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Fnalres.—The Emperor and Empress continue to pay occasional visits to the camp at Satory. There is little important domestics intelligence from France this week. The harvest, for the safety of which great fears have been entertained on account of the superabundance of rain, is now said to be regarded with more confidence. Minute investigations into the recent " plot ' are made ; and the Police are said to be on the track of an extensive conspiracy.

is stated that the Ambassadors of England, France, and Austria, on hearing of the passage of the Pruth by the Russians, waited on the Sultan: and requested him "not to cause the fleets to enter the Dardanelles"; and it is said that "the Sultan acceded to their prayer, and limited himself to protesting against the violation of his territory." This statement, however, came by a "private" telegraphic despatch to Paris early in the week, and has not since been repeated.

Prince Gortschakoff has issued an address to the Moldavian and Wal- lachian people. He states that the Russian troops have not collie among them with projects of conquest, or with Use intention of mo-

difying their political institutions, or altering their political position as guaranteed by treaties. Ile further explains, that he is there to offer " an immediate and efficacious protection in grave and unforeseen circums stances" ; that the Emperor will avoid "an aggressive war against Turkey so long as his dignity and the interests of his empire permit him to do so " ; that as soon as he obtains reparation for the past and guaran- tees for the future, his troops will return within the Russian frontier ; and that during the occupation, forage and rations will be paid for " in due time," and no contributions will be imposed. Rumours have been plentiful during the week, to the effect that M. de Bruck, the Austrian Minister at Constantinople, has been pressing on the Porte for the settlement of the Kleck and Sutorma affair. An event has also occurred at Smyrna which threatens to complicate the relations of Austria and the Porte. It appears that for some time past an Hungarian named Kosstri, an aide-de-camp of Kossuth and an alleged citizen of the United States, has been residing at Smyrna. On the 22cl June, while he was sitting in a café, a boat's crew from the Hussar, an Austrian brig in the port, seized him, and, after a vigorous resistance, carried him on board the brig. Complaint was made ; the population manifested great excite- ment, and the house of the Austrian Consul was guarded by soldiers. Braving the consequences, three midshipmen from the brig came ashore ; and while there they were attacked by Italian refugees. One was shot dead ; one was stabbed, he leaped into the sea, and was drowned ; and the third escaped. At this juncture an American man-of-war came into the port, and learning the abduction of Kossta, claimed him as a citizen of the United States. At first it was denied that Kossta was confined in the brig ; but the American persisted, and with his Consul went on board the Hussar and saw Kossta. What took place there is not clearly nar- rated ; but it would seem that the prisoner was retained ; a dispute arising as to whether he was an American citizen, or if he was, whether he could release himself from his allegiance to the Emperor of Austria. The latest news states that the American had laid his ship alongside the Hussar, and had threatened to fire into her if she attempted to carry off her prisoner. Meanwhile, it was said that on the demand for redress made by M. de Bruck, the Sultan had dismissed Ali Pasha, the Governor of Smyrna, and had granted reparation for the death of the midshipman, who was the son of a distinguished Austrian officer. This, however, is doubtful.

Russi.a.—The principal event of the week is the publication of the fol- lowing circular note from Count Nesselrode to the Russian Ministers in Foreign Courts.

"St. Petersburg, June 20. [0.S.] "1'!. — My circular despatch of May 30 [June 11] apprized you of the rupture of our diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Government. You were therein charged to make known to the Cabinet to which you are accre- dited the wrongs which we have suffered from the Porte, our unsuccessful efforts to obtain satisfaction, and the successive concessions which our sincere desire to maintain amicable and good relations with the Turkish Govern- ment has dictated. You know that, after having renounced by turns the idea of a guarantee obtained under the form of a convention, sened, or any other synallagmatic act whatever, we have reduced our demands to the signature of a simple note such as that the text of which was transmitted to you. You will have remarked that, except in what more particularly con- cerns the Holy Places, tbis note does not contain in respect of the general guarantee claimed in favour of the church anything more than a simple confirmation of that which we have long possessed. I observed to you, Monsieur, that in the eyes of the Emperor the signature of this document constituted the true and only reparation which he could accept for the offence committed towards him by the violation of the firman of 1852, as also of the personal promises which the Sultan had joined thereto. I ob- served, further, that such an act was besides indispensable, since the ob- taining of new firmans liable to be infringed like that which had gone before them could no more serve for a sufficient pledge to us for the future. Finally, I did not conceal from you, that if, after eight days' reflection, the Ottoman Porte should refuse to comply with our demand, the Emperor would find himself obliged to have recourse to measures more decisive than a simple interruption of relations in order to obtain satisfaction.

