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int 1:) rtifiti• LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1853. POSTSCRIPT. HOUSE OF The Meriptis of CrAware-urns gave notice that on Thurs day nett ha would more an address to her Majesty on the snbjaot of a eirealior note recently published, and which he thought had a most important bearing on the political repel at the great powers of Europe. The Bishop of Itsuseusy entered into a long statement in reply to a chow that had appeared against him of mai venation of eadmiestisal y, in order to show that it bad not the slightest foundation. Lord 1110.174GLE moved tor a select committee to con sidsr the esmiagnanses et extending the functions of the reentahnkay V fished to the suppression or prevention of Mgt antillStloll. Tim •ed of Assam= meested to the motion. P The Zed se CAIIDIGAN inquired whether the Govern ment hstessled to prosecute the two Roman Catholic priests imploded is the ride M the late Clare election ? And also awed for a copy of the correspondenee whieh had passed between the - Prime Minister and certain Raman Cedielle imettlemen in reference to their resignaties of The Eel of AIUMW said that it was not istenial to pimiento those priests, bat that measaras woad be taken to mewl the pulls silky at the ensuing lee fbr Clara As the referred to was sot of a 'dried:, Mktg eharsotof, be declined to prodnce it. The awl of Dims animadverted upon the conduct of the p a t GMIIIIIIIIIII4 in the iiiimile-hridge Whir, and denied that equal *lies had been dealt out between the soldiers mud priests sappspid. ir The Loan CIIANOULLOS defended the course pursued by the Government. After some further conversation, in which the Earl of Eomwrow, Lied CANTISZLL, the Earl of CLANCAIITY, and the Duke of NEWCAMTLK took part, the subject dropped, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FazDAL At the morning sitting yesterday the Leasing Powers ( Ireland) Bill permed through committee, after a graceful compliment frees Dr. IPhillinsore to Mr. Napier for the ability, discretion, and good temper he had exhibited in the =trand throughout the progress of this end other easures. Mr. F. Frani, amide* the baglater of the committee, congratulated the Ira sumeohas epos ear abstinence from opposition. Some propose wan also made with are tommtnee on the Landlord end Tenant ( lrehunl) At the evening sitting, Lord Pomizawros, in reply to a question, stated his in tention of introducing, during the present session, a mea sure to correct the evils of the truck system. DIP INDIA. The adjourned debate was WsuneiltY Mr. nett ( who declined to give way in favour of Mr. Macaulay, for whom there were land mile). The hon. member, in a long speech, opposed the bill, and concluded by supporting Lord Stan ley's amendment. Mr. MACAULAY, in a brilliant. address, supported the bill, which, as a measure altering but not finally settling the future government of India, was the scheme for which Parliament was entitled te look. lie thought that too much stress had been laid throughout the discussion on the impsagems of lie home Government. Grave as that comeldsration might be, it was of infinitely greater importance that we should raise up the character of the Indiaut service. The on of the Conn of Directors had been much in upon, but one bad collector (an officer upon whose administrative importance in Indio' Mr. Macaulay much dwelt) muffed torsiore mischiefthan six indifferent directors. He deprecated say extension of the field of patronage, and asserted that the day on which the civil serviee ceased to be a close service would he the beginning of an age of jobbing and corruption. At present the 6overnor-General .had a wide choice of instruments fix the government of India, lint still he must choose from a certain set of in struments. Supporting strongly that portion of the plan which proposed to throw open the service to competition, and meeting in a strain of sarcasm the arguments of those who denied that literary and scientific distinction in this country ought to constitute a teat for promotion to the In dian service, he Twisted on to the prospective plan for the admission of native Indians to the Oovennuent—a pro posal to which he attached the greatest weight. The night hon. gentleman concluded by an exhortation that we should not keep the people of India ignorant in order that we might keep them manageable—that we should not govern them in ignorance that we might govern them long. Mr. Ilt.Averrr contended that our system of governing India had led to wastefuhtess and negligence, which the present bill would not cure ; and he relied on the manu facturing and commercial representatives in the house to support Lord Stanley's amendment. Lord .locet.rx, without approving of the details of the Govegment plan, insisted upon the necessity imme dime legislation. He expressed a hope that pmts of the bill which were objectionable would be remedied in committee. fr Orwsv tied the ameadment, b e heviag that the tendency orrsill was to continue the present vicious system of legislation. Nr. Antataray opposed the hit hat proposed to aid to the amendment words which should continue the present act kr a period of two years. THE PRESS. Mr. M&wnzs supported the bill, and passed a warm enlogtnm on the present administration of stairs by the Government of India. On the motion of Mr. FLutcts VILLIERS the debate was adjourned. The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the house adjourned. BY THE PRINCE MENSCHIKOFF AFTER HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE MINISTER OF FOREIUN AFFAIRS, REDSCHID PACHA. [Translated treat the Original French.] Bujnkdere de Constantinople, IRth May, 1853. Tas undersigned Ambassador Extraordinary of his Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias has had the honour to receive the notification of the Sublime Porte dated 3rd (15th) May. It is far from answer ing to the hopes which the kindly reception and the gracious expressions of his Majesty the Sultan had raised in him. In answer to the consecutive notes which the un dersigned has had the honour to transmit to the Ottoman Cabinet, and which, supported by his verbal explanations with the Ministers of the Sublime Porte, could leave no doubt as to the disinterested in tentions of his august master, he has received but illusory and evasive hopes. The two firmans destined to close the debates on the Holy Places of Jerusalem offer, compared with the preceding ones, none of the guarantees which the Emperor desires. The isolated promise to ex tend to our subjects the privileges enjoyed at Jeru salem by the pilgrims and establishments of other nations does but confirm an incontestable right, whose exercise alone claimed the Sultan's sanc tion. The Sublime (Porte, in repelling with distrust the wishes of the Emperor in favour of the Greek- Russian orthodox worship, has thus failed in the deference owing to an august and old