New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-05-23
AFFAIRS IN Turkey.


AFFAIRS IN TURKEY.
CoSsTAsTINoPLg, Tuesday. April p, l'H.
great concentration Of troops continues AZ Shumla
otherwe there is nothing very important to conun cate
beyond the following details with respect 10 the cOrDs
d'0rm6c at Shumla You may consider them however
a. perfectly That corps amounts TO 90 0)0 men
viz: ~ batiaOns Of infantry ditto OF riemen. fOsqua1
rons Of cavalry 1900 reguiars infantry and Oo cav
alrv These last have committed terrible disorders lately
md Oner Pasha hes been obliged TO ares; more than 40
of them. No serious operations are thought OF until the
arrival Of the French troops ond only watch tho move
ents Of the Russian army The Russians arc terrifying
th.s,lyes IN the DObrOda: they NJ kcs'endie and
Karasu There very recently slight encounter near
this last place in which the Turks had the al vantage
forgot speak Of the artillery Of the army OF Shuma
amounts to 29l pieces
We have not received news Of the fleets which
in the waters Of Odessa bat expect 20 hear something
about them from one moment to another ne Aacco e
Sunday last in such haste that she left her surgeon De-
bind her She takes IN tow three pOntOOns Tor Gapoh,
which intended to Facilitate the landing OF the guns
and hOrros. We have from 1000 to 10 900 English
troops, and arriving every day. They ore IN
barracks at Scutar in the nhcont buildings OF alder
pssha On Frday ast tb.re was n review and mancnyer-
iag in the plains Of Hadcr Pasha As tie weather was
n0st beautiful, immense crowd the ground 70
enjoy the spectacle bat there not many Turks The
movements are, in my opinion executed with excessive
precision and the men appear IKE 80 many dutonatpns
We are expectation Of the arrival of Prince Napoleon
and the French troops Il is sad that the troops concen
traied here intended Tor landing az Seyastopol
letter from the Waachian provinces OF the 10th ut
announce hat Marsha Paskhewitc had just given orders
the Russian o'la the Danube to assemble between
Of A. gun-bOats and six small steamers This measure
attributed the fear Of endangerGg these ve.es which
were dispersed on great number OF pons The sanitary
state Of the invading arC IN the DObrOda continued 10
be Indifferent Typhus fever had broken out IN the
military hospital established in Of the laubOurgs of
Ibraila and all the wounded Of the Russian army were
a letter from the thcater Of war, published in The
Vienna Loyd says that demand from Cherson has ar
rived from bucharest requiring medicines, &c 10 be sent
for 5000 patients who distributed among the hospitals
there.
In consequence Of the wounds received in the various
eombats Ssira there had arrived a. Bucharest up
the oath Of April two cOouels four majors, $50 pryae5
and IO,commssonod officers and about 30 officer all Of
whom placed in the already overcrowded hospitals Of
that city. military transport 1000 strong, viii shortly
leave Bucharest where las been collecting from the va
Tious stations
In addition to the required for the convoy it
siss only Of crippled aud momed soldiers most of whom
have lost hand IA leg Two similar transports, each
1000 strong had already from here back 10 Russia
having left the ldor weather enabled them to
march. The insecurity Of the highways and roads IA Bull
CANA Is getting worse and worse.
The instructions sent to ,iussa Pasha and which he has
received the effect that he must defend the fortress
the last and the last gasp. Orders have ary cd at
Vaa to send the Kussanprize to Constantnope but
to set the at liberty they shall have
gagged to take no part in the war against Turkey.
CoSsTAyTIYoPLE, Tuesday, April 81. 1854.
The French arrive and the Russians DO not advance.
Here you have in line the most interesting that
give Won. | believe | assure you that the Rus
slams had projected marching directly on Constan;nope,
and passing the Balkans close 10 the and at place in
which they nearly disappear. II appears that the mud of
the Dobroda has retarded the concentration othe Rus
slams that the troops expected from the other side of thc
Danube up very slowly aud that, IN fact we up.
pearcd a, GalpO much sooner than Prince Gorchakon
expected. The Turks net very prudonty, ana defend
themselves behind their positions without rising anything
serious therefore think that shall not lose anything
B., arrival tho Russians move SIN more
slowly while they appear 10 be in hurry and have no
General sufficiently clever to take advantage OF Mistakes
The Russians were exactly month ago 100 leagues dis
tant from Consannople and they are at this moment IN
the same place. 49,, =, -, ,,.,
mentioned to YOU in my last letter that The Greek Cath
olcs had been excepted from the order Tor expulsion III
consequence of the Interference of the French Embassa
dor and the affair has given rise to good deal OF serious
discussion which is not yet over turkey ana England
are of opinion that the demand of The French Emhasldor
wts imroic and even dangerous, III consequence OF Inc
infinite prccauiion which religious questions require par
tculorly nj moment when The Russians carry on 30 ac
dive n nropapandism Nevertheless the French Embassa-
dor although without any specific Instructions having IN
sisted almost with violence Redsthd Pasha IN order 10
concae all parties agreed to except from the expulsion
n certain number of families not as Catholics but as be-
ING the Da/g6s of France. The Embassndor, instead of
allowing the question TO rest there demanded list of all
the Catholic families from Greek merchant who not he
nc able TO give it, applied 10 the Archbishop THIS aAa
was consequently regarded triumph for the Catholic
party Then the Turks hesate 20 execute what they had
Promised or nearly So The English EmbessadOr offered
lis opposition and informed that at last the French
Government las been consulted on the point and we
unit tho