The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-11 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 11.

Ir is certain that the Italian question has, in some
shape or other, been brought ander the notice of the
Plenipotentiaries aasembled at Paris. Whether this
has been done by a direct overture from one of the
Governments represented in the Conference., or
whether the diecuesios areas incidentally, does not
distinctly appear. There can be no doubt, however,
that the question has sorely perturbed the diplomatic
mind. The meet authentic amounts from all parts
of the Peninsula concur in representing disturb-
ances se imminent, especially in the Neapolitan
dominions and in the States of the Church. But for
every Continental Government the Italian question is
beset with dilicalties. The King of NAPLES has tried
the patience of his subjects to the very uttermost. The
Roman. ars wearied out by that priestly domination
w►ich, while it tyrannises over them, can afford no
security against marauder.. Pima is in a stets of
anarchy. The Pontiff and the Princes of Italy (with the
exemption of the King of Ssant.tA) IN only protected
from their subjects by foreign bayonets. Bat these
foreign bayonets only afford impunity to misrule j
they cannot maintain law and order. Two courses
are open to the foreign powers which maintain armies
in Italy—either to insist that the Pontiff and Princes
shall give their subjects guarantees for just and equi-
table government, or to withdraw their troops
and allow the Italians to take the settlement of the
matter icto their own hands. With regard to the
former alternative, what can be rationally expected
from the absolute government of Austria, or the
filially absolute government of Frazee? With re-
gard to the latter, neither France nor Austria will
set the example of withdrawing her troops from
Rome or from the Legations. Each will make the
presence of the other's army a pretext for continuing
its own occupation. There is no hops for Italy in
the Conference/.

We are given to understand that the Sardinian
Government has proposed the evacuation of Some
by the French troops, and of the Legations and the
Duchies by the Austrians. This accent reaches us
from a quarter in which we have been ammetomed to
repose implicit confidence. And it in corroborated
by information which has reached us from a very
different, but equally trustworthy source. Ao-
cording to this latter intelligenee, the memo-
rial, or memorandum, which Count Cavort' is
said to have submitted to the Conferral*, did not
emanate from the Government of Sardinia. We are
assayed it is • protest from private citizens
whose names are attached to it, spinet the
continued occupation of Italy by foreign
troops. The signatures are numerous, and
would have been still more numerous but for
two reasons. In the first place, the authorities
exerted themselves to prevent the circulation and
signing of the documents in the second place, no
persons of nitra•democratio principles were invited or

allowed to sign it, in order to takeaway every shadow
of a pretext for attributing it to revolutionists. The
protest expresses the apprehensions and the wishes of
the moderate—the monarchical section of the Italian

Liberals. That they who have signed the protest are
resolute and in earnest is evident, for every man
whose name is attached to the paper will hone&
forth be • marked man. That the Bard'.
Dian Government is aware that the pro-
test expresses the convictions and opinions
of a preponderating majority of its subjects.
and of the population of the Italian Peninsula, is
beyond a doubt, for otherwise Count CAvoun would
not have undertsken the invidious teak of directing
the attention of Congress to it. Sardinia is strong
only in the madden°, of the Italian Liberals. Even
with this strength she is not suelciently powirtal to
run the risk of giving uneecessary umbrage to the
great Powers of the Continent. Nothing could have
induced the Studinian Government to propose, at
this moment, the withdrawal of the French and Aso
trim troops from Rome, the Legations, and the
Duchies, bet the aoaciatio• that only by so doing am
it ensure the confidence and attachment of its own
subjects.
There is bet one solution for the Italian diNealtise
—the establisheasat and recognition of Italian as-
tiooslity and salty. For centuries Italy has been
the battle-field of French and German ambition. Its
plains have been deluged with blood in the pro-
treated contest, whether the Emperors of Germany or
Austria, or the sucesseive dynasties which have
reigned over France, were to give law to the Penin-
sula. Tao peoples of Germany and Frame have
suffered as much from these ware ea the Italians.
Their treasures have been squandered, their best
blood has been drained—not to augment their own
well-being, bet to gratify the vanity and
ambition of their rulers. The French nation
and the nations subject to Austria have as
deep an interest in Italy's being left to the Italians
as Use Italians themselves. The solution of the prob-
lem is evidently approaching. The practical Libe-
rals of Italy are daily becoming more convinced that
the best thing that can happen to all the various States
of the Peninsula is to be associated with Piedmont
user the sees of a constitutional monarchy. It is
the knowledge of the growth of this mutinies& that
has drives Austria to conclude the Concordat with
the Papal Government. The Cabinet of Vienna flat-
tered themselves that by conciliating the most exten-
sive State in Central Italy they might establish a
emoterpoiss to the popularity of Sardinia, and thus
be enabled to retain their hold on Lombardy and
the Venetian territories. Already they sea that this
was a mistake. The Concordat has only entangled
them In irritating and embarraming divots, with the
theocracy of Roam Hated by the Italian people,
suspected by the Italian potentates, Austria feels her
seeendamy in Italy tottering to its fall. The French
Marmon ea his part begins to feel that the friend-
ship of the Court of Rome—to secure which he has
made so many consessions—la but a broken reed to
ism upon. Foreign and &mewl° despots are alike
beginning to pensive that the days of their dotal's&
don in Italy are numbered, whilst the confidence of
the Italian people in their as•s and in themselves is
continually beressing.

In this state of affairs the great truth that ought
ever to be present to the minds of Italian patriots
is, that their only reliance ought to be in themselves.
From °ornaments they have nothing to hope. But
foreigners are learning that they cannot put an end
to Italian disquiets so long as misrule prevails is
Italy. Despots will not ald to put down Despotism,
but they may be wearied oat and obliged to with.
draw from the contest. Firmness and warthogs are
now the virtues to be cultivated by Italian patriots y
station not to move till the hour has woos, pomp-
tits& to set the moment it arrives. As for Rag-
land, its duty to Italy is steadily to Woo to este*