The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-25 00:00:00

THE WAR.

Accounts from Omar Pasha's head quarters, prove the
urgent necessity of the prompt arrival of the allied armies.
The Turkish army on the Danube does not number more
than 90,000 men, opposed to 200,000 Russians, now in the
principalities and Bessarabia. These reports, confiirmed
by the evidence of the French Colonel Dieu, may have
hastened the resolution of the French government to send
at once 100,000 men to Turkey instead of 50,000. It is
believed that arrangements are already making for the
despatch of the required increase.
An Austrian paper states that the important frontier
town of Fokshani, in Wallachia which had just been for-
tified, has been destroyed by fire. All the Russian stores,
provisions, arms, clothing, ammunition, and all the
military hospitals, have fallen a prey to the flames. Fok-
shani is on the boundary line between Moldavia and
Wallachia—at least 150 miles distant from any of the
Turkish army, so that the fire was probably accidental.
A communication from Orsova of the Nth, states that
on the 14th the Russians ocupied Turnu-Severin, in the
Servian territory.
Kostendje was set on fire by the irregular Turkish
troops on evacuating the town.
Under date of Constantinople, April 10, we are informed
that a very large number of the subjects of King Atho,
resident in Turkey, have acknowledged allegiance to the
Skltan, and will remain in the country. Three hundred
Greeks, who had landed at Volo, in Thessaly, have been
put to the sword, with the exception of a few who were
saved by going on board the Austrian corvette, Caroline.
A Greek ship with ammunition has been captured at
Eubna, off the Island of Negropont. On the 14th " an
Anglo-French note of a menacing character" was received
at Athens.
There are now fitting in the basin at Sheerness, for
immediate service, the Formidable, 84 guns ; the Tartarus,
4, paddlewheel steam-sloop ; the Cuckoo, 3, paddlewheel
steam vessel ; and the Miranda, 15 guns, screw steam-
ship. The Siren, 16-gun sloop, is also undergoing altera-
tions, and preparing for immediate service.
The main body of the British infantry have now left
Malta and other ports of rendezvous for the seat of war,
and, with the exception of the cavalry, will have arrived
in Turkey before their commander-in-chief. The 77th,
49th, 33rd, 41st, 4th, 47th, and 50th Regiments, had left
Malta between the 9th and 12th, in the Himalaya, the
Indus, the Cambria, the Emu, and various transports,
some of which were towed by the larger steamers. The
French land force of 46,000 men is rapidly hastening to
Gallipoli, not a day elapsing without its French transport
passing Malta.
Odessa letters of the Bth state that most of the opulent
families there were leaving town, and removing to their
more distant country seats, in order to be out of the im-
mediate vicinity of the casualties of war. The funds of the
Odessa Commercial Bank were already packed, so that
the hard cash might be removed to Jekaterinoslaw with-
out delay, as soon as the combined fleets should make
their appearance. The actual garrison is computed at
30,000 men.
The Constitutionnel states that the Turkish Govern-
ment has received information from Haireddin Pasha, the
Commandant at Kars, that a certain number of Polish
deserters had arrived in that town, who stated that more
than 12,000 of their fellow-countrymen would quit the
ranks of the Russian army the moment they should see a
Polish flag flying in the Ottoman army. It is well known
that for some time past the Russian Government has
been sending the Polish recruits into the army of the
Caucasus, in order to remove them as far as possible from
their native country.