The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-09 00:00:00

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Ro4. r.. Moclomr. Beatrice and Reeler —ON THE SLY. Mr.
Limattone.—And toUR MART ANNE. Mr. Clarke.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9.

IF the Convention of the 15th September, it is
said, had not fallen upon Turin like a thunderbolt;
if the old provinces of the monarchy had been pre- !
pared for some such step as the transfer of
the capital to the centre of the Peninsula,
though not to Rome, it might have been re-
ceived without anger and discussed on its merits.
Ou the other hand it is pleaded, not without
reason, that to have announced the Convention
beforehand would have been to raise a riot against
it of all the prejudices and passions and interests '
affected by its terms, and to have made any
definite propositions of the kind impossible. It
was absolutely necessary to treat without Rome or
Turin being in the secret of stipulations addressed
to the enlightened judgment of Italy, of France,
and of liberal Europe. However this may be,
the secrecy with which the negotiations were con-
ducted and concluded (a secrecy perhaps neces-
sarily observed in all negotiations with a personal
government in France) has certainly been a chief
element of danger in the present crisis. And as if those
grievous tumults at Turin, that random slaughter
in the Piazzas, that horrible mismanagement on the
part of the authorities, and the shameful instiga-
tions of the very classes of the Turinese whose
example should have kept the peace, were not
enough, the country finds itself one afternoon on
the brink of financial ruin, with nothing but a dis-
guised forced loan between it and bankruptcy.
Can we wonder if all these mischiefs and misfor-
tunes have raised a very angry spirit in the Italian
Parliament and a very uneasy temper in the nation ?
Yet never was the confidence of the friends of
Italy more happily justified than in this alarming
crisis by the admirably unanimous and practical
patriotism of the people of the Southern Pro-
vinces, who might have resented the claim of any
other capital than Naples, and by the perfect tra-
ditional tact and taste of the Florentines in ac-
cepting their new honours without exultation,
while the Turinese were assuming to dictate in
their own sense the domestic and foreign policy of
Italy. No doubt it was not to be expected
that the pop].) of Turin should feel no
irritation at so sudden and unexpected a demand
upon their disniteresteduess ; and local irritation is
never very chc ice in its party cries and tactics against
a governmea ; hut even the Turinese are reco-
vering their senses, and remembering that they
have a character to lose, and it seems probable
enough that the Italian Parliament sitting at Turin
will decide in peace and safety the transfer of the
capital to Florence. That the Deputies them-
selves, whether approving or disapproving the
Conventim, s ill have sufficient regard to the
interests of their country, and to the exigencies
of both the French and the Italian Government,
in negotiatiurt on the Roman question, to ab-
stain as much as possible even from good
words, hi a ca.e where every word beyond the
text of the treaty must be a word too much—is
perhaps more than the levity and impatience
which are the besetting sins of Italian public men
will allow its to hope. Representatives even of
the ext:•en.e parties, if they care a little
more for their country than for their an-
tipathies or their dreams, will do well to
study closeiy the guarded though elastic language
of the despatches of M. Nitma, and the cautious
frankness of General La MARmoRA's interpreta-
tions. For the rest, we daressy M. Peron, whose
energetic p ,hey as an administrator in Umbria
should be accepted as a guarantee of his motives
and meaning as a diplomatist in Paris, will,
in his p-aliametitary capacity, explain and de-
fend very :tidy and persuasively the purport of
the Convention to which his signature is affixed.
But that he will endeavour to state more precisely
what seers vague in the despatches, that he will
dwell upon, and develop, and drag out into a more
searching F-21it passages which say nothing with so
much grace. no friend, no enemy of Italy can an-
ticipate. " l.cast said soonest mended" should
be the order of the day in the Parliament at Turin
on this c,ii.r. me occasion ; for if the Convention,
and the cl, ,:.,•c: el which profess to explain it, have
any one n e. rc,_, expressed or unexpressed, more
!kin another, it is this—' time and
change a i!' 11. , more for Italy than policy ; and
p they ni •t• t,. to violence. A word in MUM is
good ; lit r.,!..:.ee in season is better.'

WE h.:, 0 n t thon;ht it necessary, in the cuss
of the i„ •oizo,l by the Wachuaetta in the
neu•ru: .•f I:,hit, to depart from the
usual E of hearing the evidence on