The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-29

7ctM mtSeTdOte nldngied SOtdterS There Is nothing
in all this which might not have been wrung from
Austria by force of diplomacy. 1t ought not to
hurt her pride and it greatly her strength
She is relieved of the trouble of governing one iur-
bulent and expensive province and she retains the
power OF devastating it whenever she may please.
Shells now placed in Italy like swordfsh beside q
whale. Austria is all weapon Italy is all prey. Aus
tria has only surrendered what she might any mo-
ment take back, but what she is probably now too
wise to desire. Sardinia has got what she must
hold on snrance, and what, If attacked, she could
not defend. When the satraps of Austria are re-
established at Florence and at Modena, and when
she stands armed to the teeth, dominant and ire
sistiblc in the Italian Confederation Austria will
be greater in Italy than she ever yet has been. If
England had dared to propose this to her be-
fore the fight began, she conld not have refused
It; and it now seems that 100000 lives would
have been saved and Italy would have been Just
az much "ffee from the Alps to the Adriatic."
Such are the consequences of people not being in,
accord as to the sense Of the words they use. But
error has not been ours alone. The man of all men
who should have understood the Emperor Napo-
leon the man who of all men understands the cause
of Italy, the man who of all men Italy hailed as her
statesman as she hailed his master as her cham
pion-C0unt Cdrour-,cas, Ike ourselves, de-
ceired-the free Italy that ne tndg'ned to9s gerry
u1aiike that ,ohich tae too Emperors hdre deu!sed
and in disgust he has retired from tne hgn poslton
he has so long filed unable to meet the reproaches
of those whose hopes he had excited and whose
Indignation he has 80 much cause to dread.
From the London Times, July Is
The Emperor of the French has confded to his
army the reasons which induced him to grant to
Austria the Just accomplished peace It is q docu.
ment which requires frequent reperusal, and which
invites unceasing conjecture. The principal aim
of the war was, it seems, to render Italy nation,
and this principal aim, it also seems, has been oh.
tanned. 1T is true" says Napoleon Ill lillustrat-
ing the Eeverb, "Qui s'ercuse sdccuse'0, "that
Veneta remains to Austria;" but he explains that
Ibis exception Is immaterial because Venetia Will
continue to be an Italian province forming part of
an Italian Confederation. We confess zoe do not
foiiotc the Emperor IN this explanation. That
Venice will remain Italian we can clearly see; we
should have more difficulty in understanding how
It could become Bohemian or Hungarian; but how
this fact render its possession by Austria of less
importance we cannot pretend to explain. tits one
of those logical sequences which none but an En-
peror at the bend of many legons can enounce
with effect. To the eye of common understanding
u,is possession of Fenetid by Austria tcomo seem
10 9ue Austria right soltick she nerer 6ore hao
10 iniermeddie ,a he politics OF cu Ediy Aus.ria,
a great military monarchy ~, by this possessson,
member Of Confederacy which u made up Of Aus