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WIWON, FRIDAY, JULY 13.

Tria reply to all such speeches as Sir ROBES?
Pzsz.'s and Mr. KINOLA.IIIO, dictated by mor-
bid and unmanly fears, is on the broad
ground of principle and policy plain enough.
This talk about the ambition and aggres-
sive policy of Sardinia is the mere vulgar
cant of political reaction. The accusation is un-
supported by facts, and will not bear a moment's

examination.
.For the last ten years Sardinia has,
both in its home policy and in the councils of
Europe, faithfully represented the cause of Italy.
It has mimed the standard of Italian freedom and inde-
pendence, and this is the secret of its programs and
rapid success. A merely self-seeking state, animated
by low and pettyaima, could never have roused the
enthusiasm and secured the suffrages of a whole
people. It is because the policy of Count
CATOCR is wider and more profoundly patriotic
than that of his predecessors that he has achieved
such a triumph. And VICTOR Eurcoruzi. is re-
cognised as King not because he is a prince
of the House of Savoy, but because
he has devoted himself heart and soul
to the national cause. GARIBALDI is a great
general, but his marvellous success is due quite as
much to the moral as to the material power be wields.
He is an Italian fighting to deliver his fellow-
countrymen, the " Soldier of Italy," struggling
for Italian independence. To talk about his ex-
pedition to Sicily and his campaign there as violating
the law of nations is utterly irrelevant and absurd.
He is simply a patriot fighting against foreign
tyranny. The law of nations lies nothing
to do with the case, and no foreign nation
has any right whatever to interfere in such a
struggle. The policy of this country, therefore,
at the present moment is sufficiently plain. It is
simply to watch the progress of the struggle, and
prevent, if need be, any foreign interference with
the Italians iu their efforts to work out the pro-
blem that is before them.

Lord Joni/ Rceames statements on this head
last night were satisfactory and explicit. He re
called the relations between this country and
Naples since the Peace, showing the friendly way in
which we have uniformly acted towards that
unhappy court. This country gave Sicily to the
Bocasoas forty years ago, and since then has
done everything in its power to establish them on
the throne. But all efforts to arrest them in their
suicidal course have proved vain. Friendly advice
has been rejected time after time ; and, if it is now
too late, we, at least, are not responsible for the
result, nor need we wish to avert it. The infa-
tuated KING must be left to the tender mercies
of his own people. If they can trust
him it is not for us to interfere. But,
on the other hand, there must be no
intervention in favour of the Kiwi, no
pressure from without against the voluntary
action of the people. This country has adopted,
and will maintain in its integrity, the principle of
non-intervention. It sympathises and must sym-
pathise deeply with the Italians in their noble
struggle for freedom, but it cannot dictate
the course they are to pursue. It is
a most difficult and delicate task for
foreign powers even to offer advice. We have
no wish to violate our own principles by interfering
even to this limited extent. And dearly no other
power can be permitted to dictate • course to a
people which has already demonstrated so nobly its
capacity for freedom and self-government. Lord
Jowls Itrasmes decisive reiteration of the policy
of the Government on this question, at the pre-
sent moment, will be welcomed both in Italy and
in this country. "lu our foreign policy we may
" have, from day to day, matters to treat '
"in which our relations with other powers
" may induce us to recommend a particular
" measure at one time, or a certain form
"at another ; but I can amine this House—and
" it is the only one and the last word I have to
"'&y—that with regard to the people of Italy we
" have no other policy than to leave them to decide
" for themselves on their own fats—and that if
" their decision should be such as Wised to the hap-
" pines and independence of that country for the
" future, I feel confident that we shall not only re-
" josce at it—for we who value liberty confine its
" power within no narrow bcauuls--but that we
" shall hail it in the conviction that for the main-
" tenance of the balance of power in Europe—that
" term often abused, but which has a clear and
" significant meaning—there can be no greater
" curity than the independence of Italy." me-

