The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-25 00:00:00

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unbars of boe eliambere [alreatly publialierd in the Er•

prase]. Probably in no countiy---not eves is
owu—ls there so great scope, and so great need of lopys
useless and absurd expenditure as in 'Tuscany. The by
army of clerks and placemen—the " impiegsti," I
the term is here multiplied beyond the atoll
conceivable limits of the Jack helping-Tem-todo nothill
system, were the greatest curse of the old regime.
I have hardly room left to tell you, as I had intended, has
Bir George Hamilton gave a grand boll on the 4th—be
it unfortunately turned out to be the eve*
fixed for a concert, at the Pergola, in aid of
the Venetians—how this contretemps made a certain sectim
of the Florentines most outrageously wrath, very unmoor
ably, inasmuch as Bir G. Hamilton's ball was fixed fist—
how a meeting was held at the Cafe Ferruccio, the mud
urging place of the hotter spirits among our politicians, it
which it was determined that no cern ge should be pt'
omitted to pass that night to Sir G. Hamilton's villa, bat
were to be turned back by force. This was rather too goods
joke ; to talk of preventing Englishmen by force frost init•
lag on their own minister. The government was Gnash,
ea the subject, and inch proter ion u should be uudad
readily promised. But the threat raised the choler of Ida
Bull not a little ; and we had much talk about
pew it," &e., and pistols to be carri-d—as was in max/
sun, I believe done—and very safely brought back asS
However, after the ball, the talkers were all too
with the splendid hospitality and most successful fete se •
has delighted all our English world hers, to think anytluht
more of the blustering patriots of the Cafe Perruccio. Galt.
rani and Mcntanelli were among the guests, and were, d
cones., the observed of all observers.

AUSTRO-ITALIAN QUESTION.
(Prom the Openions,.ot Turin.]
A few days ago La Frets*, in an article forwarded
to it, and which it is cosy to perceive is entirely in the late
rest of Austria, upheld the rights of that country to Lim
hardy aid Venice, and pitted out the reasons that Germany
bad for sustaining the rights of Austria. Germany !sr.
the possession of Italy, as fares the line of the Mint*, lf
ra
quisite for my safety and defence. Admit that tin
argument is good. France might also say, if a Gamin
date possess Italy as far as the Mincio, bemuse its safety,*
defence require it, my safety and defence also render it *
ensue for me to possess Italy as far as the Po and the Mae
In its turn England might come, which, on account of is
Island of Malta, situated between Sicily and Algeria, misil
fur its safety anti defence, equally lay claim to Sicily.
If from Italy we pass to Germany, France, for its Koff
safety, might extend itself to the Rhine, Russia to the Ws
England occupy all the ports of northern Germany, and s
on to the end. The existence of states and nations would s
longer depend en the right that they had to exist, but on 0
selfish convenience of their neighbours, whenever the
found themselves the strongest.
The rights of Austria are hued on treaties. By the tmll
of Campoformio,
__ in 1797, is relinquished the ussessioott
the Duchies of Milan and Mantua, and in return row'
' itself of Venice and the Venetian provinces beyond 01
Adige. What right bad Austria to these new proves!
It bad lost Lombardy because its armies bad been 'W
quished, and because the Lombards, instead of taking**
for the defence of Austria, had espoused the part of da
French republic. But Venice, with its provinces of ter*
firma, constituted a free, independent, and very anoint re
public, one acknowleged by every nation in the world.
L war not at war with Austria ; on the contrary, it was 02,..!
count of that state that this republic disgusted, and rends"
itself the enemy of, the French republicans.. Thegskii._
Austria, in seizing upon Venice and a part of its Wm.
did so by usurpation sad perfidy. After the battle of Air
I terlits, and according to the treaty of Freeburg, Dtc.,ll.
1805, Austria was to give up the Venetian provinces, wilo•
it bad unjustly acquired. Time were in
in the kingdom of Italy, which was recognised
Austria not only in that treaty but also in the raessol
one of Vienna, 10th Oct. 1809, and in many others.
the
continental powers of, Europe. According to the Una*
either at the death of Napoleon or at the general prose
kingdom of Italy was to be separated from FMwa
formed into an independent state. But the treaty of. Ps*
and afterwards that of View a, violated all the prerldal
treaties, trod under foot the rights of a nation, divasV
the kingdom of Italy, and abandoned Lombardy snit enie
to Austria, which had never a right to the latter, and had.
renounced all possession in the former by the treaties 01
Campoformio, Luneville, Freeburg, Vienna, &c. Ausnit
cites in its favour the last treaty of Vienna of 1815 ;
ag
whom was it made ? How were the Italians represented hi
it ? Seven or eight millions of human beings srei fitia. I
flock that one can sell or change from one master to snails
without even in appea Mice consultirg them !
provincit
es,
szteicof tutustri.g:iveacqiegatuireileddnoht timatelerlesipcissiaiony thine
olbtsltisio,

