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From the London Times, 18th ult.
THE LONDON TIMES Oh NAPOLEOTs
PEACE

PEACE.
The Emperor Of the French has cofided TO
his army the reasons which induced him to
grant Austria the just accomplished peace. 1t
is document which requires frequent re. peru
! sal, and which invites unceasing conjecture
The princi pal aim Of the war was, it seems, to
render Italy n nation, and tbisprincipnl aim, it
also seems, has been obtained at is true, SAYS
Napoleon Ill. illustrating the proverb, "Qai
s'ercnse $'accmsc') that Ncnetia remains to
Austlia;" but he explains that this exception
is immatcrial because Ncnecia will continue
to bc an Italian province forming part of an
! Italian confederation. We confess d" not
follow the Emperor in this explanation.
That Venice will remain Italian we can cl. ar.
ly sec; we should have more difficulty in un-
derstan1ihg how it could become Bohemian or
hungarian but how this fact renders its pos
session hy Austria of less Importance we can
! not pretend TO explain. 1t is one of those log
ical sequences which none but an Emrcror ut
the hnnd of many lcgions can enounce with
effect 10 the eye of common understanding
this possession of Ncnclia by Austria would
seem to give Austria n right which she never
before had to ntcrmcdilc in the politics Of
nll Italy. Austria, great military monarchy,
is by this possession, n member Of confctera.
cy Which is made up of Austria and IA few in
significant and unwarlike States. In this con-
federacy who will obcyl Austria is right in
hoasting that it matters not what may Lc the
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she always gains the prize the contest That
Which was limited is now become universal
that which was cncroach:nent is now be-
come right. We have nothing to say when
the French army is told that the union of Lom-
hardy and Piedmont creates for France pow.
crful ally. 1t is undoubtedly true. But France
! has bought This alliance at friuhtful cost, and
the independence of Lonbnrjy is not that i'll
dependence for which the I.olnbards sighed
1t is notoro,lSly very difficult to get at the
meaning of Louis Napoleon. lie is the great
modern Sphynx, and his very existence de-
rcnds upon his not being found out But, Of
! all the riddles he has proposed TO Europe. none
is more puzzing and intricate than this Treaty
Of Nilafranca. the sense of which we have at
tempted to read in the description he has him.
self given 1t is usual when we doubt ns to
; the authorship of act to nsl-for whose
benefit was it done' Here, however, We ask
this question in vain. The treasure is spent
and the blood is she'd the war is ended, and the
peace Is made, but no one. 50 far as we can
! see. is the better for the fight. Sardinia is not
quite happy in her new possessions, and even
Victor Emanuel will find in Lombardy q poor
substitute for the enthusiastic affection Of nm
Italy. France has gained no accession to her
territory, and no fricndsVp from the oppressed
populations of the earth. She has gained moth
ing but the knowledge that her Emperor is
able to mnnnuvre an army. She has not, even
at this moment the conviction that his sparine
fauslTlu WIS Hn acL Ol unInlScu ECner0Sty. The
Emperor now says that he stay cd his hand un.
der all apprehension that the struggle was like
ly to assume larger proportions than he desi.-
cd. 1t is not a very chiva lrnus reason to give
an army which had just fought q campaign and
lost thousands of its comrades for no result
which any one Of them would have dcs ired
These soldiers want work, and glorv and pro-
motion. To tell them he made peace for fear
the war would spread, could only he to set
them guessing who 1t who had STAYED them
in their full march of conquest 1t was not
Eng land. Was it Prussiai 1t is not very pro-
bablc, unless this pause in fighting should he
rather a diversion than q cessation Was il
Russia Did Russia think Austria had been
beaten enougha Was Russia acting oil the
| time as the surgeon. with his finger upon the
pulse of the patient and did sue give the sig
nal to cease when that symptom Of Hungarian
fever developed itselfi All or any of these
reasons may have operated. Or the Emperor
Napoleon might have known the state Of lis
own arms best There is indeed, Inst sup.
position, which we offer to the consideration
of those who were not long ago so fiercely
| scolding lis because we doubted That Napoleon
was about to eet up free Constitutional Gov
eminent in Italy; perhaps the French Empc-
ror has imposed some secret obligation upon
Austria never again to interfere in the affairs
Of Italy. If this should be SO. then all is right
The Pope and the Grand Dukes are put up in
pride Of place merely to give Napoleon's great
PrInciPe-"the sovereignty of tile pcope"-a
clear stage. If they can hold their own, good
II II they cannot, then down toppe Pope and
Kaiser, end Italy, left to herself works out her
own regeneration. There is no limit to human
credulity, and there may be credulous dolators
OF Chaos, who, even at this thirteenth hour
may believe in such impossibilities as these
The snlne men Of the age, however know bet
ter. They recognize in this new settlement
nothing but an universal and irresistible des-
or1o a.,
disguised by the disappointment of oil hopes
had thrownup his employment The des
patch OF to-day confirms our previous infor-
nation, and announces that the King of Sar-
dinia has acceptad Count Cavour's resignation,
and has replaced him by Count Arese This
event determines the nature of the peace. Cav
our was AL earnest man. He believed in
Italian independence as future work Of Ma
poleon III. 1t was by means Of the comic dence
he felt himself and inspired in others that Maz.
zlni and his emissarics were discredited
throughout Italy. 1t was Cavour who gave the
signal for the successive risngs in the smaller
Italian States. 1t was by means of his inf1u-
ence that the revolutions at Florence Parma
and ModeDa were bloodless, and that Rome re
mained tranquil Cavour believed in a Con.
stitutional Italian Unity, and unfortunately he
believed that the Emperor Napoleon enter
tanned the same views as himself. Warnings
were thrown away upon him. Patriots and
young ladies have q faith in mems promises
which no expostions can shake, and which
nothing but bitter personal experience can des.
troy. Poor Gavourl lie once had great
career before him, for he was honest and zeal.
Gus; out he was credulous and impatient. and
lie became the tool of crafty selfishness.
History tells us what passed at Tisit, and
some French memoir will doubtless at future
day relate what was the conversation Mt Villa
Franca. 1t is not necessary, however, 10 wait
for the authentic report; the result suggest
what the conversation must have been. Sure.
w., we can imagine Francis Joseph to have
said. ''my. Imperial brother cannot intend to
revolutionize Hungary, and to establish focus
Of insurrection in ItaIyi" "Not the least in
the world. I care more for these Italians
than You do. This matter has gone quite far
enough for my purpose. You see now that
France is necessary 10 Austria We will settle
this affair, and l will leave you stronger in
Italy than you ever were. / will also mako
everything straight between you and Russia.
You shall be one us, and we three together
TiIi impose law on Europe" is it to be won.
dered at that Francis Joseph. with beaten
army and bankrupt Exchequer, was not
proof against such tenptatiopsf