The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-25


By the arrival Of the steamer Bremen from
Southam 2ton April 9, we have later details of Eu-
ropean news.
THE WAR NEWS
excites increasing interest in England and on the
Continent. The Paris correspondent OF London
Times. writes April s:
scarcely remember any period since the Presi-
dents election in 1848 though many important
events have occurred since then, when more un-
eainess, disquiet, and eneryating encouragement
prevailed among al classes of society than at this
moment, md all this aggravated by the persistent
silence of Che Government on the questions which
| ,itate the public mind.
| There is sense of disappointment and some
thing more even among those who we're accustom-
ed to place unbounded confidence in the ability OF
| their rulers. They zee that the whole policy OF
Prussia is crushing answer TO N. RGuher; that
his theory of the three fragments is diss;pated by
the treaties with the Southern States OF Germany
that any secret designs III respect OF Belgium are
responded to by the marriage OF the Count OF
Flanders with Princess OF Hohenzollern, and that
the pretensions to Luxembourg are disposed OF by
the Interpolation OF NJ. Bennigsen, by the intense
agitation in Germany and the appeal to the Powers
tn 1t signed the Treaty Of 1889. One of the Paris
papers, never favorable to the annexation OF that
province to France, says:
t"The question of Luxembourg is no longer one
of aggrandizement, it is one OF national dignity
| and Influence. A great country like France is
/ always at liberty not to put forward pretenslons,
but the day it does put them forward and consid-
ers them just it cannot renounce them at the bid
| ding OF any foreign power, especially when that
power has no right of it's own. The day when it
| is otherwise, the day when France expresses her
wish only to bend before the injunctions of tho
| foreigners, she is no longer Power even OF the
third rank and, to use NJ. Thicrss expression, sho
is no more than Belgium. The conclusion to be
). drawn from the article Of the Etendard is, then,
either the evacuation of Luxembourg by Prussia,
or war, after a brief delay, between Prussia and
France"
The apprehensions of the public are moreover
! increased by the r1mor that Marshal McAlahon
has been telegraphed for; that note "couched
in energetic terms, relative to Luxembourg, has
been addressed by the French government to that
of Prussia; and that certain officers OF the statl
have been sent en- mission to the Rhine. The
truth is that people believe France to be drifting
into war with Prussia. In these circumstances il
| is not surprising that there should be Il general
stagnation If business, and that the spirit OF
commercial and industrial enterprise should pc
paralyZed. At the Bourse on Saturday, there was
not merely q fall in the kentes, but panic
which affected all sorts Of public securities
Hague it was hoped that it would open with q
rso. 1t was quite tho contrary, and Oh reelection
was seen that those dispatches instead OF show
ing that the Luxembourg question was abandoned
| only meant that it was displaced; that it was nc
longer at the Hague, but at Berlin; and that tht
resolution come to by the King Of Holland has tho
effect Of placing France face to face with Prussia
In addition to these causes of uneasiness NC have
the numerous strikes among the various classes O
them; the discomfort occasoncd by the unlortn
nate Army Organization Bill; and the delicate
health of the Prince Imperial, which, however,
am assured, has been greatly exaggerated.