The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-02 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The Pays of yesterday, after expressing an
opinion that the modifications by the 'Porte of the
note drawn up by the conference of Vienna will
not be an obstacle to the final arrangement of the
late dispute, and that the evacuation of the prin-
cipalities will take place as a matter of course,
adds :—" The Turco-Russian question is settled ;
but there remains a very important question,
which, thank God, is not one of peace or war, and
which must not be confounded with the affair
which has just been concluded. The question is
that of the future fate of Turkey. The Ottoman
Empire must not be again exposed to the dangers
from which it has just escaped ; its situation and
its rights must be established in such a manner
that as regards it treaties and the law of nations
cannot be violated. We believe that the Divan
itself is seriously engaged in considering this fun-
damental question, and that it has called the
attention of the European Powers to this point,
particularly as far as regards the inviolability
of the Moldo-Wallachian provinces. It ap-
pears to us difficult that the great Powers, after
having aranged the most urgent affair by removing
all possibility of war for the present between Tur-
key and Russia, and by reconciling a dispute full
of peril for the peace of the world, should not
think of preventing the renewal of these alarming
crises. The action of diplomacy will doubtless be
directed to this important subject. Now that the
chances of a sanguinary struggle have disappeared,
the really important work is about to commence
in the interest of the Ottoman empire, the fate of
which is so intimately connected with the peace of
Europe. But this work will be accomplished be-
tween the Cabinets by pacific discussions and diplo-
matic notes, without reviving the late dispute,
which was independent of this great point, and
which, in the opinion of every serious mind, is now
definitively solved."

The New Prussian Gazette has the following
from Vienna of the 26th ult. :—" We learn from
a source worthy of faith that the evacuation of the
Danubian principalities of the Russian troops is a
matter decided on by the Cabinet of St. Peters-
burgh, supposing that the Porte accepts the condi-
tions stipulated in the project drawn up at Vienna.
Baron de Meyendorff has several times made this
declaration to our Cabinet."

A letter from Vienna, of the 28th ult., in a
Frankfort journal, says :—" Letters from Bucha-
rest state that the anniversary of the birth-day of
the Emperor of Austria was celebrated there with
great éclat. ATe Deum was chanted in the Ca-
tholic church, Prince Gortschakoff and his staff
being present, as well as all the Wallachian minis-
ters and great boyards.
The Cassel Gazette has the following from Berlin,
29th ult. :—" The question of the refugees forms
at this moment a part of the diplomatic negotia-
tions which are going on at Constantinople. In
this affair, Austria and Prussia act in concert with
the Russian Cabinet, which has on many occasions
expressed its desire that advantage should be taken
of the solution of the Eastern question to regulate
the political relations of the powers as regards the
revolutionary elements which are at work in Eu-
rope. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has observed
great reserve in this affair, from which an idea may
be formed of the position that the British Cabinet
will assume in it."

Letters from the Black Sea of the 18th August
announce that the ships which form the fourth di-
vision of the Russian fleet had returned to Sebasto-
pol, with the exception of four vessels of smaller
size cruising on the coast of the Caucasus. The
Black Sea had for several days been covered with a
thick fog, which seriously impeded the navigation.
Accounts from Belgrade of the 17th ult. state
that the reigning Prince, after having visited the
principal towns in Servia, in which he had been
well received, returned to his residence at Semen-
dria. Several political refugees suspected of having
attempted to create disturbances, had quitted the
country, to proceed to America.
A commercial house in Munich received notice
by telegraph from Paris, on the 20th inst., that
Baron James Rothschild had left there for Alex-
andria to negotiate with the Porte concerning a
loan.