New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-06
New:llorx Daily @ibm,re
FRANCE.
Prom Oar Own Correspondent

nothing new Of the war Letter writer's who had
accompanied the allied army as far as Milan, have
been dismissed from headquarters The silence is
ominous; We 1--we in daily expectation that it will
be brok IN by the thunder Of artillery accompany
ing such storm Of "lesden rain and iron hail 40
has Dot burst ,ince Waterloo. The battle may
now be raging Three days ago the Austrian
forces, aiter evacuating Montechiaro and blowing
up the bridge over the Chese, seemed TO have taken
petition with their right at Lonato, covering the
road TO Peschiers, their center on the nights Of
CsstiglioBe defending the rosd TO Mantua, and
their left at CssteLGofredo. One does not need to
be military man 10 the strength Of their posi-
ton. French and Austrians have fought on this
ground before. Will the latter attempt to hold it
now against the Allies, or still retire behind
the Mincio within their quadrilateral The
general opinion is that they will retire. Events are
likely go room to give decided answer to the ques-
iiOD, that may well spare you my coDjectures The
movements Of the Allies are going on in the direc
tons indicated by the previous Intelligence Carl
baldi with division of Sandman regular troops,
was, a. last accounts, midway between Bresca and
LoDato-just southwark Of him, advancing toward
tie eDemys right and center are the King and En-
peror Prince Napoleon, with his French corps
d'armfs, and Ulloa, with 10000 Tutcans, are ap-
proschiDg the southern side OF the qusdrllaferal
bile other French forces in the Adrlatc, are ready
to cooperate by ascending the Po, attacking Venice
or to divert the enemy further by attack perhaps
on the Dalmatan coast. The Italian spirit rises
and spreads in the Roman States, and had some
dsys ago freely manifested itself so far down as
Perugis. You will, tbinB, have already received
Victor Emanuel's answer 10 the Bologna munich
cipaty, declining the pfofered Dictatorship. He
has thus bluntly and simply baf1ed the thor
ougtly Jesuitical policy of the Legate, who, by
needessly hurryiDg away from Bologna the monent
the Austrian garrison had left hoped TO see violent
revolution break ont that would e0barrass the Al
les There exists in Sardinia, in France, throughout
Catholic Europe, q party-the ultra ROnanist party
who indnlqed in the Legate's hope and sympa-
tbze in his disappointment. The organ Of this
party in France, is the Unirsrs newspaper. The
party is sometimes called the prestly party. 1t
would however, be very wrong to accuse all the
O,OCO French priests of belonging to 1t. AS, un-
der Louis XVIII, there were politicians more
royalitt than the King, so there are churchmen
more Romanst than the Gallican Church. OF
these last the ultra Montaguards the Unuers is the
able organ 1t defends the worst features of the
worst government of EurOpe-as the Papal Govern
ment, all circumstances considered, really is-wlth
the same earnestness that it defends a speculative
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posed to the present Imperial Intervention in Italy,
which, it plainly sees must cod in some change in
the administration at least of the Papa States.
For the actual condition Of things in the Papal
States being as bad as bad can be, any change must
be for the better. g., according IL the Unirers,
for the worse. With skill, that, as mere intel
lectua play, is admirable, and with persistence
and, considering the law on the press, boldness
that is remarkable, this journal manages to criti
else and qualify the conduct of the Allies in spirit
of opposition that would not for moment be per-
mitted to the D6bats the Steele. The semi
official Journals do indeed loudly blame its course,
and call its editors to order in the name of patriot
ism and civilization and common sense.
There s no newspaper in France that the Govern
ment would be so glad to suppress to-day, as this
same Uniuers, despite its past important services
to the "cause of order" Its assured existence
and impertinent independence comparative inde-
peDdence of the regime to which liberal papers are
sutject), is a notable phenomenon in the tangled
snarl of complications which compose the "sltua-
ton" of the day.
Not what YOU can name an agreeable situa-
ton" the actual unsettled situation of Europe
not com nandiDga very clear prospect anywhither-
situate on quicksands rather, liable to shift at any
moment; offering the unsteadiest of bases ut the
two stools which several of the powers are try
ing to sit. Louis Napoleon, for example, at once
on the rigid, bay Onet backed throne of autocracy
Meanwhile let us be thankful for our position as
American spectators, and look on.
The still fertile theme of talk is the mobilization
of two-thirds of the Prusslan army. The explana-
ton offered by Prussian Journals official and
" offcious" is that the mobilization is a measure
of defense, and diplomatic measure-lustned, as
defense, in view of the armament OF other and
neighbOriDg overs, and calculated, dlPlomstlcaly,
10 give weight To that Intervention or mediation
b,.h will rta ka IL
when the time comes. And heIeupon our wiseacres
further illuminate the matter with speculative dark
lantern showing how the Italian question has be-
come European question, by the retreat oil tne
Austrians on the Minco-how the Mincio is, in a
sort defensive boundary of Germany, though ly-
lug far out of German limits, how the Balance OF
Power in Europe requires this, and the L alth OF
Treaties requires that from the Powers; and
here everything like clear vision is utterly lost in
the great verbal fog.
Let able editors" who can, preserve their
gravity Heaven knows the whole matter is sad
enough, but in spite Of himself, your correspond
ent breaks out in a half melancholy but inevitable
OUTLAW when he comes To :" Balance OF Power and
Faith OF Treaties" Which of these two respect
able phrases is the more absurd 1t is hard to de-
eide IL Sam johnson, Noah Webster and patent
fact are to be credited, neither of them has any
recognized English signihc atlOn There is no such
thing and has never been any such thing as balance
of power in Europe The last great attempt at
fixing the scales was made at Vienna and Paris in
lol5. Weighmssters, in the shape of standing
armies, numbering in all two millions of men, more
or less, were kept standing with their bayonets
under the scales to prevent one or the other from
oscillating The results of this forced equpoise,
when there was no balancing at all, during the
last forty years of European peace (the quota
ton is from my Lord Malmesbury and other equally
high ranked diplomatists aud parliamentary orators
and publcists) have been the last partition Of Po-
land, the Greek revolution, the Italian movements