The Sun. — London, England, 1821-03-29 00:00:00

aiiiii;ted the principle, - bht as what he had heard from them on the subject was disapprobation, he lieuld not for any set of men play a trick %sith his conscience, or with the 'people of Ireland; and -he expressed the disgust and abhorrence which he felt for these enactments. Lord CASTLEREAGH hoped the House would indtilge him in a few observations. The Hon. Gentleman who jnsheat down, had clone him but justice in saying that he was incapable of giving his support to any measure that could degrade the Catholic Clerey in Ireland, or even any thing which they, as honest men and conscien tious Catholics, could not consent to.—(hear, hear!)—But he could not conceive there was any , such quality in the Bill now before the house! Its tendency was quite of the opposite charac ter. He was quite at a loss to know on what solid grounds the Hoe. Gentleman (Who he knew had nu object hat the honest discharge of his duty) could represent the Bill in such a light. He lamented extremely that the discharge of his dots - compelled him to prosent such an odious view of it to the Itonee—for he keeW how easy a thing it was to raise scruples that would other wise have remained dormant, and by this means frustrate the great object. We were not now proceeding to the discussion of clauses, which now, for the first time, were submitted to the consideration of the House. They were such as the head of the Church had himself expressed his approbation of, and with all due respect to the Right Rev. Personage to whom the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Hutchinson) had allnded, he most say that the Hoese were sufficiently inform ed of the sentiments of the Catholic body at large. to discharge a legislative function. lie denied that they could in any degree be called penal clauses. That surely could not be called t penal clause which goes to remove all the severe laws which have so long existed, whether justifi ed or not by the exigency of the times in which they were enacted. They did not seem to calcu lete the effect of the existing law. They seem ed to be ignorant that, according to the existing laws, a Catholic, by holding any communication ssitit the See of Rome, exposes himself to consi elerable danger. He, therefore, looked upon it riot :?_3 a measure of security but of indulgence. On the simple principle of these securities, which it was most important should be given, be could as sure the Honourable Gentleman (Mr.. Hut chinson) that he was not to be deterred by any authorities that might be cited, or any chemonrs that may he raised. He had to la .; set the melancholy perversion and versatility of Dr. Milner ; but the best refutation that could be given to h-im was to quote his own opinions against himself.—!(fear, hear !) There was another Gentleman (a Father Haves), of whom the House had heard a great deal— (Laughter)—and also another Gentleman i n a Learned profession in Ireland (a Mr. O'Connell), whose talents never yet were employed to pro mote,either the tranquillity, the peace, or the prosperity of his country.—(Hear !)—Now he -must oao, that such opposition from such men operated leis mind as additional inducements to support the measure. He was sure the House woold never surrender their understandings, or wait until the Catholics of Ireland 'had assembled, nor leave the gentkral interest and tranquillity of the empire at h.azassi. The Parliament would not, he was cure, suspend their-functions until the Ecclesiastical Parliament in Dublin had issued their decrees.—(Hear ! and laughter.)— He conceived it was the bounden duty of .fke l. House to proceed . fearlessly. They - had the ma terials and the information to go upon—they had the highest authority in the CatholicsCioereh,ond the experience of E urope, to direct them iu the steps they were about to take; and if the Ca-e tholic Clergy could be capable of refusing this, aneastsre of conciliation for their flocks, the Par- Forstoot should recall Mem to their dot'. there , es - er was a period when this principle could be applied, " D 3 rniwitni4 non curet her," that period was the present.—(Hearl)—The oath -simplo , implies this, that when all the clauses.