The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-23 00:00:00

TURKEY AND RUSSIA.

Private letters, proceeding from a good source, de-
clare positively that the mediation of Austria has been
accepted by the Emperor Nicholas. Austria has been as
earnest in pressing her intervention as Russia has been
willing to accept it. In fact, a choice was hardly left ;
England and France, having made a demonstration in
favour of Turkey, were considered by the Czar as par-
ties too much interested to give a perfectly impartial
decision, while Austria, from her position, cannot but
be deeply interested in contributing to such a result as
would prevent public tranquillity from being disturbed.
Of the precise nature of the propositions described to
have been well received by the Emperor of Russia, we
can only form conjectures. These are, that Turkey agrees
to maintain the status quo so far as the immunities and
privileges of the Greekportulation are concerned, and ac-
cepts the Russian note, the Emperor declaring that he
has no intention to interfere in the temporal adminis-
tration of the Ottoman Empire. We do not, however, as
yet know how the difficult point of the occupation of the
Danubian provinces and the withdrawal of the fleets will
be arranged. The Porte is still unwilling to treat until
the territory be evacuated, and in this it is considered
probable she will be sided with by the Powers. But once
the mediation of Austria accepted all such matters of
dispute will be referred by Russia to her decision.
As the Russians in Paris have already begun to
cry out against Austria on the score of ingratitude,
it is probable that that Power has not shown herself
as amenable to the influence of her friend and pro-
tector as was desired or expected ; and they com-
plain that while her sympathy and co-operation were
counted upon by them, seeing that she had not
joined France and England, she has now pretension to
perfect independence, forgetful as she is of the obliga-
tions under which she is bound to Russia. It is thought
likely, too, that Austria will demand from the Porte
guarantees of a similar nature as those of Russia for the
protection of the Christian population ; so that this lat-
ter Power will not have the monopoly of protection.
A considerable Russian force is being concentrated on
the Pruth, probably to act as a reserve in case of neces-
sity. A permanent bridge has been erected at Leowa,
where a military road, leading into the interior of the
country, is also in course of execution.
The following private telegraphic dispatch was received
on Thursday from Vienna :

" We have received here news from Constantinople to
the 11th of July. A note of Reschid Pacha, destined
to facilitate the negotiations, and bring about a favour-
able result, was much talked of. The commerce of Con-
stantinople was excellently disposed."
It will be seen that the news from Constantinople
amounts to very little, and we are left to divine what is
meant by the excellent disposition of the commercial
men of Constantinople. The importance of this dispatch
is not in what it says, but in what it doe 4 not say. No
mention for instance is made of the departure of an am-
bassador for St. Petersburgh, although it is hardly pro-
bable that if a circumstance of that nature had taken
place, as stated by the Lloyd of Vienna, no notice would
have been taken of it in letters of the 11th.
Nothing positive is yet known as to the approaching
journey of the Emperor of Russia. On the one hand,
the Cologne Gazette states, on authority of a letter from
Vienna of the 17th, that his Majesty's visit to Warsaw
has been adjourned ; and on the other, the Lloyd of
Vienna asserts positively that he is expected at Odessa
towards the end of the month.
A Vienna letter of the 17th, in the German Journal
of Frankfort, states that no doubt was entertained at
Vienna of the Emperor of Russia having accepted the
mediation of Austria in the dispute between Russia and
the Porte. On the 17th the Baron de Meyendorff, the
Russian Ambassador at Vienna, had an audience of
the Emperor of Austria to present to him the reply of
the Emperor of Russia.
A letter from Warsaw of the 14th states that the
Lieutenant-General of artillery Sieozpatowski, who was
in that city, has received orders to join the army of the
Pruth.

The Vienna journals contain long accounts of the
recent affair at Smyrna. They do not differ essentially
as to facts from those which we have published from
the Smyrna journals, and from other sources, but they
have a colour given to them in the spirit of party, and
it is pretended that the Austrian consul was justified in
the course that he adopted after repeated and fruitless
applications to the Turkish Government.