The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-07-30
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SATURDAY MORNING. i. july 90 ,sa5
INTERESTING EUROPEAN MEMS.
The causes which ted TO the Arnsisticr g. The
Prisoners Of War--Ball llooas Ina Operation.


INTERESTING EUROPEAN NEWS.
The Causes which ted TO the Arnaissier-T
Prisoners Of War--Ballooas Ina Operation.
The North BrIteas foreign files bring us
some interesting extracts, from which we pub.
iish the following
THE HISTORY OF THE AgMIsricx.
iFrom the London Times Juiy III
Al nine O'Clock this (Monday) morning the
TWO, .wo Emperors Of France and Anstria are to
meet at Niilatra.ica. Napoleon having express
iy desired this friendly interview. The ar
mistiee, which took the world by surprise on
FRIDAY, was agreed to by these two principals
without the Intervention of their minister
and ~ Is not impossible that even the outline
OF peace may be settled in the same uncere-
monious manner. II is n course Of proceed
ing which offers great advantages to the more
sagacions ana the stronger of the two negotia-
tors. The armistice was the result of letter
from the Emperor of the French and Il cour-
teons reply from the Emperor of Austria, but
the public mind, excited by the sudden cessa-
ton OF the great din of war, is still anxiously
asking for or imagining occult causes and dra-
matte incidents in so unexpected an event.
The cause is undoubtedly a conviction in the
mind OF the Emperor that a suspension of hos
hiiiies is AT this moment Of time very conye-
nient and very expedient to himself. With
this conviction it is not very difficult to find a
means Of opening correspondence. Louis
Napoleon accordingly wrote to Francis Joseph
regretting the necessity he found himself uu.
der of bombarding Venice. Everything was
prepared, the fleet was quite ready to begin,
out the tender heart of the French Emperor
could not bear the emotion which the possi-
biiity OF damage to that beautiful city caused
him. For himself, his most earnest desire was
to spare that interesting monument of medic
val civilization. He put il to his Imperial en-
emy-Could nothing be done TO avert this dire
necessity
This was respectable excuse for an over
ture from the victor, and il was at the same
| I'M ,..l.nl
Francis Joseph it must have come like water
to wounded soldier. 1t came at moment
when he had no longer any confidence in his
army, and when his army had no confidence
IN him. He could not sue for peace and hold
his throne; but q truce is a different thing.
Truces are merely military arrangements,
which are sometimes followed by a renewal of
war, as they were in 1913 and iSia when they
served as n point TO mark the change from
Austrian defeats TO Austrian victories.
truce was salvation to Francis Joseph. He
| accepted it with soyness that ill-masked his
delight, and with an attention to appearances
which Napoleon with future objects in his
head, might not ba sorry to humor.
There are reasons lying upon the surface
why the Emperor of the French should desire
TO close the first chapter OF his military career.
The campaign is complete and uncheckered in
its success. The Austrians had invaded the
territory of his ally Louis Napoleon has
chased them out, and has retaliated their in
yasion. The Germans had declared through
out all their non official organs that they would
come to Austrias assistance Immediately the
French crossed the Mincio. Louis Napoleon
struck a great blow, and then passed the Min
clio in complete tranquility. He has done all
| that he desired. He has shown Austria that
she is at his mercy, and Prussia that he is
very far from fearing her. Much more than
this. he has sent Austrian standards to Paris,
and has gained victories ut the head of {.
French army. In all his previous history he
| never could be quite sure of the soidiery, for
he had not shown himself soldier: now he is
than
that the Emperor should desire to go back to
Paris and wear his laurels while they yet are
green! Surely this is better than risking q
reverse in that ll-famed Quadrilateral. A
thousand things might happen. The pestilent
marshes of the Mincio are rife in autumn fe-
| vers, and one of these might prove more fatal
| than battle. Why should he wait to break
his teeth against those solid stone walls He
has ridden his fox to earth after splendid
run, almost without check; 1t is scarcely
worth his while to wait and dig him out. So
thinks the Emperor. He leaves that trusty
old earth-stopper, Marshal Valiant, on the
watch, and, with wloop to his hounds. be
turns his horses head, and is Oft home to
Paris.
