The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-22 00:00:00

TURKEY AND RUSSIA.

The Oesterreichische Correspondenz contains the follow-
ing telegraphic dispatch, dated Constantinople, July
11 :

"A conciliatory note of Reschid. Pacha is considered
of a nature to bring negotiations at once to a conclusion.
"The feeling amongst commercial men is decidedly
favourable.
" The English and French fleets are still at Besika
Bay.

"Exchange on London, 120."
At Vienna, news up to the 11th July has been re-
ceived from Constantinople. The Porte was occupied
with a note of Reschid Pacha, Minister for Foreign
Affairs, for the purpose of facilitating the negotiations,
and obtaining a favourable result. Commercial affairs at
Constantinople were greatly improved.
Under date of Vienna, 'Thursday, July 21, we have
received the following telegraphic dispatch
" BELGRADE, July 15.—Our Senate, being devoted to
Russia, has urged the reigning prince to abdicate in
favour of his nephew, aged twenty-five, educated in
Russia. The prince has already quitted Belgrade, and
demanded three days' delay to consider."
The Russian troops have occupied all the fortified
places on the Wallachian side of the Danube.
The Lloyd of Vienna of the 17th, after stating that
there is reason to hope that the mediation of Austria in
the Eastern question will succeed in -e-establishing
friendly relations between Russia and Turkey, adds :--
" The Emperor of the French has again profoundly
humiliated by his calm, dignified, and pacific demeanour
those persons who do not cease to attribute to him
plans and designs foreign to his far-seeing and pene-
trating mind. As to Lord Aberdeen, the noble lord
has given an additional proof,of his prudence and firm-
ness.
A letter from Warsaw of the 14th, says Yester-
day, divine services were performed in the places of
worship of the various Christian creeds, on the occasion
of the anniversary of the Empress of Russia, the civil
and military functionaries being present. ATe Deum,
was also chaunted in the midst of a salvo of areillery
from the citadel. Afterwards, the Imperial manifesto
relative to the entrance of the Russian troops into 17e"
principalities was read to the congregations. It is to be
read also in every church and synagogue in the country."
A letter from Pesth of July 15, in the Journal de
Prancfort, says—" We were surprised last evening at
seeing three steam-tugs towing in nine vessels laden with
infantry. These troops lodged for the night Partly in
Pesth, and partly in Buda, and continued their route this
morning. Another division is to arrive this evening,
and a third to-morrow. For the moment all the steam-
tugs of the Danube have been placed in requisition for
the service of the State."
The Journal de Constantinople contains an article
on the Smyrna affair. The pith of the thing may
be given in a few lines. M. Kossta, an Austrian
subject, after having remained for some time in Turkey
as a refugee, leaves for the United States, where he passes
two years. After having made a legal declaration to the
authorities, " which would secure to him the rights of a
citizen within a given time," he returns to Smyrna. The
Consulate at Smyrna recognizes Kossta as an American
subject. The Austrian General-Consul first demands
Kossta's expulsion and then seizes him. Both parties pro-
test against the conduct of the Ottoman Government
and demand satisfaction. "Of the assassination we
say nothing, as there cannot be two opinions on the
subject." The semtwofficial journal acknowledges
ihat every European in the Turkish Empire is
amenable to the laws and tribunals of his own
country, and that the local authorities have no right
of jurisdiction over them. Even if taken in flagrant
delft the local authorities must deliver the culprit to
the consulate or legation to which he belongs within
24 hours. When the Porte ventured to protect
Austrian refugees after the revolution, "it was
under cover of an appeal to the humanity of Austria."
How can the Porte be held responsible for what has
now occurred ? Responsibility would involve authority,
and in this matter the Porte has none. The semi-
official organ is of opinion that such sad occurrences
could not take place if the position of Europeans in
Turkey was more clearly defined. "As Kossta is
not a Turkish subject nor in the exceptional position of
a refugee, the only question is whether he is a subject
of Austria or of the United States. The two foreign
Powers must settle this matter between them."
The following is from the Times Paris correspondent's
letter, dated yesterday, 6 p.m. :
" A rumour was in circulation to day with reference
to the Turkish question, which produced rather an un-
favourable effect. It was that the Emperor of Russia
had declined accepting in their present form the propo-
sitions presented to him for Oe settlement of his quarrel
with the Porte ; that he did not object to have the mat-
ter decided by arbitration; that he would name Austria,
and that the Sultan might select any Power he thought
proper ; but that, after such arbitration, he should de-
mand an indemnity for tile expense and trouble he has
had in moving his army. This intelligence, dated
Petersburg, the 16th, is said to have been brought by
the steamer from Cronstadt to Stettin, from which place
it was received yesterday in Paris. But should it turn
out true, it would show the determination of the Czar to
occupy, if not permanently, at least for a considerable
period, the Danubian Principalities by way of guarantee
for exorbitant and unjust
,demands, which he must be
aware the Porte is unable to satisfy. If it does not at
this moment suit him to annihilate Turkey by war, he
will exhaust her in some other way. Anotheprumour
is, that the Emperor of Russia has declined to
commence negotiations until such time as the
combined fleets quit Besika Bay ; he, however,
continuing to occupy the Danubian Principalities. It
is right to add that both rumours are thought
to be unfounded ; and, on the other hand, it is asserted-
that a letter has been received from London, and from
an official quarter, stating that the Emperor of Russia
has accepted the propositions made by the French Go-
vernment. The letters received at the Ottoman Em-
bassy in Paris are of the 9th, but they do not give any
details about the conspiracy discovered at Constantinople
against the person of the Sultan. In the absence of any
additional information, it is conjectured that the Sopthas,
who are "students in theology "—their theology con-
sisting in the acquisition of the Arabic, in which
tongue prayers are recited in the mosques—may have
used exciting language to the people iwhen assembled
for prayer, and thus rendered it necessary to
have mea-
sures of rigour taken against them.
Whenlhose young men
are as ignorant as they are fanatical.
the cholera
desolated Constantinople they were every day haranguing
in the mosques against those who recommended or who
received medical aid, or who indeed took any precautions
against the malady. Those who abstained from eating
fruit with the object of avoiding the disease were de-
nounced as only fit to rank with infidels ; and all true
believers were recommended to shun them as if they
were infected with the plague. No preliminary instruc-
tion is required for those persons' beyond the study of
Arabic, and many embrace the profession merely for the
pill:l)6Se of being exempt from the military service."