The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-02 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

Since our last publication, we have received further
communications from Constantinople. None of these,
however, are of more recent date than the 18th
ult.; all are written before the decision of the Coun-
cil of State wu knows. The best informed of our

Anansopearies, here and on the continent, are in
ebe imp predicament. The state of information
reonadeg the Esstern question, here in the west, is
thorn ere this:—On the strength of a telegraphic
dieratch received at Vienna, it is believed that the
Otesesan Conseil of State has adopted the last reloa-
ds. et the Vienna proposals, with "slight modifica-
dos." A copy of the Dote, embodying these pro-
rtand of the modifications required by the
' has come to hand. But the circumstances
under which the modified nose was adopted, and the
exact time at which it was adopted, have yet to be
learned. Apparently the decision of the Council of
State was taken toe late to admit of anything being
forwarded by the last despatches, but the note itself
and the proposed modifications.
We are therefore necessarily igoorant of the effect
which the decision of the Council of State has had
upon the public mind even at Constantinople, to say
nothing of the provinces. This is a consideration
which the limes, and other journals in the intermit
of Kuria and the other despotic powers, have seen fit
to leave out of account in their attempts to bully
the Porte into an unconditional acceptance of the
Vienna proposals. They have wilfully forgotten
that the government at Constantinople might be
willing to adopt the proposals, and yet usable on
account of popular irritation. There is a public
'opinion, and in great crises that opiasian is influen-
tial in Turkey as well as elsewhere. There are
moods of every people which no government can
safely shock or counteract. In insisting upon the
adoption of the Vienna proposals verbatim it lite-
ratim, the inspirers of the Times might be
exposing the government at Constantinople to
the danger of insurrection. This renders
the vulgar and virulent diatribes against
the Porte, emitted on the assumption that it would
sot adopt the proposals without modification, more
disgusting and contemptible, if possible, even than
they would otherwise be.
Of all our additional Constantinopolitan corres-
pondence the following is the only one that seems to
merit publication :

" CONSTANTINOPLE, Atm. 18.

" I must recapitulate, in the first place. On the
11th inst., we received here the intelligence that
Russia had accepted the proposals of England and
France, transmitted by Austria in the name of the
four powers. The news was confirmed a few days
later. Since then several councils have been held on
the subject by the Ottoman ministers, and the Coun-
cil of State is summoned for this day to deliberate
upon it.
" A majority of the ministers and members of the
Great Council is disposed to accept the proposals.
minority stands out upon two points. In the
first place, it insists upon an express guarantee of the
four mediating powers, which is not embodied in the
proposal, though necessarily implied by the very fact
of their intervention. The second point will cause
less difficulty—it may be evaded by the change or
addition of a few unimportant and unessential wards.
It arises out of a vapeness of expression in the note,
the consequence of hasty redaction.
' "If Turkey were to insist upon an express guaran-
tee, Russia might make the addition a pretext for
reopening the whole discussion; at all events, time
would require to be taken to submit it for Russian
assent, which would render more despatches and ne-
gotiations necessary. But if the Porte adopt the
proposals as Russia has done, and at the same time
addresses to each of the powers a note stating its in-
terpretation of the vague phrase, and assigning as
the reason of its acceptance its moral certainty of the
guarantee of the four powers, the solution of the
difficulty will be complete and final.
" The prevalent opinion is that this will be the
course adopted, and that the Sultan, who inclines
decidedly to peace, will use every
.effort to arrive at
this solution. Still parties and individuals in the
council will look to the preservation of their popu-
larity and the gratification of their ambition. The
debate has been animated, and may possibly not be
concluded at a single sitting.
" There is a general sense of soreness here at the
powers having substituted by anticipation their last
proposal for the Turkish note of the 23rd of July,
which is in substance the same, and which also
omitted to stipulate for an express guarantee, which
the war party insists upon ; using the omission,
which it attributes to Reschid Pacha (under the in-
fluence of Lord Canning), as a means of ruining that
minister. The oppoeitiun to the proposal of the
ministers hu also this end in view. But a short
time will elapse after the decision before there is a
modification of the ministry. The fall of Reschid
Pacha is probable • and, if it take place, Mehemet
Ali and perhaps lilted Effendi will take office. The
predominance of the national party—represented
principally by Mehemet Ali and Mahmed Itashdi—
would prol.,Ably leave Mustapha Pacha provisional
grand eir.ier, as he is personally obnoxious to none."

We read in the Pairie: A correspondence from
the borders of the Black Sea, of the 181 h, announces
that the %owls forming the fourth divisioq of the
Hessian fleet had all entered Sebastopol, with the
exception of four small ships appointed t j watch the
Caucasian coast. The sea had foe aerernl days been
covered with a thick tug, which made navigation
difficult."