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LONDON. FRIDAY, JULY 8.

Just is everybody was expecting intelligence of
the grand operations for reducing the last strong.
holds of Austria in Italy, comes news of an armistice.
It is customary, in circumstance* like those in
which we now fied ourselves, to recommend modera-
tion to the victorious party. But the policy avowed
by the Emperor of the Fiteueu leaves no room for
this advice. This is not a war of conquest or
ambition. NA VOLION disavowed personal or dynastic
designs before he crossed the Ticino, and on the
morrow of the victory of Magenta he repeated the
same solemn protestations. It was then he pro-
claim' d to the people of Italy—" Your desire of
" independence, so long expressed, so often deceived,
" will be realised if you show yourselves worthy
"of it. To-morrow you will be free citizens
"of a great country." To violate this pledge would
not be to be moderate, and no one must ask him to
do this. It is necessary (or the progress of the age
that Austria should be shut out of Italy. It is
necessary for the tranquillity of Europe that a strong
and thoroughly national State, able to prevent the
trespasses of foreignm, should hold the North of
Italy. If three facts are boldly recognised by the
Great Power*, the work of negotiation will be
short and beneficent.

The Circular just Mooed by Count W utast(' now
Weed the saturant.* that the Emperor of the
Fat, d tt, far from desiring to dispose of the terri-
tory and Governmeat of Italy, m a mere succeed'sl
warrior, without consulting the other European
Power', would himself ask far the concurrence of

those Powers to settling the affairs of that country
as soon as an opportune moment arrived. We are
able to state that, on the other band, Prussia, whose
movements are now engrossing so much attention
on the supposition that ehe is shoot to pursue a
merely national policy, has expressed, and still
expresses, • willingotee to be associated with Eng-
land and Ramis in the work of mediation, whenever
the proper time •rrivn. But no definite proposal
for a settlement of Italy can as yet be said to have
been made by the Purism Government.

Ir any amongst us wen sanguine enough to
believe that the hopes of sectarian ascendancy were
dead in this country, and that we need trouble our-
selves no more to inquire of candidates at the
hustings whether or not they were in favour of
religious equality in the eye of the law, they are
likely to he undeceived by a perusal of the debate
which took place on Wednesday last on the second
reading of Mr. Oft.i.vvey% Bill to regulate the
mode of dealing in future with school endowments in
certain eases. The Bill in question was brought in to
remedy an admitted wrong to which Dissenters are
subjected ander a recent decision of the highest
Equity tribunal in the realm, with respect to the
management and system of teaching in wheals
founded by benevolent and pious persons in former
times for the general benefit of the youth of parti-
cular districts or localities. Many of the founder?,
when bequeathing their property to educational
uses, forgot, or designedly omitted, to prescribe any
sectarian test of trusteeship or masteiship. From one
tekrant and charitable generation to anothercommon-
sense intentions have been carried into effect with-
out let or hindrance, Churchmen and Nonconformists
sometimes participating in the excellent week
of intellectual and moral culture, and no man
finding an unchristian shibboleth exacted from his
innocent child when offering to wad. through the
village ford of knowledge. But the lust of eccle-
siastical domination is inextinguishable. These
peaceful houses of instruction have lately excited the
covetousness of priestly power. Most of the school
ndowments throughout England and Wales are
expressly limited by the terms of their testamentary
foundation to the teaching of those whose parents
or guardians desire them to be brought up members
attics Church established by law. Only a minority
of endowed schools fall under the categoay about
which there is any dispute. The Church has the
fat of the land, yet it covets—let us rather say, some
111-advised friends and would-be champions covet es
its behalf—the few refuges for soul-liberty that have
heretofore been silently reserved for the children et
all denominations. Pio paean is set up of any
attempt on the part of Dissenters to establish tICIII-
- rights of trusteeship. On their part all that
ie asked le noroexcluvion. Their clerical oppo-
nents insist, on the other hand, on enforcing the
overbearing rule of churchmanship. In the
eyes recently litigated in the Vice-Chancellor%
Ilourt, and subsequently carried by way of appeal
before the Unit( hatless in Equity, the great
rosjosity of trustees were, with the consent of the
Nonconforming suitors, chases from the Anglican
communion—minorities of a farther fifth part only
being appointed from the dissident churches. But
Intolerance will be satisfied with no participation of
blessings or hest tits. NAIIOIII.. vineyard is ever
envied, and no injustice is too palpable to restrain

the effort to gain possession of it. The rigid
applieatioa of an antiquated tuts of evi-
dence was invoked successfully against tho
plain dictates of justice, liberality, and the
constitutional policy of the time. According to the
good old Tory cams' of legal coastructioo, is do.
fault of express words prescribing the religion
communion of trustee', it was always tube presumed

that Os* founder of an edocatioral iostitotioo as-

ten.plated their nomination from the only wet fa-
roared by seta of parliament t and by virtue of this
wormestee maxim of it bygone time, schools that
have for generstions bees flee to el persuasions are
now 10 danger of beiog concerted into exclusive
seminaries fur the rearimg of yosth in tae doctrine of
the Thirty -sloe Article..