The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-01

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sCLAv0NIc INTRIGUE AGAINST COUNT NEssELRODE
TREMENDOUS FORCE ON THE DANUBIAN FROM
TIER-CoNDUCT OF THE oZAR-PROvoKING OF
wAR-THE GREEK CHURCH.
letter in the Wandeer, May 80 mentions the exis.
tence supposed existence OF extensive anscaycnc
aniverssl Selavonc) Intrigue against Couat Neselcods
whose Influence in keeping the Emperor within bounds
well known. This Panscsvonc party aims 90 Sc.
curing the temporal and spiritual supremacy all the
Czarigrad-so the Russians call CoustAntinople-ths
ital of sciavonc empire and the means Of effect
ing it to thro~ the Gar into position from which
he could not recede is certain that Count Nesser0de
Is not in favor with his master At present. the Emperor
himself receiving and relying to AL Mensehikod DE-
spatcbes. The Prvy Councillor, Tepgobor-ky special
ddant of the Emperor, is at present in Venna.
The Russian force the Danuoan frontier is
about 1870 COO under Generals Luders and Danuenerg
and Rear Admiral Kornief has feet OF foftysix qua
boats. carrying It's guns, and capable of transporting
10 eco men across tho river upon any point.
despatch BY telegraph from Con taBnope June O. to
the London press ssys-The Divan has just despstcnsd
an Envoy Extraordinary on special mission to Bucna
vest and Jassy The atmamens continue IL Is SAID that
the last Russian uidtu has been rejected by the Porte
The Mod&vo Wsilachian Charge d. Affairs has lett Con
stsntinople Tor Vienna"
In ion with TIE bearing the ma tier
the Lloyd that his return Montenegro from
ST. fetersburg Prince Daniel distributed two hundred
Russian meds among mis- troops and announced to them
that they would have opportunity Of proving
their vaor in reconquerng from the Turks the territories
of which the latter had deprived them.
received
Copsiautnople at Vienna on the 11th inst
The Emperor of Russia has fully aud entirely approved
Of Prince Men chlkots dngs At Const
formal summons-(,m sonmation forn,els)-to which
formal reply Is to he returned within eight days from the
time OF its delivery to be Forwarded to the Porte
Floating batteries have been wed up the Danube"
We do not learn from what this despatch comes.
Supporting the Russian to have left ST. on
the 81 Of May nothing positive concerning 'he eterfn
nation of the Porte could be known until the 21st 22d
inst namely from st Petersburg TO Odessa days.
to Consts tnope two days. delay allowed, eight days
of the to Semn and thence by tele
graph to Vienna four or five dsysin all twenty days
to June II.
The French feet va. to leave saams on 18th June for
Besks Bay. The English feet left Malta on the Sth
The Journal de FRANKFORT which, although published
in German town. and in the French langusg has
culation almost exclusively Russian, brings remarkable
not" i is said, occupy the prircpalties before vessel
Of shall have entered the Dsrdapees" The Journal
de FRANKFORT besides beirg allowed to circulate It's sslsc
ton Of European ne Tvs in the Russian empire is
siopay made the vehicle of statements and views which
the Russian cabinet would pass current its own
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"why should we suppose that the affair Of the holy
places having been regulated Russia would make
If not would compromise neither the good faith OF the
Porte the dignity Of Russia Instead of the fediager
which the Iondon Times starts off from St Peter TO
Corstantnope we learn that NJ de Ttof Envoy Of the
Russian Emperor to the Sublime Porte and who il
en- cor5e in Germany, has been called to st Petersburg
We learn that Hail Pacha goes extrao cinary mission
from ConStantinople to the CAPITOL and We learn
further that Baron Meyerdorf, sho has returned to
Vienna where he discharges the functions of Russian
Minister at the Austrian court has declared that Russia
will undertake hostile demonstration and that she
viii not occupy the princiesli'ies until war ship
sLau Lave passed the Dan danelies."
THE ARMY AND NAVY OF RUSSIA.
