, 1866-05-01

cent Interest on the Investment being guarRn-
teed. nnd the principal being repaid at The
end of ten Years.- TnIs enterprise lacks only
e14,0 ,0o0 Of realization, and Is based on such
substantial guarantees that II seems imrossi-
bic Of failure. We trust that this small re-
nSinfug sum may be subscribed forthwith, 4
and the undertakings Of the Association In
the future thus bc hastensd to noble con-
summation. ::
GARlBALDl MOVING.
The latest European accounts bring the
Important Intelligence that Garibaldi Is pre-
pairing to snatch the Eternal City from the
Roman PontiF md the city Of the Doges from
the Anst1iar5 Kaiser, II will be remembered
that although Mazzini's government In Rome
Of 1s4S and NanIn's ut Venice was doomed to
fall. the grind example titus set paved the
way for Gariba1dl's heroic, for Cavour's
statesmanlikc nnd ior Victor Emaruel's pa.
triotic achievements, and eliminated eventu-
ally in the expulsion Of the BonrbonB, Papfsts
and Hapsburgcss from italian territory, with
tho exception OF the so-called Lombardo-
Venetian possessions OF Austria, including
popnlat1u4 se -aarlr two millions and hall,
and Of the Pspal States, Comprising a
population OF seven hundred thousand,
ali 1taians. The Lombardo.Venetlan
possessions comprise Venice and the
four celebrated iortresses, which arc
generally called the Quadrilateral, tho
strength of which frightened Louis Napoleon
into signing the pnsti1animons trcaty of VII
latranca. While the population Of these for
tiled cities, as wcn as that Of Venice and the
Venetian provinces, Is moro bitterly oP-
posed to Austrian rule now than during the
late war, Italy with Milan. Ancona and
Naples in her possesslon) is now better able to
reach Venice by land and sea, md to operate,
after the capture Of Venice, against the
Quadri1nteral, BY isolating 1t from the
Venetian territory. and attacking the forti1-
cations of Verona, Mantua, &c, from
without, while the Austrian garTi-
son arc beng attacked from within
the besicgcd cities. In the event of war,
Austria would no doubt despatch gun boats
from Trieste, Spalato and Undino 10 operate
against the italian afmy In the Gulf OF Venice,
but it should be borne In mind that tho Italian
navr is now far superior 10 that Of Austria,
ard the trisates recently built in tho United
States and England for Victor Emanuel would
a:onc be sufficient to drive the whole nnps-
oa'F Sect trc1n the Adriatic and the Mediicr-
iaHcun. remains, moreover, TO he seen
"Aetuel too a-"' rat1 o~ertx, GrndiseA lstria
and Trieste provinces with = nonulation nf
1s0, ,0C0 Italians and ;sss;0,0 900 Sclayonuue, and
only 5000 Austrian Germans, as we'll as
Dalmatia with her *, 900 ItaIians and 60, 600
| Southern Sclayonians will lot feel reluctant
| to engage In war against Italy, Eo~ .hat
the star Of that bcautltul country il In the
ascendant, while That Of the Hapsburg
! dynasty Is declining, Trieste and Goertz.
however, as well as the greater part Of
Istria torn part Of The German Confedera-
lion, though the Ge1man3c element In those
regions constitutes only as VIC have shown, q
| Nltlc more than two md a half per cent Of
the whole population. In fact out or thirty
| FIVE millions who peopled the austrian En-
pfre in 1857 (tucreascd In 1896 to abont thirty.
nine millions); there arc 500 ,o00 in 1.ombar.
dn-vcnetia 400, 900 in Dalmatia; 1G,Goo, ,0o0
I in Hungary 1,e0O, 900 In the Military Frontier
State; a,CO0,oo in TransylvanIa; ], ,00o, 600 In
Croatia and sclayon5a +; Cox, 600 In 6allcia
10000 in Buchyoina Total = ,0oo, ,0oo, outside
| of the Germanlc Confederation, whoseloYa1ty
doubtful. while there arc 5,O00, GOO in Bohemia
and 100000 IN Mofavia, among whom
The northern SlnSonic race prcponaerntes,
and altogether about eight millions inside of
the Gcrmanic Confederation, who arc not
much more Hapsburg- proof than the twenty
two millions outside Of II, leaving in fact to
the Emperor Francis Joseph only 5.0o0, ,000
Germaulc-Austrians proper upon whom he
can fully depend. aud IN army Of COZ, 900 men,
many Of whom, however, are Huugariaua,
Poles and sclavoniaus, go that even the army
cannot be altogether relied upon in the event
| OF war against Italy.
It must also be kept In view that the most
influential hnlr a million OF these five million
! Austrian Gsenans reside At Vienna, where
the same Turbulent npirits who got up rev.
olntIon In 184S nay Start another one IN 1868;
q var against Italy being for obvious reasons
decidedly more unpopular among the Wen.
nese Liberals than one against Prussia alone
No wonder then that Ga1ibalai fs begin
ming to mobilize Ills forces and :. to
rally under his banner the patriots
who had before conquered under his auspices
If Austria Is more vulnerable now than she
was eight or ten years ago the Papal States
are still reduced to creator comparative de-
gree OF wcakncss. Previous TO tho late war,
they comprised Bologna, Ferrn1a, Ravcnna,
Ancoua, Ferusla, aud altogether popula'
ton Of three millions. All these md Other
| i+pr,r+ar+ r1ttoa erd ,ror5,oo. ho~. ho.
s,ncs ta..s, fro,n 80 pansn,- rh,ah - ssn ~.
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.Mher Pon,,a,,a, toMns ~ ~ sea.oa..sza een no
a~ce,,t1nr T1r,ta r..,a,,,, ~ asAss' as.so:,S
Papal seaport, and the towns Of Vfterho and
ynletri.
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n thaaan,a aua laousu @ so.ne VI ,nc .our huhaseo
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