The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-27 00:00:00

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and after such a calamity as O. ':"Ilth of
Cavoun, and such a disaster as the conflict of ,
Aspromonte, composing their attention to the for-
bidding figures and stern realities of a financial
deficit. Never, we believe, have the con-
stancy and sagacity of a parliament been more
severely tested. Not that the debates in
the Carignan° Palace are as free from all
excitement and emotion as the club-table conver-
sations of our House of Commons. Southern
blood is hot, and Southern oratory is more demon-
strative than ours. The Parliament of Turin
has its men of "action," and of paradox,
its philosophers, pedants, and bores, ite
factious and flippant and eccentric characters. But
take it for what it is : as the first representative
assembly of the Italian kingdom ; mark its con-
duct and bearing under terrible discouragements
and excitements and emergencies, and no disin-
terested critic will hesitate to acchpt King Vic-ron
EMMANUEL'S hearty assertion that this Italian
Parliament has already secured the rights of the
nation to its complete unity. And if this Italian
Parliament has, in the apace of two years, won
the esteem of Europe, let us do justice to the
great example of a patriot King.
There is no disguising the fact that Vicros
EMMANUEL'S self-control has been sorely put to
the proof since the prodigious deception of Villa-
franca. Had he faltered for an instant
in his perfect loyalty towards the people that
trusted him, his great Ally would have infallibly rent
the kingdom in pieces, and set up some sort of Na-
poleonic creature at Florence and at Naples. Had
the perfect loyalty of KING and people wavered
for an instant, not only would Italy be still de-
prived of her capital, but the French EMPEROR
would have given back the Adriatic Provinces to
the Pore, and " occupied" Naples, in a fit of
pions sympathy for legitimate Princes and the
rights of the Church, if not in the hope of getting
Pros IX. to Paris to christen the Child of France.
Fortunately for Italy, and for Europe, KING and
people have proved worthy of one another,
and Vicroz Emmelcun is now enabled to promise
his Parliament that he shall know how to main-
tain the rights of the nation in their integrity.
With his people, he sorrows for the loss of the
great Statesman who so powerfully assisted him
in the difficult enterprise of regeneration. But
the vied work advances. Italy is recognized
by all the great Powers save Austria,
and she makes her voice heard for justice
and liberty. She has concluded treaties of com-
merce, and is negotiating others. Her new Italian
army is becoming worthy in discipline and valour
of the heroic Subalpine army from which it
sprang. The Italian navy will soon be worthy of
the army. For Vicroz. EMMANUEL with most
emphatic significance reminds his Parliament
his most ardent desire is " that the nation
" may be able to reckon with security
" upon the force of its own arms, and
" that Europe should recognise this fact."
This is the key-note of the KING'S speech ; and
no words could express with greater dignity, sim•
plicity, and courage the actual position of Italy
sad her duty towards herself. There is a wise and
kingly reticence in this speech which the Italian
Parliament will be wise to imitate. Nor are the con-
cluding sentences leas wise, in which constitutional
liberty is declared to be the pledge of the unity
and independence of the country, and the cause
to which the KING has consecrated his life. 'VICTOR
EMMANUEL has good right to affirm in the face of
Europe that Italy has manifested those qualities
of concord, wisdom, and energy which are ne-
cessary to fulfil her destinies. And Li-
beral Europe concurs in the confident as-
surance from royal lips that no human
force will be able to destroy the edifice which a
patriot KING and a generous people have raised to-
gether. Good laws, public works, national credit,
free commerce—all the living forces of civilization
—will complete and consolidate the " new order
of things,"

A PsauxislSTAßY Session extending over two
years, with occasional adjournments, seems to indi-
cate a somewhat fitful and intermittent condition
of political respiration in a State. It points to an
epoch iu our own constitutional history which is
hardly associated iu the English mind with the
regular and entire enjoyment of liberty, or with
perfect confidence between Crown and country. So
apt are we to forget how small a space in history the
period occupies in which we have entered into the
full possession of that ordered freedom which
our forefathers conquered at the price of their
blood. It is difficult for us to look back
to a time when our national unity was