gage by by • wise abeata. Woe, the mains Lemseat sad oaf,
• dole It the people, whisk she did net at fiat
. hog. Bet the Astetriem rule hi Italy saver obtained tide
' ammo asmaties. be governensiers Is. ever been Wiese,
had the pleb bT *de *lee vedalersee wet=
l r
es et their seminiente, ben goof
Wan sad penmen's% protestation spies. it. as
head s Wawa el Meg everythisig deist depondei ea I
. hold lemmeillelle the mama of the Italians, bee bon the
' why beglanlng rated entirely an the realize; has taken
- bene dam todeadity ef aa Italia ma to make
the
• eme, leader dm paned title of Nee Leetherde- isitien Wm&
gem, two peobese of the maseeeke esparated time ft, by
' . Bess of emembhensee as plies ; km takes freegthan the
• ,hsonelity el their army ea their administration, la fast.
; . hoyebbag deist their netball esiolesse ; lese
des fees them every edibility Cl mashie themselves to
11!_egesesee, every free briNudes, int the smallest ; hes
them with thedhee pease, la thopabiblenedees,
. oin: '11174 puma &woe, as the pommel e.t.a* esseldient
ziae seh, le., Is. But If the Otemee }retinas on-
octal' rights of beetebt, geed or bed, mid of them
the
were
feel,,
the peuvisela4 in the Lombardo-Veer
the feel,, the geniuses was reduced by Fronde the
net to a pan end simple despotism. - It is tree he bal-
lad • meted assembly at Milan, and at Video_ ,
sad prodaeld ememblies, bet seiner of them had
tho loot nature of a representative body. They
horded of • limited samba of Embark deem
r:llLn, satire', salgeated to him, and wholly at kis
—althea gay authority, m'blesses in the go-
vernment, la bet but basumente Is the Medi of the go-
wore or of their depths The revalsome Imam &By
• laille eons" end at sash ebomge their ontheetty became
mere are mere restsissed, to it was ceimeafteated la the
Mlle matell at Vissaa, en that the eibelniseratios of the
' greseemmes was emend W
Wit lbw mad ammo. By fores
filliddilbi the power of gevormer, • they @grind at
degmergent, that the last dew th, Cosatipmek wm applaud
br tic tike of tars.. sad he Vaud melt used that
he meld dO OOthictir, without haviag Ice nesived orders
less Vienne and it was always no swam to apply Sere,
ors for abeardities the mat laughable. The Viceroy was
bb pompom title of
2:4 tw.erresiesseeatasitita
iotwbra litit:gp'eeeidest
of
lb.
start
Be tiesistibeetion of estates—la ether words, the had or
the senseesos ell se : in semi other natter his power was
BMW to twain the minks his appoimaarat brought bay
me snide he even it with the strameet reaciaslity,
se 'Meg Wiese* ease a weak to all these who
led the simplicity to preerat thematine, to re-
si ft pall as se whisk no saner wee rhea, or if am,
h was sidar • wive or mistrary to commie mask Led etas
then or bier asseties of melees delay, to greatiag a tow
esseed-rate opplernmate, or gratuitoi s admiesioes to the
setae, to peemittirg_ the Ueda": of hands on days of on
sMey, sad eats equaly great thing..
Although des power of the Via roy wee extremody limited
sad eery iderter to that of the governor, SIB a
mikes sad attacked to the country, might have
huh rot Implv,by strictly exervidag the little etedimilly
le saymed, and mad lies his weasel ialiseem ~dm
Mbar members of the sitaus La alsall If time he
wield ben compelled the jealous east of Thema le Wings
his purer ; but he did exactly the reverie. was ids pewee
gaited ? Ile reudered it end lam es by sever ulag it, sad
whoa he did employ his biomes it wee always bested, end
Is hatred to the !taken, above all to the Lombards. MINNS
tit ie,rieses far &lobe the seastreetka of the Wheel
tem Milan to Como, slid boa Milan to VOWS&
Tee Archduke Naiad?* aftwithstanding a iodine, et
thirty years is Italy, and althossb be bell memild
sa Italian pries se. was as s
he
a 0.111.10 die 1
lea day of his departure as the first d ble at.
real; he bad begottra nothing, learned nelligg:
he remained as be wee, aseouti, unsociable, uncivilised ; lb
@sly quality beim as nano without limit, his sole ememe-
Ilea the acquisitive et looney. In fast, eves the very ward-
ribs for kimeelf, his wile, and children, wee furnished fors
Tina, ale es it eat les thin than at Nibs: lie himmlf,
IS wife, his eitildren, all spoke but Genoa. abroad, at
home. is the hells of the nobility or envehtiats, at the
Cesin—Genesues serenaded him everywhere, and though
the Milanese had daring anal years professed for him sad
his family • einem sad affectionate regard, Raineirio n-
eaten them hut
M seiner
i and ingratitude. The Au-trian
