The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY SIN(, MARCH 23,

WEST INT9O4IOIiNcE.

•
THE CONGA/M. .
A Perim let* in t7lusßorel of to-day says •
" Count Guam arrived this (Saturday) morning at
6 o'clock, and proceeded to the Hotel do Louvre.
He had an interview with Prince Napoleon, and at
1 o'clock a long conference with the Emperor, a
conference which lasted until kali-pest 3 o'clock.
He then returned to Prince Napoleon. Before
leaving Turin, Count Comm sent to the five
Great Powers a note, in which the Sardinian govern-
ment protests with energy against the exclusion of
Sardinia from the Congress. The note meals the
initiative taken by the Piedmontese plenipotentiaries
upon the Italian question in the Congress of Paris;
and Count Cavour points out that the Great
Powers, in associating themselves with the po-
licy of Piedmont, would assure at once the
triumph of nationality and of order in Italy.
By excluding Piedmont from the deliberations
of the Cooper, the Great Powers would abandon
the fate of Italy to revolutionary influence, and
the King of Sardinia and his government would
then decline the responsibility of the misfortunes
which might arise. Count Cavour, in his interview
with the Emperor, doubtless entered at length upon
the various arguments in the foregoing note."
Mr. Renter has this morning received a telegram
from Berlin, which says :—" The town of Mannheim
has been selected as the place of meeting of the Con-
gress. It is understood here that it will assemble
next month."

We (Daily News) regret to state that our
intelligence from Italy is of a disquieting cha-
racter. The announcement of a Congress,

which is there regarded, erroneously as we trust,
u a combination against the hopes and desires
of the Italian people, has stimulated • movement
which all the prudence of Count Cavour may not be
able loog to restrain, and which, should that patriotic
statesman be weakened or overthrown, would pus
into the hands of the republican and revolutionary
party. An announcement that the Emperor of Austria

had taken a broad and statesmanlike view of the
Italian qusation, and had framed the conditions
upon which he is ready to enter the Congress with
liberality, might lead us to hope for a better result ;
but we are informed on good authority that these
conditions are of a most insufficient character.

SARDINIA AND ENGLAND.

A morning contemporary (the Post) publishes
the following important despatch from Count
Carom. to the Marquie d'Aseglio

TURIN, MAJICH 17, 1869.

IC le Ilaronis,—Sir J. nucleon: is a iota dated the
lath of this south, a copy et which you will find enclosed,
bas oohed me, in the name of hie government, if Sardinia
would be disponi to follow the example of Austria, end to
draws in a formal roamer (as Court 8001, on his put,
geolsred Austria's intention not tr attack Picimnnt, in his
dovetail to Coant Appoityi of the 251 h January) that
Sardis& has no Intention of attacking her powerful neigh-
boor.

Appreciating t►e motives which have leeplrel such a
ems on the part of the cabiast of St. Isms's, we do not
hesitate to answer him with the most perfect frankness, es
we have done a few days since when he asked us to draw up
• sesecreaduen, clew sad precise, of the complaints of
Italy against Austria, end to indicate the means of apples;
a remedy.
I• pursuance of aggressive acts (what other name can we
give theme) c madded by Austria by the concentration
of impodag forces on the Sardinian frontier; by placing on
• war footing the army of Italy; by the conetruotios
sad occupation of new fortifications on ground which does
not belong to bar; by the occupation of the legation.; arid
by the vkdodes of treatios—the government of the ling, az-
tending to the kw of nations, bu a right tlprcp•re to defend
herself against Astir, even by means of arms. England
haplici.ly acknowledged inch a right witen,• abort dare since,
through the land= of her Minister of Foreign Affairs—by
the wegbt of her great authority, by the solemn mesas of
diplornatie action—els coademaed tha unjust masures on-
plo)cd by Austria in evresteriug the estates of Sardioian
subjects ; and agreed that if nadir such circumstances the

