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Manifesto of the Emperor of Austria.

VIENNA, June 17.
The full text of the Imperial manifesto issued to-
day (summary telegraphed) is as follows :
" To my People,—
" In the midst of the labours of peace I had undertaken
to lay the foundations of a form of Constitution which was
not only to strengthen the unity and power of the common
realm ; but to secure to the individual countries and peoples
their free internal development, m 3 duty as a ruler has
compelled me to call my entire forces under arms.
" The armies of two allied enemies stand on the frontiers
of the empire in the south and in the, north, with tho inten-
tion of shaking the position of Austria as an European
Power. To neither of them have I given cause for war.
God the All-knowing is my witness that I have always
considered it one of my first and most sacred duties as a
ruler to preserve to my people the blessings of peace, and
have faithfully striven to maintain them. One, -however,
of the two hostile Powers requires no pretext. Greedy for
the plunder of portioni of my empire, it considers favour-
able opportunity cause for war.

"Allied with the Prussian troops which now oppose us
as enemies, a portion of my bravo and faithful army ad-
vanCed two years ago to the shores of the North Sea. I en-
tered into this brothership in arms with Prussia to preserve
rights acquired by treaty, to protect a menaced German
race, to confine the misfortune of an unavoidable war to
its narrowest limits, and by the intimate alliance of the two
great Powers of Central Europe—to whose share in

especial had fallen the task of preserving European
peace —to obtain a lasting guarantee of that peace neces-
sary for the welfare of my empire of Germany awl Europe.
I have not sought conquests. Disinterested in the con-
clusion of the allianw with Prussia, I have also striven

for no advantage to myself in the Vienna Peace Treaty.
Austria bears no blame in the melancholy series of unfor-
tunate complications, which could never have arisen had
Prussia been animated by similarly disinterested objects,
and could immediately have boon settled in a spirit of
similarly faithful alliances. The complications were pro-
duced by tho realisation of selfish objects, and could there-
fore not be solved by my Government. in a peaceful way.
The gravity of the situation was thus constantly increased.
But even then, when warlike preparations had manifestly
been made in the two hostile States, and an agreement
between them which could only be based upon the inten-
tion of a common attack upon my empire became more
clearly evident, in the consciousness of my duty as a ruler,
and ready to make every concession compatible with the
honour and prosperity of my people, I remained in the
most profound peace. When I perceived, however, that
further hesitation endangered the effective repulse of hos-
tile attacks, and thereby the safety of the monarchy, I was
compelled to determine upon the serious sacrifices insepa-
rably connected with armament for war.

"The assurances of desire for peace given by my Govern-
ment, the repeated declarations of my readiness for mutual
common disarmament, were answered by Prussia with pre-
tensions to have acceded to which would have imperilled the
honour and security of my realm. Prussia demanded entire
immediate disarmament, not only as towards herself, but
also towards the hostile Power upon the frontier of my
territory in Italy, for whose love of peace no guarantee
was offered, and none could be given.
"All negotiations with Prussia in the Duchies question
have constantly afforded fresh proof of the fact that a solu-
tion of this question suitable to the dignity of Austria, the
rights of the interests of Germany and the Duchies, is not
to be attained by agreement with Prussia, on account of her
plainly evidenced policy of violence and conquest. The ne-
gotiations were broken off, the entire question was handed
over to the decision of the Diet, and the legal representatives
of Austria wore at the same time convoked.

