The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-23


much TO say it onght to be rejected evm IL offered
Internationally II assured ought not to be courted,
and ought not TO leadto any promises Of support In
return.
The European War.
FROM THE SEAT OF WAR ON THE DANUBE.
concentrated in the seiee Of Gil stra. Indeed there
10 no authentic information from any other quarter.
As stated in the telegraph summary this importani
fortress still held out, and IL was hoped the Rus
SLAMS would DO kept in check until the arrival OF the
allies.
The Vienna press reports that in sally which the
Turks made early on the morning Of the 30th inst,
the besiegers lost between 1900 and 800 killed.
The Turksh loss was considerable. No serious az
sault had been made since the goth ult. the Russian
general desparng Of taking the fortress otherwise
than by regular approaches.
According TO Geographic despatch from Vienna,
dated Wednesday morning. the Russians have abar-
doned the idea OF taking Sistra by storm and will
confne their efforts to investing and blockading
the place.
PARIS. June 7, 1854.
The news that the Russians have renowned the
idea of carrying Silistria by assault and will confne
themselves to surrounding that place, has created
CONSERVATION among the ranks OF the partsans of
Russia; but even from the worst news they contrve
to Pick up come news of comfort. They now main
tain that if tire siege of Sistra has been aban-
doned it is not because the place cannot be taken,
but because the Russian generals are impatient to
meet their adverslres in the open fell. Letters
from Constantnople of the 10Th ut., they say, af-
firm that the Russian General Prince Paskiewitch,
having LETT sufficient force to blockade that place,
has advanced towards Naraa to meet Omer Pasha,
and give battle to him and 30 the Anglo Ffen EN-,
anxilisries of Turkey. Reckoning on their superi-
orty in cavalry, the Russian generals anxious 10
measure arms with the allied armies as soon ~ pos
sible; and If practicable, they will bring the en-
gage me mt about between Schunla and Varna where
the country Is favorable for the movements of Gu
vahy.
Marshal st. Armand and General Raglan returned
to Constantinople on the 23d ult after having
fe4red with Omer Pesha at Varna, aud paid flying
siit to Shumla, to inspect the Turkish army. They
have given orders for the immediate embarkation
If rs coo French and $4,000 English troops for the
Danube. Marshal 81. Armand has been chosen com.
mander.inchief OF the combined armies.
A private letter from Gallipoli of the 25th ult.
mentions that the courier left the French troops
were emharking at Galpoli for varna. and the Eng
fish troops at Constantinople for the same place.
The soldiers were in high spirits, and long to come
to an encounter with the Russians. The rising Of
the waters had increased the means of the defence
of Silistra, and it was yet hoped that the allied
armies would arrive in time to force the Russians to
raise the siege.
FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ASIA.
BELGRADE, June 2-Omer Pacha writes on the
18th nit from Shumla, after receipt of a communi-
ton from Admiral Dundas, dated Baltshik, May rs:
"Redoutrale and Potti have been occupied by de-
tacbments from the allied squadrons; arms and mu.
nitions have been landed on the Circassian coast.
French and English officers have gone into the
The Circassians are assembling in all directions"
There is no apparent confirmation Of the news of
the evacuation Of Anapa and the reduction of the
fortress of Redout Kaleh.
King Ohio has signed declaration of strict neu-
trality, in presence of the Ambassadors. Three
thousand French had landed. The remainder had
been sent to Patras.
The Sheffield Observation-Disclosures Opi-
MON Of the State OF Affairs.
Tharn mil liz fro<to ~, -
nationality of Poland at Sheffield, on the 4th inst,
In which Kossuth took part. He described the ex-
isting war as logical necessity, and in way or
other he trusted freedom would profit byit
Anudiug to the universal opinion enteltaine in
this country, that Russia has grown dangerous to
freedom of Europe and that she must be checked
in her encroachments upon the independence of ma
tions, he threw ont warning that unless dplo-
what they meant by " the freedom Of Europe" and
to state in what manner they intended to check the
power Of Russia, it would in the end be discovered
English blood had been shed, and millions Of Eng
lands money spent, in producing result quite
the contrary Of what was expected From con.
sideraton Of the origin, the progress and the IA.
tiona issue OF the present war; he drew the follow
ing concasons:-That it is the partition of Poland
by which Russia bas grown dangerous to the world,
and which brought Russia down to the Danubian
Princpalities and thence to Hungary; and that the
oppression of Hungary by Russian interference has
been the stepping stone to the present ambitious
daring of the Gar.
If England, he said, had not allowed the spolia-
ton OF Poland and if she had protested against Bus
sian interference in Hungary, we should have been
spared the dangers and sacrifices Of the present war
without the spending of one English shilling or the
shedding of . drop of English blood. He commended
that either there was no sincerity in the profession
or no political meaning IN the design, that Turkey
is to be maintainej as necessary to the peace Of
Europe, and Russia TO be checked, without Poland
being at the same time reconstructed an independ.
ent nation, and Hungary made Independent and
free. These aims, he said, would be entirely sub.
yerted by England taking Austria for her ally, and
all that they lawfully could to prevent " the mar
rage Of England to despotic Austria" He declared
his conviction that lasting peace could not be &C.
cured without Poland Hungary, and Italy being re-
stored to their national rights.
Parliamentary Affairs.
TIE CUBAN SLAVE TRADE-THE FALKLAND ISLANDS
TROUBLE.
In the House of Commons on the sth inst Lord
j. RUSSELL, by command OF her Majesty laid upon
the table of the House treaty with the Queen Of
Spain with respect to the slave trade at Cuba
Mr. HUME asked whether the noble lord would
have any objection to lay upon the table of the
House any papers or documents which might have
been received from the English Consul, in order
that the House might see whether these DEGREES
were carried into efect2 They had had plenty Of
law but little notice had been taken of it, as within
the last three months three cargoes of slaves had
been landed on the island of Cuba.
LOr0 y. RUSSELL TepTed that the decree just laid
on the table was dated the I'D Of March, 1854, and
therefore could not he expected to have had any
practical effect at the time to which his honorable
friend had alluded.
Mr.. G. DuNpAs gave notice that he would ask if
any official information has been received regarding
frRcas said to have occurred at the Falkland
Islands in which the American whaer Hudson was
seized by her Majesty's ship Express, and to ask,
II there be no objection, that any correspondence
connected with the circumstance be laid before the
House.
Sweden.
We learn from Stockholm that the ENJOYS of
France and Austria (the Vicomte Lobsteic and Ma
audiences Of the King, for the purpose of laying
before him the views of their respective soveregns
as to the conditions of Sweden's publicly joining
the Western Powers, and taking an active part in
the war. The French Ambassador was the bearer
Of an autograph letter Of Napoleon ILL.,, which
tanned the proposed basis of Swediah cooperation
II is not probable that Sweden will take part in the
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