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TDB UNIOA OF ITALY.

" Total Defeat of the Bourbon Army," and " one
million three hundred thousand votes in favour of
annexation to Sardinia." These are stubborn facts
before which even Emperors must bow. Nothing
strikes the ordinary man who has only a newspaper
to supply him with facts, and common sense to
guide his judgment on them, more than the strange
notions which Princes and Ministers, with every
light of experience and every artifice of statecraft
at their command, continually form respecting the
course of events. Take, for instance, the most
astute and most successful politician of the Conti-
nent,—the French Emperor. He has shown him-
self a consummate master of human affairs, he has
thwarted and overthrown a succession of opponents,
and those who enter the lists with him must look
well to the joints of their armour, nor expose even a
crevice to his lance's point. And yet it was this
subtle ruler who originated the scheme of an Italian
Confederation, with the Pope at its head—a political
scheme so impracticable as to have been received at
first with incredulity, changing, when the news
was confirmed, into anger or derision. Those who
look on at the game are proverbially able to see
more clearly than the players, and it may be our
comparative indifference to the results which makes
us free from the clouds which sometimes obscure
Imperial perceptions. Evidently the passions of
these great personages are so strong as continually
to blind them; they do not know the strength of
the stream which bears them and all European
affairs in a certain destined course, and against
which cabinets and envoys, and even powerful
armies, in vain struggle. A continental autocrat
can do much, but it is within certain limits. He
may bring prosperity or ruin to the regions over
which he rules; he may strengthen or overthrow
his own illustrious house ;. he may keep his neigh-
bours in alarm, or leave them contented and happy
to the arts of peace ; but these are only eddies in
the great current, and, whether he will or not, the
tide which has set in towards the assertion of free-
dom and nationality in Europe must flow on, carry-
ing with it him and all his apparatus of coercion.
The union of Italy under one crown is now
plainly an inevitable event. The overwhelming
majority in favour of annexation to Sardinia, and
the still more overwhelming battalions of Victor
Emmanuel, have now settled that point. The
Bourbon despot has now little more than the
ground he stands on to call his own. As no single
will has produced the movement, no single will
can arrest it, Were even Austria to gain a tem-
porary success, in a few years the strife must
commence again. The seed of liberty has been
sown broadcast over the Italian peninsula; it has
taken root, and the country is overrun with it.
It may be said, with truth, that in no town,
even in Venetia, are there to be found a
dozen families who do not desire to be
joined to the Italian Kingdom, and who
would not be ready to drive the last Austrian out
of their country. The future of that empire in her.
dearly-kept province is now easily to be read.
It needs no prophetic vision to see the white coats
slowly and sullenly marching out of Verona, and
abandoning, amid the suppressed excitement of the
people, the fortifications lately finished at such
enormous cost at Venice. If we see this, we can
well imagine that the Czar Alexander and his
Minister see it too, and that, refracted and dis-
torted by all sorts of pedantic mediums, it at last
reaches the perceptions of the Prussian Cabinet.
In fact, every one can see the hopelessness of a
new campaign in Italy, except the provoked and
vindictive Sovereign who is longing to undertake
it. That Francis oseph was ready for this mad
act there can be little doubt, and that he went to
Warsaw to seek for sympathy, if not help, is equally
certain. But how he could have expected the
Russian and Prussian Courts to countenance his
schemes passes the comprehension of ordinary
observers. It is a happy thing for the world that
the Northern Powers are more suited for defence
than aggressitm, and do not easily bring their
legions to the assault of free States. Of late Rus-
sia, the most formidable of them, has received a
deadly wound, and would hardly step beyond
her frontiers to support the most faithful of allies
or the most cherished of causes. Austria has
done nothing to deserve such a sacrifice, nor are
the Bourbon throne and the sovereignty of the
Pope institutions which very much attract the
Russian people. We say the Russian people, for
there is a public opinion in the empire, which has 1
of late made itself felt, which the Czar is inclined
to respect, and which his counsellors are too wise
to thwart. This opinion has been all along very
adverse to Austria. The quarrel between the two
empires on the subject of the Turkish war has
really been not so much the doing of statesmen as
of society in general. The Russian people, high
and low, have resented the supposed perfidy of
Vienna, and have worked themselves into an an-
tipathy to everything Austrian which is far from
having subsided. The political philosopher may
draw some encouragement to believe in Russian
progress from the fact that the people have learnt
to hate as heartily as if they were civilised. Prince
Gortschakoff has notoriously made himself conspi-
cuous in the utterance of anti-Austrian opinions,
and, so far as a Russian statesman can consistently
do so, he has encouraged the Italian revolution.
We fully believe that from the Czar downwards
there is not one Russian in a hundred who does not
rejoice secretly that Austria should be humbled by
the success of her bold and pertinacious enemy.
Only the fear that a break up of the Austrian em-
pire might bring the revolution to its own fron-
tiers has induced the Czar to accept 'the proposals
for a reconciliation. Policy has got the better of
inclination, and if Austria had been willing to offer
a heavy bribe, she might possibly have obtained
some halting and ungracious concession to her
views.

