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 HIGHLY INTERESTING.
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York, the highly interesting intelligence is

 received that Declaration of War has ac-

 tualIy been issued by Nicholas I. against

 his powerful and inveterate enemy, the

 Grand Sultan. The following is the doc

 ument.

 DECLARATION.

 "The wishes of Russia to remain at peace with a neighbOring nation have proved vain. Sixteen years have passed since the peace of Bucharest, and for the same period we have seen the Porte act contrary to the stipulations of the treaty, evade it's promises, or indefn- itely delay the fulflment of them. But too many proofs which the Imperial Cabinet will adduce, irrefragably prove the hostile tenden- cy of the policy of the Divan. On more than one occasion, particularly in 1891, the Port assumed with respect to Russia d char acter of defiance and open hostility. For these three months past. 1t has again assum- ed this character, by formal acts and measures which are known to all Europe.

 "On the same day that the Ambassadors of those Powers, who, by convention free from all self interestedness, are united in a cause, which is no other than that of religion and of sufering humanity, expressed at their departure from ConstantinOple, an ardent wish that peace migh. be preserved; it sum- moned all nations professlng the MahOmetan faith to arms against Russia, denouncIng her as the implacabe enemy of lslamism, accus- ing her Of designs tO overthrow the Ottoman Empire and while it announces its resolu- ton to negotiate, for the sole parpose oi gaining time for arming, hut never intending to fulfil the essential articles of the treaty ol Akerman, it. declares at the same time, that they concluded that treaty with no other de- sign than that of breakingit.

 Scarcely had the Sultan spoken with the yassels of his crown, when the privileges OI the Russian flag were already violated, the ships covered by it detained, the cargoes se- Questured, the commanders of the ships obi. ged to dispose of them at prices arbitrarily fixed, the amount of an incomplete and tardy payment reduced to one half, and the subjects of his Majesty tine Emperor compelled either to descend into the class of Rayas or to leave