The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-08 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

Telegraphic despatches from the Pruth confirm the
intelligence of the crossing of that river by the Rus-
sian forces. Proclamations stating that the armies
were advancing for the defence of the ortho-
dox faith and worship, were posted up at Jassy,
on the 3rd, and distributed on the line of
march. The people are exhorted to remain tranquil,
and informed that no change in their government is
contemplated. The number of troops composing the
corps of occupation is at present unknown. This
news we receive through the Bukowina and Gallicia.
The Darts and Siecle publish letters from Con-
stantinople of the 23rd. The Turkish admiral, Mos-
tapha Pacha, left for Besika on the 22nd to pay his
respects to the French and English admirals. It
was said that he was also to come to an understand-

ing with them as to tho means to be employed to
tow the ships in case war break out. The Redifs (or
militia) of Smyrna arrived at Constantinople on the
23rd, and were to leave the same night for Varna.
The Scraskier Muchiri, minister of war, and the
general-in-chief of the imperial guard, were making
preparations for their departure. Several French
officers had arrived, and were about to proceed in
the direction of the Danube in order to examine the
state of the Turkish army. The speculations in
which the correspondents, writing from Constanti-
nople, indulge, are deprived of interest by the fact that
the crossing of the Prutli and the incendiary ukase
of the Czar were unknown to them at the date of
their letters. It is calculated that the Porte would
receive information of the occupation by the sth inst.
The public excitement ran high, and any further
compromise would be very badly 'received by the
Turks, and might lead to intestine troubles.
The asserted nomination of M. Ozeroff to a Turkish
mission is not confirmed, although letters from St.
Petersburg have reached England of later date than
any upon which the Bucharest telegraph despatch
could be founded. It is not probable that this despatch
will be confirmed. Not that the Czar may not be
desirous of resuming negociations, but he cannot,
according to usage in such cases, which itself is
founded upon the nature of things, make the first
move. Having resorted to material coercion, he has
loot the right of proposing terms of conciliation.
Thies courses are open to him; he may renounce
his pretensions and leave the principalities; he may
stay there and as ait the movements of Turkey ; or
be may advance to further acts of hostility by crossing
the Danube. No ono suggests on the Czar's behalf that
he will adopt the first of these courses, and the mission
1 of M. Ozeroff would only find place on the supposition
that he resolved on the third. But as, after Prince
Menchikors departure the Autocrat did not deign to
communicate with the Porte, except by a note re-
mitted by a courier, it is not likely that, the quarrel
ba
les aggravated, and roles tie fait resorted to, he
send to Constantinople the minister whom he
so lately recalled in displeasure.
But if weassumethatM.OzeroffwillgotoConstanti-
nople, it is impossible to assign a peaceful character to
his mission. Theresolution attributed to the Czar could
not have been taken since the promulgation of the
ukase given on Wednesday in the Erpress, and
the mission of M. Ozeroff must be stamped with the
comminatory character of that document. The Em-
peror has declared that if his ultimatum were not
accepted, he would occupy the principalities in order
to compel acceptance. The occupation having taken
place, he must of course repeat his demand. It
does not follow that he will ask less, now that he has
what he calls a pledge in his hands, than he asked
before.
The preparations for war at Odessa have increased.
The interpreter of the legation at Constantinople is
at the head-quarters of the army, to be of service to
the troops. Riots have taken place in Smyrna in
consequence of the forcible arrest of an aide-decamp
of Kossuth. By way of retaliation, a marine officer,
the son of a field-marshal, had been assassinated.
The hotel of the Austrian consul was guarded by
Austrian soldiers.
It is reported in Paris that orders had been sent
te the English and French ambassadors at Constan-
tinople, desiring them not to accede to the request of
the Porte that the combined fleets should enter the
Dardanelles so long as the movements of Russia are
confined to the occupation of the Principalities.
These reports originate probably with the Em-
peror of Russia. On the other hand, it is con-
fidently affirmed that both France and England
retard the invasion of the Principalities as a vio-
lation of the integrity and independence of the
Ottoman Empire, and as an act of war, and that
the instructions which have been forwarded to Lord
Stratford de Bedell& and bi. de la Cour are to
place the combined fleets entirely at the disposal of
the Sultan, in the event of his considering and pro-
claiming the present lawless invasion of his terri-
tory an act of war. The ambassadors are directed
to summon the naval forces of England and France
the instant the Porte requests it, not only to enter
the Dardanelles, but to proceed, in the Black Sea, te
whatever operations our ally may deem requisite for
his safety and advantage.
The optimiam of the journals which maintain the
Russian cause is become ludicrous. The Debuts of
yesterday positively asserted that the new ukase,
with its menaces and appeals to the God of Battle, is
a document of peaceful tendency.
The Siecie says :
After the manifesto which Catherine 11. caused to precede
the last dismemberment of Poland; after all the assurances
of dirinterestcdness with which Russia has for the last 1.50
years tricked her allies or her adversaries, and lastly, after
the last circular note of M. Neeeelrode, the words of the
cabinet of St. Petersburg can no longer deceive any one.
The principal passages of the new manifesto have reached
us by electric telegraph. The Cur wishes to enter into the
Danubian provinces—maintaining that it could not be a
casuabe/li between him and the Ottoman Porte—in order
to prepare the way for a permanent occupation, and later,
to as incorporation into the Russian Empire of these pro-
vinces over which the Sultan has not, if we are to be-
lieve Muscovite policy, any right, tho violation of
which can be considered as a vino This
is too gross an artifice for either 'Turkey, Prince, or
=cl to be deceived by it. We therefore consider it as
that the Sultan will call the combined fleets to his
seisteass the moment he has received the OifiCal news of

the peelings of the Pend% by the Russians. Turkey 1. per-
fectly at liberty not to make war except on the banks of the
Danube, and in the midst of the good positions seemed to
her by the Balkans, but that is only a question of strategy.
A state does not renounce the sovereignty of a city or of •
province because it does not think proper to make a field
of battle of it. The ambassadors have full powers. They
may yield to the appeal which the Sultan may make in the
name of his violated sovereignty, to the armed intervention
of France and England. IS it were possible that England
should change her opinion, it is necessary in the first place
that sho should concert with France, and then that a
counter order should be sent. As therefore nothing of the
kind has yet taken place, and cannot take place before the
sitting of Friday, when the English parliament will mani-
fest i s opinion, it may be comprehended that all will be
consummated before the arrival of couriers at Constanti-
nople. It will not then require an order not to advance,
there must be an order to draw back.

A letter from Constantinople of the '2oth, in a
German journal; says :—" Prince l‘lenellikoff had
scarcely arrived ut Odessa, w hen he set off for Se-
bastopol. From that port he sent off vessels to pre-
vent the Sultan from forwarding reinforcements, or
even simple encouragement, to the Mahometans of
the Caucasus, as either would be a great embarrass- I
meat for nimbi. Thu Russian ambassadors always
prevented the Sultan from sending arms, or even
giving his approbation to the Caucasians, who con-
skit!. themselves as the defenders of the religion of
the Prophet ; and if at this moment he had done
so, theinsurrection would have taken more extensive
proportions. The Admiral of the Ottoman fleet,
Liver Pacha, went on the 20th to Besika, to dine with
the admiral of the English fleet. 'Liver Pacha is an
Englishman. Vice-Admiral La Susse was present."