The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-07-25
Rifhmunb Qispatfh,
BOMBAY MORNING. -. july q ,ssa
THE ARAIISTICE.

/ - -
/ Opinions of the European Press--Pros-
! poets of Peace~Poiicy of Napoleon The
| English View. &c. dc.
| The foreign papers by the Africa contain
! highly interesting articles relative to tho Ar
mistice and the hopes it holds out of peace.
We make the following extracts:
From the London Nows. July 81
| There never was n question on which the
national will was more deep and fixed than
| the question of the future fate of Italy; there
never was one, therefore, on which ii more
/ emphatically behoovcd statesmen to confess
| explicitly the faith that is in them After the
/ bitter and mortifying experience we have had
/ of the consequences of sending half-haarted
and puzzle-head men to represent us in
| European Congresses, we are in no huraor to
| see the honor influence and dignity of the
! ton ieopardized again by the choosing 0 some
/ cunning but colorless man to be its rep resen-
| taiive abroad. We want TO see Italy rec as
/ speedily and as completely as possible The
man who has no opinion on this point, or
who, affecting to have it, shrinks from pu blicly
| committing himself 10 it as a public man, may
| bn very able very useful, and very honest
! man, but in this matter of Italian emal,cipa-
| tion he must stand aside, for he is not trust
| worthy in the particular business in hand.
For our part we should infinitely prefer
| to see the settlement OF the great cpntro-
| yersy left to the people of Italy them, telves
| They, and they alone, can judge rightly what
! form or forms OF rule ought to subsist in their
country after the foreigner has been cast out.
! To talk of the French Emperor's right TO dis
! pose of Lombardy because he has driven the
Austrians beyond its confines, and of Aus
| tra's right 70 insist the reten ton OF Vene-
tia, because its towns are still garrisOned by
her troops, is TO defy anew the brute right of
mere possession by force, against which the
! war, rs q war of principle, was avowediy be-
gun. If military occupation be a legitimate
| sanction when opposed to the indlspuiable VIII
/ of the people whose country is thus occupied,
| then the entrance of the French army INTO
| ItalV OutbS mere act OF DTt-
/ gaudage, and violation of all the usages and
sanctions of public law. Nothing did and
nothing could warrant that moment tous inter-
! position on the part of France but the assum-
/ ed invitation of an oppressed nation, contlnu-
| ally ratified in every variety OF form by them,
wherever their liberating Allies appeared
/ The solemn and explicit pledges volunteered
/ by Napoleon III. ere he crossed the Ticino are
| still fresh in the remembrance of all Europe
| His mission, he declared was not to conquer,
| but to mancipate-n0t to nrye out Italy
! afresh TO suit dynastic schemes of power or ag-
| grandzement, but TO WreSt the peninsula from
| an usurping and oppressive foreign yoke, and
! TO leave ii free From that nohie VOW the VIC
| tor Of Magenta and Solferino viii not be be-
! trayed into departing. His gains from the
| brief but brilliant campaign, now monentarl-
| ly suspended, are already vast; but his moral
| influence will be still greater on the day that
he leads back his victorious legoE,s to their ma
| tive land, free from the stain of spolation, or
| the reproach OF having betrayed. the noblest
| cause that brave men ever drew the sword TO
! win.
! As for the real or supposed bases of negotia-
! tions, said to be about 10 be opened, and to
which the armistiee just concluded is but
! preliminary, we affect no peculiar knowledge
! One thing We know, that unless they admit
! frankly and fully the remuneration by Austria
! Of all power, either of government or inter-
| ference direct or indirect, present or reyer-
| Sionary, beyond the Alps, their discussion is
! but waste of time, for they can never lead TO
! anything but failure and a renewal OF the
! deadly strife. 1t IS 10 chopping German logic
n I,T 10
| OF the AIncio or the line of the Adige, or the
| difference between royal imperial sovereignty
! aud the domination of an archdHcal puppet,
set up 10 save appearances andkeep up the ola
anti-ltalian supremacy under another name
| The voice of the people of England-of their
press. and let hope of their Parliament
! viii Enthusiastically be raised against all COM
/ piicity, far are concerned, in any re-
| distribution of the all-but-liberated Peninsu-
! Ia among the Gespotic powers or their crea-
| lures. Time was when the offer OF partial
| concessions by the Court OF Vienna might
have prevented the active inter position of
France. though it could never have satisfied or
siienced the inalienabie claims OF the Italian
| people. But that time is past, never To return.
