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London, England, 1859-07-01 00:00:00

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LONDON. FRIDAY. JULY 1.

IT was impossible that a man of Mr. Connete's
discernment should not detect that sinister feature
in the speeches of our public men which we have so
often had to expose—the mingling with declarations
favourable to England'. neutrality expressions cal-
culated to throw doubt on the strength of that prin-
ciple and to suggest the fear that a policy
in accordance with it will not be maintained.
The language of many of our statesmen has
produced the impression that we are at the mercy
of events; that we are in a fatal circle ; that it is
childish to boast of an independence of circum-
stances that we cannot assert ; and that it is only a
matter of common prudence and foresight to take our
minimum for a participation in war which, though it
may be delayed, is inevitable.
If we at all understand the -public sentiment
under the compulsion of which the recent change of
ministers bsli taken place, it was a determination
that this irresolution and helplessness should be
driven to its proper retreat, the Opposition benches of
the House et Lords, and that the 'Mario( the Empire
should be entrusttel to men of knowledge, firmness,
and courage. The people of this country have been
quick to perceive and prompt to proclaim the cha-
racter of their interests at this conjuncture, and
Load PALMERSTON and Lord limn RUMIILL
Sr. its power at this moment because everybody
knows that the policy of the nation is tbeire--toot by
adoption and acquiescence, but originally sad ea
principle theirs—end Nemec the public recognise
in them the ability and will to make it good.
Mr. Conuex said at Liverpool, " My opinion is that
" if we wish to be neutral, we have the power to be
" neutral.' We do not u rut of our Ministers •
language qui'ci so &boohoo as this; but the strength
of the Administration lies in the general confidence
that Mr. CODDEN's words only express the opinions
of its chiefs.

Nothing has contributed more to Mr. Couples
success as a public man than his habit of going
straight to his point. In treating of our neutrality
and its danger*, therefore, he does not waste his
time in proving what nobody is likely to deny, that
we ought not to kin in the war in Italy; bat spoke
of the only mutiny/soy present to the minds of
intelligent obiereers. "Take," he paid, "the ease I
"of Germany. I chasers a great movement of
" troops there, and that a great clamour for war has
" taken place amongst certain part. of the German
" population—a war with France in defence of
" Austria—and I should like the English people to
" give that portion of the German population de-
" tinctly to understand that if they commence ea
" attack 00 Lot NAPOLEON this country will not

tt help them. ;Loud chum)" We think the
Germans are getting to understand something
very like this, and the knowledge is exceedingly
helpful to the curie of peace. The panic beyond
the Rhine was stimulated by the extrava•
gent apprehensions which were for a while preen-
lent here, tad as we grew calm Germany began to
recover its self-pees vision. Correspondents at
Vermin have left off predictiag the march of Prussian
battalions to share the glories of Austria in the field.
When that highly scientific officer General WILLI-
vex was sent from Berlin to Vienna it was confi-
dently announced that be was to assist in concerting
the combined meet menu of the armies of
the two gnat German Powers, and a treaty
of alliance was spoken of. It was scan after stated
on au'hority that no alliance existed, and we an ins
position to know that the General went to Vienna
merely to consult the Austrian Minister se tothetrans•
fee to Presets of the direction of the military affairs
of the Confederation. Prussia, was then as now ready
to assist Austria in the restoration of peace, and to
offer her mediation; but what the Eget:Boa wanted
was not mediators, bat allies. But Germany, which is
not menaced in territory, honour, or interest', could
in no case h►ve the sympathy of this free country
in a war to perpetuate the enslavement of a highly
civilised and Christian people.

The calm commonsense of Mr. COBDEN has re-
moved the character of the present war out
of the play of false colours in which it
has often been placed, and set it in the
white light of open day. 0 I think when you bare
"a race superior, as I believe it to be, to the race
" which has been domineering over them, and
governing them against their own consent—
"for 99-hundredths of the population of Italy would,
" I believe, if they were polled, be found to declare
"against the Austrian rule—l believe, such being
'' the ease, if we are true to our principles, our
sympathies ought to be with that people. If we
" were placed in the position of the Italians we
" should not be very 'crapulous as to the source from
"whence we got assistance; and ea the Americans
" in the strug,cle against the old country accepted
the services of Louts XVl.—certainly as despotic
" a rah r as Louts N srottoN—l think the Italians
" may he exce.ed if they secept,perhaps too cordially,
" the offer made from the otter aide of the Alpe to
"assist them in throwing off the yoke of the
" Austrians."

Coetrast this mealy language with the wretched
whining lest night in the House of Lords of the

Duke of Burt tN 0, who, painfully labouring through
the latter hivtory of the Italian question, actually
thought be was cm:triode( Count CAvoue of some
Crime when, quoting from the Blue-book, he showed
that the Sardinian Premier brought home to the
Austrian Government the charge of eioletiog in his
cvontry the great principles of equity and justice on
which social order rests. What can be more revolu-
tionary than the doctrine laid down by the same
Peer, that the King of SA R DTIVIA reigns only by the
Treaty of 1813? It was indeed the pretension
of the theft Powers which dominated the de-
cisions of the Congress of Vienna to ignore
history end deny national rights, so that, the ground
being cleared, they might figure in history as the
creators of a new order of things. The " wishes of
" the principal Powers of Europe" were made the