dangers of war were peeventul, it resulted from the great
Moderation of the Sardinian government.•
Accordingly, a her Britannic Majesty's government has
enaowledgid the abnormal state of Italy, aid promised t 3
&rands that England would endeavour to And • remedy for
the esti. complained of, the Sardinian goverment, awning
itself of such promisee, sad reserving its liberty of action in
ass Anti:a should abstain fur the future from committing
aggressive acts, is reedy tt, give i•s assurance that it is not
Strain's'. int.ation to attack Austria. And she agrees on
this subject to make a declaratiost the same at that contained
la the despatch of Count Buol, whin, in reality, le =thing
bet long end bitter accetation against Sardiaia sad the
I politics of the cabinet over slick I hove the honour to
preside.
The speeches delivered la larliameat esplaising our poll•
tics, the dispatches and circulars which have been comma-
aicated to the cabinet of Bt. James's, and particularly the
maincvaadans addressed to Beghted and Prussia, is the jus-
tice of which Lord litalmcsbuty entirely agree., esplaia and
justly our conduct 011011 t completely. I think, therefore, I
and not on the present own= refits one by on the argu-
ments whkh Count Boot etcp'oye In his despatch, whisein
►e muscats Sardinia se the real cause of the &bunted con-
dition of Italy.

Such ergetweattesanoe bees try vele' with ow, imputiel
paean who remembers the semis which kayo secuscded
er► other horn the ceauitencentest et the pretest yew.

The military preparstiona continually taken by Austria,
sod poled out In my dispatch of , have all
preceded the justifiable soles of the Sardinian government.
The speech from the threes at the opening of the &Within
parliament was mly prommemid cm the 10th of Janearhaad
yet o■ the 3rd el the same math a new corps Xenia* was
amide* net le Atiehries•ltsly.
Oa loom Aid ma Oaks piers until after Austria bad endm-
mated to segetfabs a mach larger loan In London.
• if we have called out Na eratingast, having Na
sesame at their homer, It wee act until Austria had metered
hew Italian army to be placed oe a complete war footing that
we were convinced that we should Aid ontialma ore loog is
the hos of sus of the largest armies that ever crowded the
soil of Italy.
Them bete form a strange commen'ary en the mei& mo-
lestation' which close the Aestriaa deepetch, and it would
be dlilditit to reconcile there 11, W. the diplomatic note in
qemition, we did aot led the intimate ideas of Austria on the
Italian queriVon.

Coned Boot, after having rapidly ermined, Nut hit point
ef view, tise wrests which have aaecee led eech other since
1818, /Mabee by declaring that if Italy is profoundly agitated,
W the people see liscostented, if the governments have done
nothing to eatiffify the legitimate degree of their sobjecte,
this dl orientates in the view. and spirit of turbulenoe which
liberty bas developed la Piedmont; in fact, availing myself
of Count Boors words, " Thromh the introduction is that
'sway (Piedaseat) of instimtkout, whit's work well when
dry have been developed and roamed by ages, but whkdt do
not ems to be In accordance with the genius, 'Milhous and
social °audition of Daly."
Costal Beal also plate out, as a peinelpel meetly to each
a tuts of thlnp (the grevity of which be des not attempt to
hide), the waited sedan of the gmat powers, to be eureka
with the object of modifying the tnettintines if Piedmont; In
bets by Whig the Reny of Piedmeat—Lombery, Venice,
and the other states of the Peninsula well bums spin
' tranquil.
Without admitting inch a conclusion, saheb, twavinted
that the destruction of the liberal histitatkom of Piedmonts
toothed of sainting peace, would—Um Itallme being re-
dust to despair—result in revolution, still we do not hea-
-1 on to aeltstrwlefge there is mach truth in the thought
which inspired this part of the dispakh of the Austrian
Ithist•r.

The contrast presented by Pkdgoet with the preeimes
assist the dominion of Auatria is to) striking not to produce
a proianad Irritetios is Aostrts. The ming* of Piedmont
proving, contrary to the @walk's' of Cense Beek that the
Italians are susceptible of • liberal and psegsseetive Neese,

• Soo devoid' of Lad Cloiosoksi to fho Manes d'Auglio.