The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-24 00:00:00

ST. PETERSBURG.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 14th says :
—" Prince Dolgorouki, minister plenipotentiary at
the court of Teheran, is promoted to the rank of
privy councillor, and, at his owu request, has been
recalled from his present post."
The St. Petersburg journals having contained
an insinuation that the essential points of the
secret correspondence between Russia and England
had been confidentially communicated to Austria
and Prussia, it is understood that an official con-
tradiction of the assertion will forthwith appear at
Berlin.

CIRCULAR OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERN-

MENT.

The Cabinet of St. Petersburg issued last month
a circular to its foreign agents, which appeals to
the imagination of the Christians of the East, And
is of a nature to encourage the Greek insurrection.
It is as follows :

" Sr. PETERSBURG, MARCH 2, 1854.
" Sir,—The memorandum annexed to my despatch of
the 18th of last monthlies enabled yon to communicate to
the GovernMent to which you are accredited a faithfUl and
circumstantial account of our difference with Turkey, of
the negotiations by which we sought to bring the Porte to
a more justappreciation of our demands, and of the com-
plications which arise therefrom in consequence of the
passionate intervention of lhe Cabinets of Paris and
London, and of the hostile attitude assumed towards u
at, the very moment that they announced themselves as
pacific mediators between us and the Ottoman Govern-
went, The events having acquired, now the gravity
which we feared for the tranquillity of gurope, we con-
sider it a duty towards the Courts who have hitherto

jndged our acts without prejudice or partiality, to con-
tinue to' provide them with data to enable them tojudge
with the, same justice the situation in which some of the
great powers of Europe are desirous to place Russia in
its future relations with Turkey, and the obligations
thereby sought to be imposed upon the'Emperor.
"There is one esriecially which touches the conscience
of the whole of Russia and of its Sovereign, that which
relates to the position of the Christian popUlations sub-
jected to Turkey, and upon whom the Mussulman
Government and people, excited by fanaticism, and con-
fiding in the sympathy and aid offered to them with so
unjustifiable an eagerness by the Christian Powers, think
themselves authorised to exercise the most cruel vexa-
tions..

"Some of these populations, especially those which
border, upon independent Greece, driven to extrenies,
and losipg all hope of better fate, have taken up arms
to 'throw off a yoke which has become insupportable.
• "This rising, already for a lung time foreseen .and
even announced, occupies and moves at the present mo-
ment the minds and the press of Europe. By a contra-
diction, which those who pretend to protect against us
the p•iiver of the escent and the rights of the Sultan
alune:explain, these same Powers, who declare war
tow us for the sole motive that we wished to maintain the
raigious immiinities of the Christians of Turkey, say
that. 'they are disposed to obtain in their favour the Same
civil and political rights as are enjoyed by the Mussul-
men . .

We do not wish to draw sinister prognostics ; but
these tardy promises, so little in accordance with the
acts of those who proclai►u them, will have, we fear, no
other result than to exasperate still more the oppressors
agaiust the oppressed, -provoke;sanguinary reprisals,
and to render for the future impossible the submission of
those populations to Turkish rule.
"For our part, we never demanded from the Porte
in faTour of its Chrlitian pubjects but what was just