The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-03
THE FOREIGN MAILS.
THE WAR CLOUD AND WHAT Is TO COME OF IT
oUTa1vINas OF THE CROWNED oRAcLEs.

| have Just made speeches, which are exercising
the minds of people in that hemisphere to an
extraordinary degree. The speech of Napoleon
was delivered on the 11Gh ult. at Chalons, as
he was taking leave of the general officers IN
charge Of the camp there. 1t was IN these
words:
have been very happy in the eight days that
I have passed among you. say nothing 10
YOU, because the journals would not fal! to
draw from my WORDS, however moderate they
might be, pro3nostics of war. limit myself,
therefore, in expressing to you my saasfac-
ton at your zeal and your devotion.
The speech of the King of Prussia was at
Kiel, on the 14th ultimo, in reply to an ad-
dress presented to him by the Rector OF the
University. He spoke as follows:
AS for the hopes you express for the preser-
yation of peace no one can share them more
earnestly than I. 1t is o painful necessity for
a sovereign, and one in which he is responsible
before God, to see himself forced to pronounce
the fatal word of war. Nevertheless, there are
circumstances in which prince cannot and
ought not to avoid such responsibility.
You yourselves have seen here with your own
eyes that the necessity of a war may sometimes
| be imposed upon prince as we'll as upon
| nation.
If there exists between us bond Of conf
| dcnce and of mutual friendly feeling, it is to
war that y7e owe it.
For the rest, do not see in Europe any
| circumstance which threatens the existence OF
peace, and say it emphaticaly to tranquillize
your minds. But what ought to reassure you
still more is the sight of the assembled repre-
sentatives of my army and navy, that force OF
the Fatherland which has proved that 1t does
| not fear to accept conflict when 1t is lnevlta-
bic, and to bring it to favorable end,
The last portion of the Kings speech is an
open menace; the whole Of the Emperor's
speech is regarded as the expression of an
anxiety. Whether there be war or not, it is
certain that the prestige OF France has much
declined, while that Of Germany has risen.
On the continent of Europe Prussia is now the
leading power.
PEACE OR WAR ?-THE MAGNITUDE OF THE STORM
THAT is BREWING.
Although the Emperor, at his last Gallons
review, made no "speech," yet most uneasy
feeling prevails on the continent and in Eng
land relative to his presumed intentions; es-
oecially as it is known that if war break out
now it must take enormaus proportions, both
in Europe and in Asia. Accordingly the Lon
don Times has an anxious sort OF article upon
Russia's attitude towards India. The ques-
ton, according to the Times, has now assumed
the form that renders it necessary to ask-shall
we await the Russian on the Gauges or the
Indus, or forestall him Gin the possession,
| command and control Of Afghanistan"-"the
country, and now the only country, which in
tervenes between the territories actually occu-
pied by Russia and our own?" The Nation
SAYS:
The Emperor speaks pacific words, but even
those who would be most happy to believe
tnerl shake their heads and doubt the truth
of the oracle. These misgivings are to great
extent caused by the popular appreciation OF
the fact that the blow, if it is to be struck at
all, will be struck with as little as possible OF
previous flourish, and with all possible sud
denness. The European public are aware that
celerity of action is cne of the principles Of the
new system of warfare and that it is the in
terest of an intending belligerent to mask his
designs up to the very last moment. The
highly wrought state Of preparation maintain
ed by France and Prussia at the present time
is patent to all observers, and is ominous CT
battle. The condition Of the two nations may
be tvplfied by bows fully bent, or rifles charged
levtled and sighted. The danger now threat
ening the peace Of Europe may pass harm
lessly away, but to persons who have carefully
studied tho situation, the other event seems
much more probable.
FRANCE AND sPAM-THE QUEENS INTERVIEW
WITH THE EMPEROR -NAPoLEoN's FUTURE
POLICY.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times writes under date Of September 49,:
The Queen Of Spain has carried her Ioint,
after fashion and at the cost of her own hu-
initiation. We already know that very bad
impression has been caused in Madrid by the
news That she intended gong to Biarritz to see
the Emperor, when by the rules of etiquette
the visit should be frc-' him to her. A courtier,
named Count Ezpaleta, was sent to Blarrltz to
negotiate the affair, and found the warm sup
port of the Empress, who must be rather
amused by her former Soveregn's eagerness
for imperial patronage Count Ezpaeta was
was arranged that there should be an
interchange of visits, the Queen beginning.
OF course, when her Catholic Majesty sued
for permission to go second time to Bar
ritz, it could not well DC refused her, nor could
the Emperor, beng within two hours rall OF
st. Sebastian, avoid returning the visit. But
the aim will not b., attaincd-uot even the
moral effect, which probably was all that the
Queen and her counseliorS really hoped for.
Unpopular, and even dctested though she be
throughout Spain, she ls still La Reyna, the
Queen and Chlet OF tne SplnlSn natlOH, isnu
Spanish pride is bitterly chaied at seeing her
pay court to Napoleon. Tho step she has ta
ken will certainly not retard for single day the
catastrophe of which the day is uncertain, but
the occurrence is inevitable. AS regards any
solid advantage to be reaped from the inter-
views, probably the Queen herself does not
venture to hope for that. If while she and the
Emperor we're together to-day at Blarrtz, or
tomorrow at st. Sebastian, news were to come
of a revolution ut Madrid, and that half Spain
was arming and rising, the Emperor, we may
be well assured, wou deeply sympathize and
condole, and might express every wish for her
Catholic Majesty's triumph over her enemies;
but would not further that triumph by the aid
of single bayonct, not even though the bate
was held out to him of half the Spanish army
to garrison Rome in the event OF Prusslan
war The Emperor knows too well what such
an off, would be worth.
MIR. ]. 8. MILL, NJ p, ON THE RELATIONS BE-
TWEEN MASTERS AND woRKMEN.
Mr.. John Stuart Mill, ~ P, has addressed
the following letter to the Illustrated Weekly
News, in whose columns the system of small
percentage partnerships between masters and
men have been advocated as means ofadjust-
ing the differences at present existing between
labor and capital:
lam quite OF opinion that the various forms
of co-operation (among which the one most