New-York daily tribune., 1859-09-24

famous program me, the temporary failure to fufll
a part Of which " cost him " 90 much.
There is rumor at least that Italy may yet be
freed of Austrans from the Alps to the Adristic.
The rumor has mainly grown out of a visit made
this past week by the Austrian Embasssdor TO st.
Sauveur. He took with him, so conjecture runs,
various propositions, of which these two are the
most important: Franz Joseph to reliDquish all
claims to Italy to give up Venets fully and frankly
and let the poor Dukes 90, 10 return for third
share IN Turkey when that empire ia dlsmembersd; !;
and Franz Joseph to have a personal interview
with Louis Napoleon a. Arenenberg, in Titzer-
land, when the bargain Is TO be bsund BY the
formation of strict Austre French alliance. 1t is
rot likely that the bargain will be made right away.
The interview is not probable. But that Franz
Joseph has at last found out what any man Of
common sense could have told him these ten years,
that Italy was costing him a great deal more than
If came to- is not at all impossible And that there
have been at Zurich and otherw eeiers put out
toward negotiations for a cessi0n Of Venetia for
vaiue received, verges on likelihood.
At Rome the French EmbassadOr is steadily urg.
ing upon the paterna Government some moderate
reforms, which in the end, and now that Austria is
out Of the way, it will be obliged to accept NapO-
leon mildly threatens TO withdraw his troops-and
the day be does so the "cOncern" will break un-
less meantime it prOcures an internal support by
putting in practice the recommended measures.
1t has been frequently reported that Gen. Dalgetty
Schmidt and bis Swiss brgands were to march
against the Ropsgnols. They will not; would be
drea6fuly beaten if they did. They must content
themselves with the glory won at Perugia The
Inhabitants of the ROmagna will he let off with the
general accommodation under which, for the past
few onths, they have labored with great cheerful
ness the spiritual "cussin" beiog apparently no
obstsce to their temporal blessog. They are likely,
ut worst to remain tree from the government o.
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to join the Kingdom Of Upper Italy, to enjoy
least lay administration for the future.
Count Poniatowsk, who went, you recollect a
few weeks since on some sort of informal s shod
embassy TO Florence, has published letter, in
which, in a mildly indignant way, he denies th,t 3
has been working underhsndedly for the restoration
of the Emigr6 Duke. What POniatOwski ha'
been doing in the poltical way, does not appear.
Nothing wonderful, probably. He is cultivated
gentleman and very clever amateur composer As
/ said latt week, the French Emperor has not put
himself into perspiration TO get the Dukes back.
BY the way the other composer Verdi, has come
suddenly into political life; the Parmesans have
elected him Deputy to their National Assembly.
He owes the hor to the ocrosticaiity Of his name
Victor Emanuel Re D'It,lis, which, to the en-.
thusiastic Italian imagination, was poetry, if not
verse.
Belgian King Leopold is to visit the Emperor at
Bsnitz next week, they ssy. AS the place lies out
Of his natural line of pleasure trade, and as he
passes in public opinion for common carrier of po-
Gtic6l messages, considerable and very indefinite
significance is attached to the visit
Prince Napoleon has become significant, by eX.
cess of silence. His wife is staunch little Italian
they say, and pouts at the Court, because of the
lame ending TO the war; and her spouse, who has
a great faculty that way, pouts with her. they say
The very sweet and gentle spirit of Charles b.
Fairbanks left his vexed body last Saturday.
Among your readers must be some Of his numerous
personal friends, and many who had come to love
him. and to know him better than they thought,
through the EliaEke essays of Aguecheek which,
for their bumOr and quiet wisdom, and profound but
cheerful religious feeling, are emnently character
istc. The author pretended nothing over the man.
Even the assumed old age and name were sadly true.
In the last ten years, the pains and infrmties of
three score and ten had been crowded into his
young life.
A few words about his last illness and death will,
] trust, be not without interest. He arrived here
from Boston toward the close OF the month of June,
in the enjoyment apparently, of good health as he
had known for many years. more than
usual feebleness was attributed then to the
extraordinary heat of the weather. lie had
only begun to suspect that the insidiOus malady
which had already ruined his strength was threaten
ing its approach, when, seven weeks ago to-day,
be was attacked with bleeding from the lungs.
Alarmed as his friends were for some weeks they
shared in the hope, which he retained till afte r
reason for hope had disappeared, that he nigh
sufficiently recover to bear the voyage home. When
in bis last days. he was informed of the whole truth
OF his situation, the announcement9Vas received
he had received so many other bitter trials, with
out c. mplaint without the display even OF courage,
with patience quite beautiful in its easy strength.
Al his last words were good words, calmly and
pleasantly spoken, not varying greatly nor needing
TO be varied from the tone and sentiments that he
hasituslly uttered. And so at last the "sOft,
"meek, patient humble, tranquil spirit passed
away 1t will be consolation to friends at home
10 know that several old home friends chanced to be
in Paris during all this, and were, some one of
them, constantly with him; that strangers, Amer-
can, English snd Frencb, were full of ready kind
ness in the csse that in fine he lacked for nothing
except what home alone oan give; and that through
out his Illness he suffered hardly any physl,al psin
his old tormentoIs all retiring before the fatal mel
ady that at last led him so gently to the grave.