Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-05-14
THE MEN OF THE TIME.

We cOndense the following sketches of some
OF the lending men in the impending stI uggle,
| from various sources:
Victor Emanuel IL, King of Sardinia, which
| country bears almost the same relation to the
| pending European war that Turkey did to the
Crimean is one of the prominent actors in the
great drama now being enacted on the Eastern
hemisphere The House of Savoy. of which he
Is the head, desccnds from the old Counts of
Sardinia
The latest news places General Mamora in
command OF the Sandman army, ready to CO.
operate with Louis Napoleon sgainst Austria
MI moments notice. General MamOra is an
Old and tried soldier. When the Crimean war
Drokc out, and Sardinia joined the Western
Powers against Russia, and the Sandman con-
unSent was raised, heiwas placed in comma nd
went to the Crimea. and behaved in the noblcst
manner, making himself famous as ono of the
generals of Europe.
The Marquis D'AZcglio has figured in the
quarrel very prominently. lie is the Sardin-
IAN ambassador, and one Of the oldest families
IN PledmOnt, and one Of considerable distinc-
ton at the present time
The firm stand taken by Count Cavour, tho
Sandman prime minister, to compel the ad mis-
sion of the Sandman Government TO A renro
sentatlOn IN the proposed European Peace Con-
Sress, and to enforce n recognition of the
Importance of that Power among the gr.at
nations Of Europe, has marked him as promi-
hent man IN view Of the impending war. aud
OF the part in it which ia necessarily assiyI ed
MIN, lie was born IN Turin, August 10, Is 10,
and belongs to an ancient and wealthy family
of Piedmont ''
Inc name of Joseph Mary Garibsld,-be
who now commands tho ten thousand Italian
volunteers in defence Of Sardinia against AM
trials suggestive of liberty, and By many of
ms countrymen he is revered, almost as a
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the outcast, the fugitive the prisoner tbo
pamphleteer and the Emperor-the eve, of the
world arc now fixed, as upon an arbiter of the
destinies of Europe wv
Francois Certain Canrobert. Marshal Of
France, Senator, was born in the wear 1870
ana belongs to an honorable family of Bre-
tagne.
paraguay d IIilIiers. il is announced bv tho
Niagara, viii command one Of tho divisions of
the french army to cooperate with Sardinia
anu Is therefore of note in the present crisis
lie was IN lol military governor of Rome and
c0nmander-in-chief of the French army in
Italy, though formerly he had been q French
prisoner of war in POrichester castle and st n
time when no parole was granted To anv pris-
Oner, whatever might be his rank
Count jacques Louis Cesar Alexandra Ran
don, Marshal of France, formerly Minister and
Senator-nOW named as the Msjor General ON
tho Piedmontese frOntier-was born at Grepo
BILE, on the 25th Of March, 1875.
Francis Joseph. Emperor of Austria vbobas
been so energetically preparing for war in
spite Of his youth and ine1perienee and Of the
Napoleon with whom he has to deal. in connec-
tion with the infuriated liberals Of italy, has
undoubtedly been actuated by a determined
ambition. He was born in August, 1880. and
ls consequently but nearly twenty nine wears
of age. He is a son of the Arcbiuke Fr,nc;s
Joseph. His titles, besides that of Emperor of
Austria, are King of Hungary and Bohemia.
King of Lombsrdy and Venice, Archdukc of
Austria and other minor titles