The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-05-19
DETAILS OF THE NEWS BY THE
PERSIA.

PERSIA.
Our readers will be interested in taking .
! glimpse at the official communications betwe,-D
the European belhgerents, preliminary to an
| open declaration of war. The following extract
| from the Austrian Manifesto to Sardinia OK
hibits tone of insulting assumption Of super
GRITTY, which is anything but pacific:
by order of his Majesty, Count Won Bu,
/ Schaennstein has addressed to Count Cayour
the chief of the Turin Cabinet, a note. TEN
SchreibeR,) i'll which the Royal Sandman Gov
| eminent is summoned to disarm. The sum
mons, which is conciatory in spirit though
urgent is made with all the earnestness of a
! last admOnition, an admoniton that NAV be-
! followed by the most serious consequences
| "lf Sardinia, a consequence Of this step
which is accompanied by the representation,
of other European Powers, places its army op
| apeace footing, (kehrt zum friedeRStlS zurakD
| 1t knows that is, by the given word of Austria
! secure from any attack.
1t is not the intention of the Imperial Gov
! eminent to retract the proposition it before
! made-whch can at once and even before tho
! opening of the proposed Congress, lead to an
! arrangement between those great Powers that
| have made extraordinary ornaments for
! general return to peace footing. Austria still
! holds to that proposition without making auy
! alteration in it, although she cannot qHolr The
! steps rhich she has HoW res0lced on tQklg
against Sardinia to be mate subject to he fot,re
negotiations on the question otgeneral disarmq.
| meHt.'
The Austrian demand was received with
great Indignation by the Sardinians, and the
! Legislative Chambers proceeded at once, on
| the motion Of Count Cavour, to invest the King,
Victor Emanuel, with dictatorial powers The
King Immediately published patriotic procls
nation, in which he says, Let our banners
announce to you that our object, like our war
cry is, Independence to Italy !"
We also subjoin the material portion of the
French counter manifesto made by Count
WHewski to the Corps Legislatif on the 18th
ult After stating the readiness of the Emperor
to accede to the Prussian proposition of Peace
Congress, on the terms proposed by England,
he says:
Yet, at the very moment when the Govern
ment of the Emperor thought it might nourish
the hope of a dehnitive entente, we learn that
the Court of Austria refused to accept the prop
osition Of her Britannia Majesty, and ad
eminent. While, on the one side, the Cabinet
of Vienna persists in not conserving to the ad-
mission of the Italian States to tho Congress,
the meeting OF which it thus renders impossible
on the other hand, IL demands of Piedmont 10
place her army on peace footing and to dis
band her volunteers-that is to saw to concede
without delay, and to Austria alone, that which
it had already granted to the Powers, under the
sole reserve of coming TO All understanding with
them about it.
:" need not bring into relief the character of
this step, nor dwell longer upon it to demonstrate
the sentiments of moderation which, on the con.
trary, have never ceased to animate the Gov.
eminent of the Emperor. If the reiterated eff
forts Of the four Powers to maintain peace have
met with obstacles, our conduct publicly attests
that those obstacles did not come from France
Finally, gentlemen, if war is to be the result OF
the present complications, the Government of
his Majesty will have the firm conviction of hav.
ing done everything which its dignity allowed
IT to prevent that extremity and it is not upon
il that the responsibility can be made 10 rest
| The protestations which the Governments Of
Great Britain, Of Russia, and of Prussia, have
addressed to the Court of Austria, attest that
full justice is already rendered to us in that re-
spect
"In presence of this state of things If Sar-
be presumed, her territory is invaded. France
cannot hesitate to respond to the appeal of a
nation, her ally, to which she is bound by com.
mon interests and traditional sympathies. re-
generated by recent confraternity in arms
and by the union contracted between the two
reigning Houses"
The ALLIANCE BETWEEN FRANCE AND Rus
sTA.-The London Times, on the 23d April,
tor a To- tod
of an alliance between France and Russia, and
intimates that England will be forced into the
war, in order to resist the ambitious aims of
this despotic coalition.
From the Time s. April 2s
awe believe we may state, from AUTHORITY not
likely to prove incorrect, that the provisions Of
the treaties Just concluded between France and
Russia--for we understand there are two-are
Of this import
By the first treaty, Russia binds herself in
the event of France being at war with Austria,
to assist France by the cooperation of her fleets
in the Baltic and the Mediterranean, aud,
moreover, to place an army of observation, Of
not less than $4,000, on the Austrian frontier.
This is the first treaty, and it is obviously d.
rected Immediately against England. France
can have nothing to fear from the navy of Aus
it must be against some firstclass naval Power,
and what other is there than England. This
treaty is an agreement between France and
Russia to unite the fleets ofthe two Empires in
order to keep the navy Of England in check,
while one or both Of the contracting parties may
be engaged in effecting some object hostile to
the interest or security of Great Britain. 1t IS
plain that the parties TO this compact do not
count upon the neutrality of England and the
existence Of this precautionary treaty is in it.
self proof that the enterprises which are thus
to be protected are such as it would be impos-
sible for England to allow to pass unchallenged.
"The Russian army of observation is no less
significant than the unity Of the Imperial navies.
This corps will, of course, be employed to ex-
cite instruction among the Hungarian and
Sclave subjects of Austria, and it requires no
great stretch of imagination to foresee how
quickly the flames would rise, and how far they
would spread We cannot tell the character
nor measure the scope Of the secret under
standing which has prompted this offensive al
liance-perhaps the great design may rest upon
the Rhine on the one side, and may compre-
bend the Principalities, or even lean upon the
Bosphorus, on the other. 1t is hard to believe
that so small matter as an Italian war could
have rendered necessary such gigantic precau
tons against the navy of England, or such
menacing demonstrations against the eastern
provinces of Austria.
/" 1t may have been foreseen that the inten'
tons of the two allied despots must provoke the
resistance of all Germany, and render necessary
the blockade of the ports upon the Baltic and
it NAV have been considered that, however
peaceable may be the intentions of England,