The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-29 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

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The news of the expected settlement of the
Russo-Turkish question has produced a panic
among the refugees, who fear that restrictive mea-
sures will be taken against them.
The Sultan has granted the decoration of the
newly-founded order of Metschedie to all the high
officers of the fleets of Great Britain and France.
It is said that a despatch was on Saturday at
Paris received from the French Minister at St.
Petersburg, stating that, in a conversation with
the Emperor of Russia, his Majesty declared posi-
tively that the moment he received the account of
the acceptance of the note he.should sign the order
for the evacuation of the Principalities. The
Patric states, on the authority of a letter from
Jassy, dated the 12th, that the Russians were al-
ready taking the necessary measures for the evacua-
tion, and that the General-in-Chief had informed
the authorities of Moldavia that when voluntarily
retiring he should leave in the hospitals of the town
the sick and convalescent, as well as a detachment
of hospital attendants of the second corps d'armee.
The Times correspondent writing from Constan-
tinople on August the 16th says is a disagree-
able duty to record the state of feeling which ex-
ists in Constantinople at this moment. Whether
deserving of it or otherwise, the English have cogie
in for all the blame. The Turks complain that
they have from the first b• en instigated to resist-
ance, forced into ruinous expenses, always counting
on the assistance of England, which sent her fleet
to the Dardanells, and now in thehour of need they
are, as they say, basely deserted. They quote the
prophecy of Napoleon, which has found its accom-
plishment in the fact that Europe having struggled
to become Republican is now content to remain
Cossack. Thereare two bye-words now in Constan-
tinople—the Russian and the Englishman—and
equally detested. Wecut the more sorry figure. The
name of Aberdeen serves but as a feeble shelter
against the opprobrium heaped upon us. The re-
maining question is how long are the Russian troops
to remain in. the Danubian provinces ? Their actions
hitherto have pointed to a permanent sojourn, nor
is it too much to expect that having demanded the
cost of occupation, which the Turks are unable to
pay, they will quietly take final possession. Thus
will Russia have gained a victory over Europe in
obtaining what she first asked for, and two fertile
provinces into the bargain, as reparation for Eng-
land and France's demonstration at the Darda-
nelles.

The arrival of the Egyptian fleet caused some ex-
citement last Sunday. Each line of battle ship was
towed by two large steamers past the city, up the
Bosphorus, as far as the encampment opposite
Therapia. They exchanged salutes on their arrival
opposite the Seraglio, and again when they came
within sight of the Turkish fleet. The Egyptian
squadron consists of two two-deckers, four frigates,
two corvettes, and two steamers, under the com-
mand of Kel Selim Pasha. The fleet has on board
12,000 troops and 5,000 sailors, and is now lying
off the port of Ukiar Skelessi, in the Bosphorus,
opposite Therapia, where a large camp has been
formed for the reception of the troops.
The latest post from the Danubian principalities
announces that the Princes of Moldavia and Wal-
lachia have refused to obey the order of the Porte
to appear in person at Constantinople. This places
Government in a most embarrassing position.
Every account received from the different pro-
vinces of the empire speaks of the zeal shown by
the people in arming themselves for defence against
Russia. It remains to be seen how this unexam-
pled enthusiasm will be allayed without war.
The cases of chOlera in the Russian military hos-
pitals are so numerous as to excite very serious
apprehensions among the people.
The Augsburg Gazette, which is said to be the
organ of the Austrian Government, thus flippantly
attacks the conduct of England :
"Never have the Parliamentary debaters and the
British press played a more pitiful part than during the
Russo-Turkish crisis, which—as we hope—is now at an
end. Such a sudden fall of a State from its political
and moral consideration we hardly ever recollect to have
seen ; indeed all this tissue of petty intrigues—a tissue
rotten in every fibre—was necessary to extinguish the
last spark of faith which the world was still inclined to
place in British rectitude. The clumsiness with which
the thing has been conducted is only equalled by the
vileness of the intention. All the dishonour, all the
ignominy, all the falsity which England has taken such
pains to cast upon the Emperer Nicholas has recoiled on
herself, and under the mass of rubbish will long lie
buried her good name and reputation for faith and
honesty. The Emperor of Russia has never celebrated a
more glorious triumph than by reducing to its proper
proportions the influence of England in Turkey, an
influence employed only to the disadvantage of Turkey,
and to the dissemination of revolutionary principles in
Europe. The Emperor Nicholas has proved to Turkey
that its unendangered existence in Europe does not
depend on the Western Powers. There is no tyro in
politics who has not discovered that in this conflict
it was the aim of England to annihilate the in-
fluence of Russia, and to establish its own instead.