-ire aernoaed that prohibit the intercourse with llnme they would not employ that advantage to any evil purpose. To this we are told the Catholic Clergy of Ireland newer car. consent. Why then uhe Clergy of Ireland refuse their consent to what all the Catholics of Christendom agree to except themselves. The arrangement was quite explicit With respect to the appointment of the Bishops. The disappetsbatiou of the lirown was effectual in preventing an individual from dis charging the 'religiOns functions. If the Hon. Gentleman' (Mr. Hutchinson) could suggest an amendment,' he was sure there was a disposition in the House - to attend to it ; and as to this Bill Tieing Lnally decisive, he was sure that at any feture period, should it appear to the oCisdcm of Parliament that they had taken -a wrong step, they would•he always ready to retrace it. But, he did not think there .any tise arguer:pet that Catholics entertained any just scruples ; had the authority of the head of the Church for this assertioa ; he had the Pope at his back.--(Much laughter.)—Th e Catholics could not reasonably expect the privihsees of the other Bill, unleso they were prepared to make these concessions which the practice of Europe had established. -He therefore hoped the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Hutchinson) would not allow. his individual opinions to operate in -a manner so foreign to his inclination. Ile must be aware low difficult it is to effect any great measurti of this kind, to 'allay the tumults that 'have so hing . vinppiiy existed in Ireland o in such a 'rnanner,, as at once to give general satiefutation. When , a Lindred mea s ure towards the - Preslsoehians had hsen carried, at first It gave general:dissatisfac tion, but he; never since heard 4, Presbyterian speak of it except in termaef gratitude-; and he had not the iii4,r'htest doliht that when the difficul ties that appeared An 'some timid minds were re-, tveved, there Wae.enough of good sense:and sound principle arlionipt Catholic clergy,to convert the measure ho : the advantages it is intended to bestowa—(Hear, Wear.) Dr. Puteettoboo:opoke In favour olthe pro posed securitiA for the Protestant Establishment, because, amoWg 'other ratons, he. thought that :the faith of the House was pledged to enact those Am /rides in conjunction with .the -Bill of CM), cession; therefore, if tht 'one were rejected, he should, however friendly to its principle, feel himself bound to •vote against the latter. Mr. Pelee (who Stood 'behind 'Lord Castle reagh) expressed a hope, that when the Noble Lord had said he was legislating with the Pope at his back, he did not mean to refer to the Gen tlemen immediately behind him (a laugh)—for he was satisfied that none of those Gentlemen bud much confidence or connection with his Ho liness. But he now rose to advert to what was called the irritation and impopularity excited ameng'the Catholics, in consequence of the pro posed securities or restrictions, as some described them ; and he begged it to be understood, that no part of that irritation or unpopularity could be ascribed to him or to those Gentlemen who had acted with him upon this subject,as they had nothing to do in proposing or framing such pro -vis:ons. Those provisions, indeed, originated solely with the advocates for Concession to the Catholic Claims, neither 'himself nor his friends having expressed any desiee whatever for such enactments, althceogh that seemed to have been insinuated ; at the same time, he thought it right to say, that the party with whom 'he had the ho nour to act, was not al! disposed to make - com mon caul; with such objections as had been urged this tight against the provisions alluded to, or to obstruct the measure 'under tonsideration, by contributing to excite any irritations or unpo pularity against it, upon such grounds as had been stated. Mr. FITZGERALD declared, that he could not concur with his Honourable Friend the Member for Cork in any attempt to deprecate the charac ter of this measure ; for it was, in his opinion, Of the utmost coneeKnence, and not confined to the mere question whether a Catholic Nobleman should sit in the other House of Parliament, or his son in that. But while he acknowledged the great value of this tneasare to the Catholic Laity, he could not forbear from deprecating the re striction which it meant to impose upon the .Ca tholic Clergy, who were, in fact, to derive no benefit from its enactment. Upon this ground he disapproved of the oath which it was proposed to call upon the Catholic Clergy t o t a k e , as we ll as of the natu re of the commission to be appoint ed for facilitating communication between the Pope and the Catholic Clergy, as well as of the giant of a veto to the Crown upon the appoint ment of Catholic Bishops and Deans; for he thought the creation of such powers derogatory to the character of•the Catholic Clergy of Ire land, who were always among the most forward to promote the morals, to preserve the peace, to enforce the laws in that country. Why then throw out sech an offensive and unjust suspicion upon their loyalty and good disposition at the