TIE Vierna correspondence of the London Times pub
ishsd in that journal upon June 18TH contains some
very interesting particulars regarding the trengh snd
aspect OF the Eastern question between Rome and
81 Petersburg is also treated Of We extract tns fol
:. n,rt. %t,n nFen-
Revolution desolated Europe, the Russian navy vas
cipher When allied with EDglspd the fleets of the
later we're powerful enough when opposed to her Rus
still principally manned with "landluobers, /, rot
deried but this is not surprising when it Is considered
that Russia las camille feet worth mentioning
There Is Law that the captain Of merchantmen saug
under Russian colors a native Of the country
but this Is continually evAded In port the Russian Il the
captain but at off his uniform goes IN
apron ard he figures ships cook The real skipper Is
morally eitber German, Swede. or Norwegian, the
took great part of the Russian safe keeping
The ships thus manned:-A three decker and cor
vette have crew composed Of 100 sailors aud arnesa
two decker of 81 and two bigs have the number Of
men. crew Of the same strength also sufices for
two decker of "a and ig4te The vessels being
built after different models do not sail well together
EDgsh seamen may well at the way in which Rus.
sian ships in general handled. The large
sells of oak but of such leror quality tina. they do
last than ten fifteen years. the others of
larch The Black saa feet has good sailors
taken from the coasts and also many Greeks OF the
boats formed The fact that the Black
Sea is continually subject to squalls nearly as violent
"a those near the tropics must not be lost sight of
tbsllows and dangerous reefs also abound. How
many Of the Rus.ian ships above enumerated have
been damaged completely wrecked has never trans
ed but often that uencs Of violent
Storm great vessels have been lost In the Black
sea. 'Sebestopol is fortified seaport, which. the
opinion Of scientific men, is almost without its equal in
the world II Europe should have q weak moment and
Russia thirst for conquest, hostites may DO begun
from seba sopol wih energy and security. Either
rivers the coast Of the Black Sea- any port
that can be found. No seriously suppose tina.
the Turksh neet ut present OF in future viii be able to
prevent this Before the battle of Navano It other.
wise for then the Greek sailors could bs depended -
The Prusssn Baron who probably did rot foresee that
Russia woqld 80 soon make move against Turkey CON
Turkey Than for 200 600 in Germany On this account
the Communication which he feet can keep no between
banks OF the Bug Dnieser Dnieper Borysthenes) aud
Dop render it nvsusb e To this it is but necessary
to add that here there very prevalent idea that
If the united fleets should be recesated to visit the
Black Sea- very few OF the Russian vessels would escape
the var steamers As 10 Rear admiral Korneds forty
twenty each, and toss up fer the odd six.
1t would bs objectionable to speak with the levi
ty Of the ermy. The men are well clothed and armed
and well disciplined that Which properly led they
walk IN to the enemy as calmly as II on parade. The
Russian army consists OF one guard corps prsing
the whole guard one srenaeier corps, six infantry
CORPS and three csvayy corps. At present
have to do but with the infantry corps which what
under Napoleon, called army corps Each Of them
consists paper Of forty nine bstslons Of infantry
and of sappers OF thrtytss quadrons Of lAncers
and hussars and Of hrtysyo heavy and eighty light
guns The real strength Of tho battaous snd sluadron
unknown. Until the Hungarian there Al rays
vast difference between the nominal and effective
strength Of the army. corrupt naturalization is still
the Of Russia and the justice OF this assertion Is
fully borne out by the ts a. St. Peters in the
OF which Of the first generals Of the empire
were convicted either of eonnsiog at pecaation or Of
gross neggep During his reign Of twenty six years
the Emperor Nicholas bas in vain erdeavored TO erad
cate the evil The grepsder corrs which, it is believed,
has received orders to be prepared to march, consists Of
line grensdier and three csrbDeer regiments Of three
battslons each Prenadier chaseur battalion. and
81 ssppcrs Of thirty squadrous Of light
cavalry, with forty eight heavy and dxty four light
gun' IN
The ortfcatons Of sebastapo consist of three large
forts. Those called Constantine and Alexander at
the entrance TO tho port that which bears the of
Nicholas is in the haven sef Except the tiff .aoas
Of Paris This il perhaps The most important and state
gcsy important piece Of military o. chtecture which
has been completed since 1880 The harbor Of Odessa
formed by two large moles defended BY strong works.
II ain two hundred ships The town ia regularly
built ia the of obIrnv paralIe ograrn on deci