The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-19 00:00:00

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YDON. MONDAY, SEPT. 19.

A MOMENTARY calm seems to have settled spa
Southern Europe. The attention of the Westin
Powers has been suddenly called away to KIWIS of
amitlict and diameter in far some, where an imperious
instinct of self-preservation leaves no room for fay
other sentiment or idea than thatof immense intereeb
to be protected from instant peril, and the dignity
of two great nation' to be redeemed from defeat and
disgrace by a decisive act of indemnification in the
sight of all the Eastern world- One thing at a time,
is a favourite Anglo-Saxon principle, and fa:apse*
engaged in transacting two-thirds of the paid bast-
nese et mankind—the feeding, the clothing, the

fetching, the carrying, and the money-meking2----it is
found to be a matter almost as much of necessity as
of taste to make this salatary maxim a rule of en-
due. The truth is, that independent and vigorous
altiotialities have to mind their own burins, hero
they can spare leisure for looking after their esigh.
hours' conoerns; and this is why we are accused by
candid friends (of tie DOM alai 'petite) of igoisine.
We care u little as we can help for foreign affairs;
and when we lava axprimsed a perfectly sinners
con-
viction that self-government is the right of all who
saes win and keep it, we have said all that the Eng-
limb people Las to say on continental politics; the
rest u " leather and prunella." Across the water
and all' Europe over, home affairs appear to
be +ate a secondary consideration to professional
politicians. Everybody is in leading-strings, and
everything is so ingeniously swaddled up to the
throat by the administrative machine; the indict-
duai is so weak, and the State is so strong, personal
initiative so restrained and halting, enterprise so
puny and dependent, that the public is compelled to
get up a sort of factitious interest in foreign
" questions," and in default of light, liberty, and
movement at home, tke most notice& idea re-
dented in the journals Is the idea of setting kW the
Continent on tire from time to time for the sake
of basking in a blare of glory, and then taking
credit in a Courses for putting it eat.
Cont.iental declaimers spinet the arrogance and
seinshoess of England will never by any arrange-
ment of words be made to understand how pre-
fustidl indifferent the Esglish public is to theme*
of " moral predominance* of which we hear so mach .
from the organs of French diplomacy. The only
moral predominance we seek is that which is insepara-
ble from political freedom, and from that supremacy
is ships, colonie*, and commerce, which the need
and the forego( expansion have wrung—en to speak
—from the energise of an coarsest pimple, pent up in
an island home, You most deport the race bodily,
take from it all that makes it what it is, before you
an hope to destroy this morel, which is entirely
distinct from any idea of political or diplomatic,
prepoodmnee, and from that delirious vanity and
reckless lust of domination which is never satisfied
but when Europe is afraid.
The thoughts of most Englishmen hare been far
away from Italy the last wen days t bat are we to
be sussed of national nellishaess because we have
something better to do than to follow with surmises
and suspicions the visits, and the journeys, and the
interviews, and the confabulation of ball-a-dozen

dipiomati.te, or scan of the two longest-headed
Sovereigns of modern times?
Ir it possible at this time of day, sober English.
MO ask, that the fate of a nation depends on the
wink of owe man, the frown of another, the slang of • I
third, the whisper of • fourth, the politeness of a fifth,
or the silkiness of a sixth ? Is the independence ,
of millions of eiviliaed men to be made a game d
imperial or royal ecarte, or to be played far by •
clique of decorated linguists, shaking their elbows
over loaded diplomatic dice, or shofd:og dynastic
cards, of which some an marked at the edges, and
some are duplicate*, among • party of select acocar
pikes, at a hollow table ?
All the froderrioischer in Perim, Vienna, Brumela.
and Berlin, are tuning their eyes wistfully to
Biarritz, and wondering what is to come of it all.
There is that model family man of the dynastic
world, the unexampled King IMMIX ; and there
is that Leviathan—of troubled waters,the Emperor of
the F RENO.' in person ; there, too, are ambassadors in
waiting ; and-thither come deputations rich in faith.
and are not sent empty away. Is a stroll on the
cliff, or a cigar in the verandah, or a secret council
of two in • bathing-machine to decide the destinies
of Northern sad Central Italy, and the pompon-
.' cations in the East of Europe? This is the ques-
tion which is to occupy Europe for the text few
days ; and we wish we could succeed in making Eu-
rope understand how little it is likely to occupy
England. No; it is to Italy herself, to the conduct
of her chiefs, her statesmen, and her populations, that
England looks for the future of Italy ; not to Paris
OT to Vienna, nor even to Biarritz. The corm

spondent at Dresden, who lavished Lis pro-
diem resources of exclusive information upon the
Coml. ier du Dirnanelts last week, rind was actsally
enabled to give an analysis of a despatch from the '
Foreign Minister of England to the Austrian
Government, might have saved himse:f a wonderful
strew of invention, and • considerable waste of
mystery,if he had taken for granted that any Foreign
Minister of England, who represents • policy in ,
harmony with the feelisp and prineip:m of his
follow-uountrymen, and the historical traditions of
his Government, could writs no other word, how-
ever he might amplify and develop its signification
—than r...n.intert *lotion, when the right cf a people
to choose its own form of government is called in
question. It will he satisfactory to the supporters
of the Ministry in England, as it will to the friends
of freedom everywhere, to be assured that the
language held by oar Ministers both at Vienna and
Pane, is clear and emphatic, oa this point, and claim
for the Italians the right to ehoose both
their own form of government and their owl
dynasty. It is unhappily true that in ether days,
and under illiberal Governments, we have swerved
from this true and vital law of ear owe *seismal
Nr.r,g ; but the delinquency was dearly en.
plaid and ►itterly pamidard by hardens asks
t grime sad skims even cow. We may
however be permitted to take ad vantage of the bow
table pet j•dicss sad the dimatror.a policy at am: