New-York daily tribune., 1859-08-04

iO ~tiiDg tne peace VIII aus st0
his bed mountaineers, the inst, ,''ee''on' OF Tos
csny r. vna. Modens, and the Roh,asns; ve,r
Eu,nuel tiulsef with bis country inyadet, n
finance. dils oidsteJ, and bis army deeimskd n
,b. co,,ots to,- nothing. There was War betsc.,
. Hsp.burg and Bonaparte. Tcere was no Ia4
"a, u,r Victor Enamel csnnot lay clrim eve,
% the bopors of a ssh,lteru ally. lie WAS no pam
% The struggle; be VIVA only an instrument "a
!. therefore, excluded from those nstts which
secordrng TO the law Of nat onss aecn'e to e,cy
co .be.ige rent, however drnMutive. lie f,ls sAort
Of the heuors granted to tie German medaezed
prince a, the peaces Of i-l5. A modest poor rel.-
tiye let him devour in silence the crumbs dropped
from the table of his rich and powerful cousin.
II we come now to the contents-wc mean ths
Official conten,s-of the tresty of vilaf-snca We
shall find them quite in keeping with the msthsd
of its settlement Lombaidy 10 to be csded to
Piedmont but the identical offer, in terms mora
favorable, and not clogged BY drawbacks, Austria
bsd proposed 10 Charles Albert and Lord Palr,cs.
ston in 1918. At that time no foreign Power had
eeouestrated the Italian movement. ihe cessias
WAS TO be made to Sardinia not to France; Venice
too was be severed from the Austrian Territories
and TO be constituted into an independent Itslia
srate-not with the Austrian Emperor, bet With
AN Austrisn Archduke at its head. These coaA-
tons were then scorufully rejected By the msgulA-
nous Pamerston, who stigmatzed them - too
lame conclusion for the Italian war for indepsa-
depce The same Lombardy is now given q
French gift to the Savoy dynasty, while Venice,
with the quadrangle of for'resses, those on u
Mincio Included, is to remain in the clutch Il
Austria.
The independence of Italy is thus converted int
the dependence of Lombardy on Piedmont and tAs
dependence Of Piedmont on France. While Aus
tria's pride may be humilated BY the csssioa cf
Lcmbardy, her real power is rather strengthened
by this evacuation of territory which absorbed
part of her military forces without being defeosibls
against foreign invasion and without paying the
costs of their maintenance. The resources vsinly
spent in Lombardy may now be turned to good ac-
count elsewhere. What Austria keeps is the dsm-
ineering military position from which, on any f.
yorabe occasion, she may pounce on her weak
neighbor, who bsa in fact only gained an increased
weakress-an exposed frontier with turbulent, d.
affected and jealous subjects-while he has lost
even the prete1t Of representing the rights OF lta-
". He has struck dynastic bargain, but he h~
resigned bis national mission. From al irdepend.
ant State. Sardinia has dwindled down to q. State
on sufferance which, to hold its own against its
ioe in the East, must cringe before its Protector
in the West
But this is not al. By the terms Of tie
treaty Italy, after the pattern of tho German
-. 20 ta utA1 mt ~
ian Confederation, under the honorary pres
idency of the Pope. There now seems to b
some difficulty in realizing this Napoleonic Idea
and we have vet to learn how Napoleon Ill. Will deal
with the hndrances that are rising in the way u
his hobby. For, whatever be the event. there "a %
doubt that such confederacy, with the Pope
at its head, is his hobby. But the overthrow
of the papal power at Rome has always been
considered As the eonditiO sine qua of italian
emancipation. Nlscchaveli, inhishistory OF Fior.
ence, long ago, traced in the pspal dominion tho
source of Italian degradation. Now, in the pu' q
pose Of Louis Napoleon, instead of the Rouagas
being freed, the whole of Italy is to be sub-
iected to the nominal sway of the Pope. Ia
fact, if the Confederacy should be organized.
the pspsl tiara will be but the emblem of Austrian
domination. What did Austria aim at BY her Pn-
yst- treaties with Naples, Rome, Tuscany, Parma,
Modenal At 3 confederation of Italian princes
under Austrian leadership. The treaty of Vah'
frapca with the Italian Confederation, in which
the Pope. Austria, and the restored Dukes il, u
deed, they can get restored-will form one party
and Piedmont the other. exceeds the bold.
est hopes of Austria. She has desired, since
ISIS, to form Confederacy Of ltai1
Prices sgainst Piedmont. She may now subject
Piedmont ltself She may extioguish the vital Pda-
ciple Of that little State 10 Confederacy Of whch
the Pope who has communicated SsrdlLia, vii
be Domnal head, and of which Ssrd MAS uofof-
giving enemy will be the real leader. 1t Is, there
fore, not Italy that has been emapcipated, bss
Piedmont that has been crushed. Face to fAco
with Austria, Piedmont is set to play the psn
of Prussis, but without the resources that hsve
enabled the latter State to paralyze her n'a
in the German Diet. France, on her part, msy
fatter herself with baving assumed toward Italy
the position which Russia holds with regard to tho
German Confederation, but, then, the Russian In
huence in Germany is based upon the balance os
power between the Hapsburgs and the IIohenzol-
lerns. The Only way ia which Piedmont cen
restore her prestige is clearly traced for her BY
her protector. In his proclamation to hi. soldiers,
LOUIS Napoleon says: The union of LOa-
" hardy with Piedmont creates for us (the Bona
"pSrte family a powerful ally who will ose -
"us its independence" thus declaring that inde-
pendent Piedmont has given place to Nspo-