The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-30 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Most of the Paris journals continue to abstain
from remarks on the Eastern question, for, as yet,
no new fact has transpired. The telegraphic
dispatch from Vienna, with accounts from Con-
stantinople of the 11th, merely confirms the news
already received of the rejection of the ultimatum
of the Emperor of Russia, and the Patric, in
stating that the Sultan, in signifying his refusal
to accept it, offered, as a proof of his desire to
negotiate, to send an ambassador to St. Petersburgh,
only repeats what had been asserted in the Eng-
lish journals. The Moniteur does not even com-
municate the news that must have been received
by the French Government of a later date than
the 18th. It is not surprising, therefore, that it
should abstain from comment.

The following telegraphic dispatch has been re-
eeived in Paris
" Vienna, June 28.—The last accounts from Con-
stantinople are to the 18th. M. Balabine, the last
member of the Russian legation remaining at the hotel
of the embassy, left Constantinople on the 17th with
the refusal of the Porte to accede to the last ultimatum
sent by the Government of the Czar. M. Balabine
took with him in the steamer to Odessa the archives of
the Russian embassy."

According to the above dispatch, the diplomatic
relations between Russia and the Porte, which were
not entirely broken up so long as M.
.Balabine re-
mained at the Russian embassy, are now at an end ;
but there is nothing in the dispatch to show whe-
ther the rejection of the Porte was unqualified, or
whether it was accompanied, as some of the Ger-
man journals pretend, by a proposition suggested
by the Austrian ambassador, of a nature to open
the way to new negotiations. Neither is it said
whether M. Balabine proceeds to St. Petersburgh or
remains at Odessa. If he has gone on to the capital,
the statement of the Emperor of Russia having re-
voked the power he had given to Prince Menschi-
koff to give orders for the occupation of the princi-
palities of the Danube immediately on receiving the
news of the rejection of the last ultimatum, and to
await further orders from his Majesty, is probably
correct. This statement cannot be traced to an
authentic source, but it has arrived from so many
quarters that we may suppose that it was an
authorised one. If it was false, the question
assumes a serious aspect ; but if true, and the re-
jection of the ultimatum was accompanied by pro-
positions which the Emperor of Russia could not
decline without showing that he is more desirous
of war than peace, the accounts from St. Peters-
burgh may be of a satisfactory character. It will
be perceived that there is no allusion in the tele-
graphic dispatch to the account given in the Cologne
Gazette of M. Balabine having on the 11th pre-
sented a second note from Count Nesselrode to the
Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, in which the
Russian Minister is said, whilst declaring that the
Emperor, his master, would withdraw no part of
his demands, to have added that if the Sultan was
desirous of negotiating, he must commence by dis-
missing his present ministers, and appointing others
less hostile to Russia. The inconsistency of such
a communication, to say nothing of its dictatorial
tone, is so great, that it is hardly possible to
believe that the Cologne Gazette is well informed.
We read in the Constitutionnel :—" At the
Bourse, where every piece of news is turned to ac-
count, it was yesterday affirmed that a dispatch
had been received, announcing that the Pruth had
been crossed. Who received this intelligence ?
Whence did it come ? That is what no person
knew anything about. We have no right to deny
absolutely the exactitude of it, for it is nut rigor-
ously impossible that the movement of the Russian
army has commenced ; but what we can say is that
it appears more and more certain that Turkey will
confine herself to a protest against this movement
of the Russian army, and, in this case, England
and France will remain in statu quo. But as that
statu quo could not be indefinite, Russia would be
compelled to explain her ulterior views, or to with-
draw after a diplomatic arrangement, for it would
be a matter of urgency to put an end to a state of
things which, without being war, would have all
its inconveniences for Turkey and for her allies.
Before, however, carrying our reasoning any further,
it is necessary to have precise information on facts,
and it cannot be long wanting."
The Debats says :—" We have received letters
from Jassy of the 18th. They state that on the
previous evening Prince Ghika received from the
Russian Government an official notice, dated 11th,
declaring that in the very probable case of the re-
jection of the last ultimatum, of the Emperor
Nicholas by the Ottoman Porte, the Russian troops
would pass the frontier ; and, in consequence, the
Hospodar was invited to prepare provisions and
carts. In this official notice the Cabinet of St.
Petersburgh declared to the Hospodar, in the most
formal manner, that the Emperor did not send his
troops into Moldavia to make war, and that the
occupation would have none of the character of an
invasion. It therefore recommended that nothing
should be changed in the administration of the
country, that the functionaries should remain at
their posts, that the levying of taxes should not be
interrupted, and that the customs service should
be maintained. A similar notification has been
given to Prince Stirbey, Hospodar of Wallachia."
According to a letter from Vienna of the 23d,
in the Augsburg Gazette, the Russian Government,
notwithstanding the rfAlections of its last ultima-
tum by the Ottoman Porte, has decided that its
troops shall not cross the Pruth without formal
orders from St. Petersburgh and consequently,
adds the letter, they will make no movement be-
fore the Ist July.
The Turkish Government has (says a letter from
Scutari of the 15th,) sent orders to Albania to
cause as great a number as possible of irregular