" The threatening prospect of war induced the throe
Powers, France, England, and Russia, to issue an invitation
to my Government also to participate in common delibera-
tions, the object of which was to be the preservation of
peace. Following up my desire to preserve peace to my
people if in any way possible, my Government did not refuse
participation, but at the same time coupled its assent with
the express understanding that public European right and
existing treaties should form the points of departure for
these attempts at mediation, and that the Powers taking
part therein should pursue no separate interests to the dis-
advantage of the balance of power in Europe and of tho
rights of Austria. If even the attempt at peace delibera-
tions was wrecked upon these natural assumptions, the fact
affords proof that the negotiations themselves could never
have led to the maintenance and consolidation of peace.
" The most recent occurrences irrefutably prove that
Prussia now openly substitutes violence for right. Prussia
has no longer considered the right and honour of Austria,
the right and honour of the entire German nation, as a
check upon her fatally increased ambition. Prussian troops
entered Holstein ; the Estates convoked by the Imperial
Governor were dispersed by force ; the governing authority
in Holstein, bestowed upon Austria and Prussia in com-
mon by the Vienna Peace Treaty, was exclusively claimed
by Prussia alone ; and the Austrian garrison was forced to
give way to a tenfold superior force. When the Germanic
Diet, recognising in this conduct arbitrary proceedings
contrary to treaty, decreed the mobilisation of the Federal
troops upon the motion of Austria, Prussia, so ready to
boast herself the upholder of German interests, then com-
pleted the destructive course upon which she had entered.
Tearing asunder the national ties of the Germans, she de-
clared her secession from the Confederation, demanded of
the German Governments the acceptance of a so-called
project of reform which carries into effect the division of
Germany, and proceeded with military force against those
Sovereigns who remained faithful to the Confederation.
" Thus, the most disastrous of events, a war of Germans
against Germans, has become unavoidable. For ail thne
misery it will entail upon individuals and fame
ros7v
upon
districts and countries, I make those whof hhaisvuiryp
and of
it responsible before the judgment
the Eternal and Almighty God. I advance
cause,
judgment-seat
tnoee to the conflict
in the with that confidence afforded by afuj
g a groat empire whose
con-
sciousness of the power e
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fwithres one idea alone, viz.,
equipped for battle, at the sight of my
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to pieces,
mrt ad.giovshianlelosidoa.tk up to me, united, soli-sacrificing,
form-
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faithful
resolved.iuelr as
people, arl
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"The flame of patriotic enthusiasm blazes high
throughoutet pure
he wide territories of my empire; the soldiers,
when called out, hurried joyfully into the ranks of the
army, volunteers throng 1,) take service, the whole popu-
lation capable of bearing arms in some of the countries
most threatened are preparing for the fight, and the noblest
readiness is shown to make sacrifices in hastening to alle-
viate the sufferings of misfortune and minister to the
wants of the army. One feeling alone pervades the inha-
bitants of my kingdoms and lands—the feeling of cohesion
of strength in unity of indignation at so unprecedented a
violation of right.
"It pains me doubly that the labour of agreement upon
home constitutional questions is not yet so far advanced as
to allow at this solemn but elevating moment of the repre-
sentatives of all my peoples rallying around my throne.:
Deprived for the present of this support, my duty as a ruler

.
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s all the clearer, my dote :0.-'1 e
it to my empire in all futureaof:-.Ni ,^,;,;,;,,7"
We shall not stand alone! -,14M-001#1.4ITJV ees
and peoples of Germany know thelingenrea. • g their
freedom and independence from a Power wh acts are
guided solely by the selfish plans of ruthleEs lust of aggran-
disement. They know what an asylum they will find in
Austria for these their most precious possessions,—what
support she will extend to the power and integrity of the
entire German Fatherland. As we now stand in arms for
the most sacred objects nations have to defend, so do our
Gorman Federal brethren also.
" Arms have been forced into our hands. Now that we
have taken thorn up, we must not and will not lay them
down before free internal development is secured to my
empire as well as to the allied German States, and their
position in Europe is consolidated afresh.

"Let not our confidence and our hope repose alone upon
our unity and our strength. I base them also upon a
higher Power—upon the omnipotent and righteous God
whom my house has served from its origin, and who never
abandons those who rely upon his justice. To Him will I
pray for support and victory, and I call upon my people to
unite with me in my prayer.

" Given at my capital, city of Vienna, this seventeenth
day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
(Signed) " FRANCIS JosEru."

