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Zurich (TREATY OF a convention signed)

TREATY OF, a convention signed in Zurich Nov. 10, 1859, by the plenipotentiaries of France and Austria, which embodied the conditions of the preliminaries of peace agreed to at Villafranca, on the part of Napoleon II. and the Emperor of Austria, Francis Joseph, and closed the Franco-Italian war by Austria's abandonment of her right to Lombardy.

ZUTPHEN (züt'fen), a town in the Dutch province of Guelderland; on the Yssel, here joined by the Berk miles N. N. E. of Arnhem. Of buildings Berkel ; 18 the chief are the Great Church (1103; restored 1857) and the "Wijn Huis" tower. At Rysselt, 3 miles N., is the boys' reformatory of "Nederlandsch Mettray" (1851). Zütpen has manufactures of paper, oil, leather, etc. It has been several times besieged; and in a skirmish on the field of Warnsfield, a little to the E., SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (q. v.) received his death wound from a Spanish bullet, Oct. 2, 1586. Pop., commune, about 20,000.