The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVE4ING, APRIL 9,

deuce in the people, such an union. will not
difficsl. Buil if the " "bagmen *ma-
!.stancee P Ohl& mermd the• last election are
Ist be remelted— if mien are to be accepted
upon the men unmeaning and empty professions Of
'Moralism, ti followers of this or that noble lord, the
result will be treble confusion for the Liberal party
in Parliament, and increasing distrust throughout
the country. Them warnings are not given without
reason. Let any one look at the election addressss
of professed Liberals which now teem from the
press, and he will find a warmth of indignation and
a sentimental enthusium and declaration of un-
bounded confidence in particular men, employed to
veil the vaguest of political faiths. It is in the
power of electors to protect themselves from delusion
by these artifice,. The new Home of Commons is
to be elected to pass a Reform Bill, and the question
to be asked of every candidate should be, not—What
man willyou eall master? but—What are you prepared
to do in Parliament for Reform P

Tan Great Powers have an unusual pressure of
work to contend with at this critical moment in the

history of Europe. They have to ratify the political

and administrative union of the Danubian Princi-
palities in the teeth of an abortive settlement
scarcely eight months gone; to make up their
minds whether, if at all, a Congress on the affairs of
Italy is to meet, and what it is to settle ; and Wit not
least, they have, by the instrumentality of telegrams
from all points of the compass, between this and the
beginning of next week, to furnish that great pacifi-
cator, Mr. Dtsualtu, with the materials of an elec:

tEoneering come for the constituencies of the United
Kingdom. Just as Lord PAEKEnstoN was about to
rise in his place, about half-peat fear p.m. yesterday,
to fire a conical hiterpellation at the Treasury
Bench, and to express his anxiety on behalf
of the active•minded population of Tiverton in por-
tion's:, and nobody in general, to learn the position
in which this country stands, whether as negotiator
or as mediator, towards Foreign Powers, the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was observed to glide to
the table, and in the suavest conversational tone to

request the noble lord to desist from his inquiries, on
the ground of inconvenience to the public interest,
with the assurance that he would make a complete
official statement ors rotund* on Monday or Tuesday
seat. If this was not to spike the 'Merton gun, at
all mats it was to draw the charge, and Lord PAL-
=MOW politely shouldered arms ; bat it was sug-
gested by Lord Jons RessELL, and assented to by
Mr. DISPAILI, that the " complete statement" to be
made on Monday or Tuesday should be in the form
of a motion, and be open to " some observations.°
We must therefore be content to consume our own
smoke for another day or two, sad to wait for the
third chapter of Mr. DISRAELI'S Romance of Peace,
of which the first was the simultaneous evacuation
of the Papal States by the French and Austrians,
and the second was Lard COWLEY'S mission of con-
ciliation, " without any instructions whatever," to
Vienna,

In the meantime we have something more sub-
stantial to ruminate than them ambiguous Foreign-
office entrees. Seven or eight weeks since Lord
NIAMILIIIIIJILT, it seems, invited the Sardinian
Cabinet to draw up for his instruction and
guidance a ' precise and positive report on
the grievances of Piedmont against Austria in
Italy. To this suggestion Coant Caucus responded
with sedulous alacrity ; and the result is now before
u in the shape of a " Memomndum," which enlarges
and enforces, confirms and amplifies, the former
document of a similar nature which the Sardinian
Plenipotentiary presented to the Congress of Paris
in 1866, with the entire salient and adhesion of
Franc* and F.ngland Tb. prwarent M.marainti,,m ie
chiefly conspicuous for its treatment of what we
may call the Lomberdo-Venstian branch of the
Austro-Italian question which was omitted from
the statement of 1856, and we have no difficulty in
giving Lord Materseurte and his colleagues the
credit of having the courage and the honesty to
elicit a frank and full expression of the complaints
of the Italians against Austria, not only " in cons*-
" quince of her relations with the States of Central
" Italy, the abnormal condition of which is admitted
"by all the Cabinets of Europe," but also,
"en account of her domination over the
" provinces which she possesses in virtue
"of treaties." When inhumanity and injustice are
guaranteed by public law, they are commonly acr
muted among the lacerida of polite official scatty,
and it is a refreshing novelty in diplomatic annals to
fled the British Government requesting the Cabinet
of Sardinia to communicate all its ideas on "a
qesetima which cannot be solved without a modi-
" Swipe of existing treaties," es well as "on

" other points" more open to discoation. It
almost justifies the popular belief in progress,
when in a solemn diplomatic Memorandum the great
principles of equity and justice are set above the
text of dynutic treaties in which " the fate of the
" people disposed of woe little regarded," and " the
" precept which modern civilisation proclaims—that
" there is no Government legitimate except that
" which the people accept"—is appealed to as an
axiom of incontestable authority.

Count CATOUR pats separately the two questions
of the condition of the Lombardo-Venetian king-
dom, and the Austrian policy in Centr►l Italy. With
regard to the latter he does but amplify the charges,
and dwells with more particularity upon the facts.
contained in hie Memorandum of '36 and in his re-

cent Circulars. We are happy to find our own con-
tribations to the advocacy of the Italian cause
verified by the authoritative declarations of the
Sardinian Oovernment. Perhaps we have under-
stated rather than otherwise the abuses of Austrian
power within the territory assigned to her by treaty,
and hit wrongful encroachments upon the neighbour-

log States. COCOA CAVOCR demonstrates with un-
answerable cogency the dangerous and undue
moral preponderance of Austria sustained by re-
peated military interventions in Central Italy. He
shows the whole Eastern frontier of Piedmont from
the Alps to the Mediterranean overshadowed by the
Conventions which give Austria the right to occupy
the Duchies " whenever it may be meal to her ewe
" military operations." He denounces Austria inter-
fering with irresistible force whenever the people of
Italy have sought to obtain ameliorations and re-
forms from their own Governments, exerting a ooe-
stant moral pressure and a complete political pre.
poederance by means of a perfect cinranre of @trate-
gelled positions. T►king his stand upon public
law, he charges Austria with broken pledges and
violated engagements, and he protests against the
incitement danger to the national existence of Pied-
mont, and the constant necessity to her safety of
maintaining a defensive force at a ruinous cost. He
therefore Insists " that the principle of non-inter-
"?option should be proclaimed and respected," and
that "in conformity with the letter and spirit
"of the Treaty of Vienna" the domination
of Austria throughout Central Italy should
mese. It will be difficult for any English
Ciewerament to withhold its memt from propositions
se endeniable in feet and es moderate in form.
And it will be difficult to Formulae public opinion in
this emintly that Count CAVOIJR is moved by an all-
- ambition when he asks English statesmen to