The Press.
London, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

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PARIS, Nov. 19.
EVERY effort is now being made by the opponents to
the union of the Danubian provinces to create a
feeling against the Roumans. It is well known that
some time since secret agents were sent into the
provinces to excite the people, and to endeavour to
get up a republican party. Those same agents now
send detailed reports of what they call the "real state "
of the provinces to certain German papers. In those
reports it is said that the majority of the Roumans
are opposed to the wishes of the Divans, and would
prefer their present organisation ; and that the mem-
bers of the Divans have privately resolved, should
the Congress oppose their wishes, to declare them-
selves independent and to form a Provisional Govern-
ment. Now, I have good reasons for saying that these
accusations against the Divans are false, as are equally
false the pretended "wishes of the people." It is
sought by these reports to create such a prejudice
throughout Europe as would intimidate certain
European powers. But this is not the only scheme
now put in motion. It is a fact that attempts are

now being made to excite a certain portion of the
population to acts of disorder. Should this succeed,
Turkey and Austria wiil immediately take military
possession of the provinces, with the veiw to preserve
order. The Porte is so certain of the success of its
agents provocateurs, that it has been decided that
Omer Pacha shall take the command of a corps
&observation on the Danube, and that at the first
symptoms of a disturbance he is to enter the Princi-
palities. Austria has promised to support Omer
Pacha with an imposing force, and I am sorry to say
that England has consented to this arrangement.
Now, supposing even that the agents should succeed
in getting up a family fracas, still it is evident that,
without acting directly in opposition to the Treaty of
Paris, neither Austria nor Turkey, although sup-
ported by your Minister, who, under certain circum-
stances, dearly loves a " spirited foreign policy,"
could send troops into the Danubian provinces with-
out the consent of the whole of the contracting parties
to that treaty. The twenty-seventh article is very
clear and explicit. It is thus worded :
Si le repos interieur des Principautes se trouvait menace
ou compromis, la Sublime Porte s'entendra avec les autres
puissances contractantes sur les n►esures it prendre pour
maintenir ou retablir l'ordre legal. Une intervention
armee ne pourra avoir lieu sans un accord prealable
entre ces puissances.

The Porte, feigning to believe in the reports of its
agents, has sent a circular to its ambassadors at the
different Western Courts, in which a detailed account
is given of certain irregularities in the last elections,
and of gross acts of illegality committed. This
circular is dated Sept. 23rd. That the Porte should
strain every nerve to prevent the union of the
provinces might have been expected, but that her
cause should be pleaded by an eminent French ex-
Minister has surprised every one. That statesman is,
I believe, M. Guizot, and his semi-official document
against the union appears in the Itttlhpendance
Beige.
I think it hardly worth while to contradict the
report that France is now on the Danubian ques-
tion in an isolated position. I can state positively
that France, Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia are
agreed ss to the line of policy to be adopted on the
meeting of the Congress.

Great hopes are entertained that at the meeting of
Parliament Lord Palmerston may be called on to
explain the views of the British Cabinet as to the
Itoumans ; not that it is expected to obtain any satis-
factory answer from his lordship, who, in all pro-
bability, will, with a diplomatic key, lock up his
mouth, not to be opened till the meeting of the
Congress, but in order to elicit the opinions of the
different parties in Parliament, and thus strengthen
the hands of certain members of the Congress.

You will very soon be inundated with articles on
illegalities, Sm. &c., taken from the Constantinople
paper La Presse d'Oricnt, a journal written in French,
and which has been lately purchased for 200,000
francs by an Anglo• Austrian Company.

The financial embarrassments of Austria daily
increase. The number of old and respectable firms
who have suspended payment is almost incredible.
A private letter says, " In the memory of man a like
panic has never been witnessed." The manufacturers
of Bohemia are in a most deplorable condition.
The Emperor will return t 9 Paris from Compeigne
on the 26th. The ambassadors of Russia, Prussia,
and England, and Count Walewski, who were at the
same time at Compeigne, had many diplomatic
meetings, at which the Emperor frequently assisted.
All the visitors have already taken their leave.

The number of subscribers to the Exchange was,
on the Nth, as follows :—To the Stcck Exchange,
2,890; merchants, Is 2. The pay of the first is
150 francs per year; for the latter, 75 francs. Thus
a revenue has been derived of more than 450,000
francs, and this is independent of the daily payment
of casual visitors. It is said that next year the
entrance for stock speculators will be raised to 200
francs, and for merchants to 100 francs. The
casual entrance will be 30 sous. .

The Grand Duchess Helena of Russia will not
visit Paris this winter; she will remain in Geneva
until the spring.
.From all appearances, we shall have a :Rowe
wmter. Snow has already fallen on the heights of
Marseilles, and in the neighbourhood of Montpellier.
Lt is now said that Prince Napoleon will not leave
Paris for Alexandria this winter.

BUCHAREST, Oct. 27.
Tiii Divans of ➢loldavia and Wallachia have de-
clared the first and foremost wish of their populations
to be, " Union of the Principalities under an heredi-
tary prince selected from one of the reigning houses
of Europe." Against this possible desire of these
countries the Ottoman Porte took care to protest