The Press.
London, England, 1857-03-21 00:00:00

foreign Corresponbturt.

BRUSSELS, March 17.
A PtMPHLET has just been published in this town
on the Neapolitan differences, entitled " Un Mot sur
la Question Napolitaine, par Quelqu'un qui nest pas
un Homme d'Etat." It is well known to have been
issued under the patronage, and something more, of
M. Antonini, late Minister of Naples at Paris. The
public accepts the titlepage to be a truth. With
certain grounds of complaint, the author of this short
treatise has placed himself in the wrong by a sweeping
condemnation of all those who will not concur in a
blind acknowledgment of the kingly perfection of
Francesco Secondo. This is not commendable as
an act of judgment. The Ministers of Russia and
Prussia have remonstrated with the King in the
name of their Sovereigns upon the obstinacy of his
misconduct, and in one case delivering an autograph
letter, to induce him to pursue a course that could
warrant an interference on their part betwixt him
and the Western powers. Their appeal has had no
effect.

But the real grievance of Italy, which the writer of
this pamphlet should have more prominently stated,
consists in the English Government having made
use of the Republicans to effect a change in the
Government of the country, a course from which tile
French studiously abstained. Thus the Constitu-
tionalists were paralysed, and a positive right was
given to the resistance against that democratic fac-
tion which has been and is the curse of Italy. Any
one in the slightest degree acquainted with the
Italian people will admit that democracy is not the
bent of their minds, and the author of this
pamphlet on the affairs of Naples, published. " quasi,"
by authority, would have done well to have insisted
strongly on the crying wrong of the Whigs of Lug-
land having given secret assistance to a cause that
in European conferences and Ministerial relations
they have been compelled officially to denounce.
The non-statesman ("qui nest pas un homme
d'etat") disparages the constitutional Governments
of Portugal and Piedmont supported by England, as
an example inimical to the peace of Europe. (p. 20.)
He deems absolutism to be the general desire of the
nineteenth century, and remarks, somewhat naively,
that with a free press at Naples, Rome, and Florence
(p. 22) the Austrians would immediately lose Lom-
bardy. In fact, after blaming the Congress of Paris
for having interfered with the King of Naples, he
lays down the desideratum for Europe at the present
juncture to be a strict adherence to the dictum of the
Congress of Vienna of 1815—standing armies, a
gagged press, and the suppression of constitu-
tionalism. Publications of this nature are not cal-
culated to benefit the cause they would support ; and,
above all, the Conservatives of England justly
censuring the improper encouragement given to
Italian Republicanism for party purposes by the
Whigs, and the after abandonment of the victims
of their nefarious policy—yet reject summarily any
obstruction to the cause of progress, of order, and of
good government.
The transmission of each despatch increases the
coolness betwixt the Cabinets of Vienna, St. Peters-
burg, and Paris. M. de Buol Schonstein, somewhat.
ostentatiously, had declared the approbation of
Russia at the note presented to Sardinia by Count
Pear. On this becoming known at St. Petersburg,
M. Sauli, the Sardinian Minister at that Court, was
instructed to convey to M. de Cavour an expression
of displeasure on the part of Russia at the contents
of the Austrian communication. Whilst deprecating
the licentious excesses of the journals both at Milan

MARCH 21, 1857.

and Turin, the Cabinet of St. Petersburg disapproved
highly of the tone assumed by Austria, and which
did not elicit either Russian sympathy or coopera-
tion. M. Villamarina has also been charged by the
Emperor of the French to state his dissatisfaction at
the note of M. de Buol, and to assure King Victor
Emmanuel of his determination to resist, with
energy, any attempt at Austrian intimidation. This
refers more particularly to the assumed dictation of
circumscribing the extent of the Alessandrian de-
fences. General Todtleben, of Sebastopol fame, is now
at Turin, and has gone to Alessandria to inspect the
fortress, and to suggest improvements in the vast
works that are progressing with rapidity. The de-
bates in the Chambers on this subject commenced
this week, and by a majority of 100 to 14 the Chamber
of Deputies has voted the sum of five million
piastres towards defraying the expenses of the
Alessandrian fortifications.
A delay has occurred in the Swiss Conferences at
Paris. Fresh instructions were required by M. de
Hatzfeldt from his Government, and the third con-
ference will not be convened until their arrival.
This has caused a slight irritation in high quarters.
Powers, sufficiently ample, were accorded to recon-
cile fact with justice—and, having been acted upon,
an " ad referendum " would almost raise a fresh
question. MM. Piaget and Humben quitted Neuf-
chatel for Paris a few days since armed with all the
documents and plans relative to the princely rights,
both manorial, feudatory, and political. It is not
easy for these Republican delegates to conceal their
mortification at not being received as the representa-
tive Ministers of a sovereign State.
In the Danubian principalities there is a steady
opposition to the monopoly by Austria of the advan •
tages of riverain communication with the Black Sea.
The lesser powers of Germany are now in concert
with Prussia, and have expressed themselves in favour
of a Moldo-Wallachian union. Finding the spirit
of the Parisian Congress to be against her, Austria
now asserts boldly and roundly that the Congress of
Paris did not intend to submit to the deliberation of
the Divans the question of the union of the Princi-
palities ; that the question does not belong either to
the Divans or to the congress of European Govern-
ments ; that Turkey alone, the suzerain power,
possesses the right of decision ; that the congress
has no authority to act against the remonstrance of
Turkey on the subject; and that Austria will sup-
port with all her influence the authorised resistance
of the Porte against the tyranny of the European
Congress. C. A. H.

t °reign anb' (Colonial 3nttiligtntr.
AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA.

The relations between Austria and Sardinia do not
improve. A telegraphic despatch from Vienna,
Thursday, the 19th, states that—
Count Paar, the Austrian Ambassador at Turin, has re.
eeived orders from his Government to withdraw from
Turin if he cannot obtain from the Sardinian Government
the full satisfaction demanded.

The Austrian Gazette confirms this news, and
states that the recall of Count Paar would only be a
satisfaction Austria owes to herself, and would be
attended with no other consequences than the cessa-
tion of diplomatic relations between the two
countries.