But Francis Joseph, though meditating conquest
on the Po, is not forgetful of his interests on the
Danube. It has always been the wish of those
who, like ourselves, would gladly see a strong and
prosperous State in Central Europe, that Austria
would look eastward, and, resigning all hope
of coercing the Italians, would undertake
the task of developing and civilising her Slavic and
Rouman provinces. It may be that the Emperor
looks forward to influence in this direction as an
indemnity for his losses in Italy, and sees in the
treaty of Paris a security for himself not less than
for tho Sultan. Or the pride of the Hapsburgmay
revolt from the indignity of renouncing for his
private advantage the stipulations of a treaty not
five years old, and which, in some of its parts, was
adopted. on his own suggestion. Both Austria and
Prussia are understood to have declined acceding
to any proposals for the modification of the Treaty
of 1856, Gortschakoff and Rechberg having at
their first interview, it is said, allowed their zeal
to hurry them into some warmth of expression.
This result might have been foreseen by any one
even moderately acquainted with the state of
Europe. It is plain that Russia will not help
her ally without driving a hard bargain, and
Austria, being free to fight or not, will prefer in-
activity to success at such a cost. There certainly
do remain behind considerations to which we
may some day have more particularly to direct
attention. The tide of revolution in 1848 broke
in vain, as the Emperor Nicholas boasted, on the
granite of holy Russia, but it may turn out that the
present flood is strong enough to wash away the
projections of this solid formation. If current re-
ports be not wholly incorrect, the Emperor Alexan•
der has been much startled by the attitude of the
Poles, who on his visit to Warsaw received him
with a coolness which he fancied highly significant.
Having relaxed much of the strictness of his father's
rule, and given the Poles a liberty to which they
had been unaccustomed, the Czar, in the regular
course of things, might have expected a favourable
reception. But the silence of the population has,
it seems, only tended to confirm suspicions that
were abroad before his visit. That the Poles are
unquiet, and that the movement is instigated from
support in a powerful quarter, is said to be the be-
lief of St. Petersburg. Should these suspicions
prove correct, the three Princes may draw closer
together, but it will, we think, be long before they
take the field in such a cause as the Austrian do-
minion in Italy.—Tinzes.

PHILADELPHIA FALL MEETING.—The next race
was for the Associated Purse of 500 dols,, mile heats, best
two in three, and created a considerable amount of interest,
in consequence of there being five horses entered for it,
and all starters. The entries were as follows :—P. C.
Bush's bay filly Cyclone, three years ; T. Puryear's chest-
nut filly Rosa Bonheur, three years ; T. and T. W: Dos-
well's grey mare Irona, five years ; J. Van Osler's bay
gelding Montague, four years ; W. Forepaugh's roan horse
Bacchus, six years. The betting was in favour of Rosa
Bonheur, 100 dole. to 60 dcls. being bet on her against the
field. Any price could have been obtained about Mon-
tague and Bacchus. Mr. Bush's bay filly Cyclone looked
in admirable condition, although she had not been in train-
ing more than a few weeks. Her forward state of prepara-
tion was stated to be result of her havilig been fed on Thor-
ley's Food for Cattle, which is alleged to be admirably
adapted for horses in training for the turf. She won the
first heat in clever style.—From the New York Tribune,
Oct, 15, 1860.

