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LONDON. WEDNESDAY. APRIL SO.

We were aware that Ministers were prepared to ge
unusual lengths in order to get a House of Comae=
worthy of themselves. We bad beard boasts of unpre-
cedented subscriptions to as essemoas bribery fund,
and we knew that clandeetias operations for influen-
cing the election,' had emeatimeed, under the dime-
Moo of a member of the Goverasiest, bekee the so-
eel led Reform Hill had even base laid before Parlia-
moot. But we certainly did not believe that Minis-
ters would venture to convert the Quest's Speech
itself into a hustings address. This, however, they
have done. The Speech delivered yesterday to Parlia-
ment, in the name of theQrais,is in its esseedalpor-
time a transposition of the adleme of the emannot.ion
of the Eicneur IR to the electors of Beek& Asia
that the Memo try and freeholders, so in this the
Lords and Commons, an told that it is fee her
MAJESTY'S convenience and advantage that Parlia-
ment is now dissolved, and that new elections are to
take place. tier MAJESTY is made to represent that
her (audios. are in some way impaired because
Lord Joan Rcestit 's Resolution obtained a majo-
rity of votes. The proceeding is disloyal and Inds-
met. It ia not true that the Crown is less powerfal
beams the Homo of Commons would not have Kr.
DISRARLI'S Reform BilL Ministers are dissolving
Parliament because they will neither resign nor ens-
form to the general wish of the repreemitatives of the
nation on the subject of Reform ; and they have so
right to thrust forward their Boveitolee with a
vulgar election card, " Your vote and interest am
solicited for Mr. DISILARLI."

But however the dissolution has been brought
about, it offers a most important opportunity to the
country for the expression of its opinion on two
questions of the first order—Reform or anti-Refons
at home, Peace and freedom or war and Austrian
despotism abroad. These are the alternatives to
which the choice of the country will be directed;
and we are glad that its voice will be raised while
such questions are imminent.

Anti the mattered mimes with which oar
Austrian hien= has taken leave of Parliaments
we receive from Paris and Turin words of ma_
ciliation and pease. By coucenions on the part of
Frame end Sardinia, the great obstacle to the
meeting of a Congress, as it was described by
Mr. D•"••"• ea Monday night, has been rimieved.
The CHANCELLOR of the EICHEOCER, on that cam
soon, situ stating that the proposal at first of a
disarmament of Sardin is , and subsequently, when that
had been rejected by England as manifestly unjust,
of a general disarmament, was an Austrian invem
tion, said " France has accepted the principle of a
"general disarmament ; but, unfortunately, Sardinia
has not accepted that principle, %itemise, as it is
" understood, she has not been invited to be present
"at the coofsrence of the Congress." Bach was the
situation of affairs as stated by Ministers on Mon-
day night. We do not now stop to discuss the pro.
piety of making the disarmament of Sardinia a ne-
cessary condition of a Congress. That has limn dens
by the most eminent men in the Home of Commons
with stateemanlike moderation and impartiality.
Lord PALEILIETON oomeidered the demand 28 Wed-
on. as involving delay, as multiplying embarrass-
ment, and as increasing danger; Mr. GLADSTONE
described it as an unnecessary propesitioc, the miry
discussion of which was injuries"); and Lord bons
Rue:tett demonstrated its unfairness sad irration-

laity. However, in spite of its unreasonablenesa, this
Awaken proposition wee adopted by our Govern-
mest,whieh urged France to press it upon the accept- I
saw et Sardinia. The .Voisleter now tells as what I
course the Emperor of the FRENCH took. Fee •
France he had admitted the principle of a
general disarmament, as recommended by England, '
reserving the regulation of the details to be settled
in the Congress ; but when be was informed that the
official adhesion of Sardinia to the same princi-
ple was an indispensable preliminary to the delibe-
rations of the Powers, the matter appeared to him
as it appeared to Lord PALMOSTOK, Loci Joss
44ELL, and Mr. GLAssroes. He said : " How
"can I reasonably and fairly ask Piedmont to die-
" arm when she has been refused a mat in the
Caa-
gren? This is a Congress of exoeptiocal eh*-
" meter, held to prevent, not to terminate a was.
" Ai in ordinary Congresses, actual, so in this, pro-
. 'retire belligerents meet. If Sardinia is a pro-
'. *pectic, belligerent she has a claim to sit with the
.‘ other Power'; if she is not, she eannot be asked
"to disarm." Nevertheless, the Moeilcur tells r,
England having strongly insisted that France shield
secure the acquiescence of Piedmont in the principle
of disarming, " the EMPEROR did not refuse to give
this new proof of his conciliatory diepositioa, bet
" on condition that Sardinia and all the other Italian
" States should be invited to the Congress." This
last eapression merely masks the extent of the En
rttion'i concession. It is no longer proposed that
Sardinia shall have a seat in the Congress with an
effective voice. Her Minister will be invited to
attend this Cooper, as the petty sovereigns of
Italy attended that of Lay bach to learn the decisions
of the Great Power..

The telegram from Turin, which we publish Ude
evening, tell. the remainder of the story. UMW
eonable and unfair as the Austrian proposition has
been pronounced to be by every statesman in that
Horne of Commons, it has been orged with the fall
force of the English name, and it has succeeded t
" In order to give to Europe a proof of her desire
`• remove the diMcultiee which delay the meeting of
" a Congress, Sardinia yields to the demand of
" England and France, and accepts the principle of
" disarmament, the details of which she will leave to
" be discerned in the Congress."
The demand of " England and France." We have
seen how much France has had to do with it.
France has recommended Sardinia to siva way,
simply beanie Lord DERBY chose to make her
armaments an excuse for the refusal of Austri► to
enter the Congress. We congratulate Lord DER',