Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-10-22

brought things to such pass that while it may be
vet possible for him to ride upon the whirwind and
direct the storm, he would instantly become the vic
tim of attempt to control and suppress it. The
Gar, if his policy dictated such course, would find
it exceedingly difficult, short of two arduous cam
paigns, to reach Constannople athwart these fierce
hostile masses; but would they be equally formi-
dable if, in their hot impotence to measure them
selves with the Russians, they should attempt to
the Danube and attack the enemy in their en-
trenchments! This may well be doubted.
| cannot consent to conclude what | have to
say upon this subject at the present time without
throwing out one thought which has frequently oc-
Cured to my mind, but which | have not yet met
with in print. The Ottoman empire is, there can.
be no doubt of it, approaching its dissolution 1t
must soon be broken up Constantinoplc, com
handing it does tho Black Sea and the Mediter
ranean, is capital point. 1t will determine per
haps the naval superiority of Europe in favor of the
nation who in the partition of the territory of the
falling empire shall ultimately possess it. There
are three great and powerful rival nations-Edssa,
France, and England-which would most gladly
possess it. it must almost inevitably fall to the lot
of one of them 1t seems to me clear that 1t must
also be force which is to determine the one of them
which is to be its lucky possessor. They could ne
yer practically and automatically agree xpon this
point. Passing events prove this clearly enough.
keep Russia from scizing it. Were Russia out
of the question, France and England would soon
come to blows upon the question of its possession
Let either of the three get possession OF Constan
tnope and the Dardanelles and in the present state
of naval and military science possession could pro-
badly be maintained Now, | have only to say, in
view of all this, that If ccre a British Minister
should veyy quietly but ce,y vigRantty 10 Il that
the British nagal force IN those seas should be al
lo,,f ;SfIo fbsJn f fIo I'll
Verb sat. sap.)
Apprehension of scarcity of food for the coming
winter is still increasing here. OF the reasonable
ness of this apprehension tmay be judged from the
anxiety of Government eyinced by frequent DEGREES
intended insure and facilitate supply of bread
from abroad. The DEGREES which | have reported
IN former letters removing restrictions upon the i'm
portaton of foreign grains and in foreign shipsre-
strctions which were, in the first instance, suspend
ed till the 3lst of December next--have now, by a
supplemental decree, been suspended till the 3lst
July, 1854 Still another decree has admitted for
eign bottoms to engage in the transport of grains
and flour from Algeria to France until the 3lst of
| December next; the French vessels heretofore ex-
clusvely engaged in this trade being now, it is as
serted, gone to the Levaut to bring corn thence.
The price of bread in Paris ought now if regulated
as usual by the price of -four, to be forty-eght
times the loaf of kilogram, flour cents per h.
But the police still keeps it down to forty centimes
the klogram and has adopted the practice of regu-
larly remunerating the bakers for the loss they
would thus incur by frequent cash payments in lieu
of the odious system of compensation first adopted
But this is expensive to the authorities requiring
daily outlay for the department of the Seine paris
and its immediate neighborhood) of no less than
Sl0637 per day.
have just seen a letter from Berlin which states
that Minister at that Court has arrived,
and that his diplomatic spirit and ability are likely
to be speedily tested by case bearing in some par
tculars close resemblance to the unfortunate Kosz
ia affair, which is embroiling US again with Aus
tria 1t is stated that one H. DE OENscuE, (Owens,)
Prussian subject, lying in of the State pri-
sons where he has been confined about year already
has appealed TO the American Minister and invoked
his protection upon the ground as that upon
which il has lately been extended to Koszta. Ii
! appears that Oensche, then in Prussia, was regu-
arly condemned in 1919, for some violation Of the
Prussian law Of the press, to four years imprison-
! ment. He fed made good his escape to the United
States, and there, in 1850, filed notice Of his inten
ton 10 avail himself of naturalization laws and
become citizen of the United States. Some time
after, but Of course before he became a citizen for
the legal term is not yet completed 0ensche re-
turned to Europe. lie was arrested at Hamburg,
and delivered it is charged by the city authorities
| TO Prussian officers who were sent to receive him
Once IN ITuSSla ne was thrown INTO prison, IN fuh
ment Of the sentence pronounced against him in
1919. If the above statement Of facts should prove
to be correct, and upon them an American Minister
at Berlin should interfere for the protection and re-
lease Of Oensche, it needs prophet to predict the
failure Of the interference to effect its object and
perhaps you will see in Washington much sooner
than was expected certain ex-diplomate asking
again to be provided for, upon the plea that his
occupations gone
BY the way, letter dated Vienna, September
Il, states that day before yesterday the Ambassa-
doris Of the great Powers assembled in conference at
the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs to deliberate on the
Koszta affair. We are told that the Ambassadors
were quite agreed upon the principal points
4 What these points arc is not stated
Letters from Spain announce that the Spanish
Government has determined to receive General
PIERcE's Minister, Mr.. SoULE, and allow their
I future treatment of him to be determined by his
acts. The Steele Of Paris continues to give us an
average Of one long article per week on General
I PIERCE and his policy. This journal expects be-
fore many years to sec the American stars and Colts
pistols in American hands figuring as effectively
4 upon European battlefelds as erst upon the Mexi
can plains The last article is a ridiculous but la
bored effort to prove that we have never understood
in the United States the counsel Of WASHINGTON
warning " against "entangling alliances" &c. and
insists upon it that Washington himself, were he
alive now would zcalously put himself at the head
Of American volunteers for the compelling Europe
to be republican
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