The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-11 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian Commander-in-
Chief of the invading armies, has addressed the
following proclamation to the inhabitants of Mol-
davia and Wallachia :

" His Majesty the Emperor, my august lord and
master, has ordered me to occupy your country with the
armies the command of which he has dei,saed to confide
to me.

" We come among you neither with projects of con-
quest nor with the intention to modify the institutions
under which you live, or the political position which
solemn treaties have guaranteed to you.
" The provisional occupation of the Principalities
which I am ordered to effect is for no other purpose than
that of an immediate and efficacious protection, in grave
and unforeseen circumstances, when the Ottoman Go-
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alliance which the Imperial Court has never ceased to
give it since the conclusion of the treaty of Adrianople,
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replies to our most equitable proposals with refusals, and
opposes the most offensive suspicions to our disinterested
advice.
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"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 the 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.
"Look tranquilly to the future ! Engage with secu-
rity in your agricultural labours and commercial specu-
lations ? 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 40

claim to the general solicitude and the powerful protec-
tion of his Majesty the Emperor."
The Journal de Frankfort has letters from Ber-
lin of the sth inst., stating that there can be no
doubt but that the entry of the British and French
fleets into the Dardanelles will be considered as a
declaration of war as far as Russia is concerned.
A telegraphic dispatch, dated Vienna, Saturday,
July 9, announces that at the Bourse of that day
the Metalliques had fallen per cent., in conse-
quence of a report that two regiments had been
sent to Peterwardein.
The Ostdeutsche Post contains intelligence from
Constantinople, without date, but probably of the
3d instant.

Kabouli Effendi goes to Smyrna with orders to
institute inquiries into the recent disturbances
there.
Ali Pacha, governor of Smyrna, is deposed.
Ismael, formerly Minister of Commerce, has been
appointed in his stead.

- The representatives of the four great powers
have opened their negotiation with Reschid Puha
concerning the difference with Russia.
By intelligence received from St. Petersburgh,
via Stettin, we learn that the order for the occupa-
tion of the principalities had been enthusiastically
received at the capital, where illuminations had
taken place. At the appearance of the Emperor in
public, the populace had fallen on their knees, in
order to evince their fanatical devotion to the de-
fender of the orthodox faith.

Two divisions of the Baltic Fleet were cruising
in the sea, the other being at Cronstadt.
Accounts from Jassy, of July 4, state that Prince
Gortschakoff, commander-in-chief of the Russian
army of occupation, has sent General Niprokonts-
chinski with dispatches to the commander of the
camp at Schumla. The object of his message is to
assure the Turkish general of the peaceful character
of the Russian occupation. The Russians insist on
payment of the expenses attending the enforced
occupation of 1848-51, and the first instalment has
just been paid. The battalions of the 4th and sth
army-corps which have not been marched across
the Pruth have been concentrated at Ismail, where
they await the order to cross the Danube.
Letters from Constantinople state that the Porte
is about to summon a council, composed of the most
eminent men from every district of the monarchy.