The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-07-29
FOREIGN NEWS.

| IOhLlNIN NEWS.
| CHARLESTON, July %.
ADDITIONAL PER ARcrIc-Nesselrod had
issued circular more menacing than the last
saying that Russia occupies the principalities
because French and English fleets had been
sent to the Dardaneles, and intimates that
Russia will refuse Cancellation until those
fleets are withdrawn. He expresses, howe
| Yer, his willingness to evacuate the principal
tiles when his demands are fully complied
with. This has opened the eyes of Western
Europe, and public opinion demands deci-
| size settlement of the question.
! 1t was believed that Russia was only at
tempting to gain time to render her position
impregnable.
Dispatches announcing pacific tendency
OF affairs generally was regarded as simply
Latest reports say that moderate note
had been sent to st. Petersburg from France
and England, to which an answer was ex-
pected about the oath of July.
The Paris Bourse keeps firm.
A plot of quite a serious nature had been
formed at the Opera, against the life of Napo-
leon. The conspiracy was unravelled and
several prisoners were on trial.
dispatch from Amsterdam states that the
Austrian Envoy at Constantinope had made
an Imperative demand upon the Porte for all
the concessions previously denied that Gov
eminent, and that the Austrian troops were
moving to the Turkish frontier. A difficulty
occurred ut Smyrna, between the Captain of
the U. s. Frigate st. Louis, and the Austrian
Consul, arising from the arrest of Mr..
Costa, an emissary of KOssuth's. The Cap
tain would have taken Costa by force, had
that gentleman been able to prove that he
was in American citizen. Austria demanded
satisfaction of Turkey for the recent insult,
and the Governor Of Smyrna was removed
ST. PETERSBURG, JULY 2-The course of
business here indicates increased apprehen-
sion of war.
TRIESTE, (no date. 1.-The Russian Com
mnndant has forbidden the Hospadors to
publish the Sultan's edict in favor of the
Chrlstlans-that being a document that the
Car does not recognize.
A leader in the Times of July lst, SAYS:
"Ihe last intelligence that has reached us
from st. Petersburg holds out no fresh
grounds for hope that the Emperor of Rus
STA is disposed to modify the determination
IN which he has thus far pcrscvered 1t is
known that the course he has thought fit to
pufsuo--inluriOus as il is to the TRANQUILITY
of the East, to his relations with Europe. and
to his own character for moderation and good
talth-has encountered rs much opposition
from the Oldest and wisest councillors of the
Empire, as from the Ministers of foreign
States; and the circumstances Of the venera-
bic Count Nesselrode himself have received
neither courtesy nor consideration from his
Imperial master. 1t is said that a sense of
the embarrassment of the position in which
he stands, weighs heavily upon the Emperor
Nicholas, and that the contending passions
of pride, veXations and resentment agitate to
an unwonted extent mind intoxicated with
absolute power This information the Times
has from its Paris correspondent, who further
says that Baron Bruck, the Austrian envoy
has recommended the Divan to send forth |
with the Sultan's brOther.in-aw Hall Pasha, |
as Ambassador Extraordinary to st. Peters |
burg, to reopen negotiations To this course
the Porte would have no objection, provided |
the Russians engage to refrain from entering |
the principalitics. The Turkish fleet is con.
centrated at the northern extremity of the |
Bosphorus, from Therabia to the Black Sea, |
and consists of thirty five ships, two of them
10 frigates, corvettcs, briggs, |
and steamers. This force will be increased .
by eight ships recalled from other stations, |
and eight others which are in course of equip |
ment at the arsenal. The preparations by .
land do not cease for T1noment. The French |
Government has agreed to supply the Turks .
with 10000 muskcts.