TUE VICTORY AT THE PEW°.

THE FRENCH OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.
The Moniteur of Saturday published the de-
spatches addressed to the French Government by
General de Montauban, recounting the successes of
the Allied Expedition against the Chinese. The
Moniteur introduces the despatches to the notice of
its readers by the following observations :
The cannon of the Invalides has saluted the
news of the brilliant successes obtained by the allied
forces in China. The emotion of Paris instantly
spread to the very extremities of France, and every
one was anxious to know the official details received
by the Government. The subjoined despatches,
and the orders of the day that accompany them,
will satisfy the lively impatience of the country;
Written as it were under the fire of the enemy, they
are the most worthy homage rendered to the valour
of the troops of all arms who, under the two
allied flags, have made the Celestial Empire com-
prehend what soldiers it had to meet. In render-
ing an account of the operations of this war,
General de Montauban naturally dwells on those of
which he had the direction as commander-in-chief
of the French forces; the English Government will
doubtless give the same publicity to the reports of
its generals ; it is thus that will. be completed the
recitals of an expedition to w, hieh the chiefs and
soldiers of the two allied nations have rivalled in
reciprocal esteem, valour, and devotedness.
" While preparations were being made in France
to celebrate the national solemnity of the 15th of
August, our troops powerfully 'contributed, on the
14th, to drive the Tartar army from its positions,
and to carry its entrenched camps. At six o'clock
in the morning of the following day, the French
cannon, to which the English artillery replied, an-
nounced the Emperor's fete. At half-past nine a
mass in music was celebrated in the French camp.
At five o'clock, these men, who on the previous day
were so ardent on the field of battle, were organis-
ing foot races by regiments, each man with his
arms and six packets of ball cartridge. The fete
passed off with as much order as animation ; the
bands of the regiments played during divine ser-
vice, and our allies were able to admire the manner
in which a perfectly organised chorus executed the
Te Deum and the Domine salvumfae lmperatorem.
In the middle of the camp was erected an altar
formed of branches of shrubs and foliage ; the troops
were formed in squares, with the officers in the
centre. There is somothing touc'hing in the thought
that on that day, so great for the Catholic world,
our soldiers, at a distance of 6,000 leagues from
the mother country, should repeat the religious
songs of their native land, and supplicate God for
the glory of France and the preservation of the
Emperor's life. The celebration of mass in the
open air, in front of regiments, has in it something
grand, which elevates the soul and strongly strikes
the imagination. The English, who profess such
great respect for the observance cf religious duties,
must have been struck with the devotion of our
troops and with the imposing simplicity of our
ceremonies.

" Extra distributions were made to the different
French corps; a last salvo of artillery terminated
the Emperor's fete, and our soldiers held themselves
in readiness to continue their glorious labours."

EXPEDITIONARY CORPS TO CHINA.
THE GENERAL COMMANDING:-IN-CHIEF THE
FRENCH TROOPS IN CHINA TO MS EXCELLENCY
THE MINISTER OF WAR.
Head-quarters at Sin-Xho, Aug. 18.
Mousier le Mareohal—l have the honour to ad-
dress you the following account of the operations
of the 14th.

The allied army, which left Peh-Tang on the
12th, after having repulsed the, cavalry of the
enemy, and driven their infant ry frOm the en-
trenched positions which it occupied round Sin-
Kho, installed itself the same evening in the vicinity
of this village, which is situated above all the de-
fences of the left bank of the Peiho. The same day
a reconnaissance on a road from Sin-Kho made
known to me that there was at about three miles
below a large intrenched camp, sit uated round the
♦illage of Tang-Kou, and strongly defended both by
natural obstacles and forces of infantry and artil-
lery:

