The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

A smart shock of earthquake was felt in Lisbon on
the 4th inst.
Elections in different parts of Portugal to fill up
vacancies in the Chamber of Deputies had tenni-
mated in favour of Ministerial candidates.
There was a great influx of gold, and English
sovereigns consequently were at a discount of 511
reis. Silver was scarce.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
ANOTHER NESSELRODE N oTE.-4Contemporanenusly
with the Imperial manifesto which we published last
week, Count Nesselrode issued a circular " note" to
the diplomatic agents of Russia at foreign Courts.
The following is a translation of this document :

"St. Petersburg, t►et. 19 (31 ),
" Sir,—The efforts which we have not ceased to make for
the last eight months to arrive at the amicable arrange-
ment of our differences with the Ottoman empire have
been hitherto unhappily fruitless. Nay more, the sitnat ig
seems to tend every day to aggravate greatly. While the
Emperor offered, during his interview at Olnnitz with his
intimate friend and ally the Emperor Francis Joseph, new
facilities to the Ottoman Cabinet to clear the misunder-
standing which has been attached to the motives set forth
by us for rejecting the modifications which the Porte wished
to introduce into the note concerted at Vienna, the Porte.
yielding, notwithstanding the ciattisels of the Eurliptsui
representatives at Constantinople, no the impulse of warlike
ideas and of M ussulman fanaticism, has, as yon are already
aware, formally declared war against us. That precipitate
measure has, neve►theless, made no change in the pacific
ilispirsitions of the Emperor. We do not on that account
yet abandon the resolutions announced from the begh eee il ig
our Oreiller of the •t ith of June (id July I. At that
period his Majesty declared that, in temporarily occupying
the principalities as a material guarantee destined to
venire hint the satisfaction which he demands, he did not
wish to push further the measnres of coercion, and would
avoid an offensive war as lung as his dignity and his
interests
":tot the present I and in spite of the new psi% nen-
lien which has now been addressed to him, the intentions
Pliny august master remain the mime. Possessed of the
material pledge which the occupation of the two %ado-
Wailachian provinces gives us, although we are always
ready, aecording to our promises, to evacuate them front
the moment that reparation shall have been made to us, we
shall content ourselves provisionally with maintaining our
Isisitions there, remai 111 l ig on the iiefensive, as long as we
shall not have been forced to quit the circle within which
we desire to confine our action. We will await the attack
of the Turks, whined assuming the ill i l Wive of hostilities.
It will consequently depend altogether on the other pavers
not to enlarge the limits of the war. it• the Turks should
persist in absolutely commencing it, and tint to impart to
it a eharacter different from that which we' intend to leave
it. This situation, altogether of an expectant character,
d.e.fg not throw any obstacle in the way of continuing nego-
tiations. As is to be expected, after the declaration of war
whivb has been natio, it is not for Ituviiit to stoic for uvw