10 SEPTEMBER 1853, Page 8

POSTSCRIPT.

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A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, of Monday's date, states that the Russian reply to the despatch containing the modifications desired by the Porte is expected at Vienna today : and it is supposed that the only ob- jection which it was probable the Emperor Nicholas would make' would be to the modified paragraph relating to the treaties of Kainardji and Adrianople. The despatch further states, that the Austrian Government proposes that direct negotiations on the points in dispute be opened at once, and be intrusted to Count Nesselrode and a Turkish Ambassador to be sent to St. Petersburg. The Russian Ambassador at Vienna is said to have stated that the evacuation of the Principalities will shortly com- mence, and that in any case the Russian troops will not pass the winter in those provinces.

But the Paris news of Thursday leads to a totally opposite conclusion. The Russian Embassy at Paris is said to have stated that the Emperor has refused to accept the modifications. This report derives some colour from an angry paper against Turkey in the journal which has most dis- tinguished itself by bearing hard upon the Porte throughout the dispute. The 'guilt" of primarily causing the evils of the situation, actual and probable, is thrown upon the Emperor of Russia ; but Turkey is more bitterly blamed, as wanting to involve Europe in war. From Constantinople we have brief intimations up to the 27th August. The gist of them is that matters remained unchanged ; that Turkish troops are still marching on 'Varna and that the Sultan, relying on his protest, would not recall the Hospodars, and had not pronounced on them a sentence of suspension.

Recent letters from the Danubian Provinces state that the Russians had, up to the 15th August, lost 13,000 men by typhus and diarrhcea; while numbers were sick and provisions at a famine price.

Omer Pacha's army was, at that date, estimated at 65,000 men and 180 guns but it has since been increased. On the left bank of the Danube, at Taragun, 5000 Russians pitched their tents on the 10th of August; so that the hostile sentinels were within musket- shot of each other. Offi- cers, Turkish and foreign, including General O'Donnell, had gone for- ward to reconnoitre the movements of the Russians.