New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-31


rulipr suprsme 10 France. Under such con-
dticps il NAV think Of taking upon itself tea lead
ership Of Italy as the only Italian State with pro-
gressiye tendencies, With native rulers ana WIN
national army, but these veV conditions place it
BETWEEN the pressure OF Imperial France on the
one, and Imperial Austria on the other hana. al
case of serious friction between these neighb"ricg
empi,es il must become the satelite Of one and
The battlefield of both In case OF an eni,"fe cor
dale between than it must be contented with an
sstbnatical existence, with mere respite Oh
Iife To throw itself on the Revolutionary party
in Italy would be simple sucide-ths events OF
1879 having dispeled the last delasons as 70
its revolutionary mission. The hopes Of the House
Of SAVOY thus are bound up with the sta'ss q"o in
Europe; and the status ono in Europe, shutting IL
out from extension in the Apennine Peninsula, as
signs il tie modest part of an italian Belgium.
In their attempt to resume, at the Paris Con-
gress, the game Of 1S47, the Piedmontese
Plenipotentiaries could, therefore. only ex'
bibit rather lamentable spectacle. Each
move they made on the diplomatic chessboard
wass check to themselves. While violently pro-
testing against the Austrian occupation Of Central
italy. they were obliged to touch but tenderly on
the occupation of Rome by France; aud while
erumb,ing against the theOcracy OF the Pontih, 70
stoOp before the sanctimOnious grinaces OF the
frs..born son of the Church. To Clarendon, who
had shown such tender mercies to ireland in lo4S,
they had to appeal to give the King oil Naples
lessons of humanity and to the jailer OF Cayenne
Lsmbessa and Bceisle to open the prisons OF
Milan, Naples and Rome. Setting themselves up
the chan plous of liberty in Italy, they bowed SER
yilely TO Wsewskis onslaught on the liberty OF the
press in Belgium, and gave 1t as their deliberate
opinion that at is difficult for good relations to
" continue between two nations, when in ono OF
them journals with exaggerated doctrines ana
"waging war On the neighboring Govern
aments exist" With such o basis for their own
foolish adhesion to Bonsparist doctrines, Austria
at once turned round upon them with the
impe rious demand to stop and punish the war
waeed against her by the PiedmOntese press
At the same msment that they feign to oppose
The international policy of the peoples to the
international policy of the dynastes they congratu
late themselves upon "the treaty again knittiog
{" together those ties of friendship which for CEN
"turies have existtd between the House of Savoy,
"and the family of ROmanoh." Encouraged to
display their eloquence before the Plenipotentarles
of old Europe, they must suffer themselves to DC
snubbed by Austria as a second rate power, not In
the plight to discuss frst-rate questions. Wnlle
they enjoy the immense satisfaction Of drawing up
d memorandum, Austria is allowed to dra" up
an army the whole length OF the Sandman frontier
from the Pc 70 the summit OF the Apennines, 70
occupy Parma, to fortify Placentia notwithstanding
the treaty Of Vienna and on the shore Of
the Adriatic to deploy her forces from
Ferrara and Bologna as far as Ancona Seven days
after the.e complaints had been formalized before
the Congress, on the 18th of April special treaty
WAS sipned between France and England on the
enc side and AustIia on the other, proving the
damage the memorandum had inflicted on Austria.
Such wee the position at the Paris Congress ofthose
wor ny representatives Of that Victor Emanuel,
who. after bis fathers abdicaton and the loss OF
he battle of Novara, went before the eyes of an
exasperated army to embrace Radetxky, Carlo-Al-
btlto's spiteful fee. Piedmont, If not purposely
blind must now see that it is duped by the peace
a. il was duped by the war. Bonsparte may use it
to trouble the waters in Italy with view to fish for
crowns in the mud. Russia may pat the back
of little Sardinia with the intention OF alarming
Austria in the South in order to weaken her in the
North. Palmerston for purposes best known to
himself, may rehearse his comedy of lsi7 without
giving himself so much as the pains Of playing the
old sopg to q new tune. For all that, Piedmont
serves only as the catspaw of foreign powers. As
to the speeches of the British Parliament, Mr..
Brofferio has told the Sandman Chamber of Depu-
tee, of which he is member that they had never
been "Delphian orscles, but always Trephonian
ones." He is only mistaken in taking echoes for
Oracles.
The Piedmontese iatermezro considered in itself,
is void of any interest but that of seeing the House
of Savoy bsfied again in its hereditary policy of
makeshifts and its renewed attempt at rendering
the italian question the prop Of its own dynas-
tical intrieues. But there u another more impor
tant point of view, Intentionally overlooked BY
the English and French press, but anxiously
limited at by the Sandman penipotentares in their
notorious memorandum which we copied the other
day. The hostile attitude of Austria, justified
by the course pursued at Paris on the part of the
Sardinisn plenipOtentiaries, "obliges Sardinia to
" remain armed and to adopt defensive measures |
" extremely burdensome to her finances, already |
" dilspdated by the events Of 1848 and 1919, and
by the war in which she has taken part" Bot
this is not all. 1.-The popular agitation" says
the Sandman memorandum, "has appeared to
subsde of late The Italians, seeing one Of their
=. national princes allied with the great Western
" Power, conceived hope that peace would not