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

THE SUN, LONDON, TH URSDAY EVENING, J ULY 12, 186 G.

mR. W. S. WOODIN'S BADEN-BADEN
and UP IN THE AIR, an entirely New Entertain-
ment, EVICRY EVENING, at Eight (except Saturday);
Saturday Mornings at Three. POLYGRAPHIC HALL,
King William-street, Charing-cross.
Luxurious sofa stalls, 55.; balcony stalls, 35.; area, 25.;
amphitheatre, ls.—A plan of stalls may be seen and seats
secured at the Hall from Eleven to Five.

Iit7tITESTON'S
HGOLEBORIN. MUSIC HALL,
Open at Half-past Seven, under New Management.
Proprietors—Messrs. Sweasey and Holland.
"A hit, a hit—a most palpable hit 1" _ .

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.
Alt rmig LLOYD'S new Songs continue to elicit rounds of
genuine applause. HARRIET COVENEY, the Gem Serio-
Comic and Danseuse—HAßßY MACARTHY. the Arkansas
Comedian and Actor—lmmense success of MORATORIO
and LE BRONG, the Eclipse of all Gymnasts—LE PETIT
TAGLIONI. 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. CORM, Musical Director.

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

lIKADAME 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, Is.-; children, under ten, half 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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Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer.
Musical Director, Signor LUIGI CURTL
Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock.
Admission, Is.

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SLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having
SLOW
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the care and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr.
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easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour
and a-halt by the London and North-Western line, and fifty
minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on
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HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING
SIM'. £2,000 required.
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON-
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the COUNTRY ROHE. £l,OOO required.
WM. WILLIA.IIB, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street. W.C.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The
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One hundred and fifty are now in the Refuge. The annual
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" Before the century was actually in its teens we believe
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SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—" One angry man," says the old adage,
" makes many." How natural it is, a fortiori, that
the wrath -of many men should get the better of the
temper of a single individual. The Emperor Napo-
leon, if we may rely on a statement in a Vienna
official paper, has found out how difficult it is for
people's disputes without
running the risk of bringinghim to meddle in other
more than one quarrel
upon himself. Unable to obtain an armistice by
good offices, he is said to be about to enforce his
good officesconfirmation by
from "an
Parisrrn :1 mediation." Were all
this true—for the intelligence
yet awaits official
confirm the Emperor might be
said to have given the signal for a European war.
This, indeed, would not seem to be a quarrel of the
Emperor's own seeking,
a
It
was not with any good-
will on his part that he departed from the expectant
he had chosen for himself at
He had tendered his
good offices with great candour and disinterested-
ness so long as he hoped that the strife might be
the
ed observanteuthreak
eafttihtueedteffities.
averted. But when the first cannon shot was fired
he was quite resigned to the belligerents working
out their ruin. He took his place in his chair of
a single word, never offering to
state at the head of the lists, not disturbing the
champions by
throw down his truncheon to stop the effusion of
blood • but, lo ! one of the combatants fainted in
the fight. He turned to the great arbitrator, and
solicited his mediation to obtain an armistice prepa-
ratory to a definitive peace. Had Austria been less
explicit, or had the Emperor of the French chosen
to keep his counsel as to the great bait he was em-
powered to throw out towards appeasing the wrath
of one of the combatants ; had he limited himself
to proposing a simple suspension of hostilities on
humanity, asking for a few days
what could be done towards
wosnfeethe main difference, no doubt a
smoothing
mere
o ot
weekshing groundsdteo
respite in the work of • carnage would have been
hailed by the whole world with a feeling of unutter-
able relief. Unfortunately, the cession of Venetia
to France, with a view to its transfer to Italy, gave
the whole matter a wrong turn. It implied not only
truce, but peace south of the Alps. It exposed Prus-
sia to an attack from all the forces that could be
removed from the ceded province, and in so far as
it tended to put asunder the two allies, Prussia and
Italy, and leave the former to bear all the brunt
of the war, it departed from that spirit of strict im-
partiality on which all the authority of an unarmed
mediator should be based. It was natural that
Prussia should object not only to forego the advan-
tages hitherto gained by stopping short in her full

tide of success, but to permit a change in her posi-
tion with respect to her adversary 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.
Au 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 ultinza 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 Prince Napoleon be charged with
the formal act of transfer, the late movement of
Cialdini across the Po will hardly accelerate it.
Possessing Venetia, and at home in the Peninsula,
" 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 least for
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. Prussia 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 Moniteur 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, Hanover,
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 aegis
over the new Sovereigns of the Rhine Provinces.
Such are the bases of negotiation suggested
and
y
France, and transmitted by Count von
_ Goltz
and
Prince Metternich respectively to Berlin
Vienna. They were drawn up onlyyesterday
the Tuileries, under the immediate sanction at
of the
Emperor, by M. Drouyn de l'Huys. It remains to
be seen whether the belligerents will listen to the
terms proposed. The official journal of
_Perlin yes-
terday writes in language which plainly indicates a
determination to reject the armistice. Very few
words are used, and the memories of 1813 are in-
voked, and the army is to conquer or to die in the
holy conflict. It is pretended that Prussia cannot
make peace without Italy, nor Italy without Prus- '
Sia ; 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.