The Express. — 1853-10-17 (London, England)

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.  high powers, its allies, will judge with perfect truth and justice on the statement just exhibited. As to the non-adoption of the Vienna note in its Lett. pure and simple form by the Sublime Porte, it is to v ..es from the Polish frontier announce that the be remarked that this project, although not in every t'ln. otter of Russia has ordered the 6th army corps point conformed to the note of Prince Menchikoff. ' hold itself in readiness to march. and while containing, A is true, in its oompocit.'„ln* I The Cologne Gazette, under date of Berlin, 12th, some of the paragraphs of the draught n•Ae of the says: "Diplomatists are now engaged in drawing Sublime Porte, is not as a whole, wtsetter in letter or spirit, essentially different from tbAt of Prince out projects of arrangement of the Eastern question, which are to serve as the bases of a new Conference Meachikoff. at Vienna." a de urf has to Vienna f The assurances recently given tiy the re ntaBeßrlin.ro n OnM evendre his turn he return con ference I along I tives of the Great Power; respecting the apprehended danger from hurtful interpretations of the draught with Lord Westmoreland • note in question, are a new proof of the kind inters- . The Malta Mail, of the ith, states that the sanifirma of their respective governments towards the tory condition of Admiral Doodads fleet had greatly Sublime I' ,rte. 'they have consequently produced a inr letter from Constantinople, of the Ist inst., conlively sr.tisfaction on the part of the government of . tains the following details not yet published : his Stajesty the Sultan. It must be remarked, however, that while we have still before our eyes a strife , theS‘ heed-quarters are coma:alp:lz: a eorpsh a'arint'f, odf which of religious privily/gee raised by Russia, which seeks foreemen, of 20,007 men, and his Posinnreweue"exceallie.nint.to bane its claims% a paragraph so clear and so re- The Servian government had' offered the Porte an auxiliary else in the treaty of Ktunardji ; which wishes to insert torte of 20,000 men, and the Schell of Persia hail officially in a diplomatic document the paragraph concerning the declared his neutrality. active smicitude of the Emperor of Russia for the I A letter from Warsaw, of the Bth, states that the maintenance in the states of the Sublime Porte of authorities were taking all the necessary measures religious immunities and privileges which were I for preventing pamphlets and proclamations of the granted (oetroy(4)to the Gieek rite hy the Ottoman Em- Revolutionary Committee from being smuggled into perors before Russia eo much as existed as an empire, i the country. They were specially anxious to proto leave in a dark and doubtful state the absence of vent the entrance of a pamphlet addressed to the all relation between these privileges and the treaty , nobility, in which they are told, amongst other of Kutschuk Kainardji, to employ in favour of a things, that if they wish to serve their country they great community of subjects of the Sublime Porte must emancipate their serfs. professing the Greek religion expressions which might make allusion to treaties concluded with France and Austria relative to the French and Latin religions—this would be to incur the risk of placing in the hands of Russia vague and obscure paragraphs, some of which are contrary to the reality of facts, and would offer to Russia a solid pretext for her pretensions to a religious surveillance and protectorate —pretensions which that power would attempt to produce, affirming that they are not derogatory to the sovereignty and indepenaence of the Sublime Porte The very language of the emp/oye,e and agents of Russia, who have declared that the intention of the government was no other than to fulfil the office of an advocate with the Suhlime Porte whenever acts contrary to existing privileges might be done, is a patent proof of the justice of the opinion of the Ottoman government. If the government of his Majesty the Sultan has judged it necessary to require that assurances should be given, even if the modifications which it introduced by it into the Vienna note were adopted, how in conscience could it be tranquil if the note were to be retained in its integrity and without modification? The Sublime Porte, in accepting that which it has &dared to all the world it could not admit without bedew compelled thereto, would compromise its digSky in view of the other powers, would sacrifice its honour in the eyes of its own subjects, and would commit a mental and moral suicide. Although the refusal of Russia to accord the modifications required by the Sublime Porte has been based on a question of honour, it cannot be denied that the ground of that refusal was simply and solely its desire not to allow explicit terms to replace vague expressions, which might at some future time furnish it with a pretext for intermeddling. Such conduct, therefore compels the Sublime Porte to persist on its part in withholding its adhesion.