The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-27 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

THE EASTERN WAR,

LIB latest intelligence from the seat of war states that
no confirmation has yet been received of the siege of
Silistria having been raised, though it is qnite certain
that the Russians have suspended operations. In conse-
quence of the wounds received by Prir.ce Paskiewitsch
(who was also much enfeebled by fever) and Prince Gort-
schakoff, General Dannenberg has 'oeen appointed to the
chief command of the Russian forces. The complete de-
feat of the Russians on the loth is confirmed, a portion
of the besioging army ha",.ing been forced to recross the
Danube in all haste. 'The Turks took several standards
and a great quantitr, of baggage. Five Russian generals
were either kill&. or wounded in this affair alone. General
Luders Was reported to be dead. The left leg of General
Schilders ',vas taken out of the socket.
The Wanderer, of Vienna, of the 19th, says, "Letters
freAn Bucharest announce that Prince Miksch Obreno-
witch, who is them I§ kiug preparations for reinoyiug

to Jassy, and this fact is considered a proof of the ap-
proaching evacuation of Wallachia."
The Cronstadt Gazette (Transylvania) says, "The
evacuation of Wallachia by the Russians will soon be
accomplished. In the night of the 9th the military
chests, the archives, and other effects were packed on 116
horses, and sent to Foakchan. An account had reached
Bucharest that Count Orloff had just died at Kalarasch.
The Turks have, it is said, abandoned all their posts on
the Danube to march to Silistria. Since General Budberg
and the Councillor of State Chalschinski have left Bucha-
rest, the Wallachian government has somewhat recovered
its independence, and occupies itself with the internal
affairs of the country."
According to a letter, dated Stettin, June 22, the main
body of the allied fleets, upwards of 40 sail, of which 16 or
17 are three-deckers, have been sighted from the western
end of the island of Cronstadt. A dispatch from Dantzig
states that, on the 21st, all the steamships of the combined
fleets left their anchorage and proceeded direct to Cron-
stadt. Before passing Helsing,fors three of the small
steamers ran in within the batteries, and counted 13
Russian line of battle ships lying across the harbour.
A letter from Erzeroum, of the 2nd, states that a
courier had arrived there from Teheren. A report was
current that he was the bearer of important dispatches for
St. Petersburg. It is positively stated that Persia refuses
to receive General Aniskoff as Russian Minister, in the
room of Prince Dolgorouki, and that, in the state of the
relations between the two countries, it is considered
sufficient for the commercial interests of the subjects of
the Czar to keep a consular agent at Teheran. An ap-
proaching and open rupture between Persia and Russia is
regarded as probable.

The Press, of Saturday, says, "His Highness Prince
Metternich, at the special and personal request of his Im-
perial Majesty the Emperor of Austria, has embodied in
a state paper his view of the arrangements which, in the
present condition of affairs, may conduce `to a just and
honourable peace.' We have reason to believe that these
views have been communicated, although not officially, to
the Earl of Aberdeen; and that little doubt prevails,
from previous communications that have taken place, that
they will be substantially adopted by the English minis-
ter. The prospects of a speedy termination of hostilities
are very favourable."

Advices dated Varna, June 15, state that the Duke of
Cambridge, with the first division of the British army,
had arrived there on the preceding day.
A despatch from Vienna, dated the 25th inst., says
" The Russians are in full retreat to Moldavia.
" The Russians in the Dobrudscha are also retiring.
"A Turkish army, 20,000 strong, is advancing to•selieve