The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-30
LETTER FROM JOHN MIrCHEL.

mOtFs-Sharp Anecdotes OF M. Thiers.
PARIS, April 10, 1866 Austria and Prussia-wlll
they fight notY This IS the ques that seriously
occupies the thou. hts of European statesmen and
net a little disgusts the Bourse Up to the present
moment nothing appears from which one woulo be
jusuht IN pIedeung peaceful sOuuoh OF
the difficulty The vsry last ess deSsa en- en- re re-,
inte SHI view view OF tue tue fact officially an
nounc. by the Prussian MONteur, OF the mobili'
zatiOn OF the Prussian amy Austria cannot do
otherwise than thai she cannot continue the
negotiations until Prussia shalt have countermanded
that mobllzation. La Presse austrlal announces an
that the reply OF Austria to the last note oil Prussia
was despatched the day beloreAyesterdaY to Berlin
The character OF this rep IS we are assured that
of O sCmmutiOn (peremptOTY demand IN the nature
OF Utttmdtum) And it is understood that IT Aus
tra do not receive favorable answer she will I'M
mediately propose TO the Diet 10 MAKE preparations
for war" This is serious And, in the meantime 1t
is yer, certain that bo those powers, though each
steadily denies 1t, in fact actually making pre-
parations for battle,
Bavaria also, the third power OF the Confede-
ration, has GO 600 men now ready for the field;
Wbch force she cOu Immediately double on very
short notice. 1tls not known yet whicn OF the par
ties Bavaria Will espOuse; that will depend upon
CONTINGENT even'ua tics and the probable interes
OF Bavaria herself. ! hat kinQdOm has more than
once sought an occasion TO push herself into the first
rank of German powers, abreast OF Austria and
PIussa; so as 10 make the begenony OF Germany not
dual, but triple. Austria houes, in case OF war to
have the leading OF the forces of the Diet well
her own, and to precipltate all Germany upon
Prus ia
acknOw edged as the chiet of the minor German
powers, and to no d the balance between the two
i
Prussia yields one inch IN the matter OF toe
duchies lest from Denmark, which Prussia has
declared her intention of annexing-and Austria,
strong in the treaty OF Oastein, as firmly announces
that this she will never permit.
ltsly, 1t was Tor some time said, was about to ally
herself with Prussia, and TO strike austria rom the
south as Prussia strikes from the north thus accom-
phshIng the Unifcation OF Venetia IL has been
stated that the KING of Italy was concentrating two
armies near the Austrian frontier amounting IN the
whole to 100 600 men; but this atement Off.
c,a,ly d. med by the Government oryan OF FLO.
e.
everything unit the last moment But that the
actual preparations for European war are now in
progress, ana on a vast scale, nobody doubts.
Italy, however, VIII at first hold position or
neutrality; as will aso France, at first. But if the
war be once engaged IN, bot these powers will
suredly be involved 1T and Russia too but Eng
land. Eng and will ''deeplv deplore" THAT is the
phrase and viii sell ships and arms TO all parties all
round. She VIII not send man to the continent;
for IN TACT she cannot spare them from Ireland; and
the continent knows 1T.
But on the whole, as at present advised can see
no escape from European war, and fit break out
IT will be tremendous. II is probable, too that Anne.
would profit by it, both in commerce and IN
popu alton. Besides, there must be several large
houses, in The wooden leg business, at Boston
OF Connecticut whose business was unreasonablY cut
short b, the sudden termna ofthe American war,
just when they had laid in large socAs OF seasoned
hickory and had their machinery brought to hign
state of perfection, lor turning out tneir with
the utmost punctua lty, neatness and despatch. Ii
is to be hoped that they have not taken down their
machinery. nor chopped up into fire-wood all that
hickory; for now, as 1 seriously belleve they are
gong to have fine foreign market opened to their
enterprise. Legs will be lively, and splints and
crutches in brisk demand.
