The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-04 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Although it is confirmed that Count Leiningen, on
arriving at Trieste from Constantinople, informed
his government by telegraph that the Porte had
"conceded all his demands, the latest letters from
Vienna make it in the highest degree probable that
this result is only due to the revision and abatement
of the first original requirements of Austria, and that
merely secondary questions have been settled in his
negociation. This was to be expected from the nature
of the questions raised in some of those demands
which admitted of no settlement by private compact
between Austria and the Porte, but called for the'
concurrence of the western powers whose policy is
bound up with the territorial integrity of Turkey.
Until the nature of the concessions to Austria are
made known politicians will be curious to learn
the sense in which the two courts understand the
"protection" of the Bosnian Christians claimed by
Austria, and which it is understood is one of the
points oa which Turkey has yielded. It is to be
supposed that this prerogative is in future to be in
kind what it was before the mission of Count Leinin-
gen—namely, a right to stipulate for certain privi-
leges to be enjoyed by the Christian population, and
to remonstrate upon any failure in that engagement.
That any right to interfere with the internal or-
ganisation of Bosnia, or to meddle with the interior
affairs of the province, as Russia has lately inter-
fered in Sends, and is at this moment doing in Mol-
davia, is inconceivable.

Though Trieste accounts have been received from
Constantinople of the 12th, at which date the Porte
had frankly acceded to all that was just and well
founded in the demands of the court of Vienna, but
had made reserves to the possession of the ports of
Bleck and Sntorina, insisting on this question being
submitted to the decision of France and England.
That reply had not led to the result expected by the
Porte, and on the morning of the 12th, Count de
Leiningen informed the Porte that he should take
his departure in the course of the day with all the
persons of the legation. M. de Lavalette and Col.
Rose then interfered with the Austrian envoy, and
with much difficulty induced him to wait 24 hours
longer. But the count declared that that delay was
the last which he could accord, his instructions being
formal ; and matters were in that state when these
accounts left.

The ports in question are the only ones which
Turkey possesses on the Albanian coast to the north
of Antivari, and it is of the greatest importance that
she should not be hindered in making a natural use
of them, namely, as maritime outlets for the province
of Bosnia and Herzegowina. Austria has two reasons
for objecting to this ; and the position of the Turkish
ports, forming, as they do, the termination of strips
of territory enclosed on each side by possessions of
Austria, makes it easy for this power to enforce its
will. By insisting on a pretended right to exclusive
navigation in the waters into which the ports open,
Austria secures the transit of commodities destined
for Herzegowina and the west of Turkey through
her own custom-houses ; and while thus possessing
her

herself of revenues fairly belonging to neigh-
hour, makes the provinces thus supplied less valuable
to Turkey, in the hope of some day getting them
thereby on easier terms. It is to be hoped that the
Porte has not found it necessary to abandon its rights
on this subject.
The Trieste Ga:ette states from Constantinople,
12th alt. :—u The French ambassador has obtained
from the Ottoman Porte an ind'mnity for the holders
of the coupons of the loan. The sum is not fixed,
but the principle is decided on."