The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-20 00:00:00

Tgp SXPSEBS, 71,ONNLY ,EVENING, JUNE *

" prevent circumstance", Seetien 11.111 of the Fiat 1
" Aet of the Congressof Vitae' toilets:tun laming
" negative over every soh doubt." A Me
ydpm
which accompanied this Circular lays down the
principle" which are to determine the course of the
Germanic Confederation when one of its mem-
bers is involved in war in its extra
federal territories. The Minister observes that
The action of the Confederation hu for its object
" and purpose only the defence of the Federal ter-
" ritory, not the interests of the Federal State
" immediately concerned that go beyond this de-
" fence." Ile shows that it is not within the 'impo-
tency of a majority of the Federal Diet to reader
usiatance to a member of the Confederation where •
iefacto danger to the Federal territory does not exist,
and states that if such a determination were COMO to it
would not be binding. He lays down expressly that
" It wee • tranegramisa in this direction when, at
" the very eonsmencement of the Italian crisis, it was
" maintained in many quarters that the point at issue
wu not whether a violation of Federal territor*
"were threatened, but that it sufficed that the
" Italian possessions of Austria, with the eventuality
" of the Imperial State being thereby weakened,
" should be endangered, in order to empower a
majority of the Diet to decree the rendering of
" Federal aid."

It is pretended, however, by some German writers
that since the fortresses on the Mincio and the Adige
contribute to the safety of the Federal territory, to
maintain them in the possession of a German power
must be a matter of Federal duty. Out of Germany,
however, this argument will not avail. From the
population south of the Alps the Germans have nothing
to apprehend, and moreover between them and the
Fatherland nature has reared an immense rampart
which odes all the protection that material ob-
stacles can afford. Besides, is it not monstrous to
pretend that a domination, intolerable to those upon
whom it weighs 'and dangerous to the peace of
Darer, is to be maintained because forty-three mil-
lions of people are not ashamed to say it N essential
to their safety' We have outgrown a state of civili-
sation in which it is permissible for one nation to
ensign another to a living death for its own peace
and comfort. For her own sake we hope that
Frani& will not make herself the organ of paten.
shwa we Immoral and debasing.

Is anybody living among us to-day who remembers
the first HANDEL Centenary Celebration—or the
►undredth anniversary of HANDEL'S birth? The
thing is possible. Lord LYNDHURST was then twelve
years old. No doubt he remembers everything that
ever happened in his time; bet thee, be was in
Ameriea—(jut become the united States). Lord
BROCKMAN was six; but he was in Scotland. Lord
LARSCOWNI was four, and in the nursery, rather
than Westminster Abbey. There may, however, be
somebody of Lord LYNDHURST'S age who war pee-
sent on that grand occasion, when the extreme of
musical and commemorative sublimity was supposed
to have been reached. HANDEL was regarded as an
English worthy, and his music as an English posses-
sion and privilege, at that day when humbled Eng-
land, as proud as ever, religiously made the most of
every exclusive possession that she had. The honour
of appreciating HANDEL was rightfully hers. The
records of those times show how continental musicians,
amateur and professional, boggled over the casi—
no
longer ventutiog to disparage the great composer,
but trying to account for his greatness by ascribing
to him " brilliancy," " learning," expertness in com-
position, and so forth ; while the educated classes in
ear country were feeling as if some new department
in their nature bad been discovered—not only a sixth
sense, as has been said of music generally, but a new
region of emotion. For a century MILTON had
thrilled them with the cathedral music, echoed in
his verse—the "pealing organ," the " full voiced
"choir," the "service high and anthems clear,"
which "bring all heaven before our eyes;" and
HANDEL'S genius had fulfilled all that the verse
suggested. No one in Westminster Abbey daring
those fear days of 1784 imagined that w hat they
heard and saw could be exceeded; and if they had
been asked what should be done, on the 'heath Cen-
tenary, for the memory of him whom Ring and
gallon delighted to honour, they would have 'sad—
ist there be • performance of the Messiah, Judas
Macealeeus, and Israel is Pgypl, in Westminster
Abbey, by a body of live hundred performers (if so
=nye= ever again, be mustered),with the CRAMER
of that day for leader, and the KING and Royal
Family, and all the aristocracy, and such of the
geateeler public as are worthy to listen, for audi-
ence. What would have been the amszement, and to
some folks the consternation—if the picture of this
day could have been unrolled before their eyes! Or,
rather, if the facts could have been barely related;
for an accents vision would have left no room for
alarm. What meat it have been to them to be told
that any building could contain so many thousands
ea
the Crystal Palace; that any such orchestra aa
that of this day could be collected, organised, and
led ; and that an appreciative public of such an
extent could crowd to listen! Eager as our grand-
fathers were to appropriate HANDEL u a true
British treasure, they were as far as the continental
people from conceiving of his magic u a popu-
la► blessing and birthright. In Westminster
Abbey, when HANDEL'S Birth was commemorated,

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Royalty and aristocracy did the homage, and enjoyed
the sweet solemaisation--admitting the middle-
clam to such room as was to spare. To-day, when
commemorating HANDICL'S Death, we find a deve-
lopment of his music almost as marvellous and
moving as its creation; and an audience ex-
panded in proportion. It is not for kings
and peers and professional men alone to sit
entranced under it. Millions of the commonalty
may do so now ; and children, by tens of
thousands, can minister to parents by their new art,
and " bring all Heaven before their eyes," u only
the favourite preacher or dreams of the dead bad
ever done before. It is a great change to have been
wrought in the spans between the birth and the
death et a man. Let those who may meditate it in
the Crystal Palace, under the invitation of thirds'',
try to conceive how much higher posterity may have
rises, through familiarity with high thoughts and
emotions, before another century beings its testimony
to the Muter of Sacred Son.

