RE-ORGANISATION OF EUROPE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2132, 22 January 1880, Page 3

RE-ORGANISATION OF EUROPE.

jit has been remarked in France that .and Count, Andrassy have taken’ 1 iipC’an 1 old proposal for the arrangement’'io£ ,! Euiopej which was submittedlc Napoleon I. after Ulni by Talleyrand.,! j,;Thei historian Mignet t the.-,, p£: this; in the following terms : “ Talleyrand asked himself by what means he could remove all misunderstandipg; .between i France' and Austria, .separate Austrian, .interests from tlic/se of England and Russia, and by rthis opposition guarantee the -intej?-' rity ; pfthe Ottoman Empire, and found a new European, equilibrium., This was the problemand he,proposed to solve it by i 'sfjp ! aratirig Austha fromTtaly, by depriving liter of ’ Venice, from S witzerland by depriving her of the Tyrol, and from South (Germany,’ by depriving ber of 1; In this manner Aiistria would cease to he in contact with any. of the countries protected by France, and all further cause fpr hostility between the 0 two; dpUUtries iyould .he removed., Asidt exfrdprecautio’n,’ Venice was to. be incorporated into an indepondanC republics between ; Austria and l Italy; Austria was, npt to he compensated in the ( valley of .the; Danube,- and was-to redelye 'Moldavia, Wallachiaj Bessarabltt',' ’and 1 the .Southern portion- of Bulgaria; l “ Iff this way,” said Talleyrand,! “ the Germans will be always excluded from Italy, and there will be an end,. to ,(those wars which their pretensions to that country have for: so many years excited. (f Austria possessing the; whble course of the Danube, and a portion of the shores of the Black Sea v would a neighbor and consequently' a rival of Russia. The Ottoman Empire would; purchase security for many a long year by the timely sacrifice of Provinces'which have several, times, been,invaded by Riissia- the Russians’ shut up in their deserts, would direct their efforts towards Asia where the course of events would place them in presence of the English, thus transforming into future adversaries the confederates of to-day.” Not only did Talleyrand submit this splendid plan to the Emperor; after; ;his success ait Ulm, hut the day he received from Vienna, the news of the great victory of Auster* litas he wrote to Napoleon saying—‘‘Your 'Majesty cab bow crush the Austrian Monarchy or re-establish it. The existence of s this monarchy in its mass is indispensihle to the future welfare Of civilised nations. I implore youf Majesty to consider the project that I.had the honor to address’ to you at Stratsburg. I presume to-day more than ever.to regard it as the best and most, 1 salutary. Our victories render it easy ; and I shall he happy if you will authorise ’ xne to make an arrangement which I am convinced will assure the peace of the Continent for more than;., a.ncentury.” ; Napoleon only adhered to a portion of Talleyrard’s proposal. He would never consent to Austria '• occupying, Moldavia and Wallachia, although this occupation was stipulated in the Treaty of Tilsit; but it,was hardly the game of a great soldier, who maintained his position by winning battles, to secure a century of tranquility. It remains to be seen to what extent Prince Bismarck' will bo able to follow out Talleyrand’s ideas concerning the protection of what still remains of Turkey.