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TIZ Emperor of Aorrau, having bidders ass of
his wrench' to cress the Ticino, against their better
judgment, it is said, and to invade Piedmont. bee
ordered others of them to justify the aggression
the molt is Count BuoL'a despatch, dated April
29. Diplomacy has not been able to procure for
itself the privilege which certain Belgian journals
claim and exercise —that of varying its utterances
asooriling to their destination, and preparing one edi-
tion of rime. f.r Munich, end another of a different
ereeplizion for Londoo. Were it otherwise, we Can-
not doubt th a the feelings of philo-Austrians
among in would have been consideved, sod the
English public spited • composition which will
only be generally appreciated in communities hewed
by the education of the missal and the stick. The
hiatelaapers by which the ministers of despot/0 efts-
reigns defend act, that challenge the esaissen of
mankind mast always find uncongenial readen ha '
a nation taught from hammy to regard the geed of
the people as the cause, the end, and the justifies-
Don of every legitimate government. One hes I.
put off the Englishman, and for a time painfally re-
mosses principles and maxims which see put of
earselvee, before one can even understand composi-
tions of this class. Nevertheless, a comprehensive
study of European tastes, aided by a natural versa-
tility. his often enabled a NessELnuot or a Pout,
DI BORG° to appeal with considerable success to the
public opinion of the west of Europe. Co. Set BCOL
takes no pains to conciliate that opinion. He defies
it as openly as he dares, and denounces it as a
" moral insurrection."

It is in vain to attempt to reason on the details of
the indictment which the Foreign Minister of
Austria prefers against Piedmont, when the radical
opposition and incompatibility of their two systems
of government, and the profound necessity which has
forced them into collision, is apparent in every line
of the COCST'S despatch. Thus, although it would
be easy, by appealing to Lord DERBT'S last speech,
to convict the CorNT of a mean equivocation when he
tries to shale from Austrian shoulders the responsi-
bility of rejecting the proposals of peace, It is not
worth while to do so. We do not much blame either
Austria or Piedmont in this matter. Each fights for
a principle which it holds sacred—Austria foe bee
right to nuke alliances with the Princes of Italy
against the people of their States, conspiring with
them to keep their subjects down ; and Piedmont,
for the right of the people to have • voice in their
own affairs without drawing down upon them-
selves the sword of a RADICTZKY cc • Havnac
as often as that right is exercised. When
questions of this magnitude are in dispute, and when
no powerful mediator interposes with authority pre-
pared to guarantee to both parties the advantages 14
return for which they are willing to make conces-
sions, war may indeed be delayed by secideot►l
ceases, but it can only be finally tented by the abject
submission of the weaker party.
The policy of the Cabinet of Turin, which Count
num attacks, may be summed up in the demand
which it has never ceased to urge, that the inde-
pendent States of Italy may be freed from Austrian
domination. Count Scot says Austria had • right—
"a sacred right"—to interfere, "foe the commas
"defence of their legitimate interests;" and if people
have just so many rights se the VAITALS and
BYPIEZISHOLKS have been good enough to tr
member to write down foe them, we believe his
argument is unanswerable. Hat Count Cavor•, the
Minister of a constitutional State, has admitted
that doctrine. lie has claimed for Parmese, Ma-
dura", Tuscans, and all other Italians the right to
come to a free understanding with their rulers me to
the quality of the government under which they
are to live. It happened that in so doing he could
appeal to the treaties of 1813, which constituted those
States independent ; bat this is nothing but an inci-
dental advantage. The conduct of the Sardinians in
concerning themselves for those lesa (around
Italians who needed their help wants no pretext de-
rived from trawies ; it is no more than the right and
duty of • free people towards their kindred and
neighbour,. We care not what may be said to the
contrary by the interpreters of a system of public
laws framed to support dynastic interests and to
sanctify dynastic po.icy. It is the people alone who
can legitimate a government.

Asstria understands perfectly well the principin
which underlie Count CAvoca's entire procedure at
the Coogan@ of Paris. sad ever since. The EMI./ 501
and hie Ministry see that those prineipkw mast
be rooted out of the minds of the people, or Austria
will
Alps, much lees absorb the Duchies, to which she
Ise some reversionary claims. Let the public say
how those principles would agree with the doctrines
taught in the following ossager, which we ee.recr
from a catechism issued by authority c.em ono of
the imperial printing presses at Milan, and ordered
for uss in the Government schools :

" How roust 'objects behave towards their So-
" vertigo ?

" Subject, meet behave towards their Sovereign
" like faithful slaves towards their master.
" Why mast subjects behave like slaves ?
" Became their Sovereign istlwir muter, and has
" power over their property as well as their life.
" Are eabiecta bound to obey bad Sovereigns Mae?
" Ye; oubjecto ere bo-oid to obey not only good,
" bat also bad Sovereigns."