The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-07-16
FROM EUROPE.
TRUM EU IfOPE.
France Declares War on Prussia.
The insult to Benedict the Al
legged Cause.
AW Efforts for Peace Futile

France has declared war against Prussia
The Corps Legislatif passed the vote at 80 on
Friday afternoon. The intervention of the
great powers for peace have been Intellectual.
The fimsy pretext for thus disturbing the
peace of Europe. is the ''insult offered to Bene-
detti, the French minister, and France accepts
the war which Prussia offers. A Berlin dis
patch says Count Benedict accosted the King
of Prussia while he was drinking and peremp-
torily demanded his intentions ON the pending
questions and the King Immediately dismissed
him. Per contra Paris dispatch says crow ds
OF students paraded the boulevards shouting
''Down with Prussia" The police did not in
terfere and the crowd stopped at the Prussian
embassy and shouted insulting1y. The Prus-
sian ambassador has left Paris. The Emperor
aud M. Olivier had an angry alteration on
Thursday on account of the latter's known
disposition for peace. The movement of French
troops towards the Rhine frontier is incessant
and eastern France is alive with soldiers. The
troops which have been garrsoned in Paris
have gone and the raw levies are slowly replac-
ing them. Ambulances and caissons throng
the streets of the city their route to the east.
Frigates and iron clads are ready to start from
Brest and Cherbourg.
Holland will remain neutral in the struggle.
The bellgerents have engaged to respect the
neutrality of Belgium, yet troops are rapidly
concentrating at Antwerp and other strategic
points. The specie and bullion in the national
banks at Antwerp has been removed to the
Citadel. The issue of paper money is an
noupced.
RUSSIA.
There is a strong feeling on the part of the
Russian Government against France. The
Cars Government believe Napoleon is bent
on making aggressive war in Europe to gain
an overmastering position and force the restor-
alton of the Bourbons in Spain.
AUSTRIA.
Austria continues to profess neutrality in
will abandon it if third party should inter-
vene.
GERMANY.
Several representatives of North German
shipping houses in New Yolk have been in
structed to detain their vessels in American
ports until further orders from their principals.
GoRHAM SEMINARY.-The closing exercises
were well attended and sustained with interest.
The twenty-three exercises of the afternoon
were brought within an hour and half, in
Guiding the music, and those Of the evening
were promptly gone through with, under the
direction Of the Principal, J. B. Webb, A. M
The piano solos and Duets were admirably
performed by Misses Waterman, Cole, Chad
bourne, King and Chase. DR.. Charles Hinkley
handled tie organ in the church with great
skill, and brought out its powers and tone to
the delight of large audience. The essays on
Charles Dickens, the Hand, Heart and Head,
Woman's Rights, Fashion, the Stage Coach,
Lost Children and The Earth are worthy of
notice. Miss Parker read thoughtful paper on
"Beauty, Truth and God, liveth to himself"
We would also note Miss Robes composition
'Nulla Vestigea Retrosum," and Miss Ridlons
"There are no Alps" Master Swazey's "Radi-
calism" was received with applause as were
the orations on 'sTrue Man." sIreland," and
the "Latin Valedictory." A distinct and de-
liberation articulation, however, was marked
lack on some of the parts and suggested the
need of that Evolutionary training which is the
purpose of the Seminary in future to furnish.
The floral decorations and the crayon and pen
| Gil sketches, were unexceptionable. The levee
in the Seminary parlors was uncomfortably
| crowded, but all seemed to enjoy themselves
till late hour. Mr.. Charles Richards, Messrs
e. and G. Thomas with Miss Cole, all of Port
land, formed an orchestra and furnished some
| first-class music. The prospects of the Semina-
ry for the fall term, beginning Oct. 80, are
highly encouraging TO the many friends of the
Institution