/ The gives are already loosed, the bars OF the
! prison hCuSe are broken. The captive nation
| ility of Italy walks erect and firm, though
! still bearing the marks Of its fresh wounds,
| and not Yet Yenturlng to sleep on lts pioOo-
/ stained arms. To say that all shall be undone,
| or half undone. either by secret compact be-
! tween Emperors or by another Vienna Con-
! gftSS, Is luie, II anu, one reason
among others, because the liberal representa-
tyes of the people OF England in the House of
! Commons viii not, we trust, follow the un-
| worthy counsel given to the peers by Lord
| Brougham and others, of observing philo-
! Austrian silence on the great question, while
there is time to appeal to the public opinion Of
Christendom against any new partition OF
! Northern Italy.
! From the London Chronicle, July 81
| Parce SUBJECTS For man to strike an enc
my when he is down, to follow up an advantage
hAti ti.y hon
the ruin of his adversary, but attended with
| small risk to himself, is IL line of action which,
in certain eases, may seem polite, but which
| savors little of generosity, and less OF great
ness. The mob are always guided by the die
tates of passion and it ommonly fares hard
with the vanquished when they have such an
enemy to contend with. Had Wellington, in
1915, been the tool of the popular WILL or led
away by vulgar outcry, he NIGH have sacked
Paris and shot Napoleon for rebel. Had Ra-
detZky in 1Si9, been as humane as the citizens
of Vienna, he would have made an example of
Turin. The conquerors of India, in our own
day, in the first flush of victory and the ex-
element of revenge, might have razed Delhi
To the ground and hanged the Mogul, and
many would have applauded them; but it is
doubtful whether even prudence, 10 say no.
thing of humanity, would have justified such
measures. When the conQuerors deal hard
| Iy with the conquered, there is left behind 8
burning resentment keen sense of wrong,
that will one day invite retaliation. When a
quarrel is nobly avenged, when the object of q
war is attained, the passionate man may
plunge his sword into the breasts Of his help
less victims, but the wise man sheathes it in
the scabbard.
1t can hardly be doubted that, great as has
been the success of Napoleon III, in this short
but eventfu campaign III Italy, he has his ad-
yersaries yet in his power, and could humble
them now, if he wished 1t, by a stlll more
crushing blow than any that has yet fallen on
them. Though Austria has been beaten from
every battlefield, worsted utterly in every
conflict, the Emperor Francis Joseph has stlll
md ST
the frontiers of Fenitla. But hls enemy Is In
still greater force before him, and within those
lines which the world thought impregnable.-
His position is being taken In flank ana rear
The Piedmontese are already working their
way round the Lac de Garda, ana the french
are ready TO advance from the Adriatic coitSt.
With an immense army to feed and that army
SO demoraized by defeat as TO be incapable OF
taking the field, his communication win the
TyroI lost, his position assalied on all sides
by an artillery OF novel construction ana
! Wondrous power, the commander at feron;i,
though he were the brayest of the brave, must
have felt his heart sink within him, and des-
paired of his cause. With Verona would fall
the last hope of Austria in Italy. When We
roma Is taken, the army of quarter OF MIL
lion prisoners of war; and Austria is as
etfectually ruined as if the French were in
Vienna The danger was terrible, the
chance of failure so certain, that the friends of
the Austrian cause were blank and dumb with
dismay. There are few, however who could
have blamed the victorious Emperor so great
ly provoked had he been, worthy was his
cause if he had pushed his advantage 10 the
utter humiliation of his enemy. 1t might per-
hars have been said that the time for consde-
ration was past, the opportunity of mercy
gone and that man does well 10 strike hard
In good quarrel
Such was the situation, and the issue was
somewhat unexpected Austria lay PROSTATE,
with the sword pointed at her throat and
uow-she is spared.