The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-12 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

Count Vetter has been despatched to St. Peters-
burg by the Emperor of Austria with a letter of con-
gratulation on the occasion of the Emperor Nicholas's

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

We receive through Vienna the text of Prince
Gottechakoff's proclamation to the people of Moldavia.
It corresponds exactly with the telegraphic account
given of it in Friday's Express. Some of the
passages deserve especial attention :
Ills Majesty the Emperor, my august lord and master,
has ordered me to occupy your country with the armies, the
command of which he has deigned to confide to me.
We come among you neither with projects of conquest
nor with the intention to modify the institutions under
which your live, or the political position which solemn
treaties have guaranteed to ycu.
The provisional occupation of the Principali.les which I
em ordered to effect is for no other purpose than that of an
immediate and efficacious protection in grave and unfore-
seen circumstances, when the Ottoman government, dis-
trusting the numerous proofs of a sincere alliance which the
Imperial court has never ceased to give it since the concha.
sion of the:treaty of Adrianople,replies to our most equitable
proposals with refusals, and opposes the most offensive sus-
picions to our disinterested advice.
In his magnanimity, in his constant desire to maintain
peace in the East as well as in Europe, the Emperor will
avoid au aggressive war against Turkey, as lung as his
dignity and the interests of his empire shall permit him to
do so. . . .

On the day on which be obtains the reparation which is
due to him, and the guarantees which be has a right to
claim for the future, his troops shall return within the fron-
tiers of Russia. . .

Inhabitants of Moldavia and Wallachia ! I also execute
an order of his Imperial Majesty in declaring to you that
the presence of his Majesty's troops in your country shall
not impose on you any fresh charges or contributions;
that tho forage and rations for the troops shall in due
time, and at a rate appointed and agreed on in advance
by your governments, be paid for from our military
treasury.
Lnok tranquilly to the future ! Engage with security in
your agricultural labours and commercial speculations!
Be obedient to the laws under which you live, and to the
established authorities. It is by the faithful discharge of
these duties that you will acquire the best claim to the
general solicitude and the powerful protection of his Majesty
the Emperor. GORTSCRAKOFF.

More important is the following new despatch,
signed by Count Nesselrode. We translate from
the Journal de Saint Petersboury of June 20 (0. S.) :
RUSSIAN NOTIFICATION TO THE EURO-

PEAN POWERS.
Clacvw.e..)
"Sr. PBTBRIBURG, NONE 20.
m.
" My circular despatch of May 30 apprised you of
the rupture of our diplomatic relations with the Ot-
toman government. You were therein charged to
make known to the Cabinet to which you are accre-
dited the wrongs which we have suffered from the
Porte, our unsuccessful efforts to obtain satisfaction,
and the successive concessions which our sincere de-
sire to maintain amicable and good relations with
the Turkish government has dictated. You know
that after having renounced by turns the ides el
a guarantee obtained under the form of a seam
vention, Sened, or any other synallagmatie set
whatever, we have reduced our demands to the
simple signature of a note such as that the text of
which was transmitted to you. You will have re-
marked that, except in what more particularly con-
cerns the Holy Places, this note does not contain
in respect of the general guarantee claimed in favour
of the church (cults) anything more than a simple
confirmation of that which we have long possessed,
I observed to you, Monsieur, that in the eyes of the
Emperor the signature of this document constituted
the true and only reparation which he could accept
fa the offence committed towards him by the
don of the &man of 1852, as also of the personal
premises which the Sultan bad joined thereto. I
sheaved, further, that such an act was besides indie-
possabk, since the obtaining of new firmans liable
is be infringed like that which had gone before
them could no more serve for a sufficient pledge to
as for the future. Finally, I did not conceal from
rwistbat, if after eight days' reflection the Ottoman
should refuse to comply with our demand, the
Emperor would find himself obliged to have recourse
to measures more decisive than a simple interruption
of relations in order to obtain satisfaction.
" In placing this ultimatum before the Porte, we
had given to the great cabinets particular explana-
tions respecting our intentions. We had especially
requested of France and England not to complicate
the difficulties of the situation by their attitude—not
prematurely to take measures the effect of which
would be on the one hand to encourage the Porte in
opposition, and on the other to engage, more than
was then already the case, the honour and dignity of
the Emperor.
" I regret to have to announce to you today that
this twofold attempt has unhappily been in vain.
' The Porte, as you will pee by the subjoined
letter of Reschid Pacha, has just returned, in an-
swer to that which I addressed to it, a negative, or
at least an evasive, response.
"On the other -hand, the two maritime
powers have not thought fit to defer to
the considerations we recommended to their
serious attention. Taking the initiative before
us, they have considered it indispensable to precede
immediately by an effective measure those which we
had only announced to them as purely eventual,
since we made them depend on the final resolutions
of the Porte, and their execution has not commenced
at the moment at which I write. They at once sett
their fleets into the waters of Constantinople. They
occupy already the seas and ports of the Ottoman
Empire at the entrance of the Dardanelles. By that
advanced attitude the two powers have placed us
under the weight of a threatening demonstration,
which, as we forewarned them, has added new com-
plications to the crisis.
" After the refusal of the Porte, supported by the 'I
I
armed demonstrations of France and England, it
became more than ever impossible to modify the
resolutions which the Emperor had made contingent
on that act.
"In consequence his Imperial Majesty has just
sent to corps of our troops stationed in Bessarabia
orders to pass the frontier, and enter the Princi-
palities.