REUTER'S LATE SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Issue 69, 21 June 1866, Page 3

REUTER'S LATE SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(PER INDO-EUROPEAN LINE.) . • JjoiTDoif, April 30. - J\inds. dull owing to political complications at hqnie an.d abroad, Almost a panic here and in Prance. ' „ Italy is actively preparing for war. May 4, Bank discount per- gent, France professes neutral policy regard.ing^ differences, hgtwe^i^ Prussia and - _a Austria.Italy engages not to g&ack Austria. ,^^- May 5. N^PJBEJniwia is re-eatablishing five armyMay 7: Prussia has summoned Saxony to disarm. Saxony has invoked the. protection ' of the Diet. n War 18 considered inevitable; 1

Specie payments in Austria and Italy have been suspended. II is reported that France is about sending tro.ops to Rome. The panic in the money iiiarket continues. An immediate Continental war is expected. Italy is endeavoring to obtain a loan from England. ' v May 8. Discount 8 per cent. Large withdrawals of gold from the Bank of England, for transmissionto the Continent. The "Re-distribution of Seats Bill" is before Parliament. It disfranchises fourteen boroughs by groupinsj together ; saving 49 seats, and re-distributes seats thus : 26 to counties, 16 to boroughs, 7 to Scotland. - There has been an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Bismarck. May 11. The whole Austrian army has been placed on war footing. The panic in Paris is unparalleled. Owing to the panic in London two banks have suspended, '" ■ The second reading of the Reform Bill was carried by five votes. Gladstone's Budget shows a surplus of £1,350,000. ~ • ' : • May 12. * Governn^ent authorises the suspension of the Bank Charter Act. : The Italian Government has ordered the formation of fifty companies under j [ Garibaldi. Discount, 12 per cent. - . ;