The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1859:

met the teepee& settlement established by the
Treaty of IBIS.
If ALEXANDER 1., the head and chief of the Holy
Alliance, resisted Austrian designs on the territorial
integrity of Piedmont, and Austrian designs on the
political neutrality of the independent States of
Italy, within one year after the Treaty of Vienna,
*hat will be the initiative of the liberal and reform-
ing ALEXANDER IL in the Congress of 1869, when
the grievances of Austria are confronted with
the designs of Piedmont? If, within one year
after the ratification of the Treaty of 1815,
Austria was implicitly accused of tampering
with its stipulations, with what grace can Austria
come forward de son tort in 1859 to demand the strict
observance of the faith of treaties on her own behalf
exclusively Signor FARINI, armed with the
royal archives, which, no doubt, like the little boys'
fists in Dr. Warrs' verse, were never meant to tear
the eyes of diplomatists, proves to demonstration that
the " modern theories of public law " which Count
BUOL severely imputes to Sardinia have been lite-
rally not the theory only, but the practice of Austria,
from 1816 to 1848, and from 1848 to the present
day. Let us listen for a moment to the doctrine of
one of the most eminent Professors of international
law and diplomatic morality that ever debauched
the conscience of kings and scourged the happiness
of nations. In January, 1821, Prince Marramts,
writing to the Duke of MODENA, excuses himself in
this wise :—" If in July last Austria had only bad
" upon the Po a disposable armed force of 20,000
" men, we should immediately have caused them to
" move upon Naples; we should doubtless have
" extinguished the revolt ; and the world
" would hare applauded our success, as in
" the long run it always applauds every success."
Who would have thought that a Myrrnixica could
be so naff in his cynicism ? Probably the despatch
of which Signor FARINI cites an authentic copy was
not meant for public criticism ; Austrian notes are not
usually composed in so debrailie a style; but as a
specimen of the moral philosophy current in the
keries of Vienna the words we have italicised
n inestimable contribution to public opinion on

the Italian question.
In Tuscany, at Naples, in Parma, in Modena, in
the Legation', in the Marches, at the Vatican,
Austria has exercised a constant moral, and an
almost continuous military intervention ; she has
treated the text of the Treaty of Vienna as musical
composers treat a theme for variations; she has
violently protested against, if not forcibly put down,
all attempts to introduce civil reforms; again and
again she has declared that she would rather go to
war with Europe than suffer liberal institutions to
exist in her neighbourhood ; and when we find Prince
METTERNILIi in 1830 regretting that he could not
march on Paris to extinguish constitutional Govern-
ment on the Continent once for all, we are at no loss
to conceive the satisfaction with which Count BUOL
serenely contemplates the policy of Count CAVOUR.
It is not because a little State with a population of
five millions, squares its fists and cries " come on,
that a power like Austria is uneasy and incensed;
it is because the free institutions happily and
securely established in Piedmont poetess an inherent
force of expansion and a vital faculty of assimilation
which all the bayonets of Austria can neither pre-
vent nor control.
It is the Sardinian, as opposed to the Austrian,
system that gives all Italy a share in the destinies of
Piedmont, and to Piedmont a share in the destinies
of all Italy. It is the Sardinian system that
must be disavowed or sustained by England at the
Congress.

be court.

OSBORNE, MARCIE 23.

Her Hajesty'd dinner party yesterday evening in-
cluded the Duchess of Kest, the Princess Alio', Lady Foamy
Howard, Captain the Hon. J. Denman, and Colossi F.

A Cabinet Council was held at five o'clock yesterday
afternoon at the official residence of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers
preeeut were:—The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon.
B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of
Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwick., Mr. Secretary
Sotheron-Estcourt, the Earl of Malmesbury, General
Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakingtoo, and Lord
Jahn Manners.

