New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-21
LONDON.


LONDON.
A SENSATIONAL WEEKS NEWS FROM THE CoHrIEBST
.-suMnARY or EVENTS AND rRussIAS Veto
kIHs OVER AuSTRIA-TnB OFFERED cHssi0N OF
yBNBriA BY THE LATTER POWER TO ITALY
THROUGH vAPOLEON lU.-PRgssiA Rejects THE
PROPOSED ARMIsTIcB-ITALy FAITHFUL TO her
THE CAUSE OF TnB rRUssIAY TRIUhPHs-rnB
NEEDLE GUN AND Alb ABOUT IT-H0w THE
BELLrGERESTs FOUGHT AND HOW THE AUsTR',Ns
WERE LAuGnTEREp-gsGLIsn POliTICs-THE
EFw-OLD TORY MINISTRY AND IT'S PROSPECTS,
THE MASS MEETING ~ Favor az REFORM AT
TRAFALGAR sQUARE-HOw TIE FOURTH OF JULY
WAS KEPT IN LIVERPOOL AND LoSDoS-ITEMs
From Our Special Correspondent
IoxpoN July :. 1906
Another sensational week. with large matter for the iu-
tuie hstoran-ho Carlyle yet unknown or IN ms long
clothes of babyhood and interested in Mother Goose
than IN his prcdesned subject which we are all discuss
ing as II weTe inch by DCb in our every day fashion,
week indeed OF pregnant and remarkable import sueh
perbars has hardly been paraced in Europe since the
crowning carnage of Waterloo, the stupid but'henng
work of which Tie last days has repeated with
vengeance. What a record At the date Of my last let
fer every second neutrality-suspicious. If he happened
70 be of the swcU' class affected lie seotmens-Was,
as we say "holleiug Austria, Dragging Of her drl,
discipline might and nvuinerabllity and insisting
ina, she would thrash both Italy and Prussa-nnd now
behold her collapse II is Ike the overthrow Of the grat
sia,ue in Daniel with the legs of brass and the
feet oi clay, only the destruction OF me colossal
modern empire has been effected not ny "a
stone hewn without hands, but by the RUSSIAN
needle gun which, metaphOrcalH IS now IN eVeI'bou!
Rent into shreds or made Dryasdust and
The trunk makers the treaties Of evil docu
which parcelcd ont nations ana countries q. te
Of is
nltson In Berlin waiing in Vienna, pucky discomfort
in Italy and Napoleon the Third is grand master oil the
siuatioD having thereby attained higher power than
ever was welded by his great uncleand all by bidng his
time and waiting the march OF the inevitable Allow ne
the breest summary OF events useiui 70 those VINO "a
TO read rapidly and take in the position; w the ia
of Jane the Pussans began hos,ties IN Sesia On the
! I'D Prince Frederick Charles entered Bohemia from
Zttau and descended upon Turnau and Munchengrs,z
! ahou, Tho same time the Crown Prince entered
from Cstz JOsephstadt. Here they were met
by the Austrisns, for whom the earliest telegTains
claimed success Further advices, however proved that
Benedek had sustained defe0t-the dispatches reading
Ike the words of job messengers On the 9TH sth and
10Th, the Austraus were beaten al Naenod AZ Muucsh
grsz at Trauensu and between the 10Th OF June ana he
I'd of July their losses in killed and wounded were esuma
ted al no e.s than from 10000 10 10000 men, Some OF
the regiments were oil but annihated by the terrible
neede-guns the Prussans firing FIVE six shots minute
while the unucky Austrians had Only muzzle-loaders
About the first Of the present month Benedek TOOK up
position between Kongsgraz and Josephstadt TN the
3D. the Prussans commanded by the King IN person at
tackled the Ausans who concentrated on the rght
n
Austraps appeared have the best Of the struggle
but after 10 a. m they began to give way Inc battle
ragged for eigh-some accounts say twelve houisIano
ended in the utter ront OF the Austrian army The losses
| Oh both sides were frghtful Fourteen thousand nn'
