Des Arc citizen., 1859-08-03
THE WAR ENDED.

l from the .Msmphis Appeal Our readers are referred to the foreign news in our columns for additional information.
 The intelligence of peace in Europe, will, we presume, take most of our readers by surprise. NAPOLEON commenced the
 war with the avowed intention of relieving Italy from the Austrian yoke, from the Ti- cipo to the Adriatic sea. In short but vigorous and brilliant campaign, he drove the Austrians from the soil of Piedmont, which they bad invaded. and left them without foot of ground in the whole of Lombardy, from the Tlcino to the Mncio. At this point the dazzling progress of a | field campaign must be exchanged for the comparatively dull and tedious operations of the siega-the allies were before the four Notifications of the Strategic Square, and they could not advance into Venitia until those strongholds were subdued. | But, as an offset against this, the French fleet, in great force, had reached the Ad- riatic sea, and forces were about to be landed for the purpose of completing the conquest of Venitia, while the allied Soy-
 ereigns held the Austrian army cooped up
 in the Strategic Square. The chances in
 favor of the allies fulfilling their engage.
 nent to carry on their work until the whole of Austrian Italy was delivered from its oppressors, never looked so promising certain. With complete conquest within his very grasp, NAPOLEON makes peace that leaves the whole of Venitia under the heel of the Austrian oppressor!
 We find the whole of Lombardy trans. ferred to VIcron EMANUEL. King of Sar- dinia. family connection of LouIs MA poLEoN. The Emperor of Austria appears to have suved his pride by making the cession to France, the Emperor NAPOLEON then transferred the ceded province to Sar- dnia. Central Italy is left under the
 .'Honorary Presidency of the Pope" :" What that imports we are yet to learn i; the phrase at least gives us no reason to expect that the Papal Government will be called to account for the perpetration of the massacre of Perugia, and leaves us in doubt as to what may be the fate of Modena and other places that had declared for the allies and free Italy. Venitia, the land around which cluster crowd of classic associaiions--V Venice, the Queen, the beau- tful--are still the property of Austria Venice is yet in chains her gondoliers cannot yet sing songs of freedom in her liquid thoroughfares the flag of the stran- ger still floats over the palace of the Doges ]; the tread of the German intruder still echoes in the square of St. Mark. Venice is yet in chains, the hopes of her patriot sons are extinguished and the sighs of an oppress- ed people must continue to fill with mel anchoy the very home of beauty. But Venice is to "form an integral part of the Italian Confederacy;" another phrase the meaning of which we mus, wait to dlscov- er--if it has meaning, and be anything more than a "glttering generality
 The reader will not fail to ask; What of the daring and patriotic GAnIDALDI l! What of the high hopes panting in the bo- som of KossurH? We shall soon know i; but all will anticipate story of disap- pointed hopes, deceived expectations, and bitter despair. But fraction of GARI- BALDI's yearning is realized, and Hunga- ry is left helpless and expiring in the meshes of the usurper. The liberal think CTS of Europe generally will be deeply disappointed at the merely partial realiza- ton of their hopes, and the growing popu- larity of NAPOLEON will be checked by his failure 10 make good his noble promise to leave behind at the conclusion of the war free Italian nation. The name of VIcToR EMANUEL, it will be observed. does not appear in the peace making ar engagements. NAPOLEON was the princi- pal in the matter. Whether the King of Sardinia was satisfied with an arrangement that left the fairest portion of Italy in the power of Austria, we have no means of judging at present-if he objected he would probably be told to take the brilliant prize made over to him, and to be quiet and mind his own business.
 In commenting as we have done upon the peace, we have been regarding the Italian side of the question alone; we ought justly to consider the position of MA POL EoN-that the war was terribly ex- haustive one, in blood and treasure {; that France could gain no pecuniary return for HeI vast Outiuy btat ti et'ihS e"S A ~S trians from Lombardy, she lad relieved herself of bad neighbor, and that was all
 in which her immediate interests were concerned. To have passed the Mincio would have been to come into collision with the Pope and his ecclesiastics, whose enmity, coupled with that of the spiritual subjects of the Holy Father throughout the world, is no triae. Then there was Prus- sia hardly wilhheld-with the weight of combined Germany--from coming to open rupture. England also stood by with snariing and suspicious opposition. With these it was almcst impossible to avoid em- broilment. Cities in the Papal domln- ions--with which it was the policy of the Allies to avoid nterference-were one by one breaking out in rebellion and seeking protection of Sardinia-GARIsALpI had " violated the Tyrcl," in other words had intruded upon German territory-kos- surH was about to spread the flames of war by raising a rebellion in Hungary- to take the responsibility of all this, with Prussia and England standing threaten ingly by, and with the friendly power of Russia most probably disapproving, was