The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-27 00:00:00

TURKEY.

The following authentic and important intelli-
gence was received in Paris yesterday from Con-
stantinople. It is dated the 17th
" On resuming office, Reschid Pasha requested
from Prince Menschikoff a delay of six days.
Menschikoff refused, and declared diplomatic rela-
tions broken off, adding that he would remain in
Constantinople three days, to make the necessary
preparations for his departure, and he exhorted the
Porte to reflection, and to profit by the short time
he should be detained."

Subsequently another communication was re-
ceived, dated the 19th :
" On the 17th a meeting of the Divan was held,
at the issue of which it was definitively resolved
that the Convention, as proposed by Prince Men-
schikoff, could not be accepted. Nevertheless, on
this being notified to Prince Menschikoff, he did
not quit Constantinople." On the contrary, lie has
opened new communications with Reschid
This leads to the presumption that fresh negotia-
tions will be entered into. The date of the depar-
ture of the Russian Envoy is no longer fixed.
The Constitutionnel, after giving an analysis of
the note of the Porte to Prince Menschikoff, which
differs in nothing from that of the Debats, says
" This reply was sent to Prince Menschikoff at
Bouyukdere, where he had been for some days.
On the morning of the 11th, he sent to the Minister
of Foreign Affairs an acknowledgment of having
received it, and requested him, in a note, to urge
the council to give such a reply as would permit
an amicable termination of the matter, and in a
manner to satisfy every one. The Porte appears
decided not to yield. The Greek clergy, so in-
terested in the question, have declared in favour of
the status quo, that is, in favour of the Porte.
They protest en masse against the protectorate
which the Emperor of Russia desires to impose on
them. In general, the Greeks are glad to have
the support of Russia, but on condition of not
being under her immediate rule. It is above all
repugnant to them to think that the Eastern
Church, which is the mother of the Russian
Church, should be made subordinate to this latter,
as would be the case if the projects of St. Peters-
burgh were adopted. There would be in that cir-
cumstance, they think, cause for long religious
quarrels, which would infallibly end in a new
schism."

The Russian troops had been reinforced, and the
situation appeared critical.

ITALY.

The Opinione of Turin, of the 23d, in alluding
to the seizure of Mazzini's last publication, gives
an outline of it. Radical as that paper is, it never-
theless speaks of this production in far from favour-
able terms. It describes it as an apology of the
attempt of Feb. 6, in which the writer gives an
account of the means he adopted to prepare it, ex-
plains his conduct of the formation of the National
Committee, and, lastly, announces the dissolution
of the latter, which, it appears, was ultimately
composed of Mazzini and Saffi alone. On this
subject Mazzini says, that being desirous of giving
the committee all the moral weight it could derive
from illustrious Italian names, he wrote himself to
several, among whom may be mentioned Enrico
Cernuschi, Amari, Montanelli, Manin, and Cat-
taneo. For one reason or other, they all declined ;
Manin did not answer. Mazzini further affirms,
in another part of the book, that he only
followed, and did not provoke the movement ;
he only aided, but did not direct these who
were ready to act ; that he advised inac-
tion, if the moment was not favourable, and
only lent his assistance when he received for an-
swer that the time was come. " I lent," he
says, "so much of my aid as was applied for. I
wrote a proclamation because I was asked for one,
and I took measures to have the movement se-
conded on other points, if it showed symptoms of
strength." In another place, he says—" I shall,
if necessary, do again what I have done this time."
Speaking of his " national loan," he complains that
the rich refused their mite, that the loan, which
he considers a good idea, though the material
result was but small, was swelled by-the poor and
not by the rich, who (he says), " now expiate their
avarice with the forced loans and sequestrations of
Austria." These are about the most interesting
points of the pamphlet in question, which the
Opinione declares to be far below the mark of the
author's former productions.
A letter from Florence, of the 18th, in the
Opinione of Turin, states that the Supreme Court
there was engaged in hearing the rejoinders of
counsel for the defence, in the case of Guerrazzi
and others, after which the court was to pronounce
sentence definitively.
Marquis Constabili, who had been ordered away
from Florence by the police is still there, through
the exertions, it is said, of Prince Lichtenstein.