The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-18 00:00:00

disgust of the Dutch and Flenitt.t at their seemed
onion, and of some other peoples and tau Irk was
&rioted to crowns to which they owed ne natend
allegiance, and put under new authorities and isees
without ever being consulted as to their own desires
and destiny. Our fathers could not understand it—
it would
ments would never stand such treatment ; no tree-
ties would sanctify or secure such • true as that !
When revolts broke oat, atter a very short experience
of the security of treaty defences, no rational people
were surprised; and the turn taken by one revolt
after another,—the demand that peoples whose
position wail unsettled should decide for themselves
under what established rule they would liver
showed the troubles to be the direct consequence of
the arbitrary arrangements of 1816. It ought to be
so wonder now that the Emperor of the FILIINCII
says that soeh arrangements, and the treaties which
guarantee them, cannot last for ever. The chiefs of
, the Holy Alliance themselves could not but have ad-
minted that troth, if they had been asked. No mar
person could think otherwise; and it would bare
rather surprised oar fathers to be told, in 1816 at
isn, that those treaties would be spoken of se apo-
state of order and pease in 1869. So many of the
" arrangements have base set aside, and the treatise
haves been violated in so many particulars, that their
pees** is • good deal worn off. Still, they an
publiely and politiely treated as the expression of
international obligation and security ; and it in a
question of the last degree of interest—what is to
eventually become of these arrangements and treaties,
What would be the natural Nurse ?

The beet answer is afforded by the condition of
Italy. The increasing miegoveromeat of the
usurper. and tyrants there, the growls., dineatest
of the people, and the uprising of a free eseetita-
timid system in a frontier Italian !Retain= to in&
eiMe that the "settlement" of Italy mast he annulled,
sad that it would probably happemerbes Piedmont
wee sufficiently established in her sew liberties and
privileges to lead the emancipation of Italy tie a
good Wee. Bach would seem to be the natural
ewes; sad, if no anomaly had intervened, the
liberaties end establishment of the Italians and their
new polity would have been effected under the
emotion of England and France, as allies, and, if
eniesessry, by their assistance. If we could have
had ear wish, we, the English people, shield Mee
hoped to see this change wrought in the mdasal
omens of human progression. But there is
ea anomaly in the cam. Well ea we
wish to the Italian., and sure as we are
that the French people feel with as in that
direction, we cannot act together. United Har
Lad and France, *obtaining the Italian mum might
have extinguished the disorders of despethas with
the best palpable disterbama, if From bed bat
hese tree. As it is, we rennet possibly set in the
mm--exerpt lam far as every heartfelt testimony
Lan est. We 'meet p late each an mamba.
keowisir that Pentanes genaelly are illageivall at
materials far political iedgmeat, sad debarred hem
all oppartemity of forming mammal sturprises. la
the light of knowledge and of a comma porpsee.
We canna go forth to help Italy to freedom, bead-
in-head with a Ruler who will not let his own lab-
iate spsak—whe puts spies into their beam, PG.
Ws their ahem electime, precludes MI esameastiee
sad smart, all over the Empire, deports the Aims
he the !regime without trial or accusatiem and MOM
sheet, the most intrusive and &begat* deepeM
of Ids tines, unless it be the King ef Nuys.
We esseot sat the Italms to confide their keen.
I. the hands of me who has betrayed the liberals of
Freoehmea easier isse favearing eireuniatesess. We li
I cannot ask the Italians to lay spa their teethed=
to a potentate wire would se dada distribute these
territories for lie ewe Missile, is a manner as arbi-
trary sa weever eabliked by the Holy Alliance.
Far the sake of the Hahne we mud decline accom-
panying the Emperor of the Faze= in any war e■
behalf, att ea pretext, of Ital.. liberties.

The natural eosin of peeress being thus db.
.abed, what next ? :What should we wish ? Gan
what might we to de? We will ism the wishing
aloes. Whoa natural laws am perverted, ma amok
Wilk wisely, and had better be costented with dein
the duty of the hoar. Our duty la he present '
ease is clear enough. We have set lest mar
smithy with the Italians, oar our obligatiera
I. regent to them, bemuse we asset
towards them, son reprise Aura's, is essipeay with
a Frialli may. We do set go over to the Amara
side became we dim:swimmerets the Fresh .skimp
war with her for French prasysese—as. Oar the per.
passe of a single man or Orally is France. We
regard Austria es we did before. We do not speak
for our Chart sad ear Ministers ; bet, weakly As.
the people of &grad, we say that the spirit of
Austria" graerameat is to es m odious sad ea Ulm-
Mr is ever; that Austria herself is ia a mere deeps-
rate 'radicles than ever, because each day sad hoer
brings rarer the break-down of trades and the
nrasseary reconstitution of the Oraramerats of
Europe. In the mere waretage, at the outset of the
staggie, the military force of Austria might pro-
bably ebtaia the advantage: for it may be doubted
whether any continental army can altogether Estee
with that of Austria. But in yet MN IMlONtisi
matters, Austria is 'miserably weak. The empire is
a mass of heterogeneous' materials, crabisall by se
spirit of nationality, sad wend by mutual roper
masa on every passible seeseion. Overwhelmed
with debt, sad shims pawed fee moray, with as
enemy before sad holdall, sad disailection all masa
and within ; with me parliament and se nation to
lean upon, sad so rams, but in that reform and
pogroms Ora it obstinately refuses, the Goma-
newt of Austria is is hopeless plight, as regard, the
ultimate settlesmatst European affairs, while thine
is raking is he sondoet, former or pressen, to meek
our aratesmaer, or obtain our sympathy. The
present L set a moment for disgsher—ser hiss
mistakes. The world must know that we are set
going to aid mad abet Austria became we me de•
braid by the eeedition of France from Giese sad
abetting the present French scheme for the libels.
tinsel Italy.

Whet, then, can we do Perhaps the most 'Seep
teal awoke we can render to freedom abroad is to
Alain a des command over our own servants st
bur. We never have a moment's certainty that
our wishes and convietions are not betrayed by
Ministers whims policy is always half a century in
sneer, and whoa* instincts are always in favour et
anammated Wrong. fly some amasser other we most
sarrect this sainehist and preclude this danger. It
should be the dist object in the next election to ob-
tain, through a new House of Common, a largo
reform in the administration door foreign affairs.

Far the rest—we are probably all ofone mind as to
what will presently happen; the French E.ll rit ao a's
speech is overlaid by his acts more thoroughly every
day; sad all Europe is preparing for war, as swat
as if the Speech had sworn to keep the pow.
Our business will be, and now is, to bold bask
ear Ministers and political leaches from haler-
nising with Austria in our name, and to be Is
readiness to help the Italians by our voice and eons.
tesance in the presence of all Europe, and by any
means in which our influence can affect their far-
tunes, without fastening on them a French is