The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-22

power 10 interested IN cnecklnR war WnlCu
may spread over the greater part of the cont.
nent Even distant Spain and Portugal think 1t
necessary to take measures for insuring their
neutrality. As regards central and southeastern
Europe the prospect Is gloomy enough Nor
are the outlying portions of the Turkish empire
yet so secure that we can afford to dispense with
the supervision and guardianship that the great
powers nave exercised If those powers are
engaged in war an ambitious empire like Russia
may attempt return 10 policy that has only
been temporarily abandoned. Though we cannot
think 1t right that the neutral States sh Juld
further interfere with the belligerents, they
might take counsel together for the benefit of
the rest of Europe and use their influence to
prevent any ambitious power from turning the
general confusion to account.
serious Riet I'm Munich.
From the Dublin (BUening) Mail. JuneS
The people of Germany, though proverbially
slow of movement, are becoming greatly ex-
cited as the prospect of war approaches. M.
Seinguerlet, the correspondent of the Paris
Temps, who, from his knowledge of Germany,
is we'll qualified to give an accurate representa-
ton of the popular sentiment, writes as follows
from Heidelberg, under date OF June b:-"For
some days past the Bavaran capital has been
the theatre of rotous scenes. Deplorable eX
cesses have been committed by the populace.
The Landwehr nave used their arms, and blood
has been shed. At first the popular passions were
directed against some beer shops. In the
midst of wild cries stones were flung against
these shops the windows and shutters
broken, and the furniture destroyed The day
before yesterday the shops of the butchers
BAKERS and the houses OF some Jews were at
tackled. Officers and eendarmes we're maltreated
Showers of stones were flung AT the Landwehr,
who fred on the people. One man was killed
and twenty wounded. This ferment has oeen
attributed to the intimate relations which exist
between the King and Richard Wagner, but
those relations have had nothing to do in pro-
ducing it, The riot is in no way connected with
politics, but tits an evidence of the revolutionary
feeling which possesses the people beyond the
Rhine. The Ultramontane party, who are
working heaven and earth to make the young
King unpopular, and to force him to abdicate
will take advantage of these deplorabe street
riots 10 gam their end.
'In Prussia, where 800, 600 families have been
deprived OF their means OF support, dscontent
is increasing in proportion as want is extending.
Already national workshops, like those of Paris
in 1S4S, have been organized for the purpose of
finding employment for the people. Hunger is
n bad political economist and as a new proof
of this some thousands of the Berlin working
men held meeting outside the walls, in which
they clamorously demanded the expulsion of
foreign artisans. In the provinces numerous
conflicts have taken place between the men of
the reserve and their officers. At Cologne an
officer who tried to arrest man belonging to
the Landwher, who had not sauted him, was
peted by the market women with potatoes,
carrots, and cabbages, and forced to rake
refuge in the guaTd-house. Similar scenes have
occur red in various other places. The antago
nism between the troops OF the line, who are TOR
war, and the LandwehI, who are for peace, is
NCfy marked. In6 tDTealS OF war nave thrown
| the whole population between Landau and Co.
logne into teverish excitement The report of
| the tale of the coal mines OF Saarbruck, which
| has never been boldly denied; the withdrawal
| of almost all toe troops, and the unscrupulous
character of Count Bismark, have raised the
| suspicion among the people that they are to be
| transferred 10 France. The agitation which
began in Rbenish Hesse has rapidly spread
! along the whole Rhine. The anniversary OF the
| restoration OF the province to Germany has been
celebrated in the smallest hamlets. A National
| Defense Committee has been formed al Franken-
| thai, and numerous meetings have been held at
Neustadt, Bingen, Ipgelhem, etc. Enereetic
| protests have been made against the possibility
| of dlsmemberment, and general arming of the
people has been demanded"
| The German Customs Duties During War
Berlin (June 81 Correspondence orthe London Times.
The mercantile community will do well to pre-
pare for the virtual dissolution of the Zollverein
during the war. Under the Zolverein treaties
| the duties are levied by each Stale ON its from
| tier, the sum total being subsequently, portioned
| oUt according to fixed ratio; but it is improba-
| BILE that if SaXony, Wurtemburg, and Hesse side
| with Austria, Prussia will regard the payment
OF duty to these States as sufficient 10 secure the
admission of merchandise into her territory. In
| all likelihood the Prussian Custom House Off
| GERS will have to follow in the wake of the
army. and will declare the Zollverein frontier to
be identical with the shifting position of their
military lines. However, as the German people
have been too long accustomed to the incalcu-
liable advantages of the Zolveren to do without
it, 1t is to be expected that whatever territorial
| divisions be brought about by the war; the com
n ercia union, at least, will be so renewed as 10
include the greater part of Germany, if not, as
now, nearly the whole.
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