The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

A private telegraphic dispatch from Berlin an-
nounces that the King of Prussia left on Sunday
evening, at half-past 5, for Warsaw, with two
aides-de-camp.
The Assemblee Nationale says "We cannot
yet enter into detail on what passed in the inter-
view of Olmutz. Our information is not yet suffi-
ciently complete. But we can positively announce
at present a great result. The Conference of
Vienna is re-established between the four Powers.
The thread of negotiations, a moment abandoned,
has been resumed ; and a happy and more prompt
solution than could have been hoped for on
Saturday, and- even yesterday morning, is pro-
bable. All the rumours of an offensive and defen-
sive coalition between the three Northern Powers
are false. The Emperor Nicholas has, it is known,
quitted Olmutz. His Majesty left in the even-
ing of the 28th ult. with his ordinary suite. His
Majesty the Emperor Francis Joseph has accepted
the courteous invitation made to him by the
Emperor of Russia to pass one or two days at
Warsaw. The Marquis of Lansdowne left Paris
last evening in order to attend a Cabinet Council
which is to be held this day at London. All the
members of the Cabinet have been convoked to
attend it."
The National Gazette of Berlin, under date of
Vienna, 28th ult., says :—" The result of the con-
ferences of Olmutz is announced as favourable to
the maintenance of general peace. It is said that
England will advise the Ottoman Porte to accept
the Note of Vienna, but that she will not persuade
it from so doing. Should war break out, England
will preserve a position of observation, and will not
assist tho Porte. On the other hand it is said that
Russia will not consider the entrance of the French
and English fleets into the Dardanelles as a viola-
tion of treaties, if such a step has no other object
beyond protecting, in case of need, the Christian
population of Constantinople." The Ost Deutsch
Post of Vienna, however, says :—" Nothing posi-
tive is known as to the resolutions which have
been come to at Olmutz, and all that has been
said on the subject is nothing more than vain
surmise."

The Emperor of Russia is described by all who
saw him at O]mutz as looking remarkably well, in
very excellent spirits, and as little like a man with
whom the responsibility of deciding on a European
war or peace rested as possible. His courteous
bearing towards the foreign officers, particularly
the French, was much remarked ; and of his re-
ception of Lord Westmoreland. the Vienna papers
give us to understand that his affability and his
variety of topics for conversation were so great that
his lordship could find no opportunity to introduce
any political subject. It is true they do not tell
us that his lordship desired to do so, or whether all
political matters had already been discussed with
count Nesselrode and Baron Aleyendorf.
Advices received from Constantinople to the 22d,
stat up to the present moment the Porte persists in
refusing to sign the Vienna Note without the modi-
fications which it requires. Austria, France, and
England, have counselled its acceptance. Great
ferment is observable among the population, but
no disturbance has occurred.

Advices have also been received from Constanti-
nople to the 23d, via Bucharest. The council of
Ministers were to meet that night. No hostilities
whatever have as yet occurred on the Lower
Danube. The Oest. Correspondenz says that the
results of the Olmutz conferences have proved the
willingness of Russia to preserve the peace of
Europe, by the offer of a new means of adjustment,
which the Porte may acccept without any compro-
mise of its dignity or independence.
From St. Petersburg, Sept. 24, we learn that
the fleet has been ordered back to Cronstadt, there
to remain at the disposal of the Government.
The Press of Vienna has the following from Con-
stantinople, dated the 19th ult. :
" The fete of Kurban Bairam has passed off with the
greatest calm. The energetic attitude of the govern-
ment in presence of the war party has greatly contri-
buted to this result. Measures bad been taken for the
protection of the quarters inhabited by the Christians.
The Sheik ul Islam had an audience of the Sultan, the
result of which tended greatly to calm the public mind.
The Sultan is reported to have said at this audience that
if religion should require it ho would place himself at the
head of the nation, but he added that he did not yet see
that religion was in peril. The Sheik ul Islam again
went to the Sultan after the receipt of the news of the
rejection of the modifications of the note of Vienna by
Russia, to represent to him once more that the quarrel
was still political, and that so long as things should
remain in that state he would use all his efforts to
arrange the difference in a manner compatible with
the interests of his throne. After this conversation
an arrangement was concluded between the war and
peace parties, and it was decided to wait for the arrival
of the dispatches which the ambassadors were to receive
on the 23d. Lord Redcliffe has frequent conferences
with Reschid Paella, and he is also frequently seen with
the Grand Seraskier. He endeavours, it is said, to
bring about a reconciliation between the two states-
men.
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following is an extract from the petition presented to
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victory. 'Let the Sultan consider, that full of confidence
in God and his prophet, he is not warranted in showing
any weakness at the moment when armed squadrons are
collected around him from all parts of the Empire to
defend him Were he to consent to yield to the dogs of
Christians, lie would be responsible therefore before God
and his prophet. Let the Sultan remove from around-
him all cowards, and retain the brave, who, like the lion,
know no danger, and let him place himself at their head
against the enemy, wile will Ily like the night before the

day, and as straw is dispersed by a blast of wind. Cou-
rage, Sultan ?' The address terminates in the following
words :—‘ God and the prophet aid us. His standard
precedes us, and his servants still live. Praise be to
God, to the seventh Heaven, and to'the prophet I' This
address had caused great uneasiness. Even preparations
were made to proceed to Adrianople. in case of an out-
break, but everything became calm.'