Year: 1859

Two Steamships arrived at New York froI


Europe on Monday the 1st-the Teutonia an


Ocean Queen With London Journals to tn
| Goth ult. embracing news not so late as ha


reached US BY selagraph but comprising ae


counts of the lnperor's interview at Will


Franco, speech q Louis Napoleon, the man


ifesto of Franc Joseph, and other interestin


matters. We snejoin such details as W


deem of interes ID the general reader.


MANIFESTO q TIE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA


The followin e the translation of the man


ifesto of the Enalsfor of Austria


When all cor sssions that were allowable


and compatible VIII the dignity Of the crown


and the honor M welfare Of the country


have been exhasasIed, and when all attempts
| at pacific arraa .nent have miscarried, ther'


is no room for elbice and what cannot bt
avoided becoMs duty.


This lssiy pIaE me under the stern neees
sity Of demanding froln my people new arc
painful sacrifices, IN order to place in a STATE
Of defence their most sacred interests. My
faithful people have responded to my appeal
| they have pressed forward unanimously in de.
fenceof the throne, and they have made the
! sacrifices of every kind demanded by circum-
| stanceS with an eagerness which merits my
gratitude-which augments, if possible, the
profound affection which feel for them-and
which was adapted to inspire the assurance
that the Just cause, in defence Of which my
brave armies went forth with enthusiasm to
the contest, would be victorious.


Unhappily the result has not corresponded
with the general effort and the fortune of wal
has not been favorable to us.


The valiant army of Austria has in this
| instance, again given proofs of its tried hero
ism, and its incompatible perseverance, 50
brilliant that it has commanded the admiration
of all, even of its enemies. experience a le-
gitimate pride in being the chief of such an
army, and the country ought to feel indebted
to it for having manifested vigorously, in all
its purity, the honor of the Austrian flag.


1t is not less perfectly established that our
enemies, in spite Of the greatest efforts, in spite
Of the superior forces which they have for a
long period, been preparing for the conflict,
have been able, even by making the greatest
sacrifices, to obtain only advantages, not de-
cisive victory; while the Austrian army, still
animated by the same ardor, and full of the
same courage, maintained a position, the pos
session of which left perhaps the possibility of
recovering from the enemy all the advantages
that he had gained but for this purpose it
would have been necessary to make new sac
rifices, which certainly would not have been
less bloody than those which have been made
already, and which have deeply afflicted my
heart.


Under these conditions, it was my duty as
a sovereign to take into serious consideration
the propositions of peace which had been
made to me. The consequences Of this con-
tinuance of the war would have been so much
the heavier, because | should have been OBJ
hged to demand from the faithful people of my
dominions new sacrifices of blood and money
much more considerable even than those
which had been made up to that time. And
Notwithstanding success would have remain-
ed doubtful, since have been so bitterly de-
ceived in my well founded hopes that this con-
test not having been entered into for the
defence of the rights of Austria only, I should
not be left alone in it.


In spite of the ardent sympathy worthy of
acknowledgment, which the justice of our
cause has inspired, for the most part, in the
governments and peoples of Germany, our nat
ural allies, most ancient allies, have obstinate
ly refused to recognize the great importance
of the grand question of the day. Conse-
quentiy, Austria would have been obliged all
alone to face the events which were being
ss.s- 4 e sa9ssaks 81 4.
been rendered more grave


The honor Of Austria coming intact out of
this war, thanks to the heroic efforts of her
heroic army, l have resolved, yielding to po-
litical considerations, to make a sacrifice for
the re-establishment of peace, and to accept
the preliminaries which ought to lead to its
conclusion; for have acquired the conviction
that | should obtain, in any event, conditions
less unfayorable in coming to direct under
standing with the Emperor of the French,
without the blending of any third party what
soever, than in causing to participate in the
negotiations the three great powers which
haze taken no part in the struggle. Unhap
PLY, have been unable to escape the separa-
ton from the rest of the Empire Of the great
er part of Lombardy.


On the other hand, it must be agreeable to
my heart to see the blessings of peace assured
afresh to my beloved people, and those bless
ings are doubly precious to me, because they
will give me the necessary leisure for bestow-
ing henceforth, without distraction, all my at
tention and solicitude on the fruitful task that
propose to accomplise-that is to say, to
found in a durable manner the internal we'll
being and the external power of Austria, by
the happy deyelopement of her moral and
material forces, and by ameliorations conform
able to the spirit of the time in legislation and
administration As in those days Of serious
trials and sacrifices my people have shown
themselves faithful to my person, SO now by
the confidence with which they respond to
me, they viii aid in accomplishing works of
peace, and in attaining the erealization of my
benevolent intentions


As chief of the army, have already ex-
pressed to it, in special order of the day, my
Acknowledgements of its bravery. To-day l
renew the expression of these sentiments.
While speak to my people ] thank those of
their children who have fought for God, their
Emperor and their country. THANK them for
the heroism of which they have given proof,
and shall always remember with grief those
OF our brave companions in arms who have
not, alas returned from the combat


(Signed) FRANCIS JOSEPH


Laxemburg, 18th July, 1853.