Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-19
AFFAIRS OF THE EAST.-LATER.

| The conflict at length appears to have commenced
on both Sides if the following teegraphc dispatches
from Vienna arc to be relied upon:
VIENNA Nov. 3.-According to private intelligence re-
ceiyed here Bucharest and all the towns in the prnci
patcs have been placed in state OF siege Martial
law had been proclaimed and correspondence with the
Turks prohibited pain Of death. The first conflict was
expected to take place at Krajowa. Sem-officia ac
counts report the fleets the move from Lampsak to
the Bosphorus.
BUCHAREST Der. 22-Prince Gortschakof has left for
KraoEa His departure has produced profound sensa
ton battle is expected in that direction. krao8a is
full Of Russian troops AMI ten thousand foot and some
regiments Of horse and artillery expected to reinforce
them line Of Cossack couriers is established between
Kraiowa and Bucharest.
PARIS Nov. 3-A letter from Marseilles states that
the Turkish feet in the Bosphorus weighed anchor on the
18th for the Black Sea.
The following is Omar Pachas address to his troops
after reading TO them e ,ra-.
"ofcer and soldiers from ASIA Africa, and Europe Tie
blood Of your fathers has than Redeemed this SOIL
which powerful enemy wishes take from Il has BY
fathers been confded your patriotic hono II has
yet no blot on it. Know them that you cannot move ,teP
without voice rising from the earth and saying This d
that you tread under foot is ashosthe ashes Ia
Tiers; IT odSrs let altogether swear 70 sp
blood the last drop to uphold the integrity q the
throne Of Emperor apd beloved sovereign the sultan
Abdul .Medd."
The following is the proclamation which has been adj
dressed to his army by Omar Pacha previous to crossing
the Danube:
Il
the enemy will fly but sacrifice body and soul
10 be avenged Look the Koran the Koran VIC hare
sworn Mussulmans, and doubt not you are ready
10 sacrifice body and your religion and your Govern
ment But if there be among single man afraid Of war
him say So it dangerous to face the enemy With uch
men. lie who under the feeling OF fear should DC employed
the hospas or oharcoapaons but he who remains With
turns h back the enemy shall be shot Let the
courageous men, w long to manifest their deyotednes: TO
their religion the throne remain. Their hearts united
with Cod af faithful to religion they prove themselves
brave God will assuredy give them the victory.
in the aid Of Cod Let DO battle and sacrifice ourselves
like ancestors they bequeahed our country and or
religion to US ought bequeath them children
You all that the great object this life is to serve
God and the Sultan worhily, and thus win heaven.
Soldiers! May God protect all who the honor to be-
leye and serve in these principles"
There does not seem to be any strong or general
impression in England that any serious belligerent
operations will result. The rumor Of new con.
ference was revived and it was even reported that
the whole matter was finally arranged Consols,
too, had risen, which an indication that ultimate
war is not yet seriously apprehended by parties
whose interest it Is to be well advised Of the pros
poets Of the Eastern question. The London Times
Of November 4th says:
| owe remain still without any positive intelligence
either Of the military operations the Danube Of the
effect produced by Omar Pacha's movement the Cab
nets most Immediately interested in the dispute, but in
dications happily observable both home and abroad
Of general inclination to disregard this outbreak Of fe
rocty Impotence and to look rather the attitudes
OF European Governments than the incidents Of
anomalous
" 1t is well known that the Emperor Nicholas was de-
srous of escaping the exremtes he had provoked and
the Ottoman Government had actually asented to the
conditions OF peace at the moment that the Ottoman
army beginning hostilties Under ordinary circum-
stances might anticipate that campaign opened
would terminate with the arrival Of the first courier
from Constantinope but it is clearly hazardous to
sumo that troops whose ardor could only be satisfied first
BY declaration and then by commencement Of war, in
opposition the views Of their Government can now
be stopped in mid by the injunction Of distant
authority.
Possibly the orders Of the Divan may reach the Turk
ish commander before the OF actual col
ison possibly his army may be rendered less warlike
BY the reception IL encounters possibly the Russians
may advised!y make way for the Ottoman columns, in
pursuance Of settled pocy but considering the
avowed resolutions Of Omar Pacha to drive the enemy
before him. and pass the st Of November in Bucharest
do not that any event Is probable as that Of an
engagement.
"The conjecture shows how difficult il is to reconcile
the two theories Of protection and independence and
what embarrassnens may result, when State which
VIGOROUSLY depends the support OF others Tor Its pre-
seryaton nevertheless the regulation of its OWL
policy, without Difference to its protectors. The Turks
have clear Of against Russia, and most alb
soute right to fall upon the Russian army as they are
doing now. But, nasmuch as their ultimate reliance must
be placed upon the cooperation Of foreign Governments
some attention was nconestaby due to the interests Of
the Governments thus engaged in the quarrel 1t is the
interest Of Europe maintain peace it is the desire Of
the Turkish population to crafty themselves With the In