The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29.

Os eof those paragraphs in which fashionable
tattle and political solemnity are curiously mingled,
announced a few days since, with a nervous
flutter, the " sudden " return of the Foitelow
MINISTER from the Wicklow mountains to Rich-
mond Park. The noble lord's precipitate re-
turn from Ireland was said to be occa-
sioned by " urgent despatches relating to Italy
" which require his immediate presence in
" London." In what degree this ingenious
hypothesis was founded on fact, or whether a re-
markable coincidence was ilexteronaly turned by
the chronicler into a consequence, it is not our
province to inquire. Without, however, pretend-
ing to any exclusive information, or hazarding any
audacious conjecture, we may venture to assume,
as at least an antecedent probability, that the pre-
sent alarming state of affairs in Southern Italy
engages the most anxious attention of her MA-
oesrv's Government. It would be strange indeed'
if a government which has given so many proofs
of disinterested friendship for Italy, and so faith-
fully and earnestly represented the sympathies of
the English people for that noble nation, should
regard with indifference the goodly work of Italian
unity and independence shattered by revolutionary
violence, or mined by foreign intrigue. The British
Government has the clearest right and duty to give
adequate and authoritative expression to the senti-
ments of the people of this country on a question
which, more than any other since the Peace of
Paris, has taken possession of the national
mind, and the settlement of which concerns the
peace and the liberties of Europe. That the
Emperor NAvoteos should treat Italian affairs as
his own exclusive and privileged domain is a pre-
sumption which England can never admit without
abandoning her position' as a great Power, and
as the chief Liberal Power in the world.

Whatever domestic differences may have arisen
between the Liberal party and Lord PALMERSTON'S
government, the Italian policy of the present Ad-
ministration has deserved the perfect confidence of
all who have the welfare of Italy and the honour of
England at heart. Such a policy is the surest safe-
guard against the return of the Toriesto power. Much
will be forgiven to a Government which has made
the cause of Italy its own. There is a school no
doubt ' of " positive" politicians to whom this
sympathy for Italy is foolishness ; who sneer at
moral forces, and are content to prosper, and give
thanks for their own blessing and the wants of
others, with Pharisaic satisfaction. It is enough
for these complacent critics to know that English
liberty is some two hundred years in advance
of these contemporary peoples,whose impatience is
• nuisance scarcely worthy of contemptuous com-
passion. Such is not the theory of the English
people, nor is it the rule of action of a Liberal
government. Could we shut ourselves up in these
little islands and bound our human interests by the
narrow seas, it might be convenient to treat conti-
nental politics as if France and Italy were comets
rushing through immeasurable space. But this
is impossible. England cannot cancel her past,
abdicate her present, or renounce her future. Nor
can the free press of England be content to re-
gister with indifferent approval the fact of France
and Austria overrunning Italy, and Signor RAT-
TAZZI smiling blandly upon both. Liberal
England has an arrear of wrong to atone for
towards Italy. Tory England secured the Two
Sicilies to the Botraeosis, and co-operated in the
restoration of the Temporal Power. Tory
England established Austrian domination in Lom-
bardy and Venice, and Austrian influence in
Central Italy. Tory England, on the other band,
handed over Genoa to the House of Savoy. Shall
it be said that the Government of Liberal
England is to stand aloof, when the Temporal
Power is a curse to Italy and an incessant peril to
the peace of Europe, when the independence of
Southern Italy is threatened at once by a French
army and a French fleet, when the Government of
twenty-three millions of Italians is the abject
dependant and accomplice of a new NAPOLEON,
who has already given notice that Genoa, the hot-
bed of revolution, must be " reduced " ?
The outbreak of civil war in Italy, if an irre-
sponsible national movement towards Rome is to
be called by that fatal name, is in any point of
view • deplorable and disastrous event. What-
ever may be our sympathies, whatever the justifi-
cation, whatever the motive ; the responsibility of
dividing a State against itself, and taking arms
against • responsible Government, is too great for
any citizen, however disinterested and devoted,
to assume without reproach. Never was •
nobler or a purer :sword drawn in the cause
of Revolution than the sword of GARIBALDI. But
it is Revolution, and in a constitutional country,
represented by a free Parliament, Revolution is
without excuse. It is even without a principle ; for
Rome, the capital of Italy, is an object, not • prin-
ciple. Italy wants rest, security, organization,
development of all her forces. Civil war in her
midst makes all her open and secret foes rejoice,
and confounds her firmest friends. These are
truisms. And it is not to be supposed that the
British Government will waste time or words in
condemning the criminality of civil war, or in writing
pithy sermons on the right or wrong of Revolution.
The British people are not paying thirty millions
a year foe "moral force" to lecture GARIBALDI or

