The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-13
EUROPE.

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EUROPE
The London Times, which has all along inclined
to an Austrian view ofthe continental diffculties
spoke as follows on the 25th of April:
England is perhaps the only disinterested friend
Who lor Austria own sake, and for the cause of
humanity and for the prevention of bloodshed and
IN the nope OF peace, is honestly anxious that she
should not do a madman's act and set fire tn the
four corners of Europe. Other powers have their
own polcy and their own interests. Russia can
scarcely have yet taught herself to look upon the
events OF 1857 as ancient history Prussia is rival
as well as an ally, and it is not ten wears since the
troops OF the two great German powers were drawn
up IN opposing lines. But England especialIv
under tory government and gently influenced tn
GermanIc sympathies, is prudent friend, whose
advice should not be lightly thrown away.
III Is remarkable, as an untoward result of our
present minister's necessities that while the younp
est constitutional monarchy in Europe is ready st
great crisis to speak by the voice of it's Parlia-
ment, and to resolve upon acts of devoted patrio
tsm the eldest of all constitutional thrones is left
without Parliament, and the English people have
no representatives to prompt national policy or
10 control the course which may be taken BY the
ministry OF minority. We believe that if Emo
llsh opinion could now make itself known throuGb
the usual Parliamentary medium il would snp9L
so loudly to Austria that at this last moment
her enterprise would be stayed. All that Lord
Deroy SAID to France, and much more than Lord
Derby ventured to say to France the voice of the
country would now say to Austria
But AUSTRIA has outstripped her enemies She
has surprised France she was leisurely putting
on her armor and she has come upon Sardinia
like strong man upon small noisy rioter shout
ing defiance to an adversary whom he believed to
be at distance. 1t is clever, and it is promptly
done. Austria has the opening of the oame in her
own hands; her forces may swarm across the from
tier river; she may perhaps destroy or disperse the
hp thn brol-
INTO the three great Sandman fortresses or IN into
the passes of the Western Alps; she NAV cover the
open country; she may intlct upon Sardinia the
modification of occupying her capital: and she ma.
teach the inhabitants ofTurin what are the habitu
al suiterlngs OF the inhabitants of Lombardy But
is this all? Is this all that is necessary for Austria
to accomplish? Net so. She will, when all this
mas, mas peen done have only given the signal for the
real conflict She will have done an act of stupid
force. She will not only have put herself in the
wrong with the conservative powers of Europe but
she will have destroyed the only grounds upon
which they could have given her assistance
With General Gyulai at Turin where then are
the treaties of 1915? With Austria in possession of
Sardinia, the Bonapartes, who even now passiveIy
repudlate the deeds of the Congress of Vienna wifi
re-enter INTO the full rights of bellgerents What
rght shall we then have to say to Sardinia and her
allies "Thus far shall ye go and no further?" The
rst Austrian picket that passes the Ticino will tear
tne seals from All those treaties under which Aus
trla now holds her Italian provinces; the first Aus
TRAN cannon that booms upon Sardinian soil will
salute the freedom of the Italian peninsula. This
is not war that can be decided by hastv march
however primarily successful. What Austria holds
in Italy she owes to the mutual jeaouses of Euro
pean Powers operating at Vienna in 1915: by eros
sing the Ticino she will destroy this her ONLY title
and throw all chances of Austrian power in Italy
upon the fortune of arms.
Built up by alliances, bv marriages. and nv trea-
ties, she seizes moment of quite exceptional mill
tary preponderance to throw up all her acknowl-
edged proprietary rights and to trust all to the DOW
er OF force and to right by conquest vet to be ac-
CURED; This seems to us so much more like an
act ofdesperation than policy based upon sound
counsel that We cannot even yet abandon the hone
that she may stay her hand before she casts this ter
rlble die If, however, this hope should be disap-
pointed, then we can see but one ultimate conse-
quence. Europe, which was ready up to the time
OF TINS fatal invasion, to make a hard bargain, per-
haps too hard a bargain for italy, will Thereafter
be content with nothing less than the retreat of the
Austrians behind the Alps
The Gtode's Paris correspondent, writing on the
oath, says
''lf the bulk of the French nation had been adj
verse or even Indifferent to war against the Ans
TRANS for the rescue of Italy, anv doubt on the
nature OF public feeling is imr ossible in the face
OF the enthusiasm that pervades Paris and all
France. Since Friday night have been in the fam
bourgs and in the wOrkmen's quarter; most of the
factories stop work at this season. and the peonle
were in groups (Which no policemen now dispersel
discussing the war and venting their Indignation
against PAutrtchien. All along from the RastiIa
through Rue St. Antoine the sound of war SONGS
from various wine shops betokened how the wind
| blows, and the departing regiments. knapsacked
and joyous, were followed by crowds cheering even
during the night and early dawn to the Lyons Rail
way The announced participation of Napoleon
ILL.,, personally, in the peris of the campapn was
all that was wanted to identify him in the mind of
the masses with the memories of the great uncle !"
