whose acceptance would be at the same time superfluous as
to the ostensible object, and not less humiliating than
injurious to the high party which declines it.
The Porte re-asserts its determination to uphold the
privileges and immunities of the Greek religion. But, if
a Government contracts, on the rights and privileges
which from its own movement it has accorded to the
churches and priests of a nation of so many millions of
souls submitted to its authority, exclusive obligations with
another Government, it would be to share its authority
with that Government; it would be nothing less than the
annihilation of its own independence.
The treaties between the Porte and the Czar, do not,
says the protest, authorise the sending of troops by Russia
into the Principalities, and this aggressive proceeding can
only be considered in the light of a declaration of war,
giving to the Porte the right of employing armed force in
return. It protests, therefore. formally and openly,
against that act ; and, in the conviction that the Powers
that signed the treaty of 1841 would not give their consent
to such an aggression, it has given them an explanation of
the circumstances, and meantime maintains an armed
attitude for its defence.
A division of the Turkish fleet, under the command of
Rear Admiral Osman Pacha, proceeded to the Black Sea
on the 12th ult. He fell in with a Russian frigate at sixty
miles distance, but she put up all sail and disappeared in
the direction of Sebastopol.
The enthusiasm is not confined to the Turks. On the
12th inst., a deputation of Boharalees was received by the
Minister of War. About 300 ragged and fierce looking
men, preceded by a green flag, presented themselves in
the name of 3,000 Boharalees, and offered their services
as volunteers. They were admitted as irregulars and
were to be drilled in the plain of Scutari. The Headman
of the Debrudga Cossacks also offered the services of 8,000
men. A celebrated Derebey of Damascus, Hetet Efendi,
wrote to be permitted to proceed with 12,000 Arabs to any
part of the empire that might be menanced by Russia.
Re offerred to defray the whole expense out of his own
resources.
The latest accounts from Constantinople state that a
proclamation from the Ottoman Government to all Mus-
sulmans was soon expected to appear. The armaments
continued with the same activity. The contingents of
Tunis and Tripoli, calculated at 20,000 men, were expected.
Abbas Pasha had placed at the disposal of the Sultan 14
ships of war (four of which are steamers,) 15,000 men,
and a sum ammounting to 25,000,000 of piastres. Three
Egyptian transports had arrived at Constantinople with a
part of the troops. The Porte had decidedly refused the
offers of service of the refugees, and had only accepted a
small number of foreigners.
Advices had reached Vienna on the 28th instant from
Constantinople, stating that Baron Bruck's mediation had
been accepted. It provides for the evacuation of the
Moldo-Wallachian territorries.
THE PRINCIPALITIES.-40,000 troops and 144 pieces of
artillery had already passed through Jassy on the 15th,
and proceeded by forced marches towards the Danube.
A letter dated Galatz, 11th July, of which the following
is a translation, is of interest :—" Yesterday morning the
first Russian troops, to the number of 1,000 infantry, and
40 cavalry, entered our town. Others are expected, but
whether they will remain here or continue their route into
Brailoff, is not known. Prince Gortzakof, with many
generals, among the number General Dannemberg, com-
manding the 4th corps, has been for the last week at
Jassy. On the 3rd instant a Russian war steamer came
in. The consul went on board, and remained for an hour,
then landed, and the steamer took her departure. A re-
port was circulated that the Prince Menschikoff was on
board, a fact which was subsequently verified. More than
10,000 cavalry have already traversed Fockchain, on march
to Bucharest. Fockchain, partly in Moldavia and partly
in Wallachia, is the ordinary 'route for troops from one
principality to the other, and is distant seven posts from
Galatz."
A private letter from Bucharest to an official gentleman
in Paris says, there are not less than 75,000 Russians close
to the town.
A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated 29th July,
says :—"Advices from Constantinople state that the Porte
and the representatives of the Great Powers have accepted
the arrangement proposed by Baron Bruck. According
to the terms of this arrangement, the fleets of Great Bri-
tain and France are to withdraw from the Dardanelles,
while the Russian troops evacuate the Danubian princi-
palities.