to snub a RArrszzi. Unless England is prepared
to strike her flag, pay off her fleets, silence her
Parliament and press, and sink to the condition of
a waiter upon the Second Providence of France, her
voice will now be heard where the voice of truth and
honour is seldom heard ; and the voice of England
is resolute as liberty, clear as justice, calm as con-
scious strength. England has fought no battles
for Italy, and has claimed no provinces. It was
for the First NAPOLEON'S glory that one hundred
and fifty thousand Italian soldiers perished on
battle-fields, and to feed the armies of the French
Empire that sixty millions sterling were wrung
from the cities and provinces of Italy. When
French Imperialists prate of gratitude, they
would do well to remember the other side of the
account. Indeed, the vigorous and versatile policy
of the Emperor NAPoucoN since the peace of Vil-
lafranca has drained the gratitude of Italy to the
dregs ; and the result of all the turnings and
windings of that " inscrutable will " before which
all the valethood of Europe bows down, is that at
the present moment the Imperial Government has
not a friend, we do not say an agent, in all Italy.
A communication from Turin, which we publish
this morning, deserving all the confidence of our
readers, verifies the fact which all our private cor-
respondence confirms, that throughout Italy
the alliance of the French EMPEROR is borne with
a sullen and suspicious endurance. M. Rerrazzes
Ministry is a department of the Empire ; but M.
Rarrezzi's ministerial labours are closing in
discomfiture, extinguished by the compliments of
his patron in Paris. It is to England that all honest
men of all parties in Italy now look for an issue
out of present troubles. GARIBALDI himself believes
with all his heart in the sincerity of English coun-
sels and English sympathies. We have reason to
believe that upon one word from England Gartuw.rn
would even now lay down his arms. But that
one word must be a positive assurance through
the British Government that at a given date
the French troops will leave Rome. In reply to
this assurance, GARIBALDI would not hesitate to
guarantee that the person of the HOLY FATHER
and his spiritual independence shall be respected.
But the question for the moment is, can such an
assurance be given or obtained? If the future of
Italy, perhaps of the Imperial dynasty in France,
is not to be abandoned to incalculable misfortunes,
if the alliance of France and England is not a
mockery, the British Government cannot ascertain
too soon the positive intentions of the Emperor
NAPOLEON.

Irk Court.

BALMORAL, Auourr 27.

Yesterday being the anniversary of the birthday
of the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales came from Birk-
hall to pass the morning with her Majesty, who drove out
in the afternoon accompanied by the royal family.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Satur-
day) at Windsor Castle.

HER MAJ kir SOUTHWARD JOURNEY.—The
Queen and royal family in their journey southward to•day
will proceed by way of Greenhill and Carlisle. Since her sad
bereavement, her Majesty has made two journeys to Bal-
moral, but has in each instance passed over Holyrood,
which was annually, for many years, her resting-place on
the way, and where only ten months ago she spent a day,
on the occasion of the Prince Consort laying the foundation
stone of two public buildings here. The royal train is to
leave Aboyne at 2.30 p.m., pass Aberdeen at 3.37, and
reach Perth at 6.17, where half an hour will be allowed for
refreshments. The train is timed to pass Greenhill at 8.7
and leave Carlisle at 11.25, after a stoppage for fifteen
minutes for ref reshmenti. It will thereafter pass Preston
junction at 141 a.m., Bushbury ;at 4.50, and reach Wind-
sor at B.3s—making a runway journey, including stoppages,
of 13 hours.

