Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-06-04

lHE LONDON ZINES on THE WAR.-Wc
take from an editorial in the Times of the llth
ult., the following interesting estimate of the
impending struggle in Italy:
"'rhe brilliant campaigns of Nupolcon's youth
were made at the head Of few thousand men,
Marengo itself was gained by 5000, but the
war OF 1905 actively employed about $50 900
French, while in the campaigns of Wagram,
Moscow. and Leipsic VIC have incomparably
larger armies brought into the field on both
sides. Now the war of 1859 begins on the CO.
lossal scale Of the later Empire, and the armies
employed may attain dimensions such as no
single State has hitherto been capable Of pro-
ducing. Presuming he struggle 10 be confined
to France and Austria, and to the field Of Nor
thern Italy, We shall have spectacle Of com
bat in closed lists such as the world has never
before Witnessed If both the antagonists fgh,
well aud -,ui,bo, "i,, .h~i,""a;., iii bs 90 ia
teresting to the military critic gievous to the
philantpropist.
Both France and Austria will be able to
march almost all of their enormous armies TO
the seat of war. Germany will, while the war
is confined to Italy, be sufficiently the ally of
Austria to guaranty her from any attack in the
rear from Russia, but not sufficiently TO disturb
France by any demonstration on the Rhine. 1t
may be said that, for some time to come nj
least, the influence of Germany will have the
effect of leaving both sides free to use all their
strength against each other. That they will
use it there is no doubt The seat of war ad-
joins the territory Of each, railways and steam
ers transport their troops easily, and most of
the long marches which cnfeebled and diminish.
cd armies in the days Of Napoleon will be
avoided. Enormous masses of armed men can
be taken TO the country they are to fight in as
comfortably as if they were making a change Of
quarters. With this facility of transport, and
this power of using the whole of their great
standing armies, we must expect TO see two
great hosts gathered together on the plains Of
Italy surh as no two single States ever yet OPP
posed to each other The numbers we do not
pretend even to guess at. The French are
pushing troops over the Alps, and loading their
ships of war with soldiers for Genoa. The sup
ply of food will be the only limit to the num-
bci which ran thus be brought into the field
The French probably have their information
about the Austrian army, as the Court of Wen
ma has its own about French proceedings. But
Englishmen are allowed to know little about
the matter. There is, however, no doubt that
the Power which sent quarter of million of
men to Scbastopol within eighteen months will
be able to send that number into Northern
Italy. Considering that the whole of Italy.
with 27,OOO,000 people, may shortly be in in
surrcction, and that Sardinia has some 10000
troops of her own already, it may be rcckoned
without exaggeration that more than 800, 900
men may, in the next two months be put in line
to drive the Austrians from their carefully chos-
en- and now famous positions in Lombardy.-
On tie other hand, Austria can, and will, no
doubt, bring ar equal force into the field. She
does not want men, for the empire contains 49,
100000 souls, without counting the Italian
Provinces. If the Finance Minister can find
the money to keep 800, 900 men OH foot in Italy,
General Gyulai will find work for them ALL
They will not be men to fight with the spirit and
dash of Frenchmen, but they will be find steady
troops, superior in physique to their enemies !;
they will have all that science has achieved in
the way of perfect weapons of destruction, and
they will be commanded by officers who know
that the eyes of Europe are upon them and
that they must fight now for the very existence
of their Empire"