The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-12 00:00:00

PACHA TO COCK? NESSELRODE.

Emellency,—Aware of the profound interest which his
Majesty the Emperor of Russia, an well as the great rntlio-
- of his people, take in all that concerns the religion
which they profess, and appreciating entirely the motives
of that interest' I had great pleasure in notifying to your
Excellency the firmans which my august master Sovereign
promuigated towards the end of Chaaban of this year.
And with a view of removing all doubts on this subject,
I have further to assure your Eacellcncy that the Sublime
Porte, in reserving to herself the sacred rights of sove-
reignty one her own subjects, has the firm intention of se-
curing perpetually to the Greek church the enjoyment of
those spiritual privileges and immunities confirmed therein,
and grant to it, moreover, such other privileges and immu-
nities as it may please his Majesty the Sultan hereafter to
grant to any other rite amongst his Christians. Lastly, I
have net the smallest doubt that these assurances, founded
on the abovementioned firmans and which have produced
-rill afford also satisfaction

roufidence everywhere, w, _ mum.— . to
(Signed) REscnin MUSTAPIIA.
The war party prevails in council, I may say,
throughout the whole empire, and even lately the
majority of the great functionaries declared on oath
that this the foregoing note shall be their last act of
submission to the lawless aggressions of Russia.
Resehid Pacha's position in the cabinet is still un-
fortunately precarious, notwithstanding his late vic-
tory. His eminent qualities as a statesman, his
liberal views and great attainments, expose him ne-
cessarily to continual intrigues and pereecwion.
War is the watchword ; even old Khoerew, now
an octogenarian, declared lately in council that he
was all ready, if required, to repair to the camp in
defence of the national cause.

Advices from Omer Pacha contribute not a little
to foment and exasperate the war cry. He evinces
the strongest desire to commence the struggle, and
declares that it will be utterly impossible much
longer to restrain the ardour of his troops—but im-
pressing on the government, that should money and
other necessaries fail, he cannot answer for their con-
duct under arms.

The Smyrna transaction between Austria and
America is still pending : it will give rise to some
disagreeable complication, it is feared, in respect to
the refugee question. Moreover, our mediator, M.
de Bruck, it is said, hu availed himself of the pre-
' sent difficulty, to raise some pecuniary and territo-
rial questions with the Porte.
Two vessels, L'Jena and Austerlitz, have rein-
forced the French fleet.
Lord Palmerston is above all others a favourite, a
sort of Deus terminus, with the Osmanlis, and the
few words, in his usual firm and epigrammatic tone,
replying to Mr. Layard, contributed not a little to
r store confidence, and neutralise the deplorable
effects produced in this country by the wavering and
temporising policy of our government.
The capta►n of the Inflexible died here a few days
ago.

Letters from Tiflis of July 13th state that the
Russian government is preparing a new expedition
against Caucrsus, to be undertaken at the end of this
month. A fleet is arming in the sea of Azof to
support the land operations. Since the quarrel with
Turkey there has been great agitation in the Russo-
Caucasian provireov.