The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-04 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1859.

IMPERIAL PARL LAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—Yarn:lmm

Their lordships re-eisembled for Waimea at fire o'clock.
At that hour there were on the ministerial benches the Earl
of Derby, tho Earl of Ellenborough, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord
Colchester, and many other peers. Among the peers on the
opposition aide of the house were observed the Duke of
Newcastle, Earl Omstrille, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Earl
Grey, Lord Brougham, and Lord Cranworth.

never
that the will et genle—ar de dine gomentnent—ennet
alwitir• ossmay; eel that, in our mis-
time with slur earialsoes he ao moat of right, as we
him se mel at kesean. to Mame with the form of that
ar poem (am, bear.) Bat
ris=l lit le mete erdy—that we ere to
kesk kr the are st emnsta sad alarm It Is Is
deg MUM esa semlog pries mi Italy whir Is
sraglesallis Jormliellea et km ephieul her of
tbs romeer—it is Yens that we an so lea
L the sir awns of Afalasalty. It Is born rams lin
RelsOknit rises to its Wale; mot Is thin that It hr slap
bs man bright that b askeleas to sll the weld dr
If the popular teeing were tot kept down by the
memos of two foreign make, all the Temper
and vetteratiou which have been paid to the sovereign in hie
spiritual capacity would foe peril the ersamew of his
tottering throne, or semi, my companies to Ss roads at
Ws manor ko the week bat ennui eggenima by_whlsh
the grerammat et thee craft
eles.p=arkllL DM re
presence of those suedes is not MOM k maim
or the rim, far the repass at dellsellites ghe Ilbselleest
Itambli4bat kr thesa=objetheiraki arm% stemir
a • milt Is la
the posereeassratheos hire nadir morthrk=t jesisades,
kW the real Imager of swim astearsam lo be lossei.
Una bar than pewees we hoes prommd,wherer
ar ear I de an mesa re avyr mad I mama an ;ar=
ern say swim as la therank ; but ea
bath then porn with all the armselmass et ==r;
bon pessesd the aseaselty of conkey le mean
nirtbetarlditsra=tilli"mirit Pdiargalor wrim-leh
wads, the ',regent system odds. I my that those two
powers are Wand to do this, became they see the two powers
whose snarl jeslowsles have led to this state of danger, and
teams they are the two gnat Roma catholic pores of
lamps and labor nudges, u having local Mama
closely bordarkg aro soak other, and also in being able to
speak with • deem of mthority end tannesce which no
other parr could =Me nes ot, they are obviously the pe-
tite union sad hanacialons action are moet likely to
be effectual with the Papal government. It would be idle
for us—it would be idle for any protestant government to
pretend to interfere, ern ad by vice, la the settlament tithe
affairs of de raped States ; but we have reseed both
Amine and France that it they will join in givieg semi
advice with regard to the conduct of albite In the Roam
States, our best efforts shall not be wanting to
demi theirs in favour of that highly desirable
ohjeA. Then is me ether part of Italy to which I must
allude; I need net say that it as that small, but heroin and
important state—fer more important on that account than
from its gdfinnehital magnitude—the state of Sardinia. It
ham been hitherto • bright spot amid the gloom that sur-
rounds it,—• spot where it has been proved experimentally
that the concerto of a large amount of constitutional
liberty does not impair the loyalty to the sovereign, and con-
tributealargely to the of the country. (Hear, bear.)
And, supported b 7 the of all the free nations of
the world, strong in the 1:01111CiOIIIMOSS of Its own rights and
slits own internal union, one course, me principle, and one
policy, was clearly and plainly the policy which ought to be
pursued by Sardinia. That course was, to confine itself prin-
cipally to internal improvements and the amelioration of the
condition of its own subjects. ear hew.) That principle
was, not to maintain an army roitortionately large to its
Silenced. (Hear, hear.) That policy was, not to trust to the
efforts of an army, however valiant it may tam proved
Itself, but to tenet to the sympathies of the weed at large,
and to trust to the faith of treaties, which it bad never
sought to revoke, it being In possession of its owe dominions
by precisely the same Arles and the arm treaties ea both
Austria and Naples. (Hoar, heir.) Such was the obvious
policy of Sardinia; sad by each a policy, in strong and
glowing wettest to other less free goveramenti, she might
have set en example cf =dueled, sad of &mem and of
orestitntional prosperity which should shame the most des-
potic governments, aid lad them not to seek to put her
down, but to endeavour to imitate the testers of the entree
the hid pursued. (Heir, hear.) It may be that those go-
vernments might be so shamed by the contrast between the
discontent of their own subjec's and the prosperity mad hap-
pima, dthe Sordid= Mica as den the system
of government which throw* so steam • light
upon the errors of their own system; but, my
iords, if there was one this; which could fetidly
affect the public estimation in which free institutions see be-
ginning to Do held in Italy—if theta me one tiring which
should withdraw from Sardin• thatsympatby to which lei
entitled, and which has been largely bestowed upon he
more especially in this country—it would be a feg that
her free imitations were not tending to the promotion at In-
ternet prosperity and dome/die peace, but were encomeglag
wart ke preparations and amorous upon its se abhor ea
the plea of preventing invastoe. (Hear, hear.) It is to •
,pint of the sincerest tr endahip for Sambre, and et the
deepest ieterest fur her real welfare, that we coind bat look,
and have looked with anxiety and have expressed that
anxiety, upon the atti tide which of late she appears dY-