goverment whams tn mb ued to pin the goodwill of the
Italians ; tie the onntruy, it was aecuatomed to gin the best
appointments to Gle : mins, sad latterly the eases= el
thee had bee. so great that the lornhar-Testadone boa
themselves slam entirely 'solo led dim easdarmas.
Net cal ewe the ireassienies and viee-modissala of the
piaipul marts and trainee's pentrally Inellowen on Ann
trines, Bottemi.n.. an Tyrolese, bat the wiry diem
wen surcharged with OOMldell.
Germane in the Novenas's% in the to in Ole
enstess-house, in the poet-ibis, hi the dllCe I
eaten, is the eamorship, in the .s oar
is the nionicipality. and in the admeritiee. Nei
by ere principal and secondary poste georped
by- then but even the lease sack as pester, for
example : ant, latterly, an order war sent Ism 'Vienna to
the ennistrature, (Margin them tannic, to the Italians the
Bohemian Waive ea magi in Italy, in the maths' of smell
employ meats nit.nia thew girt, inn lay eves the licmeas
Ter tee ode of pnvi'ep • articles, aide as salt, tobacco, its.
&& TM dal and criminal code of Amnia was applied to
Lombardo-Venice ; though on the erne side impreciesbla,
an the other inn. quite ; • seven allitary easeteiSion wee
also enforced, and • discipline mat strict, whin, although
'AM for Unionist slaves, was wholly intolerable to a
seisifirieredt people, one entirely unacenetemed to sun • anew
of life. The Italian coasertpte were interspersed with Ger.
Ws, Bohemiaes, Ilangarians, and Poles, whom they could
met aanrstand. limy wen went to wafts their best years,
from 20 to 29, ia disease mentries.
Usages, Laos, reeelatiese, were imposed es the Italians
whisk wen is so way adapted for them. Their industry
sad aceamerce were seenflord to the comatereial monopoly
Of Visas and Bohemia ; their inteUessal development re.
peed by • pedantic and wearying eystem of teak's, which
Milled OW very birth of genius, and by • coneseship whose
wiper was carried to the highest me as. Tbe medal whisk
bleat he spite er 30 years peace, in spite of the ardour and
aelheiblea of des Italian. for study, their Marcum ballad
4111 at taw side us other satins, bee masiderably
wsegradM, and Lombardo- Venice, pankslarly, is midis
ii•cs by any work worthy of immortality. The study
4 was diseountenamed by the the goverment, his-
bey ot • country hateful to It ; the public wahine shut,
sad nadered inaccessible to the Italians ; no encouragement
-eared by the g•vernasent, which alone TOSOIIIIMMONI
espiesme, flattery, ad senility. The liberty of the about
was aloe restriated ,• leaving the bowled elftse althea a
pooped was se Wham whin nita ui mei emmejnew,
and whisk was punished by fine end imphoesneet, NOW
doss of one or many ninths' duratios. To obtain • pass-
port was ashler easy nor Oil Oild.Ori.
Although,eked illph,butri widen
impels:, aa puree.
wait to lee:yave,
ad efteatimes weds, babas *butting hie peeped; •
thinned Idiom fensalities were seceseuy, and if he were
est deb, or • laselholder, he wiri required to c
a
mete for his return. In short the Barrer Austria
seasidered himself effectively the master of the property sad 1
tine of his enients, sad looked upon them as so maay
SION&
This smortha, which apogee almost incredible, is
by • Initimeny whisk admits of se oestestatios—be so
has Ors • Bab elleabba entitled, " Duties of 8
eamerds theft Illeeersh," white wee priatad at Mika, at
ihe spyel gdaingsdirejr=witherised by Wgovernment
isle as afw the ashoole. Amidst a mass
• of abembidens le this es% we ban sets down," &S-
-igel. Seel* behave towards their smack as faithful sir-
eagle towage their mew, shoes their sovereign is their
melese, and has AMMO peerarever their life ad property."
This, that, wee the polies ref Amara is regard to the
Whim Til
Wl Boomer, muse.r of their property sad exist,
tam. they og his hoedown, or,OUT* sad Wall
busbies of ohs hoicka leablatioa, the make ayasea el
busbies gonrament is Italy, all the rephetioes if psi e%
all the Madam between • people tad Nmlr wei-
rdo, Decrees the serener and the pews*
tame trees the impose
Au
siqif that vile aad imam& deb
trine, wbiwhitetraded humanity, aad at stria 'I
blushed tot obliely t
to bilk, and teach as a vital
donna in he stheoh.
la easdasba, let es ash, what met be the esserionee of
there pewees witielt grail the treaty of Time. ahigh
abanased LembardeaVenise to Almeria, eel ineshenied
eve asinine of homes into live millions of slant. To
what end ha the aeon been find, if the use liberty is
denied to the white ass ?