"In placing this ultimatum before the Porte, we had given to the great Cabinets particular explanations respecting our intentions. In particular-, we had requested of France and England not to complicate the difficulties of the situation by their attitude—not prematurely to take measures the effect of which would be, on the one hand, to encourage the Porte in opposition, and on the other, to engage, more than was then already the case, the honour and dignity of the Emperor. "I regret to have to announce to you today that this twofold attempt has unhappily been in vain. "The Porte, as you will see by the subjoined letter of Redschid Pasha, has just returned, in answer to that which I addressed to it, a negative, or at least an evasive response. "On the other hand, the two maritime Powers have not thought fit to de- fer to the considerations we recommended to their serious attention. Taking the initiative before us, they have considered it indispensable to precede im- mediately by an effective measure those which we had only announced to them as purely eventual, since we made them depend on the final resolu- tions of the Porte ; and their execution has not commenced at the moment at which I write. They at once sent their fleets into the waters of Constan- tinople. They occupy already the seas and ports of the Ottoman empire at the entrance of the Dardanelles. By that advanced attitude, the two Powers have placed us under the weight of a threatening demonstration, which, as we forewarned them, has added new complications to the crisis. "After the refusal of the Porte, supported by the manifestation of France and England, it became more than ever impossible to modify the resolutions which the Emperor had made contingent on that act. " In consequence, his Imperial Majesty has just sent to corps of our troops stationed in Bessarabia orders to pass the frontier and enter the Princi- palities.

"They enter these not to make an offensive war on the Porte, which, on the contrary, we shall avoid with all our power, as long as the Porte shall not force us to this step ; but because the Porte, in persisting to refuse us the moral guarantee which we had a right to expect, obliges us to sub- stitute for it a material guarantee ; because the position which the two powers have taken up in the ports and waters of Turkey, and even within sight of its capital, being such as, under present circumstances, we cannot regard in any other light than that of maritime occupation, gives U8 an ad- ditional reason for reestablishing the equilibrium of the reciprocal situa- tions by taking a military position. But further than this we have no in- tentiou of holding this position longer than our honour and security require. It will be altogether temporary ; it will only serve us for a pledge until better counsels prevail in the minds of the Sultan's Ministers. In occupying tho Principalities for a time, we disavow beforehand all ideas of conquest. We do not pretend to any aggrandizement of our territory. Knowingly and.

voluntarily we will not attempt to excite any rising among the Christian populations of Turkey. As soon as the latter shall have accorded to us the satisfaction which is our due, and when at the same time the pressure which the two Powers exercise on us shall cease, our troops shall at once return within the Russian confines. As to the inhabitants of the Principalities, the presence of our corps d'armee will not impose on them either new charges or contributions. The supplies furnished by them to us will be paid for out of our military chest at suitable time, i and at a rate fixed in advance with their Governments. The principles and rules of conduct which we have pre- scribed to ourselves n this respect you will find set forth in the accompany- ing proclamation, which Prince Gortschakoff, chief of the corps of occupa- tion has been instructed to publish upon his entry into the provinces. "'We do not in the least conceal, Monsieur, how full of meaning is the attitude which we take, and what consequences may follow from it should the Turkish Government compel us to come out of the narrow and limited circle in which we desire to remain ; but the position into which Turkey thrusts us by pushing things to an extreme, by refusing us all legitimate satisfaction, by not responding by any COLICess1011 whatever to all those which Prince Menschikoff successively made, both as to the form and as to the matter of our propositions, leaves no other course open to us. More than this : the principles so peremptorily laid down, notwithstanding the modera- tion of the language, in the reply [to the Russian note] of Redschid Pasha, as well as in his note of the 26th ultimo to the representatives of the four Powers at Constantinople, taken strictly, would go so far as to place all our acquired rights in question, and nullify all our anterior transactions.

"In fact, if the Ottoman Government judges it to be contrary to its inde- pendence and rights of sovereignty to enter into any diplomatic engagement whatever' even under the form of a simple note, in which it should stipu- late with a foreign government concerning the protection of religion and its churches, what would become of the engagements which it has already contracted towards us under a new obligatory form to protect our religion and its churches in Turkey ? Before we could admit a principle so absolute, we must with our own hands tear up the treaty of Kainardji, with those which confirm it, and voluntarily abandon the rights which they have conferred upon us of watching over the efficacious protection of the Greek religion in "Does the Porte wish this ? Has it the intention of disengaging itself from all its anterior obligations, and of drawing from the present crisis the abolition for ever of an order of relations which time has consecrated ?

"Impartial Europe will consider, that if the question were placed in these terms it would become for Russia, notwithstanding all her conciliatory in- tentions, insoluble by pacific means. For it would be for us a question of treaties, our ancient influence, our moral credit, our dearest national and re- ]igious sentiments.

