Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT
PARIS, SEPTEMBER IA, 1854.

fHOM OUR PAhIS COHHCo1 V1'DAsA' -
st PARIS. SEPTEMBER IA, 1854.
The Royal visits of Boulogne are over: Inc
Spanish revolution, now that the Queen Mother
has escaped from the fangs of PUcHETA, ALBAIDA,
and their bands, offers no immediate striking IN
terest Gen. PARAGUAY D'HHLIERs, having won
the ba,on Of Marshal of France and illustrated all
Europe with splendid military aurora Joreahs by
the capture Of Bomarsund, (Which has already been
blown up and abandoned by the capturers,) has re-
turned to Paris. The Austrian troops under Count
CoRoNrNI, accompanied by OMER PACHA, entered
Bucharest on the 9th The Gar protests again that
he really does mean to retire behind the Pruth, u
the Allies by the movement Of the forces do not oblge
him to fortify himself the Sereth. Mr. SouLE, am
told is getting coo at one Of the fashionable watering
places of the Pyrenees So the eyes of Europe having
now nothing this side Of the Black Sea to divert hem
are directed intensely and anxously to bascpo IN the
rir.ea reports be trueunless newspapers, generals
and the whole apparatus of official and non-ofcal pub
Lefty has been engaged during the last six weeks in
throwing dust into peoples eyes in order to conceal the
real destination Of the powerful expedition that has been
fitted outhe pluck Of the Russian troops that garrison
the Crmea and the strength Of the ramparts Of Sebas-
topo are at this moment undergoing decisive test The
grand enterprise against Sebastopol was officially an
nounced by Marshal DE SAINT ARsAuD in the following
proclamation published here in the Moniteur Of last
Saturday:
Soldiers You have just afforded fine spectacle OF
camness and energy in the midst OF pain
full circumstances which we must forget. The moment
has GENE fight and to conquer The enemy mas not
waited for the Danube. His demorahLed troops,
smitten with disease, painfully retiring It Is prov
dence perhaps which has been spare us
rence Of those pestlenta regions and call us TO the
Crmea country salubrious own, to Sebastopol,
the seat Of Russian power, within whose walls We are
our resides The enterprise is great one, and it Is
worthy Of YOU You will realize it by the aid OF the most
formidable military and naval apparatus that been
seen The allied fleets with their 600 guns ana their
$4,000 brave seamen your rivals and your comrades, VIII
bear to the Crimea English army whose high valor
your fathers learned respect choice division OF those
Ottoman troops whose capacity has recently been ested
before your eyes and French army when nave .ns
whole army In all this see more than guarantees
Of success see success itself.
Generals chiefs, officers of all arms, you share ana
you will inspire your soldiers with the confluence tnat
fills my SOUL Soon shall salute together the three
united flags floating from the walls OF Sebastopo win
our national cry, Vve pEmpereur
Sat Headquarters, varna, August 70, 1904.
A. DE SAINT ARNAUD."
The Marshal does not probably exaggerate the force Of
this expedition when he styles it the most formidable
that has ever been organized and directed point
Of an enemys sea coast 1t viii consist Of upwards Of
one Hundred thousand men, provided amply with all the
most terrible means Of destruction that modern science
has invented Europe is watching its progress with the
greatest interest If ebastopo is really the point OF in
tended attack the campaign of 1854 will not be SO fruit
lessas until lately, has been apprehended II 1t DC
TAKEN capital and disastrous blow will have been struck
by the Allies Not only will the stronghold Of Russian
naval power in the South be wrested from the Gear and
ra1ed held against him. but the powerful feet which
assured him the dominion Of the Black Sea- and which
was suspended like the sword Of Damocles, over the
Turkish empire, perpetual threat and danger Will be
annihlated. The Turkish empire, with its diminished
and still diminishing vitality will even If left TO its own
resources for Defence be able to protect itself for quar-
ter Of century yet from the grasp Of the Northern giant
which is destined strange at last the expedition
fail and the Allies repulsed from Sebastopol the i'm
potence Of the allies to strike decisive blows at the
Of the Russian empire their inability, immense, formi
dabe and gallant their armaments, to foroe upon
the Gar reduced for time to purely defensive role
the humiliang terms Of peace they have haugnuy an
nounced viii be SO painfully exemplifed that It may DC
reasonably supposed the Allies will during the forced
armisce which the winter is to impose upon the beli-
gerens listen Of peace upon the basis OF the
sta quo ante 5e The attack upon Sebastopo OF TINS
late season is daring and hazardous an undertaking
that many still doubt notwithstanding the immense scale
upon which the preparations have been made whetner
that fortress ID really the uestinauon Va sn0 eAPs
If such overwhelming disparity Of force was deemed ne
cessary for the capture of why it is asked
may not the three thousand guns and the hundred
men of the Black Sea expedition intended to the
of some less dazzling enterprise tn an the capture
Of Sebastopol! The force commanded by the Marshal
DE SAINT ARSAUD is not dsproportionate to that
which defends Odessa than that of Marshal HILL
L1Ens to the Russian garrison and works OF Bsmarsund
However this may be- the sceptical will not be long tor
tured with doubt. The expedition sailed from Sarna
on the 3D. or at the latest the 4th Of this month what
ever its destination it must have reached the point OF
declaration and been operating some four or i've
We shall soon learn with certainty its whereabout and
whatabout
The text Of the Of the Gar to the proposition
made by Austria the four conditions upon the accep
lance Of which the Allies disposed to treat for peace
has not been published. Numerous versions more or
less nearly approaching the TRUTH have appeared IN the
papers The answer Is known to be positively in the
negative and it's exact form and substance more cor
recty given in the following letter Of the confidential
correspondent the Independence Beige than in any ar
tcle hitherto published The letter is dated Berlin 18th
September, 1864. The writer says:
al am able to give you additional and unpublished de-
tails relative To the answer of the Cabinet Of ST. Peters
burph to the notes Of Austria and Prussia INTENDED 70
support the four conditions OF peace proposed oy the
Western Powers. This answer is contained IN despaten
of Count Nesselrode addressed to Prince Gorschako
who was instructed to communicate it to the Cabinet OF
Vienna The Prussian Cabinet has received copy OF
that despatch, accompanied by letter INTENDED as an
OF the iotn