The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-21 00:00:00

FRANCE AND _ITALY.

A summary of the following intelligesee, re-
ceived by telegraph, appeared in The Sun of yes-
terday. We translate a full report from the
Moniteur _ _ _

" PARIS, JULY 19.
" The Emperor received this evening the groat
bodies of the State at the Palace of St. Cloud.

" At eight o'clock a great number of Senators,
Deputies, and Councillors of State had assembled
in the saloons of the Palace.
"At half-past eight o'clock the Emperor and the
Empress entered the Saloon of Mars. A unanimous
shout of Vive l'Empereur !" Vive l'lmperatrice
welcomed their Majesties. They were accompanied
by the grand officers and ladies of the Household.
" His Excellency M. Troplong, President of the
Senate, addressed the Emperor in the following
words :
" ' Sire,—Had your Majesty, consniting only the
superiority of your arms, allowed the war to goon,
public opinion in France, and perhaps in Europe,
is, that nothing could have stopped your irresis-
tible advance, and that Magenta and Solferino
would have been followed up by new trophies.
Why, then, did the Emperor stop at the apex of
fortune ?"

" Your Majesty has said it :
" The interests of France, which counselled war,
now counsel peace, and to carry on the struggle
beyond the present limits would be to go beyond
the legitimate cause of our intervention.
" Sire,—France has understood those noble
words ; she has recognised therein your devotion to
her as well as your great foresight in presence of
unfounded jealousies and wild pretensions of revo-
lutionary passions. Having followed you with
pride on the field of battle, she approves you and
admires you in this heroic moderation, which is the
characteristic of great men.
" ' When Scipio vanquished Hannibal at Zama
he might have destroyed Carthage. He did not
wish it, though he had bound himself to overthrow
the Carthagenian power. As prudent a politician
as he was an able general, he was aware that to
cause too much loss to an enemy is often to incur
too much loss to oneself.

" Let us, then, enjoy this glorious peace, the
fruit of a war which, in two months, has made
Piedmont free and torn away Lombardy from its
powerful master. Let us congratulate the Emperor
while our triumphal acclamations are awaiting the
return of our invincible soldiers. France henceforth
feels herself more free in her external action, more
powerful by her arms, and more respected by the
firm wisdom of her Government. If the Italian
campaign throws upon her the bright light of the
great days of the first Empire, the peace of Villa-
franca is a sure guarantee that she will only see the
prosperity thereof.'
"Count de Morey, President of the Legislative
Body, then spoke as follows :
" ' Sire,—ln three months what prodigious
facts !

" War was declared, and we had not one man
in Italy. Austria had a powerful army there, in
formidable and well-studied positions ; her over-
whelming influence weighed heavily on all Italian
Governments. A few days afterwards five succes-
sive victories added the most glorious page to our
military history, and the political object you had
in view was attained.

" But the noblest victory of all is the victory*
you have obtained over yourself. In the burst of
triumph you have shown yourself a generous
enemy, as well as a faithful and disinterested ally'
surrounded by victorious and ardent warriors, you
only thought of sparing their precious blood ; you
have given true liberty to Italy, delivering her
from despotism, and forbidding revolutionary pre"
ceedings ; finally, with that wonderful tact which
characterises you, you have gone as far as the
honour of France exacted, and not beyond her
interests.

