The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-09
The News from Europe-Wili the Treaties
OF Vienna be Revised by the Pen or thu


The News from Europe-Wili the Treaties
or Vienna be Revised by the Pen or the
swosds
We received yesterday the mails by the Indian
and the telegraphic summary of the news by the
Canada, being three days later accounts fcom
Europe.
Tie chief point Of interest is the collision be-
tween France and Austria on the italian qaes-
ton, and it was hoped that peaceful solution
would be arrived at by means of diplomatic
Congress, which had been proposed by Russia
and assented to BY the other Powers. The AS
sent of Austria, however, had been cond itional;
and In relation to these conditions, and the light
in which they may be considered by the other
parties there are some Indicative revelations in
several of the official and semi-oficial journals
The Memorial Diptomatiqw the Austrian govern
ment journal published in Paris, holds the fol-
lowing language in regard to them:-"Austria is
disposed to submit the political situation Of Italy
to the collective examination of the great Powers
forming European Areopagus But Austria,
it must be understood, makes it condition that
this examination should not affect either upon
The treaties of 1885, or the special treaties their
natural corollaries, or the inherent rights to
sovereign independence of each State"
When we take into consideration the fact
that the great aim of Louis Napoleon
in agitating this Italian question is to
abrogate, either through war or diplomacy,
these very treaties of 1915, which were made
without any participation by France, and with
out any consideration of her rights and interests,
solely for the purpose of deposing the Bonaparte
interest in every portion of the Continent; and
that Russia, who proposes the Congress of Eu-
ropean Powers now, has strongly asserted,
through the ST. Petersburg Gazette and the seve-
raj pro-Russian journals in other European CAPT
tails, that the world has outgrown these treaties,
and that they have been repeatedly violated or
set aside we find little reason to place conf
dence in the hope Of peaceful solution of the
pending conflict through q conference from
which Austria pertinaciously excludes the true
point at issue.
The signs, too, are showing that England is
not averse to the Russo-Freuch policy of revising
the treaties of Vienna The London Post, Lord
Palmerstons organ, says:-"It has never been
question of disputiDg to any State the right of
forming alliances or treaties; but if these treaties
affect directly or indirectly other treaties con-
cluded with these parties, or if they affect other
States, the latter have the right to claim their
revision or abandonment" This comedies the
great point at issue in favor of France and shows
that if Austria comes into the present conference
she will have to consent either to revision of
the treaties of Vienna there, or to another Con
gress in which they shall be revised. The
same journal, the London Post, contains
another sharp article, presenting the dangers to
Austria which war with France would in
volve. II shows that the latter Power could not
only drive the naval power Of Austria from the
| Mediterranean, but from the Adriatic Sea also
and, by taking possession of all the cities from
| Venice to Ancona, efectually turn the base of
the line of Austrian operations in Italy and
| Lombardy. This the first Napoleon could not
| do in bis italian campaigns, because England
| drove bis fleets from the sea.
| The whole tenor Of the news indicates that the
| treaties Of Vienna must be revised whether Aus
tria consent to it or not Her exclusion of them
| from the coming diplomatic Congress does not
| settle the present difficulties in Europe by any
| means; neither does it prove that war is more
| imminent than before