This camp, which rested on the Peiho, could only
be reached by two ways; one, the road followed ma
the 12th, and of which the sides drowned, so to
speak, by lagunes, did not allow Baty deploying of
artillery or infantry; and the oth!fter, which was
adopted by the English General-ix (-Chief and my-
self for our principal and common licne of operations,
was the left bank of the Peiho itsell. f. This ground
was cut by numerous canals, whiclt presented diffi-
culties to our march, but those difficulties were
overcome by the ever zealous an id intelligent co-
operation of the engineers, artillery and pontoneers.
It thus became possible to appr aach near enough
to the entrenchments to develop f ble batteries of the
two armies, open an efficacious fi re, destroy great
part of the defences of the enemy, and send against
them the columns of assault, which, supported by
the bulk of our forces, were to cal rr y the works.
Such was the plan adopted, and. in the morning
of the 14th the two armies moved in the following
order:—

The English army, supporting• its right on the
Peiho, descended parallel to the river, whilst the two
brigades of Generals Jamin and Collineau, in close
columns, and at half distance for deploying,
marched on its left and on the sa rate line. All the
infantry was preceded by artillery, which had on
this occasion to engage first in thio action ; and the
artillery was covered and supported, particularly
on the left, by an advanced guard of infantry,
consisting of a company of engin ens, 200 marines,
and two companies of riflemen.
The ground which we had to go over was less
firm than that assigned to our but the march
of the army nevertheless was not delayed. About
eight o'clock the two batteries of four, and the
section of rocketmen deploying to the left of the
English pieces, opened fire with them at about
1,500 metres (1,640 yards) from the entrenchments.
The precision of the fire, in spite of the very vigo-
rous, but fortunately ill-directea reply of the
enemy, soon produced the effect of allowing Colo-
nel de Bentzman's column to approach their line
by a movement in advance by de nii-batteries. The
battery of mountain howitzers cantered in line as
soon as the shortened: distance xendered its fire
efficacious.

In the meantime our masses af infantry were
kept at a distance, and I caused. to be executed
on our extreme left, on the road indicated above, a
diversion by two pieces of four, supported by the
2d battalion of marines. These two pieces were
to maintain themselves on a line with the left of
the army, and were to destroy the defences situated
at the extremity of the road which it was follow-
ing, that point having been recognised as that to
which the column of assault was to, proceed.
The artillery approached to within 400 metres
(437 yards) under a fire which diminished by
degrees. Most of the enemy's projectiles passed
above is, and fell in empty space in advance of our
infantry, which was then deployed in massed bat-
talions.

About nine o'clock the fire of the Chinese was
almost extinguished, with the e:meption of that
from some embrasures at their extreme right,
which fired on our left.
The moment had arrived, and after coming to an
understanding with General Grant, I, approaching
all my infantry by a movement in advance, gave
orders to Lieut.-Colonel Schmitz, chief of my ge-
neral staff, to form the troops of the advanced
guard in columns of assault, and at their head to
carry the enemy's entrenchments.
This superior officer, though at the time rather
seriously unwell, acquitted himself of his mission
with remarkable energy. The company of engineers,
followed by coolies, carrying the Ladders, the two
companies of debarkation, Commandant Jauregui-
berry ; the 7th and Bth Companies of the 2d bat-
talion of Chasseurs, Commandant de la Poterie, next
reached the edge of the counterscarp, throughtza
rather sharp fire of musketry. Lieut.-Col. Schmitz
leaped into the ditch, full of water, followed
ttalion
Cap-
tains Chanoine and Guorrier, of the GenebrablySt
and Captains Paillot and Etienne, of the 2dchatha top
of Foot Chasseurs. was the first to reathe troops
of the parapet and plant the nationaflag there in
the sight of the whole army. lie called
in disorder.
in pursuit of the defenders, nowy g
to him ; they rushed into the interiorfi. of the works,
flying
had At the same moment an Englishe
n over the ditch
was in our power. A bridge
th
en-
tered by another point, and
tthrowentrenched camp
complete the occu-
pation, obstructed by the
toe beyond interior ®f the
soon enabled the other troops
pation, and the pursuit, though
with
camp in all directions,
numerous canals intersectingeontinuedth
determined to stop.
posite side. At this moment, after conferring
General Grant, we
A great number
of dead left on the spot where
they had
fallen,
about a hundred more found in the
deserted houses of the village, and the bodies of
several mandarins of high rank who had cut their
own throats when their troops took to flight, proved
that the enemy's losses were considerable, and bore
witness to the destruction mused by our rifled artil-