The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-02 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The Emperor of Russia has made a personal declara-
tion to the English and French Ambsssadors expressed
in the strongest language. He states that even the de-
struction of his fleets should not prevent his invading
Turkey, and obtaining the reparation which he believed
to be his due.

The fourth division of the Russian army is ordered to
enter Moldavia.
The Russian force on the line of the Black Sea
amounts to 160,000 men.
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The Emperor complains that the conduct of Lord
Aberdeen is entireiy at variance with the private decla-
clarations of that Minister.

- It is said that peremptory instructions have been for-
warded to M. de Brunow to cease his habitual commu-
nications with the Premier, and to confine himself, in
future, to official intercourse with the English Secretary
of State, whoever he may be.
The Journal de Francfort states the Russian fleet in
the Baltic to consist of 27 ships of the line, and 18 fri-
gates ; and the one in the Black Sea of 18 ships of the
line, and 12 frigates.
Letters dated the 20th ult. from the Danubian pro-
vinces, speak of preparations for the passage of the
Pruth by the Russians.
The Radical Government of Friburg has received a
check in the election of a deputy to the Swiss National
Council.

General Giulay left Vienna on the 30th ult., on a
special mission to St. Petersburgh.
The German journals contain numerous articles re-
specting the state of affairs in the East, but there is not
a single fact in them which was not already known
through the correspondents of the French and English
journals.
The Voss Gazette of Berlin has a letter from Vienna of
the 27th ult., in which the writer declares, as on good
information, that the Austrian Cabinet has no leaning
towards Russia in the affair of the East, and acts with
perfect independence.
A letter from Erzeroum 29th ult., in the Constita-
tionnel, says :—" It is positively stated that the Russian
Government of the Trans-Caucassian provinces have just
irmeentrated troops on the Turkish frontier, and particu-
larly at Akhaltzik. Russia is labouring hard to work
on the minds of the Armenian inhabitants of Turkey, in
order to bring them over to her views. Everything is
besides ready for an invasion, and unfortunately Erze-
room is not in a position to offer much resistance,
although it is a strategic point of the highest importance.
It would require the active co-operation of the European
fleets on the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea in order to
check an imminent aggression."
The .Kiobenhavensposten of Copenhagen of the 20th
ult., speaks of a Grand Central European Alliance, of
which Austria and Prussia :will be the nucleus, and to
which will successfully be united the other German so-
vereigns, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, &c. The object
of this affiance will be, according to this journal, to
maintain the neutrality of Central Europe, should a
struggle commence between Russia on the one hand,
and France and England united on the other.
We read in the Patrie :—" A letter from Constanti-
nople of the 18th, assures us that the Russian Goveih-
ment had sent off an envoy extraordinary, charged to
address special remonstrances to the Shah of Persia, and
that the investment of Balfrouch, a port on the Caspian
Sea, and of all that part of the coast of the Mazande-
ran, is regarded as very probable."—The same journal
says—" Private letters from the Danubian provinces of
the 15th, 18th, and 20th of June, inform us of
some facts worth notice. In consequence of orders
given by the reigning Prince of Wallachia, a con-
siderable quantity of cattle, furnished by the
breeders of the country to the Wallachian Go-
vernment, had arrived at Brailow, a port on the
Danube. They had been directed towards the in-
terior in groups of about 50 head each. In another
quarter a party of the Russian army had established a
vast park near Rusekb, and made all the necessary ar-
rangements for throwing a bridge over the Pruth at
that place. It was supposed that, in consequence of
the arrangements thus made, this bridge could be com-
pleted in twenty hours from the moment of its com-
mencement. The Russian consuls had received orders
to put into requisition all the boats which they could
find, and to fell whatever timber, might be required to
aid the operations of the passage."
The Presse says :—" It is impossible that we can re-
main long in ignorance of the final determination of the
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hours (less than five days). On the Ist of July, there-
fore, we can very well receive here accounts from St.
Petersburgh of the 25th of June."