ally. She has, therefore, only added a new grievance to those whose redress the undersigned had been ordered to demand, and to justify the serious appre hensions of the imperial Government for the security and the maintenance of the ancient rights of the Oriental Church. The identity of the worship the secular ties cemented by the reciprocal wants and the interests of the two countries as well as by their geographical position, are thus becoming, by a deplorable fault in the policy of the Ottoman Government, instead of being the guarantee of a valid friendship, the permanent cause of an offensive position for Russia. His Highness the Minister of Foreign Affairs has also, in respect to the undersigned, become the organ of propositions which he is the less able to accept, with the reserves attached to them, as they but reproduce those which ho had to reject beforehand; and as the project of separating and graduating in their form the acts which they contain would evidently impugn the idea of making none obligatory but the establishment of a Rnssan hospice at Jerusalem. His Highness RedselLid Paella having given to understand that a responsive note had to be discussed in Council on the basis of these very pro positions, and not wishing, moreover, to express himself in more precise terms, the undersigned only sees therein a new means of delay wb ich can in no way change his determinations. The ensemble of the communications of the Sublime Porte having, consequently, convinced the under signed of the uselessness of his efforts - to bring about, in respect of his reclamations, a satist actory under standing, and one in conformity with the dignity of his august master, he is obliged to de. dare that he considers his mission as terminated. That the Imperial Court could not, I vithont dero gating from her dignity, and exposing 13 erself to new offences, continue to have a legation a t Constanti nople, and to entertain, on the old foot ing, her poli tical relations with the Ottoman Governs nent. That, in consequence of the full power s with which the undersigned is invested, he will qd it Constanti nople, and take with hint all the/In-sou* .1 of the Im perial legation, with the exceptien of th 4 Director of the Commercial Chancellerie, who, with the employe s who are in his offices, will continue to transact the business connected with navigation and commerce, and protect the Russian interests and the despatch • iug of her vessels. That he regrets deeply to be obliged to take this resolution ; but, after having faithfully fulfilled the orders of the Emperor, in submitting to the delibera • tion of the Sublime Porte propositions most concilia tory, most equitable, and most in conformity with the true interests of the Ottoman empire; and having arrived at the painful certainty that the Cabinet of his Majesty the Sultan was not disposed to receive them, and to do them justice ; he fulfils a last duty in re jecting all the responsibility of the consequences which may follow to the Ottoman Cabinet, which seems to have undertaken to raise a grave misunder standing between the two empires. That the refusal of guarantees for the Greek . . Russian orthodox worship must, henceforth, impose on the Government the necessity to seek for them in her own might. That, therefore, any attempt against the states quo of the Oriental Church and its integrity will be • considered by the Emperor as equivalent to an in fraction of the spirit and the letter of the existing stipulations, and as a hostile act towards Russia; which would impose on his Mi t iesty the obligation to have recourse to means which, in his constant solici tude for the stability of the Ottoman empire, and on account of his sincere friendship towards his Mtkjesty the Sultan, and that professed towards his august fathers, the Emperor has always striven to avoid. The undersigned, &c. &e., lizzacnncorr. THE Breslau Zeitung writes, under the date of Paris :—" Of all the offers which might have been made, or will be made, to the Turkish Government by either the Polish, Italian, or Hungarian emi grants, the Porte will accept none. On the other hand, she is willing to accept the services of French or English officers or soldiers who, with consent of their Governments, may be willing to enter the Turkish army. The Embassy in Parts has already received numerous similar applications, and has furnished the applicants with funds for proceeding to their destination." PRUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON THE AFFAIRS Or THE EAST.-011 the 16th inst. a despatch was addressed by the Secretary of State in Berlin to the Prussian Embassies abroad, of which we give the chief contents. The Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin share the same opinions on the differences between Russia and Turkey, but, as they have not been asked for their mediation by Russia. they have had no occasion to interfere directly in this affair; Prussia especially ha.; no occasion for expressing an opinion on the Turkish affair, as no diplomatic com. munications have been made to her on the pending differences. The Embassies are enjoined "to pay attention to the dangers consequent on precipitation on the part of either Russia or France." LZTTRIIII FROM PARIS state that at an interview given by the Emperor to M. Kisseleff, the Russian Minister, he is reported to have said :—" Monsieur l'Ambaasadenr, felt your Sovereign that I do not seek for war; but if war la gins I shall not be the first to return the sword to the scabbard." AN IMPERTAL Dreary. in the Monileter decides that the annual exhibition of the works of living artists for NM shall not take place in that year, but be ned to P.45b, in order to be united to that of the G ran d Univer sal Exhibition which is then to take place in the Champs Elysees. Ix ova Lim. antrum last week we were enabled to an nonce the second rejection of the Russian ultimatum by the Porte. The period allotted to the Sultan for delibera tion did not, however, expire until the 16th ; and a tele graphic despatch dated from Constantinople on that day reached London yesterday afternoon, stating that the de termination of the Turkish Government remained un shaken ; and the ultimatum, therefore, is definitively rejected. THE Vienna Preu states that, if the Russian troops have not yet crossed the Pnith, the delay is owing to the insur mountable obstacles thrown in their way by the overflowing of the Lower Danube and all other rivers in those parts. The plains are transformed into lakes, and the months of the rivers are so encumbered with sand that the commander of the flotilla has declared that the passage would be attended with the greatest dangers. - - Tut: Madrid Gazette of the 18th contains a royal decree ordering the establishment of baths sad washhonses for the poor at Madrid. THE. Minister of Finance, M. Mannel Ideriande de Castro. Ms resigned. U. Luis Pastor is desigaated ss big probe , ble successor.