The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-21

Wheat quite steady and the demand fair for good IL
orme qualities, while old and common grades were
heavy and saea light The receipts OF were
owing to the detention Of tow in the North river at the
overslsugb the sales were moderate and a. full prices
Pork held with irmness The sales embraced
new mess at $i4 lax a $li IS, and prime at $40 a
| $40 12H. Sugars steady, with sales of 800 @
go hhds and $50 boxes Coffee was firm aud in good
demand with clerably free saes including cargo of La
gusyra and rome 500 bags Maracsbo part for export
Fresh,s firm, with moderate engagements cotor
YVES taken for Liverpool at 1924. q I'd.
| The Conference at Zurich-First Stem In tho
Path OF italian Nationality.
We learn by the Hungarian that the Conference
| at Zurich has met, and Sardinia was admitted az
| member This marks her status as one of the
| great Powers of Europe, and that fact alone, il
! none other we're presented, shows how complete
| ly Louis Napoleon has gained his true point in
the Italian war.
IF Italy is not free from the Alps to the Adri-
attic, an Italian Power has been brought into
existence as leading State, and this alone sc.
cures progressive future for the Italian penin-
sula. Hitherto cut up into little duchies, petty
kingdoms and States, subject to priestly misrule,
Italy has long been the plant tool or bleeding
victim OF other Powers. In the councils of the
nations she had no seat, in their policy she had
no weight, and Statesmen had come to look upon
her as "a geographical expression" Those
times have passed away with the smoke of the eau
non of Montebello, Magenta and Solferino, and
Italy energies from the sulphurous cloud with O
/ nonivo d MI =
one nor should il be SO. What she mas nov
! obtained she owes TO other hands than her yn.
| and it were not meet tnat the protecting Power
should give her all that to her belongs, and
leave to her nothing for establishment. Even
the greatest good, when we owe it entirely TO
another, is irksome; and national existence
form of government, and the spirit Of the laws.
when conferred by any other than the nations
own right hand, are always odious to the popu
lar heart.
In stopping where he did, in driving Austria
from large ana fair portion Of Italy, in giving
the Italians an opportunity to construct their
own system Of government, and to meet their
exigencies with selfimposed rules, Louis Napo-
leon showed the spirit Of philosophic states
man, and the aspirations Of wise and moderate
ambition. Excited enthusiasts may complain
because Austria ia left in Venetia; but before
any Italian has a right to do this, his country
men must show that they have the ability to go.
| vern wisely the redeemed part, and to enter
upon course Of political and social construction
that will insure permanent national existence
If they cannot do this without Venetia, they
cannot do it with her, and will therefore have
no right to push their farther claims.
1t may be argued that by being left in vene.
tia Austria has still preponderating Influence
in the Italian Confederation, and will prevent
the sound initiation of new and constructive
order of things. But this is not 80. Austrian
influence has received deadly wound In Italy,
the Austrian troops have been driven out, and
her secret treaties with subservient dukes and
ducheeses have been annulled. Besides this the
recent war has brought to Austria herself etate
Of change. She has opened her eyes, and sees
that reform is necessary in her domestic as well
as her foreign policy. By stopping where he
did, Louis Napoleon enabled her to make peace
and to initiate her reforms without dishonor and
| without shame.
In all this Louis Napoleon has carried the EN-.
pire in France to higher pitch of glory than
ever did the first Napoleon. There have been
grave reasons, founded in the spirit of the age,
that have enabled him to do this. The first Ma
poleon, as testamentary executor of the first
French Revolution, inherited a war with
all the feudal ideas Of the past. The German
| princes, under the lead Of one of their
own blood and bone, George ILL.,, took arms
against him. The popular mind was too igno.
rant to comprehend what true progress was, and
stimulated by fictitious cries and false arguments
they sided with the despots. The old tory party
then governed and bled England under pretence
OF saving the nation, when it was only them
selves they fought to save. Now, however, the
| people know better, and the German barons have
been unable to restore the old order of things
They made the attempt, however, and raised a
| great cloud ofdust in Germany. Another of their
tribe, too-the Coburg, in England brought the
court there to the old way Of thinking. Through
the late Derby tory ministry an attempt was
made to carry England into war with Austria
against France. But the good sense of the
people prevailed, and the tories were thrown
from power.
The Conference that has now begun at Zurict
marks another step In the great revolution thai
is going on in Europe. The new Italian Power
is admitted to fellowship with the sovereigns
and Louis Napoleon brought the fact by making
| peace as soon as his own superiority was shown
and before Austria was battered into an obsti
nate and destructive resistance.