Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-08-05
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Opinions of tho British Press ON Peace.

Opinions of tho British Press on Peace.
tF1om ns Loadon Eoononis, July iol
Preliminaries Of peace havo been signed, and
the Italian war Is nominally over. The funds
have risen both here and in France men throw
up their caps embrace their neghbors. praise Lou
is Napoleon, and 90 about their usual avocations
with the feeling tnat great things have been achiev
ed and great dangers ayerted. We can share no
such sentiments. We can neither approve nor
joice. We can we'll understand that tender heart
ed men, to whom the horrors and sutiorings Of
war are more dreadful than any cause is dear may
be delighted that such miscres are suspended in
any manner and at any cost We can well under
stand thu, two Emperors who have been playing
at war Tor six weeks with the thermometer Mt 95
degrees in the shade, at cost of twenty millions
apiece and who have seen so, 600 men slain or dy
ing around them. may be sick of tho sanguinnry
game aud be willing to draw their stakes. But
that practical statesmen or thoughtful observers
eau be Of opinion that anything has been gained
hy such war or anything concluded hy such
peace; that competent politicians cnn Imagine that
Italy has gained independence or that Napoleon
has gained honor; we are utterly unable to COM
prchend. In our judgement haly has gai"edno-
Ming--he question rs stu open; The sore IS stW
unhealed whHe the Emperor Of the French has, IN
tie moment otdppa'em r'ctorg, and for the sake
ofa theatrical effect, abandoned all has nigh pre-
tenSions,and uiolted ai.hisgenerous promises ;and
returns to Paris, nomnally II conquercr hut in re-
ality defeated and dishonored man. The terms
and the circumstances Of this racifcnton render
it, in our opinion, one If the most hollow, just
aud cynical on record aud-except with reference
to the personal vanity and possible ulerior do
signs of NAPOLEON himselI--one of the mnst impo-
ltic. Count Cavour hns done well to res gn. He
has been bitterly deceived. Whether lung!stand
ing prciudices in favor Of Nupoleonism for Italy,
ns hus often been asserted. were the cause of his
French poiry-or whether he thought like the
liberal party in Engl,nl, ourselves amongst tho
number, that great rs WIS the risk, the expulsion
Of Austria from Italy, which could have been nc
comnlished in no other way. an end almost
iu>tifying that iss he has found that ltalaA OBJ
iccls are entirely subordnated to the objects Of
France. who wishes 10 play off both Piedmont md
the Pope ms lcr instruments in regulating Italian
affairs. Like his nnrr, Louis Napoleon, hns not
hcsitated n moment about Ieplacing Nenetia, Par
ma (?1. Modcna and Tuscany under the influences
of Austrian a~ccndency. and has even fortified it
bv securing for Austrian Nenctia that express IN
huence in the councils of the minor States of the
Italia federation, which it waNl lhe main ground of
com mplaint ngains Austria that she formerly exer-
cised without any pretence of European right
Well may Count Cavour and ls colleagues resign,
aud thereby intimate to the whole of Italy that
the Italian cause is, in fact, betrayed. In memo
| ranaum after memorandum Count Cuvour has
| shown that this network Of Austrian influence in
| Italy has been thcnne barrier in the way Of ltnl-
| ian unity and combined constitutional action, and
|
legalizes hat influence. lie could do nothing but
resign. Piedmont was crippled with gift that
! only Frehch troops can keep for her aud Austria
strengl hened hy being enthr"ne1 beside the Pope
in on association tNs smaller Suites. But, not
! withslanding Count Cnvour's grieyous disappnint-
ment md betrayal, emaintaln that both the lta'-
| ian and English liberals right in claiming
for his policy that, if some what rash, it ut least
! held ont chance such as no patriot could lightly
| throw away. Events have amply proved two
things first that only Powerns great as Fr"nce
had the smallest chance ofexcluding Austria from
the peninsula; next, that it was really, rs it has
proved for the self interest of Napoleon to play IN
at least apparently dsin,crested part in his policy
| towards Italy. That it has not proved n really
dsinterested game it is true, but Sardinia had we
must remember. little choice in her policy I'm
aided by England, constantly threatened hy Aus
tria, hemned in narrow circle Of despotlc States
which were always seizing the opportunity of cop
yng the Austrian policy in quarreing with her
her rery eristence as liberal and constitution
al State depended some successf FIJI and necessa
rHy hazardous effort to free hersef from Mis I'M
p,isonment. She has failed. tmay be even that
the new ministry will scarcely dare to reintroduce
a constitutional system 30 much freer than that
of her crent patron. Still she has failel in poll
cy that was almost forced upon her in the natural
" excited state of Italian liberalism. And we
will not in the present hour Of his trial withhold
our hearty admiration from the grent statesman
who he's 80 long and abl wolkcd for the libera
tun of Italy from Austrian domination, and has
thrown up his great post dircctlyt became evi'
dent that France really endangerlng or ruin
ing, instead Of sustaining that cause.
From the Londen Examiner, Jnly l6.
Whom will this whimsical reace. this most ex-
traordinary treaty satisfy? What promises does
it fulfil. what hopes does it realize? Never did
30 much blood flow never much ueasnre
expended for small and unworthy RETURN
"I'alv will for the first time become natiou" So