gbit !EMIT!.

WlretzaDAT.—Tbw Hereditary Prima
sad PfiaMlN of P atterted by the lady in wait*/ as
the Princess (Camaro ), w expound to arrive at the
Castle tide Amon, as a visit to her May sad the
Priam The Comatose Jewry sad Lady Clereatina Vit.
byre, the Rail at barbs, liks George sad Lady Grey, air
Charles aadialdery Weed. sad the Eight Has. norms
Pemberton we ere szpored to arrive this mein at
the Castle. Persian IN strived to take her duty w
lady la welting Se the Quo.. Lord Elphimetese sad Capt.
the Has. J. Dams have relieved tha Bad of Morley sad
Cal. the Hod. A. N. Heed in their duties al the lord and
grows in widtl=4tor Illajesty.
Tit=al partL at the Camas this
will • the Delis* et Kra, the Hesedltry Priers Primer of Pima, the hirer &asks of Hasalehe OM&
lingers, the Lady la WrOtiag as the Drier el &est, the
Counter Lows, Hareem de Speak die thmenter of Jerry
sad La.'y Clematis' Villiers, the Bed of Lineght, the
Right Hots tils George sad Lady Grey, the 11.101 Has. Sir
Chides and Lady Mary Wood, the Ripbt Has. T. Pemba.
ton Leigh, Hr. G. E. Aura, sad dir George Griper.

Lord John Russell left town yesterdsy
for Windsor Code, to have ea iodises-a of the Quota. His
lordship mused to town Is the aflame&
A carmine* of the Lords of her Majesty's Most
Iloaourable Privy Coma tar Trade red lardy Planta
twos held a meeting yerierday, at the Baird el* Trade,
Whitehall, reepeatisithe Aostreklaa embalm The leds
prism ware the Rae. IL laboodiare, Bari Grey,
sod Sir litesail Ryan. Tim coessiese not at ballast
basin Week end at aloe dues aeleak.
Mr. Bonsreft, the Andriella minister, had inter-
vislosalwrodas= Clwaseller of the laistisquer, at
his is Domaine want, sad with tba Bight
Rea. R. labearfame, at Ma MISS Ode Beard at Trade.
Bir Hobart Gardiner, Governor of Gibraltar, bad
as inetrvire with Raf=thwyytetarda , theCtimial-oSai,
end ink have of be , an his he Gibraltar.
Sir George end Lad left left town yesterday fat
• Wiliam Cases. as a visit to the Chem.
Mr. J. R. Brickwood, Public Works Loan Can-
navino, bad aa Latinism with the Chancellor of the El.

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