The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-11

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ranked with we'll founded resentment against
Austria, md was forced publicly to disewa her
generally credited intent to push her bounda-
ries to the Dardanelles. The French and
British troops had stood side by side for
eleven months before Sebastopol, and the con-
trast had enaced the moral impression made
by Waterloo.
These great objects having been achieved by
Louis Napoleon, an interval Of peace succeeded,
in which he prepared his coup. This was as
sisted by the ranking between Russia and
Austria, and the latter Power was selected as
the next to feel the development of the Ma
poleonic policy. For nearly year diplomacy
strove to parry the stroke; but the New Year
of 1859 opened with the famous words of ill
omen at the imperial reception. Diplomacy
renewed and increased its efforts to prevent the
war, but the campaign in Italy ended with the
humbling Of Austria at Solferino. The peace
Of Yillafranca burst upon Europe at the very
moment when the Continental dynasties and
the English tories hoped to accomplish their
desired antl-Napoleonic coalition, audit was re-
ceiyed by them with unmistakable evidences
Of dissatisfaction. Following up the Napoleonic
idea, Louis Napoleon pursued the policy that
his uncle adopted, when, in violation of the ex-
press orders of the French Directory, he made
the treaty of May Is, 1896, recognising the in
dependent existence Of the kingdom of Sardinia,
and annexing to the republic only the provinces
of Savoy and Nice to the highest ridge Of the
Alps. 1t was his policy to create allies and not
enemies in Italy, and Louis Napoleon has obeyed
it to the letter in the erection Of great Italian
kingdom, which revives for the first time in fif-
teen centuries Italian union, nationality and
independence, and binds it irrevocably to the
destiny Of the Nspoleonic dynasty.
The success which has thus far attended him
in developing the Napoleonic ideas has not
only alarmed the supporters of the old theories,
but it had in measure alienated England from
her cordial understanding with France. The
danger Of the old coalition doomed up, when
suddenly Europe was startled with the an
nouncement that Louis Napoleon had made a
commercial treaty with England, and, throwing
overheard all the time-honored fiscal policy of
France, effected practical alliance between
the Napoleonic ideas and the commerce of the
world. This unexpected stroke of policy not
only reestablishes the entente cordiale, but
it secures its future permanence in the increase
of those material and industrial relations be.
tween the two countries which, being left to
their own free Development, will soon defy
the power Of ministers and cabinets to break
them.
To-day Louis Napoleon confronts the old
dynasties of Europe, as the autocratic ally of
the European democracy. He bases his power
on the principle of satisfied nationalities,"
expressed by universal suffrage, and this is
direct menace to the theories and prac-
tees of all the old dynasties, which claim
to rule by divine right, and through
that deprive the great mass of the people of all
Intervention in their own government. The
year 1860 opens with his attainment of two
allies-the new nationality of Italy, and the
new era of commerce with England and the
world-which only require time, and perhaps a
short period will suffice to cement them, and
enable them to give to the Napoleonic policy
a support which no sceptre can break. In
these proceedings we see the gradual progress
of Europe in democratic Development, and
the coming fall of its old and rotten thrones
and aristocracies. The philosophic minds of
Europe see this, too, and the sudden arrange.
ment of the commercial treaty with England
and efforts to renew the entente cordiale indi-
cate that Louis Napoleon perceives q rising
danger which is not yet evident to the public
eye.
1t cannot escape the attention of the other
Powers that the longer time they suffer to
cement the new Napoleonic alliances, the
greater will be the forces brought to bear
against them. Switzerland has never had any
policy of her own, and, nominally republic,
has existed merely through sufferance, till her
name has become synonymous throughout
the world with that of tool or instrument,
ready for every purpose. In the contemplated
movement of her troops into the provinces of
Chablais and Faucigny, to which she never
claimed right of possession, she is evidently
acting under pressure from some of the great
Powers, whose design is to bring about gene
raj war before Louis Napoleon has had time to
cement his new alliances. Logically con-
sidered, an early general war presents the only
hope Of stopping the march Of the Napoleonic
policy, and Of reinscribing upon the charter of
Europe the once stipulated exclusion of the
Napoleonic dynasty from the throne Of France.
CONGRESSIONAL AMENrTIEs.-We are rejoiced
to perceive that the press of the country, ire
spective of party, is taking up and reproving
in the most earnest terms the disgraceful per-
sonalities of which the halls of Congress are
daily made the theatre. In the history of no
deliberative body that we know Of are such
scenes of unmitigated blackguardism to be
met with. In the worst days Of the National
Convention Of France, in the heated discus.