New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-26

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The internal affairs of France are i'll general pros
porous. Notwithstanding a considerable decrease
of revenue from import taxes, consequent upon
the Inauguration Of reduced tariff on English
goods, and certain articles Of merchandise OF other
foreign origin, the receipts are calculated TO meet
expenses. And this balance is arrived at without
loan OF new taxes.
New commercial treaties are in process OF nego-
tiation with Belgium and other countries, similar 10
the one lately concluded with Great Britain. Inc
system of internal improvements that forms al essen
tial part of the politco-ecOnomlcal scheme OF re-
form 70 which these treaties belong, is inanguraed
IN the development Of this scheme the Emperors
heart is fixed. To lie best development peace IS al
most necessary. Hence Napoleon is sincerely de-
sirous of peace for the present,
Englopds foremost interests are oil IN favor OF
peace. italy, that is CayOur, desires peace Tor inc
present both in what he, as long-headed states.
man and sincere patriot believes to be the interest
of Italy, and in the interest of his personal ambl-
ton You will not fail to notice, by the way, lat,
so far as the elections of Deputies to the Italian FAR
lament mean anything, they Indicate that i'hiy Is
decidedly Cayourian. Prussia-desplte the niue
bit of bellicose buncombe in King Williams recent
throne speeCh-is Interested she understands her
interests M least and has understood for the last
mnny wears, in the preservation OF peace Russa
has plenty of work cared out at home, ana can
gain more by Whiting than by war in the line OF
what may be STYLED her legitimate business-t0 VII,
the Turkey trade. Austria alone; who seems at
superfcial glance 10 be sure of ruin by peace
might Ike to try the desperate chances OF war.
But il is. think certain, that Austria is not, for
the present, at oil DESTROYS of provoking war;
nav. is studiousy avoiding a conflict with Italy
would very gladly, despite her terrible shoriness'oi
cash, pay down, in bullion, for possession oil
Caprera aad Joseph l. Of that k, if only that farm
and its owner were purcbasable ten times as much
| as Napoleon has just bought Monaco and It's seven
| by-ninc monarch for.
So much for the peaceful assets in this attempt TO
strike balance of the tempOrzing dnnce.a-did-
| dleum sort in the affairs Of Europe. Now tor the
warke liabilities The titles Of these are: Gaefa,
| Rome, Venice, Hungary and the border provinces;
| SYRIA. Scbleswig- Holstsin. Poland, the Tyro,
| Bohemia, can only count as possibilities, dependent
for their weight in the balance on the previous
| breaking out of war Now, Italy beng lei alone
and Kept let alone, by Austria and England and
France respectively can settle the Gaeta business
| in a few weeks, possibly in a few days, from this
present writing. Things having come to that pass,
| Napoleon, who has been thwarted not more by inc
unitarian Italians than by the ltalnn ex-kmgklns
| and dukeets themselves, III the furtherbx:e Oi MS
| fayorte scheme Of confederate Italy, Wa be- get
ting ready to turn over the hopclessly, HTltstlngy
| obstinate mpracticable King Plus to the guardian
|
| a newspaper war between France and England;
Ministers will be harried about il in Parliament; a
conference Of delegates Of powers VIII presently be-
held about il here in Paris, and the French 0ccuph'
ton trhngly modified perhaps by nOn-esseutlal con
ditions, will be- prolonged The Schleswg- liOlseln
question, being partly of a linguistic character -
| peculiarly entertaining 10 the German mind. There
will be more talk about II and OF fighting about IL;
but there will not be fight about IT. other than oil
the opomachcal sort 1t is but localized item any
way. The German enthusiasm OF nationality
worked up by its discussion meantime, ~ having u
good effect upon the logical, philosophical mnd. IL
these Danishly msgOverned folks should De- protect
ed az being our folks lnguistcally and ethoogeal-
w. then are the Italian Venetian folks not TO be pro-
tected by us Teutons! "Venetia being Austrian
| aud Austria being German. then Nenetla IL Ger
| mani" Cot b,icdhro S,heH SIC nnT Schlcswig-
| Holstein not being Danish but Gsman, Venetla Is
I not German, being ltalian-nich ndhr! Very
noteworthy in this connection ia the amendment ~
the address in TO the throne speech Of King
William. proposed in the Prussian Parliament by
Herr Won Vincke, aud adopted, despite the idl:
feLts Of NinjSi@bi"tty To l46-the purpor Of sad
amendment being that 1T is not for the interest OF
Prussia or Of Germany at large 10 oppose the pro-
&" grcssiye consolidation of Italy" Let I. Joseph
put that in bis meerschaum and smoke II
There remains Hungary, with the Serbian, Croa.
| tian Dalmatian and Runelian items. There il the
knot of the Peace or War question, within which is
| tied for the moment the Venetian question. VIII
Garbaldi slash in and cut 1t ! am more than halt
| inclined 10 think not. Garibaldi is bod, daring,
| audacOus; but not hair-brained, not reckless. On
the contrary, he is a rather unusually prudent man.
| He goes into seemingly desperate fight only when
| his mind has been made up after calculation. HIS
relations with that sicilian movement the beginnings
Of which be did not counsel nor approve show this.
| By the Uay again. LET me- here commend Ia your
| readers Marc MOnuier's little volume. just out
from Michael Leyy's press: GariJdidi, Historic
de la Compete d,s DeI Sieiies-Out Ofmensure the
best book yet printed on the subject as ne anthOr
Marc NOnnieT has been for the year last past, out
of measure the best Of many good Ne0pot6n news
paper correspondents. His letters were printed in
| La PTesse.
On one hand, Austria, hardly bested as she is
| IL likely to make still further concessions Ia Hun
gary till at last she will be scared into making such
and giving such guarantees with them, as will be ac
cepted by portion at least OF the Hungarian pat
riots who are forced to bear in mind that Russia il
concentrating enormous forces on her western from
| tier. An immense deal Of nonsense has got into
words Of late years respecting the ingrailude Of
Austria for the saving aid furnished her by Russia
! in her time of peril in 1919. As though Russia
| furnished the aid from sentimental motives. Now,
| as then, Russian policy is opposed TO Hungarian
revolution which il only variation Of Polish reyO-
luton; me denegotiOn Of Imperial devils wrong
against peoples divine right; and the setting up Of
d barrier between her and the future conquest OF
Turkish territory.
On condition. then, that felt-hatted Garibaldi viii
not intervene, il is not unlikely that the crowned
heads of Europe will be ube 10 staye off general
European war the coming Spring There seems 10
me considerable chance that Francis Joseph and the
oh, .id oh f,t.