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34 Howard li. Marrani
thcir al lice. The rapidi ty of their movemcnts and the imbroken success which they ha ve mot in their brief but hrilliaut campaign, ha ve astonisbcd the world. The Emperor has noi yet retto-ned to Paris, but is expected bere, without delay. It is understood that the public rejoìcings in Paris -svili take place on the 15th of August next. The anny will participate in thein.
John M. Daniel a Lewis Cass
Turin, Italy, July 13, 1859. No. 116.
Sir: Aythis moment the capital of Sardinia is in a stale of great exciteraent which is probably shared by the rest of Italy. For the Empcror of the French has concludcd a treaty of peace with the Emperor of Austria on the basis of the Treaty of Campo Formio. The war is ended and Italian territory rests stili in German hands.
This strange and depressing intelligence comes in the forni of a telegraphic despatch froni the Emperor Napoleon IH to the Empress Eugenie, and sent from Paris to Turin by the Sardinian Minister. It is dated at Valeggio on the 12th inst. Peace is signed , says this despatch, between the Emperor of Austria and myself entro l'Empercur d'Autriche et Moi ... Lombardy is ce-ded to France, and I give it to the King of Sardinia . The dutehies [sic] are not mentioned, but an Italian Confederation is to be formed under the hono-rary presidency of the Pope. The Emperor of Austria will keep Venice and its territory (The fortresses of the Mincio included) and will by that title form a member of the Italian Confederation .
Up to the prcsent moment the Government here has not printed this news but it is generaliy known, and the words treason and trai tor are of course on every Italian lip. Yesterday they would bave worshipped Louis Napoleon as a God; today they would tear up their pavements to stone him. Yesterday Victor Emanuel [sic] was King of Italy ; and that Italian unity, that indepcn-dance [sic] of the foreigner so long sought seemed at last found. But today thosc golden visions melt in thè full light of common reality.
Certainly, this is a most lame and impotent conclusion to a career of un-exampled success. At the moment of compietion the work is lialf done, and di f-ficult complications take place of perfected simplicity. It cannot be denied that Italy gains much in the new arrangement. The territory, force, and po-pulation of Sardinia is doubled, and an Italian Confederation, so long the scheme and the hope of the best heads and strongest spiri ts of the peninsula, at least seems a reality. But the Italiana expected so much more, and they had suoli good ground to expect more, that this half loaf now seems to them rations of starvation.
In the Dispatch No CXV forwarded yesterday I gave the details of that most unaccountable armistice which closed the victorious course of the allied armies. On the 7th of July the Allies held the Emperor Francis Joseph and bis army at their merey. He was cut off by superior forces on every side and in front of him stood the most redo utablc antagonist that had over settled on those plains. A single, cortain, and glorious blow would bave ended for ever and com-pleteiy the German domination in Italy. But then the Empcror Napoleon III chose to astound bis troops, bis enemies, bis friends, and a world of spcctators