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

two demands contained in his note of the 7th (19th) of
April, and will regard it as a duty to place those docu-
ments under the eyes of his Government.

"But, not having hitherto obtaiued any reply to the
third and most important point, which claims guarantees
for the future, and having been recently instructed to
insist with greater force, in order to arrive at an imme-
diate solution of the question, which constitutes the
principal object of the solicitude of His Majesty the
Emperor, the Ambassador is obliged to address himself
to-day to his Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
confining this time his reclamations within the last
limits prescribed by superior directions.
" The bases of the arrangement he is charged to ob-
tain remain materially the same.
" The Eastern Orthodox worship, its clergy and its
possessions, shall enjoy in future, without any moles-
tation, under the cegis of His Majesty the Sultan, the
privileges and immunities insured to them at antiquo,
and, in virtue of a principle of high equity, they shall
participate in the advantages granted to other Christian
worships. . _

"A£ Jerusalem, the Russian monks and pilgrims shall
be assimilated, as respects prerogatives, to those of other
foreign nations.

" These points, herein summarily indicated, shall form
the object of a Sened which will attest the mutual confi-
dence of the two Governments.

" In this act, the objections and difficulties repeatedly
expressed by his Excellency Rifaat Pasha and some of
his colleagues have been taken into consideration, as his
Excellency will perceive by the draught of a Sexed which
the Ambassador has the honour to annex to the present
note.

" The Ambassador flatters himself with the hope that
hereafter the just expectation of his august master will
not be deceived ; and that, laying aside all hesitation
and all distrust, from which its dignity and its generous
sentiments would have to suffer, the Sublime Porte will
lose no time in forwarding to the Imperial Ambassador
the Sovereign decisions of his Majesty the Sultan, in
reply to the present notification.
" It is with that hope the Ambassador requests his
Excellency Rifaat Paella to have the kindness to forward
to him that reply on or before the 28th of April (10th of
May). He must consider a longer delay as a want of
courtesy towards his Government, which would impose
upon him the most painful obligations.
" The Ambassador of Russia offers to his Excellency
the reiterated and sincere assurance of his high considera-
tion.

(Signed) " MENSCIIIKOFP."
The following is entitled " Project of Served, or
Convention, proposed between the Ottoman Porte
and the Emperor of Russia " :
" His Majesty the Emperor and Padishah of the Ot-
tomans and his Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias,
in the common desire of maintaining the stability of the
orthodox Greco-Russian worship, professed by the ma-
jority of their Christian subjects, and of guaranteeing
that worship from every encroachment in future, have
appointed, viz., H.M. the Emperor of the Ottomans
and H.M. the Emperor of All the Russias
who, after exchanging explanations, have agreed on
what follows :

" Art. 1. No change shall be made in the rights, pri-
vileges, and immunities which have been enjoyed, or
which are now enjoyed, ab antiquo, by the churches, the
pious institutions, and the orthodox clergy, in the states
of the Sublime Ottoman Porte, which is pleased to se-
cure such to them for ever, on the basis of the strict
status quo at present existing.
" Art. 2. The rights and advantages conceded by the
Ottoman Government, or which shall be so conceded in
future, to the other Christian religions by treaties, con-
ventions, or special provisions, shall be considered as
appertaining likewise to the orthodox worship.
" Art. 3. It being admitted and shown by historical
traditions, and by numerous documents, that the ortho-
dox Greek Church of Jerusalem, that its Patriarchate
and the laics, who are subordinate to it, have been
from all time, since the epoch of the Caliphs, and
under the successive rights of all the Ottoman
Emperors, especially protected honoured, and
confirmed in their ancient rights and immuni-
ties, the Sublime Porte, in its solicitude for the con-
science and the religious convictions of its subjects of
that worship, as also of all tho Christians who profess it,
and whose piety has been alarmed by divers events,
promises to maintain and cause to be respected those
rights and those immunities, as well in the city of Jeru-
salem as without it, without any prejudice to the other
native Christian communities, Rayahs or strangers, ad-
mitted to the adoration of the Holy Sepulchre, and of
the other sanctuaries, whether in common with the
Greeks or in their separate oratories.
" Art. 4. His Majesty the Sultan, now gloriously
reigning, having judged it necessary and equitable to
corroborate and explain his Sovereign Firman, sealed
with the Hatti-Humayun, in the middle period of the
moon of Releiul Akhir 1268 (end of January, 0. S.,
1852), by his Sovereign Firman of -, and to order
in addition, by another Firman, dated -, the repara-
tion of the great cupola of the Temple of the Holy Se-
pulchre, these two Firmans shall be textually executed
and faithfully observed, in order to maintain for ever the
strict status quo of the sanctuaries possessed by the
Greeks exclusively, or in common with other religions.
" It is agreed that an understanding shall be ulteri-
orly come to for the settlement of certain points of de-
tail which have not found a place in the aforementioned
Firmans.

