THE TREATY OF PEACE.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 227, 23 December 1859, Page 2

THE TREATY OF PEACE.

Z The treatyof peace was signed yesterday ■ at Zurich. Thot jaMiYto itbe. .; $ipp prance and Austria, ;B&nding a^tife receiving her shared qf r ther spoil, atfjftMriaf o'n6^Mio^Y ttr&et 3ate enemy, aud free-to 1' act r teiar^to

thd wishes of Austria. In the matter of Central Italy the conclusion thus arrived at seems to be of so indefinite a character, that we must wait for further intelligence before we accept it as final. There were three parties to the war; there are only two to the peace. By what title does Sardinia hold Lombardy? , What, are the conditions under which Austria engaged to allow •to her less powerful rival a quiet occupation ? What is there to certify to the world there is peace between Sardinia and Austria, and that.the stream of the Mincio : does not divide great campß ready, on the slightest of pretences to plunge once more into hostilities? It would be hazardous to attempt to guess "at the cause of this denouement to the Zurich conference?. It may be that the Emperor Napoleon accepts the Villafranca arrangement; pure and simple, and that Victor Emmanuel, having his eyes on Central Italy, repudiates the articles that would pledge him to the restoration of the exiled princes. It is certain that the Zurich conferences must be speedily followed by another war or by " fresh negotiations, and that after all the campaign in Lombardy and the diplomatic dallying at Zurich, we have .only arrived at the beginning of the end. A meetingi at which a fusion of the.. Bourbona was agreed upon, ig, "reported to have taken place at.Frohstjpr.ff between the Duke de Chambord the Duke de Nemours, in the presence of the Duchess of Parma. The Sultan has prohibited any further steps being taken with respect to the Suez • canal. The cable is about to be laid between Aden and Kurrachee, which will perfect the Indian telegraph line.