The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAR. 24.

How much of the blood about to be spilled, and of
the military movements now taking place, has been
owing, not to pottical causes or aims, but to the mere
vulgar difficulty of feeding and paying armies ?
This is a consideration well worthy of being weighed
and Wren into account when the question of large
standing armies is discussed.
Some of our contemporaries have published long
statements of rights and claims of different powers to
the Milanese. And Lord AIMRDEEN, in the House
of Lords, has made serious reproaches to the govern-
ment for not having put implicit faith in his Lord-
ship's notable work, the Treaty of Vienna and its terri-
tonal arrangements. Now the fact is, that according
to the present political and military science of Europe,
that power which supports the great and preponde-
rate military force in North Italy must possess the
Milanese, in order to feed and support that force.
When, after the revolution of March, civilians were
at the heed of the government of Vienna, and when,
in their ignorance, they proposed those terms for
which the Entish government is blamed—at one time
for entertaining at all,• and at another time for not
abandoniog immediately—the military chiefs replied,
that if Austria were to retain any portion of
Italy, she must keep on foot an army of 100,000
men to occupy and defend it; moreover that these
100,000 men could not be fed, paid, or supplied from
Germany, nor yet from the corner of Italy east of the
Adige; in short, that the possession of Milan and
Lombardy was indispensable. RADETEIKI said so;
he would listen to no terms; he unrolled upon
Milan, took it; and he must either keep it, or abandon

Italy.
Piedmont is precisely in the same predicament.
With 100,000 Austrians quartered around Milan, and
a French army of the Alps encamped on the borders
of Savoy, the King of SARDINIA mast keep up
his 100,000 men too • or, if not, he will :be
swallowed up by either republican or mo-
narchical greediness. But Piedmont cannot
support AMIN of 100,000 men. The effort to do so
is eating away the entire substance and entrails
not only of the date bat of society itself. If the
King of SARDINIA is to have a gigaatie army, he, too,
wants Lombardy to feed it. Northern Italy, such u
it is, cannot support two overgrown armies, and the
question really is, which it will support, a German or
an Italian army. People talk of CHARLES ALBERT
being driven to war by the democratic rabble of his
parliament and his capital. We don't believe a word
of this fine excuse. There is no city in the world
where the military could so easily sweep off a mob as
Turin. Nor would the King find the least difficulty in
a policy of reaction, if he chose to enter upon it. But
it is noti his own peep!, who menace CHARLES
ALBERT; it is Austria, who will never forgive his de-
mand t, be the sovereign of Italy—it is France which
does not desire the greatness or regeneration of 'ltaly
by Italian hands. CHARLES ALBERT i 8 therefore
forced to confide in military strength, and he cannot
keep or feed it without war. Thus are Austria and
Piedmont driven into hostile conflict and into the
horrors of a prolonged campaign, chiefly by the
large armies which both have on toot, and
which neither can . pay out of their own re-
sources. It is precisely like two savage tribes
which are encroaching on each other's hunting
grounds, and who are preparing to fight for them,
and to exterminate each other to get possession of
them. Lombardy is to be the prize of the victor—
that is, is to be eaten up by his troope.
If we go from one end of Europe t 3 the other, and
turn from the Italian to the Danish peninsula,
where war also is on the point of breaking out—and
if we ask what is the cause of war here also, we get
the same answer. Denmark is supporting a
fleet and army too great for her revenues
and resources, and she must go to war to feed them.
A rupture of the armistice will allow the Danes to
occupy Schleswig, and to feed on it. It is not a sense
of her rights that impels Denmark to war, but a
sense of her poverty—a poverty crested by a large
military establishment. Fa proclamations her generals
will bid her soldiers to go and reap laurels. In reality
she wit maks them march in order to mused and fill
their huntr7 bellies at the expense of the Schleswig
farmers. Wu,' then, is another' war that is a war of
commissariat.