Washington sentinel., 1854-06-06
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still prevails as TO the nature and extent of the
last successes of the Turkish armies, dispatches
have been received at Vienna from the head
quarters of Omar Pasha giving favorable ac-
count of the recent operations Of his forces on
more than one point of his position. The Rus
sian corps which was known to have been col
lected at Turnu, near the mouth of the Alata,
is stated to have been repulsed on the 28th OF
April with loss of 1900 men by the Turks
quartered at Nicopolis under Sail Pasha; and
on the I'd Of May another Russian detachment
was beaten at Radova, not far from Krajova.
There is every reason to believe these reports
to be accurate and authentic, but we can offer
no remarks on the nature and consequences Of
these military operations without fuller knowl-
edge Of the circumstances under which they
have taken place. M
Happily, no such ambiguity prevails as to
the important, and all but decisive measure,
taken by the Austrian government, and an
nounced by an imperial order in the Vienna
Gazette. The emperor of Austria has resolved
to call out $4,000 additional troops for the
safety of his dominions, and, considering the
great exertions which have already been made
to place the military establishments of the en-
pire on an efficient war footing, no stronger
proof could be given of the growing conviction
of the cabinet OF Vienna that the time for nego-
tiation is rapidly passing away, and that the
best chance for terminating the war lies in a
prompt and vigorous course of action.
Within the last few weeks every day has
drawn the Austrian government nearer to the
policy which is resolutely but temperately pur-
sued by the western powers, and the equivocal
conduct of the King of Prussia far from shak-
ing the decision of the Emperor Francis Jo-
seph, appears to have inspired him with the
determination to act a nobler and bolder part
than sovereign who has become the oppro-
brium of the nation he affects to govern. In
addition to the forces already assembled on
the southeastern frontiers of Hungary, Tran
sylvania, and Croatia, which would immedi-
diately enter the Ottoman territory on the oc-
currence of the threatened disturbance in Mon
tenegro, corps d'd,7nee is now being formed
in Moravia and Gallicia to protect the inn
portant military road north of the .Carpa-
thians, by which the Russians would advance
if Austria were attacked. A Russian division
on its way to Brunn must pass by Austerlitz,
and we entertain no doubt that the Austrian
army, which might speedily be assembled for
the protection OF that line of operations and
the fortress of Olmutz, would repeat, if neces-
sary, the lesson which the temerity of Russia
received on that spot in 1905. fit be true that
further and recent communications have been
addressed to Russia by the cabinet of Vienna,
they can only be in the nature of that summons
to evacuate the principalities which was ad-
dressed to the czar more than two months ago
by France and England with the approval Of
Austria. Such summons is mere formality
in the present posture Of affairs, for, after the
defeats which the Russian troops have under
gone, and their entire failure to Justify the
opinion which had long been entertained of
them, the military reputation of the army is
too deeply compromised for the Emperor
Nicholas to withdraw it without an attempt to
retrieve its credit.
With view to the termination of this dis
tressing war by the means which will most
effectually disable the car from carrying it on,
we shall cordially rejoice to find that the Aus
trian government has at length resolved upon
measures which must soon assume decisive
character. That course is pre-eminently re-
commended by the honor and the true interests
of Austria. 1t will restore her to the indepen-
dent position she ought ever to fill in Europe,
and it will strengthen her connexion with the
western powers, and more especially with this
country, which has ever found in the alliance
of Austria the most constant and persevering
resistance to aggression, and one of the 6rmest
barriers of the peace and stability of Europe.
The IoNIAN IsLANDs.--A letter from Corft
of the 7th instant, states that the Duke Of Cam
bridge passed some hours in that island on the
preceding day, on his way from Trieste to Con-
stantinople. His royal highness, some years
back, passed some time on the military staff in
the Ionian islands, and was much liked and es-
teemed there He dined with Sir FL. Ward,
the lord high commissioner, who invited his
former acquaintances, English and Ionian, to
meet him. Sir H. Ward proposed the health
of the Duke of Cambridge, who responded by
proposing the health of the Emperor of the
French, when Lord Carlisle, who is also guest
of Sir H. Ward, proposed the health of the EN-
peror Of Austria The Duke Of Cambridge con
tinued his voyage at 4, a. M, the following
morning, and it was expected that he would be
at Constantinople about the 9th instant. The
recapture Of Metzovo and Peta by the Turks
has quite crushed the Albanian insurrection
A few guerilla bands still lurk in the noun
tains, but the Turkish forces have now assem-
bled in sufficient numbers to repel any further
invasion from Greece. In the affair of Peta
fell Natalie Domeneghini, gentleman of Zante
and a member of the Ionian parliament, where
he has been for the last four or FIVE years, one
of the most virulent members Of the 7hisospds-
toe, or anti-English and Greek annexationist
faction. He had gone to join the insurgent
camp, and his head was cut off at the storm Of
Peta by some Albanian irregulars, probably for
the sake of the money in his girdle. His last
act was to pull out his English passport and
invoke that British protection of which he was
one Of the most bitter revilers.--Itn,es.
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