Tim Chief Corarensioner of W the other
night appraised, with an admirable show of lofty
contempt, a question put to him respecting the pa.
sibility of his making a road for cabs and omni-
buses through Hyde Park without first consulting
Parliament Hs thought it superfluous, be said,
to state that before spending money for any such
purpose he should certainly think it necessary to aak
Parliament to vote it. Who could have thought
that while thus bidding the House of Commons rely
ou its hold of the public purse as the surest gage

et his intention not to evade its coal*, Mt.
Oowm was in the very eat of opening up '0 niit
aids, passing through the most frequented
part of Haseington-gardens If Yet so it was.
During the hat few days Rotten-row has
bees doubled la length. At the Kensington ex-
tremity it now enters the gardens, crosses the
"Flower Walk," follows the line of the Broad Walk
to the l3ayawater side, then turns to the right and
leads into the Uxbridge-road, not far from the
head of the Serpentine. We are thus minute in oui
description of the improvement which Mr. Cowrie
has by a nod effected, because it is one which
must, to the great majority of our readers, be as
yet perfectly unknown. Kensington-gardens is—
we should say, need to be—one of the few places
in the neighbourhood of the metropolis sacred to
pedestrians alone. In this beautiful Park, which
we have been pleased to denominate Gardena,
might roam, without fear of being driven or ridden
over, all whom age or timidity debarred from more
crowded places of resort. Here mammal sent
with confidence their children to play, and nurse-
maids might with a clear conscience permit
their eyes for a moment to wander from their
charge, and follow the majestic forms of Life-
guardsmen striding by. Here came the tired
mechanic, to lie his length on the grass and look
through the leaves to the sky ; here came the
artist, the weary brain-worker, the nervous, the
infirm—all who were sick or afraid of crowds, of
the dust, the toil, the roar of London. To all
; these Kensington-gardens was a Paradise ; and

through this Paradise Mr. COWPRR, lulling Par-
liament to sleep, has just turned the full stream
of Rotten-row.

In some respects we confess that our instinc-
tive sympathies go with this act of sovereign
authority. No Englishman can help being proud
of Rotten-row. No nation in the world can via
with us in the spectacle which it shows on a summer
day. We are proud, and justly proud, of the horses—
proud of their riders—proudest of all of the hundreds
of fair and gentle Amazons who pace slowly along, '
or dash at a gallop past us. Nor is our pride merely
mentimentaL This love of out-door, and above
all equestrian, exercise gives a vigour and health
of body and mind to our youth which are of no
slight value to the State. Shall we grudge, then,
to these horsemen and horsewomen the pleasure
of exchanging their hobby-horse route on the well-
worn gravel road for a canter over the green turf
and under the shady trees on the other aide of
the railings f Moreover, Mr. Cowraa's plan will
free us from at least one undoubted existing

annoyance. If there be one thing more than
another which is destrective to pedestrian com-
fort it is perambulators. To placid enjoyment
and to high meditation perambulators are alike
hostile. Now of late years Kensington-gardens

have been stormed and carried by-perambula-
tors; and this nuisance Mr. Commis will effectually
abate. Nursemaids will scarcely venture to cross
Rotten-row--and Rotten-row, as we have explained,
now cute the flower walk through the middle.
Perhaps one or two may attempt to assert their
ancient right of way, but their immolation will
soon settle the point. At the slight cost of the
annihilation of perhaps a nurse and of the extine-
tion of the hopes of a few non-patrician houses,
we shall have gained the object. Henceforth
nursemaids and infants are virtually banished the
Gardens.

Such are the inducements which the Chief
Commissioner of Works will hold out to buy our
acquiescence. They win our sympathies; but our
sympathies must not overpower our judgment.
Rotten-row grows very dusty and stale ; but gentle-
men and ladies who can ride have happily the means
of going farther out of town than Kensington-
gardens. Mr. Cowrra's arrangement has the fatal
drawback that it consults the comfort of the few
at the sacrifice of the interests of the many. Re
gives a charming ride to those who can afford to
ride ; but he cuts up, and in a great measure
destroys, the only pleasant resort for those who
cannot afford to ride. These we are bound to
consider more than the others. Of inestimable
value to them is that the destruction of which
adds but a drop to the full cup of pleasure of their
richer brethren. The preservation of the seclu-
sion and security of Kensington-gardens is a
matter of immense moment .to millions. We are
bound to defend them from invasion, and we trust
some member of the House of Commons will,
without lore of time, give Mr. COWPER an oppor-
tunity of saying that this is but an experiment,
that it has been found objectionable, and that it
will not be persevered in.

Inc Court.

MOB" JULY a.