Is the recent debate, which proved fatal to the
Derby government, Mr. Disraeli explained the
outbreak of the war by the observation that " Austria
is a power which tskes no account of public opinion."
This remark is daily receiving some new justifica-
tion. It was only the other day that we reported
the el:aimless resolution of the Austrian government
not to accept coupons of the national loan in payment
of taxes in the Venetian provinces. This morning
we have news of a more outrageous measure, the
creation of paper money to the amount of 50,000,000
florins, with a forced currency, in the Lom-
bardo-Venetian kingdom. Of course it is
impossible to place so much paper is cir-
culation in the territory held by the Aus-
trian armies. Its creation is designed for no
other purpose than to lend the appearance of
commercial transactions to the enormous rob-
beries which the goverment is proposing to
perpetrate. In a letter to Lord Malmesbury, Sir
James Hudson thus described, is January last, the

condition of the people upon whom the double-
headed eagle is preying " Seven years ofbed wine
crops, silk crops, and corn crops, with heavy taxa-
tion, have reduced the Northern Italians to skin and
bone. Any traveller must have remarked the rugs
of the peasant, the worn-out honors and carts, and
the absence of gentlemen's equipages at the Corms
of Milan, Breecis, Verona, and nologna. And the
Sardinian government know as' *ell as I do that tf
they ernes the Ticino they will find empty tree-
sunes, a famished people, and, comparatively speak-
ing, few resources."

THE NEW MINISTRY.

(►lox ♦ lICTTLZMINT TO Till LONDON 0•1TTTl Of

FRIDAY LAST).

At the Court at Windsor, the 18th day of June,
1839, premed, Ur Cleeen'it Most Excellent Majesty in
CounciL

Her Majesty Is Coma wee this day pleased to declare
the Right Honourable Grenville George, Earl Granville,
E.G., L,rd Preideleat of Ler Mejeety's Most Honourable
Privy Council, and his lordship took his place at the board
aooordingly.
This day the Most Honourable George William Frederiek,
Marquis of Ailesbury, the Right Honourable Sir William
George Hylton Jolliffe, Bart., the Right Hooourable James
Wilsoey sad the Right Honourable Thomas Emerson Head-
lam, were, by her Majesty's command, 'worn of her Msjesty's
Most Hooourable Privy Council, end took their respective
places at the board sooordiagly.
Her Majesty in Council was this day plowed to deliver the
Great Seel to the Right Hon. Joha, Lord Campbell,
whereupon the oath of Lord Chancellor of Greet Britain
was, by her Mejesty's command, edminhtered to him; and
his lordship took his place at the Baird accordingly.
Her Majesty having been plowed to deliver the custody of
the Privy Seal to the Most Noble Genie Dough., Doke of
Argyll, the oath of Keeper of the Privy Seal woe this day
administered to him, and his Gres took Me place at the
Board accordingly.
Her Majesty heving been pleased be appoint the Most
Noble Henry Pelham, Dabs of Newereed% the Right Hon.
John Russell (coennicelyoolled Lord Joist Rarrell), the Right
Hoe. Sidney Herbert, the Right Hos. Sir Cloche Wood,
Bart., sad the 'Right Hen. Sir Gauge Cornewall Lewis,
Ben-, to be her Majesty's lee Principe' eserelaries of State
they wee this day, by her Mejesty's amensend, swore he;
Majesty. Principe' Secreted= of State accordingly.
Her Majesty having been plowed to appoint the Right
Hoe. William Evart Gledston% Chaneellor and Under
Treasurer of Her Majesty's Ricestrirm, the venal oath was
this day adustaiatered to him.

Heeidajesty in Council was this dal pissed to declare the
Eight lion. George William Fredrick, Earl of Carlisle,
K.G., L'outeuanc General and Gemmed Governor of that
pert of the l; sited Kiagdose called Ireland.

Her Majesty is Conned was this day pleased to appoint
the Right Hos. Jame Wilson to be President of the Com-
not•ee of Council, appointed fir the consideration of all
mattra relating to Trade sod Foreign Plantatirsui, in the
abeam of the President of the said committee fur the time
erg•

THE WAR IN ITALY.

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RXPILIKSBf: FROM PARIS.

14VakI71 OWN

PARIS, SUNDAY ICYZNINO.

•
There seems now to be very little doubt that
Prussia is about to make to France those inadmis-
sible proposals for peace to which I alluded yester-
day. All the oorrespondence from Germany points
in that direction. A Berlin letter asserts that the
Prussian General Badowitz stated to the Frankfort
Diet that the line of the Mincio was necessary for the
security of Germany, and that the Prussian govern-
ment has accordingly resolved to make a proposition
simultaneously to France and Aastria.for a settle-
ment upon the basis of the Mincio being regarded
as the Austrian frontier. France will certainly not
listen to any each proposal ; and then the great ques-
tion is—what will Prussia do ?

The Patrie anticipates that the conduct of Ba-
varia in allowing Austrian troops to cross her terri-
tory will give rise to very serious remonstrances on
the part of France.
General Espinosae was buried at Bordeaux on
Friday. The funeral was conducted with great
pomp. The father-in-law of the deceased was
the chief mourner. The pall-bearers were the
Prefect of the Gironde, General de Tartu,
the military intendant; M. Amend, deputy for Bor.
del= ; the principal president of the Imperial
Court, the Procureur-General, the Mayor of Bor-
deaux, and the Commissary of Marine. General de
Tartu pronounced the funeral oration.
M. Prevost Paradol, whose. brilliant articles in
the /Mats are well known, has just published a
collection of his contributions to that journal and
the Butte des Ileac Monde*, under the head of
" Foods de Politique et de Litterstuie." The
volume is prefaced by an original dissertation upon
parliamentary government.

Ih DIA.