The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7.

Tin Decree of Amnesty which has been daily ex-
pected to make its appearance in the official Gazette
of the Italian Government will excite as little
surprise as admiration. An amnesty is some-
times an act of state policy and sometimes of royal
clemency ; in the present case it will be inter-
preted as neither the one nor the other so much as
an act of plain necessity. It comes too soon to be
politic, too late to be generous. From the first it
was inevitable. Of all the forms of trial to which
GARIBALDI and his followers could be liable, it
was difficult to say which would be the most in-
jurious, if not the most impossible. Was GARI-
BALDI to be tried, as Si mutineer, by court-martial ;
or, as a rebel against his sovereign, by • high court
of justice I As a mutineer, the severest penalty
must have followed, a sentence calculated to affect
the discipline of the entire army. As
a rebel against the Kum's authority f Such
a charge must have resulted in • triumphal ac-
quittal, perhaps in counter-charges from their very
vagueness all the more dangerous and difficult to
rebut. It may be assumed, then, that an am-
nesty was determined in principle three weeks
since ; but that the Italian Government considered
it becoming its dignity to enter upon the prelimi-
nary formalities of a trial in order to save appear-
ances, to wear a look of cold and stern cieliberation,
and indifference to popular impulse or public
clamour. If we are not misrepresenting the pur-
pose of the Cabinet of Turin, we humbly conceive
that it has committed a sore mistake. All its
adversaries, and their name is legion, will loudly
assert that it was only when the requisite tribunal
was not to be found that the trial was definitely
abandoned. Nor, we apprehend, will M. Rarrazzt
obtain all the credit he may deserve for desiring
to spare a wounded patriot the indignity of
seeing his pure name included in a list of the
" pardoned " beneficiaries of a royal 'wadding. A

veteran diplomatist was wont to warn his young
disciples against indulging first instincts ; because,
he said, " they are generally good." The first
instincts of at least a section of M. RATTAZZI'S
Cabinet, certainly of the KINO, were of this na-
ture ; and it is to be regretted in the interest of a
Government that has no reputation to lose that
they were not followed at a somewhat earlier date.
Had the amnesty been a personal act of
royal grace, as the KING'S most intimate
counsellors, and we dare say Vlcroit EMIKANIILL
himself, would have desired, the Royal prerogative
might have gained in honour and in strength. On
the other hand, the KING'S name had been already
too freely used, and M. Rarrezzi will scarcely be
blamed in England for insisting on the rights of
Ministerial responsibility. How GiRIBALDI him-
self will receive this amnesty for his wounds,
whether as an apology or a reluctant homage,
matters less than to know that no amnesty could
bestow upon him more entirely or more securely,
as he lies apart in silent meditation on his conch at
Varignano, the hearts of his fellow-countrymen.
For them the error of one darker day is lost in
the light of the lifelong service of him who first
taught the Italians of the nineteenth century that
now as in the old time valour and virtue are one.

CONSIDERING the eagerness with which EngSil
opinion and English sympathies have accompanied
the varying fortunes of the American war, and the
prayers that have gone up for the success of the
Confederate cause, it is strange that we hear so
little said of the terms on which it would be
practicable to make a desirable and durable peace.
It is not to be supposed that those who day by
day denounce " this miserable and wicked war"
have never once looked forward and asked them-
selves on what conditions it would be possible for
the two most hostile civilizations the world con-
tains to live together on the same continent,
divided only by arbitrary and artificial fron-
tiers, and with unoccupied territory the
seat of future states and empires lying before
them, the prize of the boldest and most powerful.
These things must have been thought of ; the
denunciations we hear cannot all be unintelligent
and mechanical ; and nevertheless nothing is said
of these important questions. This is a matter of
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an independent position. The philanthropic eye into parliament by those anxious to maintain the rookie-
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Her Majesty arrived at Coburg on Friday, at
six o'olsek its Use aft spool, from Ebsiabomi!tebriumi.

The Crown Prince of Prwuda and the Crown
Prisons ware to take leave of her Majesty and the royal
family yesterday, end proceed by way of Switzerland and
Italy to a port in the Mediterranean, there to embark on
board the Osborne for a long cruise in the Mediterranean.

Their royal highnesses are not expected to return to Berlin
before Christmas. Their children will arrive at Berlin in •
few days in charge of their chief (overman, Madame von
Dobeneck.

A letter from Gotha in the New Prussian Gazette
states that Prince Leopold is at present seriously ill. It
appears that his royal highness wounded himself in the
mouth with a steel pen, and that considerable hemorrhage
ensued. The injury wee considered to be so serious that
surgical assistance from Berlin was telegraphed for.
The King of Prussia paid a short visit to Queen
Victoria at Coburg on Friday. His Majesty, who was
aocompankd by the Prince of Mohan:atm travelled from
Baden-Baden for the purpose, on his way passing through
Darmstadt, where he was received at the railway station by
the grand duke and the prince and princesses of the grand
ducal family. His Majesty stayed for a short time at
Darmstadt, and dined with the grand duke. He was ez
petted to return to Berlin on Saturday evening._
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The Duke of Devonshire and Lay Louie&
Cavendish arrived at Hardwick-hell, near Chesterfield, from
Holkar-hall, Westmoreland, on Friday last, sad are expected
in town to-morrow, accompanied by Lord Richard Devon.
dish.

The Hon. Lady Inglis and the Hon. Mies
Thesipr, after attending the funeral of the Linnets&
General Sir John 13. W. Inglis, left licenberg for Oslo to
join the youthful family of the deceased general. The
Hoe. Colonel Manger accompanies ku ideas to Coda.
The Earl of Dudley arrived at Dudley-hone,
Park-lane yesterday from Scotland.

Colonel the Hon. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth
Villiers, who, on their return from Holland, proceeded to
visit the Countess (Dowager) of Jersey at Brighton, have
gone to mast the company assembled at the Duke and
Duchess of Graftoa's seat in Northamptonshire.

The Ladiee Cornwallis left Linton-place, Vis-
countess Holmeadale's seat in Kent, a few days since, sad
have arrived at Port Eliot, Cornwall, on a visit to Earl
St. Germans. Before leaving Linton the Ladies Cornwallis
had the gratification of receiving a handsome silver Delver
from the inhabitants of Linton as a testimony of their re-
spect and esteem for the benevolence and consideration
bestowed by their ladyshipe to the poor of Linton and its
neighbourhood.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury enter.
tuned a select circle of friends at Hatfield Home, Harts
during the last week. _ _

The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and
family are profaning their residence at Bournemouth.

Loral and Lady Chelmsford are expected shortly
to arrive is town from Germany.
Count and Countess Charles Rats and suite have
arrived at the Oavendish Hotel, Jermyn-eleeet.

THE ARCHBISHOPRIC or YORX.—The Bishop
of London, has after full oosoideration declined the honour
which the prime minister popped to wafer upon him,
and will continue to discharp the limey sad responsible
duties of the metropolitan dimes.