Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-01-14
FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT
PARIS, DECEMBER %, 1858.

PARIs, DECEMBER -, 1898.
We received in Paris yesterday the Annual Mes
sage of Gen. PIERCE. Most of the papers publish
this morning copous extracts from it. Several have
column or two OF comment others promise their
comments at an early day The two semi-oficial
Journals, lie Pays and lie Patrie, remark with evi-
dent satisfaction what they call its tone of wise mo-
deration. They expected the assertion in an cxag-
gerated form OF the Monroe doctrine and the very
plain intimation Of the United States Government
to signalize the present Administration by the con-
quest of Cuba, peaceably and by money if possible
forcibly and by arms if need be- They dwell at
length upon the marvellous financial prosperity of
our country, and kindly intimate that they sec
nothing that can check this unprecedented we'll
being, and our indefinite progress in wealth and
power, If we continue to mind our own business and
do not attempt to mix ourselves up with European
politics
Since last alluded to the Eastern question events
have been marching, but generally in the direction
which you yourselves indicated many months ago
For aught that appears the winter is likely to be
spent by the belgerents in inaction or indecisve
military operations, and by the Four Powers in
equally indecsiye attempts to patch up with the aid
of diplomacy, an insecure peace. Military operations
both the Danube and in ASIA are of late to the ad
vantage Of Russia The Turks have lost nearly all the
ground gained in the early stages of the campaign.
In the far East beside the naval disaster of Snope they
have since suffered two serious checks on land one at
Aka Tscche, and another, of which intelligence has just
reached us, at Aexandropol No reliable particulars of
either Of these engagements have yet arrived We only
know in general terms that the result is unavorabe to
the Sultans troops ncting sensible material loss and
impairng to greater extent the confidence inspired
by his early of the sultans ability to cope with
l.
to have been attempted of late by either party The
Turks still hold Kalafat upon the Upper Danube in Lit
tie Wallacha and the Russian General is concentrating
an imposing force for the purpose it believed of drv
ing Omer Pacha into across the Danube. Yesterday
and to-day rumors ahoat that grand engagement
took place this point the Sd and 4th of December
Absolutely contradictory versions given Of the result
1t is not improbable that the whole will prove to be c
tion, invented by spectators in stocks The battle Of
Kalafat however, if fiction now will probably soon be-
fact. The Turks strongly entrenched there
and though Prince Gortschako is not yet in sufficient
force to attack him with confidence he is VIGOROUSLY
amassing the means of doing Renforcements are
rapidly arriving to him, and when he finds himself in
force be deemeda departure from the programme
published by the Car many months ago if he should at
tack the Turks in Kalafat 1t will simply be the attempt
to restore to his master exclusive possession of the
two Provinces seized and intended be held security
for the acceptance by the Porte Of the Russian ultmaum
Nothing has yet occurred to evnce the slightest reaxa
ton the part of the Czar of the rgor Of his terms and
assuredy the slight experienced by his
time ago. and not yet wholly repaired by subsequent
success, not of nature to make him accord better
terms to the Sultan. 1t is probable that the Turks will
be driven to the right bank Of the Danube before
in consequence Of BATTLE and that the little fort of
st. Nicholas in Asia viii be retaken by the Russians
Then the Gar will listen to propositions of peace upon
terms literally virtually such he has oil along offered
These conditions there be little doubt the Powers
willing to enforced Perhaps they willing to aid
in the enforcement of them upon the Sultan. Recent d
plomatic disclosures would to indicate this result
Read carefully the three diplomatic documents which
have just been published the protocol Of Vienna, the
joint note Of the Four Powers and the despatch subse
queny by each Of them severay to its
at Constantinope These documents indicate the basis
of the treaty of peace which they have in contemplation
and the by which it is hoped to arrive at its
summation You win fnd that they contain nothing in
consistent with concession by Turkey of the Cars u
timatum The territorial integrity Of the Ottoman En-
pre in its actual limits consecrated by time and by
ties and held to be necessary for the equilibrium of po
ltical power in Europe is to be maintained Beyond and
Nothing is now said has been heretofore hypocrtca
y sad of the desire and intention of the Powers to pre-
serve unmpared the sovereign rights of the Sultan with
in the territory of his domnions and his sub
ects This omission speaks volumes in indication of the
real intentions the Powers Why the not declared
in defence OF the territorial integrity of the Ottoman En-
pire That integrity threatened The Car know
ing that the avowa of purpose make permanent con-
Quests of territory at the expense Of the Sultan would
cause France and England to make common cause with
Turkey in active hostltes, expressly, and as no one
doubts sincerely for the present disclaims all idea Of
such conquest. But his utnatum attacks insdiously
and fundamentally the sovereignty OF the Suit an within
the nominal territorial extent of his Empire And it
because of its doing that the Sultan refused his assent
and finally declared upon Russia who would not de-
sist from the pretensons asserted The allies prae about
the conciatory dispositions of the Gar and his constant
disavowal Of all intention to modify existing treaty rea
tions between Russia and Turkey and Of all desire to i'm
pair the rights Of sovereignty possessed by the Sultan
his subjects Why, he has done so from the beginning
He did SO when he presented his original umatum. He
did 90 when accepting the former note He always said
that he only desired explain and make ndsputabe the
rights of protection over the Suans Greek subjects
corded by former reateseaties which the Sultan mis-
understood or wifuy dsregarded, and which it the
object of his umatum to make clear The Allies say,
also that the Sultan shall be called upon to delibe
rate again upon any proposition which he has formerly
rejected But the Allies pretended at first that the note
of Vienna was essentially different from the utimatum,
while every sensible and impartial mind instantly
did the Car and the Sultan themselves that with change
Of outward FORM the two propositions essentially
the same And now ii may be confidently predicted that