New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-01

Of the annexation Of Savoy to France shall have
become an accomplished fsot, sanctioned By tho
sardnsn Parliament and BY the vote of the inhab.
it,nh-to consent to the meeting Of Congress-
not however, for the purpose Of taking any action
or expressing any opinion touching the treaty be-
tween France and Sardinia, bat siaply for cons'd-
ering tie means of re ;oncing the rights obtained
by Frsnce under that treaty with the guarantees
contained in the Treaty Of 1915 for assuring the
neutrality Of Switzerland.
Nevertheless, We are still Of opinion that no su'd
Congress will ever meet AL that 1t would 40
would be to accept such an arrangement as France
might be inclined to Offer, and that may just as
well be done without Congress as with one.
Nor, in fact is the neutrality of Switzerland Likely
10 DO secured on the one hand, or to be materially
endangered on the other, by any arrangement which
may be made as to the portion of Savoy neutraized
by the treaty Of 1916. The grand security TOR the
neutrality of switzerland is the mutual interest
which both France and Germany have in it's main
tenonce. Switzerland serves equally to both as
barrier agains. invasion. So long as both are IN
cned to act on the defensive, so long the neutrality
o. Switzerland is sure to be respected. But let
France be seized with spirit of conquest like that
which prevailed at the close OF the last century
aud the beginning of this, and two or three for
tresses more or lees would not prevent her from
marching through Switzerland, or taking military
possession of it, were such step esteemed neces-
cary or convenient to the objects which she might
have in view. The provisions of the treaty of 1915
in thus regard would be as completely overturned
and set aside by the breaking out Of war between
France and Germany, as so many OF its other pro-
visions have been by the two French revolutions of
1880 and 1e48 and by the recent Italian war. 1t
ia in vain to expec. to tie up the hands Of France
by any more treaty stipuatons for the neutrality Of
Switzerland.
As TO the suggestion that Franco wishes a Con-
gress for the purpose Of general revision of the
treaties of 1915, including among other things the
formal annulment of the provision which excludes
the Bonaesrte family from the throne of France,
that is but mere conjecture, without, as We sus
pect, any foundation in fact. Had France really
desired Congress for that or any other purpose,
it lie not likely that the proposition formally made
by both France and Austria for Congress in rela-
ticn to the settlement of Italy would have been suf
fered to drop so quietly. As to the exclusion of
the Bonsparte family from the French throne, what
more is needed on that score than the formal
recognition of the Imperial Government by all the
parties to that treaty.
If the Emperor Napoleon wishes to obtain any
notifications in the existing diplomatic understand
ing of the European Powers, he is much more like
ly to proceed in the way Of negotiation with the
Powers separately than by giving to those who
might be inclined to stand in the way of his projects
the advantage which, assembled 10 Congress, they
might derive from mutual support.