Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-09-17
FROM OUR PARIS coRREsP0NDENr
PARIS, AUGUST 80, 1853.

fARIs, AUGUST 81, 1919.
We have yet no positive intelligence from the
East contradictory of the view which your CORE
spondent has all along taken, to wit, prolonged
occupation Of the Danubian principaties, awaiting
the issue Of perhaps wilfuly embarrassed negotia-
tons Whether this state Of things be accidental
or the result Of deliberately adopted and skilfully
conducted policy it enures equally the benefit Of
the Car Having obtained from the Porte full sa-
tisfaction Of all bis original demands, he either
makes pretexts or skifully avals himself Of those
afforded by the faults Of the other party to await
the advanced position he has occupied on his pre-.
sent high underground, the birth Of events with
which Europe is big. Thence, according as his in
teress to be decided by those events shall dictate,
he may advance to the final overthrow Of the Otto
man Empire, or retire voluntarily with such an
increase Of moral influence in addition to the sub
sanal concessions already forced from Turkey, will
make the future conquest Of comparatively easy achieve
ment When we look upon the immense material power
of Russia and il well served either by Providence
or by the human intelligence of these who WELD it,
We seem to recognise manifest destiny" conducting
NICHOLAS to the subveron Of the Turk On Saturday the
hear contained the authoritative notice relative to the
settlement Of the Eastern question which has been
nnxiously looked for during the last ten days
News Of the 9th from Constantnople announce that
the Sultan has adopted the draughted by the
cieDSS " f4sbar wan some uLlnpOftaLt nodlncauons
Of FORM
We have yet certain information as to the precis,
character Of these unimpor;ant notifications" At any
rate to remark that the dispatch Of another
rer 10 St Petersburgh and another the Cza
have become necessary for he expressly accepted thu
note Of Vienna upon condition that the Sultan should &C
cepti without change" Will the Gar take advanag
Of this acceptance Of the Porte with notifications pro
long negotiations and his occupation Of the Danu
bian municipalities? II the " notifications" made ar
really without Importance, the Porte actuate
in making them by the puerle desire to make show
independence avoid the appearance Of accepting ther
under dctaton II SO, is not the Gar DESTROYS ar
pear 70 dictate the Sultan to appear not to be dictate
to The event viii show. Nous verrons. How likely
s that this other pretex will be seized to ustf
the maintenance Of the Russian troops in their preser
position may be inferred from the following passage roI
an article published by the Austraa Lloyd Of VieDns
which is a semi-oficisl paper:
The occupation Of the Danuban princip5lities pre-
sents in our opinion the serious difficulty Of th
Turcokussan dispute not that Russia means 10 occup
these princlpaues permanently, for long time, bu
because she cannot abandon them till so far az Turkey
concerned, the object Of the occupation shall have bee
obtained. We have already remarked how difieult /
would be for the Ottoman Porte 70 fulfil its OBLIGATION
towards the Christians in presence Of the fanatcism
the Mussulmans and the arbitrary power Of the Pachae
The Kosta affair, in its probable bearings upon the re-
ations Of the United States and Austria continues "a
riyiay interest pupc opinion here The Austrian Go.