Manifesto of the King of Italy.

iFLORENCE, June 20.
The King of Italy has addressed the following
manifesto to the Italian people ;
" Seven years have already passed since Austria attacked
my States because I had supported the common cause of
the country in the councils of Europe. I took up the sword
to defend my throne, the liberty of my people, the honour
of the Italian name, and to fight for the right of the nation.
Victory was in favour of good right. The valour of the
army, the aid of the volunteers, the concord and wisdom
of the people, and the assistance of a magnanimous ally,
gained the almost complete independence and liberty of
Italy. Supreme reasons we were obliged to respect pre-
vented us from at that time accomplishing that just and
glorious enterprise. Ono of the noblest provinces of
Italy, united by the desires of the population to my Crown,
and which its heroic resistance and continual protest against
foreign dominion rendered especially dear and sacred to us,
remained in the hands of Austria. Though sorrowful at
heart, I abstained from troubling Europe, which desired
peace.

"My Government occupied itself with improving the
work of interior 'organisation, with opening sources of
public prosperity, and with fortifying the country by land
and by sea, awaiting a favourable opportunity to accom-
plish the independence of Venetia. Although waiting was
not without danger, nevertheless wo understood how to
keep shut within our hearts—l my feelings as an Italian
and a King, and my people its just impatience. I preserved
intact the right of the nation and the dignity of the Crown
and Parliament, in order that Europe might understand
what was due to Italy.

"Austria suddenly reinforcing her troops upon our
frontier, and provoking us by her hostile and threatening
attitude, has come to disturb the pacific task of the reorga-
nisation of the kingdom. I have replied by again taking
up arms, and you have afforded tho world the grand sight
of hastening with promptitude and enthusiasm into the
army, and to enlist among the volunteers.

"Nevertheless, when friendly Powers endeavoured to
settle the difficulties by a Congress, I gave a last pledge of
my feelings to Europe, and hastened to accept the pro-
posal. Austria again refused, this time rejecting negotia-
tionsand all agreement, affording thus a fresh proof that if
she confides in her strength she does not rely equally upon
the goodness of her cause and of her right. You also,
Italians, may trust in your strength, looking with pride
upon your valiant army and strong navy, but you may rely
still more firmly upon the sacredness of your right, whose
triumph is henceforth infallible. We are supported by the
judgment of public opinion and by the sympathy of
Europe, which knows that Italy, independent and secure
in her territory, will become a guarantee for peace and
order.

"Italians ! I hand over the government of the State to
the Prince of Carignan, and again take up the eagles of
Gaito and Pastrengo, of Palestro and San Martino. I feel
that I shall accomplish the vows made at the tomb of my
high-minded father. I wish to be once more the first
soldier of Italian independence.
(Signed)

" VICTOR EMMANI-EL."

Reply of Hanover to the Prussian
Ultimatum.

lIANVERIAN HEAD-QUARTERS,
GOTTINGEN, June 10.
The following is the full text of the Hanoverian
reply to the ultimatum forwarded by the Prussian
Minister at Hanover on the 15th. The ultimatum
was almost verbally the same as that addressed to
the Saxon Government :

" The,undersigned has had the honour to receive a note
of his Highness the Prince of Ysenburg, forwarded to-
day, and has submitted its contents to his Majesty the
King. The motion brought forward at the sitting of tho
Diet on the 11th was adopted on the 14th, with such modi-
fications that it cannot be regarded as an act of hostility
against Prussia. The Hanoverian Government in especial
has most carefully adhered to the Federal point of view of
the strictest impartiality both in its vote and in its argu-
ments, with which the Prussian Government is fully ac-
tqhuraeienteAdu.strif,tm haasrmyvocoterdpcag,
ianinsotrdtehretomuopbhiolisald ttihoen
Dofietthine
its perfectly objective position between the Oro Powers in
the dispute. It has further not voted for that part of the
motion referring to the measures dorived from the arrange-
ments as to Federal war ; and has, lastly, especially advo-
cated accommodation as the ultimate object of all resolu-
tions of the Diet. Upon the other hand, the King's Go-
vernment has been unable to avoid recognising the fact
patent to all the worlds that the internal quiet and security
of the Confederation were threatened, and has equally found
it impossible to abstain from its Federal duty of voting for
motions conducing to the protection :of that quiet and