not consolidated, nor our national prosperity and
peace set beyond the reach of enemies or of fac-
tions. Events move so much faster now-a days
that even half a century ago seems to us a remi-
niscence of the dark ages. Yet it is really within
half a century that English polity has reached the
commanding height from which it now gazes with
imperturbable; serenity, and a compassionate sym-
pathy too like disdain, upon the struggles of sur-
rounding nations. Certainly when Englishmen
look around them and see the legislators of the
most enlightened people in Germany treated as a
pack of unruly schoolboys, and France warned
against a passion for Parliamentary Government
as an ardent youth might be warned against pre-
cocious vices, there is some excuse for the
forgetfulness of the fact that even our
own glorious constitution is not quite
so old u the Great Wall of China t There is one
free State in Europe indeed, which, although the
youngest born of liberty, and but yesterday con-
tending for the right to live, has already attained
to the dignity and discretion of riper years. Italy, to
be sure, that ancient nursing-mother of us all, is the
land of perpetual renovations. Having taught us
barbarians all we know and are, having given us law
and letters and art, and all the hwmanitice, she
became like one of her own children of genius, a
minister to the tastes and pleasures of oppres-
sors in their idler hours. Yet, in the darkest
hour of her degradation, the fine and subtle genius
that once subdued the world went out from her
midst to discover new worlds, to conduct the
policy of States, to penetrate and charm the public
and private life of splendid courts and powerful
societies. While we contemplate with admiration
the marvellous aptitude of the Italians of to-day
for freedom and self-government, let us remember
that the instinct, the insight, the keen discernment,
the supple vigour, the cool mastery over men and
events are in the very blood and bone of the race.
Still, though we need not imagine that con-
temporary Italy has attained to the calm and
practical sagacity she daily exhibits in her
political conduct by any mysterious divine ap-
prenticeship, traversing at a bound all the schools
of experience through which peoples of coarser
or weaker fibre pus slowly and painfully ; it is
impossible to observe the smoothness, and ease,
and safety with which the constitutional machi-
nery of the Italian Kingdom works without
the happiest belief in its destinies. The
Deputies at Berlin have shown admirable sted-
fastness, solidity, and patience. The electoral
crisis over the water reveals an unexpected
growth and promise in the political common sense
of our brilliant neighbours; but neither in France
nor in Germany do we find the qualities which
are conspicuous in the Speech delivered by King
VICTOR EMIKANVEL to the Italian Parliament at the
opening of the parliamentary session last Tuesday.
This is the second session of the first Italian Parlia-
ment that the K [No has just opened at this advanced
season of the legislative year. That representative
Assembly has undergone the severest trials of its
courage, its moderation, its perseverance, and it is
not too much to say that no assembly in the world,
without any exception, could have more uniformly
disconcerted the hopes of its enemies and jus-
tified the confidence of its friends. Of course
wise men of the NORMANDY calibre mocked at the
idea of a parliament, consisting of a majority of
Italians of the Centre and the South ands minority
of the old Piedmontese element, working together
quietly and sensibly for the good of their common
country ; sustaining the Kinn and the Govern-
ment with unshaken loyalty and prudence,
even against their own aspirations and affections;

gbe Court.

TEE - EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1863.

BALMORAL, MAY 15.

The Queen, Princess Helena, Princess Louise,
Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, soil Prince Leopold, attended
by the Ladies and Gentlemen in waiting, attended divine
service in the Castle yesterday morning. Dr. ',Mood
officiated. _ . _ _

The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a meeting of
the Council of his Royal Highness, held at the Office of the
Duchy ;of Cornwall, Buckingham-gate, St. James's-park.
There were present :—Sir William Dunbar, Keeper of the
Privy Seal ; Sir William John Alexander, Attorney-General ;
Colonel the Hon. Sr Charles Beaumont Phipps, Receiver-
General ; Lieutenant-General Knollys, Comptroller of the
Household of his Royal Highness ; and Lord Portman. Mr.
Bateman, the Secretary, attended.
The Prince of Wales rode on horseback in the piercing,
attended by Major Teesdale. The Princess of Wake, at-
tended by the Countess of Macclesfield. took &carriage drive.
In the afternoon their royal highnesses honoured Mr.
Leighton with a visit at his studio in Orme-square, and also
took a drive in an open carriage.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the
Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale, honoured the
performance ►t the Haymarket Theatre last evening with
their presence.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Lord High Commiaioner of the lonian Islands,
sod from the Governors of the North American provinces
and British Columbia. Despatches were sent to the
Governors of Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong-Kong,
Leman, the Australian Colonies, and Gibraltar.

made so much political capital out of the protest of
his constituents. His friends intend giving him a
banquet.
The Cortes are discussing the budget ; the ,
Minister of Finance has announced some import-
ant
alterations in the duties, which are in many
instances exorbitantly high.
The last steamer from the Brazils was put in
quarantine in consequence of Bahia being declared
infected by the Board of Health.
The weather still continues dry, and rain is
much wanted for the crops.