The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-27
THE ITALIAN QUESTION.
Nspoleon's Speech-The Sandman Loan
Count de hlorDy's Speech. &C., &c.
From the London Timcs, Feb. 81

Napoleon's Speech-The Sandman Loan
Count de hlorny's Speech, &C., sc.
[trom the London Timcs, Feb. 81
Our readers have now had before them most author
tave and most elaborate answer to the question every
body has been asking every body else for than
month past-"Is It peaceY' The man who held peace and
the baaoce and long poised the dread alternatives
of his leash tells whether he will still hold them
or send them bounding on their prey. The whose
morbid re'aessness or selfish AMBITION or dire necessity
GQans the interests Of the ,shote human has himself
commented on the unerampled situation. 1t he who
uttered the words, which, too resembling other eacula
tions uttered in the place and felt by their re-
suits all over Europe showed at least what was In the
mind Of the speaker He has now interpreted them All
question should therefore be at rest before high
horty Yet never there obscure interpreter
gloss that encumbered the text The various readings
in an old Greek play have at least this to redeem them
that they not in league with the original obscurity
But here the commentator and his author are the same
elucidate, to the best Of their ability, the dark
sayings and questionable acts Of political per-
ing in the same breath with half committing themselves
and then leaving loophoes and with finding least
whatever be said on both sides Of the question. Au
is psalsty has been erhiised BY Imperial scr6e con
posng his half column on one Of his otcn escapade Who
sccountabeY Fortunately the affair is not quite 80 anxious
mysterious We may compose nerves. even though
curiosity not entirely satisfied When in the course Of
dozen short paragraphs seem 10 have many con-
nictng intentions, we recognise decreasing value
n resolutions only made to be Immediately Withdrawn or
I1orR0uen
The French Emperor begins though all the world had
been under strange halucination. There has been
{" much ado about nothing" In the midst of a general
hollow agitation, without any well defined cause Il has
seized certain minds and like some vulgar dsturber of
city's peace, has shaken public confidence By no one
has this weak remor and causeess alarm been 40 mucb
depored BY the watchful guardian Of worlds peace
he sees in y however nothing more than the occasional
ton and the smoulderng Of long mastered hres Time
alone can heal the sores Of State, and induce an obi-
nothing had occurred, that nothing had been said,
that not even pretence could be assigned for any
anxety We are 10 infer that Il has come wholly
Expected on the Emperor the rest OF the unnated
public. All the interest, then, that can attach TO 80
roundless though so general an uneasness TO explore
the undeserved mstrust which IL betrays. Will Europe
ti refuse to trust the Emperor Of the Frenchp Have
hey forgotten his declarations, his constant line
pr policy his Arm alliance with England, and his settled
practice of requng all nations their several measures
pr friendship The era Of peace which he had the
happiness TO announce cannot yet be ended. To
with those recollectons Of the past which na.
rurally suggested different demeanor. Ho has de
caumny and brayed even the excusabe preudices
his own country Such policy has been rewarded by
common riumphs Of and OF peace in Europe and in
ASIA and even by the admiration Of magnanmous foe,
Thus far, then only 10 regret that the Emperor
mould have been called from his peaceful studies TO meet
W. Tumor R tying SHAFT or an indefinite alarm
ne nand OF an assassin naturally quickcncd his suscep
ites ana made him somewhat exigent Of popular conf
po explanation. all from without The Emperor had
een the passive, unsuspcctng and undeservng object
atrocous attempt But that the ponard hes pecn
dropped and the Internal bomb hss expIoded in vain in
Eenvo rumor may do more efectua mischief in ascrb.
70 M victim designs only existing in the Imagination
ms worst foes Such the language of about half the
speech delivered the opening Of the French Chambers
But suddenly, as If recalling what could not bo wholly
ana feeling what could be entirely Suppress
the Imperial speaker confesses To more than
merely external agitation. In a more solemn and
opnc iorm ,,o, ne reeratcs tho expressions towards
and r ~.
general mistrust II is not usual for sovere,sns 70
70 snsr Legislatures that they have been thwarted
tnd asaPpun,oa n y, oy fowers with whom they are at
ny unless 70 prepare them for the interrunson oe ths
tae Whatever Napoleon ILL., has TO communicate 10 his
Chambers, with regret, be his cause ever go Justin
iced, all the more that accountmus be reeson.hIo
ourcc Of dsrust The force Of the feeling thus encen.
ered between the governments Paris and Vienna p n
measured by the value mparts TO other evcn,s ana
such TO make the Emperor congratulate Franoe on
closer intimacy with an old aly-that nPiedmont
Fho proved herself 80 devoted during the war, 80