Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-08-06
OPINIONS AS TO THE PEACE.
lFrom the london Daily News.l


The emperor of the French has put forward
his estimate of his own peace, and Count Cav
our, the leader Of the national party in italy,
has made known his opinion of the same work
by resigning his ministry. There could be no
doubt as to the course which that high-spirited
minister would take. 1t was with appeals and
promises to Italy that the war was commenced,
and it is before Italy that the pacifcation must
be justified Count Cavour declines to say that
this is a righteous peace. The war of Italian
independence is terminated for the present,
without securing the objects for which it was
undertaken. The allied armies are marching
homeward, leaving the noble work at most only
half DONE Italy is not free from the Alps to
the Adriatic. The Austrian vulture, though
beaten off from the right side, still plants his
cruel talons in the left side of that long suffer-
ing Prometheus. This abrupt and disappoint-
ing termination of the noble struggle has natu-
rally filled both the covert and avowed enemies
of freedom and progress with unwonted exul-
tation. The friends of despotism and intoler-
ance, the aristocratic partisans of Hapsburg
rule, the supporters of the Holy alliance and
the papal throne, are almost beside themselves
with sudden JOY. 1t is jubilee for Austrian
grand dukes, Italian cardinals, French priests
and English peers.
From the London Morning Starr
The patriot soldier and exiled statesman find
their occupation taken from them in a moment
their homes blighted, their schemes bafled
by the imperous and inscriptions plotter to
whom the valor of one and the genius of anoth-
er seem but the tools of an inscrutable, un-
checked will. Alas, for the expectation that, as
promised from Paris, the Austrians should be
expelled from Italy, and Hungary be aided to
strike for independence! Once more exied pa
triots may muse, to the sound of the waves that
roll between them and their native home, that
the surf is not easier broken on the shore than
the word of a king upon the rock of circum-
stances; that the sun painted mist upon the
waters at dawn is not more unsteady than hopes
built upon the promises, or even on the inter.
ests of despots. And these men-Garibaldi
Kossuth, the Tuscan volunteers, and the insur.
gents Of Peruga-represent thousands, perhaps
millions, who looked for liberty and for nationa
life to the intervention of France in Italy
Deeply we compassionate their cruel dsappoint
ment at the terms that have been made.
(From the Paris Constitutonel)
After this peace we may say, without any ex
aggeration, that the situation of Europe il
changed, for thus disappears one of the most &C
tive causes of the disorder which was KEEP
alive by the revolutionary spirit The treaties
of 1915 are torn up as far as concerns Italy
Italy is reconstructed in her independence; he
different states are united in a confederation
which is in accordance with her national tradi
tions, and which is the necessary condition o
her political existence. Piedmont. which s,
bravely fought on the fields of battle by th
side of France, receives Lombardy The pope