The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-23 00:00:00

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ER23.
Tim Italians have reason to regard the struggle
taking place upon the Danube with almost mere
anxiety than the Oermansthemeelves. Their fate se
less depends upon the issue. If military power and
court policy should succeed in crushing popular rights
and efforts at Vienna, the results of that triumph will
be felt from the Alps to Agrigentum.
For these thirty years Austria has weighed upon
Italy with a leaden sceptre, and quite as much upon
its southern as upon its northern extremity. One
might have bowed to this as a melancholy necessity in
Lombardy and Venice, where Austria might plead the
sense of self-preservation and old posnessiki for
keeping down the country with terror and the sword.
But Naples—bat Sicily at least—one might have
hoped to see withdrawn from the despotic influence
and dictates of the east of Europe, when one considers
not only the distance and latitude of those countries,
but the events and influences which occurred and
prevailed there, and which preserved those countries to
the Bourbon race.
It cannot be forgotten, and it ought never to Nevski=
lost sight of, that throughout the war England main-
tained the independenea of Melly by her armies and
her subsidies. In order to found this independence
on the happiness of the peopleMngland caused a con-
stitution to be given to the Sicilians, and convoked
two houses of parliament, of which the upper house,
as patriotic and liberal as the lower, came forward to
f.i.72p feudal privileges, and to establish by the
concessions the great guarantees of popular
rights. The island, thus emancipated, thus endowed
with st constitution, England gave up to the Kings of
Naples, on the express condition that the kings of
the house of Bourbon should respect the liberties and
the constitution of the Sicilians. Had the Kings of
Naples kept their promises, they would have reigned
in the hearts of the Sicilians, and their family might
have defied European revolution as the Queen of
this country and as the Hinge of Holland and of
Belgium have done, by means of a constitutional and
cordial understanding with their subjects.
Austria, however, forbade. Austria would admit
of no constitution, no liberty in Italy. She marched her
troops to pat down that of 14aples, and compelled the
KING to sign a stipulation that he would never per-
mit a constitution. That has been the fundamental
law that Austria imposed upon Italy, and enforced by
armed intervention. And not only did we, did the
very tories, who had given the Sicilians their oonsti-
ninon, permit Austria to establish and enforce its
edict against all constitutions, but Sir ROBERT PEEL
himself applauded and upheld that Austrian policy in
a British Honer of Commons.
The Austrian policy has, however, borne its fruits:
all its powers, its precautions, its policy, have mainly
led to the most fearful convulsions in every country
where the race reigned or its policy prevailed. Not
only have insurrections broken forth, but civil war has
been carried on after a manner which appal' and dis-
gusts by its bridal ferocity. And now the question
is, shall Austria be allowed any longer to prevail—
shall
she be allowed any longer to prolong her absurd
superannuated ideas of government, which debrute •
people, render them wretched, and yet impel them
to inevitable revolution? Austrian ideas of rule exist