Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-04-05

discussion on the SUBJECT Vi tnc oISut".'o'
England, Of Camaran, q petty isiand Ill inc
Red Sea, with some maritime advantages, IL
is q fact, nevertheless. that the English as
a people, who have protested a general disDeiiet
concerning the success OF the cutting oil ire
Isthmus Of Suez, take good care to secure ior
themselves the control Of the projected canals
outlet in the Red Sea If we add to this,
the debate now going on between the English
and the French government, touching the fstl-
cries Of Newfoundland. in which debate both
parties declared that they would do the utmost
to maintain their rights, it will be clearthat mat
ter for picking up a quarrel would not be want
ing if only sought for.
The threatening war has called attention 10
the neutral territory, separating France from
Italy. Should the war break out, a French corps
d'armGe will doubtless be directed towards
Piedmont BY Mont.Cenis. According 10 the
final act Of the Congress Of Vienna. and the
treaty Of Paris of the Goth November, 1919, a
| large portion of the territory of Savoy Is com.
prisei in the Swiss neutrality. as recognized
and guaranteed by the great powers. In case OF
war, it is formally interdictcd to any foreign
| army to traverse that neutral territory, or 10
take up a position there, with the exception oil
the army of Switzerland, charged to watch over
| It's lQNlO!1Olllly. L ndS LACEY W "H
provisional contract had been entered into be-
tween the French government and the Sandman
Railway Company for conveying, in case Of
war. French troops towards Mount Gents, and
! this line is constructed in the zone rendered
neutral by the public law Of Europe from the
bridge Of Culoz on the Rhone, to the neighbor.
| hood of Aix-les- Bains. This circumstance has
! thrown the Federal government into great per-
; plexity, and formed the object OF a communlca-
ton to the Sandman Minister at Berne. DIR.
! Kern, its Minister in Paris, has also been
| charged to notify to the French government
the formal opposition Of Switzerland to the
! conveyance of any troops on the railway in
| question. So pastoral. old Helvctia contemplatcs
! some warlike duties at hard, and probably, lest
they should fall short of their tlme-honored
reputation in shooting. the Swiss Federal Coun-
ell has concluded a convention between the
! military department on the one hand, and
| Lieutenant Colonel Burnand and n. Prelaz,
an armorer, on the other. for the transformation
into rifles of iii, 900 ordinary muskets belong
ing to the Federal army. The operation must
be completed in one year, but II necessary, IN
six months.
An Austrian view Of the question appeared
lately in a correspondence Of the New York
Herald" The correspondent assumes that
the virtual ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Austria was de-
cided upon in q treaty concluded between Rus
! sia, Sardinia and France, and the policy Of Aus
tria is to be now involved in a question Of life
and death. Austria is at the same time depict
ed as being at the present day in the best pos
| sible condition for success in the struggle. The
new and young Emperor has revived mis- En-
pire by throwing away the old policy Of Joseph
III, whose bancful effects brought Austria to
decay as shown by the events of lS4S. The
correspondent alludes to the rejection of the
system called 'JoSephinism' that had cut off
from Rome the Roman Catholic Clergy, sub
shutting to the supremacy Of the Holy Sec
that of the Emperor himself, constituting an
Austrian Catholicism and an Imperial Clergy
no less dependent on the government than
the police and the army themselves. Hence,
general and continued dissatisfaction through
the immense catholic population Of THE Empire.
The late concordate has inended the evil that
proved upon Austria for above seventy years,
the former rights of the Holy See are recog-
nized, the population have been satisfied and
will now stand all like one man for the defence
of their Regeneration. These facts are true to a
certain extent. and any one attentive TO Euro
pean politics might have marked a revisement
in the Austrian policy at home
For our own part We had not attributed it
to the same causes, nor had we deduced the
same consequences therefrom. We thought
and still think, that Austria had given mp the
ancient rivalry with Prussia for prominence
among the German States, finding it impossible
to conciliate the Protestant majority of Germans
to the supremacy Of a Roman Catholic State.
however independent and severed from Rome
it might be. by q system (the Josephinism) that
proved unable to give satisfaction to the deep,
STEADY, settled religious spirit Of the Lutherans,
and apt only to discomfort and ALLEVIATE the no
less convinced Catholics, than to give Prussia the
sway of Protestant States, and to Austria the
power over Roman dominions. 1t is atransforma-
ton, it is Germany spreading, stretching out its
boundaries and striving to absorb and assimilate
a southern country. The Austrian rulers in
Italv are German settlers, sword in hand. They
arc not conquerors for power. but for regcnera-
ton; ruling over 1.ombardo-F cnctia is not the
aim: but crushing the old genius Of the abo-
rhymes, casting them into q new mould, making
ones self at home in other peoples dwellings.
Sovereignty won't do; Identification and renun-
citation is the want. The resistance opposed is
great, as a passive one, but the German states
men are strongheaded they know that spring
on being pressed upon bounds up again with
greater strength; but they are aware too that a
spring too long compressed. ceases to he spring
and gives way. 1t is a duel; vino will stand
last, the hammer. or the anvil? That is Our
view of the question.
The same newspaper New York 'IIerald")
has also recently published an accurate trans
lation of the manifesto of the Red Republicans
so called. That paper remarks, in an edito-
rial, that there is more sagacity in their views
than usually characterizes the maniicstoes of
the party from which they cmanatc. Had they
exercised the prudence which they now exhibit,
a little earlier, they would have spared them
selves the ridicule which usually attends abor-
tive efforts like theirs"
What does the New York "Herald" know =?
How can it either blame or approve: Where
is the common measure between its money
making principles, and the money and ~life-sac.
riicing principles Of the others? Ne rus NJ
merriam.
The following is the conclusion Of the mani
fcsto THAT one tyrant should chastize ano.
Their nothing is more Just; and we should even
aid in that task if he were not to replace the
other-if he said not make room for me- 1t is
because we love Italy as n second France that
we say have mistrust and patience. How can
Rome and Venice envy Paris, that cannot even
elect her Mayor? Our misery, our slavery,
are common-our liberty, our victory, will also
he common. We owe to Italy a great repara-
tion-let us remcmbcr-for not having at once
delivered it, we had to subdue it, and to sub
due ourselves after. Such is the graduation, in
stead of going direct to her assistance Lamar
tine said: The blood Of France belongs only
to those who claim it, and the Kings replied
Fitala .far" da Sc Afterwards, Cavaignac
said: The blood OF France belongs only to
France And, finally. Bonapartc said: The
blood of France belongs to the Pope and the
Emperor And the 18th of June We pro-
tested, but in vain sacrificed, our right of To-
therland to assert that Of the Romans. Let
not, therefore, Rome accuse us Of having de-
serted her cause-let her not join the patriots