Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-08-13
II H e p K A G e.
Comments OF tho New York Press.

From the Times of the 25th.
The war in Italy has been ended, without
Congress of the Great Powers, by the victo
Z ries Of France and the wisdom or the fears O
o Austria. The peace that was broken in tn,
end of April on the banks of the 'Ticino, ha.
, been restored again in the beginning of July
on the Adige. The Austrian Emperor, wht
marched his armies to Sardinia in the Spring
lord of Lombardy and Venice, and supreme
arbiter of Italy, withdraws them in the sum
J, mer within the narrow lines of single pro-
!, vince; and consenting to hold his place in
= Italy as an Italian Prince, submits to meet
Italian Princes as his peers in new Confede.
ration. .'.. -..
Italy has become Italian from the Adratic
to the Alps; and Europe, which for months
has been lavishing abuse upon the Emperor Of
the French, as the desperate disturber of the
peace of the world, stands now amazed to
see him lead his legions back to Paris without
asking rood of land to be added to the fair
domains of France. The imagined conqueror
contents himself with great work of peace !;
the deceitful despot keeps his word with Eu-
closing of the fearful drama which for months
past has kept not Europe only, but the world,
upon the rack of mingled interest and horror,
and Joy. Those mighty hosts arrayed along
the Mincio and the Adige no longer menace
mankind with new visions of slaughter. Into
myriads of homes, beside the Danube and the
Seine, the glad intelligence will carry such
relief as we, so far removed from trials such
as there have tried the simple peasant hearts
of Austria and France for weary weeks, may
fancy perhaps, but happily for US and ours
cannot truly measure.
From the Herald, 25th.
All Italy is to be elevated into a confedera-
ton, with the Pope as honorary President
Austria is to retain possession of Vcnitia, in
cluding the famous quadrangle with it's four
impregnabe fortresscs, but as an integral por-
ton of the Italian confederacy, with Francis
Joseph as its King. Lombardy is conceded
to the Emperor of the French, who, in con-
formty with his declaration that g Austria
should rule to the Alps or Italy be free to the
Adriatic," transfers it to Victor Emmanuel
Such are the bases of the peace as telegraph
ed to Paris by Louis Napoleon himself A
startling result of the campaign, truly, and
one that recalls with speculative wonder the
| language of those brilliant proclamations
which the French Emperor enunciatcd from
Milan when he spoke of the dawning hopes
of Italian independence, and reminded his
soldiers that the spirits of their forefathers
were looking down upon them from the
heights Of heaven approvingly upon their cf-
forts in behalf of liberty.
In the wars of the old Napoleon, the Aus
trian Generals were wont to complain that he
| fought and beat them in defiance of all the
| rules and regulations Of war-that when they
| had whipped hun secun1uDs drtena, he had,
contrary to all art and rule, most provoking
| ly whipped them. What Napoleon First was
| in war, Napoleon the Third appears to be in
diplomacy. With him all the old rules which
govern antiquated craftsmanship are thrown
aside as an incumbrance in the achievement
| of important results, and a new mode of set
tling the difficulties of nations is introduced,
which sstonishes the world with a succession
of brilliant diplomatic coups, producing
startling effect upon the public mind, and eff.
fecting wondrous revolution in the old sys-
tenn of red -tapeism and crcumlocutoTy states
mahshiP. '' =
| From the Tribune of the 2ah.
The italian war is over. On the Sth inst,
an armistice was, to the surprise ofevcry one,
concluded between France and Austria. Three
days afterward the two Emperors had an in
tcrview, which resulted in a peace of which
to all present hopes of Italian Independence
An ''italian Ooifcderatcnn is to lie termed
under the Honorary Presidency of the Pope
the King of Sardinia, who succeeds to Aus
tria's "rights in Lombardy," is to be one
member, and Austria herself in SO far as con-
Germs Venice, which she will retain, another
What rights the members of this "Italian
Confederation' are to enjoy, what position
the Pope will, as Honorary President." y
occupy, whether the condition of the Papal
States is to be improved in any respect,
whether Venice is any better off than she was
before, whether the Grand Dukes are to be re-
instated, how the King Of Naples is to stand
what, in word, is the full import Of this
"Italian Confederation, and what part Aus
trian or French bayonets are henceforth to
play in the Peninsula, are questions yet to be
answered.
Our sole source of information touching the
treaty is brief telegram from Napoleon
The London press appears to be much in the
dark the friends of freedom are justly alarm
cd for the future.
1t may be that Louis Napoleon has done
the best thing he could do under the extraor-
dinary circumstances which surrounded him
the mediating influences Of England; the dis
inclination of Russia to sanction an appeal to
the Hungarian nationality; and last, and most
embarrassing, the complication in which the
position Of the Pope, as temporal sovereign,
involved him. AS for his mission regarding
the freedom of all Italy, his diplomatic COM
binations with kossuth and the other Hunga-
rian leaders, and the future prospects of Gar
ibaldi and his volunteer leg;ons-these are
matters which time must explain and devel-
upe.
1t appears that by the terms of the armis-
tice agreed to at Yillafrarca on the 9Th by the
representatives of the three belligerent Pow
ers, the Austrians were to be permitted to
provision the four fortresses of the quadrilate-
raj But three days after the armlstce was
signed, the two Emperors had personal in
teryiew, at which the terms of peace, as above
stated, were mutually agreed to, by which we
behold Plus the Ninth, whose arrival at Sandy
Hook as an exile it was thought might have
been daily announced, is now placed nominal
ly at least al the head of affairs, not only in
the Papal States, but nall Italy, the ruler of
twenty-six millions of people
| Verify, tn war in Italy has come to an un-
| looked for and ;h1a t;Op