APPREHENSIONS OF WAR ON THE CONTINENT.

Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 273, 12 October 1867, Page 3

APPREHENSIONS OF WAR ON THE CONTINENT.

The apprehensions of war continue to be on the increase, says the Paris correspondent •of the " Express, " writing on Sunday evening. All the Bourses in Germany are lower on account of them. If there has been no ! considerable fall at the Paris Bourse it is only because the ftentes is almost at { war prices already. Rumours of an alliance between Franqe, and Austria, and Italy ai % e industriously circulated, and the Sultan is eagerly canvassed to join it. Temptations ' ai-e being held out to Sweden and Denmark to join the French league. Prussia is rapidly preparing for the comipg storm. A very important symptom, ainpug-inany minor ones, is that the division which Hesse is bound to furnish to the Prussian Army Military Alliance, and which was not to have been organised till October 1, is, by a receiit resolution of the Grand Ducal Governmeiit and the Hesse Darmstadt Chamber, to be formed immedi if ely. The remarkable reasons for this haste, publicly assigned by the Hesse Minister of War, are, that although it is impossible to predict with certainty what event may occur next spring, it is essential that the Hesse Divison should be fie for active service by that time, and that it would be impossible during the six winter months to have the extraordinary levies thoroughly drilled with the noedle-gun and fully equipped. The three months yet left of summer are felt to be necessary for this purpose, as Prussia is supreme in all matters military throughout the Southern Germanic Confederation as well as in the North. What is the rale for Hesse must also be the rulefor Bavaria, Wurtemburg, "<kc. It is most important that peoples as well as Governments should not. shut their eyes against evidence. The alarmists are now the greatest friends of peace. It is certain that the French Emperor is meditating war on a grand scale, and it is equally certain that the nefarious object is an extension of territory in order to restore his prestige, grievously damaged by the Mexican failure, and to stifle opposition at the next elections. There is a hope that the good sense .of the world may yet baulk these designs, but safety lies in constant vigilance and a keen sense of the impending danger.