As at present arranged, the baptism of the re-
cently-born eon of the Crown Prince and Crown Princes, of
Prunia will take place at the new palace at Potsdam on the
7th of September.

Dom Miguel de Braganca (ex-King of Portugal)
wag present last night at the Royal English Opera, Covent-
garden, attended by his suite.

Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess
Maria of Russia, attended by Prince Galitzin, Count
Tolstoy, and two ladies of honour, have arrived at
Claridge's Hotel from St. Petersburg.
His Imperial Highness the Duke of Leuchten-
berg has arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from St. Leonard's.
His Highness the Prince Boris Galitzin has
arrived at Long's HoteL

Prince and Princess Serge Gagarine, Count and
Countess Shouvaloff, Prime Tronbetakoy, and Count
Pishlen have 'strived at Claridge's Hotel from St. Leonard's
on Sea.

Lord and Lady Stourton have left Brown's Hotel
for the Isle of Wight.

A marriage Is arranged to take place shortly
between Captain Norton, of the Grenadier Guards, son and
heir of the Hon. Mrs. James Norton. of Anninpby Park,
Panetta and Vateaery, and the late Hon. and Rev. James
Norton, younger brother of Lord Grantley, and Miss
Lowndes Stone, the granddaughter and heiress of the late
Mr. William Fran•:is Lowndes Stone, of Brightwell Park,
Oxon, and Buckinghamshire.

The marriage of Lely Harriett North, eldest
daughter of the late E irl of Guilford, with Colonel Warde,
eldest eon of Admiral Warde, 101 Squerreys Court, Kent,
was solemnised yesterday at St. George's Church, Hanover-
square.

Yesterday Manockjee Cursetjee, of Bombay,
accompanied by his two daughters and a lady friend, visited
Liverpool and lunched with the mayor. In the afternoon
Mr. Cursetjee and family, accompanied by Mr. Patrick
Hunter, of the firm of Browne, Hunter, and Co., visited
Horsfall Foundry, the Wapping Dock, St. Georges-ball, Arc.
The third convers iziouo of the Society of Arts
daring the present P 6.1800 will take place at the South
Kensington Museum on the Bth October.
The delivery of the medals and certificates of
honourable mention to the exhibitors cannot take place till
after the close of the Exhibition, when it will be made at a
public ceremony in the building, to which will be admitted
the holders of all daises of season tickets (except those for
shilling days), and the public oa payment of 11. each.
Great satisfaction is felt in Jamaica at the laurels
which the colony has won at the International Exhibition,
intelligence having bum received that no fewer than
seventy medals have bean awarded to contributors from the
island, besides sixty•four marks of "honourable mention.'
In • private letter from Governor Darling, who was one of
the Jamaica Commissioners at the Exhibition, he expresses
his hope that "the Exhibition will do something for
Jamaica."

The Murgenblatt says that at the next Storthing
• motion will be submitted for the alteration of the Nor-
wegian constitution, which provides that only the Crown
Prises or his eldest son ran be viceroy. As the reigning
King, Charles XV., has no son, there is, by consequence, no
Crown Prince of the united kingdoms ; for Prince Oscar is
hereditary prince, and as such cannot be appointed vice-
roy. By the alteration proposed in the constitution, the
words "Crown Prince" will be altered to "the next prioze
in enaccesion," and if the proposition is carried, as is ex-
pected, Prima Oscar will in all probability be Dominated
viceroy.

Prince Adalbert of Prunsia arrived at Toulon on
Saturday last, coming from Marseilles. The prince was
waited cc by the authorities, and be afterwards visited the
ships in the roads, accompanied by the Maritime Prefect,
Admiral Chairman, and by Admiral Fare la Maturate,
Major of the Fleet.

The Levant Herald 'vs that the Porte has de-
cided co conceding the right of Taming the Dardanelles, by
night aa well u day, to merchant vessels of all nation..
The regulation*' specifying the signals to be displayed after
sunset, will be shortly issued. It is to be hoped that this
important facility will be extended to the Black Bra en•
trance of the Baird:minx