wounded Austrian prisoners were taken INTO tne
Matchmaker At Rorzz Benedek attributes his defeat
20 the snemy's having succeeded in obtaining position
which enabled him 10 pour heavy hre INTO the
fank and rear-a maneuver eneetea undei cover VI no
smoke which prevented from rising by the RAIN then
falling steadily Disastrous as everybody allowed the de-
feat TO be-foowing too upon series Of similar cssmi-
tiesnobody was yet prepared for what followed On the
5b the French Imperial organ, the Monitor, announced
that the Emperor Of Austria was willing 70 cede Nenea
10 France and 10 accept the mediation OF Napoleon H.
for the making OF peace between the beigerens An I'M
mediate communication was accordingly made TO the
Kings Of Prussia and Italy for the purpose OF procuring an
amistice England and Russia, according 70 the ror1'
heng called upon participate in the necessary arrange
mens. And this mornings kilograms inform us mat
Prussia r,ects the proposed truce and that no eondi'
tons will be accepted which do not satisfy her claims,
and the sacrifices she has made to sustain them nile
Italy resents the second-handed acceptaon OF Nenea
through Napoleon Ill., declares she wasn't hall as nuen
hurt AZ folks In her recent reverse oud rather hsht
than not and any way determines to mold faithful 70
sin And that is how the powers stand at present.
Austria If still entitled TO the name Unless, therefore,
,b French Emperor throws his imperial baton into the
lists as the poienates Of old did at tournaments 10 stop
hostes, the tide of Prussan victory may SUI, IoiI on
gard and syeep up 10 the walls OF Vienna. Benedek N
nowees 10 retrieve his losses and the bavest soldiers in
The world can do nothing with the oldiashoned muzze.
/ loader against the needle gun . o.
has moi been immensely oyerestmated Is hereafter to be
deoyer but there seems doubt that the Oyerwhem-
ING character of hi defeats is mainly attributable TO the
weapon IN question. Accordingly, before ihtiInaied
we are talking of engTossngy as Englshmen ala OF
plated vessels after the fight between the Mefmac
and Monitor of Hampton Roads, Virginia Our civii war
has LETT Americans not much to learn about beechoddi
small arms: ia fact in some Of the newspaper dsqui-
,tions on the subject IL is suggested tha our weapons
are A. far superior the Prussan =1hd-Hddgt"' ~ j.
thot TO the muzzle.Oaders-he COchrane patent just
/ imported here and the Spencer seyen-shOOtef Oeihg
especially mentioned But, as matter OF curiosity! you
viii like 10 know what this needle gun Is, which has made
such exceedingly short and sharp work Of the poor serf OF
Kaiser Francis Joseph in the fields OF bohemia, ana as
1 had the chance 10 inspect sample III the s'uulV
Of an artist friend here is M report: III Is MOI hal
The size, and certainly not third OF t.e "egn,
of the Enfield rife. II las little or no STOCK, snali
nfed bore snd altogether, looks something IKE an sn
gun. Its peculiares its breech-oadihg apparatus
and its needle. The cartridges pnmed ia the MAKING
and liz tightly 10 the chamber and the needie expoues
without percussion cap. As a breech-lotde1 i"aus
rapidly, needle gun II shoots rapidly ana q.
ngron pure and simple 10 light enough TO be handled
like toy by the SOLDIER. There was sharper re-
buke 10 siical stupidity throughout Europe than tne
hOucidal success OF this weapon which has been iot
yesI known to the continent only TO be reported
/ by professional big wigs" In Englsnd, France Nus
,ia TIE Ausirans poohpoohed IT, though they might
have learned It's value at Duppel. IN The Schiesvig
stein war they expae their obtuse1ess IN the loss or
wohirds Of their army The secret Of Lhe invention IS
like efficiency IN other matters return TO ht principles
tho ignoring Of all complication which commonly
res out of gear but especially beloved by crcumlo
ononary dudeIheads all the world Ito Pnisslan
patron The Baron Manieuiel who, about - years back
fhe Lands of his SOdice tLlut