The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-09 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

ENTRANCE OF THE COMBINED FLEETS

INTO THE BLACK SEA.

A telegraphic despatch from Constantinople,
dated December 30, says the combined fleets have
entered the Black Sea.

Eighty exiled Softas had arrived at Candia on
December 27.

Ten thousand Egyptian troops are concentrated
at Cairo, under El Hamin Pacha, for military

exercises.
The storming of Karakal by the Turks has not
yet been officially confirmed, but the Siebenburgen
Bote (Transylvanian, Courier) persists in the truth
thereof.

Austria has demanded whether the Russian Court
would object to a European Protectorate over the
Christians in Turkey.
The reply, in most positive language, was that
Russia would permit no other Power to meddle in
the matter of the Greek Church. Russia had
treaties with the Porte, and would settle the ques-
tion with her alone.
M. Kaniloff, director of the diplomatic bureau
at Teflis, has gone on a special mission to Teheran,
with four staff and six subaltern officers.
Prince George Stourdza, son of the ex-Hospodar
of Moldavia, has offered his services to the Sultan,
who has accepted them, and the Prince is to set out
for the army of Omer Pasha, where he will com-
mand a brigade.
The Pasha of Egypt, when he heard of the dis-
aster at Sinope, ordered the immediate armament of
six frigates, five corvettes, and three brigs, destined
t o fill up the chasm which has been produced in
the materiel of the Turkish fleet.
From St. Petersburg, Dec. 28, we learn that the
Prince of Warsaw is expected there shortly to take
share in the diplomatic conferences. The loss of
a vessel of 110 guns, the Rotiscoff, was sensibly felt
by the Emperor.
The most perfect tranquillity reigned at Bucha-
rest on the 30th Dec. The march of troops towards
Lesser Wallachia had been suspended, the ground
being covered with. snow.
From Belgrade we learn that on the eve of St.
Nicholas (Dec. 17), it was rumoured there that the
usual prayers were not to be said for the Emperor
of- Russia, the protector of the country. The
heads of the church having, received an address
from several inhabitants, went to the residence of
the chief magistrate and requested him to give the
necessary orders for the prayers to be said. It was
eventually decided that what was asked for should
be done. The Consuls of England and of France
having considered that fact as a violation of the
neutrality, drew up a protest, and addressed a
report to their ambassadors at Constantinople.
The Servian government has demanded explana-
tions from the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh relative.
to the presence of Prince Milosch in the neighbour-
hood of Servia. The reply contains the assurance
that, in case of need, Russia would protect Prince
Alexander; and that the presence of Prince Milosch
in the neighbourhood of Servia is quite a matter of
indifference as regards the future welfare of the
country.
The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 28th ult.
has the following from the frontier of Asia :
" The last despatches from the Aide-de-Camp
General Woronzoff, under date the 30th November,
confirm still more strongly the impression pro-
duced.on the Turks by our victories before Akhalb-
sykh and at Baschkadyk-Lars. In consequence of
the defeats sustained by the enemy, most of their
militia dispersed, and the Kurds, who were witif
the Turks, turned against their regular troops who
were retiring in disorder, and took from them all
that they could. In addition to the inhabitants of
the Sandjuk, of the Poskhoff-Tchai, those of the
Sandjuk of Tchaldyr, have solicited our protection ;
and in general the.populations of the neighbouring
Turkish possessions send deputies and elders to
meet our chiefs of detachments, and to give them
assurances of their peaceable dispositions.
The Emperor of Russia has conferred the Order
of St. Alexander Nevsky on Admiral de Ricord,
member of the Admiralty Council and president of
the scientific committee of the navy ; and has nomi-
nated Lieut.-General Rostovtsoff, chief of the staff
of H. I. H. the Cesarevitch Hereditary Grand
Duke, and superior of the military schools, a mem-
ber of the same Order.
General Prim started for Constantinople on the
sth for Paris and. Madrid. On Monday previous
he had an audience of the Sultan, being presented
by the Spanish ambassador, Chevalier Antonio
Riquelme, at the Imperial Palace of Tcheragan, on
the Bosphorus. He was accompanied by his staff.
On that occasion he made the following speech :
"Sire,—On the eve of departnre for Spain, in order
to give an account to my gracious Sovereign of the mis-
sion with which she has deigned to charge me, my first
duty is to take leave of your Imperial Majesty, and to
receive your sovereign orders. Allow me, Sire, at the
same time to express to your Imperial Majesty my
sincere thanks for having allowed both myself and the
officers under my command to assist at the opera-
tions of your valiant army of Rournelia, wnich hag
enabledjme to appreciate all the brilliant qualities of
the Ottoniart soldier. I have seen him indefatigable
in all the marches and labours of the campaign,
under privations and suffering of every kind ; I have
seen him resigned ; and I have also seen him coura-
geous and enthusiastic, when fighting against the enemies
of his country in the magic name of your Imperial
Majesty. The illustrious captain to whom your Impe-
rial Majesty has deigned to confide the army of the
Danube, by his intelligence, his activity, and coolness, is
worthy, in my humble opinion, to command such sol-
diers. I leave in the hopes of returning next spring.
Then I shall find your Imperial Majesty at the head of
your brave armies, and we shall have the satisfaction of
assisting at your brilliant triumphs ; for God only knows,
Sire, what your soldiers are capable of doing in the day
of battle, when commanded by your Imperial Majesty."
This speech was made prior to the signature of
the note of the Four Powers.
Trieste is the appointed neutral town at which
the Congress is to be convened for the negotiations
for the peaceful settlement of the Turco-Russian
question. The Turkish Plenipotentiary is not yet
named. Aali Pacha, the late Governor of Smyrna,
is spoken of.
NOTE OF THE FOUR POWERS.

