Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-07-23
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
rpov OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT
PARIS. July 5, 1853.

PARIS, July 5, 1858.
NJ have received since the date of my last in
..n;aance that the event which Western Europe
.Sas Then expecting is accomplished The Moaiteur
of Yesterday announces that despatch from St.
petersburch dated the 9th June, has advised the
Government that the order to take military occupa
t;on of the Provinces Of the Danube has been issued
NV the Russian Government; and the same paper
contains the text of another important document
5be Eastern question, which you viii receive by
this mail I allude to the answer given by Reschid-
Pacha to the Russian ultimatum of the 18th (3lsD
Nav. of which sent translation last week. This
answer contains as was anticipated, firm but tenn
nerae and concliatory refusal to accede to the ult
matum. accompanied by the expression Of the hope
that the Gar would not push matters to such
tremity as would preclude the possibility of an ami
cable settlement Of the disputed points by renewed
diplomatic negotiations At the present moment,
doubtless the invading Russian forces are encamped
upon the banks of the Danube, and preparing to-
cross. An act of hostility has been committed
which, in the eyes of Europe and by the law of
nations may be held by the Porte to be cause for
declaration of war. 1t is believed, however, that
it will give occasion only to energetic protest
the part of Turkey, and to a proposal for renewed
negotiations, to result in acceptance of the qua
ranty which the Sultan has offered in satisfaction of
the Russian demands of protection for the Greek
subjects of the Porte. Letters from Jassy (Iolda-
va state that preparations being made for con-
tinping the occupation of the country throughout
the winter. Russian engineers are searching appro-
pirate winter quarters for several corps darmee
This would to indicate that the Gar means to
spin out negotiations, in the expectation that ere
long events must occur in the West of Europe
which will sunder England and France.
We are now looking with much interest to learn
how the Sultan has actually concluded to consider
the Russian invasion. The semi-oficial French
papers, the Pays and the Constitutional, Of this
morning, both comment on the despatch from St.
Petersburgh, but concur in stating that it is not for
France and England, but for the Porte exclusively
to determine the Interpretation which is to be put
upon the invasion, both ayerrng that, if Turkey be
for war, England and France will Immediately de-
clare their navies to be at her service for the de-
struction of the Russian naval power in the Black
sea- But peace is too truly the interest of Turkey
for her to provoke such result, which would only
exasperate her formidable foe, and not materially
lessen his power to oyerwhelm her the moment she
ceases to be protected by France and England and
the Gar himself may too confidently and reasonably
count upon speedy separation of France and Eng
land, by the force of events in the West for him to
consent TO the sacrifice of his feet in order to prec
plate that event. The result, therefore. will BRO
baby be maintenance Of the statu gao, continued
occupation or the Provinces on the Danube, and
sort Of armed negotiation in presence of England
and France, also armed, till next spring. In the
mean time NAPOLEON III. in the West will have
been crowned and will be getting ready for the re-
alization Of his policy here The tendency Of these
preparations, and the inevitable result Of the first
attempt at execution, will be to dsunite France and
England, and lessen the opposition Of Austria to the
Cars projects in the East, from the fear Of losing
his alliance in her more vital Western relations 1t
may, therefore, be considered result not ar re-
moved from the range of probabilities, that when
the arms which are now being taken up by Russia,
England, and France shall be laid down, the Otto
man Empire will have ceased to exist
Admiral HAMELIN, whose appointment / an
nounced in my last letter to the command of the
French feet in the East has already left Toulon in
a Government steamer to repair to his pest at the
mouth of the Dardanelles An extraordinary levy
of seamen is going in all the ports Of France and
The Minister of the Marine has Just left Paris on
visit Of inspection to all the naval stations on the
Atlantic coast. An article in the Nonitcur admits
that this Government has just sold to the Sultan
forty thousand muskets; but denies the truth Of
another report to the effect that permission had been
lately granted to French officers to enter the service
Of Turkey.