The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-26 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aco. 11.
Details of a conspiracy among the students or
seas, at Constantinople, have found their way into
some of the leading London journal.. There is not
one word of truth in these reports.
The suspicious attitude of Austria, the declaration
of her Consul to the Prince of Servia, and the move-
meats of her forces on many points contiguous to
the Turkish territory, isa new subject of anxiety to the
I Porte. The occupation of Servia is an event generally
I apprehended, sooner or later; but, whether Austria,
in the execution of this measures be acting
on her own account, or as an accomplice in the Rue-
sian invasion, is still a matter of conjecture. A
grand council has been held to deliberate on this un-
expected complication, and it has been resolved to
Idespatch a Turkish commissioner with instructions
for the local authority, and to send reinforcements
to the fortified toyrn of Nissa and to the garrison ot
Belgrade. Moreover, the Servian charge d'affidree,
M. Nikolaievitz, has been commissioned to impels
on Prince Alexander the necessity of using all his
efforts, with a view to the preservation of order,
that no pretext may exist for Austrian intervention;
and the attempt, if made, vigorously to resist.
After the sitting of the conned, on the same day M.
„de Bruck had an interview with Reshid Packs, he
read to him a despatch from the Austrian Cabinet, in
order to complete the explanations already given ia
reference to the projected occupation of Servia.
The Austrian government declares it to be a mere
mum of precaution, in order to support and assist
the local authorities, in case of any insurrectionary
movement manifesting itself in those provinces--an
event not improbable at the present juncture. More-
over, it states that, should the present general perturba-
tion be prolonged, all governments will be under the
necessity of increasing their armaments and watch-
ing the course of events ; that, for this purpose, the
combined fleets of France and England are stationed
at Besika Bay; and that Austria, in a like manner,
without the slightest hostile intention to the Porte,
has been compelled to take a military position for her
own security.
This language held by M. de Bruck to the Turkish
government, as well as to the representatives with
whom he has been acting, his not produced, it is
laid, conviction in the minds of many.
Reshid Plebe, it appears, declared, in reply to the
Internuocio, that the Porte, would never consent,
under any circumstances, to the unsolicited armed
intervention of any power; and the Minister's sus-
picions in respect to the real policy of Austria are
not only shared by his colleagues, but by most of the
influential men in this country.
The London Convention, in substance, is now
generally known at Constantinople. Lord Radcliffe
km thrown off at last the reserve assumed with his
colleagues in reference to that project, and avowed
to one, it is said, with whom he is more especially
allied, that his silence on the subject proceeded from
the hopes he entertaint d of being enabled to divert
his government from the adoption of that plan, and
that he had frankly stated his views to Lord Claren-
don. Meantime, Lord Redeliffe has not omitted to
communicate this project to the Divan in a friendly
and unofficial manner till further and weeise instruc-
tions from oar government.
ResehitlTacha, it is said, received it with manifest
aversion and displeasure, and declared to our ambas-
sador that any such project of adjustment, were it
for no other reason than its form, would be inadmis-
sible; that the Porte had given the most explicit
assurances in reference to the matter at issue, in its
manifesto to the Mussulman population ; but that
she will never consent by a diplomatic bilateral act
to an engagement with any power in respect to the
privileges and immunities of the Greek reli-
gion in 'turkey— franchises voluntarily ac-
corded by Mahomet the Second; and that to
connect those in any way with the treaties of
Kainardji and Adrianople would be virtually to
recognise and justify the pretensions of Russia. He
added, that the preamble of the contention is, per.