The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 14. •

IT is sickening to note the persistency with which
a certain set of sophistries are drawled out day after
day by oar political Mawscornsa. We cannot sym-
pathise with any of the belligerents, say they; neither
with constitutional Piedmont, oar disciple, nor with

Frazee, our comrade and ally ; nor, forsooth, with
Anstris, the observer of treaties. And why?
Because Piedmont provoked Austria, and Prams
limited Piedmont, and Austria was not a model of

good government. The newsy, it will bo
men, are equally forcible. By a alight °om-
ission of causes and effects Piedmont is

raved of having provoked Austria through the
mouth of Vlcroa EmuAttret. at the beginning of
the year, and France of having incited Piedmont by
an Emperor's slung, when he told M. or liviimen.
that hi was sot OW such terms with the KAISER II he
mead with. As if—not to speak of the hereditary
traditions of the Rousso! Error —Piedmont had not
bera a trouble mad a throat to Austria ever gees the
light of her liberties barged and shoos over the sur-
rounding gloom. Bat she should have kept hoe
libtrties to herself ; me if her constitutional freedom,
placed between Austria on the ono hand and the Re-
volution on the other, could fail to spread, or be safe
ie selfish isolation.

Bat the scandal of sentidals to Anglo-Austrian libe-
rals is that free Piedmont should seek the alliance
of Imperial France; as though for the first time in
her history a free government had allied itself in war
fur political objects with a despotism. Now, the fact
in. that LOUIS NAPOLION and his two hundred thou-
mid 'soldiers are sot 'melted to establish free con-
stitutions in Italy, but simply and solely to rid Italy
of the Austrian', and to establish, by force of arms,
her national independence. The Italians may bin
allowed to be the keenest judges of their own wrongs
and wants ; and the wisest and purest of Italiaa
patriots have taught unceasingly that imieperedence
sheald be the first object, and the choice of institu-
tions only the second. We may surely leave to
Italy, when her nationality shell have been rege-
nerated and reorganised, and her martial spirit
steeled and tempered is many a bloody fight, to
maintain agaiast all usurpers her hard won rights;
and if France deserve at least her gratitude, it Is
not fur England to grudge it. Who mays that the
Emperor of the FRENCH is not ambitions, or that
his motives are entirely pare? We believe we
have earned the right to speak fairly of the
man ; and in such a cam as this we say,
judge sot. If we are to look for an in-
stance of dynastic ambition the most fiagitioea
and unscrupelous, we need not rub up see retai-
Simeneell of the first Nhenutoe. The seeduct of
air Gersasn friends towards Denmark in the Schles-
wig-Ho/stein affair is nester at hand. And it is DO
secret that when Prussia was aggressive in 1850 her
ambition found ardent and powerful sapped among
the bitterest denouncers of the allies of Italy in 1859,
For our own part the right is always the right,
and does not " follow still the changes of
" the moon." When 5L Dt METALL-Meth', the
inveterate foe to freedom so Wag as freedom lived is
France, end its champion only when the tribes,
from which he had hurled his invectives sonde
freedom was struck down—when M. DE MONTALSY•
LER?, we say, the constant friend of Papal tyranny
and superstition, was attacked by unrighteous
authority, we took pride as English journalists
his vindication; but if even his persecutors become
the champions of abetter cause, we are not afraid*:
wishing them Don speed.

MANY of our readers must have been horrified,
though few could h►ve been surprised, at the recital
of the barbarities and outrages indicted by the
Austrian military authorities upon the peaceful in-
habitants of the Norarese and LomeHine. We do
sot pretend to pity those poor, robbed, ravished,
heats., kidnapped, and murdered people. The
Eisimatese are suffering no more than they ex-
ploded when they chose rather to take the chums of
this war than accept the conditions under which
Austria would place them. We should as sou
think of insulting a martyr with compassion. They
knew by experience with whom they had to do,
end preferred rather to expose themselves to
pillage and outrage than loos this lut chance of
securing the liberties of their country. The Emperor
Fa►tern JOSIPH, in his Manifesto, announced to his
peopis that he was taking up arms to defend the
honour el his crown. It would be incorrect to say
that these outrages impair that honour, they only
explain it. General °tutu is doing palpably and
in a rough soldierly way just what the EMPIIOIII
has been doing any time these ten years all
over Italy—taking that which is not his ,
own, and encountering remonstranoe with murder-
Austria is brutal in Piedmont because she is brutal
by nature, of neosesity, and everywhere. This is
the reason why, whilst other Powers have been able
to make their domination acceptable to peoples of
alien moss, while France formerly incorporated
Aimee, and Homy is fast pining over the populating

of Firjsad. every year widow the breach between
Austria sad the Italians. No possible human efforts
ma eversoam this profound antipathy, or make the
1 AIWA= role tolerable in Italy.

It • Revd Proclamation, which wo re-riblioh
Inam Oisolik, her MAJESTY makes keowe for
the videos et Faißadmen the lime of conduct she
Imo mantood Is observe towaids the three European
Peewee sew eisteeding is arm. The Quays de-
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