Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-25
THE REPORTED PEACE,

If it was proper to say, the armistice took
the world by surprise, some new term express
sive of the most intense astonishment, will be
necessary to describe how the world is taken
by the sudden announcement of peace be.
tween the bellgerents in Italy And the per-
sons most excited and disturbed by astonish-
ment will be the diplomatists of Europe, who
were making extensive arrangements to take
the matter in hand, and hold long delibera-
tions over it. Peace has been made without
their help and with a very cool disregard of
their pretensions. If the peace is surprise,
the method by which it was arranged viii be
regarded as a still greater surprise, especially
in the court circles of Europe,
1t was the intention OF England, Prussia,
and the rest, to have the belligerents appear
iaa Diplomatic Congress, and there assent
to peace arranged for them, and which
should be formally endorsed by the
official signatures of all the "Great Pow
ers." All concerned in the Congress would
thereby acquire right to officiate as guardians
of the treaty, fully authorized to enforce its
conditions. Louis Napoleon has disappointed
their expectations. One day he wins the bat
tie of Solferino; the next he crosses Mincio in
to the celebrated quadrilateral; the day after
he meets the Emperor of Austria and agrees
on an armistice; and the next morning, or al
most Immediately afterwards, the two Emper
ors agree on the terms of peace. The treaty
is Immediately signed, and the news is tele-
Il II. r.
armistice has subsidized This, to say the least
of it, is not according to rule, and the tone of
the London papers shows that it has consider
ably agitated some of the diplomatists of Great
Britain. 1t has doubtless caused some disturb
ance at Vienna in the iunta known as the Ca
marilla, for the young Emperor Of Austria has
evidently acted on his own responsibility and
without consulting those who have hitherto
kept him in leading strings. He has lately
shown some signs of making declaration
of independence of the Camarilla The
declaration is now made in the strongest and
most defiant manner; and he is likely to main
taiu it through the rest OF his reign. Austria
may in consequence have a better and more
popular government Time will show what
he is and what he will do. His mother, who
has for some years been the real sovereign of
Austria, is woman of strong character and
considerable intellect 1t is probably too much
to hope that he or any of his race will prove
to be endowed with such holiness and enlight-
eminent of intellect and such sympathy with
the people, as would make him an honest and
successful reformer.
Before we can form correct Judgment of
this sudden peace and undertake to say what it
does for Italy, we must have complete account
Of its conditions. All we know about it at
present is contained in a brief telegraphic dis
patch sent by the Emperor Napoleon to Paris
Something additional had probably reached
London, for the London Morning Post gives
some particulars of the arrangement for an
Italian Confederation, with the Pope as "Hon-
orary President" According to this journal,
the Pope is to be shorn of his temporal SUI
- 4 s.te5 For tlhiS loss By
the Shadow" of something greater Ifsuch an
arrangement has been made and formally rati-
fed, by France and Austria, it must be ad-
mitted that the war has done something for
the people in the Papal States. 1t is also
stated that the Emperor of Austria retains on
ly a limited and circumscrbed authority in
Venice, while that part of Italy, with the
rest, will be subject to the sway of the '1tal-
ian Confederation" Let us wait, however,
until we get all the particulars in off cal doc
uments, with all the reports and commentaries
necessary to a complete understanding ofwhat
has been DONE
What Louis Napoleon has settled in this
peace will determine his reputation for the
rest of his life. 1t will show the world what
he signifies among the sovercigns of Europe
and enable us to see beforehand the portrait
that will be drawn of him by the sober hand
of history.