" Sire, your absence was a trial for the country'"
which the noble position taken by the Empress
rendered easy, and which gave it the opportunity
of showing its confidence in you and its attachment
to your dynasty.
" ' I am sure, Sire, that in expressing these sen-
timents I am the interpreter of the Legislative
body.'
His Excellency M. Baroche, President of the
Council of State, spoke as follows :
" Sire,—Your Council of State eagerly shares
with profound devotion the sentiments just cc'
pressed to your Majesty in the name of the Senate
and Legislative body.
" And after having, like all France, like the
whole of Europe, admired during so glorious a war
the skill of the great Captain and the heroism of
his soldiers, we have not the less admired, we have
admired still more, the moderation, full of wisdom,
which in the hour of triumph knew how to stop
when the interests as well as the feelings of France
might hare had to suffer from the character and
development which the war might have assumed-,
" God be praised for bringing you back safe and
sound, covered with new glory, to this France, of
which you are the Saviour and the Hope ; to that
august spouse whose firm courage and intellect we
have witnessed during your absence ; and to Chat
noble child -who already learns to thank Heaven
for the triumphs of his father !' "
[These speeches (says the 3loniteur) were loudly'
applauded.]
" The Emperor replied as follows :
" Gentlemen,—Finding myself again in the
midst.of you who during my absence have shown
i
so much devotion to the Empress and to my son,
feel first of all the desire to thank you, and then
to explain to you the motives of my conduct.
When, after a successful campaign of tvv°
months, the French and Sardinian armies pits e,
their camp before the walls of Verona, the struge
was evidently on the point of undergoing a change
in a military as well as in a political point of vet
I was fatally obliged to attack in front an enemy
intrenched behind great fortresses, protected
against any diversion on his flanks by the 1-1.0.1;
trality of the territories which surrounded
and in commencing the long and sterile war of
sieges I found in presence of me Europe in arms'ready either to dispute our success or to aggravate

OUT reverses.
" Nevertheless, the difficulty of the enterprise
would neither have shaken my resolution n°l.
stopped the enthusiasm of my army had not the
means been out of proportion with the results to be
expected. It was necessary to resolve boldly to break
through the barriers raised by neutral territories/
enoughll,lore phrae;
been shed already; in a word, to succeed it was
and then to accept the struggle on the Rhine 01
well as on the Adige. It came to this ; to accep
been o f revolution.
shed,
and
c everywhereien s blood
mustthe
have support
necessary to stake what no Sovereign ought te
stake, unless the independence of his country is
iI
danger.
If, then, I stopped short, it was not froo
weariness or exhaustion, nor from abandonment et
the noble cause I wished to serve, but because 1/
louder voice spoke within my heart—' The ity
terests of France.'
" Do you imagine it cost me nothing to pet
excite
break upon the ardour of my soldiers, who,
by victory, wished to advance ?
" Do you suppose that it cost me nothing Irt
licly in the face of Europe to curtail from my pr
gramme the territory which extends from tril•
Mincio to the Adriatic ? to
" ' Do you imagine that it cost me nothing
behold noble illusions destroyed in honest hear"
patriotic hopes extinguished ?
" "ro serve Italian independence I waged 'Or
s-
against the grain of Europe. As soon as the A ‘--eci.
tinies of my country were imperilled I conclude
peace. a
And can it now be Said that our efforts an
sacrifices are a pure loss ? No. As I said in 1111
farewell address to my soldiers, we have a right is
be proud of this short campaign. In four conatt,
and two battles a powerfnl army, inferior to ilea,
in organisatian and bravery, has been defeat%
The King of Piedmont, once styled the Guardian
the Alps, has seen his country delivered fil)"-
invasion, and the frontier line of his States e"'",.„:f
tended from the Ticino to the Mincio. The idea 't
Italian nationality is admitted by its warelf:
opponents. All the Sovereigns of the Italian pee'—oef
sula understand at last the imperious necessity
-
salutary reforms.
" Thus, after having given a new proof of the
c
military power of France, the peace which I ha„
just concluded will be fruitful of happy resttl`;
the future will reveal them daily more and trig-e
for the happiness of Italy, the influence of Fratic
the quiet of Europe."'

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REFUSAL TO READ THE BURIAL SERVI('I„st
George Whitten, who had been living in Eye for the felt'
eight years, and who belonged to the Odd Fellows' N°,,rlTiS
and :\ orwich Unity Club, had a great wish to die 0,1%40
father's house at Redingfield, and to be buried at the P3',i7te,
church. The Rev. C. Motley being the perpetual cli-r-tea
his father informed him of his son's wish, but intite3o.
that he had not been christened ; thereupon the rev gthe
tleman said he could not perform the burial service iLlf,ce
usual form, and refused to bury him at all. In conseclue:cic
of this the club all met last Sunday afternoon to bur)," their
deceased friend; the president of the club read a P°l,vo-
of Scripture over the grave, and a hymn was sung.---• -
tvich Pot,