“The Press” In 1866

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31221, 19 November 1966, Page 14

“The Press” In 1866

November 20 The English mail via Suez for four or five months in succession arrived to its time, the P. and O. Company having, as it appears, been induced by the strong remonstrances of the Australian colonies, together with the success of the Panama line, which is a formidable rival to their monopoly, to pay more attention to the due performance of the service contracted for. After the stirring news we have received by the last few mails the summary of intelligence telegraphed yesterday appears very tame and uninteresting. In Europe, “the war drum throbs no longer and the battle flags are I furled.” Instead of exciting reports of

fiercely contested struggles between the great armies of Austria, Prussia, and Italy, all is now pacific. We hear that the negotiations for peace have been brought to a successful conclusion, troops are being disbanded, and all prospects of a renewal of the war have disappeared. Austria, on whom the fortune of war has pressed so heavily, is the first to commence the work of retrenchment The events of a single month have sufficed to make a vast change in the position she occupies among the nations of Europe, and the influence she is likely to have upon the further progress of Continental affairs.