The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-20 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE EUROPEAN WAR.

FLORENCE, June 19 (Evening).

The Florence papers state that, putting aside the
Venetian question, Italy has a vital interest that
Austria should not have the supremacy in Germany,
and should cease to be the negation of the principle
of nationality, and consequently a menace to Italy.
They point out that the Government, in its reply to
the invitation to a Congress, stated that the con-
flict affected the bases of the existence of Austria
and Italy, and continue as follows :—" The recon-
stitution of the Italian and German nationalities
requires in fact either that the Austrian monarchy
should disappear, expelled from Germany as from
Italy, or that Italy and Prussia, with the principle
which they represent, should be crushed. Victor
Emmanuel and King William will carry out their
double programme to the end without partial com-
promise." The journals further repel the insinua-

tions of the Austrian press upon the eventuality of
cessions which would break the co-operation of
Italy with Prussia, and declare that European
order must be reconstituted upon the bases of
nationalities and the fall of the house of Hapsburg.
FLORENCE, June 19 (Evening).

The King will probably start for the camp to-
morrow evening, and Prince Carignan will arrive in
Florence to assume the Regency.

A despatch from Constantinople of the 19th an-
nounces that Signor Visconte VenoEta was to take
his departure for Italy on the following day.

Como, June 19.
All the Garibaldians, who were still here, left to-

day for Lecco.

BERLIN, June 20.

Immediately on the announcement of the death
of Prince Sigismund the Queen of Prussia left this
city for Potsdam.

BERNE, June 20.
Two battalions of the National Guard have been
mobilised in the canton of Valteline.
DETMOLD, June 20.

Prussia has addressed a note to the German Go-
vernments which voted on the 14th inst. against the
mobilisation of the Federal army, requesting them
to abstain from participation in any discussion with
the Powers who are at war with Prussia, as such
conduct would necessarily disturb their peaceful
relations with the Prussian Government.
BREMEN, June 19.
The Ilanoverians evacuated Fort Wilhelm yes-
terday.
STRASBURG, June 19.
A demonstration took place on Sunday at Canis-
ruhe against the Prussian policy.
The garrison of Kehl and other regiments of
Baden troops left for Frankfort on Monday.
FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, June 19.
From thirty to forty thousand Federal troops are
assembled before this city.
HANOVER, June 19.

Gen. von Manteuffel is Chief Commander of the
Prussian troops in Hanover ; and he also acts as
Prussian Commissioner.

VIENNA, June 19.

Advices received here from Bohemia dated yes-
terday state that the Saxon royal arms have been
removed from all places occupied by the Prussians,
and replaced by Prussian arms.
Considerable contributions have been levied.

A slight skirmish has taken place between Prus-
sian and Saxon cavalry pickets between Meissen
and Kettschenbrade.

BERLIN, June 19.

At the request of the Prussian Government the
French Government has consented to protect Prus-
sian interests in Austria and Bavaria. The French
Ambassadors at Vienna and Munich have already
received the Imperial authorisation to this effect.
The Prussian Government has protested against
the seizure of the Frankfort telegraph office by the
Bavarians as a breach of international law.

On Saturday the King received Count Schulen.
burg, who had arrived here from Dresden.
Prince Sigismund, son of the Crown Prince of
Prussia, died yesterday.
Count Bismark has addressed the following de
spatch to the Prussian representatives abroad :

" I have to communicate to your Excellency an
event by which existing European law will be essen-
tially altered.

" The Federal Diet at Frankfort, in its sitting of
yesterday (the 14th inst.), resolved by 9 out of 16
votes upon the mobilisation of the entire Federal
army with the exception of the Prussian contingent.
Austria, who has already broken off diplomatic re-
lations with us, and whose. military forces have
menaced our frontier for the last three months, had
proposed this measure on the 11th of June, on the
ground of a pretended interference with her posses-
sion in llolstein, the Austrian representative ap-
pealing at the same time to Art. 19 of the Final Act
of Vienna of the Bth of June, 1820.
" Art. 19 of the Vienna Final Act, which was put
forth as the ground of this hostile proceeding, forms,
as is well known, only the starting point for the
legal steps prescribed by the subsequent articles for
adjusting differences between members of the Con-
federation when they come within the constitutional
competency of the Diet, and for which the regula-
tions for Federal execution contain the further in-
structions :

The arraying of a Federal army against a
member of the Confederation, as resolved upon in
accordance with the Austrian motion, and based
on the military constitution of the Band, is in con-
tradiction with the aim and spirit of the Bund, as
well as with the text of the Federal Act, especially
Art. 2 and Art. 11 (last paragraph), which form
Art. 5i and Art. 63 of the Congress Act of Vienna
of the 9th of June, 1815.
" The anti-Federal motion of Austria being,
Prussia's protest notwithstanding, not only brought
under discussion, but also raised to the condition of
a resolution of the Federal Assembly by the small
majority above mentioned, the King's Envoy, in
the name of his Majesty, announced the dissolution
of the Federal Pact by a formal declaration to the
Diet, and after this act immediately withdrew from
the Assembly, in which the majority of Envoys re-
presented States that had already previously com-
bined in measures hostile to Prussia.

" It is now the duty of the King's Government
to announce in a formal manner the violation of the
Federal Treaty, of which the stipulations have lost
all validity to those Powers who, by signing the
Vienna Congress Act of the 9th of June, 1815, or
subsequently giving their adherence thereto, have
become co-founders of the Federal Treaty, even
though they have given no guarantee for its main-
tenance.

" I have, therefore, the honour to instruct your
Excellency to communicato by copy the contents of
this despatch.

Berlin, June 15.

<< BISMARK."

EVENING

A manifesto of King William to the Prussian
people has been issued to-day, the principal pas-
sages of which are as follows :

" The hopes that an alliance based upon mutual
esteem and furthering the prosperity and power of
Germany would issue from the Austrian and Prus-
sian brotherhood in arms have been deceived. Aus-