present momeat.? But the establishment of a Commission of revision with the veto would, he was persuaded, be a most mischievous measure ; for the Catholics could never be reconciled to the grant of sack powers to a government essentially hostile to their religion. The Catholic people would always apprehend the abuse of such au thority, and it was much to be feared that its exercise would serve to withdraw the laity from that reverence which at present they were known to feel towards their Clergy in such a remarka ble degree. These were not, he declared, the suggestions of any Catholic Bishops or laymen, but the firm convictions of his own mind, from the moment that he had been able to put his mind in possession of-the merits of the case. But st4l, as few Members seemed to concur with him in sentiment, he should not deem it expedient to move any alteratiou is the Bill. Mr. C. HurcniusoN, in explanation, disclaimed any intention to deprecate the character of the proposed concessions, as his Hone Friend ap peared to think, but upon the authority of an eminent Catholic -Bishop he felt it his duty to communicate to the House the apprehension which existed that the restrictions to which he bad alluded would serve to interfere! with :flie acceptability of these concessions. Mr. CANNING =felt himself called upon to,de dare, that unless the securities ‘ proposed were acceded to, could not reconcile ato his sease of duty to vote fur the enactment of the conces sions. The Protestants . , by agreeing to those concessions, had sacrificed muci. of interest, as welt as of prejudice, and was the House :to be told that the Catholics would not is return sacri fice any thing ? But it was clearly understood frcon the outset of those measures, that both Should be adopted for the purpose of satisfying - the Protestant as well as the Catholic.; and was it possible to suppose that, after the measure of concession had made such progress,'it could 'be seriously intended or desired to violate that under standing by opposing the measure cif securities ? If any man could meditate such, he was sure that failure must be Lis :fate, for who could found to sanction any -such attempt to deprive the.Pretestant of that price Which it was agreed lie should be paid for conceding to the wishes of the Ca . thoY.c ? For his own part, he trusted the conduct which he had uniformly pursued with regard to this measure, placed him above the suspicion of participating in the slight est degree in such an act of treachery. 3.1 e had thn'te _enough, he hoped, to prove that he was most sincerely desirous of effecting the emancipa tion .of his Catholic fellow-subjects, from all the restrictions under whit!h,they 'laboured ; hut if a successful attempt should be made to detach froM the BIN those clauses, which would have . the effect ,of reconciling, the Protestant part of the .community to the• measure; from • that moment, with the same hearty sincerity with which he had sacrificed every consideration to AO justice to the Catholics, he would altogether reject the Bill, which, passed in that - mutilated state, would be a fraud upon the Protestants:_—Of e a r !) Sir G. .Hine said, that if he were really dis posed to proctile the rejection of the measure, he thought be could not more effectually' promote such an object' than by supporting the pro, position of the Member for Cork. With regard to the necessity of enforcing tine two main se curities for the, maintenance of the Protestant interests ; he begged to read to the House the words of a distinguished Statesman.—" In grant ing an extension of the civil rights of the Ro man Catholic body, due prevision must be made 1 for the inviolable maintenance of the filigious and civil establishments of the United Kingdom. —Mitch must be done for mutual conciliation, much for common 'safety. Many contending in terests must be reconciled, many jealousies must be allayed, many long-cherished and mutually destructive . prejudices must be eradicated."