Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-09-19
8g OElegraph.
Afternoon Report.
European Affairs.

NEW YoRk, September ls.-A Paris cor
respondent OF the N. Y. Times, of the 4th
instant says
most important change has taken
place in European affairs. Emperor Ma
poleOn has turned q sOmeTsault, and now
lies in tue dust at the feet Of Prince GOrtsch
akoff His position European dictator
is at an end, and hereafter he will have
enough to do to take care of himself.
His majesty tried to carry England and
Austria with him into a war with Russia
and Prussia, on the Polish QUESTION. and
hoped by this war to conquer the Russian
provinces, but his allies took alarm, and
while England declined, Austria went to
work to organize the German Confederation
against HIM. About the same time there
came to Paris positive assurances that Mr..
O. NJ. Clay was maturing an alliance be-
tween the United States and Russia, which
engaged the United States to attack France
in Mexico, in case of an European war;
Then arose before NapOleOn's eyes that
bug bear of his family, coalition which
should embrace as active enemies Russia,
the German Confederation, the U. s. and
as a passive but not less damaging enemy,
Great Britain. Such a combination would
have cost him his crown in three months.
He saw it, took the alarm, turned square
koff, protested that he never intended to go
TO war for Poland, washed his hands of
the Polish question and begged to be
friends again. England thus being placed
morally in an attitude of hostility to France
and Russia, will be forced into q friendship
with the United States.
Another result of the affair is that the
Mexican elephant will be lett on &apoleOn's
hands, for Grand Duke Maximillian now
refuses the new throne, and there is no
other Prince eligible or acceptable, who
will take it.
There is now evidence that the intrigues
of the French Consuls in the South for the
detachiDg of Texas were true.
They have not ceased in regard to the
Florida at BFest. -te=r
The same correspondent states that the
engines of the Florida are of English man
ufacture and much deranged. Mafit was
obliged to stop somewhere, but found after
arriving at Brest, that French yOrkmen
could not repair his English engines and
he would have to wait till he could get
English workmen from England. All this
has caused delay which has put Mafit in
q towering rage, for now his vessel will
probably suffer the fate of the Sumter at
Gibraltar; but there is no help for it.
Mafit says it was he who cut out the
Caleb Cushing at Portland. 1t was on the
programme 81 one time to enter the port
OF New York or Boston and burn the place.
When the Florida first came into the
port Of Brest, Mr.. Dayton protested for
mally against her admission, bat not, prob
ably, with the expectation of haviHg her
expelled, for the French have faithfully
executed their neutrality proclamation in
all other respects, and 1t was expected they
ota In m mn
not mentioned in the neutrality proclama-
ton.
The Moniteur of this morning publishes
an official note on this subject, which de-
clares she will only be allowed to repair
such damages as regard her navigation;
but NO supplies in war material will be
furnished her.