The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-30 00:00:00

THE WAR.

The Times correspondent at Vienna writes:—
" Vienna, Sunday evening.

" On the 21st inst. a fierce attack was made on the out-
works of Silistria facing the Danube. According to Aus-
trian official reports from Bucharest, one redoubt was
taken, but implicit confidence cannot be given to this, as a
different version of the affair has reached Vienna. It will
probably be found that the Russians were repulsed with
tremendous loss.

" The carrying of articles contraband of war in Aus-
trian vessels is prohibited, and will be punished accord-
ingly.
" Austrian vessels on the open sea must submit to search.
The only Austrian port to which captured vessels can be
taken is Trieste, but they can only be sold when con-
demned as lawful prizes by a competent court.
" An Adrianople correspondent, writing on the 11th of
May, says, the Intendant Segouville, with nine officers,
had arrived there, to make preparations for 40,000 French,
expected to arrive in the course of the month.
(1,,e hundred and fifty Bashi-Bazouks, who came from
Albania under pref..... or joining tne army, having com-
mitted all kinds of excesses, the Muchir of Roumelia sent
out a body of cavalry against them. 120 had been taken."

The following fact fully explains the false reports which
have been circulated from Russia in Germany, and on the
continent. After an engagement, the Russian generals are
accustomed to send in three returns. Ist—A report to the
Emperor, where the truth must be told, as he alone reads
it. 2ndly—A return to the Minister, which is a garbled
document, misrepresenting everything, and turning defeats
into victories. 3rdly—A report of the most exaggerated
and lying description, which is only published in the
Russian language, and is never translated for the Euro-
pean. This tissue of falsehoods is not only affixed to the
walls of the churches, but is also read and promulgated
by the priests.

There are conflicting accounts respecting the siege of
Silistria. One version is that a redoubt had been taken,
and that the Turks had sent out a flag of truce. A
Turkish report is that, after storming two redoubts, the
Russians were repulsed ; whilst the Times correspondent
at Marseilles telegraphs that news had reached that city
of the complete investment of Silistria by the Russians.
Two Russian transports have been captured in the
Black Sea : they were conveying munitions of war, specie,
and 150 soldiers. It is stated that the Turkish troops at
Kars almost entirely dispersed at the approach of the
Russians, on the sth May. A part formed into guerilla
bands; the rest were sent to Erzeronm. Selim Pasha's
corps is in a satisfactory position at Batoum.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News hears that
12,000 French and 5000 English troops are ordered to
Sweden, to support the expected declaration of war by
that power against Rnssia.
At Vienna Baron Meyendorff is not without means of
influence, though not perhaps in the highest quarters.
The Times considers that the protocol signed at Vienna,
May 23rd, may be fairly considered the last step but one
in that course of policy which the British and French
governments have systematically pursued. Whilst The
Times trusts that the good understanding may last until
the contest is successfully . concluded, it is not less im-
portant to observe that the operations of England and
France are wholly independent of anything which the
German courts may or may not undertake. The allied
forces are already at or near the seat of war, and will act
in complete independence of the military preparations of
Any other state.

T-
In Germany, although the Russians have losegromu
considerably, they have not thrown up the game. Al