New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-25

throne totter to its fall. The ior ,~a Re-
public!
One OF our city contemporaries tiiilsa .'s
Napoleon has been influenced in making war
by the short crops Of France this yo@- amt
that, after he has conquered Prussia, he VIII
demand from her IN immense contribution o.
brcadstuns. This is The very Gb.cst view oi
the war question we have yet seen. speed
cor fghln said Rcd Cloud to the authorizes
1T Washington, few weeks ago.
The Government OF Russia has officially
announced that IL viii remain neutral. u has
daily become moro and more evident Oh late
that the wax viii be confined to the two prn-
cipals. Denmark may side with France aud
the South German States are allied WIN
Prussia; but neither France nor Prussia VIII
make any other combinations until at least the
first great battle has been fought.
The Austrian Government has also officially
proclaimed it's entire neutrality III the present
contest. The circular Of Baron Won Beust Is
very pacific in its tone, and promises that
Austria viii resist every overture TO take part
i'm hostiliHas. We have he'd two or three dis
patches about Hungary taking sides with
France, but they were altogether absurd, for
Hnnpary has no power of declaring war or
engaging in the quarrel. One Of our Vienna
dispatches says that Austria complains Of the
storpagc Of traffic on the Lake Of Constance,
because of the war measures OF Germany.
The Lake of Constance is a small sheet 81
water, 10 miles long b. miles broad, and
forms q common center IN which the territories
Of Switzerland Baden, WiuJembcIG, Bava1la,
and Baden meet.
There is a question Of vcracity between
tie Duke de Gmmont and Bismarck. In the
official circular which the former issued, On
Friday last, he said that as far back as las
year the French Minister at Berlin had spoken
to the Prussian King and Count Bismarck
about the Spanish question, and had received
assurances that the Prince Of HOhenzollcn
should not be allowed to mount the throne OF
Spain. But, in the North German Parliament
on Saturday last, Bismarck denied these state
mcnts directly, and asserted that nothing had
been said to the French Minister about the
matter. The best way for the French Govern
mcnt to settle this qucsion-which is c'1-
sidcrcd important in its bearings on Prlssian
dcsigns-would be by the publication Of the
dispatches which the French Minister ut Berlin
Bcncdett) wrote to his Government at the
time he brought the Spanish question to Bis
marcks understanding to the Duke De
Gramont. If these confirm the Dukes state
mcnt, there is good proof of It's truth.
Tile World is irritated because, in trcubous
times Ike these, President Grant smokes
"heavy Partagas c1gars.p We agree with Mr.
Beecher in disappearing of such conduct. But
what will the irritable World think when it
learns that, in troublous times Ike these,
Louis Napoleon not only exhales the smoke OF
In Hoayadc- cigarettes, but inhales the smoke
OF heavy Espaaolqs (Maduro) soaked in strong
teal We hope it viii treat the Corsican'5
nephew with proper severity, and show that
he neither knows how to conduct war nor main
tain peace.
Tho headquarters of the German army are
reported to be al Krcuznach, and the French
at Metz. The armies are thus about 100 miles
apart, by direct line, and 1lj by railroad.
in the official circular of the French Gov
enmcnt setting for.h the caGses Of the threat
ened disturbance of the peace, it is said that
france, in challenging Prussia for repudiating
her pledges. "only demands that Prussias re-
"nuncation of her designs lin regard to the
Spanish thronc) be made real and permanent"
Does not this remark furnish a hint upon
which pacific negotiations may even yet be
opcncd2
If the present war were merely battle OF
kings over dynastic interests or points of eti-
quettc--as some people consider it to be-wc
should care very little which side came out
successful. 1t is because we believe the ques
tions involved are deeper than those of dynas-
ties or courtcsics that we are unable to desire
the triumph Of Napoleon.
There never has been any doubt that Den
mark would unite with France in making war
upon Prussia, whenever the opportunity was
offered. There has been no abatement of the
Danish luminosity against Prussia for her con-
duct in the Schleswig-I IOlstcn war, and the
Danes will doubtless display all their tradi-
tional herosm in a conflict with their powerful
enemy. The PrusSians have threatened that,
in the event of Danish hostilities, they would
seize and annex the Province of Jutland. In
case Of their being able to do this, there would
not be much of the Kingdom of Denmark left
for King Christian. He would be ruler of less
than million of people, including the pOpU-
latiOn of Greenland, Iceland, and the Farce
Islands, and his possessions would be strictly
insular The Danes could put about 10000
men into the field and it is not impossible
that, in the stress Of war, they may be able to
recover Scheswig and IIolstein. The eXcheQuer
of his Danish Majesty would have been very
much relieved at this time by the seven mil
lions of dollars which Mr.. Seward proposed to
give him for st. Thomas.
The Atmy and Nary Journal, speaking of
the report that Prince Napoleon would make
descent on Hanover with an army corps under
convoy of heavy war feet, says it Is obvious
"to the careful observer that such move
"ment is not altogether in-advised," as it
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