The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-14 00:00:00

TURKEY.

We find several articles, and some of them of
interest, in the Paris journals of yesterday, on the
Eastern question. The Constitutionnel is silent,
but the other Ministerial journal, the Pays, enters
rather freely into the consideration of the course to
be taken by France and England, if the Emperor
of Russia should occupy the principalities of the
Danube. This occupation would, in the opinion of
the Pays, be a violation of the treaties between
Russia and Turkey, and would justify and render
necessary the presence of the French and English
fleets at Constantinople for the protection of the
capital, but we see nothing in the article of the
Pays to indicate that they would resort to reprisals
'if Russia should, for the moment, content herself
with retaining possession of the principalities. The
Mats quotes with great satisfaction the opinion of
the Times, that the mere occupation of the princi-
palities would not and ought not to be regarded by
the English and French Cabinets as a declaration
of war against Turkey. This would be a great
point gained by Russia, and if tolerated, as the
_Mats thinks it will be, would put the Emperor in
a position to dictate terms, but still the Debats is of
opinion that a pacific solution would be arrived at
by negotiation. The Assemblee Nationale expresses
the same opinion. After declaring, as will be seen,
that -the Emperor of Russia has sent a note to the
Powers of Europe, in which he maintains all his
demands upon Turkey, and intimates that he will
occupy the principalities, the Assembles says that
war will be avoided by subsequent negotiations.
Our contemporary does not hold out a hope that
the Emperor will make any important concessions,
and if he does not intend to do so, it would be just
as well to yield all that he asks now, as to keep the
world in a state of suspense and anxiety. The
Univers laughs at the idea of making appeals to
the moderation and justice of the Emperor of
Russia. Arms and not sermons are, according to
this journal, the only means of inducing him to
withdraw any of his pretensions. Tho Univers,
however, pretends to have no confidence in the al-
liance that has been formed between England and
France to check the ambition of the Autocrat.
What it asks, can this affiance effect? The French
and English fleets may burn the Russian fleet in
the Black Sea, but that will not prevent the
Russians from marching on Constantinople.
There is but one alliance which, in the opi-
nion of the Univers, could preserve the
equilibrium of Europe from the blow aimed
at it by the Emperor of Russia. The Uni-
vers has such a horror of the alliance be-
tween a Catholic and Protestant country, even
in the defence of the principles of justice, that it
magnifies the means of Austria far beyond their
real character. And even, supposing the alliance to
be more desirable than that with England, how
does it know that it could be effected ? The Siecle
is as much for the alliance with England as the
Univers is against it, but it does not attempt to
conceal the fact that it advocates this alliance as
much, perhaps more, from a belief that it must
necessarily lead to the extension of liberal institu-
tions in France, as from the conviction that the
two powers can, if they act cordially and energeti-
cally, prevent the destruction of the Turkish Em-
pire, and the consequent alarming increase of the
power of the Emperor of Russia.
The Assembles Nationale says :
"We learn that a note from St. Petersburgh, which
arrived in Paris on Saturday by a Cabinet courier, has
been communicated to the different courts of Europe by
the different ministers. In this note the Cabinet of St.
Petersburgh is said to declare that it is the intention of
the Emperor to maintain the demands which he thought
right to address to the Porte on the maintenance of the
privileges and guarantees of the orthodox Greek re-
ligion, in the terms in which those demands were drawn
up in the last dispatch of Prince 111enschikoff. After
having developed the motives which induced the Em-
peror to exact new guarantees from the Porte, and
to insist thereon, the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh is
said to declare that the Emperor in nowise in-
tends to make war in Turkey, or to seize this
occasion for encroaching on the integrity and indepen-
dence of the Ottoman Empire. The Cabinet of St.
Petersburgh adds, however, that, in case the Divan
should persist in rejecting the demands presented to it,
the Emperor would think right to give to his army in
Bessarabia the order to occupy the Danubian provinces.
This occupation would not have the character of a de-
claration
of war, since the difference at this moment
pending between the Porte and Russia enters into the
category of those which, according to the terms of the
treaties existing between Russia and Turkey, may lead
to the occupation of the provinces."

The Cologne Gazette, under date of Berlin, 10th,
says :

"A report was current yesterday that Count de Nes-
selrode, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, will re-
tire from office in case a war should break out. The
count is, it is said, the only diplomatist of eminence who
seriously wishes for the maintenance of peace."

A letter from St. Petersburgh of the 3d, in the
llarnburgh News, says :
" Baron de Meyendorff, Ambassador of the Czar at
Vienna, has carried out instructions concerning the me-
diation of Austria between our Cabinet and the Ottoman
Porte. It was through the influence of the British Am-
bassador at Constantinople that the project of Russia
to conclude a treaty with the Sultan for the protection
of the Greeks failed. The nomination of Reschid Pacha
has caused irritation, but the Czar endeavours to dis-
guise his dissatisfaction. His Majesty continues to in-
spect the different corps d'armee. He is about to visit
Cronstadt to inspect the troops and the fleet. The
Court Gazette publishes the orders of the day, in which
the Czar expresses his satisfaction to the Grand Duke
Constantine and the admirals, and accords a donation to
the soldiers."

The Press of Vienna of the 9th announces that
a telegraphic dispatch had arrived, according to
which the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh had accepted
the mediation of Austria in the difference with the
Ottoman Porte.

A letter from Vienna of the Bth says :—" A
diplomatic dispatch which arrived here this day