, 1866-07-24

Foreign Minister, will be as adverse 10
Intervention in Continental squabbles as
his predecessor, and people know enough
of him to have every reliance on his
Judgment and moderation.
The director of the Paris and Stras-
burg Railway Company gave Instructions
to-day to mis- employees not to book passen-
gers DESTROYS to travel on the Rhine fur
Their than Baden-Baden. Thus all com
munication by rail is intercepted between
Paris and Wiesbaden, Frankfort, and
Hamburg; and travellers proceeding
from Paris to Baden-Baden are recon-
mended to provide themselves with pass
ports. The Paris and Strasburg Railway
Company still book passengers and mer-
chandise for Vienna. The company are
suffering a severe loss by this Interrupt
ton of their traffic. They had %conclu-
ded their arrangements with the North
ern Railway Company to enable travel
Iers 10 make a circular tour, at Il very
moderate expense, from Paris to Nancy,
Strasburg, Baden Baden, Heidelberg,
Bingen, Wiesbaden, Frankfort, Hombourg,
and back by Cologne, Alx-la-Chapclle,
Spa, and Brussels, or Uice UerSd. The
loss to the company and the
ence to pleasure-seekers is, however,
triAing when compared with that entail
ed on those who nave commercial rela-
lions with the intercepted towns. A vast
number of persons are, moreover throWn
out of employment.
The Temps remarks that Mnnchengrafz,
where the first serious affair has occurred
between the Prussians and AustrlanS' IS
the very place where, on the 8th of Sep
TENDER, 1888, the Emperor of Russia,
the Emperor of Austria, and the King OF
Prussia, with a view to strengthen their
relations of amity and good neighbour
hood" signed q treaty by which each OF
them bound himself to have always "A
corps Of $4,000 men at the disposal of
his allies in case of any new national
movement taking place in Poland.
The MOniteHr of Saturday evening
thus describes the military position Of
the contending armies in Germany =
Gas far as it is possible to gather from the
continually contradictory accounts which reach
us from Vienna and Berlin concerning the en-
gagements between the Prussian and Austrian
armies in Bohemia, it appears that since the
goth of June the struggle has been continued
with intense f~erceness upon the various points
which have been mentioned in the dispatches.
Both parties persist in claiming the victory by
publishing the Numbers of men and guns taken
by them as decisive proofs Of success. 1t, is
therefore, very difficult to reconcile the state
ments. According to the Austrian version, the
army of the Crown Prince Of Prussia had been
driven back to the district of Glatz-that is,
beyond the Austrian territory, while the army
of Prince Frederick Charles has in like manner
been forced back to Turnau. Thus the twofold
invasion Of the Prussians would appear to have
been checked, and the strategical combinations
upon which it was based to have failed. Ac-
cording to the Prussian version, on the con-
trary, the Grown Princes army has maintained
its position upon the enemy's territory, and,
following its advantages, had thrown General
Benedek's army back upon Josephstadt. The
troops of Prince Frederick Charles would seem
to have been equally successful, as we are told
they have occupied interchangeable and repulsed
the Austrians in their front. It is impossible
that this uncertainty can long endure, as une-
quivocal results must soon present themselves.
Either the Prussians, whose moments to form
q junction have suffered a check, will evacuate
the places they have occupied or they will push
on and unite their two armies in spite of Bene-
dek's efforts. 1t is most probable that the a-
tons which have taken place up to this time