The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-26

column. Coffee steady and Rio without sales Of mo-
menI About 1000 bags OF Aaracaibo were sold for ex
port and III bags Lssusyra and 80 do. trage
private terms About 1000 pockets nseed, John Ha
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ments were moderate Besides the -four engaged for Ly
erpool about 500 bales OF cotton taken at 1sd
Peace and the Napole0nic Policy In Europe
Whose Tarn Comes Next:
The peace which Louis Napoleon has 90 sud-
denly arranged with Austria is characteristic Of
the man, and is evidently part of the same po-
icy which governed him in closing the Crimean
war, and which he laid down twenty years ago
in his essay on the Napoleonic ideas.
As with the proposition for the armistice, so,
we doubt not, the terms of the peace all ema-
mated from him. After the successive defeats he
bad experienced on the field of battle, the young
Emperor Of Austria was in no frame of mind to
proffer terms of arrangement, or to hope for such
moderate conditions as those he has obtained
Louis Napoleon, on the other hand, was not only
able to offer them without shade Of dishonor,
but it was an important part of his policy to
prove to Europe the moderation of his demands
The moral victory be has obtained in this respect
over the doubts of united Europe is worth more
to his policy and dynasty than the con-
quest Of Venetia ten times over could have
been. The cheers that went up from the
benches of the British House of Con-
mons when the despatch was read an.
nouncing that peace had been made prove
bow well he understands the tone and temper of
Europe, and how skilfully he plays upon them.
Those cheers constitute the true ratification OF
bis Italian policy, for Eogland will not now OPP
pose it, and no other Power will dare to do So
Let us now see what this Italian policy is
Lombards is torn from Austria, and goes to
swell the power of Sardinia, now more than ever
the fief Of France. An Italian Confederation is
formed, with the Pope at its head. The Popes
consent to this was not asked Naples was not
invited; the wishes Of the petty dukes of Tus-
cany, Parma and Modena were not consulted:
the plan was concocted by Louis Napoleon, per
haps with the assistance of Victor Emanuel and
Count Cavour; and Francis Joseph comes into it
as King of Venetia. These three being agreed,
the Others must consent, whether they will or no,
aud the policy that will rule in their counsels is
the Napoleonic policy. Should the Pope not
consent Louis Napoleon has Only to with.
draw bis troops from Rome, and the Romans
will soon bring him to reason. With the
NapoleoDic ideas ruling in Italy, the first thing
the Pope must do is to discharge all his clerical
ministers, and administer the Confederation
through cabinet of laymen. 1t is not probable
that Louis Napoleon would consent to any other
course, nor Victor Emanuel, who has driven the
monks and Jesuts from his domain. A little
time will be required to consolidate this scheme.
but it stands from this time forth, and adds
another country to the list where Napoleonic
ideas prevail. Thus will they go on conquering
Europe, and every new advance augments the
moral power of France and dimnishes the
weight and unity of antagonism to them. Like
a skilful workman, Louis Napoleon stops a,
every new step, and allows time to cement his
aud secure his friendships.
The effect Of this war, and more particularly
this peace, on Austria and the rest of Germany,
will be remarkable. It will drive some sense
and not few new ideas into the thick skulled
Germans. In Austria it may produce an entire
change of policy on the part of the government,
and enable it to reconstruct its motley empire in
accordance with the ideas of the age The
Crimean war killed the old ideas in Russia,
emaDcipated the serfs, imbued 1t with the CON-
mercial spirit Of Western Europe lined its
plains with railroads, and opened it's rivers
to steam navigation. The Development Of
these things will Of itself beget further politi-
cal and industrial revolutions there. 50 it
VIII be with Austria. Her young Emperor,
seeing the folly Of resistance and imbued with
the new ideas, which required the cannon of
Moptebello, Magenta and Solfarino to impress
them upon the Austrian Court, is very likely to
follow the example of Alexander H., and take
kindly the incubation OF the Napoleonic ideas.
There is, perhaps, another reason why he should
do so. When be went into the present struggle.
he counted as strongly on the assistance of
the rest of Germany as Russia did on that
OF Austria for the war in the Crimea Russia
has now been paying Austria for her course then,
and Austria will yet have an opportunity to pay
Prussia and the other German States for their
course now. As soon as the rule of the Napo.
leonic policy is consolidated in Italy, the EN-.
peror Of the French will find reason for quar-.
relling with some of the German States on the
Rhine.
The question now is, who's turn comes next?
Louis Napoleon has told the world years ago
that his foreign policy is to pick his quarrels one
by one, and not to have all the Powers on himself
at once. What next, then, Spain long since ad
mitted the Napoleonic ideas without the strife of
arms. Russia had to be inoculated with the
bayonet, but has taken the infection very
kindly. They henceforth rule in Italy, and
Austria will not again openly resist, if she
does not advocate them. There remains, then,
of the great Powers, only Germany and Eng
land. No doubt Germany will next be taken 10
hand. Backed by the moral consent aud physi.
cal quietude of Russia, Spain, Austria aud Italy
France can easily find cause of quarrel with some