— Such were the sentiments of a distinguished Mem ber .of the other House, which,. in his 'opinion, over-balanced all the arguments he had heard against the necessity of securities. Re -declared, however, that if the present Bill should ;pass, no Member in th a t 'House would be more anxious than himself to reConcile'all parties to The mea sure. Mr. It. MARTIN (GUCCIWiIy) said, that if there was one county in - Ireland more likely than an other to return a Catholic Representative to that House, he belieseti it was the county 'which he had the honour to represent. That consideratioa., however, would not prevent him from supporting loth the Bills, and whether he were likely to have a Catholic competitor or not, he should vote for going into the Committee. Mr. C. ili..7TcHtN;o N begged to observe that he had not sated that the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland were against the Bill, for he had not itherto bad any conunanication with them on the su biect. Mr. SIIAw said, he had no: heard of a single Cat' olio in the county which he had the honour to represent, who had not spoken of the Bill in terms of the highest gratitude and satisfaction. Mr. BARING thought it would be better to im pose the oaths, not upon those who were 1101 V Catholic Priests, but on these who might 'be hereafter ordained. Of the Thiests now in holy orders, some might be well disposed, and others might object to taking the oaths, and it would be a very inconvenient and unpleasant operation to call them together for the purpose of imposing tfivse oaths. This was an observation, however, which was better suited to the Committee than to the present state of the Rouse, and he should therefore reserve himself for that stage of the Mr. S. RICE expressed his conviction that the feeling of all the well-disposed Catholic popula tion of Ireland was favourable to the Bill. The Hon. Member read to the House a letter from a Catholic of the highest character end authority in that part of Ireland in which he resided, in which the Catholics were stated to be thankful to the Legislature for the kind concessions which were extended to them. He (Mr. R.) declared that he should support the second Bill, not be cause he apprehended danger front the Catholics, but because he wished to remove the fears and apprehensions of the Protestants, and be entirely concurred with the Right Hon. Member for Liverpool (Mr. Canning), that to reject the se curities would be a fraud upon the Protestant, and a violation of the pledge which had been given to !naintain them. Mr. P. Moo RE said, he had been engaged in a very extensive correspondence upon this subject; and he believed that it was in a great measure owing to his exertions that th e Bill was thi s year brought - ' before the Tiouse.—(llear ! and a laugh.) —Front the answers Willett 'had been returned to his 4nquiries, and from the information which he had been able to collect, lie could as sure the House 'that a general unanimity pre vailed among the Catholics whit respect to this second Bill, though there might be some ardent spirits still at work, who would twither be re conciled to that or any other measure. Colonel BAGWELL, said, he was Convirroed that the measure would he gratefully received as a boon by the Catholics of Ireland in general, and that it would promote the tranquillity and secu rity of that country. The question was then put and agreed to, and the Speaker having left the Chair, Upon the first clause of tle.e Bill being read, which went to enact that ail persons in holy orders should take and subscribe the following oath within six calendar months after entering upon the exercise of any eceleeiasfical functions, Mr. BARING proposed, as an Amendment, the substitu tion of the words, " arl persons who shall be lereafter called upon to exercise any spiritual functions." Mr. GOULBURN said, that if the proposition of the Ho nourable Gentleman were adopted, it would be a direct viola tion of the pledge given to the Protestant part of the conutou nity, and of the conditions under which the Bill was understood to receive the support of many Members in that 'House. Mr. BARING said, he had no wish to press his Amend anent. At the same time he must observe, in answer to the Honourable Gentl e m an w h o saw so much danger in the .ap pointment, of a Catholic Governor of Antigua, that it would be extremely difficult to satisfy sue&a mind as his of the adequacy of any securities. Mr. GOULBURN explained. A desultory conversation then ensued on the remaining clauses, as they were nut by the Chairman in succesSion, r.tween iiir J. Newport, tor. Phillimore, \lr. Baring, Lord Cas tlereagh, Mr. M. - Fitzgerald, Sir G. !fill, Mr. Peel, Mr. C. Wynn, Mr. Bright, Mr. W. Courtenay, Sir 11. Parnell, Mr. I'. Rubinson, Mr. Rice, and Mr. Tennyson ;- when, after some partial modification, they were all substantially agreed to. Mr. ELLIS (of Ibuigin) proposed a clause for more effectu ally excluding Roman Catholic P.2,r . k.sts from seats ,in that, douse. Mr. 