The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1853

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The steamer Caradoc, which was despatched from
Constantinople by Lord Stratford, on the '2oth iost„
brings further particulars of Reschid Paella's note to
Russia, of which some information has already
reached England via Vienna. This note, like the
protest of the Sublime Porto against the invasion of
the Principalities, has been framed under the advice
and with the assistance of the ambassadors of Eng-
land, France, Austria, and Prussia, and has
been transmitted to St. Petersburg. The Porte
has accepted the advice of the hoar Powers so
far as to make every imaginable concession
to Russia short of surrendering the national
independence. These concessions of course relate to
the form of engagement which the Porte purposes to
give, the substance of the Czar's demands—such as
confirmation of the privileges of the Christians—
having been before granted spontaneously by the
Sultan. It was believed at Constantinople
that the Czar would find it impossible to
reject the project of arrangement shadowed
forth in Reschid Pacha's note, although some
persons apprehen•led that he might take advan-
tage of the compliant disposition of the powers to
append embarrassing and unjust conditions to his
withdrawal from Moldo-Wallachia. The evacuation
of the Principalities is of course made one of the
conditions of the Turkish note.
It is stated that the Austrian internuncio at Con-
stantinople, M. Bruck, had been furnished with an
outline of an arrangement such as the Czar would be
willing to accept, and that the proposition of Res-
chid Pacha is in accordance with it, but this asser-
tion needs confirmation. Were it true, the most dif-
ficult portion of the Eastern question would be vir-
tually disposed of.
A Vienna letter of the 22nd states that the ad-
vanced guarder the Russian army of occupation,
under the orders of General Aurep, was to enter
Bucharest on the 13th. It adds, that General Gort-
sehakoff will not establish his head-quarters there
before the 25th; but it appears from a Vienna jour-
nal that he left Jassy on the 12th for Bucharest.
The Russian advanced guard consists of 7,000 ca-
'airy and artillery. The army itself was to arrive
in Bucharest a day after.

CONSTANTINOPLE, in.: 15.
Last night was delivered the protest of the Porte,
in respect to the invasion of the Danubian provinces,
as mentioned in a former communication. Cabinet

Councils of several hours hat e been held daily. The
Porte is anxiously waiting the final decision
of Great Britain and France, by which it will
necessarily abide. Both, it is to be hoped, will
do their duty, and support in this last ex-
tn mitT, an old and faithful ally. Russia,
meantime, is conducting her operations with the ut-
most skill and energy, and carrying all before her.
Having wisely left a powerful enemy in our camp—
her consul with a host of agents and official spies—
every word and act of the bore government is daily
and assiduously notified at bead-quarters. Her com-
mercial interests arc duly provided for—the Odessa
steamers going and coming. Russian cruisers are seen
within a few miles of the Straits, watching vigilantly
the passage of our transports, and every detail of
our operations in the Black Sea. The Russian dele-
gate, moreover, still continues to assist regularly at
the sittings of the sanitary council, advocating, if
possible, more vigorously than heretofore, the wants
and Dec. ssities of the public health.
Such, then, at the present moment, is the para-
mount interest of the Czar in all our proceedings,
and such his solicitude for the welfare of the Porte,
as ably and eloquently set forth in Count Nesselrode's
circular. The situation, I believe, is without a