The news from the seat of war during the week
has been meagre. The Austrian Observer of the 3d inst. gave a letter from a Russian The news from the seat of war during the week has been meagre. The Austrian Observer of the 3d inst. gave a letter from a Russian e'er, dated the gist of August, (the save date as Count DI garlscri's despatch) in which the city of Adrianople is described as rejoicing in the arrival of the Russians, and the Mollahs and Notables receiving them wit17 open arms. An action is reported to have been fought under the walls of Shumla ; and an insurrection is said to have broken out in Servia,—a sort of Oriental Tipperary, where the people have nothing else to do. The Emperor has ordered a new levy of troops throughout his dominions of three men in every five hundred, for the supply of the army. The Times observes very justly, " If Diebitsch be now reinforced, and be as successful against the army of the Sultan as he has hitherto been against the other Turkish armies, there is nothing that we can see to prevent him from marching into Constantinople." . The people of the North have a saying, that "if the lift (the firma- ment) should fall, it would smother all the larks."
On the subject of negotiation, the rumours have been altogether con- tradictory. We subjoin the latest, from the Chronicle of this morning.
"The last despatches from Sir Robert Gordon, our Ambassador at Con- stantinople, are considered as of so pacific a tendency, that it is supposed probable, in the higher departments of the Government offices, that an ac- count of the signature of the preliminaries for a general pacification in the East may be hourly expected. " The same despatches contain an official enclosure of much importance, and of a very unusual description,—namely, either the original or an au- thentic copy (we are led to believe the former) of a State Paper, transmitted by the Baron Muffling, the Prussian Special Envoy, to the Reis Effendi, and handed over by the latter Minister to Sir Robert Gordon. In this document the Baron Muffling guarantees, with the whole strength of the Prussian Mo- narchy, and in the most solemn and unequivocal form, the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, upon the condition of negotiations being immediately and bona fide entered into by the Porte, on the basis previously agreed upon by the Three Great Powers. The departure of Baron Muffling is considered in the Government circles a conclusive proof that he had succeeded in his ob- ject, as, in case of failure, his instructions commanded him to remain at his post to the last extremity. The Baron had been for some time previous to his departure in direct and active communication with the Russian Com- mander-in-Chief, the Count Diebitsch, his intimate personal friend."
