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

RU SSIA 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 he his due.
The fourth div ision of the Russian army is ordered to
enter Moldavia. •
The Russian force on the line of the Black Sea
amounts to 160„(000 men.
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 tl Le Premier, and to confine himself, in
future, to official intercourse with the English Secretary
of State, whoever he may be.
The Journal d e Francfort states the Russian fleet in
the Baltic to core sist of 27 ships of the line, and 18. fri-
gates ; and the c ne in the Black Sea of 18 ships of the
line, and 12 frigates.
Letters date& • the 20th ult. from the Danubian pro-
vinces, speak of preparations for the passage of the
Pruth by the Russians.
The Radical C government of Friburg has received a
check in the elect ion of a deputy to the Swiss National
Council.
General Giula:v left Vienna on the 30th ult., on a
special mission to St. Petersburgh.
The German j• ournals 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 con espondents of the French and English
journals.
The Voss Gazett e of Berlin has a letter from Vienna of
the 27th ult., in v ,hick the writer declares, as on good
information, that the Austrian Cabinet has no leaning
towards Russia it L the affair of the East, and acts with
perfect independen, ce.
A letter from E rzeroum 29th ult., in the Constitu-
tionnel, says :—" It , is positively stated that the Russian
Government of the Trans-Caucassian provinces have just
concentrated troop 3 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 then i over to her views. Everything is
besides ready for as s invasion, and unfortunately Erze-
roum is not in a ti position to offer much resistance,
although it is a strategic point of the highest importance.
It would require tb e active co-operation of the European
fleets on the Asiatic 3 coast of the Black Sea in order to
check an imminent aggression."
The Kiobenh,avd isposten of Copenhagen of the 20th
speaki Of a G rand Central• European Alliance, of
which Austria and Prussia will be the nucleus, and to
which will successfi illy be united the other German so-
vereigns, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, &c. The object
of this alliance Zvi .11 be, according to this journal, to
maintain the neut rality of Central Europe, should a
struggle commence between Russia on the one hand,
and France and En gland united on the other.
We read in the .1 'atri,e :—" A letter from Constanti-
nople of the 18th, assures us that the Russian Govern-
ment had sent off an envoy extraordinary, charged to
address special rein onstrances to the Shah of Persia, and
that the investment t of Balfrouch, a port on the Caspian
Sea, and of all that; part of the coast of the Mazande-
ran, is regarded at very probable."—The same journal
says—" Private lea tters 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 reig sung Prince of Wallachia, a con-
siderable quantity of cattle, furnished by the
breeders of the c;ountry to the Wallachian Go-
vernment, had ar rived at Brailow, a port on the
Danube. They h 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 Ruse kb, and made all the necessary ar-
rangements for th rowing a bridge over the Pruth at
that place. It was supposed that, in consequence of
the arrangements th us made, this bridge could be com-
pleted in twenty be mrs from the moment of its com-
mencement. The 1 tussian consuls had received orders
to put into requisitie.n all the boats which they could
find, and to fell wl oatever 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
Emperor of Russia. By Saturday the 25th of June at
the latest the Emper or must have received the reply of
the Turkish Governn sent to his last ultimatum. Every
Saturday evening tb e mail steamer leaves St. Peters-
burgh for Stettin. The journey to France from St.
Petersburgb by Stet tin, Berlin, and Cologne, takes 107
hours (less ihan five 'days). On the Ist of July, there-
fore, we can very w' ill receive here accounts from St.
Petersburgh of the 2.5 th of June."