The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-04 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 4.

TM. letter which we publish to-day from our
corresponslent at Turin (whose infonnation, as our
readers are by this time aware, is seldom at fault)
will be read with anxious interest by every friend
of Italy in is country where the fnends of Italy
sue the public. We have for several days past
abstained (non any passing continent upon the
rapid succf ...ion of events ui the South of the
Peninsula, which even the telegraph has been
obliged to report intermittently, between sullen fits
of oil •race and nislignsuit puffs of rumour. It was
hardly worth while to shake the rotten fruit from
a tree noildifig to its fall. In truth, in any grand
catastrophe there is something that demands re-
spect ; even in the retributive agility of the wretch
who suffered fur his crime this morning there is an
appeal to human pity, and the headlong ruin
of a dynasty steeped in cruelties and scarred
with perjuries astonishes and saddens by the very
force of contrast. The triumphant march of
II eel BALCI to the capital of the Neapolitan king-
dom is ,-noligh to persuade tyrants of the living
presence of Divine justice in this world ; it is not
only the collapse of an infamous throne, but the
•aikeunig of an entire people to national life.
This is not an ordinary political revolution, a riot
unrel•n•.scd, a Snvere-gn put to flight, a Govern-
ment dismissed ;it is more like the break-tip of a
pack of :re in the stillness of an Arctic winter; it is
dissolution, disruption ; • rumbling, a crash, a
o*eisinig here and there, an upheaviug all around;
one moment an icy prison, the next a bursting and
buoyant numenaity of waters, hurrying all relent-
lessly away.
Count Csvot.e, who for the last six months has
been the second best abused man in Europe, has
once more vindicated the rare acuteness and fore-
sight of his statesmanship, by seizing at • glance
the fuoinent for vigorous and decisive action.
Battled and battered by diplomatic warnings on
one aide, and by factions excesses on the other ;
assailed for his caution by irresponsible patriots,
and for his revolutionary sympathies by despotic
Powers ; unwilling to sacrifice his country or his
cause to alien exigencies ; unwilling to compromise
Isith by suffering rashness to prevail, the PRIMA
31INIKTLit of the Italian kingdom has held his pru-
dent and unswerving course right on against
calumny, menace, and intrigue ; heedless of the
idle breath of popular applause, tenacious of his
purpose, confident and calm in his resolves. To
take the happy metaphor sent us from Turin,
Count Csvide has navigated the State committed
to Ins care through a channel strewed with wrecks,
and choked with sunken rocks, without for •
moment losing his presence of mind. True, be
has had to throw overboard a precious part of a
sabiable cargo to save the rest ; but it was in dire
extremity, no other aid at hand. It were
an injustice, from which this pest Minister
may securely appeal to history, ti forget
that it is to his masterly policy that Italy owes
her life to-day ; to the Minister who sent • Pied-
montese contingent to the Crimea, and represented
Italy in the Cosigreas of Paria, it is des that Italy
Muse% and has her being as a nation, with an
anuy, a navy, • parliament, a flag, a constitution,
a throne, and a tiaataW.l. For if • C.% VOCK had
not built up an Italy ion the North, there would
now be nu Italy in the South to tight for. Honour
to the stainless patriot hero ! Iliinour to the high-
hearted and strong-willed statesman ! Let the
sectaries remember that disunion is a bad ear-
nest (.4 unty, and that tie it strife is a pour weapun
aganist the women envilly.
The ammo of intien inset which the Cabinet of
Tutus is now entering has the double merit of
sew:mess and opportunity. The position of the
Piednimitese Goveniment, though it could scarcely
hail' lii .is alfallacil with safety a alt.lllCat simmer,
was lieeonting almost as intoh i.alile in its own eyes
as 111 the eyes of other Powers. An alliance with
the Hiss maw* dynasty at Naples would have been
simple suicide ; a positive rejection of that alliance
would hare looked newe like raps, ity than self-
denial. Common s•anw and the well-cousidered
inter•ste of Italy alike mime:faded Count C %sot a
to wait. But when the Two :a.•ilies had the
dared for Eats, Vst LL 111 the pc min
of his heroic Lieutenant, to sLauilini
N Oise for a single day to the liar•r& of a military
insurnetios, or to the Raunchy of factious, would
iw to pale the way for [ensign intereention.
Now the very terms on which Famous 11. had
awl prayed for the friendship of Piedmont
tassel toe catechism of 31irrra:k ice in which