The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-20 00:00:00

mateets with the aterob, sad wimp irlth the
" Bided daughter of the au*" the threat hoe
, hitherto remained a dead letter.

Whilst we eannot Sad language sulkies* strong
to praise the Arm dernettagar and heroic moderation of
Sardinia in this emergency, we can hardly refrain from
asking—ls England really fulfilling her engagements
and acquitting herself of her duties to her Sardinian
ally Is it the intention dose Government to doom
the Ministers of Vitro& EMANUEL IL to farther sets
of humiliation and degradation, till they either fill
victims to the indignation ci their undinerning sub-
jects, or are driven by very desperation to some
rash deed which will lead to those hostilities we have
been so maxima to avoid P Truly we do not hesitate
to &Mem, if the whole summer is seared to go by
without affor.ding &Weis the satisfaction she is
entitled to with regard to the Lombard sequestra-
lions, we must be prepeed either fora war in Lam.
bargee for a revolution in Piedmont and throngliont
Italy. As we have no doubt bet that the choice lies
with the Sardinian Government itself, we may sully
anticipate that they will rather ran the risk of
falling by the hand of Austria tbn by that of their
own people.

If ,anything could aggravate the violence and
iniquity of the conduct of Austria, it would be the
bad faith and perfidiousness by which she trios to
impose on the oredolity of the great Europe's
Powers. Every year she brings forth a new amnesty ;
and it is a singular feat that she always Buds some-
body to take mach acts of clemency as genuine. sine.
we see it nowhere observed, that if last year's dowse
Gould have had any eau there world be no occasion
for anew decree of the same nature this year. The
truth ie, that however Austria may contrive by such
devices to silence the idle clamour called forth
by bat iniquities abroad, else sot only never mm ole&
in deceiving, bat doss not even aftempt or
are to deceive any of her subjects at horse.
Thu in the early part of this year it was bruited
=mist the Lombard exiles that the sequestrated
goods would be freely restored to all or any of them
who world apply for such a restitution, on the
simple condition that they should express their wish
to withdraw their allegiance as Austrian subjects,
and signify to what courtly they either belonged or
handed to bolus.

A decree to that effect was maid to have been
signed by the Minion at Vienna on the Bth of
Febtuary, 18543, and upon the strength of it some
obscure Austrian agents appeared at Turin, giving the
Marquis PALLAVICINI, Tiavutno, and ether illus.
trims exiles, a hint of the magnanimous remdation
et the Austrian sovereign. The pretended decree
of Februsey 8, however, never saw the light, aid
upon PALIAVICINI and hie friends applying to the
Milan Government for this proffered restitution of
stolen geode, it wee toned out that it was merely
used es a means to furnish Count BuoL with a ready
answer to his collsegese at the Paris Conferences,
sad that the matter of the seqnsetewed property
remains precisely where it was.

Was reference to our remark that we were un-
able to take charge of the cheques which had been
seat to es for transmission to Torte, is old of the
funds for mounting guns on the new kale at
Alexandria, it gives ee pleasure to be able to an-
nounce that we have due made armaments with
Morn. C. I. Hombre and Boa, of 70, Old Broad.
street, to resolve each sostributions. Dosatiou will
be acknowledged from tine to tannin oar advertise.
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