Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-29

Latest from the CONFERENCE.-The |
Rumors still PrevaiI-EngIish Effort
for neutrality-suspicious. speech in |
FuII-The Financial Panic
The warlike news from the continent is
still a mass of runners, but there are still
slight hopes of peace
AUSTRIA.
Orders have been issued for placing the
whole Austrian army on a war footing, and
for concentrating the army of the north on
the Bohemian and Silician frontiers. In
view Of the danger of war the Government
intends to convoke all the provincial Diets
throughout the empire. 1t is said to have
been resolved to employ the ecclesiastical
property in providing for the expenses OF
war, and the Government is reported to be
now negotiating in order to obtain advances
on security.
Prince Frederick Charles will take the
chief command of the Prussian army. A
dispatch is believed to have been forwarded
to Stuttgart by the Prussian Government
demanding explanations respecting the
ornaments which are going on in Wurtem-
berg.
The Prussian Government has issued an
order for the ID, Sd, 4th, 9th and 9th corps,
As we'll as the Doth regiment Of infantry to
be placed on a war footing, the reserve bat
talions to be formed, and the infantry raised
to its full strength. Recruits will not be
called out. The cavalry regiments of the
entire army are to increase their number Of
horses, and to form reserve squadrons of one
hundred and fifty horses. The artillery has
been put on a war footing.
ITALY.
From Italy we hear that Austria is threat
ened by sea as well as by land. Rear Adj
| miral Vacea's squadron, consisting of four
| teen screw vessels, three of which are iron
| clads, is in the Gulf of Tarento, and another
| iron clad lies at anchor at Corfu. The Adri-
attic is now practically closed to Austrian
ships, and Italy has it in her power entirely
| to cripple the commerce of her foe. An
other squadron under Admiral Parsano is
assembling in the Gulf of Spezzia. The
organ of the Italian Admiralty gives the fol-
lowing as the effective naval force at the dis
posal of Italy: Twelve large iron-clads,
fifteen frigates and corvettes of the first class,
sufficient number of steam avisOs and
smaller vessels, and a fleet Of transports,
which, together with some large steamers OF
the mercantile marine, would be able to
convey an army of sixty thousand men.
The warike feeling, which is still very
moderate in Piedmont, has risen to fever
heat in the South, and numbers of yOlun-
teers are coming forward to join the Army
of Liberation" The proposal to make the
King dictator during the war has been
overruled by the King himself, who has de-
clared his determination to maintain the
parliamentary system as hitherto.
ENGLISH MEDIATION.
In the British House of Lords, in reply
to an inquiry if the English Government
had rendered its mediation in the German
difficulty, Lord Clarendon said the Govern
ment had taken care to let it be known thai
Englands good offices would be freely ten
dered if desired, but the result was discour
aging, and England could do nothing alone
He feared the consequences, now that mil
lion men were armed and ready for action
and he denounced the war as unjustifiablt
and without cause.
On the 9TH inst. Mr.. Layard made thu
following official declaration in the House o
Commons:
Mr.. Layard much regretted to say that HI
could not give any satisfactory information
or assurance with reference to the untowarC
state of affairs on the continent. Thu
opinion of Her Maiesty's Government up
on the causes and events which had leC
to that state of things was well known, anC
it was equally well known by Austria, Prus
sis and Italy that Her Majesty's Govern
ment would, with the greatest pleasure
exercise its good offices for the preservation
of peace, if those good offices should be ap
piled for, or if there was any prospect 0
r their leading to any satisfactory result
Her Maiesty's Government had expressed
to the French Government their READINGS
to act with them if there was any likelihoO'
of their exertions being successful but
/ was quite evident that it would be unadvisa
Bile for Her Majesty's Government to ente
| alone into any communications with viey
to offering their good offices to the power
, which were now on the verge of going t
$ war. The House would see that in tn
present critical state of affairs it would b
s undesirable for him to enter into any detail
? at this time. Hear, hear.l
/ Mr.. Baillie asked whether any propose
1 had been made for a Congress.
Mr.. Layard said that the question of
Congress had been under discussion, but n
5 proposal had been made to that effect.
i NAPoLEoN's POSITION.
! Napoleon made a significant speech q
Auxerre, France, on the 9th inst, in whic
,, he said he detested the treaty of 1915. TIL
I Paris Bourse accepted it as a signal for wal
severe panics set in, and rents fell two pc
| cent.
The following is the speech in full:
81 see with pleasure that the memory
b the First Empire has not been effaced fror
your minds. Believe me, for my own par
: | have inherited the feeling entertained b
the chief of my family for this energetic AM
y patriotic population, who sustained the En-
peror in good as in evil fortune.
81 have 4 debt of gratitude to discharg
towards Yonne. This department was tn
first to give me its suffrages in 1S4S, becaus
it knew, with the ma jority of the Frenc
people, that its interests were my interest
and that Idetested equally Nth them those tret
tieS Of 1915, uhich 1t is mow sought TO make u
, sole basis Of our foreign policy. | thank yo
for the sentiments you have expressed t.
ward me.
among you l breathe freely, for it
among the working population, both
town and country, that L find the re;
genius of France"
: THE FEELING IN DIPLOMATIC AND LEGI
LATIvE CIRCLES.
;. Paris May 81 cor. of the Independence Bege.l
$ Several of the representatives of the gre;
:. Powers, including Loading Cowley and No
r Bulburg, waited upon NJ. Drouyn de LHu.
o to request from him some explanations
: the speech at AuIerre. The Minister
Foreign Affairs gave some explanation
+ which appears to have been accepted as sa
Y isfactory. The Ministers assured the An
f bassadors that the speech referred to W;
it but reply to an opposition speech in tn
e Legislative Chamber; reiteratiOn in rath'
stronger terms Of ideas which had been o
= other occasions put forward by the Emp
. ror; pure theoretical discussion whiC
could have no meaning of character
> disturb the good understanding betwee
France and other Powers. 1t does not a
e pear that the foreign diplomatists pressC
a the matter further, and they telegraphed
l. their respective Governments the nature
+ the reply they had received from NJ. Drouy
! de EHuys.
o The same correspondent relates that {
'e Monday great agitation prevailed in IL
chamber Of the Corps Legislaflf where we
IT gathered nearly one hundred and fifty mer
r IL.