THE MEETING AT SALZBURG.

Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 283, 5 November 1867, Page 3

THE MEETING AT SALZBURG.

// - , (Fromj;he^4 ator -) }' The subdued," and yet earnest and , , /suspicious. curiosity with which 'Europe , }B watching for the results of the con- 1 . « ference of Salzburg, between the Em- "__? eror °^ thfei- French and the Kaiser, is 'iP^hfprtimai^ly only, too intelligible. Two' \snch conferences have occurred since r " N^pdleOTf^has mounted the throne of Trance^ggiach has been followed by a : great^warj and this one, if it produces a Ka^^pall, will produce a greater one seen in Europe, since 1815. li3_l@lmperor of the French goes to %S^^rarg with his Foreign Secretary to the firm and great ally whom. -fqFfbe second time in his career, he so sorely needs. The rise of Prussia has suddenly, in less than a year, rendered doubtful of his own unaided and in all Europe there is only Austria whose alliance can be of any service to Ids immediate designs. . f . . . Napoleon wants the alliance of one great .power. The stakes to be played, if he challenges Prussia, are of frightful, amount. It is by no means -certain that France must win in such a contest, it is in truth exceeding doubtful, and nothing less than success will justify the risk in French eyes. Granting, as we should grant freely, that France could never be conquered, that «he could. throw out by a convulsive , -effort any invader, or any coalition of invaders, that no statesman with the braiii of Von Bismark would ever ask from France territorial cessions, we .. must, still perceive there is no certainty for. Napoleon himself, [prance will not accept humiliation and Bon apartes together. The Emperor has his throne to think of as well as France, and to make his throne secure he must make victory nearly a certainty, or at least so probable that defeat will be only a proof of the uncertainty of war. He is search--ing, therefore, for an ally, and an ally worth having is very hard to find. The ■ Russian Court, it seem clear, has finally his overtures. There is no ally except Austria upon whom France can calculate, and it is to secure Austria > that the Emperor Napoleon is gone to Salzburg with his Ministers for Foreign Affairs. WiU he. secure Austria'} It is very difficult, it is nearly impossible, to answer a question which still depends mainly on the will of one singularly reserved and not over able man, but we : t^___ll«' sa y ne WOU W n °k ft ' 8 possible r*^lia?^|poleon may, as in Lombardy, I WiichauCT^Jr,,. captivate his interlocutor. I ■"] It is possißfe^also, that he may offer I puch a chance^l glorious vengeance I that the Kaiser, tfh^is Hapsburg and B .itTltramontane, devote^ to his dignity l.iind his-Ohurch, both \J which have I Buffered fearfully, may resolve to stake H all upon one more throw, to be master R^pf all South Germany— =that must be Btohe i bribe— -or King of Hungary alone. B This -is possible, but all the probabilities Hnre the other way. The Kaiser cannot forgotten what France has inflicted him-r-the loss of Italy, the lass of his the rejection of his alliance Sadowa, He is German at heart and though there is loyalty left in Austria, it is by no means certhat it is strong enough to bear with a foreiguer, and a hated for- the sake of breaking up now visible German unity.- The .fe King of Hungary, and it is by ; mea?isl-the interest of Hungary to herself-to Germany, or to fight agaiust Prussia, who. can offer a protected autonomy, and who have done it if the late w;ar had another month. Doubtless, all this th.c troops wpuld move were bid, aud they are numerous but they could not get at at once, aud whije a Prussian French soil would excite in fever of pro-German 7 enthuFrench victory on Prussian soil Cause i\n explosion of anti-Gal-hostility, will return, we conceive, the alliance unmade, and then HKfiyt .will: he do? Will he fight, or R?(^prown the edifice," or gloomily await »wliat fate may send, or turn upon powers, or what 1 We doubt if -is a man in Europe, himself inwho can yet form a definite but the balance of probabilities still seem to be greatly in favor It is but power to power, after for none of the reasons which would the Kaiser to reject an with Paris would impel to- . force one with Berlin. might win, and then all is for him ; and if he loses, it is way to the Revolution after real alternative is to grant once, and if there is a man in whom the role of constitumight seem impossible, who has accomplished so secrecy and surprise. His bis weakness, his dreamy statesmanship, and bis ease and security, to. concessions which view, terminate his authe' temper to play cloak, not the inmake itself master of will probably fight, ; but .if he wins the fight, and that -of Salzburg is c .ntense' anxiety. , V>uslnd persons are ' Orissa district and the famine last Sacenes of suffer,\thei# s havinK , dead