'WYNN opposed it as unnecessary. Mr. £LLIS said that his object was-to render the Bill liable to as few e , :ceptiunt: After a few Wordstfrom Sir J. NEWPORT, the clause was Some verbal Amendozenti were then proposed and agreed t(4 in die preamble, after Ivirich the House resumed, and the Rep:lrtl was ordered , tf, be ree:ired to-morrow. ' Sir T. - NEWPORT gave notice, that as the Repwrt was to be 'brought up to-morrow, he would then move that the Bill ,shs,tild be reprinted, and fix Monday next for the third reading. Mr. PEEL thourtht it but fair to state, that he had every reason to believe that ,a division would take place on the third reading of the Bill. Thc other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Twelve o'Cloek. Singular pr oof>. of the rzanl of Eduealion in Or fordshlre.----A witness in a pros(tcution for steal ing a lamb, an being asked if he could tell whe ther t#o skin of a lamb produced, aid the car cass of the lamb which he had b efore seen, cor responded, sapiently an wered, " He conid not tell, for he was do schollard."—Anotber declared, that he could neither speak to time Par date, for the very same reason, " as he never took no ac count either atilt; one or the other !" MARRIED. At St. GeOr. , Te's,..lllcoonishory. Richard Britten, rein of the late Richard Britten. Ee 1, , of Cateaton-street, to; S'araih Molt• Lague, eldest daughter of t lic late Everett and itthet.,.: Deo fort., uf.Fiticlo-lane, DIED. Lately. At Cat:►;+ the lion. Li entenant-Colucel Irhy, of the Life Guar dc, and sun of Lord Boston. Yeste;rday. in Aldorsgate-street, - .Sarah'," wife of Thomas Sparks, Esq., aged 71. On Mouday last. at Firomie). in Kent,. §lizabt:th, wife of Mr. Ch.eyne, in the 43d yeas of Iser are. THE LONDON JOIJR,A.LS [DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING l'AitRS.: The Times.] At Pesaro, where he had resided but a short time before he left Italy, great care had been taken to keep from the public all news of the movements of the army. The Austrian official ac counts of the affair tif 'Ceti, and the subss.quent advance of the divisions Of Walmoden and Stut terheim-to Aquila, constituted their whole intel ligence. On arriving at Bologna, however, on the 18th, he learnt, from authority in which he was led to place implicit credit, the true state of the campaign, so far as regarded the opera tions in that quarter. The formidable nature of the attac& of Pepe on Walmoden's corps may be inferred from the fact that the Austrians sent, ou the following day, 500 wounded to Poligno. The retreat of the Neapolitans, after the division of Stutterbeim had been ordered up to support that of Walmodeu, he describes solely as a feint to draw the troops opposed to Pepe from the main body ; and this design was effected with so much skill, that the Neapolitans, lost few prisoners, and carried off nearly all their wounded. Civita Ductile fell a barren conquest into the hands of the victors, the population re treating along with the army, and carrying off tine whole of the provisions and moveables. Aquila was also, in like manner, stripped and abandoned. As the retreat of the Neapolitans was more rapid than the advance of. the Austrian troops, Gene ral Pepe is said to have gained -un them very - con &Wei-M:4 : when, making a movement across the mountains, lie effected -a junction with the.main body of the Neapolitan army, under the com mand of Carascosa. There appears to be some uncertainty whether this movement included the whole, or enly a part of General Pepe's division ; but we are inclined to the latter supposition. Our informant has no doubt that it was a preconcerted plan, agreed on between Pepe and Carascosa. Immediately on the junc tion taking place, it was resolved to give battle to the main body of the Austrian army under Frimont, then advancing on the road to Naples. The armies met on the high road between Val Montone and St. Germano, on the 14th instant. The battle was extremely long, bloody, and ob stinately contested, but ended in the total de feat of the Austrians, who fled in all directions ; and according to the last accounts received from the neighbourhood of the field of battle, the Nea politans were in full pursuit of them. *„* The above account is stated to have been given to The Tiute.s. of this day, by a gentler:lan just arrived, who left Pesaro on the 17th, &Aqua Ain Ole I.9th, and Turin on the 'Hit. [Netil Times.] 'We have received private letters from Turin of the 21st instant, stating, that advices had reached that city from Florence, to the following a:et t :—T hat the Anstrians had been completely successful in the kingdom of Naples—that a Counter-Revolution had there taken place in fa vour of King Ferdinand—that the Parliament had been dissolved—and that the whole power of the State had devolved to, the Prince Regent, who had sent a deputation to the King his father, inviting him to come and resume his authority.