The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-22 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The official Austrian Correspondence of the 20th
contains tho following despatch :
46 CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 11.
"A note of Reschid Pacha is considered to be
calculated to bring the dispute with Russia to a
close."

It is probable that the note here spoken of embo.
dies the plan of settlement which, as previous
accounts have informed us, the ministers of the four
powers have spent considerable pains in maturing.
It follows, from the origin of the despatch, that the
hope expressed in it is built upon the reasonableness
of Rvichid Pacha's new proposals, rather than from
anything which could be known of the disposition
of the Czar. Concerning this latter, we find nume-
rous assertions, more or less positive, in the German
press, all favouring the belief that the Czar will
accept one or other of the conciliatory propositions
which have been remitted to him from London, Paris,
Vienna, and more lately from Constantinople, as the
basis of negotiation; but these statements, when
examined, resolve themselves into sanguine assump-
tions er ionturons speculations upon a fact which is
as yet unknown. The statement of the Lloyd,
which we yesterday published, and which as yet has
neither been confirmed nor contradicted, did not go
so far es to assert that the Czar had accepted either
of the propositions of the other powers, but that he
had accepted the mediation of Austria, on the basis
of one or all of them.

Oar Correspondent writes :
CONSTANTINOPLE, JrLY 7.
M. Bruck, the Austrian Internuncio at the Porte,
lately communicated to Reschid Pacha the substance
of a despatch in which Count Buol indicated the out-
lines of a scheme for adjusting the present strife be-
tween Turkey and Russia. It was at the same time
intimated to the Porte that the Austrian cabinet had
good reasons for believing that the proposals which
it suggested were such as the Czar would be willing
to accept. As the recommendations of Austria were not
considered incapable of being reconc►led with the
honour and sovereignty of the Sultan, they were re-
ceived with readiness and subjected to a closer exami-
nation. In this, as in every other emergency, Reschid
Pacha consulted the representatives of the powers
which have proved themselves the sinners friends of
Turkey, and two formal meetings of the four minis-
ters, besides separate conferences, have been
held,—ono of them at the hotel of M.
Bruck, and the other at that of M. La-
mar. I understand that a note is preparing, and
will be sent off to Vienna, where probably the
Russo-Turkish affair will be dealt with in its new
phase. Should this project be adopted by the Czar,
we shall have seen the end of this vexatious contest.
Should this not be the case, there seems no way of
avoiding a fight. For the latter there never was a
better time than the present. The Sultan has now
290,000 men under arm., a number sufficient to de-
feat the.troope of the Czar, which are being decimated
by typhus fever and privations of all sorts.
The affair at Smyrna is bad. Austria has obtained
the recal of Ali Paella, guilty of having defended the
rights and dignity of the Porte. According to the
capitulations the Porte has no jurisdiction over
strangers. If Martin Costa, the Hungarian, whom the
Austrian consul carried off by means of his sbirri,
I was 'protege of Turkey, then the consul was wrong
to carry him off ; if he was an Austrian subject, then
the Porte, according to the capitulations, was not
responsible for his conduct ; if he is a protege of
America, the minister of the United States may
claim him. The entire corps diplomatique condemn.
the Austrian consul.

we read in the Slide :

Wob;i1e;o it to be certain that both at London and Paris
disnatiallaation is felt at the conduct of the two ambassadors
at emtaliatiwarlo. We do not think either of the two go-
mum& wand as far as to threaten a recall, but, if our
iallamosticin is wrest, displesanre has been expressed in
very dlitinet terms. TM Feaselt government, in particular,
is usdantood to halvarrismed astonishment at the amber
sides ase havbag • mots resolato um of the plenary
pawls MOwlid sly WITS invested.