Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1860-01-28
Foreign News.

From the Paris correspondence of the Echo du Pa
Clique (San Francisco) by the able and brilliant pen
of NJ. Couailhac, translate the following passa-
ges, as throwing better light on the European
complications and prospects than any other that
have fallen under our observation.
1--WE shall have Congress. But every one will
enter upon it against his will, taking precautions
making reservations, his hands on his pockets, as
one enters ill-famed forest or a property whose
soil is covered with wolf traps.
ave do not say with the pessimsts that war must
inevitably result from such Congress; but most
assuredy nothing else result from it than situ-
alton full of embarrassments tension and threatening
eventualities.
cit cannot be disguised that, in regard to the
Empire and the Napoleons, Europe has come back
to its ancient mistrust The good effect of the pacific
discourse at Bordeaux has vanished, and hencefor-
ward every will be on his guard 1t is evident
that this condition of unsoundness must end in
crisis.
ave were told three days ago that England had
finally given in its adhesion to the Congress.
Although no official information has come to
confirm the fact, yet it is possible will say more
it is now even probable. Why Because at the
same time that received this news we received
another very grave from Breslau.
1.-The Emperor of Russia and the Regent of Prus-
sa have decided that they will cOuntenance the res
toration of the Grand Dukes, but without authoriI-
ing any foreign intervention whatever; and they
have stipulated moreover that the same principle
shall be applied to the Legations.
In this last part you will recognise the hand of
England. In calrdd reHeH,n
Eng land has the most intimate relations with
Prussia. Through Prussia she has approached Rus
sa, and whispered to both these powers an idea
which, while it appears to favor the views of the
Emperor Napoleon, gives them an extension, than
which nothing can be more disagreeable to his Ma
jesty. The temporal power of the Pope There, in
fact is the delicate, painful point Of the Italian
question for the Emperor. He caLnot be as liberal
to the Romagnols to the Italians of the center
and by forcing him to be so, the weakness of his sit
uation visavis the French clergy is discovered and
he is placed in cruel embarrassment.
"This poisoned arrow is understood to have been
shot by Lord Palmerson it is his master piece. He
is however in the habit of playing these bad tricks
upon the French Governments when they oppose his
policy.
Yes, it is a maSter-stroke Lord PalmerstOn
satisfies his desire to see England at the Con-
gress while, at the time, he satisfies the
pies and exactions of Lord John Russell by this
stroke of Jarnac against the imperial policy 1t is
double game and well managed.
Here then have the two great Catholic pow
placed face to face with this triple alliance
and obliged to support one another For, as we
have said the situation of the Pope is the difficult
and sensitive part of the matter. This forced COM
muny of interests however, has nothing dispeasing
to Austria.-But to France :-Never mind The
Emperor Napoleon will throw himself in the hazard
of congresses as he has thrown himself in the hazard
of battles He is intrepid, and he counts on his STAR
although it has served him bad enough since the
peace of Villafranca.'
Under date of Nov. 10 the same writer says:
"If the Congress encounters many difficulties
to organize itself what will it be when it comes to
deliberate: We have yet no Congress.
"You were going to believe that En- gland does not
want any Congress. WE'LL it is just the reverse.
To-day she wants it too much because she has
rallied Prussia and Russia to her ideas; and II is
Austria that begins to dread the diplomatic reunions.
"And the Napoleonic pOlicy-tossed between its
engagements at Vilafranca and its Sandman SYM
pathies, the management necessary with England
and the respect more or less sincere with which the
Papacy inspires 1.-THE policy of Napoleon III lives
from hand to mouth and in the most accidental man
ner
alt seems certain that England comes triumphant
from Breslau. She there had it decided:
l. That the treaties of 1915 shall not be touched.
"A check the treaties of 1915 the only fruit
which France could get from the war in Italy,.
I'd. That the isolation of England is contrary to
the well understood interests OF Europe.
'Thus from the moment that England cannot |
stay out of the Congress without drawing Prussia |
and Russia with her, she has the right to show her
self exactins and she will exercise that right She
already does.
"She demands that Romagna be free also to choose
the form of government that may please it.
"Ihere, that Is delicate point on Whlch france /
cannot at all make any concessions.
- Sardinia, on the contrary, applauds and throws
a sympathetic eye the side of England. Whence
follows that the Congress is to-day vnry much de-
sired by those who yesterday objected to it. and
uerSG.
What confusion And he mus; be very sharp
who will now tell us if we shall have Congress.
1t is perhaps easier to predict war for next
spring.
Victor Emmanuel is right the sword cuts the
questions better than the pen And Garibaldi is of
the same opinion. /
The King of Sardinia has replied to the letter of
the French Emperor and refuses to associate himself
with the proposed plan.
If the Emperor is bound by the preliminares of
Villafranca the King is bound by his obligations to
central Italy. And the King would not sign the
preliminaries but in so far they concerned him
hat is to say, for the eession of Lomhardy-and he
has reserved all beside.
The King declares the project Of confederation,
which the Emperor takes much to heart, ineom-
patible with the interest OF Italy, and impractcabe
in every way but by radical changes which neither
the Pope nor Austria would accept.
This correspondence (between Napoleon and VIC
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