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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18.

IT is a circumstance which should encourage the
friends of Austria that the relations of the empire to

Italy, and especially to Venice, can at length be
treated dispassionately, and in a broad, statesman-
like spirit, in journals published at Vienna. The
article which we translated yesterday from the
Presse of that capital, and which we are informed
has been well received by the public, is, to the best
of our knowledge, the first of its kind that has
appeared in an Austrian newspaper. Nothing is
so much needed, in order that the work of framing
a settlement of the Italian question may be ap-

proached with a fair prospect of success, as the
attainment by the public men of Austria of a calm,

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clear view of the nature and extent of the real in-
terests of their country in Venice. Nowhere out
of Austria are the existing relation/ of the empire
to Venice regarded as permanent, and the world,
which confidently, if patiently, waits for their in-
terruption, asks wistfully from time to time
whether it is possible that the Imperial Govern-

went does not command the services of states-

• men capable of transferring this perilous quer-
tion from Italy to Vienna, and solving it
in the interest of European peace, the greater

security of the Austrian Empire, and the happi-
ness of the people most deeply concerned in
its settlement. We should gladly welcome any

sign of a readiness to take this wise course. Whe-
ther the article in the Presse represents the ideas of
a Minister, or merely a tendency of free public
opinion, we are glad to see it, although it is little

more than a statement of the point from which
further discussion must proceed. Our Vienna
contemporary asks why the continual strife be-
tween Austria and Italy should not now give place
to a lasting peace between the two States. He
points out that King Vicrou. EMMANUEL doesnot,
like Prussia, maintain a rivalry with the Emperor
of AUbTRIA in a field where each might hope inde-
finitely to extend his acquisitions ; and he reasons
truly. The right of Italy to belong to herself is a
principle now universally accepted in Europe.
Austria has retired from her old policy of assert-
ing a voice in the general affairs of Italy, and holds
her position in Venice merelyto defend her honour,
her military frontier, and her treaty-rights. The
time has come for looking broadly at the consi-
derations involved in these several subjects. Europe
respects the susceptibilities which have not per-
mitted the Austrian Government to listen to pro-
posals urged in a tone of menace, and knows too
well the value of national sentiment to desire to
see it wantonly violated. But at the same time it
looks to Austrian statesmen, hoping to see them
disengage the honour of their Sovereign from
the maintenance in Venice of a state of things
on which the eye cannot rest without sadness and
disapproval. Two generations have passed away
since Venice was bound to Austria, the victim of
one of the blackest acts of treachery that stained
an age of perfidy and %iolence, and still its people
are as far as ever from being united to their rulers.
The Austrian Government and people are ready,
we firmly believe, to do or consent to anything to
promote the welfare of the Venetians under the
government of the EMPEROR. But in vain. That
fair land,

The pleasant place of all Festivity,
The Revel of the Earth, the Mask of Italy,

is a scene of desolation and decay. The Venetians
demean themselves as captives ; and you might as
well call upon the inmates of a prison to rouse
themselves to gaiety as ask them for manifestations
of energy and public spirit in industry, commerce,
literature, art, or political life. Constituted as
Europe is, and animated as are its people with
modern ideas of liberty and national independence,
this state of things must inevitably be a source of
weakness to Austria while it continues. The spec-
tacle of Venice for a long time cut off the govern-
ment of Austria from the sympathy of the world,
and tends incessantly to repress the revival
of that good feeling towards it which so
much in the recent history of the Empire is cal-
culated to kindle. While Italy was distracted and
divided, without either help or hope, and while
each of its petty States had besides its domestic
ruler a patron and protector beyond the Alps,
disinterested spectators cared little whether this
duchy or that kingdom was virtually ruled from
Paris or Vienna ; but now that Italy has a national
Government any power which should deliberately
resolve under all circumstances to prevent a portion
of the Italian people from joining their fortunes to
those of their brethren occupies, a position in which
it can have no support in the moral sentiment of
the world. Apart from the retention by Austria
of a territory and people which are declared by the
voice of nature to belong to Italy, there is no reason
whatever why the two Governments should stand in
antagonism to one another. The ordinary spheres of
their life and action, although proximate, are dis-
tinct ; they are made to be good neighbours, mu-
tually useful to each other, and not deadly rivals.
Settled in the possession of the whole national ter-
ritory, the Kingdom of Italy would be bound by its