New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-23
From the London Times. LIMA 81

- NJ TPe' @ VI astting by a conference the disputes
whlcn now agitate Europe must be Abandoned,
at1n [nT tLt government has telegIaphed to our
Gml wi. Gia. III consequence Of the persistence of
"a Sti ID III Imposing conditions which would make
| Ia iaG "'Iions ~ I9gatory the conference viii not
stL " Ht". - 9oulQ, lhdeedr be mockery To call
S2gttntF t Ine representatives of the great powers
VI tSI IAs "hIch Woui0 necessarily involve their
.iiiLl'etiate sePaldeoH we rear then, that mat
LIE LIE stduu as they stO0o tAfee weeks since, and
@ LLat - no" Fests WIsh one armed powers to com
pose thelr disputes Dy hegotahon between them
selves, or 70 resort 70 Inc nnal arDrament Of war.
| we can only nope thai the former counsel will
| prevail, but everything rnust now be done By She
/ powers themselves, tor tne functions Of the neu-
| tral states are at an end,
me decl3lon Of the austrian Emperor VIII be
| termed BY his admirers drmness, BY his enemies
perVersty. we have no desire to Judge harshly
sovereign who has certainly received much pro.
lection, but it Is to be regrette that Austria
should for the second time within sew en- years seem
to be the cause Of q European war. The error Of
her policy will be proved by the temper in which
her foes will receive the news that she has
stranE'led the conference. Wherever there ia one
who wfshas her ill., whether it be in the concIaFes
of PrussiSr politics, in the public places Of the
Italian cities, or in the houtseholds Of her disaf
feated proVfsces, there will be JOY Waen 1t is told
thas mediation is at an end, and that on Austria
the blame ia made to ress. II the Emperor had
retained an agent Of Count BisluaIk a. is adyifer
he could not more effecfsaily have served the
policy of his opponents. Vow that tAe confer
ence s dream of the past, there will
be maRy ready to declare. that if she
had been held it would have worked
wonders. It will be described asg potent instru-
rnent Of reGonciiat zhich v7orId certainly have
settled all the differences Of tae continent and
placed the nations iIruew barm0nv. had il not
been for the obstinacy Of one incor1g3be dynasty.
SU-h will, no doubt, 5s the chor1s,of Prussian,
tall and Frenchman and it is impossible to deny
tha5 -hey will have some ground for their invec-
tiyea. Tie very small chance which tie conference
gave Of maintaining peace made it eli the less
necessary for Austria TO abstain from a.teadng it,
II 51e afzhCs foy war which shall vraish her
treachereus German adversary, it couId not have
been rreTented, it could hardly been det2Ted, BY
letting the Observation-Disclosures meet and fna1out for
themselves the mpossihtr Of a settIemeF6 We
have never attached much Importance to
the co7EerGHGe, save so far as it gaze the
public opinion Of Europe the opportunity
Of pronct,naiuE officially Oh the matters n dis
pute but 10 appear to reject and, as il WERE to
fear this ermIess discussion diliaishes the moral
weight OF any power. It will De said that the
cauga Of AastfFa must be bad when she seems
afraid even to- lElten to the opinions of dsinter-
ted statesmen. That there should be room for
this accusatg1is the more to be regretted since,
in the nninio f fFspartfal men Hre cause of Aus
tria might be yery f0rcibly defended Ia Germany
she is or was Ill a few Gays since, completely in
tIe rgb4 Assuming that the Elbe. E}uchies form
nort 81 the coqFaderation she he4 I7nifoTn1Iv de-
m ns1ded that tfev ssAouId he distressed of in ar
coyilance with Cerrna7. public law. The Austrian
o-orernmpnt has beea supDorted hv the minor
9atas an5 bv m a1,ntjsc onfnnn Of rrpssia itsaIf
in tbp nart II has fakea. which hs--hean only to
y.aist an ird4f4lr7ij,le eT,d shRmeIe=4nrrresgfnr
German =SIUps4iDn ennlV invnlzpd
in the war every rt9cbt thinking man you'd he on
tha aida of Austria There il u6hapnil tha Italian
ssnta also vet even FIR the koldfn = of Venato
tba Snatrians ar argnroenfs ats4 II yvonld
Fa 5;f7slt for etotaep,an ar LAWYERS ~ eorf114e
ri r tennre Of the I,-Tyincs rests uno- a baais of
lagai rigbt which MAJ well opnosa to the as
niPstf6ns Of their Upptv,entg They ssna52sav that
Veneti III sniI ID fortresseg It'd positiey,ss DE-
fensive optwork of the empire is theirs b5-solemn
trnatv Il yraa N +ha rraat Nanoleon the rnIe1,
5o. .aac5Sgs 70 tF IN, ret Rm9eror If t5
&
frst n,dhsassio1 ~ ysnjea If vvas taken fran,
then, in Is0S hv the CHANCES of war and fsIl to
tbarn aToin III 1al5 Nv tIyr-qarna orbitrament n
ypos oNT6r1,ed N than h the tveotias Of vienna
Wa3 comm L1eI 70 tnel eEe 5s59 "a t
5nastinn tbair TIGHT to Et the. peace of Zurirh
TsHogniraS Il as tbairs ybFs9 thev reded Lomhar5v
to N9noleon Thev might retort 81 other powers
v,bicbt bOId rossessions ti,7s are sundered from
nagbhoying 2ationaIities ami asll. who Il to cast
the frst stone at them. Tbsy-Inar urge that no
eouiyalent has been or cou6 besofFsFed them: shat
tbnv will not take money ard that 40 Tertiary on
thair frontiers car comDepsaF the loss Of
Venetia or Is in the mower Of he erence to be-
| stow. if even ID were suitable. Can thew be ex-
! pected to annex the independent ,Seryiaus the
baTbaraus Montenerrins Bosuia with a large num-
her of Mahomedans or the DanQbian principa!ities
which have lust chosen, a ruler, for themselyes2
They might fairly puzzle any representative of the
neutral powers by simply asking him what he
could propose that was honorable and lust. We
have ourselves seen as yet no proposition that de-
serves moments consideration and we suspect
pared With practical scheme. IT,, then, Austria
had accepted the conference, she woHld have re-
tanned her position as a State standing On the
defensive in support of strict rights, and assaed
for refusing 80 yield to what no. statesman in
Europe could call upon her to yield, She might
have waited till her adversaries or her advisers
refuiad each other by contradictory propositions
and have retired at length to tigktOr make.peaee,
| with her reputation for temperance and justice
| reassHTed.
| It is likely now to be far otherwise. Peopp
will say that Austria cannot resist the temptati
hey immense leyies present to her. She has thr,
| foHpths of a million of men in the field. She
or tIlinkshegself, a full match for all her pres!
ard she has the middle States of Germany, via
an army Of more than one hun2red and fifty thoa-
send men, favorable to her, ana likely to move in
her favor if the war lasts. In Italy the Austrian
army intrenehed in one Of the strongest positions
3 in Europe, may allow the enemy to exhaust his
strength against the Quadriiateyal. In the norths
!, Field MArshal Benedek, the ablest soldier of the
. empire, is at the head of an- army which may
strike a sRdden and crushing slow. From the FROM
tier OF Bohemia ne looks nof11HaTu anu eastWara
over 3e IiaLlS bstnoio " tn r. cantnra of Rera
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