Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-02-03
NEWS BY THE ASIA

remained anchored at the Rapids.
1t is not supposed that the Car views the entr,
of the fleets into the Black Sea as n declaration
IF war, although he had ordered all his own flee
TO return to Sebastopol by The 9th of January.
The Turks had gained Tie mot brilliant
successes on the Danube. They sioTlned ana
carried the Russian entrenched camp al ttials,
near kalafat, and put TO the sword 210o of TIT
enemy. They also attacked a body of lo.oA
Russians. who were sent TO relieve titaie, aud
after a sharp encounter, compelled item tn re
treat.
The Russians are thus driven back from po-
sitions at which they attempted TO cross the Dan
ube.
The Turkish force in this battle amounted to
5000 men, with Is guns.
Ii is admitted that omcr Pasha brilliantly out
mannu,red the Russian commander. Other nd
yantages had been gained on the Danube, which
were formally noticed by the Diyan on the LIST
of January. in an interview with the Amfassa.
dor of the -Four Powers. The details are not
given. but il is supposed the storning and cap.
ture of karaks |, with several skirmishes IN Asia,
and the defeat of the Turks ugdcr the weak
General. ship OF Abdi pashs, were confirmed
but Gen. Guyon had gone TO take command OF
the army, with full powers, and the spirit OF the
Turks revived.
Schamyi. the Cireassian chief, had sent a mos
senger 10 the Porte, announcing that he WIS full
" prepared to act energetically against the Rus.
slams.
Meanwhile, negotiations were going on. The
Sultan's approval of The dccision OF The Grand
Council, To open negotiations GA the footing pro-
posed by the Four Powers, had been published.
Turkey is 10 send n representative la the Con.
ference. which, will be held ia somc neutral city.
This arrival brings Il confirmation Of the re
port that Persia had resumed negotiations with
Great Britain, and will not, at present, attack
the Turks.
The infant Princess of Spain died suddenly.
Another subject for diplomatic interference
has arisen. Rev. james G. Richmond complains
that he is 4 detained prisoner by the Austrian po-
lice at Beehenet, in Hungary, and calls on the
L. States for a redress # his grievances.
Annoy has been re-eaptured by the lmperiallsts
who massaered loo of the inhabitants.
Above, we give further Intelligence by the Asia,
as we find it reported geographically in the
Richm md Dispatch. To us, it does MT wear a
pacific import nor can we perceive that ii JUST
fes the decline in the price of brendstnfIs, Of
which we have news by the same arrival. 1t
may seem singular, but we think it not difficult
OF explanation, that, from the first premonitions
Of a rupture between Russia and Turkey, while
every thing in the East has portended war-un-
compromising, deadly end prolonged-every ae-
count of defeated negotiations, rejected propo-
sails or eeatending and clashing armies, reoeiY-
cd from abroad, has been coupled with tn init
nation of a probability that peace would soon be
restored.
The cause Of this is. that England, through
whose Journals and correspondents we receive
reports OF occurrences in the East, very ardently
desires peace, and her understanding and nara
live of these transactions is colorcd by the hue
.f hpr homes She unt nulv Iasiras bnt she IL
interested in producing the impression ON the
American people, and the American markets, that
the war will not continue or become general.
France seems, strangely enough, to have sub
United herself TO the direction of her ancient en-
my, and to have no decided purpose of her own
Both countries have an immense deficit in bread
stuffs to make up from some quarter. To the L..
States they are compelled TO look for supplies. -
The chances of war exert a powerful influence
upon the range of prices; and they naturally de-
sire to supply themselves ut as cheap a rate as
possible-and thus the interest they have moi only
disqualiies them for estimating at their full weight
the causes which obstruct Il reconciliation. but
policy restraints them from fully acknowledging
the convictions they cannot entirely shut out.
Our own belief is that the Emperor of Russia
otff Nv Aasp " y NFfFN avn ~ Ntlli'Nts III
tonly commenced, with II view Ia his own nggran-
dizement, On the other hand, the Sultan of Tur.
key has shown a determination 10 resist Ia Tho
death the attempt to dismember and destroy his
Empire. He will not, except as q last and in
exorable necessity, submit to unjust or degra-
ding terms. The war, we believe, will go on
and we cannot see how the leading Continental
powers will escape from being involved in it..
Nor are evidences wanting that this convection
has at length taken possession of the minds of
the French and British rulers and people. With
hardly an exception the press, both of England
and Of Continental Europe, regard the preserya-
ton of peace as no longer possible. Perhaps no
better evidence of the threatening attitude of
affairs can be found, than in the altered tone of
the London Times. SO long as there seemed n
hope of peace. that journal employed all its influ-
ence, its arguments and arrays OF facts. to the
prejudice of Turkey, to make as conspicuous AS
possible the injuries resulting from war, and
keep on terms of amity with Russia. Apparent
ly, hnding this last no longer possible, it's whole
energy Is now employed to reconcile the Enpli.b
nation to the impending war. Day after day. its
powerful leaders study to present this "decision,,
OF the government Of England in the most fays,
able point of view to the British people, and in
doing so, 1t often has to take grounds diametr;.
cally opposed to some of its positions only a few
months since. Then it counted up the cost of
war. Now it argues that the threatened rupture
Will not, after all, do much damage TO Eng
lsh commerce. In IFS commercial retrospect of
the year 1853, its whole tenor is hopeful for the