Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-26
PARIS CORRESPONDENCE
PARIS, NOVEMBER 8, 1858.


We have been favored with superlave weather for the
two great religious festiyals-A Saints and All Souls.
The first of this month is more Of hoyday perhaps
than any other day except the first Of the year All the
churches were filed and in Of them the and
prayers for the repose of the dead seemed douby solemn
from the grandeur of the music Crowds repaired to the
three immense cemeteries; the number OF pilgrims Is
reckoned at two hundred thousand; funeral emblems
sold the entrance of to the amount of
than hundred thousand francs speak Of the first day
the second marked by concourse, though not so
considerable at Pere Lachaise There not pacant
seat in the theatres in The eceiing.
Yesterday our Exchange was between contrary inn
pulses in regard to the Eastern question Stocks stagna
ed in the end they fell little This afternoon the anx-
ous multitude within the splendid edfce, and grouped
on the steps and pavement adjacent will be more and
puzzled by the telegraph dispatches and the
ments of the morning papers We reminded Of the
Italian courier in the comedy What have you in your
right hand? Orders" What have you in your left !!
Counter orders" "
The Moniteur is silent but the Ministerial papers,
sure of peace on Saturday last have entirely changed
their tome lie Pays observes It svery difcut 70 az
firm to-dayit would be rash TO predictthe Issue and
defnitiye solution Of the Eastern question; short term
will decide" The Constitutional says /" Hopes of peace
still predomnate but the advices from different quarters
are unequiyocaly Warllke however, we guaranty NO.
thing The Journal des Debats thinks that the whole
appearances are pacific than warlike. The Repub
lican organ, the Secealways eager for general con-
fict-does doubt that diplomacy has been baaed and
must be reduced to despair. have before the Lon
don Times and Chronicle of yesterday With them, at the
end Of last week. every thing verged rresistiby to pa
cc solution: now, according to the former there is
to doubt that part of the Turkish army has
crossed the Danube and occupied Kalafa and that col
son with the Russians may have occurred the 2Sh
ultimo The Chronicle says The ssue of war; already
joined; the prospects Of peace for the present. at
least seriously if not fatally overloaded On Monday
it told that there better prospect sf peaceful
adjustment than at any former period"
The Paris Correspondent of the Times is certain that
the Russians have with great in the Cauca
sus-an old story. Many of the who attempted a re-
volution in the Danuban Princpaties and defeat
ed by the of the Russian forces four
ago. have resided refugees in Paris The leader
municates the Journal La Presse the substance Of let
ters from Bucharest by which it is putbeyond dispute
not less than thirty thousand of the Cars
the sick list and the whole fifty sixty thousand
unpaid dispirted, in the most wreched plight imagna-
BILE Vienna Journal of note, the Wanderey, affirms
that America (he United States) has given the Porte
every possible proof of friendship and in particular hss
promised strongly to support the project of loan on
which the Turkish Government has resolved
TJoaraal Of Commerce.