The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-21 00:00:00

TURKEY AND RUSSIA.

The British steamer Caradoc arrived at Constan-
tinople on the 7th of July.
It is said that she has brought the last proposals
which France and England have transmitted to St.
Petersburgh.
The news of the invasion of the Danubian Princi-
palities had produced some excitement.
The Seraskier, Mahomet Ali Pasha, votes for
war. He would, at any price, resist the encroach-
ments of Russia. His opinions and sentiments are
shared by some of his colleagues.
The reconstruction of the Cabinet is considered
as inevitable. A Ministerial crisis is thought to be
impending.
The Franks have thought it advisable to take
measures for their own safety. They fear a hostile
demonstration.
The foreign vessels of war have placed themselves
under the orders of the commander of the French
steamer Magellan, the senior officer in the port.
On the 6th the American Ambassador was sere-
naded by the political refugees.
Count Guilay has arrived at St. Petersburgh,
charged with a mission from the Emperor of
Austria.
The forces assembled in the camp at Krasnoje
Selo amount to 100,000 men.
The Russian forces entered Oltonitza on the 7th
instant, an important position on the Danube,
which was crossed there in 1828 by an army of
40,000 men under the command of General Roth.
Some of the inhabitants of the Danubian Princi-
palities have sought refuge on the Austrian terri-
tory. They wore expelled by the Russians, who
did not like their presence in theii native country.
The Russians are fortifying Jassy and Bucharest.
Russian agents are active in Service and Bosnia.
They cause masses to be said in honour of the
Czar, and for the success of the holy cause.
The Assemblee Nationale says :—" We learn by
a private letter, which merits absolute confidence,
that at the date of the sth of July, the representa-
tives of the four great powers at Constantinople,
France, England, Austria, and Prussia, were com-
pletely in accord to the terms of the arrangement
to propose to the Porte and Russia. This arrange-
ment could not be submitted to the sanction of the
Sultan on account of the Ramazan, during which
official relations with the Porte remained sus-
pended ; but there was little time to wait to solicit
and obtain the sanction, since the Ramazan ended
on the 7th. In considering, as it is permitted to
hope, that the Sultan has given his sanction, it
might have been sent off to St. Petersburgh, so as
to arrive by the 15th of this month • and the de-
cision of the Russian Cabinet may be known about
the 25th."
The Cologne Gazette states that the protest of the
Divan against the occupation of the Danubian Prin-
cipalities by Russia, reached Vienna on the 15th,
having been conveyed there by Mehemet Saftaluge.
According to the Press of Vienna, the Divan replies
in the most energetic manner to the arguments put
forward by the Czar in his manifesto, whilst the
Sultan, on his part, protests solemnly against the
reproach of having violated his word, and calls on
all the Christian communities to testify that he has
never knowingly and wantonly oppressed them,
and that wherever inferior authorities have at-
tacked their rights and privileges they have been
punished. The document enters into details on the
persecution of the Jews at Damascus, and declares,
with respect to the invasion of the principalities,
that the Porte protests in the most solemn manner
against it, as an act of violence which nothing can
justify.

- The Nuremberg Correspondent has the following
from Vienna :—" The Baron de Meyendorff made
on the 13th a communication to the Austrian Mi-
nister for Foreign Affairs explanatory of the circu-
lar despatch of Count Nesselrode. M. de Meyen-
dorff is said to have declared among other things
that the Emperor of Russia was ready to accept a
mediation provided that it shall recognise the Jus-
tice of his demands."

The Wanderer of Vienna asserts that the Rus-
sians have been favourably received by the inhabi-
tants of the Danubian provinces. Their outposts
are near the banks of the Danube.
A letter from Varna of the 30th ult. states that
the Turks were displaying great activity in repair-
ing the fortifications of that place. In addition to
the men already employed 3,000 had arrived from
Adrianople for this purpose. The works ar© under
the direction of Mussa Pacha and a Prussian colo-
nel named Kutschowski.

It appears by a letter from Constantinople of the
Bth, in a German journal, that a rumour was still

current there of its being the intention of the 13ri.
tish Government to recal Lord Stratford de Red.
cliffe.

A letter from Constantinople of the 7th says :
" The Turks celebrated the Bairam this morning
with all the customary pomp and ceremony. A
great number of Europeans and foreigners of all
classes were present at the passage of the cortege,
and at the Sultan's reception of kissing hands. The
members of the Embassy of France, who went from
Therapia, had places reserved for them in a part of
the building of the Ministry of Finance, situated
in the first court of the Palace of Top Kapou.
Everything passed off with perfect order, and in
such a way as to dissipate the fears which so me
persons might have conceived as to the dispositions
of the Mussulman populations towards the Chris-
tians."