"Let us be permitted to say that the present contest, and all the noise [retentissement] which the press has created concerning it in the public mind, reposes on a pure misunderstanding, or on a want of sufficient atten- tion to our political antecedents. "it seems to be unknown, or left out of view, that Russia at present vir- tually enjoys, by position and treaty, an ancient right of watching over the effectual protection of its religion in the East; and the maintenance of this ancient right, which it will not abandon, is represented as implying the new pretension of a protectorate, at once religious and political, the bearing and consequences of which for the future are greatly exaggerated.

"It is to this sad misunderstanding that the crisis of the moment is due.

"The tendency and consequences of our pretended new political protec- torate have no real existence. We only demand for our coreligionnts in the East the strict status quo, the preservation of the privileges which they have possessed ab antique under the tegis of their sovereign. We will not deny that from this may result for Russia what may justly be denominated a religious patronage. This is what we have always exercised in the East. But if hitherto the independence and sovereignty of Turkey have been able to exist together with this patronage, why should either the one or the other suffer in the future from the moment when our pretensions are reduced to what is at bottom a mere confirmation ?

"We have said, and we repeat it, the Emperor no more desires today, than he has desired in the past, to subvert the Ottoman empire or to aggran- dize himself at its expense. After the very moderate use which he made of the victory of Adrianople, when that victory had placed the Porte at his mercy—after having, alone in Europe, saved Turkey in 1833 from inevitable dismemberment—alter having, in 1839, taken among the Powers the initiative of the propositions which, executed in common, saved the Sultan from seeing his throne give place to an Arab empire—it becomes almost fas- tidious to give proofs of this verity. On the contrary, the fundamental principle of the policy of our august master has always been to maintain the present status quo of the East as long as possible. He has wished thus, and he wishes it stall, because such is in fact the well-understood interest of Rw38ia, already too vast to need territorial extension ; because, prosperous, peaceable, inoffensive, end placed as a useful intermediary between power- ful states, the Ottoman empire averts the shock of rival powers, which, if it fell, would at once encounter each other over its ruins ; because human fore- sight wearies itself in vain in seeking a combination proper to fill the void which the disappearance of this great body would leave in the political ba- lance. But if such are the real, avowed, and sincere views of the Emperor, it is necessary, in order for him to remain faithful to them, that Turkey should act towards us in a manner which will allow us to coexist with her. She must respect her treaties with us, and the consequences which flow from them ; she must avoid acts of bad faith, secret persecutions, perpetual vex- ations practised towards our religion, which would create an intolerable situation for us, and one which would compel us to trust for a remedy to hlind chance.

"Such, Sir, are the considerations which you are charged to represent to the Government of —; bringing to its knowledge, by the present despatch, tli• osolutions intentions of the Emperor,

"Receive, &c, IckssittItertva:"

It is stated that when the populace of St. Petetshtirg *ere Aciiiialhted with the contents of the manifesto of the kinfierok) they publicly showed their delight. Some fell on their knees in the open street, and prayed for blessings on the head of the Czar, the defender of the Orthodox faith ; and others, when the Emperor appeared in public, danced frantically be- fore his carriage. In the evening of the day of publication, St. Peters- burg spontaneously illuminated.

Ausnus..—The Austrians have occupied the frontier fortress of Peter- wardein with 25,000 men under General Schlick, one of the best generals in the Hungarian campaign of 1849. Peterwardein is on the Danube, near the confluence of the Theiss, and is the strongest post in those parts.

Swirrvar Hungerbuhler, in opening the session of the Na- tional Council, on the 3d instant, made some spirited allusions to the recent proceedings of Austria. The Council, he said, had the right of meeting when it pleased; but, unmoved by the noise of arms on the fron- tier, when their brethren were driven, in the depth of winter, from Lom- bardy,—unmoved by the "menaces of those who have learned nothing and forgotten nothing, and who will only confess their error when an unjust attack directed against Switzerland shall have kindled a general war in Europe,"—they had ministered to the relief of their unhappy brethren, and, reposing in the strength of the country, awaited the ordi- nary opening of the session. He exhorted the confederates to harmony ; so that railways and other internal improvements may be effectually car- ried out.

INDis..—A telegraphic despatch from Trieste, dated July 12, was re- ceived on Thursday, in anticipation of the overland mail. The latest date is" Calcutta, June 3."

"Negotiations with Ave have been terminated by the Burmese envoys re- fusing to sign the treaty proposed to them by the British, and declaring that they would not sign away any part whatever of the Burmese dominions. They were ordered to reconsider their answer, or to leave our new territory within twenty-four hours. They left it in ten hours. It is said that Lord Dalhousie does not intend taking any other steps beyond extending the frontiers and appropriating the country seized. Should an attack be made on the outer territory, an immediate advance will be made on Ava, and the King dethroned."