The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1866.

MR. W. S. WOODIN'S BADEN-BADEN
and UP IN TILE AIR, an entirely New Entertain-
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Saturday Mornings at Three. POLYGRAPHIC HALL,
King William-street, Charing-cross
Luxurious sofa Walls, 5s ; balcony stalls, 35.; area, 25.;
amphitheatre, ls.—A plan of stalls may be seen and seats
secured at the hall from Eleven to Fiye.

WE ST ON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL,
HOLBORN.
Open at Half-past Seven. under New Management.
Proprietors—Messrs. Sweasey and Holland.
"A hit, a hit—a most palpable hit !"

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Crowded Houses nightly to hear Locke's celebrated music
to MACBETH, ty the Operatic Company, consisting of 50
vocal artistes and a magnificent band of thirty performers.
AR I'HUR LLOYD'S new Songs oontinue to elicit rounds of
genuine applause. HARRIET- COVENEY, the Gem Serio-
Comic and Danseuse—HAßßY MACART HY, the Arkansas
Comedian and Actor—lmmense success of MORATORIO
and LE BRONG, the Eclipse of all Gymnasts—LE PETIT
TAG MONT, the Smallest Dancer in the WorId—GEORGE
HODSON, the renowned Irish Comedian—and RIKIERY,
the Wonder, in his extraordinary Pedestal Feats and Fiery
Seances—with a host of other first class talented artistes.
P. CORRI, Musical Director.

On MONDAY, July 16th. the Proprietors will present their
LEG-etimate LE6I-acy to the Public.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
BAKER-STREET.

NEW ADDITIONS.—SeveraI life-size Portrait Models
of the most distinguished Personages of the day (including
those of the late LORD PALMERSTON and GUS-
TAVUS V. BROOKE) have been added since the last
Holidays; and in the Chamber of Horrors are Effigies,
taken from life, of SOUTHEY alias FORWOOD, and the
notorious. CHARLOTTE WINSOR.

Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.

Admittance, I.s. ; children, under ten, hall price ; Extra
Rooms, 6d.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
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Open every evening with the celebrated ARGYLL BAND.
The Programme this week will include Selections and Ar-
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Musical Director, Signor LUIGI CURTI.
Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock.
Admission, Is.

