The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1862.

for the continued occupation of Rome by a French
garrison.
Among so many admirable sentences to this
effect it would seem invidious to make a selec-
tion. But what can be bolder, more rational, or
more generous than the following, which we take
almost at random :—" Instinctively public opinion
" everywhere has understood that this melan- I
" choly victory of public law over misguided pa-
" triotism announces the end of the occud
" potion of Rome, and all the journals have ,
" expressed in nearly the same terms this pro-
" found and universal conviction. To demand
" of Italy more than it has done in the last month
" is to ask of it the sacrifice of its life, of its
" future ; it is to require the impossible. The
" Government cannot wish to put such a price on
" its protection ; it cannot desire that its friend-
" ship should impose upon the Italians sacrifices
" that they would scarcely submit to from a vic-
" torious enemy, and after the greatest dig-
" asters." And this is the keynote of all the
independent journals in Paris on the disastrous,
yet not perhaps entirely unfortunate, occasion of
GARIBALDI'S disappearance from the scene.
It would ill become the English press to refuse •
tribute of applause to expressions so unanimous,
so noble, and so decided. Had these words been
written in London they might have been charitably
attributed to Protestant enmity, or to jealousy of
French influence. Let us be content to echo them,
as the words of justice, doubly welcome from be-
yond %he Straits. In truth the argument is irre-
.

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sistible. The Emperor of the FRENCH remained
at Rome because his " military honour" and his
duty both commanded him " more than ever " to
protect the HOLY FATHER against the insolent threats
of the Revolution. The presumption was of course
that the Italian Government was powerless against
the Revolution, incapable even of the maintenance
of its own authority, much less of the protection
of the spiritual independence of the HOLY FATHER,
for, as to the Temporal Power, that, according
to M. BILLAULT and M. THODVENEL, has
always been a purely political question, subject to
all political vicissitudes, to the rights of nations,
to the doctrine of non-intervention, to the principles
of 'B9, to the conditions on which the Napoleonic
Empire itself is based. And now it turns out that
the Italian Government is able to vanquish
and disperse the Revolution in a single
skirmish, and to protect the Papal frontiers without
assistance. Indeed, it is remarked that the
Italian Government has conquered the Revolution
in a day, whereas in eighteen months it has hardly
disposed of those brigands who are paid and
equipped by the Ministers of the HOLY FATHER
to carry havoc and desolation into the dominions
of his neighbour. What excuse, then, what
apology remains for the protectorate of the Pore
by the troops of France t Are not the soldiers of
Vic-You EMMANUEL as well entitled and as
able to keep watch and ward over the
Vatican as the soldiers of the Emperor NAPOLEON
Have not the twenty-three millions of Italian
Catholics who owe allegiance to the House of
Savoy as good a right and title to the tenancy
of Rome as any thirty millions of Catholics
who are not Italians t These questions answer
themselvea. The occupation of Rome by French
troops remains absolutely without excuse. For
when M. DE LA GUPKROWNIERE talks of
" changes being effected in the Pontifical
" Government," he knows that he is talking
wind. Has not Cardinal ANTONELLI in a hundred
despatches ; has not the HOLY FATHER in a hun-
dred pastorals, informed the world that he will
never yield a jot to the demands of modern
civilization. Perhaps the Manikur will be good
enough to let us know in a day or two the
result of the solemn Cabinet Council
held yesterday at the Tuileries. The
decision of that Council concerns the dynasty of
the NAPOLEONS at least as much as the destinies of
Italy, or even the rights of the Romans. And the
English public has a right, and we trust good
reason, to expect that in this emergency the moral
force of their own free Government will not be
exerted in vain.

CO Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, So?. 1.

Her Majesty, with Princess Helena, Princess
Louise, Prince= Beatrice. Prises Arthur, and Prises Leo.
poll, left the Castle this afternoon at half-pest 2 o'clock,
attended by the Marchioness of Ely, Lady Augusta Bruce,
Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey, Lieutenant-Colonel
du Plat, Major Elphinstone, and Dr. Jenner.
The Princess Hohenlohe also left the Castle with the
Queen.

Her Majesty, with the royal family and suite, travelled
by 'pedal train on the South Western Railway to the pri-
vate station at Vauxhall, and from thence proceeded in
carriages to Woolwich, embarking on the Fairy for
Greenhithe.

In the course of the afternoon her Majesty left in the
Victoria and Albert for Antwerp, en route to Germany.

Viscount Palmerston, arrived at the Castle yesterday, and
had an audience of her Majesty.

Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday for Melbourne
Hall, Derbyshire.
Earl Russell left the Foreign•ofce yesterday afternoon
for Woolwich, in order to attend the Queen.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial•offce
from the Governors of the Worth American Provinces.
British Columbia, Ceylon, Hong Kong, and Bermuda.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Went India
Islands, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is ex-
pected to arrive at Buckingham Palace to-day from Birk
Hall, Sir James CI trk's residence, near Balmoral.
The Duke and Duchess of Buecleuch will leave
Belgravesnnere, in a few days, for Drumlanrig Castle.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester will leave
Great Stanhope-street, on Thursday, for their seat, Kim.
bolton Castle, Huntinwlonsbire.

The Marquis of Lansdowne left Lansdowne
Home, on Saturday, for Bowood Park, Witte, for the
autumn, accompanied by the Hon. J. K. and Lady Louisa
Howard.

The_ Marchionem (Maria) of Ailesbury has left
town for Bretby Park on a ,fait to the Earl and Countess of
Chesterfield. . .

The Earl of Shelburne left town yesterday to join
the circle assembled at Tulinllan, Perthshire, the seat of
the Count and Countess de Flabault. _

The Earl and Countess Spencer will leave St.
James's.place, to-morrow, for Althorp Park, Northamp-
tonshire.

Lord and Lady Willoughby de Ereaby have a
select party assembled at Drummed Castle, Perthshire,
where the Hon. thlbtrt Heatheote, M.P., end party have
bad capital grease shooting sad deer Malkin.
Lord Vivian ha.; left town for Grendon Hall,
Warwiekabire, on a visit to Sir George Chstwynd.

The marriage of Lily Charlotte Innea Kerr,
second daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe,
with Mr. George Russell, son of Mr. Win. Russell, the
Amonatant-General of the Court of Chancery, is to take
pleas this month at Floors Castle, N.B.
Lord and Lady Chelmsford, and the Hon. Major,
Hon. Mr., and Hon. Miss Theeiger, and Sir Ralph Howard,
M.P., and lady Howard, are among the recent arrivals at
Baden-Baden.

--.
Baron James de Rothschild has arrived at Wal-
lace's Hotel, from Paris.
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton is taking the waters
at Aix-la-Chapelle.