THE WAR IN EUROPE.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2297, 16 September 1870, Page 2

THE WAR IN EUROPE.

The following items are translated foi Greville and Co. (Reuter’s agents) from latest Continental papers ■ When the Due de Grammont had announced in the Senate that war had beer declared, applause lasted for a,quarter of an hour. A few orators, then asked leave tc speak. “No, no! no speeches !” general cry. The; President, M. Robber, declared that the Senate approves the war. Great excitement. Renewed and longei applause. Cries of 7 r we la France ! Simuai scene in the Corps Legislatif. There the generals of the army, received an- ovation from the people outside. Awfulpinic attbe Bourse. The reiites fell suddenly so low that the brokers ran to the. Carps, LegigJatif, books ond shares in hand, and ti ied to rush the precincts. Immense excitement. In Paris the students made procession, crying A has la Prusse ! Vise ,la France I. Vive la guerre! Their number was lOOi), and they marched by fours ii\ good order. Many students of the School of Medicine at Montpellier have placed themselves at the disposal of the Minister of War, as assistantsurgeons in the “ Ambulance.’ ” • Invffttvrc, the order has been received to Inscribe* as a reserve, all the sailors who have not been six years in the service ofthe state. In Belgium, all the regiments o' “Genie", and “ Pontonniers "were divided into small companies, and stationed, on different points, of the frontier, ready to cut bridges, railroads, and every manner of communication. ‘.The Be’gian Parliament h?s been recalled. Prince Gortschakoff has gone to Wildhad. . The Government of Switzerland has asked the Chambers to grant them the power of taking all preparatory measures for protecting Swiss independence. In Holland, all the militia is retahicd in service. The first roll of the Prussian landwehr has been ordered home.- The following manifo to was published by some of the Paris papers on July 16;—" The War I—The King of Pruss'n lias refused to receive the representative of France, and has let hirq know, through an adjutant in service, that Re had nothing more to say to. him. - This fact lias been published in the Official Gazette of Berlin, and was made: known-by Mv de Bismarck-to. the foreign courts. To such insult there is but one answer—War ! ; Our Government has done everything to avoid a conflict. It cir? cumscribed to Franco-Prussian difficulty fp a mere question of dynasty ; it has revived none of the grievances which might result for us from the non execution of the treaty of Prague. It wished peace, but a peace in which the national honor should be preserved. Prussia took our moderation for weakness. To the calm, dignified, and pacific declarations of our ambassador, she has answered by an insult . . . by a In .doing so she has followed her tradiiions ; we follow ours. One pl a y s with impunity with the susceptibilities of France. The recollections of 1814 were dormant; the King of Prussia has bruskly awakened them. He wants war. Let it be. We accept it, sure of our rights, confident in the superiority of our arms (weapons), Br.u-sig insults usi , , Let us pass the Rhine. The soldiers of Jena are ready." On the morning of July 3th, some Parisian papers still believed-peace, possible. On the morfung of the 16th, they were all blowing the trumpets of war. According to a telegram jn the Press of Vienna, a war between France and Prussia would find Norway and Sweden perfectly neutral, in .this following a different policy from that of Denmark. Tlie Danish squadron, numbering six ironclads, is in the roads of Copenhagen, ready to gfl to sea, The Ncv. f're] Ihva states in a telegram that M, de Filfie, who had the interim of the Foreign Affairs during M. Bisrnark’s visit at Ems, had openly declared to the German delegates that wr would soon take place, notwithstanding the peaceful answer prepared at Ems. Large crowds assembled before the. Royal Palace crying,.“To the Rhine! To the Rhine ! ” The latest tblcgram in the Avenir National of Paris is to the effect that the French Government asked the Belgian Government whether Belgium,. was .capably of -defending her neutrality. If ye?, France engaged herself to leave Belgium out of her. strategical combinations. I| no, the French arniy should occupy Belgian territory. Bel-, gium answered, sue was capable of defend' ing her neutrality, and immediate orders had been given' for the -protection of her froutierl The 'Pages Presse of Vienna states . that . Austria can only remain neutral so long as the war is restricted to PrauQO.and Prussia.. Should a third .power interfere, then; she must necessarily change -her Hue of-policy. . The events winch took place in Paris have ko nmch increased public dissatisfaction iff Roumania, that letters • .from the French, English, and Austrian consuls, received in Paris, London, and Vienna, expreks the fear of: a rising against Prince Charles of Hohenzollern; brother of the candidate -to the- -throuq-qf -Spain,. aud,..thM it may result in his being sent back to Germany. The Gazette' of sppm v pretends that M, do Prime Minister im Wurtemberg, telegraphed to Paris to saynSSc new exactions from the Tuilerioa, would irritfete the German national feeling and .turn it against Prance. While.all the preparations for war were being made, the trial of those couoerned in the plot against the Emperor’s life was to come off before High Court assembled at Blois. --A telegram from IVomsoe, in Nonp.r> datedJuly ; i4, says Prince Jeromff riapoleoff, being, oa.* polar arrived here,' and having received ■ ' i-'m m ih r. .v-'./ j

despatches, from Pam datol 12th and 13th, suspended his voyage, re uly, according _ to ulterior nows to proceed or to return immediately to France. The Prince knew nothing of the events before arriving in Norway.