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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26.

R ABELE has a Constitutional Ministry had a
more embarrassing task set before it than the one
which fell to the lot of the Italian Cabinet last
Monday. Under any circumstances there must be
some uncertainty as to the reception the repre-
sentatives of a nation will give to grave diplomatic
measures undertaken without their knowledge, and
concluded without their concurrence ; but when
the changes in question involve an apparent our
of national interests, and a real sacrifice of
popular sentiment, the difficulty of the executive
position becomes indefinitely greater. Even
those who do not deny that the Ministers havedone
well may doubt whether there was any necessity
for their doing anything ; and the Government
has consequently not only to explain its actions,
but to justify itself for baying acted at aIL In
this instance, indeed, the path was in a measure
smoothed by the recent ministerial changes, since
the fact that one Cabinet has undertaken to obtain
parliamentary sanction for • Convention entered
into by another is evidence that two sets at least
of Italian statesmen have given it their adhesion.
Still, after making every allowance for this cir-
cumstance, the position of General DELLA MAR..
MORA could not have been an enviable one. It is
no slight matter to introduce • Bill for the transfer
of the Italian capital from which the name of
Rome is omitted.

There is little reason, however, to question
that the Government will carry with it the great
majority both of the Italian Parliament and the
Italian people. For France and Italy alike some
solution of the Roman question had become
almost a necessity. So long as no term was set
to the continuance of the French occupation the
Italians could only go on living from hand to
mouth. Every proposition of the Government
wore a provisional aspect, and could only aspire to
a provisional acceptance. It is not in such a
position as this that material progress is made,
or national greatness consolidated. There is a
time for romance and a time for reality, and the
aspirations which at one period of a people's
growth may have given strength and unity to their
action, may at another period be simply
detrimental to the practical needs of the hour.
Castles in the air have a real value of their own,
but he who would profit by them must be content
at times to let them on a long lease. The first
signs which the Emperor of the Far—Nca had dis-
played of any willingness to withdraw his troops
from Rome were not, therefore, to be lightly re-
garded by the Italian Cabinet.- They knew that
the duration of the French occupation must de-
pend wholly on the Imperial pleasure, and they
were no doubt conscious that some of the strongest
grounds which the EMPEROR had for putting an
end to it would be removed in the event of a re-
jection by Italy of the propositions of the French
Government. French intervention could have had
no better justification in the eyes of Europe than
the demonstration that the only obstacle to
its discontinuance was the impracticable character
of the Italian demands. It would have been but
a doubtful service to Italy to have supplied
NAPOLEON 111. with a new theory on which to ex-
plain the presence of his army in Rome. We can
see but two possible reasons which could have
justified VICTOR EMMANUEL'S Government in act•
ing otherwise than they did act—the expectation
of getting better terms from France, or the convio-
tion that the terms which were offered were worse
than none at all. They have, it is true, excluded
the Roman question from the barren honour of •
place in every ministerial programme; but they
have left it its place in that chapter of
accidents in which, if anywhere, its eventual solu-
tion must be sought for. They have surrendered
all present claim to the ancient capital of Italy,
and thereby given an undoubted shock to the
national sentiment; but they have undertaken to
put an end, as speedily as may be, to that yet
graver shock which the national sentiment sustains
from the presence of French troops on Italian soil.
If the accomplishment of the unity of Italy is de-
ferred, the completion of its independence is
hastened, and the pressing importance of the latter
object is an ample justification for the indefinite
postponement of the former. Nor was this obvious
and immediate gain the only one which was probably
present to the minds of the Italian diplomatists.
The settlement of the Roman question must have
a very serious influence on the position of the
Austrians in Venice, and the French EMPEROR,
who knows as well as moat men how much pres-
sure a people will bear, will probably be little de-
sirous of exacting any further concessions from the
Italians. When such considerations as these can
be presented by a Cabinet to Parliament there is
little danger that a nation which has never shown
itself blind to its real interests will refuse to ra-
tify the engagements which its sponsors have made
on its behalf.