Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-09-02
The London Morning Post ministerial organ,)
of the 18th, gives prominence to the following state
mant under the head Of

ment, under the head Of
"The Eastern Question Settled"
eve have every reason to believe that the event
will prove our prediction correct when we say that
the evacuation of the Danubian Principaities Will
be effected by Prince GortschakoH during the first
week in September. The defnitve project OF set
Element was sent from Vienna to Constantlnople on
the same day that it was sent to st. Petersburgh.
that is on the I'd inst. The acceptance OF the Gar
will be received at Vienna about the l4th. This
will of course at once be dispatched to CONSTANT
nople where it will arrive about the goth. Turk
ish ambassador will be ready then to start for St
Petersburgh and we understand that as soon as
the telegraph informs the Russian Cabinet OF the
fact of the Ambassador being his road, the En-
peror will telegraph his orders to Prince Gortscha-
koff to evacuate the Danubian Provinces. These
telegraphs, being for the most part OLD semaphoIes
will of course not work with the speed as the
electric but they and the If events will be
sufficiently rapid to warrant us in expecting that by
the 10th of September the last Russian soldier Will
have re-crossed the Pruth"
"The mode of settlement will be this :-Redschid
Paeha will address to Count Nesselrode note, in
which he will enclose the frmans in which &C.
corded to the Greek Christians, subjects of the Sui
TAM more privileges than even Russia had asked for
them He will say many civil things to the Gar,
and assure him of the excellent disposition of the
Sultan towards his subj ects, to whom he has
accorded such and such rights. This note will be
presented by Turkish ambassador, and the affair
will be at end.
The conclusion will thus be favorable to Turkey,
because she will have succeeded in rejecting the
pressure of Russia for some kind of synallagmatlc
arrangement, which should give the Gar right OF
interference between the Sultan and his own sub
iects.n
All the other London journals show an inclination
to credit this statement-and Of them, " The
Standard" says:
Upon the hypothesis that the Morning Post has
been correctly informed. the solution of the difficult
question: so long anxously regarded by the whole
Of Europe, is satisfactory Turkey loses nothing tol
the remuneration of the power to Cypress her Chris
tian subiects-a power which, for many years. she
has never exercised-is no loss ; and Russia gains
nothing"
From Belgrade letter of July 20 mentions tha
the French and English Consuls had demanded from
the two Hospodars an explanation Of their retusa
to pay the tribute to the Porte. The Hospodar
confined themselves to replying that they were una
bic to send the tribute to the Sultan, because TIT
, financial resources of the country were exhausted
by supplying the Russians with provisions and stores
They added that if the occupation continued much
longer the inhabitants of the Prncipalitles woult
be unable for years. to pay their taxes. The clrcu
f lar of Prince Michael Obrenowitch was much talk
ed of at Belgrade. This Prince is protege of Rus
STA and has taken the opportunity OF circulating il
Servia the draft of Constitution which he woult
adopt if called govern that country. The CORES
pondent of the PresSe, writing from Belgrade, say
, that the Princes ntrigues not received with ia
vOr by the SerVlanS A vienna dispatch OF the IOt
states that important member Of the Russian
Embassy had left Vienna special mission t.
Belgrade it further says Russia insists tn
a strict neutrality of Servia The party opposed t.
! the Government of Prince Alexander Kara giurgo
witch (known as the Russian partly is to be discon
, tinued "
Constantinople advices of July % say: 9TH
, Smyrna transaction between Austria and America i
still pending it will give rise to disagreeabl
plcations it feared, in respect to the refuge
question. Moreover, Mediator M. de Bru
is reported to have awaited himself of the presen
difficulty to raise some pecuniary and terrtoria
questions with the Porten