The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-19
FOREIGN NEWS.
Arrival of the steamer Peruvian.

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FATHER POINT, June 1S.-The steam
er Peruvian, from Liverpool on the 9TH
and Londonderry on the Sth instant,
passed this point en- route to Quebec.
| Her dates are one day later. The
| Prussian troops entered Holstein on
| the eth. The Austrians were concen-
trating Mt Altoona. These movements
are regarded as n virtual commence
ment of war.
| In the British House of Commons the
| opposition had attempted surprise on
| the government by moving postpone
ment of the franchise clause in the Re
form Bill, but were defeated by ma
| jority of p for the government. Mr..
| Walpole's amendment was also reject
ed, the government majority being ii.
| ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA.
| HALIFAX, June ls.-The steamer
China, from Liverpool the 9th, via
| Queenstown the 10th, has arrived. Her
dates are two days later.
The indications that war Will soon
break out are increasing. The entry OF
Prussians into Holstein is regarded by
some as virtual commencement OF the
war. 1t is asserted that Austria regards
such entry as breach of the Gastien
convention and the forcible occupation
of Holstein as cdSuS 6eLti.
The Duke De Grammont had gone
| from Paris to Vienna and his mission
\ is said to be q last effort for conclllin-
ton. He had n conference with Count
Minsdorff and an audience with the
Emperor of Austria. Minsdorf IS sta
ted 10 have positively maintained the
attitude of the Austrian reply to the IN
vitation to conference.
| The Russian Cabipet courier reached
| Vienna on the 7th with an autograph
letter from the Car to the Emperor.
BiSmark has issued an important
t.I, In Ds4NNg FnnFnGnntn-
tives abroad in very bitter terms
towards Austria, and in one passage
says: All our Information agrees that
| the determination to make war Is set
| tied in Vienna, on the other hand 1t IS
asserted that Prussia has been most
conciliatory for peace, but the cores
bonding feeling no longer exists at
| Vienna. Not only was their mani
festo an entire absence of all read
| mess to enter into confidential
negotiation and discuss the possibili-
| ties of agreement, but the expressions
of the influential statesmen and coun-
| sellers of the Emperor have been re-
ported to the King from an authentic
| source, which leaves no doubt that the
| Imperial Minister desires war mt any
price, partly in hope of successes in
| the field and partly to ride over
domestic difficulties, nay even the
Austrian finances by Prussian con-
trlDutlOnS, OF ny HOHOiaDIS DnnA
ruptcy. We can only see decided in
| tention on the part of Austria for fore
ing war with Prussia, and at most
making use ola negotiation as to Con-
gress, to gain time by procrastination
for her and our not entirely completed
arrangement, but especially for those
of her allies. The fact of war IS set
tied determination mt Vienna, the only
further point is to choose the Bismark
terms, TO begin by referring to the
DuchieS.
Bismarck says: Perhaps we shall Mt
least be believed when we solemnly
protest against any nation of wishing
to make good our claim, and the duch-
les by force-of disregard to the rights
of co-possessor. Now, too, probably,
it will not be difficult to understand
the real motives of the ornaments by
which Austria has given rise to the
present crisis, and whose renewal by
means of the Congress, she has further
taken care to render impossible, by the
attitude she has assumed. The circular
is dated June 18th.
The London Times says that such
dispatch as the above has
not often been perused by an European
Minister. Prussian statesmen seem
now to think court unnecessary. In
the communication with Austria, all
the pride, the bitter hostility, the al
most fanatical purposes which have
been necessarily repressed during the
long negotiations, break forth. Nego-
tiations may be considered at an end.
The dispatch breathes spirit of war,
and seems to have been written in an
ticipation of an immediate rupture.
The London Telegraph says that with
this dispatch the last hope of peace has
disappeared, and hostilities become in
eYituble.