Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1866-06-27
rhe Peace OF Europe in the Hands of
Three Old Ladies'.

The London Times has the following from Berlin
May 90: 49,
Three of the FIVE royal ladies to whose good off,
the world was to great extent indebted for the
preservation of peace in the Gasten days, as well
six weeks ago, when Prussia offered to disarm,
have, in the eleventh hour, resumed the gracious
work of pacific mediation. The Archduchess
mother of Austria" the Queen Dowager of Prussia,
and the Queen of Saxony, three sisters whom pre-
scent Providence has placed on and near the thrones
engaged IN this omnous controversy, spare efforts
to prevent the actual occurrence of rupture which
would be equally fatal to either of the three dynas
ties with whom they are connected.
This female triple alliance is inspired by conser-
vatve motives and appeals TO the absoutistic lido
syncraees of the several Sovereigns, whose pride
and mutual hatred they are anxious to soften. If
their plausible argument runs at Berlin as well as
at Vienna and Dresden-you, our beloved relatives,
should allow yourselves to be hurried away by your
Jealousy of each other it is not you but democracy
that will reap the benefit in the end. What i'm
preston these friendly circumstances are destined
to produce upon the grim and irritated royal person
ages to whom they are addressed is of course i'm
possible to foresee but if peace is preserved it will
be partly due to the indefatgable assduy of these
benefcent ladies and the conclusive reasons they
urge.
Two other fair mediators at the Prussian Court,
who six weeks ago made common cause with them,
have since suspended their weil-meaning exertlons,
and now let things take their course, without any
more interference on their part. Being literally
inclined, they possess no influence at time when
dynastic hauteur has risen to such pitch as to con-
template war, unsupported by popular sympathy
Still, is not yet certain. At this moment the
three conservative Queens trying to induce the
Emperor of Austria to adjourn all violent intentions
until after the Paris Conference has pronounced
upon the question of the Duchies
To the King of Prussia they hope to prove the
necessity of either making all square with Kaiser
or else submitting to the abitrament of the Congress-
even though it may be to effect that the succession
in Holsten is to be settled by the Bund, and the flu
ture of Schleswig, which forms part of the Con-
federacy, regulated by the oracuar verdict of Lc
suffrage o1iUerSeL The nearer it comes the
more the King of Prussia shrinks from the hor-
rors of German war, yet it is questionable wheth-
er his military point dhomeur will allow him to ac
cept the terms of Austria or the Conference so
as to leave the Kaiser no pretext for
entering upon hostilities.
Speaking of woman's influence upon politics,
Queen Olga, of Wurtemburg, the sister of the Gar
has, on her journey from st. Petersburgh to SUIT
gard, just arrived at Vienna to communicate to the
Kaiser the serious apprehensions the Russian Court
would entertain for the quiet of Europe were Aus
tra to act rashy in the present unprecedented state
of continental affairs.