The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-19 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, JI7LY 12, 1859.

HONEST!! AUDAX.

A TREATY of Peace has been concluded
between the Emperor of Austria and the
Emperor of the French. This important event,
which puts an end to the Italian war within
three months of its commencement, was agreed
upon on Monday at an interview which took
place between the Emperors at Villafrana", at
the express desire of the Emperor Napoleon.
The Treaty provides for a Confederation of
Italian States, under the honorary presidency
of the Pope. The Emperor of Austria our.
renders Lombardy as far as the Mincio to the
Emperor Napoleon, and the Emperor Napoleon
gives it to the King of Sardinia. The territory
east of the Ifincio, including Mantua, Peschiera,
Verona, Borgoforte, and Venice, remains an
Austrian possession, and is to form an integral
part of the Italian Confederation under the
name of Venetia. The Grand Dukes of Tuscany
I and Modena are to return to their respective
states, and a general amnesty is to be granted
to all persons compromised by the recent events.
It is also understood that the two Emperors
agreed to demand reforms at the hands of the
Pope, and that the Emperor Napoleon neither
demanded the cession of Savoy to France, nor
asked for any addition whatever to his
dominions. Accounts from Turin state that
Count Cavour, the Sardinian Prime Minister,
and his colleagues, have testified their dissatis-
faction with the conditions of peace by tender-
ing their resignations. The King of Sardinia
has accepted their resignations, and has charged
Count Area" to form a new Administration.
The Emperor of Austria left Verona on Thurs-
day for Vienna, and the Emperor of the French
has left Milan on his return to Paris.

In the House of Lords on Monday the Earl
of Ripon made a further statement respecting
the drill and instruction of volunteer rifle corps,
and Lord Brougham called attention to the sub-
ject of Coolie labour in the West Indies, which
had been perverted, he said, into a renewal of
the slave trade. On Tuesday, on the motion of
Lord Lyndhurst, an address for the appointment
of a Royal Commission to inquire into the mode
of taking evidence in the Court of Chancery
was agreed to. On Thursday, in answer to the
Earl of Carnarvon, the Duke of Newcastle said
it was not the intention of the Government to
recommend the renewal of the Hudson Bay
Company's Charter, which expired in May last,
but it would be necessary to pass a Bill for the
prevention of disputes between the whites and
the Indians, and to lay down rules for the regu-
lation of trade.

In the House of Commons on Friday the
House went into Committee of supply on the
Navy Estimates, when Lord Clarence Paget
made a statement of our naval force, and votes
were taken for 10,000 additional seamen and
marine.. In the course of his statement Lord
C. Paget announced that there are at present
106 ships in commission, besides a forte of gun-
boats constituting our first line of defence. The
second line consists of 9 block ships manned by
the coast-guard, 3,400 first-rate seamen on the
coast-guard station, 6,000 coast volunteers suffi-
cient to man 12 line-of-battle ships, indepen-
dently of marines. There are also 10 ships of
the line ready for commission, and 10 more in
course of construction, and there will be a grand
total of 60 ships of the line afloat by the close
of the present financial year, independently of
the block-ships, 37 frigates, and 140 sloops,
corvettes, and other vowels of that class. On
Monday the Lords' amendments to the Red
Sea and Indian Telegraph Company Bill were
agreed to after a division on a motion for
adjournment, which was negatived by 177 to
130. On Tuesday the adjourned debate on the
second reading of the Roman Catholic Relief
Act Amendment Bill was resumed by Mr.
Newdegate, who moved as an amendment that
the Bill be read a second time that day three
mouths. After a long discussion Colonel Dick-
son moved the adjournment of the debate. On
a division the motion was negatived by 210 to
142. Lord Palmerston then suggested that the
debate should be adjourned to Tuesday
next, which was agreed to. On Wednesday, on
the motion for the second reading of Sir J.
'relawney's Church Rates Abolition Bill, Mr.
Du Cane moved that the Bill be read a second
time that day six months. The Bill was sup-
ported by Lord Palmerston, Lord J. Russell,
arid Sir G. Lewis, and the second reading was
carried on a division by 263 to 193. On
Thursday the Howie went into committee on
e remaining Navy Estimates and made some
progrees with the Army Estimates. The Middle •
as x Assistant Judge Bill passed through com-
mittee after two divisions, in which the clauses
were carried by large majorities.

Evaaroxs rejoices in the cessation of the
bloody work which has been going on in Italy;
and peace, for its own sake, will be heartily
welcomed by the whole of Europe; but the
terms mid conditions .of that peace are unfortu-
nately by no means so favourable to the cause
for which the war was undertaken se seems to
have been everywhere anticipated. The result
appears to have answered the purpose of the
EMPEROR of the Fasxml, whatever they may
be, though it falls infinitely short of what His
MaJrairr promised at the commencement of the
war—that was, to free Italy from Austrian
dominion. But the canker of Austrian despot-
ism still adheres to Italy, and no one can tell
how extensively or how won its baneful and
galling infinence may yet be felt. Austria still
remains one of an Italian Confederation, by
which Italy is to be governed, under the presi-
dency of the Porn. What hope that magnani-
mous little country Sardinia, blared with free-
dom and constitutional Government, may have
of extending over Italy those great principles, as
the result of the war in which she has borne so
gallant • part, is very doubtful indeed. Be-
tween Austria and the Pore, and its liberty-
loving Prance, Sardinia will do well to hold
her own, and must henceforth be *content to

renounce the high ambition of winning liberty
ror Italy by her prowess and etample. There
stands Austria still—