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tide of success, but to permit a change in her posi-
tion with respect to heradversary which might even-
tually alter the issue of the struggle. Prussia did
not, however, reject the Armistice, nor did Italy.
The word and authority of the Arbitrator were too
powerful for his offer to be met with a flat refusal ;
but they referred the matter from one to another,
they pleaded mutual inviolable obligations ; both of
them put forth unreasonable pretensions, and, in the
meanwhile, both of them made the best of their own
advantage, and pushed on their military operations
as far as their utmost energies would enable them.
Now, it may perhaps be questioned whether hostili-
ties should cease the moment the parties have con-
sented to an Armistice on general principles, or
whether they should be allowed to proceed- till the
terms on which the Armistice itself should be
grounded are agreed to and the Armistice signed.
An Armistice of the nature here contemplated is
only a preliminary act, initiatory to peace ; but even
as such it gives rise to negotiation more or less pro-
longed, and must be made on conditions of its own.
If, while these conditions are being discussed, each
of the parties is to seek the furtherance of its own
advantage, it is clear that the ground of negotiation
will be perpetually shifted, and the negotiation
itself end in mokery and deceit. To this aim,
however, has the course pursued by all the con-
tending parties since the proposal of the Armis-
tice been invariably tending. The Prussians,
who by the battle of Sadowa had been put in posi-
session of nearly all Bohemia, have advanced into
Koniggratz to Pardubitz, and hence to Hohenmann
and to Zwittau, in Moravia. The roads to Olmutz
and Brunn are equally open before them, and they
already look forward to the chance of trying con-
clusions with their adversaries under the walls of
Vienna. The Italians, whose campaigns, by the
nature of their battlefield, was from the very outset
doomed to defeat, have been lashed into frenzy by
the idea that if they must needs take Venetia by
force of arms, they have only three days to take it
in. They have ordered a general movement of the
Volunteers in the Tyrol ; they have directed all their
artillery upon Borgoforte, storming, as it is stated,
the village of Mottegglano, near the tete-de-pont
opposite that town ; and, finally, they have sent
Cialdini, with more than 100,000 men and 200
guns, across the Po to Rovigo, where the Austrians
invariably fall back before him. The Austrians, on
their side, urged on by the dire extremities to which
they have been reduced, have not scrupled to sum-
mon a large portion of their forces from Venetia
and Dalmatia, and have collected 200,000 men about
Vienna, to act as a reserve for the army which is
now being massed together for a new appeal to the
fortune of war in the neighbourhood of Olmutz.
The movements of the armies of the belligerent
Powers on all sides have been as free and active as
if no word about an armistice had been spoken, and
it is no wonder, under all the circumstances, if the
Emperor of the French felt as if all parties conspired
to make light of his authority, and as if his media-
tion had been invoked only to set it at defiance.
In spite of all this provocation the Emperor Napo-
leon observes the utmost forbearance and mode-
ration, and the Toulon fleet, which was said to have
sailed for the Adriatic, is still awaiting orders. The
Emperor is evidently setting to work all the en-
gines of diplomacy ; consultations are being held.
day and night at the Tuileries ; messengers of high
rank are despatched almost hourly to the Court of
Vienna, and to the headquarters of the Prussian
and Italian monarchs ; peaceful means are not yet
abandoned, and the " armed mediation," on which
Austria seems to have built her hopes, is kept in
reserve as the ultin2a ratio of the Imperial Umpire.
Notwithstanding union of interests which a private
Convention had established between Prussia and
Italy, it is clear that Italy has been shut out of the
lists by the master-stroke of the Austrian Emperor.
It requires no slight degree of warlike Quixotism to
fight windmills, and, since the great day of Sadowa,
Italy has no longer any other enemy in the field.
The forces of the Austrians south of the Alps are pro-
bably reduced to the very thinnest garrisons in the
quadrilateral. Cialdini may advance on Monselice
or Este as unopposed as he marched •on Rovigo.
The open towns of Vicenza and Padua may wel-
come him with frantic exultation ; the ramparts of
Verona and Mantua may fall at the sound of his
bugles, like those of Jericho ; but the Italians, do
what they may, will hardly have a chance of a real
fight for Venetia. They must either have it on
easy terms, have it gratis, or not at all. Whether a
French General or PrinceNapolcon be charged with
the formal act of transfer, the late movement of
Cialdini across the Po will hardly accelerate it.
ossebbmg venetia, and at home in tae reninsma,
"-as-far as the Adriatic," the Italians may still, in
the bitterness of their disappointed military aspira-
tions, stand up for Southern Tyrol, for Trieste, and
Istria, and even for their duty to join the Prussian
army under the walls of Vienna, and dictate their
own terms to the Kaiser ; but any amount of glory
they might acquire North of the Alps would never
do away with the fact that they stood up, half a
million of men, to wrest Venetia from the hands of
Austria, and that it was to the victories of another
