The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-05 00:00:00

LONDON, MO.VDA Y. MARCH &

TIM French Government conceives that "the time
has come when it should explain itself with per
feet frankness;' aid 'media/1y U.Thoneasm.,
in the despatch to Baron TALLETILILND, hie
undertaken to " state without mom the
. idea of the Ehraaoa's Government" ro-
spectiog the political 'statement of Ceatral Italy.
We may hops, then, that we have sow the last of
those ingenioto, bat ephemeral schemes which NA-
rottom 111. has taken so mach pains to construct for
a people who have hitherto had the bad taste to sup-
pose that they understand the dangers and the per
Masities o' their common country better than they
can be understood ty the heat-intentioned neighbour.
At any rate, from this time forth the world wil
be able to mirk with precision the points at which
the interests of France and of Italy ars at Paris
considered opposi'e or divergent.
The free people of Northern and Central Italy
haves very vivid apprehension of their situatieu.Thery
ars surrounded by enemies. Before them is Austria,
the permanent, although for the moment the disabled,
champion of •principle fatal to their independents",
entrenched iu the most formidable military position
in Europe, and able to poor her hordes upon the
plains of Lombardy. On the south is Naples, with
• population larger than Sardinia would be even with
Parma and Modena united, and inveterately hostile
to freedom. Is union aloes vas these populations
End safety ; they have wiedoca to see this fact, and
public spirit to make the sacrifices necessary to
attain security. Bat the Emperor of the FRISCH sot
oily opposes their anion by excepting from it this
important territory of Tuscany, but, in consenting to
the annexation of Parma and Piacenza to Piedmont,
bed/minds the surrender of Savoy. Tide would be to
leave Italy weaker than he found her. Eros if
Northern and Central Italy, including Venice, were
united in one kingdom, the power of that State
would not be formidable to France. It is difficult
to refer to the language Of French diplomacy au
this point with the respect dee to a neighbour, sad
we could have wished that • sentiment of self-
respect, if not of respect for Europe, had restrained
the Ehreaoa from alleging by his agents that
France, the greatest military Power in Europe, was
under the necessity of spoiliag a weak neighbour
for her own safety. Tne tact is that if Savoy were to
become French, the kingdom of Sardinia, coustituted
according to M. Tuouz en Ws aketch,woenld be nom.
pleteiy at the mercy of smells influence.
M. Thor reset, is not able to amigo a single rea-
son that will bear handling why the Italians should
eserifiee all t►eir hopes of nationality and indepen-
dence. We feel a sympathetic regret as we read the
coatesed jarg,n in which this poispisosises diploma.
tist,whose luminous and high-Waded despatch to
his solloague at Vienna we had to maniend last
week, finds it necessary to envelope the menage to
Turin, which expresses the later and ism generous
mesela of his master. We are glad, however, tome,
that in taking account of the state of public feeling
in Tuscany, he does not repeat the absurd amostiosts
which are made at Vienna and Rome, mad
allege that the demand for annexation is heti-
Om, the work of l'iedmonteee agents. Is his view
that desire is • osoifestation against Austria rather
than a deliberate inclination towards Piedmont.
Bat, what is this but saying that the population. of
the two states have bees driven together by a sense
of mutual helpfulness P It is oa community of vital
interests and sentiment such as this, and not on notions
of " aataral (rooters" and " geographical Dec:m*4'i-
" tier," that sattone are built up. M. Thouvertzt,
fears that if Tuscany were taken into the Si/filmier'
monarchy the work of assimilation would prove too
strong for her. A..uredly it would, if that union
were to take place against the wish of the
population, and on some Untied" theory, to
redress an imagined balance at Europe, or
provide • military boandary. Bat the Er-
ramie has sot been se sainstrustsl spectator
of the emits of the last eight moths. No ems
knows better than he bow rapidly that essimilatioa
has peogreseed, and that it has beim shill to do so
simply because its advancement was the work slate
people. M. T00t.% ralL feigns that war sad ram-
Istios an likely t 3 some from the goitilleation of tie
wishes of the population, bat he says iet►ing of the
certainty that one or the other, aid the probability
that both, would break out if the hopes of the Its.
liana were now deceived. These is mi help for it

