The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-26

the victorious wrath of descendent OF the Burg
graves OF Nuremberg. 1t matters little how
guarded the speech OF such a. man In suoh
place n ay be. 1t rs SO sure TO be taken as an
oracle that his wisest couise, obviously, Will be
to make it really oracular, provided alFays that
in making it oracular his Majesty can make 1t
also safe. Nor Will this be an easy matter.
The Emperor Napoleon is supposed TO delight
in delicate and difficult political situations, and,
if the supposltion be correct, he must now be
the happiest OF men. The part or france IN
such condition OF things as a European war,
lighting out TO create two new and powerful
nationalities the one TO the north and the other
TO the south OF the Alps, must IN any case have
been Try ing enough. But 1t has been made ten
fold trying by the extraordinary circumstances
of the actual war. The unexpected ana over
whelmng success which has attended the onset
OF Prussia, the military rebuff experienced by
the Italians, and the ingenious attempt OF the
Austrian Government to play off Cusozza
against Sudowa have surrounded the pathway
Of the imperial mediator who essays to speak
for Europe and to act for France with hundred
difficulties and complications. France NAV an
nounce that she abstans, and means to continue
to abstain, from armed intervention in the exist
ing struggle; but the truth is that, morally
speaking, France has already ntervened and
could not choose but intervene therein. And
this, strangely enough, not because OF the
Italian question, through which, at the out
break Of the war, it seemed to be altogether
probable that the victor OF Solterino might be
involved for the maintenance OF that Italian
independence which he, and he alone, originally
made possible. The Italian question is already
to a. intents and purposes, settled. There may
be battles fought in Lombardy, or VeneLia, or
the Tyrol, to develop the military character
and to iority the self-rpspect OF the Italian
armies; there may be stirring adventures and
romantic passages between the loyal TyrOlese
children OF HoleT and the red-shlrted volunteers
of Garibaldi in the picturesque valleys and on
the beetling crags OF the Alps; there may be
hundred new complications arising out OF the
already and intermlnably complicated "Roman
question: But IN all practical points the con-
solidatiOn and the unity OF Italy may be esteemed
to be already achieved. Italy has now become
a secondary element in the political problem:
and with that problem the fate of France is now
tntertwined, not through its bearings upon Italy,
but through its bearings upon Germany. Count
Bismark-thanks to the needle-gun, no doubt,
but still more truly, thanks to the splendid
energy fthe Prussan troops, the warlike genius
OF Count Won Motke, and the right loyal soldier
ship OF the Princes of Prusslr-has gone tas.
ter, If not further, than elher France or Europe
expected him to go. On the 10th of June, before
shot had been fired, Prussia offered to enter
into a confederate system OF Germany, which
should neutralIze the nOn-German influence OF
Austria, by raising no Bavaria to that position
OF headship in Southern Germany OF which
Austria, according to Prussia, nau availed her
self, to overbear the strictly German interest OF
the rest of the German states, Out OF her
36,OOO,OOO OF people, Austria appeared in the
German Confederation as the representative of
no more than l2,O00,00O and OF those 100000
no more than 100000 were OF German race
and speech OF course, therefore, since the real
Austria was three times as poHertul as the ticCi-
tious Austria OF the German Diet, there was
some reason in the Prussian declaration that
the influence of Austria over Germany was a
foreign and not German influence; and that,
in the language which Dunning Used concern
ing the roy power over the British Parliament,
'it had increased, was increasing, and ought to
be diminished" So far Napoleon might natu-
rally and wisely go with Blsmark. That Prussia
should be made more influential than Austria In
a German Diet in which Bavaria and South Ger
many might still hold Prussia in check was not
obviously inconsistent with the interests and the
safety OF France
But the Prussian propositions of the 10th of
June were rejected by Bavaria and by majority
of the German States. The war broke out.
| Prussia found herself threatened in the field by
| the States which had opposed her in the council.
| Hanover, SaXony, Bavaria, Wurtemberg-all
rose in arms against her. Her own force, her
! oWnsprlt in campaign OF three weeks, brought
all this ALLIANCE TO naught, struck its gigantic
these lesser pOtentates at her mercy. That Prus'
| sia, after Sudowa, should ask and insist upon
| vastly more than she ought before the war, is
| natural enough; but how far can French
| monarch go in sympathy with her now? To
help Prussia TO the first place in Germany Is one
thing; to help Prussia TO become Germany is
quite another thirg. Germany, exclusively even
| of the German domiDions of Austria, contains
more than forty millions of inhabitants. United
under one crown, and organized as Prussia is
| organized, such a Germany would rapidly be-
| come the most powerful STATE IN EurOpe-a
State with which neither France nor Russia
| could safely undertake 10 cope.
Is Count Bismark calm and wise enough to
prefer to the chance OF so magnificent result as
this the certainty of such great and notable
gains as will insure the present Iredomlnance
| of Prussia in Germany, seat her as peer in the
councils of Europe beside the strongest States,
| and open the way indefinitely to her legitimate
ambition IN the future? To act IN concert with
| Bismark, If he be thus calm and wise; TO defect
Bismark from his purposes If he be not SO; to
| keep Italy quiet under her irritating good for.
| sunc; to make Austria acquiesce in the inevi.
table-taese are the great matters which arenow
engaging the brain of the master of the Tu
| leries. 1t will be curious to see how much
light, and of what kind, his speech at Nancy
has thrown upon them 1t will be more
than curious: it will be the most in
which the world will be watching in these
coming months during which the problem will
be working out its solution.
The Theory of the Campaign in Europe
from the Tribune.
The present campaign in Bohemia and Saxon
will hereafter deservedly be ranked among tn
boldest in its conception, and most rapid in it
execution, of any mentioned in history. Unit
the details of the movements become full
known, it will be impossible to form correC
estimate of its merits, or to assign ITS prope
place. The English writers attribute the Pru
sian success to the mechanical improvements i
their firearms. Without pronouncing an opinio
! as TO the merits of the steel cannon or ''needl
; guns" OF the Prussians, we venture to assel
q that any tancied superiority of these arms t
! those Of the Austrians, is an inadequate caus
a to account for the complete rout of the latte