The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17.

THE very statesmanlike speech of M. VISCONTI
VENOSTA, late Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs,
and primarily responsible, in that capacity, for the
preliminaries of the Convention of September 15 ;
the straightforward declarations and generous
avowals of General Ls Ktamor.a, now First
Minister in the Cabinet which has identified its
existence with the acceptance of the Convention
by the Chamber and the country ; the far-reaching
considerations adduced iu its favour by M. PEPOLI,
who was the actual negotiator of the Convention
in Paris, appear ou the whole to have succeeded
marvellously in the doubly delicate and difficult
task of satisfying at once the susceptibilities of the
Italians and of the French EMPEROR, and in
reducing M. Deorvx uE LIIUTS and other open
or disguised advocates of the Temporal Power
to silence. These remarkable speeches have
removed the debates in the Chamber high out
of the region of paradox and violence, of
local jealousies and sectional interests. Nor, in
spite of unusual provocations and temptations, has
the reputation of the Italian representatives for tact
and temper in critical emergencies belied itself for
a single moment since this great discussion began.
No political assembly in the world could have
behaved ou such an occasion with more dignity
and moderation, or shown a juster sense of its re-
sponsibilities and its prerogatives.
Those e ho are aware of the suppressed bitterness
which many even among the supporters of the
Convention feel at its secret preparation and
sudden announcement, and at the interpretations it
has received from the French Foreign-office, can-
not fail to be impressed by the self-restraint even
of independent speakers in the Chamber. Yet
there has been no lack of boldness or sincerity in
the objectors, and it is probable enough that the
excited pntriotiem and the jealous appeals to
national pride in which certain members of the
Opposition have indulged, have not proved alto-
gether incouveMent or unserviceable to the go-
vernment. It was in the nature of th;ngs
that such a Convention should, on its own
merits, be harshly judged even by many unpre-
judiced Italiats ; even by many who were most
anxious for the evacuation of Rome by the French
troops, who considered a change of capital de-
sirable both on civil and military grounds, and
who were ready to acknowledge that the Roman
question is one that ctnnot be solved by force.
They might insist that, as to the evacuation of
Rome by France, the occupation of that city was
in its beginning an act of bad faith on the part of
the French government, a stain upon the honour
of the Finch the!, a flagrant violation of the prin-
ciple of non-intervention and of national rights,
which it belonged to the French EMPEROR to cancel
unconditionrlly ; and that as to the transfer of the
capital of i tall c irons Turin to some more central city,
that was a .1 aestion of purely domestic policy, and
not within the jurisdiction of diplomacy. All such
objections as these, however,resolve themselves into
a not unwholesome impatience of the dictation of
an indispensable and o...erpowering ally ; and it is
creditable to the good taste of many conscientious
deputies to have repressed them. But there is
another class of objectors whose dislike of the Con-
vention resolves itself into an ineradicable—and
who shall say can i ustifiable !—distrust of the Second
Empire; so that it was not or'y !tom the representa-
tives of Turin that the authors of the Convention
might expect hostilities.

There is no arguime with undefined suspicions,
or with a rooted antipiithy and distrust ; and ail
that M. V; ~N n V EN, -r A, General LA MAR Nl"Rii,
and 31. i'l.l .1.1 could do to combat opposition of
this kind was to slier their own indisputable
good faith and patriotism, their own unassailable
character and Berries, as pledges for the character
and purpose of the Convention. General La
Maum•iiie, indeed, went further, and pledged his
belief, foonfii•il on personal knowledge and ex•
perience, iu t!, favourable intentions of the French
ENIPEItuII. Vi-. • i NTS VENI,STA, taking a
statesman's surrey of the European horizon,
and trained to treat politics as a science of
exigencies, of compromises, and of oppor-
tunities, fixes the attention of the Parliament
upon that clause of the Convention which stipulates
the evacuation of Route within two years, and
which implicitly and explicitly affirms the principle
of non-intervention as applicable even to the Papal
Government, PI Irirst as the Papal Government
remains a temporal as well as a spiritual power,
and subject to the vicissitudes of temporal powers.
The Court of Rome will be left face to face with
its subjects, and then the crucial experiment will
begin. It is of.the last importance to Italy that
this crucial experiment should be fairly carried
out in the face of Europe, and of the whole Catholic
world, and of the nineteenth century. 'lt is not
for the Italian Government to pronounce before-
hand on the probable result of the experiment.