TURKEY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 100, 28 June 1854, Page 3

TURKEY.

1 The intelligence of tha week may be packed in1 to Binall compass, na it chiefly consists of grncrnlr ities. The Imi'it accounts, to January 30th, con. ' tinue to apeak of a concentration of forces over ngnmst Kalafnt, and report thai Prjnce Goitschn- ; koff has been ordeied to Carry tho inlrenchmcnts cost what it rocy. It is even snid that the Turkish ontposta had already been driven in nftiT hard fighting. On tho other hand, Omar Pnslia hns roinforeed the garrison at Knlafat, which was not ; probably less than 30,0J0 men. Skirmishes still continuo along tho Danube, with varying fortune ■ and loss on both sides. Musses of Hoops were di- , reeled upon Bessarabia, and the- force in the Prln- ■ cipalitics was cstimuted at 120,000 men. General > Aurep hasten superseded by General Liprnndi. • Tho came of Aurep'a disgrace is tho lots of the battle of Zetati. From Asia we hear of little but preparations. 1 Tho dolcats at Gumri and Akiska, according to an , eye-witness, wero causod by tha want of military skill on the pnit of the commander!). The men . fought steadily, but they wero so disposed an to be ' without support j a small number, having to Gear the brunt of the Russian onset were beaten with grent slaughter, and, in disorder, tho whole nrmy fell back upon Kara, i lore Kurschid Paiha an ivcd having ridden night and day from Aleppo. At ; once without taking rest, he organised an outpost ■ service, hitherto neglected by the commanders. Iv a few days somo money arrived ; he instantly distributed it among tho soldiers ; and nt tho latent dates he was reorganising the army newly inspired with confidence by his presence. A report is current that the Russian fleet attacic ed fort Si. Nicholas, near liatoum, "after" the combined fleets left Sinope for tho Bosphorus, But a comparison of dates shovrs the incorrcctncst of the story. It was on the 3rd January that the floeis entered tho Blink Sea. It was on tho fith that the Russians cannonnded St. Nicholas. The allied commanders heard of this, and expecting to catch the Ruisians in an act of war, the ships convoying the Turkish transport!! to Butoum set out from Sinope with guns shotted, in the hope of a brush. But the Ruseiuns had been severely handled by the fortress, and did not wait for tha French and British ships. There would appear to bo good reason for the withdiawnl at least of the nailing ships from the Black Sea, During January and February, tho Runian ships always keep in their hurboursi The fogs, the short chopping eeas, the sudden gusts, and the dungeioua coasts, render sailing all but Imposaible. 'Hit 1 Admirals aoein to have uVtermintd to command the s.eu and the Rutmiau ports with Bte.irnern. The change of Minialiy at Constantinople certainly has no character of cumpiomiae. Riza Vttba. has biroine SomsJilm, jiu! l>o n nisvlliini?

but Ru^ifit) in his pympathioi. Knirnqed in the war of 1828, he win Governor of Widilin ivhcn the Hungarian exilci anivi-d; ond whin iho pieseut win- tbioAtencd, he organized llm nucleus of the army now stationed on the Danube. The foreign correspondents mention a serious revolt of the Christinni in Allmnix. Tho Turkshad (icon dcfeaicd, nnd iho garrison of Arta bad been besieged by Irom 120? to 1 1(10 insiirgfiitn. in Albania the Chuatians outnumber tho Mussul. mans. RUSSIA. Bufoie Ihe Cth corps d'armcc marched from Moscow, thi" Patriarch i«6Ucd a t'an.itical nndresi lo the soldier. H<> told them thut Russia wao ngam '• provoked " by the enemy no often van« quiahi'd j that " tho Czar, tho country, and Christianity, culled upon them " j that their brothers hud already lev ive I the old habit of healing their enemies by lnnd mid sea i that they would fi^ht for thii ''must pious" of Czars, against the profancrs of the cities thut had seen tho birth, passion, and resurrection of Christ ; and that they would go forth followed by tho prayers ol tho Church ; and now if ever victory was duo to them— by faith they would conquer. A Tclegmphic despatch from Paris 1 anys, that " on the 27th January the Emperor Nicholas addressod a lotter to Piinco Cholutoff, tho Hetman of the Don Cossacks, in which tho following phra. sea Occur. "'ln the wnr which has broken out iv defence of the Cbiistian faith, my bravo Cossacks of the Don h»vo given new proofs of their valour. Tho glonoua history of their faithful Borvico to tho throne nnd country ie woll known j and I have* firm conviction that during tho present year they will be, as they alwayi hava boon, the terror of tho toes ol Russia and ot tho Holy Cross ' " The un-atisfactory result of Count Orloff's mii~ sion was known in St. Petersburg on the 9;h instant. GERM AN Y. There is now no doubt th,u very laigo bodies of Austrians are concentrated on ihe tieiviau and I'ransylvanian fronliar, nnd in Hungry, reutly lor all evoniiuHties. Tho Prince of has arrived at Vienna, and it i» supposed he will .vsk for ncirng of Austrmns to occupy Servm in tho event ot a RiihSian invoaion o( that territory. '( lie feeling in Vienna is that the preparations of Aunt mi ni« more for war than an ormed nontmliiy ; and U o t foot of this feeling is evident in the fall of tbo ixclungo— 4 ptr cent in forty-eight hours. The Turco Egyptian officers who hud anlvod at Vienna were not those captured at Sinope, but in tho Egyptian frigate Pevasi-Buhri, Ih^y hovo placed themselves under the protection of thoTutk» uh Ambaitsado". UNITED STATES. Tho Atlantic aruvedat Liverpool on Thursday, witli advices from New York to the 4th instant. It is believed that the President would not sub ran tho Gadsden treaty to the Senate, but would reeumo direct negotiations with Mexico. The reason for this count) is, that the treaty doe 9 riot settlo the Tchuantepcc question ; nnd that a clause in the treaty, providing that " Filibusteros " Bball be given up as inadmissible. Lieutenant St. John nnd Mr Fordo bad arrived from England at Panama on tho I7th Janhary, on their nay to in.iko tho official survey for tho JJnria en Canal. The Government nt Bogota had appointed 200 soldiers and a corps ot sappers aud miners to protect ond assist the operations.