The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1859-08-20
.Ahc Proposed Italian Conference.

The second edition of The London Times OF
July 26, contains the following letter OF Its
Paris correspondent, giving the outline Oh
Count Wa ewskis project for the confedera-
ton Of the Italian States, Of which we have
had a Geographic abstract:
PARIS. July 25.-Ihe question of the Italian
Confederation which a Congress is to meet
.l"ssdy occupies the serious attention OF 1he
le dtnch. and doubtless If til. Sardiniun tabi-
nets. notwiths anding the well known dislike
the King has to a confederation. in the present
condition Of Italy. or even in the situation Gre
a,ed for i, by the treaty Of Vil'afranca. The
French government, on this point. as well Us
~.Sardinian Majesty. NJ. Wa!ewski. u. r.
up the dranght of a plan Of a confederation
aud submitted it, unoi1ic ally or cnnfideniially'
tn the cabinets interested. In it NJ. Waiewskl
evidently takes for granted the restoration "f
the dpposed sovereigns If Modena and Tuscany.
y d the establishment Of the Duchess Of Pa MA
sornew here. NJ. Walewski's confederation con-
lists Of seven States. BY the Villafranca treaty
The nominal "r honorary presidency was gwen
to the Pope; that high Office will be filled ~
reality by The Kings Of Sardinia and Naples,
each taking turn about. As such q body
cannot exist wiihy~t the means Of defence, a
federal army witffte created for the defence Of
the federal territHry-the contingen's to be
lived according to the extent OF The States
respectively. IT'D.
The strong places which will be garrisnned
by The federal troops are Graeta. partly Ma
politan. parity federal; Maltua. parity Austrian
and parity federal and (,iacelzu, half federal
and the remaining half Piedmnntese. Gus
custod,et ,psos custodes? NJ. Waiewski it is be
hoped. will disclose the taIisman by which he
means TO keep such discordalt clements as
Parinesans and Swiss. Tnscans aud Neapo-
%litans, the soldiers of the Pope, the 5ardinals
and Greats, in complete harmony.
The Federal Council it is proposed tor or
ganize thns-Parma and Modena are to have
ope vote each; the Pope two. Tuscany wo.
Austria, for enetia. two. aud Piedmont aud
Naples three each. Whether more concord will
prevail in the Federal Council than in the fed
eral garrison 1t is difficult to say but suppos-
ing the same conditions to slbsist, Austria
could count IN Il majority Of votes.
M. Walewski Claims no monopoly in the
fabrication OF considerations, for. according to
accounts. Cardinal AntonelIi has also studied
the question in his W way. The French
Minister Is said to enter more into details than
the CaFinal. The latter claims not merely
The honorary, but the real and bona file Pres
idency for his Holiness. lie has no objection
to u federal army. not so much to garrison
towns and strong PAGES as to defend the terri
tory against foreign and domestic enemies.
Who the domestic enemies are may be guessed.
This last seems in contradiction to the prin-
cipIe .! non-interyentinn said 10 form one Of
the conditions VI The treaty Of y illatranca.
Piedmont would not, perhaps, absolutely re-
jec. the uotion Of u Confederation. but | duubt
that she approves either NJ. Walewski's plan
or That of Cardinal AntoneIli, while Austria
would probably make no great objection to
either. Ii Piedmont accept a Confederation
she would not have Austria forming part Of
II and moreover. she desires that "a liberai
Government should prevail in the other States
as well DIS in Piedmont. for the better CONSOLE
daticn of the Independence aud liberty of the
whole Italian people.