Now, as this war seems really imminent and the
first shot may be fired on any day, ltiis worth while
usaro gnaeFssnd fS,s t its is metS and az h my opinion
and Prussia combined their forces 70 wTest from
Denmark 1,aS, the Eloe Duchies, inhabited not not
ostenslbly on the principle OF asserting Germanc
nationality, OF lberating those Teutonic popula-
to the Ger-nanIc Con ederation After the
complete success of that war against Denmark
Temporary arrangement was made between the
two victorious powers tor joint occupation of the
Ducbles, awaiting the hTi settlement OF their poti
cal status. But scarcely had this Arrangement been
concluded, when Prussia, through her most imperi-
GUS Prime Minister, Bsmark, announces the inlen-
ton OF totally disregardng It, and ng the two
Duches to the Prussan domulons without che sl ght
est regard to their Wishes and in utter contempt of
the incple OF nationality, which she and her ally
had gone to war to MAINTAIN. On the Otnrr hand,
Austria steadily opposes this preensIon the treaty
Of Gasten the principles of the German.c Confedera.
tiOn and the legal rights OF the Duke of Angus
tenberg, which must be determined upon by the Gen.
eral Dlet. AS Ior the priority in threatening arma
ments, upon which such gleat stress has been laid
even II II be true that Austria has been concentra
ting forces on the Prusslan frontier, it is highly
natural and even necessary that she should do SO
for the Ducnies, about which the immediate diff
Guilty has arisen and where Prussia threatens 10
take military possession, at Prussa's door and
are lar IRON Austria. In fac, the whole mass OF
the Prussan domnIons Ines between those Ducn %,
and austria: Therefore IT the latter means to NAM
tain her pretensions at ALL she must be ready and
in iorce, and within a days march of Prussan ter
ritoTy.
lnere is nOlnlnE mover IN Franco. In my last let
ter l mentioned the result OF Baron Saard's mis-
sion, and the resolution of the Emperor Withdraw
the French troops from Mexico by detachments
This morning find the statement made, com n 2
from Vienna that the Austrian Government intends
to send out five thousand men in the course of the
current year, and that these men are to have land
grants in Mexico, to encourage them to settle as
agrlculIursts
The Opinion NGtionale has just received a second
dUeTtiSSemeRt 1t IS for saying in leading art Gle,
that Liberty" has been due TO France for fifteen
years. that she is tired OF waiting for her own and
demands
basement renders the position of the Opinion some
what pIecanOus. l regret ii, and would greatly
have preferred that the blow had fallen upon some
of the otner 'hbera" journals A bird aUerttsse-
ment, il incurred, Will cause the paper to be sus-
pended.
A new edition OF the works OF Madame GEORGES
Sands is coming out. 1t Is TO be enriched by a new
novel by that ineXhaustbe Scheherezade of the
thousand stories, under the title OF Monsieur SyI-
Vestre DIR. Vernon is also publishing in the CON-
StitutOnnet q continuation of his memoirs. The
bourgeois of Paris is very causuc and severe upon
NJ Theirs. In his ftiiHeton of two days ago, the
Doctor LarTates the negotiations which once TOOK
place between the former Minister OF Louis Philippe
and Prince Louis Napoleon,
Shortly at er the 10th OF fDecember, l648, he says
some meetings Iook p ace al the HOlel du Rim,
Place VendOme IN vew of the candidacy Tor Presi
dent OF the Republic Ihe object was TO prepare
manifesto TO tue electors and each present was
to propose his own. DIR, Vernon thus relates the
same IN; Thiers made haste to prepare his mani
testO, and placed in the hands of the Prince IN tine
midst OF a numerous assembly.
Louis Napoleon retired into the embrasure of 8
window, read attentVely the document OF nj. TnIers
and returned 1t to him saying, 1T is very good, bu
1t is not good for me- NJ Theirs felt perhaps hur
at the rejection; prudent friends nterposed on the
instant TO prevent any irritating discussion. M
Theirs became calm, and sald 'MOnsiRneur, You dc
not know how difficult such tasK Is. Under Loul
Philippe, when we had to rite down the Addres
to the Crown we had recourse to the abest pens
Mere than once we sought the aid of Remusat
the