:, L0rd Shaiteshury, who is the head of the Exeter
i1all interest, and sOn-in-law of Lord Palmerston
has addressed the following note to the Record
Inc tone OF 1T is strangely in contrast with most OF
the late ministerial speeches, and may be regarded
as klnd OF manifesto to the religious public:
Sir: Sardinia having accepted the propositions
made to her by England and Prussia the medatinp
Powers, and having exhibited her full willingness
Tor the maintenance of peace, is to be basely and
cruelty attacked by the Emperor of Austria
"0n which side should be the homes and nravors
OF the British people there be little question:
Sardinia has declared and proved herself to be the
defender OF civil and religious liberty in Italy. She
has raised the Waldenses from degredation and sns
tering, and planted their church in the nrncinaI
places of Genoa and Turin; she permits the free
preaching of Gods Word in public and in private.
and where on the Continent is the circulation of the
scriptures open, wide so countenanced hv tho
authorities of the State? Her policy is TO resist tbe
encroachments of the Church of Rome; nav fur
ther, 1T Is to SEEK by all legitimate means the total
aoolltlon OF the secular power of the Papacy
austria, on the contrary is opposed to every
there be one thing that she hates more than
another, 1T is civil and religious liberty. What
human being or what sacred principle is she now
endeavoring to rescue from degradation and suffar
ing? She is the chief, perhaps in fact. the sole
! support of Papal tyranny and misgovernment in
Central Italy The Protestants in Hungary and
other parts OF her dominions attest the bigotrv
OF her rule; while her rigorous prohibition to adj
init the Scriptures, and her despotic seizure of
whole depos in 1853 and the TRANSFORMATION of their
contents beyond the frontier amidst as the report
says, the unavang tears and sighs of tens of thou
sands of the people, show that she had no claim
whatever on the sympathies of the British nation
I'm the deplorable absence of the Houses of Par
lament there can be no expression of the public
voice. But let us all, sngly unitedly wherever
and whenever we can, impore Almighty God that
the nascent of truth and Justice religion and
piety,' may, by His blessing, speedily and uniyer-
sally prevail in lands so long in thraldom to ignor-
ance and oppression"
| The London Neos says of the rumored treaties he
tween France and Russia:
No such treaties exist as the Times described ves
terday. 1t is not true that "Russia has bound her
self, IN the event of France being at war with Aus
trla, to assist France by the co-operation of her
fleets in the Baltic and Mediterranean" il ia not
true that any treaty ''that in case Austria
shouio invade SARDINIA, Russia shall declare war
against her within fifteen days of her violation of
| the Piedmontese soi'' So far from having formed
combinations with Russia, which NAV affect the
Rhine and the Bosphorus, the French Emperor has
not oeen able to obtain, even if he has sought the
cooperation OF Alexander III. on the Po Many
| Engllshmen, we suspect, would hear with intense
satisfaction That ''Russia had engaged to declare
war against Austria within fifteen days of her vio-
lation of the Piedmontese soil;" but, unfortunate
| ly, it is not true.
The convention or agreement to conclude treaty,
Just signed between France and Russia, belongs to
the same class of diplomatic documents as that
which England signed with Austria at an early
period OF the Crlmean war. That compact, it NAV
be remembered, never took effect, because Austria
at no time recognized that the conditions upon
which it was to become operative had come into
existence. The contingency upon which the pres
| agreement calculated is II ;S
rected against England, but is intended to ensure
the neutrality of the rest of Europe while France
and Austria fight in Italy Its aim is to circum.
ing hostties to their original theatre. between The
Alps and the Mediterranean. 'N'
At the nomination in the city, Lord John Russell