the House of Savoy must rho to the height
of its duties or give place to the Hepabli
can party. The danger" 'et a distils, of
weakness at this widen moment are not
exaggerated in the avulse which the Taiwan
Government has addressed to the Courts of Europe.
" Should Piedmont, from a feeling of excessive and
" ill-calculated prudence, side with diplomacy against
" the opinion sad the aspirations of the people, her
" prestige in Italy and her popularity would be irr•-
" oovorably loot. With the prestige of Piedmont,
" all faith is the assaarchieal principle would die-
" appear in Italy. h periods of such deep import-
" mice, it would be puerile to admit illusions. The
" monarchical sentiment by which the Italian
" peoples are animated has its origin wholly in the
"respect and affection which they bear to the
" dynasty of Savoy. And this respect and affection
" are inspired by the universal and profound
" eosviction that that august dynasty truly and
" courageously represents the national idea. Hence is
"derived its strength and vast authority. Bat hence
" also arises the inevitable necessity of declining
" neither sacrifices nor straggles with the object of
" maintaining so great and noble a position. The
" enthusiastic affection and unlimited confidence of
" Italians towards her would, from the day on which
‘' the Piedmoatess Government was seen to pursue •
" policy which they suspected to be either weak or
egotistical, be converted into totally opposite
" feelings. The very circumstance of the sequin-
, " tion of Lombardy would become the subject of
" terrible recriminations, of which the extreme par-
" ties would take advantage with unwearied ardour,
" The monarchical principle, associated to the na-
" natal idea, would destroy the revolutionary spirit
▪ in Italy, and extinguish all faction."
The intelligens@ we were able to publish on Satur-
day shows that the Piedniontess Government will
not shrink from its duty. It will maintain the rights
of Italians to decide freely upon the form and limits
of their own Government. Our correspondent at
Turin informed oar readies last Wednesday of the
tenor of M. Tnovvr.set's despatch and of the Sardi-
nian reply. In both particulars hie statements are
eoafirmed, as weal, to the letter. The Piedeseetese
Government retains its gratitude to the Emperor of
the Faascn, end would regret to be abandoned by
him ; but it cannot take a retrograde coulee.
The whole adult population of Central Italy are to
be asked to declare, ou Sunday and Monday
next, whether they will be annexed to Pied-
mont or farm part el a separate kingdom, end by the
result of that decision Piedmont will stead. This is
the ealy safe course for Italy, for Sardinia, for
Europe. In the meantime it will be foe the French
KIIPILSOIL to review his policy, and decide before it
is too late with w►om he will take his part, whether
with the free states and peoplealif the world, or with
the legitimate Prince', among whom he must ever
be • hated and suspected stranger.

;WIT OP 7113 MINCE COMORTTO TEE Cl7l'.

Oa Saturday aftsrsoon, but Hard Higbee.' the
Prince Ccatiort, Masada by Cassel Hardhage, proceeded
toes Borkiegbam Palm le the Rigel Ezabsage, m Moped
the resoratioas sad ahtemedeon Nat hays boss sok amber 1
the direction of Ms. Tito, LP., the arehltact, the whale of
the twee. mad pietism la the quadrsughe bowleg Was
seamed ha saammis. The fete of the tree his royal
hiebseee Wag seas paha* a ram crowd had esemebied
test of the seeteesenassonesdessiebeier paean., mete
the direction of Mr. aspirizosodest Hodgson sad Mr. la-
epeceor Mitchell, lonised a lips humthe Welliagtom staMme
the esestral gate. Os theo arrival*, the Priam he wee sae-
dueled_ by Mr. Ceolmiseiseto D. W. Harvey, sad modemd by
the Lord Meyer, Alderman &r H. Cardea, M.P., sad the
Tarter sad wardens of the Meyers? Campny.
At the sosehries of the impieties. the Prima, wee-
lb. Lied Mayor mid c isessAme, weal se foot to
ria by
llishasf s chetah, Cornish, to frame thereasvatiom fleet
sete seen place to tbat, ooe of the asset apeebasse at Str
Christopher Wee. The whole of the wisdoms ere stained
gloom emblematical of scripture, sad the pulpit, readmit dealt,
sad the orate of cisk beautifully cared with various typital
deigns in scripture by Mr. Roger.. Hie royal highoriss,
she wee accepted wady half en hoar Ii the teepee.
has, wee scomaptaist by the Rev. Mr. Wreacb, the
reseer, Mr. TVs, aid Clstrehminime Bailey, Shrews-
bray, sad Geis, sad Mr. Hoppe, the vestry clerk.
who has aided Mr. Charge Gilbert Soots, the architect
ta the Amiga. His royal highness repeatedly ezpressmi his /A-
nimate Se Mr. lagers et the sesame is whisk the miry
hesalefel Meg
seek hod boa ezonned ; at the eon-
Ameba of his inepetaice, hie royal highness said It wee
he ass thm the City al Loudon were tales so moch
iabert 1. ths advaacaarat of the las sad megisivel arts.
Oa the Prince leavias the duet& he wee tmudly chewed.
lidateases, dins- inspestiag at. Mlsh.sl'e church,
preeeeded to the Trimity-beass, Tower-WO, hr the pupate
of praline, at a sears at Ora earporsues at the eider
besthma, it haring bees ansairedi to elect lewd Palmer-
NOS a Illeaket all corporation. His royal highness
reached the mart-hew at one o'clock, the aside
having melded ham by a hew minuets. Hie royallt=
havtag Wow his seat l ths most-es.., Laud Paliaerstes
see istrodsted, asd his loodehip's fasaguraties yds hour
hasty precasted whit. The imeal knee bathe( bees gene
theseile, Me lordship leek the limbs et alleglimes end se-
=2:widish wee adadaistered by the cemetery. The
meapied alma ea ham The Priam Cumarrit
theft retired. sad wee quiekly folliewod by the seedy-mole
elder beetkor. Ammo. the eider brothers as the
aramiss we mks' leareAdmiral Hebert Oordos ; Cm
Medea, Pizirylfamptherma, Farms. Bar. Redman,
Pigott, ehatellewarth, Drew, Palsy, Were, Close, Fere, ick,
%Ivy, Nesbitt, It..