Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-05-20
The Foreign Details.


We find some few additional items which, if not very
important, may, at least prove interesting.
Perhaps the most important item is that which
nounces the conclusion OF convention or treaty between
France and Russia with the terms of that convention
If these terms are correctly reported then England is
aimed at we'll Austria else there would be no mean
ing in the first provision by which, in the event OF war
with Austria Russia binds herself to assist France with
her fleets in the Baltic and Mediterranean, and to place
an army of observation" consisting of fifty thousand
men, on the Austrian frontier. OF course, since Austria
has virtually no feet and France has large one, the
Russian cooperation only be designed to bold En-
gland in check 1t is even said that the French and
Russian have recently been procuring large
supplies of charts of the English coasts and Of the
English stations in the Mediterranean. 1t is said,
that Spain will throw herself into the arms of France
The fact that revolutions have taken place in Tus-
cany and perhaps Parma ard Modena shows the state
of feeling existing throughout Italy Perhaps the fol-
lowing extract sets forth as plainly anything we have
seen, the ostensible
CAUSE OF THE WAR-Austria claims that she right
ly owns and controls Lombardy and Venice; that she
has right to control them she sees fit that IN order
to do this she must maintain with the several neghbor
ing italian States such an influence will render her
Lombardo-V enitian sovereignty safe. Therefore, she
keeps up partial military occupancy OF the central
Italian States and virtually rules in all Italy. Sardin-
ia is the only large Italian province which is an excep
ton. There Austria has power, and the polty OF
Sardinia which favorable to the establishment OF con-
stitutonal governments in Italy, is hostile to that of
Austria which tends to the maintenance OF the stctest
military despotism Sardinia and France sympathizng
with her. the contrary claim that the Austrian occu
patton of Italy is injurious in its effects on the Italian
States prevents the development of that country and
10 v OF
1915. They demand the abandonment of the Austrian
occupation of Italy and the Sandman frontier and that
Austria shall to exercise any control in Ia
ian affairs than the other great powers. These demands
Austria refuses to comply with alleging that her policy
in Italy is necessary to her own protection IN her own
dependencies of Venice and Lombardy These matters
have been in controversy for three years France and
Sardinia proposed in 1856 the consideration OF this sub
ect by the Congress of the European powers. Austria
would not consent to this Diplomatic negotiations were
carried on, however, between France and Austria, but
the difference has grown wider and wider the longer the
discussion has continued until they propose to set
tie the whole affair by a resort to arms.
The King of Sardinia has issued proclamation
in which he announces his object independence tc
Haly!" This will bring to his banner the people O.
most of the Italian States and perhaps compel the Sow
ereigns.
The Tcino about which much has been said and which
miles long which rises on the South decvity of Mt st
Gothard traverses Lake Maggore forms the boundary
between Austrian Italy and Piedmont and falls into tn
Pc near Pavia 1t takes its name from the little Sws
Canton of 1icino in which it rises.
Novara is city of Piedmont, not far from the from
tiers of the Austrian territory, being distant only
miles from Milan, the capital of I,ombardy. Its popu
laon is about eighteen thousand On the plains befor
this city fought about ten years since the decsiv
battle which laid Sardinia PROSTATE at the feet of Aus
tria and compelled the abdcation of Charles Albert.
Aessandria is city of Piedmont, 5634 miles E.
f. of Turin, on the railroad from Turin to Genoa.
is the only strong place in Piedmont around which
stand could be made against an invading army of supc
ror force and is therefore, frequently referred to in tn
dispatches Of the EUROPEAN news. Two miles south
east of Alssandria is the plain of Marengo celebrate
for the great victory obtained by the French over tn
Austrians, on the I4th June, 1900.
These things gathered from the Gazetteer and Map
may not be easily accessible to ALL but may possibly as
sist in giving better understanding Of the repore
, movements.