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London, England, 1853-06-25 00:00:00

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 employes
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 Mitiesty 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 Grand 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.
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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.

JUNE 25, 1853.

THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM.
THE SHAH FIGHT, JUNE 23.
(From a Correspondent.)
L.►sr week I gave the readers of the PRESS a picture of
the still life of the camp. Let me see if I can daguerrotype
the moving panorama of Tuesday last. A sight of the
great avenue of Windsor Park, crowded with carriages,
horsemen, and pedestrians, as I drove from the station to
the ground, was enough to convince me of the attraction
of the spectacla we were about to witness, and also to cor-
rect an impression very common among us English people
that we have little love of soldiering. I very much ques-
tion whether the brilliant reviews of the much larger en-
campment of Satory, conducted by the Emperor in per-
son, attract a third of the number of Frenchmen, as do
the field days at Chobham our peace-mongering Saxons
What else but the true bump of combativeness could have
impelled a hundred thousand Londoners twenty-six miles
along a cross road?
The first view of the camp as I got upon the ground.
just after the arrival of her Majesty and the Prince, was
grand in the extreme. The approach from the Windsor-
road is much more effective than that from Chertsey, huts-
much as the spectator sees the whole encampment at one
view spread out in a crescent upon the side of the hill.
The faint sound of the national anthem at the extreme
left of the line gave warning that the Royal promenade in
front of the troops had begun, and looking over the busy
foreground of coaches, cabs, carriages, waggons, horsemen,
and pedestrians, I saw the line of ten thousand men
stretching for nearly two miles, and ruled like a red ink
line across the heath. Making my way towards a moving
mass of glittering uniforms and dancing feathers, I ob-
tained an excellent view of her Majesty, the Prince, and
the King of Hanover, as they slowly walked their horses
down the line. Her Majesty rode a black charger, which,
by-the-bye, she managed admirably, and wore a blue
riding-habit, and a simple round felt hat, surmounted by a
white military plume. As she passed along the line, the
Prince on one side, the Kiug on the other, preceded by
Lord Hardinge the Commander-in-Chief, and Lord
Seaton, the Commander of the Division, she returned the
military salute of the troops with spirit and precision.
Each regiment as she passed caught up the national
anthem, which was thus borne gently along the entire line
with quite a dramatic effect. In the midst of all this
glitter and show, himself suggesting with the Queen the
centre of attraction of the vast. multitude looking on, rode
the poor blind young King, his horse led by an officer in
the Hanoverian uniform, forming the one touch of melan-
choly in the bright and happy scene
The inspection of the troops over, the Royal party,
attended by a guard of honour, retired to an elevated point
commanding the southern side or hollow of the heath,
and quite out of sight of the encampment, which lies on
the northern slope.
The ridges of high ground which form the centre of the
common are shaped somewhat like two crescents, with
their convexities towards each other ; thus they each look
down upon a hollow tract of land. That on the southern
side, being less boggy and more extensive, was therefore
chosen as more suitable than the other for the evolutions
of the troops. Every point of high ground was imme-
diately covered with the multitude of spectators, her
Majesty and suite occupying an eminence to the left of
the scene of action.
The celerity of the troops' movements took every one
by surprise. The spectator had scarcely time to gain the
top of the ridge which commands both camp and reviewing
ground, to take out his glass, and lo ! the long line of
motionless troops he had the moment before been watching
were nowhere to be seen. The tents were deserted, and it
seemed as if the entire army had by enchantment sunk into
the ground. I asked a sentry what had become of them?
" Oh, you'll see 'em directly, behind the brow of the bill
out yonder," he replied, pointing to the extreme right of
the extensive landscape. And sure enough the bearskin
caps of the Grenadiers soon began to peer over the shoulder
of a hill in one direction, and the plumes of the High-
lenders to move in another; then came out a cloud of
black spots towards the middle of the landscape, right
down in the hollow. They looked to the naked eye no
bigger than the grounds at the bottom of a teacup ; pre-
sently the scattered ground*—l beg pardon, the riflemen—
made a simultaneous dash in one direction, to gain a ditch
right in advance. It was no sooner gained than its whole
length was mapped by a white line of smoke, whilst the
sharp crack of rifles came quick upon the ear. The 42nd
II ighlanch n s, who, by-the-bye, led the attack by throwing out
skirmishirg parties, having dislodged the enemy, an
enem by-the-bye that everybody was looking for and whom
nob dv could see. the whole attackirg patty advanced.
The cavalry were seen every now and then as their breast-
pines gh amed beneath the tree, or their plumes fluttered.
stealing round in the distance to turn the left flank of the

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apocryphal enemy,while the Footauards in the second and
third brigade of infantry marched out boldly on the
plain, supported by the artillery, which thundered away
from an eminence in the rear. The enemy having
taken up a position on a rising ground, called Flutter's-hill,
which was covered by people, the Foot Guards charged
at the rear with fixed bayonets, and the surging movement
upwards of column after column was perhaps the most ex-
citing thing of the day, and much more pleasant no doubt
to the spectators in the distance than to the peaceable
civilians who suddenly found themselves the objects of
attack. A glittering wall of steel in front advancing
rapidly upon them, hemmed in by the cavalry in the rear,
and open to the battery of horse artillery on their left
flank, the whole mass took to its heels like a flock of sheep,
much to the amusement of those more securely placed.
What became of the enemy we know not ; indeed.
it was a most contemptible enemy, consisting of only
a hundred of the Welch Fusiliers, the same number
el' Sappers and Miners, and the cavalry farriers. The
want of a respectable force on the other side made the
whole affair pointless—as bad, almost, as playing at whist
with a treble dummy. There were no charges of cavalry,
as the ground is not fitted for such movements, a horse's
leg having been broken on the last field-day ;iu fact, the
main object of the display was to parade the entire divi-
sion before her Majesty. This took place at the end of the
proceedings, the entire army pouring over the brow of
Flutter's-hill, and down its side directly in front of the
Royal party. This movement was extremely curious, each
column as it rose over the brow of the hill, and
then discharged its living flood down the steep slope, giving
it the appearance—if we may be allowed so daring a simile
—of a gigantic water-wheel in motion. Tho tine condition
of the different regiments as they marched across the
open ground, their respective bands playing, was univer-
sally admired, the Rifles and the Highland regiments
however, hearing off the palm for the beauty of their drill.
The latter regiments, indeed, moved like one piece, their
philibegs swaying from side to side as they marched with
all the precision of machinery. The artillery, both horse
and foot, were in beautiful order; and the ease with which
they climbed up and down the steep ground, like cats, was
very remarkable. The review over, the Royal party re-
tired for refreshment to the Queen's pavilion, and, after re-
maining here for some time, took its departure for Wind-
' sor, amidst a parting salute from the entire line drawn up
on the parade-ground. The rain now came on heavily, and
the rush off the common of the immense multitude of
' spectators formed a fitting finale of the day's proceedings.