Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-12-02
Correspondence of the London Times.
Latest Adviees by Mail from the East-Change In
the Attitude of Louis Napoleon.

Correspondence of the London Times.
Latest Adviees by Mail from the East-Cha"ge 1"
the Attitude of Louis Napoleon.
PARIS, Nov. &c, p. m.
The latest official accounts received in Paris from
the theatre of the Danube state that the Turks
crossed the river the 9th and 28h ult TO the num-
Der of 3 900 but of their subsequent operations
there is no mention, and must await further advi
ces before accept the statement, in the Ger
man papers, that they had been repulsed by the Rus.
slams. The intelligence received Thursday after
noon at the Foreign Office in Paris also from VIENNA
of the check sustained by the Turks, is not far
am aware, again referred to in any subsequent &C.
count The check, then, if the despatch correct,
may not have been of serious kind and latter &C.
count says that the Turks fOrtfyng themselves
in Kalafat, and were otherwise taking the necessary
steps 10 secure the free passage of the river at the
spot for corps farmee. Respecting the mill.
tary operations on both sides, have confused and
conflicting accounts, partly owing to the mystery in
which both generals envelope their movements, and a
good deal of the distance from the of action
which these accounts are made out.
In the accounts received from Constantinope and
elsewhere, the hope is still expressed that means will
after all be found of arriving at peaceful solution
of the quarre but it is right TO add that these hopes
are not expressed with much warmth, and that they
are but slightly participated in by people here The
efforts made by the mediating powers admitted to
have been sincere earnest, and for the general inter-
est of Europe but, often have the hopes founded
on them been batfied, that at this moment they are
very faint indeed. Nor can perceive that much i'm
preston has been produced by the intelligence of new
projects of arrangement or new notes. The opinion
of those who have watched every step of these earl
negotiations is that it is in vain TO expect frank
ness from Russia.
1t has this day been asserted, in quarter that is
often semi-ofclaly informed that the time for
and projects of arrangement is rapidly slipping away
and that the Emperor, (Louis Napoleon) tried and
bafied in his repeated attempts in conjunction with
England, has made up his mind 10 more determined
policy from this moment forward, certain as he ap-
pears to be that England is with him. The sus-
pcions, unounded, as no doubt they are, that aemp,
were recently made TO wean England from common
action, should that action assume less forbearng
character have been and the Emperor not
within the last few days, expressed his thoughts very
frankly One of the first steps which, it is said will
be adopted in of failure in the negotiation still
pending, is the immediate recall of all the diplomatic
agents who have been concerned in the notes and
their substitution by military men, as in the case oil
M de la Cour and General paraguay d'Hillers and
the first TO be 90 recalled will probably be M. de
Bourqueney With that view of the matter there
will be much difficulty in understanding the following
article in the Parttse, which 10 bear the mark
OF an official hand, and which has excited much nj.
| tenton.
Prom the Paris Patre
France has proved, since the commencement of the
eastern question, and in the cearest manner that she
wished for peace. She persists than ever in that
policy, so important to the interest OF Europe; bu
she does not wish for mere ephemeral peace, which
permits Russia to recommence, on the first favorable
occasion her ambitious maneuvres, and to agate the
world by again invading the territory of allied pow
er, which she desires to 'suppressto use the favor
tie expression OF one of her most important statesmen
Now, the western powers, who are devoted with the
superior intelligence, 10 the arts of peace-the only
element of the happiness of peoplc-cannot admit
that nation which has not on this earth right.
than they, and which renders less service to human
kind shall necessarily disturb the others, and destroy
the equilibrium of Europe for the simple satisfaction
! Of ambition and pride