The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-30 00:00:00

TURKEY.

The following telegraphic dispatch wasreeeived yes-
terday : " Vienna, June 28.—The last accounts from
Constantinople are to the 18th. M. Balabine, the last
member of the Russian legation remaining at the
hotel of the embassy, left Constantinople on the 17th
with the refusal of the Porte to accede to the last
ultimatum sent by the government of the Czar. M.
Balabine took with him in the steamer to Odessa
the archives of the Russian embassy."
According to the above despatch, the diplomatic
relations between Russia and the Porte, which were
not entirely broken up so long as M. Balabine re-
mained at the Russian embassy, are now at au end ;
but there is nothing in the despatch to show whether
the rejection of the Porte was unqualified, or whether
it was accompanied, as some of the German
journals pretend, by a proposition suggested by the
Austrian ambassador, of a nature to open the way
to new negotiations. Neither is it said whether
M. Balabine proceeds to St. Petersburg or remains
at Odessa. If he has gone on to the capital, the
statement of the Emperor of Russia having revoked
the power he had given to Prince Menchikoff to
give orders for the occupation of principalities of the
Danube immediately on receiving the news of the
rejection of the last ultimatum, and to await fur-
ther orders from his Majestj;;aieserobably, correct.
This statement cannot be to an authentic
source, but it has arrived from so many quer-
ters that we may suppose that it was an authorised
one. It it was false, the question assumes a serious
aspect; but if true, and the rejection of the ultima-
tum was accompanied by propositions which the Em-
peror of Russia could not decline without showing
that he is more desirous of war than peace, the next
accounts from St. Petersburg may be of a satisfac-
tory character. It will be perceived that there is
no allusion in the telegraphic despatch to the ac-
count given in the alonge Gazette of M. Bala-
bine having on the 11th presented a second
note from Count Nesselrode to the Turkish Minister
for Foreign Affairs, in which the Russian Minister is
said, whilst declaring that the Emperor, his master,
would withdraw no part of his demands, to have added
that, if the Sultan was desirous of negotiating, he
must commence by dismissing his present ministers,
and appointing others less hostile to Russia. The
inconsistency of such a communication, to sal, nothing
of its dictatorial tone, is so great, that it is hardly
possible to believe that the Cologne Gazette was well
informed.
It is, however, still open to ns to believe that at
the eleventh hour the Czar will come to his senses,
and accept the large concessions of Turkey. The
declaration by the Porte that it recognises a moral
engagement towards all the Christian powers rest-
ing the favours accorded to its Christian subjects
includes, in fact, all that is material in Prince
Menchikoff's last demand.

The following is • full translation of the letter
addressed by Count Nesselrode to Reschid Pasha, a
summary of which appeared in our columns on Tues-
day last :
St. Petersburg, May 31, 1853.
_ _ _

Sir,—The Emperor, my august master, has just been
informed that his ambassador has been under the necessity
of leaving Constantinople, in consequence of the peremp-
tory refusal of the Port to take towards the Imperial govern-
ment of Russia the smallest engagement of a nature to re-
assure it of the protective intentions of the Ottoman govern-
ment with regard to the orthodox worship and churches in
Turkey.
It is after a fruitless sojourn of three month•—after
having exhausted, by word of mouth and by writing, all
that truth, ►enevolence, and a spirit of conciliation could
dictate—ltis, finally, after having endeavoured to meet
(nOtager) all the scruples of the Porte by successive modi-
fications, to which he had consented in the terms and the
form of the guarantees which ho was instructed to demand
—that Prince Menchik.ff was compelled to take the deter-
mination which the Emperor learns with sorrow, but of
which he could but entirely approve.
Your Excellency is too enlightened not to foresee the
consequences of the interruption of our relations with de
government of his highness. You are too devoted to the
true and permanent inteiests of your sovereign and his em-
pire not to feel a profound regret in prevision of the events
which may follow, and the responsibility of w►ich must rest
entirely on those who provoke them.

Thus, in addressing this letter today to your Excellency,
my only object is to put it in your power, in so far as it is
still possible, to render a most important service to your
sovereign. Place once more the real situation of affairs
before his highness ; explain to him the moderation and the
Justice of the demand of Russia ; the very great insult done
to the Emperor by opposing to hie intentions, which have
constantly been friendly and generous, unfounded mistrust
and inexcusable refusals.

The dignity of his Majesty, the interests of his empire,
the voice of his conscience, do not permit him to accept
such proceedings in return for those which he has had, and
still wishes to entertain, with Turkey. He must seek to
obtain their reparation, and to provide against their recur-
rence in future.

Ina few weeks the troops will receive the order to cross
the frontiers of the empire, not to wage war, which it is re-
pugnant to his Majesty to undertake against a Sovereign
whom it has always pleased him to consider a sincere ally,
but to obtain those material guarantees until the moment
when, brought to more equitable sentiments, the Ottoman
government will give to Russia the moral securities which
the has in vain demanded for two years through her repro-

her ambassador.
The draft of the note which Prince Menchikoff pre-
sented to you is in your hands. Let your Excellency
hasten, after having obtained the consent of his Highness
the S..ltan, to sign that note, sans variantes, and to trans-
mit it without delay, to our ambassador at Odessa, where
he still sojourns.
I earnestly hope that at this decisi•e moment the counsel
labial I address to your Excellency, with the confidence
I with which your enlightened •iews and patriotism inspire
me, will be apprecia•cd by you and by your colleagues in
the Divan; and that, in the interests of peace, which we
ought all to be equally desirous of maintaining, it will be
adopted without hesitation, and without delay.
I am, &e., Nr.ssrbitonr.