The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-23 00:00:00

TIIE CIII,TS IN nic PAPAL 1,7,111:,:.

The Tililf'S c.attitines to urge that if the affairs of
Italy are left to the Italian government the Roman
timattion may be settled without violence to popular
opinion or disturbance of European peace. If the work
were appropriated by the French government no man can
forecast the consequences. Italy and France would be-
come enemies, and all the recent cmnbinationa, or assumed
combinations, of states udght be reorganised or developed
with Vie prospects of war. If the Emperor can avert an
immediate convulsion, as seems not impossible, and can
reconcile the exactions of the September convention with
the exigencies of that kingdom which he himself created,
he will de•erve all credit for his success, but the difficulty
itself will sill remain to be dealt with, and will be a
never•failitig source of such perils and alarms as those
from which wo have now, perhaps, unexpectedly escaped.
The attitude of the French Emperor, the /Judy Ne.,a
°bee. ves, is as derogatory to Italian independence as it
was before. It was impossible for him to put a greater
intliguity on the King and people of Italy, and his
conduct fixes irrevocably the disposition with which the
Italian people must henceforth regard him. It is the
King of Italy, not M. Rattazzi or General Cialdini, who
has engaged to do what the Emperor requires ; and the
confidence of the Italian people in him is now put to the
severest proof it has hitherto had to sustain. The Italian
people are at this moment in a state e suspense that is
almost agonising, and it is impossible to foresee what may
happen from day to day ; but come what may we sincerely
trust that the dire calamity of civil war may be averted. To
the serious defeat which the OcribildLuis have encountered,
the seizure of Garibaldi himself must have contributed,
and besides their own want of discipline and equipment,
we must allow for the enthusiasm with which many of the
Pope's troops are inspired. At present all that can be
said is that everything is remitted to a future settlement.
Italy has suffered a grave moral and political defeat. The
French Emperor has dissolved the obligations which bound
Italy to him, and made a practical alliance between the
two States for a long time impossible. But while the ad-
vantages which the Empetor receives himself are eva-
nescent, and the loss he incurs must be lasting, the Pope's
temporal power is no more secure now than its was three
months ago.

According to the Standard the only action of Lord
Stanley in the matter consiste of a despatch to the French
government, in which ho expressed the pain and regret
with which the majority of Englishmen would see a fresh
occupation of Rome by a French army. The Stoddard
further believes that whilst the Emperor has received Lord
Stanley's note in the friendliest spirit, the Italian govern-
ment has expressed its thanks to the Foreign Secretary
for having done all that it could expect him to do in the
matter.

Tho Trley:mph is convinced that the good sense of the
Italians themselves will ere long recognise the painful trial
to which their sovereign has been exposed, and will appre-
ciate the spirit in which it has been met and surmounted.