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| AUG s'alcneh1 OF The London Times tha,
France and Eugland had formed an alliance of
iensire and defensive seems TO have caused a
general panic upon the London Exchange. I,
was positively announced that Russia had en-
gagged I" declare war against Austria within
fifteen days after the Austrian troops should
have crossed the Ssrdinan boundary. and tbs
! the iteets OF France and Russia were to co OBJ
! crate IN the Medicerranean and Baltic This
| statement proves TO have been entirely un
| founded, aud the treaty amounts to no more
| utan an engagement ou the part Of Russia to
| hold Prussia and tie other German States in
! check IN the event of an Italian war, the efrec,
OF which will he limit the area of hostilities.
| aud TO confine it to the Italian Statea
On this subject We make the following ex
, tract from the New York Times.
Although the Persia and the kangaroo vee.
teroay arrived at this port, bringing us the
! most disastrous Intelligence from tn. Iopdon
Stock Exchange which, has crossed the Atlan,ic ic
f"r many Year, there is not one feature in all
their news which, on a calm examination nj
this distance of time and space, appears 10 of.
! Ter uo ANYTHING like serious warrant for the
fearful effects il had produced. We. of New
l"rS. nave hy no means t'onopiy Of panics :;
hundreds of English households, by the mad
and incons'sleral,ie language of the landau
lrncs, may well be taken as one of the most
sttiSinG among many conspicuous evidences
which history must record Of the fact that th,
solid communities Of Great Britain rpla
'.'e",sc'H.s WIN II" more amplcr or more
steady wisdom than our own nervous and en-
cit:lhle people.
lhe shame OF this scnsclcss exhibition will
ne likely. We think TO strengthen the inf]uonc.
ot the Antl.huS'riun party ia England. and 90
I" contirt The disposition of all English states
men Wi" hold a hope for office in favor of a
s'r'ctit neutral attitude for great Britain in the
!cnainE conflict The public opinion of Enr.
land will probably soon begin to echo tL,.
strong words Of the London Daily News, that
LORD AniIncshury is as truly the author of
The RnS*"-frcnch combination as if his name
We affixed I" the Convention" BY the vacl-
ia',rn OF himself and his colleagues during the
c"fi! progress at The negotiations; and finally.
ny their foolish avowal before Parliament of
their RESPECT and regard for Austria an t,s
lSlh OF April, Lord Malmesbury and his chiefs
literally forced the Emperor Napoleon into the
a!l'hncc OF the Gar Alexander They may be-
,iat.ned' and utter rcpcntant PaIinodes over
the frankens,ein Of their own imagining. now
thna II Is t"" late for them To undo their work.
Inc accrI'tanc" hy Austria, at the eleventh
h"nr, ct fngiand's protfered mediation Of n
a power whose ministers had already ey,re.s.
ca Their sympathy with the Austrian view of
C"e Questions at issue, was simply absurd
ana ~ Is not surprising that the latest
news should inf"rm us Of its practical rejection
'y the French Government. Napoleon III had |
oeHiahdrd Tor Sar'3inia, is reported, An o,eu
apology i"r the insult put upon her by the Aus |
TRAN "f'mdf't", and compensation for tile ex !
'enses ID which she has been driven by the |
Austrian attitude. Terms like these Franco
'nd Hnrd'nia have right to exact; but Aus. |
RIA Is hardly likely to have conceded tIep,-
l ne exodus nf Italian volunteers into Sardinia
iarIng now culninntcd in the oren movement
,f Whole State, the Grand Duci.v Of Tuscanv.
ne austrian GnvcrntneuL in recedinp before
>arhInia would recede before all Italy We
an SIC no good Reason, therefore, for doubling
hat hy the first Of Nay hos,ilities must have
"m'I.' need On the Sardiniam frontiers. The
immense accumulation OF Frenct, forces aIonp
lie line of the Alps had already begun to dis.
harge itself into the plains of Italy. The mass
It the Mont Gents. wh ich had been impeded
y fresh snows OH the 25tlt Of April. had been
made practical by the 27th; aud the few days
H,ned IN discussing the English offer Of medi-
ti"n at Paris had heeu turned to good account
y the freuch commanders. The fluodiup Of
he eoun'ry"f tie Ticino, which is level. full
swamTs and rice fields, and cut up tv tn,p,
'ater course, would impede very seriously
ne Austrian advance and make the moment az
ne h'st collision quite uncertain. But the
lood Of France and Italy would seem to I've
,oroughly up, and the var will unuuest;op..
" te carried on in ierrer temper aud with
"re vind'c'ive feeling either side than any
'ntest whiei, Europe has seen since The great
ationsl Wals Of lSi3-i4.