The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-27 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The Const ytionnel gives the following very un-
satisfactory account of the present state of the nego-
tiations :

If we are well informed, the following is the true exists-
nation of the delay of the prompt and pacific solution of the
Turco-Russian difference, so generally expected. When
the Emperor Nicholas received the divers propositions of
the western powers tending to bring about a friendly com-
promise, he thanked the representatives of those powers for
their good office.. The Czar even acknowledged that the
projects submitted to him were of a nature to permit the
hope of a solution, but added that he w o compelled to
decline the intervention of the Western Powers in this de.
bate, even in a form purely ogle/ease and friendly.
In a word the Emperor Nicholas does not recoznize any
right either for France, Eng'and, Austria, or Prussia, to
interfere in a dispute which he contends is personal to Rus-
sia and lurkey, and regards only those two nations. In
consequence the Czar ts said to have declared, that however
conciliatory the propositions made by the Western I'owers
might be, he could only entertain and answer them in so
far as they might be addressed to him directly by the divan
in the name of the Turkish government. Now, taking the
most favourable view of the matter possible, it is permissible
to suppose teat in ciniformity with this resolution it has been
decided to advise the Sublime Porte itself to propose to Russia
an arrangement founded doubtless upon a basis similar to
that of the jrojects submitted to the Czar by the Western
Powers. Turkey, for her part, before attempting this new
and last mean', will have desired to be assured that the
proposition she was about to make offici illy would not be
rejected; and this explains the olficiemse and preliminary
communication to tke Czar, spoken of in the telegraphic
despatch from Berlin. We have seen, from the text of the
despatch itself, that the proposal of Turkey will not
arrive at St. Petersburg before July 28 at the
soonest, and the answer cannot reach Constan-
tinople till the sth of August. It results from
all this that the official note of Reschid Pada,
which is afterwards to be taken to the Czar by
an Ottomon ambassador, will certainly not be re-
mitted to him t efore August 15. It will, therefore, not
be till the end of August that we can learn in Paris the de-
finitive conclusion of the Turco-Russian difference, assum-
ing always that nothing intervenes to hamper the progress
of the negotiations, that no unforeseen event should com-
plicate the Eastern question, and that the Emperor of Rus•
sia is really dispos"d to lend himself with a good grace to
the speediest possible arrangement.
The Debate has letters from Constantinople of
the 11th, giving some further particulars respecting
the late ministerial crisis. On the evening of the
Bth it was known by the people that warlike coun.
eels were prevailing at the palace, and that Mustapha
Pacha, the Grand Vizier, and ltcschid Pacha, Minister
of Foreign Affairs, had received orders from the
Sultan to remain at home until they were
replaced in the ministry, and people began
to assemble in crowds. The next morning,
at eleven o'clock, a company of the Guard
arrived at the Bagtchi-Capousson, with the Kavass
and inferior I miilves of the Porte, to receive the
new Grand Vizier, and escort him with pomp to the
old seraglio, where the hatti-sherif of investiture was
to be read. A large crowd had been drawn toge-
ther, and great was the disappointment when, at
four o'clock, the soldiers received orders to return to
barracks. The multitude then learned that the
changes which had been announced would
not take place. The news was very ill
received by the soldiers and the public, who were
anxious to see Find Effendi take office, an event
which they would have regarded as a pledge of active
and immediate hostilities. Within the palace, ac-
cording to the correspondent of the DAata, Mehemet
Ali and :Mehemet Resehid Pacha, pressed to take
office, recoiled before the responsibility of the hour.
Lord Stratford arrived at the palace at this juncture,
and, alarmed at the projects entertained, demanded
I audience of the Sultan, remained with him an hour,
and finally persuaded him to maintain the ministers
in their offices.

The German papers which arrived yesterday ex-
plain the current rumour that Russia has accepted
Austrian mediation, by stating that the Czar has
intimated his willingness to allow the Vienna cabinet
to terminate the strife, if it can promise to find a
form in which the ma i itime powers will acquiesce in
his demands on Turkey.
Letters from the Wallachian frontier state that
the Turks are strongly fortifying Pravad, between
Shumla and Varna. Omer Pacha is constructing a
fortified camp near Shumla. The mountains, which
form a semicircular amphitheatre around the Bulga-
rian city, are being crowned with walls of earth like
those which gave so much trouble to the Russiansin
1828. It was from the earth walls of Shumla that
Romanzoff, in 177-1, and Kaminsky, in 1810, were
repulsed with great loss.
The ruinous tendency of the delay which Russia
causes, and the other powers permit, in the settle-
ment] of the Turkish question is thus pictured in
the Journal de Franejial by its correspondent at
Constantinople :—" If the summer be lost in negotia-
tions; the Black Sea will not be navigable for the
allied fleets in the autumn, the marshes of Bulgaria
will not cause fevers amongst the Russians, Turkey
will exhaust her resources in expenses, atd the
fanaticism of the Tarks will be discouraged. Tho
bay of Besika is excellent during three-fourths of the
year; there is no spring at Constantinople; the
north wind blows to the end of June; then it cedes
to the wind of the Archipelago, which arrives all at
once with the twat of the summer. Now, this wind
from the Archipelago must be injurious to the sqa-
drons cf Besika, which are exposed to it. Some
vessels have dragged on their anchors. There are
30 vessels great arid small, and they might run into
each other if there were a squall. One of the
admirals is said to have already demandt d to go into
the sea of Marmom, or to Ourlac in the Gulf of
Smyrna."