The Duchess of Kept, attended by Lady Augusta
Brea and Lord James Murray, arrived at Osborne yester-
day from Frogmorehouse on a visit to her Majesty. The
Qum received her royal highnein in the ball, accompanied
by Items= Alice and the royal family, and attended by the
ladies and gentlemen.

The Dueler of Kent drove oat in the group& in the
afternoo.

The Cabinet Council held on Wednesday after-
noon was attended by Viscount Palmerston, the
Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of
Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Russell, the
get on. Sidney Harbert, Sir Charles Wood, the
of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, Sir George Grey the Right Hon. C. P.
Villiers, and the Right Hon. E. Cardwell.

Raman Ali Shan, the Persian Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary accompanied by Name Aga,
ascretery•lnterpreter of the Legation, had an interview with
Lord Jobe RoaseU yesterday at the Foreign-office.

Their Royal Higher eases the Ducheee of Cam-
bridge and the Prtacem Mary, his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand
Duch.. of Meeklenbeng-Adralits, and this Prime Adolphus,
honoured the performances at the Italian Opera last night
with their presence, occupying the Queen's box. Among
the fashionable company in the theatre we observed his
Excellency the Russian Minister, the Duchess of Welling-
ton and Lady Jane Hay, the Duchess of Montrose and
Lady Agues Graham, the Marquis and Marchioness al
Northampton, the Marquis of Stafford, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Anglesers, the Earl and Countess of Hop►
town, the Earl and Countess of Cardigan, to.
The Prince and Princess Koutchikoff and family
have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-atroet, from
the Isle of Wight.

Lord and Lady Tredegar's party at Greenwich,
which was filed for Thursday, the 19th inst., will not take
place in consequence of the lOU of a near relative.
Lady Howard's some dew/ante, which was to take
place on the 19th inst., is unavoidably postponed is come.
Tine, of the death of a relative.

" The English yacht Star, belonging to Sir John
Turnley," says the Moniker, " coming from Ireland, and
having a Jersey pilot on board, touched on a rock called Ste
Crapaudt, at the entrance of St. Malo, on the 15th last.,
and soon after sank. The owner and the crew saved
themselves in their boat. At the request of Sir Jolts
Tumley, the chief of the naval sorties at St. Swan
placed at his dispnial a number of barges necertry to
raise the yacht, so operation which was nmeredully sixes
cuted with the cooperation of the steam advice boat IA
Flue, which afterwards towed the Bi/kr, water logged, into
the port of St. Pre, where she was beached end safely
witiout having sustained say very material
injury.”

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MASSACRE OF TWO THOUSAND
CHRISTIANS.

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BEYBOUT, Join 23.

_ Affaireinithis province [are looking) blacker and
blacker. Yasterday,ore had:thefesuf al news of the
village of DbeMel-Kamai,,being sacked, burnt, and
every Christian male, to the number of two
thousand and more, being put to the sword
by the Drums, who a fortnight before had
disarmed them, in mold blood. The women and
children were allowed to escape and reached the
month of the Damoor river, half way between this
and Sidon, yesterday, whence they were brought
up last night and this morning, to the number
of 1,100, by H.B.M. ships Gannet and
Mohawk. Of the meu of Dheis-et-Kamar, not
more than thirty have escaped. The town is all
burnt. The refugees say that the Turkish soldiers
sided with the Drams, helping them to butcher the
people, and that they, the Sultan's troops, were
the only people who insulted the women, of whom
not a few met with the worst treatment by them.
Beyrout itself is ins panic to-day.

We take the following from the Levant Herald of
the 4th July :
"We have received a telegram from Smyrna,
dated 2nd July, announcing the arrival of the
Syrian steamer, and giving the following in advance
of her arrival here:

"The steamer left Beyront on the 23rd June,
and reports that at that time the panic among
the Christian population had become general.
Nearly the whole of the Frank inhabitants,
and as many of the native Christians as could,
had taken refuge on board the English, French, and
Russian men-of-war in the roads. Her Majesty's
steamer Exmouth had embarked the cash, books,
and personnel of the Ottoman Bank, and a/ many
of the other English residents as possible. In addi-
tion to this, parties of marines from the British,
French, and Russian ships had landed to waist in
maintaining order in the town. At Damascus the
Christians were also in a state of panic, and Abd-
el-Kader had come forward to use his influence for
their protection."