Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-01-10

gle her voice and her tears with their voices
and their tears. | second the resolutions ofmv
honorable friend from Tennessee.
The question was then taken upon the resolu-
tons, and they were agreed to; and the House,
tn ereupon, adjourned until tomorrow at twelve
o'clock, m.
FURTHER INTELLIGENCE OF THE TURKISH De-
FEAT.-The Times contains most important
leading article, stating that the news of the ma
val victory has now been corroborated by seve-
raj channels, and by a positive announcement
in the official journal Of France. War has be-
gun in earnest, hostilities hitherto confined to
the occupation of the Principalities and to a
few partial encounters of the hostile armies,
appear to have assumed on the Black Sea, the
character of direct aggression, and the Empe-
ror of Russia has thrown down the gauntlet to
the maratime powers, precisely on thai element
on which they are best prepared to meet him.
The Times has thought it its duty to uphold
and defend the cause of peace, as long as peace
was compatible with the honor and dignity of
the country, and feels no regret that to the very
last it has adherd to a course of policy which
ust concern for the best interest of England,
and of the civilized world prescribed But the
Times has never concealed its opinion that the
events in the East might ere long compel US
to meet by more resolute measure, such an
alternative, and the Times has repeatedly urged
upon the government of England and France
the necessity of being prepared with plan of
operations adapted to such an emergency If
the news last received be confined in the man.
ner reported, the time for the resolutions to take
effect has already come. The article then re-
marks on the great perpleXity and uncertainty
still hanging over the details of this unfortu-
nate event. The accounts received are alto
gether Russian statements. The squadron was
probably convoy, bound with troops and arms
for some point ON the cost of Asia, and the
most probable version of the story appears to
be that the Russian cruizerS pursued this con-
voy into the roads of Sinope. 1t has also been
suggested that as Sinope is naval arsenal, it
is possible that some of the vessels destroyed
were hulks in that port
After some further comments upon the repor-
ted details, the Times proceeds to say there can
be very little doubt as the naval and political
consequences of the action. 1t tends to give the
Russian navy an ascendency on the Black Sea,
which the Turks have hitherto disputed, and
it calls upon the maratime allies of the Porte
in very positive language to supply that naval
protection of which she more than ever stands
in need If 1T should turn out that the Russian
squadron fell in with convoy bound for the
army in Asia, and pursued those ships into ST.
nope-this act may, in some measure, in the
present state Of warfare, be considered juStiha-
bic; but if, as is equally probable, that these
Russian ships were sent out from SebaStopol to
burn, sink, and destroy, the Turkish squadron,
not on the high seas, nor on the coast of Circas-
STA, but at anchor in their own fortified harbor,
this proceeding of the Emperor of Russia goes
to the last extremity of aggressive war. 1t
dispoSes at once of the assurance till now so
pertinaciously repeated, of his desire to stand
on the defensive only, ever since the Turkish
declaration of war. A more violent and often
sive measure could not have been resOrted to,
and the Importance attached to it by Russia
may be inferred from that. fact that Prince Mems
chkoff hurried to St. Petersburg TO lay the news
of this victory at the feet ofthe Gar. The eff
feet this news will have on Europe is not less
serious. 1t dispels the hopes of the success of
pacifcation, for the Times cannot share the
opinion that this success will lower in any de-
gree lhe temper or pretcnsions of Russia and it
imposes upon the allied fleets more peremptory
duties: indeed as this blow on the naval resour-
ces of Turkey interrupts its communication
with Trebizond and Batoum, it is highly injuri-
rious to her Asiats army, and all will be lost if
the command of the Black Sea were suffered to
pass into the hands of the enemv.
The British Government and its allies will
have, from the moment this news is confined:
to deal with a state of affairs far more decided
than any which this question has as yet assum-
ed; and the times earnestly trusts, the Cabinet
will prove itself equal to the emergency 1t
indeed scarcely devolveS upon the ministers OF
the crown to determine what positive steps
are to be taken because the ENJOYS on the spot
will probably have acted on the powers given
them in the event of direct aggression by Rus
STA on the Turkish coast 1t will remain with
her Meiestys minister to afford an efectual
support to that decision, by the usual commu-
nications to Parliament, and by placing our
present relations with the Ottoman empire IN
their true shape. Every means of restoring
peace being exhausted, but the honor and ma
val force of England pledged to bring this dis
pute to q successful termination by other means,
if all negotiaons for peace should fail; it would
be unworthy of MS to hesitate when the course
is clear before us. The English people are
resolved that Russia shall not dictate conditions
to Europe, or convert the Black Sea, with all
the various interests encompassng It's shores,
into a Russian Lake; they desire that course
of consumate hypocrisy should be punished
by signal defeat, and that stop should be
put to these aggressions. The Emperor, who
began this war without disguise, and without
a pretext, is carrying it on without disguise,
Powers, who have SO recently recorded their
determination to put an end to it, to take all
the measures which that object may demand
No later news of importance from the Dan
ube.
FRANcE.-PARIs, Dec IA private dis
patch, but,,which requrei confirmation, mentions
that the Russians lost in the affair at Sinope,
two ships of the line, three frigates, and two
steam boats. 1t adds that, their force consisted
of twelve frigates, brig, and FIVE steam boats,
besides the six ships of the line as mentioned
in the Moniteur.
Another private dispatch mentions that the
Turks had obtained some important advantages
over the Russians in the neighborhood of Tiff
is.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.