The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-24 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The latest elucidation which the present position
of the Russo-Turkish question has received is fur-
nished by the Russian document which we give
below. It is derived from the Zeit of Berlin, a paper
having relations with the Prussian premier, and ap-
pears to be an extract from a despatch or note.
Yesterday his Excellency the Ottoman Ambassa-
dor had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon at
the Foreign-office.
A despatch announcing that Lord Stratford de
Bedeliffe had pressed the diplomatists of the Vienna
conference to resume their meetings was yesterday
published in London. We have reason to know that
his lordship made no such request.
The lithographic sews sheet of Berlin states that
on the 17th the Prussian government sent to M. de
Wildenbruch, its ambassador at Constantinopm' de-
spatches enjoining him to induce the Ottomsu Porte
to accept the note of Vienna without modification.
It adds that the Prussian consul-general in the
Danubian principalities, M. de Meusebach, has re-
ceived a decoration from the Czar.

The German papers publish the following de-
spatch: _ _

"Vienna, Sept. 21.
"At the repeated instances of the &Tile!' ambas-
sador [the Earl of Westmoreland] the conferences
have been resumed. The ambassadors considered
the urgency and expediency of collective anion, and
it was finally resolved that all the ministers of the
great powers at Constantinople should declare in
common that the Vienna Note does not contain aught
to endanger the sovereignty of the Sultan, as the
Porte had conceived. No further joint assurances
would ho
To the proposition to give a more explicit declare.
tion to the Porte, M. Buol objected that it was
impossible to give precise guarantees, and that to
give vague assurances might be attended with
danger.
With a view to bringing the points of difference
between Russia and the Porte more readily before
the public, we subjoin those portions of the original
Vienna draft which have been modified by the Porte,
and the modifications themselves, adding the objec-
tions of Resebid Pacha to the first and of M. de Nes-
selrode to the second.

VIENNA NOTE.

If at all times the Emperors of Russia have testi-
fied their active solicitude for the maintenance of tho
privileges and immunities of tho orthodox Greek
church in the Ottoman empire, the Sultans have
never refused to consecrate them again by solemn
acts.

If at all times the Emperors of Russia have borne
witness to their active solicitude for the worship of
the orthodox Greek church, the Sultans have never
ceased to watch over the maintenance of the immu-
nities and privileges of that worship and of that
church in the Ottoman empire, and to consecrate
them again.
SZSCHID PACHA X. DS NISSELSODS.

It is natural, and there is These words, "in the
nothing to be said spinet it, Ottoman Empire," and them
that the Emperors of Russia " the maintenance of the ire-
should testily their solicitude munitiel and privilegesi,&c."
for the prosperity of the are suppressed in order to be
church and of the religion pieced below, and to be ap-
which they profess. But, ac- plied exclusively to the Sul-
cording to the above-cited tans. This pupprcssion takes
paragraph, it would be un- away the whole signification,
dentood that the privileges and even the entire sense of
of the Greek church in the the mutilated passage ; for
States of the Sublime Porte nobody denies to the cove-
have only been maintained reigns of Russia their active
by the active solicitude of the solicitude for the frith which
Emperors of Russia. they profess themselves, and
It is to OIL ob'crved, how- which is that of their sub-
ever, that tre fact of inserting jests. That which it was
in a note to be given by the wished not to recognise is,
Sublime Porte the above- that at all times Russia has
mentioned paragraph, such shown an active solicitude
as it is in the projec., for its co.ragicairs in Tur-
for religious privileges which key, and for the maintenance
since the days of Mehe- of their religious franchises,
med the Conqueror of and that the government is
glorious memory down to resolved to adhere to that so-
the present day, have been licitude, and to preserve
°drop.; and maintained with- those privileges intact.
out the participation of any The turn given to the
one whomsoever, would im- phrase is so much the more
ply and offer pretexts to the unacceptable, because, by
Russian government to pre- the expressions ich follow,
tend to mix itself up in such there is attributed to the Sul-
matters. tans more than solicitude for
_

No one could consent to the orthodox worship. It
draw upon himself the re- is affirmed that they have
preaches end the blame of Lever ceased to watch ova
his contemporstita, as well the maintenance of these ia-
es ef po.tcr.ty, by allowing munities and privilegee, and
the establishment of a state to confirm them by sole=
of things as hurtful to the acts. The facts aro dime•
present as to the future. trically contrary to what ia
No servant of the august here affirmed ; and, COOli.
Imperial Ottoman family dericg what has taken plasm
dare, or would be capable, of more than once Ively, and
putting into writing words eeoecially in the affair of the
which would tend to dimi- Holy PLices, we are forced
wish the glory of the in.titu- to sick a remedy for theta
thous which the Ottuman tin- by squiring mere positive
perces have founded by a guerantees fur the future.
spontaneous movement of If we consent to scheme-
their personal generosity and ledge that the Ottoman
innate clemency. vernment has never eeasel tie
watch over the maiatenance
of the privilegis at the Greek
church, what then hucomee
of the complaints which we
have raised against it ? We
”ur:lst. admit-
ting by it that we have no
substantial wrong that the
TU:SSI,..I ~f Pence 31i uchik.4l
was without motive, and, in
a word, that the note which
has been addressed to us is
itself superfluous.