Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-08-03
The Treaty of Peace.

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We are not yet in possession of the details of the
treaty of peace concluded between the Emperors of
France and Austria. The Emperor Napoleon has
ISSUED the following order of the day:
VALLEGIo, July 10, 1859.
SOLDIERS An armistice was concluded on the
sth inst between the belligerent parties to extend
to the 18th of August. This truce will permit you
to rest after your glorious labors and to recover if
necessary, new strength to conclude the work which
you have gloriously inaugurated by your courage
and resolution. l am about to return to Paris. and
shall leave the provisional command of the army to
Marshal Vailant-but as soon as the hour Of combat
qciW hare struch, you aoiW see me again in your
midst to partake Of your dangers.
NAPOLEON.
The whole of Italy is to be elevated into Con-
federation, with the Pope as honorary President
Austria is to retain possession of Venetia and Lom
hardy goes to Sardinia. This is all we know at
present The Italians, it is stated, are not well
pleased with this arrangement. Gari5aldi and Kos
suth have been disappointed. The war is over and
Hungary has not rsen-no opportunity has been
given her sons to strike blow.
The French papers of course approve the action
of the Emperor, but The tone of the English journ-
ais is not all the same way.
We give the following comments of the London
Neus, Post and Times:-
The Ne,cs atfirms that the first hope and expecta-
tons of Italy are deceived 1t adds -
History wW caU the Emperor to q strict account
for Mring mnde ar"r on talse pretensi"ns md sign
ed mock and selfish peace-a peace that leaves
Austria nprcgnably fortified in Northern Italy :;
that connects Central Italy to the patronage of the
Pope and to the constant menace of military inter-
vention the part of the Pope's patrons and pro-
ectOrS; that takes account of the welfare of the
people, and substitutes for national independence
confederation under the lock and KEY of Austrian
garrisons. The Emperor of France has sown the
seeds Of future wars and the closer we examine the
pretended pacificaton the futile and iniqutous
it appears.
The Post contends that the soul of the treaty
agreed upon is the nationality, guaranteed under
every variety of local government, in confederation
Of the Italian States The Emperor of Austria is to be
KIM of Venctia solely as an internal member of the
confederation; he will rule less than three million
Fa'iianS, and will be controlled by Confederation
ruling not less than twenty-six millions. The Pope
is sh0rn rrfuaIy of lis temporal supremacy; he is
deprived of the substance, but keeps the shadow.
The Times says that Venice must hope that her
independence will not be mere name and that the
influence of France and Austria united will not be
more unbcarable than that of Austria singly. The
Romans must nope that the Italian conederacV, un
der the honorary Presidency of the Pope will be
nothing like any government they have hitherto
known. The Papal States are left as they were
hut with master somewhat greater than before; he Is
honorary President of the Italian Confederation
and General Goyon holds the sword at his side
The King of Naples is made member Of the Con
federation, and has to learn the worth of that honor
and its import Europe has to welcome new
! Power-the Italian Confederaton-older in dignit,
| if not in time. England has nothing to do but t
look on. Austria is somewhat humbled, but reliev
led of a difficulty. Sardinia is aggrandized with
province that miStrsts her. and neghbor that ha
learned an impershabc and inexaustible claim to he
gratitude The Grand Dukes. we suppose, are ono
more to be reinstatcd in their thrones. France ho
noe the game in her Own hands. She has Europ
before her She raise all Italy and half the Aus
! trian empire against those Germans whom she ha
so often beaten Yet on the very summit of he
ambition she rcnounces. France has spent ft
millions sterling and fifty thousand men, only t
give Milan a Piedmontese instead of an Austria
master and to establish the Pope in temporal dig
nifty even 5eyond his Imagination and capable of e,
tension. Is all this real? The Emperors gam
must be very long one.