New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-08
RADICAL VIEW OF THE PEACE.


PARIS, Oct. 90, 1859.
The treaty of peace concluded at Zurich between
the PlenpOtentiares of France and Austria appears,
in its main features, simple reproduction OF the
articles stipulated at Villafranca. The negotiations
for the defnitive peace consuming about twice as
much time as the operations of the war that stopped
short before the walls of Mantua, there were
great many sanguine people ready to account for
the slow-coach progress of the peacemakers by
deep-laid scheme on the part of Louis BOnaparte,
who, they sad wanted to give to the Italians full
scope for taking their affairs in their own hands,
SO that, Italian unity having once consolidated
itself, the French liberator might with good
grace, back out of the awkward cOnces-
sions made TO Francis Joseph, and, from
the word of his bond, appeal to tn
superior force of fat aceompH. Political con-
tracts are not exempt from the casualties besettlng
civil contracts which, according to the Code Napo-
leon, get nullifed by the interference OF force
raGjeEre The people arguing in this way have again
BETRAYED their wOful ignorance, not only of their
pet herO's character, but of the traditional dplo-
macy of France, from the Red Cardinal down to
the Man of December, and from the pr0iigates OF
the Directory down to the Blues Of lS4e The
frs, article of that traditional diplomacy prOclaims
il the first duty of France to prevent the formation
ON her confines of mighty States, and, conse-
Quently, under all circumstances, to keep up the
anti Unitarian Constitutions of Italy and Germany
1t is the same policy that dictated the peace
of Munster and the peace of Campo FormiO.
The real purpose aimed at by the tlme-kilhng Zu-
rich transactions has now become az plain as day
light. If, in the begirning of July, Louis Bona
parte had tried to enforce the Nlafranca stipula-
lions, at time when his own army was flushed
hon IN hlDb m
and when France was soothing her wounded pride
by the fancful dream that she bore with slavery at
home in order to impart freedom abroad, the Dutch
usurper would have let loose upon himself fierce an
tagonistc powers more difficult TO be grapped with
than even the stubborn quadrilateral between
the MnciO and the Adige. lie could not
have relied upon his own army, he would
have reused Italy to action, and he might
have given the signal for an insurrecton in Paris
From melOdramatic sublimity, got up for the occa-
sion 10 pass over TO the matter-Offact vulgarty of
an iIDpOsture preconcerted, nothing was wanted but
time. There is still French army quartered on
Italian soil, but from an army of liberation II has
turned into an army Of occupation, whose every
day intercourse with the natives Is anything but
amiable-familiarity having, as usual, bred con-
tempt France, on her part, has awoke from her
short-liyed dream, shnddering ut the danger Of a
European coalition, ponderlng over an old army
lost and new public debt created, and more dis
TO Italy herself must judge her state from facts
not from procamations. There is Garabald unable
to get the money to he laid out in for the amy
of volunteers and there is this very army whose
force appears almost lndicrous If one compares it
TO the numbers fOckng 10 the standards in Prussia
during the war of independence, at tune when
Prussia bad become Of more diminntye dimensions
than LdEbardy.
MazziH himself, in his appeal TO Victor Emanuel
oonesses fnat the nat,oaal stream of enthusiasm is
rapidly cOnsealng in provincial pends and that the
conditions of a return to the cid state OF things
are in the finest way of maturing. 1t IL true that
the dreary iatermezzO between the treaty OF Villa
franc2 and the peace of Zurich was filed up, In the
Duehies and the Ronagna, by some great state ae-
tiOns, under the management Of Pedlnontese mage
directors; but despite the noisy plaudits from all
the galleries of Europe thOse political tricksters
PLAYED only into the hands of their secret foes.
The Tuscanese, Modenese, Pamessns and Ro-
magnoles, were welcome to establish Provisional
Governments, to depose their absentee Princes from
their dminutive thrones snd to proclaim Victor
Emanuel the Re elettO; but, at the same time,
hey were strictly enjoined to content themselves
with these fonmalties keep quiet, and leave the
rest to the French providence just about to settle
their destinies at Zurich and peculiarly averse to
freaks Of enthusiasm, outbreaks Of popular
passions, AID GilKres TtrOlaii0Hairss In general
They were 10 expect everything, not from