Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-31

New York, May 2S.- Remarkable state
ments had been made in the House Of Com
mons by Lord Redesdale of the way in which
railroad credits had been kept up.
The London Morning Star Of the 18th,
conspicuously announces that the English
Government do not feel wholly discouraged
as 10 the possibility Of peace. On the con
trary, the feeling which prevails is rather
more hopeful than last week. There is
vague report from Florence that negotiations
oflhe cession Of Nenetia were proceeding,
aud that Italy had consented to wait twenty
days for the result.
The Florence Ngsioad, Of the 18th, states,
under reserve, that note had arrived from
the French Government, proposing a Con
gress.
There were rumors at Vienna of negotia-
tons at Niena 10 bring about compromise
between Austria and Prussia.
The King Of Prussia recently gave au-
dience to the General Superintendent and
President Of the Protestant Consstory, and
replied 10 him: ! am especially glad of
the opportunity Of receiving under the
present circumstances the representative Ct
the national church. The period we are now
passing through, is serious and decisive for
the future Of the country. / have only de-
termned with an anxious heart, and after
long and mature reflection, upon ordering
& military preparations. My Government and
DO not desire war, and it is not our fault
iat the ally which made a campaign in
Common with Prussia two years ago, now as
,umcs a hostile attitude. The mission of
the great German powers is TO act in concert
for the welfare of Germany. | have not
provoked the the existing complication, but
there are circumstances in which peace can
not possibly be maintained Neither ! nor
any one can desire peace at any price.
have full Consciousness Of my grave respon-
sibiities before God and the country, but
sshall pursue with perfect confidence the way
by which God is pleased to conduct me-"
r., Paris evening journals of the 18th
rcpre-O. hat a meeting took place that day
between carl Cowley, NJ. Drouyn de PHuys
and Baron Budberg, with the object Of
bringing about peaceful solution.
The Vienna correspondent Of the London
Times says the ornaments of Austria in the
purse of few weeks will amount to 90O-
900 men in the field. Large bodies Of
troops had been sent from Vienna to the
lorh, and a strategetic concentration of
roops on the Prussian Frontier had thereby
commenced.
III tilt i-llellan llouSe Oh lLDIdn On lnt |
9TH the Earl of CAMERON made inquiries |
us 10 cases of cholera at Hull and Liver
pool.
Earl Granville replied that thorough
system Of quarantine could not be carried
out in England and that the Government
had given the local authorities all the pow
crs the law empowered them to give. The
authorities at.the German ports had been
warned that Liverpool shipping firms would
take no more emigrants
English papers report another explosion
Of nitro-glycerine in Sidney, Australia, on
the 4th OF March. Large stores were COM
pletely demolished. The noise of the ex-
plosion very much resemblcd the discharge
of artillery, and dense column Of dust and
rubbish assembled to the hight of a hundred |
and fifty feet The collector of customs at |
Sydney has been directed to communicate |
with the Board of Customs of England. Mr.. |
Gibson stated in the British House of Com |
mons. on the 18th inst that the law gave |
no power 10 interfere in the shipment of |
these explosive oils, but that il was a matter |
worthy decentralization.