Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-19
PARIS, OCTOBER 81, 1858.

PARIS, OCTOBER 81 1858.
1t is becoming and probable that the march
Of events in the East will in the main realize the preyi
sions have yentured to express. Collision will very
soon take place between the military forces Of Russia
Turkey; but the shock Of will hardly be felt in Ea
rope any rate until the spring and summer Not
wthstanding the reports to the contrary propagaed by
journals and individuals who desire above all things
their predictions verified believing that important mi
ary operations the Danube would promptly involve
other European Powers in the war; il is not believed that
either party will venture upon them Letters of the 2ls
instant from Vienna positively that the orders of
Prince Gortschako Russian commander on the Danube
to the river and to conne his operations to
the limits of energetic repulse Of the Turkish forces if
they should attack him. The motives Of this inactive po
icy the part of Russia have been explained hereto
FORE The Turkish forces very strong animated with
the best spirit, the right bank of the Danube They
burning to meet the enemy but they would meet him
under many disadvantages they abandon their
strong positions at the foot of the Balkans and on the
right bank to the river and attack that it would be
almost treason to the Sutans cause and in military
point OF yew mistake of the graves character if Omer
Pacha were to do So There is this to be considered
however, in favor Of the opinion that important military
events to take place this winter the banks of
Danube: Omer Pacha, the Suans commander chief
in that quarter is Austrian subject Croaaan 5y birth
His original name is Lattas 1t was not till $780, when
he was obout thirty years Of age that upon quarrel
with his superors he abandoned his country and chris
tanity and went to the Turks In Turkey the young
renegade patronised by Chosrew Pacha and he has
finally, by dnt of patronage and his merit a SOL
der arrived at the high dignity Of bis present responsible
position. After the late Hungarian Instruction Omer
Pacha (Lattas used his whole personal and official in
fuence with the Sultan in favor Of the refugees whose
he warmly epoused in opposition to the demands
of the Emperors of Austria and Russia who asked their
extradition Now if the ex- Mr. Lattas commandern-
chief Of one hundred thousand Mussuman troops the
banks of the Danube sympahizng he probably does,
with the Hungarian Polish Italian and French refugees
the democrat professors Of the +" Universal Republic
should be- those turbulent democrats are, and with
reason of opinion that England and France and Austria
and Prussia would be drawn by the force of events
into the war; if its active theatre should be transferred
from the eastern shores of the Black Sea in Asia to the
banks Of the Danube in Europe and should he think with
them that in the event of general war; all the revolu
tionary elements Of Europe would be prompty astir;
that the
ssPoor discontentg
Which cape and rub the elbow at the news
OF huryburly innovation
would seize the opportunity upheave and overurn and
would probably succeed in establishing for awhile their
anarchca rule all Western Europe why then Omer
Pacha may the Danube and attack Prince Goscha
ko in his Entertainments. 1t is only when taking this
view of the subject that feel at all disqueted for the
peace of Europe this winter The Ottoman Empire would
doubtless disappear in the ARRAY but the revouonsts
little for that They would not hesitate instant
if the treason by which its fall would be precpitated would
secure to them the revery of years domination in Eu
rope shall watch closely and with interest the course
of Omer Pacha upon the Danube, and shall be sur
ioto trans IN in
que this bold and capable renegade adventurer may
prove to have committed He has already with him in
his camp the Danube corps of four thousand refugees
of all nations whom he has formed into distinct battalion
The Austrian, NJ DE BROCK, has made this corps the
subject of particular protest. presented to the Dvan
Constantnope. choice corps of 10000 men, said to
be upon the whole the best troops in the Turkish army
have reached Constantnople from Berout They i'm
mcdatey to the eastern shores of the Black Sea-
was struck with the of the principal officers in
command of those troops Nearly all of them were
afdes renegade christians. They Kurschid Pasha
quandam Grn. Goyou, Terhnd- Pacha (ex-baron Stein
Fethi-Bey, (Col Colman osman Bey, Jaschistzky)
Gen. PR, the Spanish adventurer, is said be ahont
TO rece;ye n urAisn service. Several o.
the distinguished Hungarian and Polish officers that were
residing in Paris have repaired to the of action
kLAPKA is reported to have been already placed h
head Of q corps Of the army on the Danube.
The Moaiter comes this morning with a column Of
the Eastern question. 1t confirms completely the views
in my last letter touching the
sued by this Government and England during the present
hosttes between Russia and Turkey. But must lei
the official journal speak for itself After remarking that
the Eastern question had entered upon phase since
the declaration of by the Sultan, the Honiteur
continues
declaration Of war is no new fact in the life of
peoples and it is for the first time that
the same rival Powers in strife upon the field The
importance and the nature of the interests involved in
the dispute touching they perhaps do the other Ca
bnets of Europe directly than France, only
many the for contemplating with camness
this new evolution Of the affairs of the East"
From the beginning of this crisis the Government of
his Imperial Majesty had properly appreciated its charac
ter Ii understood that the integrity and the ndepen
dence Of the Ottoman Empire involved in the issue
and that they could not be compromised without gravey
altering the relative weight of the forces upon which de-
municipalities Of the Danube contrary to treaty stpula
TONS promptly followed and that act forced all eyes
perceive the character Of universally which the question
had possessed from its very origin"
The Interpretation given by Of the parties to this
note' he Vienna note induced the apprehension that
the Joint abors Of the conference Of Vienna did pre-
cisely respond TO the intention which inspired it. and that
it had attained the end which il proposed, to wit the
maintenance Of the sovereign rights Of the Sultan tie
only sure of the independence of the Ottoman Porte
and consequently Of the European equilibrium.
The Porte having then come to the conclusion that
war was the sole resource that became its dignity, his
majesty the Emperor had not abandon the pe Of policy
which from the beginning he had marked out for himself
Then as when in presence Of the occupation Of the prin
CAPABILITIES the Danube he found himself in complete
coincidence views with the Government Of her Britannia
Majesty The two Governments have ordered their