The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY 'EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1869.

meat a treated with contemptuous neglect; while
that of the ruling oligarchy—to get and to keep—
succeeds too well. Between the indolence and volup-
tuousness of their Sovereign and their own rapacity
there is a fatal solidarity which defies all endeavours
for reform. This is the mischief which has invited,
perhaps has induced, the recent conspiracy at Con-
stantiaople. That attempt Las failed, and its parti-
cipators will probably suffer the lot which men who
attack a Government must always expect. Bat the
mischief remains. Oar correspondent predicts that
even in failure the plot will bear good fruit. It is
possible. As a sign that Turkey is not quite dead—ea
a demonstration of a certain energy, knowledge, and
cantonal, the attempt is worth something ; bat unlade
some means are found of redeeming the finances
of the Empire from gross and shameless peculation,
and laying, in a mud administrative system, the
I basis of the great reforms which the Ottoman State
requires, we may look for a recurrence of plots and
conspiracies which may not always end like this.

Tile profession of English foreign policy which
Lord JOHN RUSSELL made at Aberdeen is probably
what everybody expected; but it is not on that
account lees important. While every mail brings us
some tale of diplomatic mystery end invention from
Biarritz or Vienna—some new jugglery for escaping
from that which nature prompt' and justice dictates
—it is satisfactory to be able from time to time to see
that oar Government st►nds immoveable on the road
Haight and Public Law. The noble FOREIGN Sects-
TACT opportunely reminds us that the scheme of the
" balance of power"—that phrase which, founded in
reality and wisdom, has been perverted by tyrants
until it has become odious to freemen—rightly under.
'toad is no more than a means of securing the
isdipendenoe of States. Our Government is not
laxly to set the means before the end. We did not
go to war for an idea, but " the independence of the
" several States of Europe is an object in which
" England ought to feel a sympathy and interest."
It is to the case of the States of Central Italy that
Lord JOHN Rt•+,et,t. applies this language, and it is
well that it should be heard. It is a duty we
owe to ourselves, and to the position we w-
eepy in the world, when we speak to do so
in language worthy of a free people. It will
strengthen the hands of the men who, as we read
yesterday, are exerting themselves at Bologna,
Parma, Modena, and Florence, in the face of
gnat obstacles and amidst much straitness to defend
the freedom they have acquired, to be enured that
this great and powerful nation regards their work
with interest, and rejoices to see an order and
liberty like its own occupying the territory
lately the seat of misgovernment and op.
pension. It is not to discourage those exer-
tions, or to represent them as unneoeuary, that
Lord JOHN RUSSELL declared his opinion that the
decision of the Modenese and Tuscans would not be
reversed by the armed force of Austria. It is wise
to believe profoundly in the morel force of public
opinion, from which not even HAPSBURG obstinacy
can withdraw itself ; but it would be foolish to
tempt the enemy by weakness. There is something
marvellous, something upon which the historian of
this Italian crisis will dwell with fascination, in the
universal and all-pervading power of the national
holing in Central Italy. Every sentiment is purl.
fled or fused in this sacred fire. Passion, party,
tradition, natural impulse, all obey the higher
and dominant law. How strong must this
sentiment be when a people in whose cha.
ratter distrust has hitherto been supposed to be
inveterate, have given the world one of the most
conspicuous and touching examples of faith in on.
another, and in their chosen King, which history
records! Let them nourish this spirit of effort and
sacrifice, and show themselves as energetic as they
are ananimoue, and they will be able to defy the
machinations of a perverted diplomacy.

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