The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-07-16
LATER NEWS FROM EUROPE.
Last Nights Dispatches.
The Text OF the Declaration or War
as read In the Corps Leglslatlf.
The Causes Assigned By France for
Declaring War.
The Feeling Throughout Europe

WAR DECLARED BY THE CORPS LEGls
LATIF.
PARIS, July I5-3 P.M.-Tae Corpi
Legislatif declared war against Prus
sia at ten minutes before 2 O'Clock
this afternoon.
Holland will remain neutral In tht
struggle.
The belligerents have engaged t.
respect the neutrality of Belgium
yet troops are rapidly concentrating
at Antwerp and other points.
The bullion in the bank at Ant.
werp has been removed to the citadel
The issue of paper money is an,
nounced.
PARIS. July 15.-After the council
at the Tuileries, the Ministers ac-
eompanied the Emperor to st. Cloud
last night. where the Council resumed
and lasted far into the night.
1t is asserted Baron Werther was
on the point Of starting again for Ems
yesterday, when Prussian messenger
araived here with counter orders.
Marshal Random has gone to Alge-
ria to take command of the province
in place of Mcmahon.
Gaulois says the Minister of Aus
tria to Berlin is now in Paris, and had
an interview with the Emperor.
It is reported that the Emperor re-
ceived dispatch from Queen Victo-
ria this morning, making a last appeal
for peace. and similar dispatch was
sent to the King of Prussia. IL is
said a proclamation. signed by Napo-
leon. has been prepared for distribu-
ton throughout the German States,
IS soon as the French troops cross the
frontier. 1t asserts to the German
people that France wars against
Prussia. not Germany, and with no
idea of conquest. An enormous
number of copies have already been
printed.
PARIS. July Is. PM.-The excite
ment is very great. No opposition to
war is manifested by any class.
Rentes have advanced to &c francs.
La Lt6erte reports that great bod
les of troops were put Ia motion last
night, for the frontier. and the EN-
peror is soon to take the field in
person.
LONDON. July 15.-Evening.-It is
reported that the Prussian Govern
ment itself demands of France the
recall of Benedict, and that the
European powers yesterday united in
a protest against the implicability of
Prussia, but without effect.
The excitement. arising from the
situation, is intense here. Business
is at stand still, and the commercial
quotations are quite nominal.
LONDON. July 15.-Count Bismarck
has issued a circular which he tele.
graphed in all directions, notifying
German vessels to hasten to ports of
shelter. The notification. of course,
applies to all ocean steamers belong
ing to German ports.
The French declaration of war is
based on the following causes:
First. The insult offered at Ems to
Count Benedict. and its approval by
the Prussian Government.
Second. The refusal of the King of
Prussia to compel the withdrawal of
Prince Leopold's name as a candidate
for the Spanish throne.
Third. The fact that the King per-
sisted in giving the Prince the liberty
to accept the crown.
The declaration CONTINUES the E:c-
ira ConstitutionneD charges on Prus-
sia the awakening of the slumbering
recoIlections of 1914. "Let us cross
the Rhine and avenge the insults of
Prussia"
The excitement in Pa is is intense.
TEXT OF THE DECLARATION OF WAR.
PARIS. July 15-The following is
the text of the declaration of war,
made by tie Duke de Grammont, be-
fore the Senate to-day:
"Messieurs-The manner in which
the country received our declaration
of the 9th of July. led us to commence
negotiations with Prussia, to secure
her recognition of the validity of our
grievances.
"We did not treat with Spain
whose independence we have no wish
to trammel, nor with the Prince of
Hohenzollern. whom we consider to
be under the shadow of the King,
nor have we advanced any other
grievance than the candidacy of the
Prince for the Spanish Throne. The
Prussian Minister of foreign affairs
opposed to US determination not to
receive our representation, pretending
TO ignore the affair.
1--WE then addressed ourselves to
the King, who maintained that he
was stranger to the affair, and that
he could not intervene except as the
head of the family. but he avowed
that he had instructed Bismarck.
We could not accept that answer, and
we demanded that the King should
influence the Prince of HoheDzollern.
Desistance in the project came from
the quarter whence it was least ex.
pected.
We then demanded that the Kinl
should give promise for the future