New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-19
ITALY.
POPULAR FEELING IN SARDINIA.
From Our Own ueseoGdent


GENOA, July 49, 1859.
| II the conclusion of the armislice has been the
object Of alarming spprebeDsioDs on the part of the
people of Piedmont, the proclamation OF peace aud
the knowledge Of its conditions have caused con-
| sternaiiOn, which could not have been deeper after
the loss Of pitched battle aud the destruction Of
the allied army. All business Was Suspended here,
every store and workshop closed, the whole popu-
| latp D-ciyiaDs and soldieTs-~as out IN the mar
Tow streets and squares; On every face, without
di,tiDction of sex or Of age, the expression Of 80
inefoble sorrow, everybody askitg an Anxious
question or giving a d'scOnsoate answer; the
stalls of the news-yenders surrounded by dense
crowds, in every body's hand TIT fatal buetu, and
on ever, bodys lips The vail, Poctra F,ne,ia !
Porera haii0 ~ :" Poor Venice Poor Italy ~
The earnest and deep affecting character Of this
Uanif. station Of national mourning was ony now
aid then interrupted by Fra nch soldiers, who, ia
their inpOteht rage, would tear the bulletins y
| pieces and traDpe them under iheI feet, or BY
the grinuirg faces Of sleek priests, who could
hardly conceal their malicious JOY. Only toward
evening, and especially when the resignation Of
Cavour had become known, grief gave place to
violent anger, which, however found vent
only in passionate discussions and exclama-
Ious in the baDishment Of the portraits
Of Louis Napoleon from all the show
windows Of the book and print-stores, aud 10 an
address to the King, protesting against the peace,
ana assuring him that in the btteroess OF this
- hour the people Of Piedmont found at Ieas. one
sweet consolation In the conviction, that has hand
Twas pure aud not contaminated By having
"signed This settlement" This protes; was wieuia
a hight GOV, red wlth 9 600 Signatures aUOug which
are those OF great lumber OF French ortcers; 1t
has since been followed by others FROM almost every
city in Piedmont aud the PROVINCES; one of toe
Mllsnese against the formal transfer of Loon
hardy from Austria 10 Piedm through tie
hands of the Imperial broker, asserting that they
are Lot TO be sold and delivered from h.nd ~ hand
like so much vile merchandise; one from the
VenetiaDs in TuIin, who, aliur,d BY the Iuperial
promises ard encouraeemeuts left their native city,
taull es and all 10 fight in the ranks of the allied
army for the liberation Of their home,-aod who
know BY experience WHIST al Imperial promise in
Austria means. There afe protests without end
from Modens, Reggie, Parma, PiacepzA Florence,
Luces, Leghorn, whose citizens refuse to be BANDED
over sgan 70 the tender nerces OF their late rulers
whom they have driven away under tue eucour-
seemr ut OF French promises But the most dec ding
Al telling protest was that Of the Stock EXehanse
in this city, the shares Of the Government Bank.
which are the standard paper here, going down at
the sight Of tie peace proclamation from 400 francs
to .,UU.
IL cannot be denied that disappointed ambition,
the material dimnuton Of the expected territorial
gains Of Piedmont had their due share in this gen.
eral disa'isiacton, but people here are, nevertnc-
esi, not blind enough not to appreciate the iume-
date amalgamations O, Lombardy with Piedmont
at its just value, though even this boon has been
greatly reduced by leaving Pescbiera and Man.
fua, Which geographically and. historically al