— It was added that the ?Yore Neapolitan Army had for the most part dispersed, after having spiked their guns ; that the thrice-valiant Gen. Pepe had suddenly disappeared from the eyes of men, and that the heroic Duke of Campo Chiaro, who swore to bury himself under the ruins of his country, had declared his oath to be non-avcnu. Now, considering the quarter from which our letters came, we own we should be inclined to put some confidence in them ; but for the positive assurance of The Times, repeated day after day, that any events of the kind here stated, are phy sically and morally impossible. [Here Tke New frimes gives the sulistance of intelligence inserted in The Old Times of Monday, Tuesday, and Wed• nesdsv, chiefly caus4sting of unauthorised reports and cague cotjectures.l With such a mass of authority before us as three 'successive numbers of The tales, how can we venture to put any trust in letters from Turin o Florence ? People there, being so much nearer the scene of action, cannot of course judge with the tekotnes; and impartiality which so strongly mark tie Jucubrations of our learned cotewpo. rary. True tit Js (and here lies our ho,pe), that even Th e •27,,,, y t :,sterday put forth a second Edition, expressly .t o 4 0 ;_itrthliCt its first ; and to, announce a rumour in Paris that the Austrians had got possession of Naples! We, ourselves, had received the same news, atan early hour, but we did not think it b ecom i ng t o p ub ' fish a Se cond Edition on the mere ground of rOmour• Our information was dated at Paris on Jtvitant, and it is stated that a Gend'arrne had , broeght to the French Exchange the report in t queatiosa, which had immediately raised the French Funds to 77, 30.—Had we published this, rit would not have contradicted ;in one co lumn-what was asserted is the adjoining column : tit would not have rendered ridiculous all our reasatriaigs for three days previously. But we thougqrt it more respectful to our Readers to await die confirmation of the statement frOcal other q►tarters. That confirmation has now been received : our Readers will judge of its validity : such us it is we lay it before them ; and if we might be allowed to advert to our former specu lations, we should say, that their agreement with subsequent •advices from Italy is an additional reason fur our giving some credit to the latter. [ fqrniazg .Clu•onicle..] The news from the North of Italy leads to a confident expectation that the Austrians will soon be compelled to retreat behind the Adige, abandoning, all their strong places in Lom bardy, excepting Mantua. Milan, from which they have deemed it prudent to remove the Vice Regal Cour:', and every thing of value, is only about fifteen miles from some of the Piedmontese fortresses. There is little doubt that the Pied montese, as soon as they are in a condition to do so, will enter the Milanese. That they have not yet removed is easily accounted for. In deed our expectations .with respect to the Pied montese have been,very unreasonable. We forget that the late Government was in the interest of the Austrians, .that the efforts of the pepple have hitherto been diectetl to the overthrow of flat Government, and Ofatthey must have' tirnt; make suitable preparationsto obtain the intrA.-- rid, in order to carry Oh hostilities -with any ad vantage. Letters . horn Turin state, that - the number of experienced sous EMicicry who had ar rived there front France. ; was so great, that 'the Regent's means were itt'ilicient for the affording adeqUate-employment foir . them. It was under stood, however, that" a'utimber of these OfficerS would be advantageously eittployed discip/in ing the militia, so that the Government would thereby have a much greater disposable force.— The unprepared state of the Piedmontese, and the delay which that must occasion, will be so far favourable to the Austrians, that it will enable them to remove their treasures and depots, which, korn the proximity of the Piedmontese territory, they would not otherwise have been enabled to do. At a late hour last night we learnt that a Gen tleman arrived in town yesterday, having left Pesaro on the 17th, Alexandria the 19th, and Turin the 21st. Ile states, that a very decisive battle was fought on the 13th and 14th, near Rome, in which the Austrians were defeated, and some of their finest regiments totally destroy ed ; that 30,000 of the Piedmontese had march ed to Mil2n, and 6000 to Piacenza, and that no report whatever of a counter-revolution at Naples, or of the Austrians having entered that city, existed at Turin on the ‘2lst.