The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-18 00:00:00

of the etrieteret whereon of statement: With

every friend of humanity we shall rejoice it Mi-

aisters should be able to tel as that biotin-is:al aata-

gonisme, antipathies of race, the pride of military
strength, and the jealosa ameeptibilitim of opposi-
tion, have given way before the coin of Christianity
and men, sad that Europe unanimouily admits
that in the affairs of Italy no interest is so great sv
that of the Italians. Bat experienos teaches as to
moderato oar expectations. For the last three months
the Power from which conceisaion must proceed if

war is to be averted has receded farther and further

from a recognition of its duties, and the latent mani-
festation of the disposition of Muria is a document
in which no rights are acknowledged but those of

the despotic Men of Italy immorally to *ppm* their
people at home and to combine to aid one another

In ao doing.
It is announced, on mast respectable authority,
that the meeting of the five Great Powers to consider
the affairs of Italy in a Congress in delayed by •
preliminary difficulty, ceased by a preposition lade
by Austria. This Power seeds • gamma ilimarmarat
a condition precedent of bur estrange into a Negras.
Let as examine this peepatal, •ad um trbatbar it

is consieleat with a einOen; desire to meet the other

Powers, se was not rather purposely made for trice-

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A gees& disarmament is a pledge that there
shall be se mu. Austria, occupying a panty &fu-
gue pceitioo, ►aving nmhing to gab, sad wry math
to lose by bostilitise, naturally daises be ruses e the
danger. But that danger has not grura ap without
muse. For many years put the mugs whip/
&edible has endured at the hands of Mist& have
ben urged in vino, and the people of that country
have endued a load of taxation which is becoming
intolerable. Now that Austria we armies arrayed
in her front her loge grows more smogant than ever,
sad she &climes to listen in &Congress to any MOM-
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stream scathet ►r useseatiles i• Italy Mtn the
hems which hare teen es weed In the MON Of jars-
tie* and liberty hays be.. elsemsed. Est the
Powers which, after years of vain resionetrame saL
is the cam of Sardinia, at &minimums smatisr, bum
toessulated them foam omeeirs that it igeospeols-
rose that they should be asked to destroy the mails
before the Mat guarantee has bees gives that the
sad shall be obtained. The danger of war having
been removed. patient Austria would be happy to ob-
lige Franc* and Sardinia with any amount of im-
potent diseassios, and by that passive resistance in
which she has always excelled would prolong and
wiedires the present intolerable state of akin
throughout Italy.
No such proposition as that now insisted on
•eeeesary. The peaceful deliberations of the Cos.
gems would have been eofficiently secured if Frame,
Austria, and Piedmont had consented to arrange, as
surely they would have been reedy to do, that the
prim should not be broken during its continuance. It
might farther have hem made part of the arrangement
that the troops of Sardinia and Austria should be
respectively withdrawn to a certain distance from
the common frontier, so as to prevent the
possibility of accidental collisions. Of course
we shall be told that sas► en arrangement
would hare involved a proloseethie of the ruinous
war expenditure of Austria in Lombardy, which, it,
is asserted, bean at the pressed inement to the ex-
peaditure of this time last per disproportion of
21 to I. This is • very grave soosideratioc, doubt-
less ; but if the jammed war expenditure presses
heavily upon Austria, a Great Power, having
• population of 40000,000 seeds, how mast the
maintenance of the Sardlaisa army weigh upon the
15,000.000 people of that monarchy Sardinia might
with reason complain, and has complained in solemn
state papers to be found in every European chancery.
of the neomity which the systematic antagonism or
Austria imposes on her of keeping up an army out of
proportion with her revenue and population. But
desirable as *redaction of expenses would be on both
side.. on financial grounds, the mere ez isteece of extra-
ordinary armaments cannot in candour be alleged as
any reason for avoiding a Congress, which might be
held under a common promise to abstain from
hostilities during its continuance.
hot the proposal to maks a general disarming the
condition of • Congress is not only unreasonable arid
unnecessary, it is impracticable. The armies of
France and Austria are maintained on a sad* calcu-
lated for their position as Greet Powers, and with
reference to all the liabilities which that position
entails. Austria has so swims intention of Mains
the, army which confronts Russia, represses Hew