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Show LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. Refnd r-'oUDy for the Fu.t Lair Rxxjai by Wmimh Uiucm Test grmf h. THE WAR IVaval Engagement at the Month of the Elbe. Italy Concentrating trcop8 on Heme. Austria Mobilizing an army to Watch Bohemia. A great Battle by Saturday or Sunday, "Sure!" England's Attitude and Policy. Denmark and Sweden in Harmony on the War Question. GENERAL. England's Policy. New York, 2 The Tribune's London Lon-don Bpecial, dated August 1st, says in the Commons to-day the debates on the war question brought out a large cowd of persons, who filled the galleries galler-ies und other places. The feeliug ol the house was again strongly marked iu favor of an energetic policy. When Cardwell, the secretary of war, proposed pro-posed a vote for twenty thousand additional ad-ditional ti oops and two uiillio'js sterling, ster-ling, he was warmly cheered. So was Gladstone when he told Stapleton that it' colliers are chartered to attend the fleet of a belligerent to supply coal, i hey will to all practical intents and purposes becuuie store ships attached to that fleet, and will come into the operations of the foreign enlistment act. So was the secretary of war,when he stated in reply to Talbot, that the army is at present only "J5 900 men below its established 178,000. Disraeli's Disrae-li's declaration for an armed neutrality was no less applauded on the conservative conserva-tive sid, and it is thought the liberals winted to hear an authentic statement from Gladstone. .Many showed sigas of sympathy with Disraeli's more resolute reso-lute attitude. It is more clear than ever th it the popular feeling goes beyond be-yond government. There are not wanting members cf Parliament and journals who would prohibit France from buying arms orooals. Gladstone's strong point was in proving that the English military forces, 60 far from being diminished, are augmented daily. Tlie Daily 2ws says : Our appeal to the arbitration of arms is the very last to which we should willingly re-srt; re-srt; but we may rest assured of its neither being so distant from tho thoughts of the ministry as to be deemed impossible, nor so alien from their counsels as to find them unprepared. unpre-pared. A Naval Engagement. A private dispatch reports a naval engagement . on Wednesday, at the mouth of the Elbe, in which a Prussian Prus-sian gunboat was sunk. General Fal-kenstein Fal-kenstein has issued a proclamation to the people north, on the Baltic sea, calling on them to aiise against invasion. harmony between Deon aj'i and Sweden Swe-den in the maf.er ef the Franco-Prussian Franco-Prussian war. London, 2. The Times xh:s morning morn-ing has a long editorial on the war prospect. The writer thicks the delay in military movements o-i both sides is to be ascribed to theemoriliration oi the troops from having been moved by rail The French were also de'.nyed on aocount of the desertion of the South German states, and are now ne cessarilv eonfined to the narrow ground ef the Saar valley. In fact every preconceived pre-conceived plan of the Kmpercr'f has been altered by unforeseen circumstances circum-stances of this sort, and be has is yet probably formed bo sew ones. |