" Art. 5. The subjects of the Russian Empire, secu-
lars as well as ecclesiastics, to whom it is permitted, in
pursuance of the treaties, to visit the Holy City of Jeru •
salem, and other places of devotion, having a right to
be treated and considered on an equality with the sub-
jects of the most favoured nations, and these last, Catho-
lics as well as Protestants, having their prelates and
their special ecclesiastical establishments, the Sublime
Porte binds itself, in case the Imperial Court of Ruo.ia
demands it, to assign a suitable locality in the city of
Jerusalem, or in the environs, for the construction of a
church consecrated for the celebration of Divine service
by Russian ecclesiastics, and of an hospital for indigent
or sick pilgrims, and which foundations shall be under
the surveillance of the Consulate-General of Russia,
Syria, and Palestine.
"Art. 6, It is understood that the present act, occa-
sioned by exceptional circumstances, affects in nothing
any of the stipulations existing betwen the two Courts,
and that all the anterior treaties, corroborated by the
separate act of the Treaty of Adrianople, maintain all
their force and value.
"The six articles which precede having been deter-
mined and concluded, our signature and the seal of our
arms have been affixed to the present instrument, which
is delivered to the Sublime Porte in exchange for that
which is delivered to us by before-mentioned.
" Done at , the , 1853, and —of the Hegira.
(Signed) " —, Ambassador-Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the
Emperor of All the Russias to the
Ottoman Porte."

From a perusal of the above it will be seen that
there was a good deal of exaggeration in what had
been originally said with reference to the mission
of Pri▪
nce Menschikoff. That exaggeration, liow-
e ver, was occasioned by the extraordinary manner
in whi▪
ch the Prince made his entry into Constan-
tinople, by his deportment at the opening of his
mission, and other circumstances. But though
there may have been much exaggeration, the ques-
tion is not the less one of considerable importance,
and of no small danger to the Ottoman Empire.
If such a convention as that demanded singly by
Russia were put forward by all the Powers who
signed the Treaty of 1841, its importance would be
diminished,inasmuch as the influence of one Power
would neutralize that of the other ; but the danger
of the immense preponderance that would be given
to Russia alone is regarded as very great indeed.
Intelligence from Odessa, of the 22d ult., a date
at which the late events at Constantinople were not
yet known, states that the concentration of troops
continued suspended, and that the governor of the
province had transmitted to the syndicate of the
merchants a notice of a reassuring character, in the
point of view of commercial transactions. The
Russian fleet still remained as before at Sebastopol.
The officers on leave had received orders to join at
once their respective vessels, and the crews were at
their frill complement. . The fleet remained at an-
chor, not making any evolutions.
The official Wiener Zeitung contains the follow-
ing telegraphic dispatch from Constantinople, dated
23d May:—
" The exchange has risen from 1071 to 118. Prinoe
Menschikoff, together with the personnel of the embassy,
has left. Notwithstanding the disquietude that prevails
in the minds of all parties, the hope that peace will be
maintained is held fast. The Porte has given the assur-
ance that an improved position of the Christian popula-
tion will be effected under the superintending influence
of the Great Powers."
The Wanderer quotes the T emesvarer Zeitung,
' which latter journal has received a l tteer from
Jassy, of the 20th May, to the effect " that
divers indications announce the
.speedy arrival
of Russian troops in the. Dan. übian principali-
ties. The Russian army is said to have crossed
the Pruth ; and preparations are making for their
passing over the arm of the Danube, at Ismael, for
which purpose, partly at G-alatz and partly at
Ibraila, 1,000 large and small logs, or trees, had
been purchased, evidently intended for the con-
struction of permanent bridges.
The Vienna Presse publishes the following letter
from Constantinople, dated 22d May :--
eranflsthCei hranegeravrineieeer
to an
tdhe pinerotrei
,-
in case of war. "The Turks are arming. Omer Pasha is to establish
his head-quarters at Sthumla. An on
dit wat current,
"
agreeably
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dweh
ichten A
letter from Smyrna,
dated the 18th Lay,Ma con-
firms the fact previously reported, that an Imperial
finnan had been sent by a Turkish officer to the
Dardanelles, to allow the English and French
a
fleets to enter the Bosphorous.