security.
" As the Hanoverian Government therefore is conscious of
having acted, after the nicest consideration and most con-
scientious examination of the existing and rightful cireum-
stances, in accordance with its duties as a member of the
Germanic Confederation ; as it at the same time believes it
may claim to have united its support of Federal right with
the most friendly c on sideration for the Prussian Govern men t
—the undersigned was the more surprised at the terms of
the treaty communicated by his Highness Prince Ysenburg,
with regard to which a declaration is demanded of the
King's Government.

" The first of these conditions is that the Hanoverian
troops shall be immediately reduced to the peace footing of
March Ist last. With regard to this point, the undersigned
can only state that the King's army is not by any means
upon a war footing. It has only undertaken the customary
drills earlier this year than usual, and the undersigned can-
not suppose that this simple step, foz which neither purchase
of horses nor any act of mobilisation whatever has taken
place, can be considered an act of hostility against Prussia.
But the Prussian Government will certainly not deny that
the withdrawal of an in itself unimportant order under pre-
sent circumstances would be so heavy a blow to the honour
of the Hanoverian army that_ his Majesty can never submit
to such an expectation.

"The second condition demands that Hanoverjshall con-
sent to the convocation of the German Parliament, and
shall order elections thereto as soon as the same is done by
Prussia. Upon this point tho undersigned has the honour
to state that the proposals for the convocation of a German
Parliament lie before the Federal Diet for final determina-

tion, and that the Hanoverian Government, mindful of its
Federal duties, cannot consider admissible any treatment of
a question fraught with such high importance to the German
nation apart from the Diet.
" When, in the third place, Prussia, on the other hand,
offers to guarantee to his Majesty the King of Hanover his
territory and sovereign rights to the extent of the reform
proposals of the 14th inst., the undersigned is in reality
unable to perceive in the aforesaid reform proposals any
guarantee for the King's sovereign rights. The reform
proposals of the 14th inst, so deeply and so materially affect
ru an
precisely those very sovereign rights, that they lead to
the apprehension of similar results to mediatisation.
that ~ Although, therefore, the undersigned is forced to
cline the terms of treaty communicated by his Highnessde-
Prince Ysenburg, in the name of the
Prussian
Govern-
ment, he can only repeat most decisively the Hano-
verian Government is conscious of occupying
of unassailable, internationally, guaranteed Federal right,
the ground
and that adherence to that right, in its opinion, cannot
give any 'cause to the Prussian Government to consider
the kingdom of Hanover as in a state
of war against Prus-
sia. The Hanoverian. Government adheres unalterably to
the opinion that Federal law
prohibits war between mem-
bers of the Confederation
any warlike step against and it will therefore not take
its ally, the Prussian Govern-
ment, so long as the fronti •
sailed. For frontiers of the kingdom are not as-
such an attack, however, the Hanoverian Go-
vernment cannot discover, even in the present tension of
affairs in Germany, either a legal ground or any political
cause. It will not even abandon the hope that its Federal
sentiments, and the acts by which they have always been
displayed, may yet be admitted by the Prussian Govern-
ment, and that the neighbourly relations hitherto so pre-
cious to both Governments may still ba preserved.
" While the 'undersigned requests
Ysenburg
Government, his -Highness the
Prince of
to bring the above declaration to the
knowledge of his he embraces this opportu-
nity, ece.,

(Signed)
44 ADOLPH VON PLATEN ZU HALLERMUND
" His Highness tho Prussian Ambassador,
the Prince of Ysenburg-Budingen."

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