The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-14 00:00:00

TURKEY.

The Assemblee Nationale has the following the
telegraphic dispatch from Vienna, which states that
Prince Menschikoff had sent in an ultimatum to the

Porte :

" All the speculators for a fall• dwelt strongly yester-
day at the Bourse on the gravity of the telegraphi c
dispatch from Vienna published this morning, and whith
announces that Prince Menschikoff had presented an
ultimatum on the subject of the affair of the Patriarch ate.
The word ultimatum' caused terror in the minds of the
thilid, and little was required to cause a panic. We
cannot too strongly warn the public against ungrouned
alarm to which the news of their private telegraph ex-
poses them. The people who sent these dispatches are
not great diplomatists, and they have only one object,
which is to give accounts which cause a great sensation.
It is ridiculous to let ourselves be deceived by them. As
regards the affair of the east, we will not cease to repeat
that the Emperor of Russia has given positive assurances
to the English Government tha.t the mission of Prince Men-
schikoff had only one object—the regulation of the ques-
tion of the Holy Places. That was the only point on
which the Russian diplomatist had orders to insist, and,
if necessary, to menace. This affair is now, it appears,
completely settled. How and on what conditions 1
This is what we can only know when it shall please the
Government to explain itself. As to the affair of the Pa-
triarchate of the Greeks we know not, and we do not be-
lieve that any one knows exactly, what are the exigencies
of Russia. But what appears to us certain, from the
language held at St. Petersburgh to the Azhbassador of
England, is that this question of the Patriarchate will
never have for result to bring about a rupture of Russia
with Constantinople, and a conflict between the powers
which have guaranteed the integrity of the Ottoman
Empire. The dispatch from Vienna appears to us there-
fore without importance."
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had been taken by the Montenegrins in the late war, have
been restored to the Turks, and brought back to Scu-
tari. Mustapha Pacha, the hereditary Governor of
Scutari, who had been deposed in 1832, and taken a
prisoner to Constantinople, has just been appointed to
the post of Visier of lierzgovFine. The Hungarian re-

fugees were to leave Scutari at the above date, for
Monastir.

A letter from Corfu states that the Turkish fleet,'
anchored off Butintro, got under weigh on the 28th ult.,
and sailed southward through the Channel of Corfu.
On passing near the Castle of Corfu, the Turkish admi-
ral hoisted the British fla,n., and fired a salute of 21 guns,
which was responded to by the castle.
The German Journal of Frankfort states from Vienna,
7th :—" An order has been transmitted to all the Aus-
trian Consuls in Bosnia, the Herzegovine, &c., to pro-
tect the Christians from any oppression on the part of the
Turks, and in the event of any acts of the kind taking
place they are to acquaint the Pasha and the Austrian
Ambassador at Constantinople of what has occurred.
The violence of the Turks towards the Christians fully
justifies this order. The Government is firmly resolved
not to allow any attack on the dignity of Christianity on
the part of the Turks."
The New Prussian Gazette, under date of Vienna, Bth,
says Edel Effendi, a courier of the Turkish Cabinet,
arrived here the day before yesterday with dispatches
from Constantinople, which were yesterday delivered to
the Minister of Foreign Affairs. They are of great im-
portance as far as regard the future condition of Monte-

negro. A change Is said to have taken place in the
views of the Divan towards that country, Prince Men-
schikoff having, it is said, pointed out to the Porte that
the only means of living at peace with Montenegro
would be to recognise its political independence. Mon-
tenegro would then enter on industrial pursuits, sup-
posing that the frontiers of the country were to be ex-
tended on the side of the plain."