The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-15 00:00:00

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRA3IS.)

THE WAR CRISIS.

PARIS, June 15.

The Constitutionnel of this morning publishes
an article repudiating the warlike interpretation
put upon the letter of the Emperor Napoleon, in
a recent number of the Liberte, in an article
signed by M. Emile de Girardin.

The Constitutionnel says :
a strange abuse of words in interpreting every
alteration in the map of Europe as a disturbancG
of the European equilibrium. There are natural
and legitimate annexations which, consolidated, in-
stead of disturbing the equilibrium would preserve
This is.true as regards the restoration of Venetia to
Italy and Savoy to France.

•" M. Girardin makes

"In the same manner if Germany, now divided
into 29 States, should wish to reduce the number,
the order at present established in Europe would
not thereby be in any way shaken. What the Em-
peror meant was that the equilibrium of Europe
would be destroyed if Austria or Prussia should
absorb the whole of Germany."

FRANKFORT, Jane 15.
The mobilization of the Federal army was not
voted in the form proposed by Austria, but in the
following amended shape, which was proposed by
Hanover, and supported by Electoral-Hesse :

That in view of the present differences between
Austria and Prussia menacing the internal security
of. the Confederation, and causing an apprehension
that hostilities might occur between the two Con-
federate Powers, and considering that the Federal
Diet has been called together on the ground of ar-
ticles 18 and 19 of the final act of the 15th May,
1820, in order to maintain the peace and security
of the Confederation, and to take the necessary
measures for preventing the independent action of
any member of the Confederation.
And further, considering that, in order that the
resolutions which might be taken by the Diet should
be carried out, a speedy disposal of all the military
forces of the members of the Confederation not in-
volved in the present difficulties between Prussia
and Austria is a necessary preliminary condition to
any successful mediation.

The Hanoverian Government votes for the first
paragraph of the Austrian proposal, with the modi-
fication that the 7th, Bth, 9th, and 10th Federal
army corps should be mobilised.
Hanover votes also in favour of Arts. 2,3, and 5,
but not for Art. 9, respecting the appointment of a
Federal commander-in-chief, which she does not
consider to be yet called for by the present state of
thing.

VIENNA, June 14.

The Common Council of this capital presented
an address of loyalty to the Emperor Francis
Joseph this morning. In reply to & speech from
the burgomaster the Emperor said :
" I receive this manifestation from the city of
Vienna with great satisfaction. I have done every-
thing in my power to preserve the peace and
liberty of Germany, but it has been made impossi-
ble in all quarters for me to do so. This is the
most arduous period I have experienced since my
accession to the throne. I now resort to the sword,
with confidence in God, my good right, my valiant
army, and the co-operation of my faithful subjects.
But I must, in especial, express my fullest satis-
faction with the unanimity and attitude of Vienna.
Notwithstanding that considerable sacrifices have
been already imposed upon the capital by the stop-
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the population, the most exemplary order prevails
here in comparison with other countries, and I can-
not sufficiently express my recognition of this
fact."

VENICE, June 8.

The text of the protest of the Central Congrega-
tion of Venice, addressed to the Austrian Govern-
ment against the forced loan in Venetia, is as

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To the Members of the Council of Ministers at

Venice.

The sovereign decree of the 25th May last,
which imposes a forced loan of 12 millions in Aus-
trian silver money in the Lombardo-Venetian
Kingdom, has produced in our provinces a powerful
impression.

The grounds upon which this decree imposes so
heavy a charge upon our territory, the procedure
fixed for its execution, and the disastrous conse-
quences which would result from it for the country,
determine the central congregation, in fulfilment of
the duty imposed on it by Art. 24 of the sovereign
patent of the 15th April, 1815, to address to the
Council of Ministers its most earnest remonstrances,
and to insist upon their being submitted to the high
consideration of his Imperial Majesty.
The Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, while partici-
pating in the same proportion as the other terri-
tories of the empire in the general expenses of the
State, supports in addition the weight of the public
debt. How is it, therefore, possible that a particular
tax should be levied upon ue for the extraordinary
wants of the monarchy when we are still oppressed
by the consequences of the decree of the sth of
May last, by which the Government collected from
us 150 million florins in paper.
The principle of distributive justice would in any
case point to the participation of all the provinces
of the Empire of the burden which is placed upon
our sole territory. If the exclusion of paper money,
which for the last 18 years had forced circulation in
the other parts of the Empire spared private in-
terests in our provinces, the immediate loss resulting
from the use of their money, the State derived the
advantage, since it collected all our taxes in cur-
rent coin.

Nothing justifies an exceptional measure applying
to our territory alone. The Central Congregation,
therefore, makes the most explicit reservations upon
the principle of a special loan. But it must further
make some observations upon its distribution, which
is prescribed in opposition to Article 22 of the Sove-
reign Patent of 1815, and particularly upon it issue
the certificates of payment imposed upon Monte
Veneto,which, destitute of any resources of its own,
and charged solely to represent the debt of our pro-
vinces, and that provisionally, is thus threatened
with a debt, the payment of which concerns the
whole monarchy.

• Our territory, in consequence of various calami-
ties, has long been impoverished in its natural pro-
ductions, and our commerce and manufactures have
from particular circumstances fallen off. We have
not yet recovered from the effects of the last war,
and our province is liable to become the theatre of
a fresh conflict. Compelled at the present moment
to sustain the great expenses of an extraordinary
military occupation, threatened with forced requi-
sitions, and submitted to the fatal consequences of
decrees prohibiting exportation, how would it find
the money requested from it when it is no longer
even possible, under present circumstances, to have
recourse to credit ? Even an augmentation of bur-
dens to a much less extent would have been insup-
portable, and have exceeded the forces of the
country. •
These considerations, of which the Ministers can-
not be unaware, after the remonstrances already
made on various occasions by the Central Congre-
gation for the protection of the country, determine
uz.; to address ourselves respectfully to the Supreme
Council of Ministers, in order that they may re-
quest, from the justice of;,the Sovereign, the sus-
pension and the abrogation of the decree of the
25th May last -
(The signatures follow.)
COPENHAGEN, June 15.
It is positively stated that Sweden, Norway, and