Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-18
WARM FUROPF.


Itis Eellworthy .efnote that on the
same day on which Queen Victoria, in
proroguing her Parliament, assured her
lords and gentlemen that she had mo
reason to apprehend that Europe viii be
exposed to the calamity of war" the
French, German and Italian neFspapers
were full Of correspondence and editos
nal disquisitions, in which war was
spoken of as being almost certain. The
Queens speech is the joint production Of
her Maiesty's Cabinet, and Lord Stanley,
who had Just returned from Paris, where
he had received Imperial assurances chat
the Empire was peace, simply retdiied,
in the paragraph Of the Royal address
which was assigned to him, the pacific
news which he had brought across the
Channel Perhaps the authority upon
which he depended is better than that Of.
the newspapers but the latter areVsry'
positive The Florence correspondent
Of the DeBdts says that every one in
Italy believes that a war between France
and Prussia is near at hand" The
Opinione, a journal by no means in
clined to sensational exaggeration, de-.
clares that "Diplomatists alone have the
hardihood to deny the hostility of
these military powers The North
German Gazette remarks that the inter-
pellation of General La Marmora, in the
Italian Chamber, was not intended as a
vindication of the honor of the Italian
army, but was fan actOfhestility against
Prussia, dictated by personal and politi-
cal motives Of the most odious kind. =
The Berlin Correspondence also assails
La Marmora bitterly, and the Paris cor
respondent of the London Star writes
that "there are serious rumOrs of war
breaking out towards the end Of the
summer Officials look grave, and no
longer ridicule the idea There is feel
ing widespread in every class that the
present state of things cannot last. War
with Prussia seems the only issue to the
present situation, and one to which all
men look as necessary preliminary to
the general elections" All these reports,
it is true, are only repetitions Of similar
ones, often told and as often denied but
the belief in them still continues The
French government protests that its voice
is not for war, but its acts constantly
belle its words, and its ministers oceas
sionally are less discreet than their mass
ter. The statements Of Marshal Mel, in
the French Chambers, show that he, at
least was busy in warlike preparations
the visit of the Emperor to the eastern
fortresses of France the arrangements
that have been made to throw into these
Gortresses large supplies of provisions
the orders recently given for the purchase
of additional horses for the French
army; and the recent scenes in the
Italian Parliament-all these are indica>
tions that point in one direction, and
strengthen the fesr or the hope of war.
NJ Girardin, in La Liberte, has just de,
clared that as the empire was founded by
a comp etat, it must now be maintained,
If maintained at all, by a coup declat
France must have the provinces of the
Rhine, says Girardin, and the Emperor,
by striking a blow for them, win regain
his popularity. So far, then. as any
hopes of peace have been based upon
Lord Stanley's paragraph in the Queens
speech, they may be at least balanced by
what seems to be the universal opinion
concerning the condition of affairs, ex-
pressed by these who do not rely on the
utterances of diplomatists as the grounds
pf their belief