The undersigned ambassador of her Britannic
Majesty, in accordance with the representatives of
France, Austria, and Prussia, has the honour to
make known to the Sublime Porte that the Govern-
ments of the four Powers having still reason to be-
lieve that his Majesty the Emperor of Russia does
not regard the thread of negotiations as broken by
the declaration of war, and by the events the con-
sequence thereof: and knowing, moreover, that,
according to the proposed declarations of his Im-
perial Majesty, that he desires only to behold as-
sured a perfect equality of rights and immunities
octroyed by his Majesty the Sultan and his glorious
ancestors to the Christian communities, subjects of
the Sublime Porte ;
On its part, the Sublime Porte responding to
those declarations by that which it made itself to
regard it as concerning its honour to continue to
maintain the said rights and immunities, and to be
still disposed to put an end to the difference arising
between the two Powers :
The negotiation* to lie followed shall be based
upon :

-1. The most speedy evacuation possible of the princ
palities. (La plus prompts possible. )

2. The renewal (reaouvellement) of ancient treaties.
3. The communication of the firms relative to the
spiritual privileges octroyed by the Sublime Porte to all
its subjects not Mussulmen, which communication,
made to the Powers, should be accompanied by suitable
assurances given to each of them.

The arrangement already made to complete the
agreement (Caccord) relative to the holy places
and to the religious establishments at Jerusalem
shall be definitively adopted.
This arrangement concerns the erection of a
church, and the establishment of a Russian hospital
at Jerusalem.

The Sublime Porte shall declare to the repre-
sentatives that it is ready to name a plenipotentiary
to establish an armistice, and to negotiate on the
above-mentioned bases, with the concurrence of the
Powers, and in a neutral town to be agreed upon
betwesn them.

The declarations made by the. Powers in the pre-
amble of the treaty of July 13, 1841, shall be for-
mally confirmed by those same Powers in the in-
terest of the independence and integrity of the
Ottoman Empire, and in that of the equilibrium
of Europe (et de celui die concert Europeen).
The Sublime Porte shall declare (declarerait) on
its part in the same interest its firm resolution to
develope more efficaciously its administrative sys-
tem, and those internal reforms of a nature to
satisfy the wants and the just expectations of its
subjects of all classes.

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(Signed) STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE,
BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS,
L. DE WILDENERUCK,
B. DE BRUCK.
Pera, December 12, 1853.