New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-25
f,om Or sPceial Correspondent
PARls. July u, 1900.

f,om Or sacca Correspondent
PARIS july - le66.
Never was there week more fertile of news Each day
has brought supply filing to the most caPaeious Athen
ian appetite not satisfactory but like the mama OF the
wilderness the provision Of each day has been good but
for the day rotten with antiquity b. each coming NOR
row. That Pisgah of exaiiai0n where We stood last
Friday looking the immediate prospect OF peace prom
iscl TO the aud has sunk down like of those sud-
dcnyerupted volcanic Islands, nearly to deal eyel-say
level Of nurierOus red sea ofbood.
week ago generally, not universally, thought here
that the direct orshort road to an armstce the
halfway house TO peace. Napoleon was probably, hope,
f Of that week agO-nOt 20 confident as the mass OF
his iccts but hopeful The confidence and the hope
'espcctiycy though daily weakening still held quite
sing I'll Tuesday las-well into the night II was not
I'll Wednesday that the eyes of most French folks got
my opehd 10 the extent AID importance OF some ele,
mehts OF Ne situation, the existence OF which ty mad
indeed recog~ed but the entail nature Of which they
speedy solution.
II did not enter for Lore enough part in our ealcula-
tons that Prnssals were 10 uch like ourselves and that
their eagle appetite for conques, would gov instead of
being satatd by feeding victories nor that Italians
were 80 much ike Ourselves 10 IL Inundated and
Indignant at the idea Of receiving by dpoma. -ck what
tley we're IN tho way of winning with military hono st
he a of being siamefuly bnbed, by elecmosnay
g FROM Austria through France, oil what Is their own
to break filth with their ally.
Lot me attempt to give sort Of fagmcntay history of
the week necessarily rigmenarv, and doubtless moor
rect n many details but IN Us main d at least lndlca-
lively true.
Austria faithful to It's traditional oe in the historical
Drama sustaining always its character Of" slow and sure
10 he too late 40 the last possible moment when necessity
could yet the torn Transparent vail Of sham virtue
coded Nencia TO France without formally reeorded con-
diton Napoleon accepted as simply 80 lar as the Official
record will SHOW, nothing more pat d0rH on cbcoi paper
In respect OF the principles Of Divine Popl rights
European balance OF power on one hand than Of the
principles of nationality and universal suffrage on the
other hand Nenetia with its 2oooo0o OF Italian IN
habauts gwen and taken like sheep farm, quite In tAe
manner OF the " detested" treaty a.lotmcns Of lslo
Directly then Napoleon offers mediation and proposes
armsticc Austria accepts both in gross, the basis
Of the famous june ic,tcr OF NAPOLEON Prussia and
Italy accept promptly can he the o'r, and even
the proposition but this fast in principle only.
81 forgiyey Christian, says Roweua to De Bracy
in IyanLoe: e" Which means, quoh bystandms Wanda,
the Jester, "that you don't forgive lin at all"
Things had got to this stage Friday, say And now,
DAY and night there is quick, quiveng pusaon OF the
electric wires that connect without holding together Paris
Berlin Vienna. Fl0rcncedastoe, systoe TO say nothing
Of stoldy And, by Tuesday say tbs diagnosis arrived
there must be more blood let Meantime, following as
rapidly as steam can follow lightning, came and went
diplomatic from sovereign to sovereign One of
these Count Rcuss duke or prinee got here and de-
nvcrcd his message from Prussian King William at the
beginning Of the week. His master uncommonly delighted
10 acccp, Napoleons mediation is an unqualified admirer
for the rest Of his French Majesty and highly reshes lin
prucple the proposition Of armstico between him and
his Italian ally part and Il. Joseph on the 0ther
therefore sends by bearer the ncOscd tidy scheme OF 5Gs
fer armisce and Of preiimraries for consequent final
treaty OF peace. Most Is tAs RUSSIAN connection or
fusion Of the two questions Napoleon and f. Joseph had
preferred 10 keep sepaNtc-the question Of military
armstice and the question Of basis preliminary 10 peace
negotiations.
The Piussian conditions mainly conformabe TO Bis
maks programme before the outbreak Of hosiites, are;
Exclusion Of Austria from tho German Confederation,
L. e. from the new German State; Prssian control Of the
military and foreign affairs of the new concderaioni en-
lagemen oil PIsian territory by several annexatons,
and Of Pssan supremacy in all military and foreign re-
laOns-in fact PrGSsian supremacy sans phrase over all
Germany north OF the Maine.
q hi qhaun
ore said BE-: Dissolution. disappearance Of the Ger
manic Confederation formed in 1915 construction OF
Germanic Confederation independent OF Prussia aud
Austria The leading three States being Bavaria Baden
and WuItembcrg forming unitarian treaties with those
Powers for the commercial and oner economic domestic
German interests; Austria TO make no concession OF ter
rtoy in Germany, but 10 abandon all claim 10 the Ouch
les of the Ebe the two Hoses to be erritoay annexed
Prussia and Brunswick after the death OF the reignng
Duke of the SAKE Duches perhaps subjected 10 alb
iOrption: this would give Prussia a population OF
% 900 900 German subjects 100000 more than II
had month ago the Rhine TO be the western limit OF
Prussia the provinces between the Rhine and the Meuse
beng applied TO the naturalization Of the little dspos
essed sovcigns their preparatory state of being eyed
)ver' by France, preliminary TO annexation, by popular
suffrage snguahy put out Of sight as principle, on
occasion OF future convenient European crss an
exchange Of territory between Bavaria and Baden, to give
he latter nearly all of Rhein Piaz the population Of two
districts Ia that country 10 be let decide by vote whether
hey will become subj Gets of France Baden and sub
ects OF France or one OF the feshmposed dposessed
overeigns.
4Ihese two schemes Of future political geography In
which there is probably something of conjecture some
hing more than conjecturay probable There is some.
hing moro than prior proof that sy exist as schemes
nd oounterpopostons, at least Informally presented by
russia and France. They represent the extreme pre-
entons OF either party from VIII M each would doubtless
ecede little in the course of rsgotatons and 20 might
ONO to areconeed means but for the point which
russia insists upon the exclusion Of Austria from Ger
many now more tm ever, on this feature OF the
ngnal Brsmark prcgnmmo backed up in such pretcn-
ions by her adyinte ,upted triumphant progress thus
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