Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-05-31
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THE IMPENDING WAX.


MexIco-The Enthusiasm i'm Italy
MiSceI sNewsItems,e etc, etc.
Correspondence N. Y. World ".G
..,nar.u| .. PARIS, May 10.
There is scarcely anything else thought
of or talked of in Paris, at present, but the
"impending crisis" of Europe. All other
matters have become of secondary interest.
We seem to hear the tread of the armed
men of Prussia, Austria and Italy, on the
very bouleyards. The financial world Is
| dismlyed. The Bourse keeps going down,
down, and the utmost depression is felt in all
circles. A spasmodic effort was made to
raise the spirits of the public, a few days
| ago, by report to the effect that Austria
meant to renOunce One-half the quad
relateral (the whole of which is claimed by
| italy, and raise Venice to the rank of a
| free city. This is said to have been an idea
of Prince Metternich's, who, by the way, is
not gifted with the same diplomatic craft
which made his willy father one of the
most noted men of his day. The PROPOSE
tion found no favor with the Emperor Ma
pOleon, whom, 1t is evident, is bent upon
| getting up a war which may give employ
ment 10 the French nation, in time to pre-
vent catastrophe to the BOnaparte dynasty.
| The Emperor's speech at AuXeTre was more
| a
of 1915 with regard to the frontiers of
| France, if the occasion should present it.
self; it was, it appears an insolent defiance
thrown in the teeth of the populations. of
| the cities of France, WHO have invariably,
| for four or five years, elected deputies TO
the Corps Legislatif opposed to the imperi-
al policy. This speech has caused immense
| irritation even among the ,EmperOr's
| friends. Pereire the well-known financier,
says that it has already lost many millions
| to France, without counting its future eff
fects in case the EmperOr's policy should be
carrid out. Mr.. Provost Paradol, COM
menting upon his Majesty's words, in an
article in the Courier du Dimdnche, took the
liberty of presenting to the Emperor the
known fact that the First Napoleon was
ruined by relying upon the army and the
peasantry to the exclusion of all the en-
| lightened classes of the country, and in
| terred disasters to the nephew of hi, uncle
| ii the same course should be pursued at
the present day. The article was so very
| sharp, although wOrded with the cOnsum
mate skill which only Frenchman under
/ the despOtic influences of censorship of
| the press can attain with the correctness of
| the truth of his arguments, and the dread
| Of administrative wrath for the expression
| of them, that the Courier du DimdnCte has
received second warning, a much dreaded
measure. third rebuke being followed by
the suppression of the journal. This sort
of thing is well shOwered- down upon the
press nOw-a-days by the Minister of the
Interior Lavallette, who seems to be as
merciless an executor of the will of his i'm
4 perial masteras ever were the "miniOns" of
Henry Ill of his right royal caprices.
1henews this morning from Trieste Is in
| lnn inti fn hat hu
| lie Constitutional and La Pdtrie yesterday.
| These two quasi official organs being under
the impression that the AustrianvOlunteers
for Mexico had actually embarked on the
French ship Tanpeed, declared that the
United States had, through nj. Motley,
expressed its entire consent that the En-
peror MaXimilian should receive volunteers
from any part of Europe, and that these
troops had set sail. 1t appears, on the con-
trary, that they have been disbanded and
sent to join their regiments on the northern
frontier of Austria, where the fight will be
likely to begin with the Prussians.. ... 49,
Austria has now seven hundred thousand
| men under arms, Prussia has three hum
dred and seventy thousand, and Italy four
hundred thousand. The enthusiasm in It
ally is so great that Victor Emanuel Is re-
ported to have said that if the war did not
/
cate. Garibaldi has all along said to Ital-
Iians-"I bide my time" and it appears his
time has come. He has command of all the
volunteer troops, now twenty thousand, but
| which, at any moment, he can increase to
one hundred thousand men.
A letter from Milan states that the Aus
trian Minister of War has ordered forty
thousand Garibaldian uniforms, with the
intention of exciting some sort of a rltse de
giere at the opening of the campaign.
The French Imperialist papers declare,
in language truly Olympian in its solemn
accents, that France intends to remain a
neutral spectator of the conflict. The cor
respondents of the English Government
organs say the same, aCIle everybody here
knOlCS that the most erteRsioe n2itdTyprepdrd-
tionS are on foot all oUer the country. At the
fortress Vincennes, just outside the gates
of Paris, large orders for grape shot are
being filled daily, and everything denotes
the Emperor's intention of appearing in
the thick of the fight at moment when
the most dramatic effect possible will be
produced by his coming forward.
| Prince Napoleon is still in Italy: an en-
tire reconciliation has taken place between
the cousins Bonaparte, and we are told,
not yet officially, however, that the Prince
will take charge of the Exposition Com
mission as soon as he returns to Paris. - ii
The Murat family are said to be at this
moment more urgent than ever for the
payment of a sum of money due them by
the Italian Government. King Joachim,
of Naples, in a moment Of difficulty, lent
two millions and half of dollars to the
Treasury ofhisikingdom, which it was un-
derstood was to be returned without inter-
est. The Murats, on their return to France,
laid claim to ten millionS, principal and in
terest of the sum lent, and have of late di-
minished their demand by one half. The
Italian Government has offered one million,
payment in full; this has been steadily re-
fused up to the present time, but will,
probably, new be accepted, as the war will
soinorease the Italian debt that the Murat
elaimwill be thrown far enough into the
back ground never more to be heard of.
i The new Mexican Minister, General AL
monte, has arrived In Paris and taken up
his quarters at the Grand Hotel. His ex-
cellency does not find himself the same
consequence as he did on his last sQiourn In
Paris when he and the Emperor Napoleon
pat their heads together to check repub!i-
can institutions in America > he goes in
and out without exciting any special
attention, He is, in fact, eclipsed by the
Chinese Embassy. The Celestials are tile
Il lions OF the day; their sayings and doings
are religioIsly chrOnicled. During their
visit to the silk factories rat Lyons, they ex-
pressed their surprise at the perfection to
which the French had brought their weav-
ing machinery. but could not admit it SUI
perior to the ChineseGoIn coloripg of the
Silks, they were willing TO allow the French
the advantage over them. What pleases
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