people that they owed the emancipation of their
own. If, however, the fretting of the Italians can
be of no great weight at the Tuileries, it is not to be
supposed that the great Peacemaker can look'with
equal indifference on the demeanour of Prussia, and
listen to her stout determination to make good the
ground she has gained in Germany, if not for the
purposes of territorial aggrandisement, at leasrfor
the establishment of such a military and diplomatic
ascendancy as would give the Fatherland all the
might and importance of, a compact State in the
European councils. Pruisia bids high for popularity
in Germany by her scheme of national unity, and
there is no doubt she will be sure of the people's suf-
frage against her German opponents; far more sure
of the people's support against any foreign antago-
nist. The cause of nationality may, we trust, have
no more to fear from the hostility of the Emperor
Napoleon in Germany than it had in Italy ; but
should it be otherwise, should the Emperor be bent
on " armed mediation" in a purely German ques-
tion, Europe might have to bid a long farewell to
those hopes of peace to which the short paragraph
in the llfoniteur so lately gave rise.
POST.—The Prussians are marching forward in
Moravia and the Italians pushing on in Venetia,
and the armistice is all this while being debated.
To-day, at any rate, we are able to clear away the
nonsense of the Vienna Abendpost about the armed
mediation of France, and, thanks to the telegrams
from Paris, we know what terms have been sub-
mitted to the belligerents by the mediator. In the
first place, we assume as an acquired fact that
Venetia is to go to Italy without any compensation
to France, and that the Treaty of September is to
be loyally carried out. In the next:place, we are in-
formed that, whereas Prussia seeks the exclusion of
Austria from the Germanic confederation, and de-
mands the incorporation of Hesse, Saxony, Hinover,
and the Elbe Duchies, the mediator only awards to
her the Elbe Duchies, Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Darm-
stadt, and Brunswick. It is calculated that the popu-
lation of Prussia would thus be raised to 25,000,000.
It is proposed that the Germanic Confederation
should be dissolved, and that a new Confederation
should be established, of which Prussia and Austria
should form part. The great Austrian empire will,
according to the suggestions of France, remain Ger-
manically intact, as no territorial concession, saving
Venetia, is to be asked from the Cabinet of Vienna.
The cession by Austria of her rights in the Elbe
Duchies is to be an equivalent for the war indem-
nity demanded by Prussia. Such are the terms of
pacification between the two great German Powers
as suggested by France. We next arrive at a new
and scarcely less interesting question. Prussia by
the annexations to her power, numbering 25 millions,
and being further strengthened by " military
conventions" with Saxony, Hanover, and the
Duchies of Saxe—which simply means the further
appropriation of five millions more of Germans, is
expected to cede her trans-Rhenish provinces, which
are to be parcelled out amongst the Sovereigns dis-
possessed by the war. An exchange of territory is
suggested between Baden and Bavaria, which would
give the former nearly the whole of the Rhenish
Palatine. France seeks but a small gain. She sug-
gests that the inhabitants of Landau shall choose
whether they will belong to France or Baden,, and
that the populations of the Valley of the Sarre shall
elect between France and the new Rhenish Sove-
reigns. French acquisition thus confines itself to
the most modest limits—a trifling increase of terri-
tory, and perhaps the throwing of the French ses,ris
over the new Sovereigns of the Rhine Province:.
Such are the bases of negotiation suggestietzd
and
France, and transmitted by Count von
1915)1
and
Prince Metternich respectively to B
y yesterdaye' at
Vienna.. They were drawn up
the Tuileries, under the immediate salt t remains to
of the
Emperor, by M. Drouyn de l'lluyw listen to the
s•
be seen whether the belligerents ill
terms proposed. The ofliciai jou y rlainl nal of Berlin yes-
p indicates a
terday writes in language which
determination to reject the
.armistice. Very few
words are used, and the memories of 1 81d3. are in-
voked, and the army is to conquer or to in the
is pretended that Prussia cannot
holy conflict.
make Prus-
sia without Italy, nor Italy without
; and, in short, it Is asserted that peace cannot

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yet be made. In the meantime the armies are hurrying
forward, and the Prussians and Italians evidently
hope to shake hands in Vienna. If this be so, we
can only warn the hitherto successful war-makers
that they:are treading on dangerous ground. Their
magnanimity must transcend even their success,
and that has yet to be achieved, if they would not
provoke a general coalition against them. Eng-
land, Russia, and France will not tamely see the
balance of European power destroyed, though they
might take but an inferior interest in a question of
the preponderance of this or that German war. Vic-
torious Prussia might look very foolish if she were
assailed on both flanks by Russia and France, and
it is now high time that her King should give assur-
ance to Europe that he does, not intend to push his
pretensions too far. The terms offered by France
are magnificent for Prussia, and she had better at
once take heed lest a triumph within her grasp
should end in a permanent humiliation.