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T HE more that we hear of the patched-up treaty at Villafranca the inore ¦ unsatisfactory appeal * its results to the principals , to the minor parties concerned , and to the more or less disinterested lookers-on . To the French Emperor the humiliation of this unquestionable failure must be great , and its political results the reverse of favourable . Had he possessed sufficient energy and courage to have carried out the programme which he
announced to the people of Italy and to wondering Europe , he would have returned to his capital to be idolized by the French nation , and to take the highest position of any crowned head on the continent . Had he secured the independence of the Italians , ¦ he would have earned the support and gratitude of that enthusiastic people ; he -would have gone far to obliterate the dark remembrance of former passages in his career , and he would have gained whit . we believe he would gladly
welcome—the respect and esteem , of England . His entry into Turin amid the scowling silence of the Piedinontese , was but a foreshadowing of the reception that awaited him in Paris , where sneers , sarcasms , and ill-omened mutterings took the place of the enthusiastic and almost loyal cheers which he received on his departure to place himself at the head of the army of Italy . He has raised up against himself numerous fresh enemies , while he can scarcely be supposed to have gained one
new mend . It would seem hardly possible that this astute politician was unable to perceive that some of these results must follow the step he had decided upon ; and wo cannot therefore but conclude that he was compelled to yield to the pressure of some peculiar circumstances which have not yet been laid bare to our ciu'ious gaze . Rumours and surmises are plentiful as to the motives which have influenced Louis Napoleon . It has been said that the French army is fearfully cut up
and without reserves to support it ; that he was fearful of the attitude of the Prussian and oven of the Russian Government ; and that lie would have brought upon himself the attack of the great Gorman Confederation had he proceeded to reduce the Austrian strongholds on the Mincio . It is also , remarked that ho waa probably alarmed at the prospect of giving an encouragement to the
rovomdderation of his enemy granted to him . Meantime the Regent of Prussia congratulates his people upon the important po » ii : c : i v .-hi ' .-u' their country holds in the balance of Europe , aiid arrogates to it the credit of having prevented an universal war . The Federal Diet of Germany has consented to restore their contingents and fortresses to a peace footing ; and we find the King of Bavaria making to his Chambers the satisfactory announcement that the conclusion of peace has lessened the want of money . The most universally interesting and important point in our domestic affairs this week has been the discussion of the Budget of bur nevr finance
minister , which has been carried without w opposition that could be considered serious , -ft was obvious from Mr . Gladstone ' s statement that five millions , of money were to be raised , and the idea of a loan was unhesitatingly condemned by . all the principal speakers . The alternative of an increased income tax was therefore . accepted . ; Sir II . Willoughby ' s amendment being negatived without a division , and Mr . Disraeli ' s withdrawn . Mr . Bright , with all his objection to . this peculiar tax , acquiesced in the scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for supplying the inequality of the national balance-sheet . The gratifying result of this debate to the public , however , is the promise which has been elicited of a cessation
ormodifica-Victor Emmanuel ' s position as the leader of the great Italian nation is for the present lost , and his efforts paralysed , by his submission to the arrangement which has shattered the . splendid imaginary fabric / raised by the too sanguine Oavour of a powerful Northern Italian kingdom of fourteen millions of inhabitants , comprising the most fertile country in Europe , and which would hold a rank among the powers of Europe equal to that held by Prussia . He has shown himself to be but a tool in
the hands of the French Emperor ; yet he is ' per ? sonally as popular as ever , and the affection of the Piedinontese is emulated by the respectful sympathy -with which this unlucky monarch has been greeted by the Lombard and Tuscan people . The resignation of Count Cavour is indeed a blow to the hopes of Italy and a loss that can hardly be supplied to his royal master ; yet while all must regret its necessity , no one can doubt the propriety and dignity of the step which that great statesman has taken . The services which he has rendered to
the cause of constitutional liberty in Italy , and the courageous advice given b y him to his king and country at the time of the Crimean war cannot soon be forgotten ; and with such antecedents , it would indeed have been unworthy of him to have participated , even by silence , in the abandonment of those principles which it has been the hope of his life to see firmly established . Great as is the humiliation which has fallen upon Cavour , it must weigh equally heavy upon his king ; and the time must soon come when Victor Emmanuel must
retion of this unpopular impost before the expiration of another year . Among other topics ^ of Parliamentary discussion have been the reduction of our enormous Indian army , which we are told cannot yet be effected , but is kept in view ; and Mr . Forster ' s proposition for a winter session of Parliament which , strange to say , was lost . The Edinburgh Annuity Bui was supported by the Government , and opposed by the Church party headed by Mr . Newdegato , who wove defeated , and the second reading carried .
pent , and perhaps endeavour to repudiate his share in the sacrifice of Italy to France and Austria . "Whilst the Emperor of the French , in his address of last Tuesday , was fain to confess himself foiled by the serried ranks of the Austrian anny behind the walls of Verona , and by the public opinion of all E uropc , which he declares to have been opposed to his policy—Francis Joseph , with equal absence of bravado , and with . simulated moderation , announces his glad acceptance of the treaty , his determination to discontinue his armaments and to devote himself to the fostering
The volunteer movement is , we hope , now upon such a footing that no fear of its failure neqd fee anticipated . The Government have issued copious instruction ' s for the regulation of . this force ; and heavy will be their responsibility if they neglect to foster the patriotic spirit which is now stirred up throughout the land . The citizens ol London , with their chie magistrate at their bead , on Thursday made a demonstration on this subami iollowou all
jeot , that wo trust will be marked over the empire . . .. . . . The record of crime and casualties Una woelc is more than usually heavy . A wretched man at Shields has murdered his wife and unsuccessfully attempted sujoldo ; while for a precisely ennilar double crime anothorhas boon sentenced at York . In Ireland wo hour of u renewal ot the Puconix conspiracy trials ; nnd among minor OHencos is to be remarked a committal for bribery at Kottmgraramatta
of the arts of peace . More than nil this , ho deolarcs his intention to introduce those reforms which the spirit of the time demands , into his dominions , or at least into that part of them which has so nearly been snatohed from him . Let us hope that with returning strength in the financos of his empire , and the relief from the pressuro of the foreign conqueror , theso slender hopes for the future of Venice may not altogether , vanish . The manifesto of Francis Joseph does not omit to mention with terms of reprobation tho conduot of his allies , whose mediation ho says , nromisodllesa favourable terms than the
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lutionary spirit which might eventually load to tho downfal of his own power ; and an Orlcanist combination or conspiracy of a formidable character is also believed in ' some quarters to have boon endeavouring to take advantage of his absence from Franoe , and of tho gloomy prognostications drawn worn the prodigious losses and small results of tho wood y fields of Magenta and Solforiwo .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 23, 1859, page 855, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2304/page/3/
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