A d•potation from the parish of All Hallows. Harkins, in
the city of London Union, roaring of Mr. T. Turnbull and
Mr. J. Ring (churchwardens), Messrs. B. Corooran, J.
Young, jun., W. Oarreq, H. W. Ward, C. C. Corner
(sOicitor), and O. Cre•too (vestry oink), had an interview
with the Right Hon. the liar) of March yesterday, at the
ofil,e of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall.
A deputation from the Greed Junction Canal Company
and the Duke of Bridgewatet's Trustees had as interview
with Lord Loraine yesterday, at the alike of the Board of
Trade. The cl.puta,ion coosiated of Mr. Or. Anderson
(chairman), lion. Philip Pleydell Barer* M.P., Admiral
the Hon. Arthur Duncomte, M.P., Mr. John Gordon Robots,
Mr. Cheeks Roars (gemetegy), Hem. Alger= Ere-
ton. and Mr. Pereday tl
Despatches was slat from the Colosial-emus yesterday to
the Governors of the settherate on the West Coast of Attics

Viscountess Palmerston had a brilliant assembly
lad crating at Cambridge Hones. Pmioaely to the seam-
My the noble viscount and viscoaatass entertained at dinner
the Countered Shaftesbury sad Lady Victoria Ashley, Lord
and Lady &alley of Alderley, Lad sad Lady Karla Ash-
ley, Load Sadeley, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood,
the Right 800. William Cowper, M.P., sad Mrs. Cowper,
the West Roe. R. Vernon Smith, M.P., earl Mtn. Smith,
the Right Hos. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Mr. R. W.
Grey, M.P., Hr. Charles Cliffosd, M.P., &o.
The Countess of Hardwick* was " at home " last
evening at the family macsioa In Portmen.smare.
The Marchioness of Downshirs had an assembly
on Tumdry sight, at the Canny 11111111d012 In Itolgtave-eqsare.
. .

Major-General the Right Hon. J. and Lady Alice
reel Marked a distingrestred circle at dinner last evening
at the family mansion in Park-place, 81. James's.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Smyth Vereker received
at dinner yesterday, at their residence in Clinker's-plan,
the Earl and Countess of Erroll, the Casale's of Bongoes
sad Lady Lades Cony, Viscount Ranelagh, Lord Reties-
dale, 84 Cornwallis mad Lady Caroline Ricketta, Lord and
Lady Elitank, Colonel and Mra. Hogg, Mr. and Mies Vin-
cent, 84 Henry Connell, and Mr. Woodford. •
The Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsford were
hoeoured by the company at dinner last evening of their
royal bight:ewe the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess
Mary at the noble sod inroad lord's family residence in
Eaton-square. Their royal highnesses arrived at eight
o'ciock, at•endd by Lady Augusta Cadogas and Lieutenant

. . -
Colonel Home naves. There wen present to meet the
royal gas-te his e:oslleucy the Premien Minister and the
Coaster Bemotorff, his excellency H. 'Van de Weyer, the
Earl and Cockatoos of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley, the
Berl of Hoidwicke sad Lady Elisabeth Yorke, the Ertl of
EUealorouah, the Hall of Carnarvon, the Hon. Frederiok
Lyn, ke. The royal dacha* sad princess retired shortly
before eleven o'clock.

The Right Hon. W. E. Gladetooe, M.P., and
MN. Gleams*, entertained at d last erestag, at
unit resides°, on Carlton HOSee-terrete, the Neapolitan
exiles Signor Settembrini and Signor Speventa. There 'sere
also present the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Earl a
Carlisle, the Earl of Sonthesk, Lord and Lady Overages',
the Right Hon. Jaynes Stain Wortley, Sir Walter and
Lady James, Mr. E. Ellice, M.P., and Mrs. Elite,,
Limits, and Mr. Pan;:zi. A select circle attemlaid later
fa the evening, several of the Neapolitan gentlemen helm
farm the visitor,.
We learn that the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
MX., will take the chair at the anniversary dinner of the
Loyal Literary Fond, aaed for Wednesday, the 18th of May
seat.
The anniversary festival of the Royal General
Tbearkal Fund will 1,, held on the 18th of mat swath,
Mr. Charles Mathews in the chair.