—(Mid.) {British Press.] We know from the date of the first Austrian bulletin that the main body of the Austrian army under General Frimout was stationed at Fras cati on the 12th of this month. Now, supposiug that the march from Frascati to Naples was wholly unimpeded by a hostile army, it would occupy at the least five or six days to accomplish it. An Austrian army was never celebrated for the rapi dity of its movements, and it cannot be doubted that the circumstance of its marching through an enemy's Country, and probably in the presence of a formidable army, under General Carrascosa, must considerably impede its progress. The roads, too, as we understand, were all broken up by the Neapolitans, so that if the Austrian army marched from Frascati on the 14th, which must he the date of its earliest movements, it could not he expected, supposing even that General Carrascosa offered no opposition, or in terposed no difficulties, to reach Naples sooner than the 20th or 22d of this month. If this cat culation be nearly correct, we must conclude that it was at least extremely improbable that the, _account of the capture of Naples by the Austrian army under General Friraont, could have been' known in Paris at five o'clock on the evening of the 26th. The same observations -apply with still greater force to the division of the army which, under General " Geppert, had entered the Abruzzi., awl which would en counter more serious difficulties in its march eve(' from the nature of the country itself. But sure ly it cannot be presumed that in either case the Neapolitan Generals would suffer the invaders to march upon their capital without striking 0" blow for the independence and honour of the 4 country. The accounts from Italy are becoming every day more pregnant with interest ; a few. days must certainly clear up much of the obl scurity that at present envelopes them. [Morning Post.] Nothing certainly could be more natural than that the Piedmontese Revolution should excite considerable apprehensions on the part of the Allied Powers; and increased preparatieets bee came the necessary consequence of apprehensions so obviously well founded from the dream stances of the case. From the commencement we considered that it were absurd to hope a %vat' of the descriptio n o f th e p resent cou ld b e en d e d by compromise. As soon as the sword was drawn, both parties threw away the scab bard from necessity, and total defeat or vic tory must be the result. A war of opi nion is invariably of this character, and therefore ought, if possible, to be avoid ed. Whether the Allies can show a command ing necessity, is more than we are at present able to determine ; but we have not the presumption to decide directly against them ; seeing from the recent conduct of the Piedmontese how d ee ply the revolutionary spirit has worked in the mind'; of the Italians. That it was the interest Inn" the bounden duty of the Austrian Government. to prevent the explosion, if she could, no imPa r " tial man will deny. Whether see has takes ro per measures of prevention is a fair'subjec"t'of dispute. But it would be ridiculous to say in the face of recent events that her fears were eeagge rai,'d. They rested upon the clearest certainty ; and li any blame attaches to her conduct, it i 0 that sl t e Accelerated a rising of the Italians / which might have been retarded a little time long er . Sh e no f loubt feared the event, and hef sitated long before site took her final resolution. Her councils do not .neeri . ..` the charge of ambi• Lion, which have been latn:ched against therm by the partizans and apologists of revolution io this country. Her finances are lab:. in that lion' rishing state to tempt her to hostilhieal of a wan ton and selfish eharaeter; she had bled and suf fered too much in a former contest, to be eager to plunge into the risks and unavoidable 6acribee 3 of another. Probably the strongest wish of her Government was peace, if it could be safe!! maintained; and if the Ministers of the Emperor, Francis have erred in their policy, it may be confidently asserted that ambition was not the motive. 'We 'strongly suspect that a parsion for war and conquest works with much greater force in the clubs Of the Revolutionists than in the palaces of Kings. We also cannot chase awaY r an intruding fear, that the cry of liberty whicit has been raised in Italy, had its origin in $ spirit of military ascendancy ; and that it will be followed, if not checked in time, by as pert''' . cious effects as those which flowed from the strn tocracy of revolutionized France. . _ LONDON : Printed by J. B. CARSTAIRS, of No. 29, Great Ormond -street, - Queen-square ; and published by AV. A• SCRIPPS, of No. 7, - South 31°1ton-street, at 'Pun str:4 OrFICE, No. 112, Strand; where AnvEnT mver OnDE4I4, LETTERS, &C. (post-paid) must be adfinss:;,l.