We have stated what are we think, obvious
reasons why both Emperors should agree to
the armistice SO soon as the first difficulty OF
proposing il was got over. 1t appears TO us,
however, that these reasons are no less cogent
to prevent a recurrence ofhostilities, and that
there are others of still greater import which
favor the hopes of peace. Al present the En-
broiled himself with his clergy, but the steps
which he must next have taken If the war had
proceeded could scarcely have failed to tell
unfayorably upon his relations with Rome
He had not yet committed himself TO the task
of revolutionizing hungary; but the torch
was lit and the hour was appointed at which
he was TO throw it. War is very expensive,
and even thirty millions is sum not impos-
sible to spend and if it is luxury which you
would enjoy now and then--every three years
or so-it is wise to enjoy it temperately and
to leave off unsatiated. Then there is the
glory and the profit OF magnanimlty. No one
can appreciate more perfectly than Louis
Napoleon the advantage of reIruning from
doing all that he unquestionably conld do
If he has done enough to convince Francis
Joseph that he has Austria in the hollow of
his hand, and can close his fingers on her when
he lists. he has done better than if he had
marched to Vienna. Perhaps 1t is possible to
make of an humbled enemy q grateful friend.
Napoleon III. has Il habit of levyng friends
the head of 4 recruiting party of 10000
men. Russia, now SO loyal, was enlisted
among his intimates by that heavy shake of
the hand he gave her in the Crimea. Fortune
has given him great part TO play, and he can
play it at once nobly and profitably. Say
that he gives part of his spoils to Sardinia,
and leaves Venice to Austria at the price OF
her ready submission. The Romans may
complain, and the newspapers may remind
him of his promise that Italy should he liber-
ated from the Alps to the Adriatic: but a few
spacious stipulations would fulfill this promise
TO the ear, and the Emperor of the French, III
answer to every cavil, might show to his own
people aud to the world two first rate Eu-
ropean Powers who had been his enemies, and
are now his friends he might point to Rus
sia and Austria, both humbled and bo tn spared.
We think all these considerations counsel
peace Depend upon il, Louis Napoleon has
not given a respite TO Francis Joseph merely
that the latter may buy rfied cannon and
bring down his reserves from Austria; and
Francis Joseph ha- not accepted this boon
| with other hope than that his bristling
afIrap C1a "a a
and that Hungary may have time to play her
| part in the confusion. We have seen enough
! OF Louis Napoleons military policy to note
| that he runs his races inShort heats He has
| learnt that France likes war, but that war
| TO be popular in France must be short and
| successful. Unless Austria should be
| reasonable as to insist on retaining Lombardy,
| aud refuse TO withdraw from further inter-
| meddling in ltaiy-an obstlnacy which we
| cannot imagine, for it would amount to judi
! cal blindness--we do not anticipate any more
| deeds of arms ON the Mincio.- The army OF
| Italy has gathered its lanrels, and may be con-
| tent The army of the Rhine is not yet fully
! mustered, and when brought into position 1t
| villas we shall be duly informed in the
| Moniteur-only be there TO check any ambi-
| tious enterprise on the part of Prussia against
! the integrity OF the French empire.
From the Liverpool Post.l
1t will lie seen that this is precisely what
| Louis Napoleon proposed two or three years
ago 1t was his ''idea' then, and he never
| abandons an idea. The plan was pronounced
at the time impracticable, and il is difficult to
conjecture how il will work. The Presidency
of the Pope, although only Mominal, implies a
constitution not exactly in accordance with
| the promise n,ade TO the Italians when the
Emperor left Paris. He then said that the
people were TO choose their own form of goy-
erninent and that his first object was to expel
the Ausirians from Italy. The Anstriaiss are
not expelled. Francis Joseph retains Venetia,
and MAKES a present Of Lombardy To ms now