The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-20 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The Lloyd steamer arrived at Trieste yesterday
(Wednesday) from Constantinople, with news to
the 10th. It appears that the Sultan has de-
manded of Lord Stratford the entrance of the fleet
into the Dardanelles, and he is said to have re-
ceived an affirmative reply.

The Sultan's manifesto was read in all the
mosques on the 7th.
The Porte was about to send a corps of observa-
tion to the Greek frontier, and another to the Per-
sian frontier.
M. Anthimos had been elected the new Greek
Patriarch.

We learn from another source that the United
fleets have been ordered to the Dardanelles, but
that they are not to enter the Black Sea, except
to repel an aggressive movement on the part of the
Russian forces.
It was not expected that the hostilities would
commence before the 25th inst.
The son of Redschid Pasha, who left for Shumla
on the 4th inst. has, besides the summons to Prince
Gortschakoff, dispatches instructing Omar Pasha
whet steps to take.
.case the Russians refuse to
evacuate the Principalities. Similar instructions
have been sent to the Commander of the army in
Asia.

Mr. Reeves, one of the writers of the Times, to
whosejourney to Constantinople some political im-
portance was recently given, arrived on the 3d in
that city, and immediately proceeded to the Eng-
lish embassy at Therapia.
The following is from Constantinople of the 6th
. :—" The Porte had till very recently flattered
i▪ tself that the Persians would actively support
Turkey in this war ; it has, however, become known
that the Russians have intrigued very successfully
to prevent this result. A Russian agent at the
Court of the Shah has been spending great sums,
and numerous decorations have been given—for
instance, that of St. Anne (in d amonds). In
consequence of these steps the dispositions of this
Court have become very equivocal ; and the Per-
sian camp, numbering 50,000 men, stationed at
Sultanieh, on the Turkish frontiers, does notin-
spire the same confidence as before. Unless the
Turks gain some signal victories over the Russians,
they must not reckon on Persian aid. The prestige
attached to the Russians has greatly increased in
Persia ever since thair exploits in the Khanat de
Khina."

The Sultan has signed a firman for the construc-
tion of a canal from Rassowa to Rusmudschee, the
plans for which were drawn by an English company.
By this canal the difficult navigation of the mouths
of the Danube will be spared to vessels descending
the river to gain the Black Sea.
The Zeit of Berlin of the 16th expresses the fol-
lowing opinion on the declaration of Austrian neu-
trality :—" Austria and Prussia are now engaged
by the same interest that formerly made them
allies in war to be allies in peace. If the two States
for their guarantee proceed on the same path, a
conviction may be felt that whatever course the
Turco-Russia differences may take, Germany will
not be affected and will not be engaged in war.
All reports which have been current of a pretended
mobilisation of the army are unfounded ; there is
not even an idea entertained of adopting measures
for that purpose."
A telegraphic dispatch from Vienna, published
by the Debats, says that the following was the re-
ply of Prince Gortschakoff to the summons of
Omer Pacha to evacuate the Danubian principali-
ties :—" My master is not at war with Turkey, but
I have orders not to leave the principalities until
the Porte shall have given to the Emperor the moral
satisfaction he demands. When this point shall
have been obtained, I will evacuate the principali-
ties immediately—whatever the time or the season.
If I am attacked by the Turkish army, I will con-
fine myself to the defensive.
A letter from Vienna of the 15th, in the Post
Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, says :—" Conferences
of the Ambassadors take.place ev.ery day. The day
before yesterday a superior
.functionary of the de-
partment of Foreign Affairs set out for Paris,
charged with a mission to the cabinet of the Tuile-
ries. The Grand Powers intend profiting by the
delay which has been accorded before the breaking
out of hostilities to make a last attempt at effect-
ing an arrangement. The general idea, here, is
that as some months back war was commenced—.
by the passage of the Pruth—without preliminary
notice, so at the present time, notwithstanding the
declaration of war, nohostilities will he commenced,
and that the Danube will not be crossed. The re-
duction of the Austrian army has already com-
menced, a great number of soldiers having yester-
day received their discharge, and taken their de-
parture for Moravia, Bohemia, Gallicia, &c."
The French Journal of Frankfort, which fre-
quently receives semi-official communications from
Austria, publishes a letter from Vienna, dated the A

14th, in which the writer, after alluding to the
rumours that Austria was about to make common
cause with Russia on the Eastern question says :
" We think that the reductions which are about to
be made in our army, although they are not quite it dis-
arming, prove, in the most evident manner, that the
attitude of the Cabinet of Vienna is still the same as it
waa at the commencement of the present conflict in the
East. The Cabinet of Vienna gives the most striking
proof of that attitude at the very moment when the
movements of the combined fleet, which up to this time
were stationed at Besika Bay, would lead to the belief
that the Western Powers are on the point of taking an
active part in the quarrel, and thus to give a qualifica-
tion to it in principle, but which it had not had in fact.
A coalition of Austria with Russia, in the event of war,
could not be effected without the two powers eventually
concerting together on the subject of territorial aggran-
disement, which, if successful, would make an addition
to the southern part of our monarchy. The reductions
which ere about to take place in our army are far from
leading to the supposition of such an object, although
they do not exclude the conviction that we remain pre-
pared to protect effectually our Christian brethren in the
provinces of the Ottoman Empire adjoining Austria if
a sad necessity should require it."