The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-27 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27.

UroN the appointment of a successor to Sir
WILLIAM Trurt.s may depend the emancipation of
Italy, aced the peace of Europe. The task which
will devolve on the new English Minister at Naples
Is ardeou enough to deter the most ambitions from
accepting the office. It is not only that he will have
to deal with a monarch who, to the impetuous
self-will and negation of all moral sense of a mad-
man unites all that dexterous and patient cunning
which ie often found associated with madness. It is
✓ot only that be will have to soothe or centre' this
reckless being amid circumstances as liable to ex-
plosion as a powder mine : his difficulties will
be incalculably augmented by the Insidious
and unscrupulous wiles of Austrian diplomacy,
and by the equivocal friendship of the representative
of the French Government. He will need to be ill
eye, all ear, all judgment. To a ripe experience of 1
the wiles of diplomatists, and of the war/sedates of
beaten nature, he will require to add natural coolness
sad wlf•posseseion, and promptitude and inflexible
resolution in action. Above all, the honour and inte-
rest of England alike require that her representative
at the Court of Naples, at this perilous crisis, should I
be sincerely, earnestly, immoveably devoted to the
cause of civil and religious liberty, and of national
independence.
There are some things about the present state of
car English representation in Italy that reader atten-
tion to these considerations in the last degree itopera.
tire. At Vienna the national character is sore to be
honourably upheld by the only minister who, for the
last Sfty years, remained entirely unaffected by the
wily blandishments of the Court of St. Petersburg,

and to whom Europe is indebted for
snaking the late CZAZ. At Turin we have a
Minister who is everything the most patriotic
Englishman could wish. But in Central Italy this
country is lemrotab'y misrepresented. Silly pre-
jadicee forbid our Government to transact badness
directly, through the medium of a recognised sad
responsible Minister, with the Court of Rome. All
oar negotiations with the Pore, as a temporal Sove-
reign, are carried 00, in a huggermugger clandestine
way, by an attaché of the English Legation at
Florence. The English Minister at Florence is also
the accredited Minister of his Government at the
petty Courts of Parma and Modena. Hence Unties
that the whole of our diplomatic intercourse with all
the Italian Oovernmer to, whose territories are placed
between The wo Sicilies on the south, and Piedmont
and the provinces tyrannised over by Austria on the
north, is at this moment entrusted to the management
of Lord NOIMANBT. Now, Lord NOZNAMIT bee so
played his cards that every English traveller whole
opinion is entitled to the slightest attention, and every
patriotic Italian, are convinced that he is devoted to
the service of Austria. The simple circumstance of
his not being recalled from Florence has done more
than anything else to inspire the Italian public with
distrust of the sincerity of Lord CLAILEMDON'S profes-
sion at the Conferences in Paris. Eves Omagh
the coarse of the new English Minister at Naples
were likely to prove es smooth and free fro. &agar
as it is certain to be bent with embarrassments sad

peril', it would be the duty of Lord Falafel/now to
sonsinate to the poet a Minister whom mem name
will be a pianist's for the good faith of England is
bet professions of regard for Italian liberty and inde-
pendent*, in order to the lamentably Ws-
vonrable impression made bY the frivolity of Lord
NORMANDY and hie fawning epos Austria and her
Italian viceroys.
Lord P.

may rest aentred that the
English people are anxiously waiting to see who le to
he appointed to noosed his late brother at the Mort
of Naples. The words of half.mensee whidl be
threw oat against Piedmont, the last tires tied did
Weirs of Italy were discussed in the House d GNP
moss, have not been forgotten. They have awaheaed
dirtiest of him in the minds of all who knew what
Italy has to feu from the brutality el her native
despots, and the aggressions of Austria, and how
@Main any convolsioce that may originate is Italy
are to spread to the rest of Europe. It is la Lord
Painnurox's power to disabuse the FAglish of these
enepidons—if they are groundless—by the simple pro.
ousel seediog en ambassador to Espies in whose drat.
nem judgment, and respect for the rights of nations,
all men eau have roadiesw If, on the contrary, Lord
PALMERSTON despatches to that important some of
aides, at this perilous crisis, some mere titled sou-
entity, or some courtly flatterer, he may lay his
assoant with awakening a storm of popular Wig-
natio, that will disturb teen his poro-euressis *gasp
'laity.

A bad appointment to Naples at this moment may
have implement cooecquenors for persons in whose
popularity entry re netting Englishman feels more
camera than in that of any minister. The Crews is
the keystone of the arch ol our English institution., sad
a thoroughly good onderatandlog between the Crown
sad the people is indispensable to the well-working of
ear Constitution. Now, unfortunately, an idea has
begun to spread abroad that Lord NOLMANST is lw
Indebted for his firm hold upon the post he
cesspits to the favour of Ministers than to the favour
of the Court. We utterly disbelieve these absurd,
ea% it may be feared, in some awes 'Wickes whis-
pers. But there can be no doubt that they are cir-
sulatiog in society. As little doubt eau there be
that some shy mischief• tubers, who are, or affect to be,
Psalms friends of the IPismisz, have sought to lend
eredit to them, in order to divert from their patron the
adios malting from the continuance of Lard Non.
MANDY at the Court of Florence. In theseIkSINSISMISIS
that. is imminent danger that a bad appsiatakeet
Naples will be greedily seised span by 'certain vaigur
smd violent milers to cast discredit on these whom it
is ON of the first duties of an English Minister to
surd from misconstruction. Independently of the
weighty coasiderations of foreign policy epos whisk
-"hare been deesanting, Lord P

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Wet eoart. •
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Her Majesty and the Prime, aieentpanied 67
Prises Arthur sad Priam* Lois, impeded t 4 depot
battalioa at Parkhurst, meet the tesieead et Lteatdaast•
Colonel Jeffreys, yesterday.
The Boles* Misdates, K. Vera de Weyer, sad Madame
Vera de Weyer, arrived oa a visit to the Qum
To-day Wag the saaiversary of Prince Albert's birthday,
the band of the Boyd Mariam played a soloed= of wage
oa the nurse*.

The Hoe. Mr. Merritt, trove Camila, had an Interview
with Mr. Seesetary Labosebere, yesterday, at ette Celesta-
Mew.
Despatches were received yesterday from the °oversew of
the North Asserieen Provisos', at the C010661-office, and
from the Lord High Cosenesioser of the lesian Islands.

Deepatetue wen sent yosterds7 to the Govorsor of
Ceylon.

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we have bees descanting, Lord PALmauroN is bound
by ovary ooesideratioo of loyalty to take owe that
his sew Minister at the Court of Naples is every 1
way issezeoptiossable. 1
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noton albs Australia' wait Compaq tan vatted busk-
soros, sad ismaly amen of the aseessedatlea wish&
tlio desks than will afford them their lien mail peaks;
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lio bo ilarairod.
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ltallway wad Esuropeaa wad War Jawed Tokyo*
Complain, treasaand bseisase yesterday **Lied Cla-
rinda, at the
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