The Press.
London, England, 1855-11-03 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 3, 1855.

that of personal convenience—the interest of Great
Britain upon the continent of Europe will be seri-
ously damaged. This is not a time when services
can be dispensed with which demand ability and pm-
deuce, or when a lax negligence of everything save
tinsel socialities can be permitted to supersede the
fulfilment of the graver and severer offices of diplo.
rnacy. The rupture of Sardinian relations with
Tuscany has been in great measure occasioned by
the unworthy slipshod course punned by Lord
Normanby. Sardinia, young in constitutionalism,
the ally—and she may well call herself in just pride—
the brave ally of England and France, requires their
support to maintain her present governmental posi-
tion against Rome and Austria. That Government
is opposed by open enmity, by secret cabal, and by
Jesuit misdeed. The Pope and the Emperor of
Austria conspire together for its destruction, and the
English Minister at the Court of Florence has not
only failed to befriend, as was his duty, but has
directly advocated the cause of Austria and of the
Pope. The Count Casati was not obtruded upon
the Tuscan Government. It was first demanded
whether the appointment would be agreeable, and,
upon an answer in the affirmative, the Count arrived
at Florence, and paid and received the usual com-
plimentary visits, particularly from M. Baldasseroni,
the First Minister, Baron Hugel, the Austrian Envoy,
and from Lord Normanby. But the order for the
Tuscan protest against the further reception of Count
Casati, and for the suspension of diplomatic relation,
pro tempore, came from Vienna, and was given by
Count Buol in his capacity as Austrian Minister,
and on the part and in the name of Austria. There
was no circumlocution employed, and the Grand
Duke of Tuscany, as Archduke of Austria, was sum-
moned to obey Austrian instruction. Lard Normanby
conceded the point, acknowledged the claims of
Vienna to Tuscan fealty, and abandoned and openly
censured M. Casati. The French Ambassador
defended and protected him, and thereupon the
entente cordiale betwixt France and England,
quasi Florence, is dissevered by conduct much to
the honour of the French Minister, and to the dis-
credit of Lord Normanby, who bears all the blame
and the shame of the transaction. It would appear
that the Parisian castigation has not yet lost its
titillating irritation. If this behaviour be condoned,
it is not in accordance with the usual bearing of Lord
Palmerston, and the " Itomanus sure " must have
been forgotten. There is an episodical trifle in
this matter not unworthy of note. The crime of
M. Casati before Lord Normanby consisted in being
a Milanese refugee, and he therefore found no favour
in his sight; the trespass of the Beljoioso family is
in every way the same, but in this case he employed
indirectly his good offices, and became as a father to
the sojourner in a strange land, and would fill the
widow's cruse of oil " until it stayed." The rough
manner in which Count Bual has signified the pro-
vincial dependence of Tuscany upon Austria is not
politic, and will not remain unquestioned or un-
obstructed. _ .

—Fast upon the steps of this untoward rupture
follows the " hrutum fulmen" of the Papal concordat '
with Austria. The particulars have been gleaned
from the Turin papers and other indirect sources,
but as yet there has not been a full and authentic
transcript. It is said that no public document will
ever convey the more stringent clauses of this act of
Austro- Papal conspiracy-. There will be, in fact, two
copies—one for purposes of public deception, and
the other for private and judicial use, according to
the usual practice of the Jesuit. There are no
courts here solely ecclesiastical, that is to say, the
" Cancellerie Episcopali " can only deal with matters
strictly belonging to the Roman Church, and they
are answerable to the higher and civil tribunals, as
in the case of the Madiai. Enslaved as this once
happy country now is by the priesthood, encouraged
and sanctioned by the Grand Duke, yet were the
Roman Church to be made paramount to all civil
law, the Government would not be worth a day's
purchase, except backed by an Austrian army.
Religion, or faith in Romanist n, and its observances,
has long ago departed, neither is to be found
amongst the priest. There was a religious festival
in the fortress of the Lizza not long since, with the
celebration of high mass, processions, and other
ceremonies. On a party arriving late, the " Curato "
of the garrison addressed himself to one of them,
and observed—" Peccato! the le corbellerie e l'ar-
leccbinate sian terminate, pert) beato sia sempre it
Lunn Pin." It is the seizure of temporal power,
regataless of aught else, that is the end and aim of
Rome, and it would arrogate an influence that shall
be subversive of all and any liberty, and under the
executive itself a mere instrument of blind obedi-
ence. And this design is termed by the emissaries
of real infidelity—they of the " corbellerie ed arlec-
chinate"—the restoration of the primitive and golden
period of the Roman Church. _ _

At Rome a great distinction has been made be-
tween the brunch and Sardinian Ministers, on the