Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-11-19
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FURTHER BY THE STEAMER ARABIA.


The Cnnard mail steamer Arabia, Capt. JUDI
kins, arrived al her wharf Thursday morning at
$40, bringing advices from London TO Saturday,
the 9Th instant.
The Arabia brings 100 passengers. She left
Liverpool at noon on the 9th inst.
On the 18th inst, lat % As, long. 43 o., passed
the screw steamer Glasgow, from New York, for
Glasgow.
Affairs of the East.
The conflict appears at length TO have COM
menced on both sides, ifthe following Geographic
dispatches from Vienna are TO be relied upon and
they seem consistent:
VIENNA, Nor 3-According to private intelli-
gence received here, Bucharest and all the towns
in the prlncipaties have been placed in a state of
siege Martial law had been proclaimed and cor
respondence with the Turks prohibited on pain of
death. The first conflict was expected TO take
place at Krajowa.
Semi-offcial accounts report the fleets on the
move from Lampsk TO the Bosphorus.
BUCHAREST Ocf. 22.-Prince Gortschakof has
left for Krajowa His departure has produced
profound sensation. battle is expected in that
direction. Krajowa is full Of Russian troops, and
10000 foot and some regiments of horse and artil-
lery are expected to reinforce them line of
Cossack courers is established between krajowa
and Bucharest.
Paris, Nov. "A letter from Marseilles states
anchor on the 25th for the Black Sea. WICK.
The following is the proclamation which has
been addressed 10 his army by Omar Pasha pre-
vious TO crossing the Danube:
Imperial soldiers: When firm and courageous
we shall engage the enemy we will not hy but
sacrifice body and soul TO be avenged. Look to
TO the Koran; on the Koran we have sworn. You
are Mussumans, and doubt not you ready TO
sacrifice body and soul for your religion and your
government. But if there be among you single
4 80 l1t "a Iup1
Gus to face the enemy with such men.
He who is under the feeling of fear should be
employed in the hospitals other occupations !;
but he who remains with us and turns his back
son the enemy shall be shot! Let the courageous
men, who long TO manifest their devotedness 10
their religion and the throne remain. Their hearts
are united with God, and if faithful to religion they
prove themselves brave, God will assuredly give
them the victory.
Soldiers, let us purify our hearts, and then put
confidence in the aid of God. Let us do battle,
and sacrifice ourselves like our ancestors; and, as
they bequeathed our country and our religion to us,
we ought to bequeath them to our children. You
all aware that the great object of this life is to
serve God and the Sultan worthly, and thus win
heaven. Soldiers /. may God protect all who have
the honor to believe and serve in these princ-
plesn a" s..
I A private letter from Vienna, of the Both men.
tions, that the Austrian government had contracted
loan which was subscribed by the imperial bank
and other great financial establishments Of ST.
Petersburg. .a
Nevertheless, there does not seemed to any
strong or general impression in England that any
serious belligerent Operations will result. The
rumor of new conference was revived, and II
was even reported that the whole matter was
finally arranged. Consols, too, had risen, which
is an indication that ultimate war is not yet seri-
ously apprehended, by parties whose interest it is
to be well advised of the prospects OF the eastern
question. The Times, of November A. says:
"We remain still without anypositive intelligence
either OF the military operations on the Danube, or
of the effect produced by Omar Pasha's move
ment on the cabinets most immediately interested
in the dispute but indications are happily, obser-
vable, both at home and abroad, Of general in
clination to disregard this outbreak of ferocty
mpatience, and to look rather at the attitudes of
European governments than at the incidents of
an anomalous war;
1t is well known that the emperor Nicholas
was DESTROYS of escaping the extremtes that he
had provoked, and the Ottoman government had
actually assened to the conditions Of peace AT the
moment that the Ottoman army was beginning
hostilities. ' n"
"Under ordinary circumstances we might antic-
pate that campaign 80 opened, would terminate
with the arrival Of the first courier from Constan
tinope; but il is clearly hazardous to assume
that troops, whose order could only be satisfied,
first, by a declaration, and then by commence
ment Of war, in opposition 10 the views of their
career by the injunctions of distant authority.
POSSIBLY, the orders ofthe divan may reach the
Turkish commander before the occurrence of an
actual collision; possibly, his army may be rem
dered less warlike by the reception itencounters
or, possibly, the Russian army may advisedly
make way for the Ottoman columns in persu-
ance Of some settled policy; hut, considering the
avowed resolution of Omar Pasha to drive the
enemy before him. and pass the 1st of November
in Bucharest, we do not see that any event is SO
probable as that of an engagement. a5."
"The conjecture shows how difficult it is to re.
conce the two theories of protection and ind, :
pendence, aud what endorsements may result
when State which VIGOROUSLY depends on the
support of others for its preservation, assumes,
nevertheless, the regulation OF its own policy,
without Difference 10 its protectors. The Turks
have clear case Of war against, Russia, and a
most absolute right TO fall upon the Russian army
as they are doing now.
Butinasmuch as their intimate reliance must be
placed upon the cooperation of foreign govern
ments, some attention was incontestaby due TO
the interests of the governments thus engaged IN
the quarrel. 1t is the interest of Europe 10 main
tain peace; il is the desire OF the Turkish popua-
ton 10 crafty themselves with the indulgence OF
war, and this desire has now been satisfied AT the
expense Of those upon whom the eventual respon-
sibty must fall
sThe Turks have thus combined the privileges
Of sefsupportng government with the advan-
tages of protected state. and have gone TO war
without mourning the full risk of its penalties.
On the supposition that they, unaided, can expel
the Russians from the principaties, their course
is justifable, but on this supposton our whole
trouble for the last six months has been utterly
gratuitous.
son the contrary hypothesis, they can hardly be
warranted in attempting 10 do after their own
fashion what they must ultimately leave to be
done by Others under conditions of greater per-
plexity than before. As Europe had taken the
responsibility of protecting the Ottoman empire,
it should have been left 10 pursue its own policy
Of peace, or give its own signal for war; whereas
we are now charged with the obligation OF pre-
serving Turkey, and yet threatened at the same
time with the loss Of that peace for the sake Of
which the obligation was assumed. ...
sin ordinary transactions. the safeguard against
such endorsements is the conditional character
affixed to the protection afforded, which is natu-
rally made contingent upon the proper department
of the protected party. Here, however, his surety
fails; for the support of Europe is given on Euro
pean grounds, and would be called for with the
same imperativeness whatever might be the policy
of the Porte.
1T is perfectly true that, though the Russians
created a casns beRi before midsummer, the Turks
did not declare war till after Michaelmas, that
owe n tbis do was conditional. and that