troops to— be collected and sent to Schumla. The
ex-commander of the fortress of Zablick has been
arrested (it is not stated for what reason), and sent
to Constantinople. A great many troops are be-
ing embarked at Dulcingo for that city.
A letter from Vienna of the 24th, in the Cologne
Gazette, says :—" For some days past it has been
rumoured that great acitation has prevailed in the
Selavonian provinces of the south. However, it
would be a mistake to suppose that this is a ma-
nifestation of sympathy in favour of the projects of
Russia on Turkey ; on the contrary, the movement
is favourable to the Ottoman Porte. Everywhere'
in fact, deputations are being named to express the
devotedness of the populations to the Sultan ; and
it is certain that all the chiefs of the Sclavonian„
populations are opposed to the designs of RUSSiII.
June
A telegraphic disp
28, says :—" The French squadron had anivecl on
a tch , dated Marseilles,
June 13 in the Bay of Besika, near the Dardanelles.
The English fleet arrived there on the 14th. The,
utmost cordiality existed between the seamen of
the two fleets."

SPAIN.
The Madrid journals of the 24th are destitute
of
news of importance. The Espana says that I‘,.
Luis Gonzalez Bravo is to be named ambassador
Washington, in the room of M. Calderon de 13
Barca, appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. AC-
cording to a letter, it was doubted whether the
Cabinet would give a prompt solution on the con-
cession of the Northern Railway, the affair of Ge"-
ral Narvaez and other pending matters, the new
Minister of Public Works, M. Moyano, not having
had time to examine them fully. The 24th v7O.
t 8
the holiday of the Nativity of St. John the Baptis,
and in consequence the Stock Exchange was not
open.

ITALY.
The Opinione of Turin, of the 26th, announces,
that the bishops of the ecclesiastical province °I
Turin have addressed a petition to the Senate,
praying that the clergy and the ignorantins
maq
be exonerated from military service. It nlaY I;!°
remembered that a motion to that effect was lost in
the Chamber of Deputies after a very interestwg
debate, when the new recruiting bill, now before
the Senate, was discussed there.
A letter from Florence of the 22d, in the Parla-
ment° of Turin, states that the judges of the
Supreme Court are divided in their opinion 00
Guerrazzi's case ; that one section is for condemn'
ing him to imprisonment in irons for life, the other
for acquittal. It is freely rumoured by persons in
the confidence of the Tuscan Ministers that in the
case of his being condemned a decree of commute,'
tion of punishment will be issued forthwith, the
commutation to consist of exile.

GERMANY.
A letter from Stettin states that, by order of the
Government, all the papers and books of the
society called the Association of Guttenberg hale
been seized.
The Prince Regent of Baden returned on the
24th to Carlsruhe, from Dresden.
The Duke of Genoa has arrived at Berlin/1m
have also the Prince and Princess Frederick dr'
Netherlands, who are about to rejoin their soil-111'
law, the Prince-Royal of Sweden.
The Prussian Gazette states that in consequent
of the recent vote of the Second Chamber,
Prussian Government has withdrawn the whole -
the bill for the revision of the Constitution.
The Post-Ampt Gazette of Frankfort states Ire;
Pesth that General Meyerhoffer has been sent •
Belgrade on a mission connected with the s''-t„
of the East, but the nature of it had
transpired. It appeared, however, that AWL"
had resolved on the strictest neutrality in the "--;
pute between Russia and Turkey. There was
excitement among the Hungarians in favour of
Turks, and several arrests had been made.
The Vienna Gazette of the 20th publishes ,
imperial decree containing a series of defulitii;
nominations of high functionaries in Hungarl
execution of the law on centralisation.

SWITZERRLAND.

The New Zurich Gazette has the following tel,,e'
graphic dispatch from Berne, dated the 27t11; .a,
" The election for Bulle could not take place. P"ci
Charles, who filled the office of scrutator, exarainere
scrupulously the claims of. the Radicals,' and We,
up the vote-paper of a civic guard named 11:16$
who immediately slapped his face. The Radl,A'
then fell on M. Charles, and beat him with StrT,..
He was much injured, and owed his life to the;l
tervention of a magistrate. Cannon wash
brought up, and the greatest disorder ensued."