New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-28
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

picking complications. At the last accounts
it was stated that a French feet had been
ordered to the Adriatic to take possession OF
Venice but The knowledge q this fact had
not restrained the Italian armies in theirope-
ratons. If the object of the cession of venetia
to France was to detach Italy from the Prus-
sian alliance and to terminate the war BY this
sudden diplomatic costp the calculation has, thus
far, most signally failed. Italy refuses to accept
an armistice based solely on the cession to her
Of Yenetia, because such an arnistice would
be equivalent to a separate peace, and to a
violation of her engagements and obligations
towards her ally. Good faith towards Prussia
demands of Victor Emmanuel that he continue
to prosecute the war ct least as long as he can
maintain an aggressive attitude, if his ally
refuse to entertain propositions for peace. He
lnows very we'll that the acquisition of We
META by Italy would be due not by any means
to France-for the French intervention has
only delayed what had become inevitable but
to the splendid victories of Prussia in Bo-
hania, the effect of which is intensified by the
menacing attitude of her own armies In
i order that the position of affairs, at the last
dates by mail, may be made Ineligible, it is
necessary to give a brief statement Of the
various plans and proposals submitted for con
4 sideration by the contending powers.
The Paris Patrie Of July 11th, says that the
negotiations for an arrnistice had been de
layed by the necessity Of taking into simulta-
neous consideration both the conditions of
the arrnistice and the preliminary basis Of a
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know beforehand the advantages which will
be definitely assured to her.
The Presse, of the same date, says that, on
: the previous day a diplomatic meeting was
theld at the Tuileries in the emperor's. pres
enee. Prince Metternich and the Baron Won
. Altenburg represented Austria, and Count
Won Csoltz and Prince Won Reuss represented
3 Prussia. NJ Drouyn de THuys presented
e tlra6iews Of France, as the basis of proposed
o negotiations The French programme pro
l. yijles for the formal dissolution Of the Ger
manic confederation and the establishment o
N another confederation Of which neither Prussii
n nor Austria shall form a part No cessioI
be of territory is to be demanded of Austria
he Austria is to abandon her pretensions in the
Duchies, and to replace the war indemnity
n at first demanded by Prussia Prussia is tc
S, incorporate Sch1eswig- Holstein, Hesse-Cassel
Hesse Darnstadt and Brunswick, by which
n accessions her population would be raised
S. to 25 OO0, 600 The Rhine is to constitute the
d western boundary of Prussia and the province
Y between the Rhine and the Mouse is to serve
:, as an indemnity to the princes dispossessed
= :. by the war. An exchange of territory is tt
take place between Baden and Bavaria, which
would give the former nearly the whole 0
" the Rhenish Palatinate Saxony, Hanover ant
ng the Duchies of SAKE to conclude militaI,
ST. conventions with Prussia. The inhabitants 0
he Landau to choose whether they shall belon
nd to France or Baden, and the population 9
Dr. the valley of the Sarre to choose betwee
Tor France and the new Rhenish sovereigns.
he Nothing is said in this project of the Italia
branch of the question but it is understoo
Of that Yenetia would go to Victor Emmanue
e OF The leading idea Of the whole programme
he only developed in the final proposition whicl
" provides for that transfer to France of tn
m Rhenish provinces which seems to be the oh
ed jeet Of Louis Napoleons diplomacy. In 1856
", ~. he acquired Savoy and Nice only after a,
armed intervention on his part He no'
or seeks the inexpensive process of diplomacy t
u effect a similar purpose in regard to tn
be Rhe1tish provinces
~ The Prussian scheme, submitted simultane
ously with that of Louis Napoleon, is simpl
expression Of the towering ascendeney in Gel
many which Prussia has acquired BY mean
of her victorious armies. Yet her demand
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announced at the beginning Of the contest
except SO far as they embrace the eession of
portion Of the territory already won b
her arms. She requires the exelusio
Of Austria from the Germanic confet
Grafton the exclusive command Of tn
military and naval forces of the confeder;
ton by Prussia and the diplomatic represent
alton of Germany through Prussian agents
This comedies with the plan Of federal reforr
presented to the Diet by Count Bismarck jus
before the secession of Prussia from the COZ
federacy In addition, Prussia demands, a
the fruit of her victories the annexation of th
t. Elbe Duchies, and Of part of the territory a
~ ready occupied by her forces. Unless sh
a. obtain the first of these points she will hay
he fought in vain. An official article in Berli
he paper declares that Prussia entered on the cor
i. test determined to achieve the unity of Ge
st. many in place of the hitherto existing dualisn
- and such unity, Of course, under the leade,
On ship of that State of the two Germanic power
IN which is able to conduct it. The result
"a the war, as between those two States was
10 settle that point. The proof was to be fu
~ nished in the shock of contending armies, an
ms, the issue Of bloody battles The Berlin papt
and a.n very justly remarks that the fields of Bohem
y testify which is the State" capable of a
summing the leadership of Germany.
70 The italian terms since Italy had but Of
let object in view, are more simple than those
re- Prussia or France They are simply tina
eat "R venetia be coded to the Emperor
nat France, the final transfer must be made
eat Austria, hampered by no conditions with
gard to Rome that the question Of the distri
md Of Trent (the italian Tyror be recognized
nm O proper subject for discussion,
ler- Thus matters stood at the last accounts.
NC the meantime military operations were goI
diy forward The Prussian army of invasion W
ing on the borders of Morayia, and in full mar