posel to take—inconsistent alike with her int ere t, with her
duty to satiety at loge, and with the mainternee of that
sympathy and that regal which bee I.te conduct his ob-
tained for ter throughout the civilised world. This advice
end these r. n. not once but over and over again, bee
been upon iardinia. I trust that it may not be too
/Me, even now, for bar to re:molder the mune upon which
she has amused,. entered. Those were ominous eerie
which fell from the lips of the Ring of Sardinia ; and word.,
In such a state of things, falling from royal lip'', have a') the
potency sad the influence of acts. But I trust that Sardinia
will be butt r advised. I trust that she will reconsider the
coarse upon which she is apparently about to enter. We
have the strongest assurance on the put of Au-tria—and I
have every Heron to believe that assurance—that she ham not
tern slightest intention of interfering with the internal con-
cerns of tie dominions of any of her neighbors; that she
intends to confine herself strictly within treaty obligations.
and to the improvement of her own dominions. And so long as
that is the real intention of Austria, Sardinia is most ill-ad-
deed in continuing preparations which may involve her
in an unjustifiable wry, and which at all events cannot
bet be veriously injurious to her internal pros-
perity. (Hoer, hear.) Bat them is a greater evil.
It is impossible to believe that Sardinia, whose power is emu-
paralively weak as impeited to that of Austria. e4l venture
upon a struggle. upon whatever policy, and with whatever
hope., which could but result in her own disentriture, unless
she thought that she could rely upon external aid. To no
country for that external aid can she look except to France •
and I cannot bring myself to believe, looking at the manifest
intertets of France—reeking at the seguety, and prudence,
and, Mt me add, at the loyal adherence to the faith of
treaties, which have hitherto dreamt deed the ruler of that
groat nation—(hear, hear)—l cannot believe, under any dr
contemn..., unless it be that provocation and repression
took piece on the part of Austria, that ho would sanction en
the oat of Sardinia, even by hi. moral support, .till lees by
his military appliances, an unjustifiable and eggreseive wee
ant 'taken by Sardinia la violation of treaty and without pro-
vocation Iron Amide. (Hear.) I do firmly trust and sineseely
hope that the Emperor of Franca will still resist tn that
wife, rodent, ant loyal coarse which he has hitherto par-
sued. We have reprise nied to him in friendly, but interment
teem, the importance of exercising rte wired forbedence
in every respect in any difference which he may have with
Austria; and, above all, of abstaining from holding out to
Sardinia any exportation of assistance from France in case of
an agmerve war. And unlem I have wholly 'Asunder-
mood the rematch. we have received, we have tbe assurance
from his Imperial Majesty that so long as Austria wanes
herself within her own limits Sardinia moat not expect from
France any antimatter in an unjustifiable war. (Hear. hear.)
My lords. every consideration combines to make this the in-
terest, and consistent with the honour of Sardinia. It
cannot lie forgotten with what satisfaction universal
Swipe hailed that memorable declaration of the
Emperor of Franee—" I: empire cleat la plus." That
expression reemmded throughout Europe; rud it was
to him and to France worth mote than thentsedifof bayonets
and minium of ready. It rernatared lbs moolidates of
Hump*, and tended ti carton Ili stability of his own
dynasty. It n seared trade and promerlty, andmeted the
tetanal improvement of Franca, of if, unfortunately dr
mrtern from math a noes-, he should now Red as people of
Europe to terve that those sentiments were altered—that is
the now empire we were again to see renewed the lad d
universal conquest and &manioc —if Emote had roma
to suspect that there was any design of tlacieg open the
different thrones of Italy subordleate sovereigns connected
with himself by alliances, and thereby to Mtrodaire that dan-
',tons system, the introduction of which ultimately lei to
the fell of the great Napoleon, be would have shsken the
o,nfidiesee of Europe in the sincerity of his dock:urns.
But ha would have done more than awaken sue-
piciou abroad, he would have dean what would
tend to destroy credit at Mmes. (Mar, boar.)
There have been indinelans, and so far most satisfactory in-
diearions, upoe the pad of France a. open the pert of the
wield at large, with bow much reluctance they would see a
war eared into upon any ground ; and how awiously wart
int rime a with than dem arie and p.c. ful pursuits tt which
!emptily the cominn s of Europe, nod nu country in r. than
France, have of late ye us been devote l. There cinbe no
demand fee gl ry on the part of the French army; of IVOry
they have Mid, and have enough and to spa.. And it
would be lamentable indeed if the id- a of employ's( those
legions which have so often triumphed—employing them
giatuitonsly upon a war for the purpoes of adding frail
laurels to those tbey have steady game', should overbear
the arderat one of policy, interest, ad go 4 fate which
hare hereto kept Franco loyally sad &tidally within the
conditions of her troities. I wilt sot believe—whatevea may
by the imperil. to Ear ipe—that the Emperor of Frotee
will entr upon so chneer.us a coarse. I cannot believe
that he will do so, with too greet a Make in the int asts of
that country, and the interests a that dynasty, whose main-
tenancecannot be more eneetuallyeecured than by the
.preva-
lent* of continued peace and continued prosperity an }rears.
(Hear. hen.) But my lords, if, unhappily, a different
course be ptesuot—if, notwithsuarthr the friendly etiuts of
her Majesty a government, both with France Austria, and
Seedinis—some emotions which I really Itiow not how to