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THE WAR CRIBIB.
(From Um Daily linos.)
If Peace is to be meowed, the Country must
speak out. The language in which Lord DERBY
ham taken leave of Parliament points to the certain
participation of England in a Continental war. The
neutrality which the nation has with unanimoas
voice demanded since the commencement of these

European troubles is challenged. It must, we are
told, be an "armed neutrality." We know a little
of the status so denominated. It is exhaustive and

ttnestisfactory Toortlywitbout result, difficult to main-
tain, and ordinarily a transitional condition, loon ex-
changed for astivo participation in war. When a great
power, without being itself menaoiti, annej set biosnes
its neighbours are fighting, it is in especial danger of
finding its " honour us intscsati" engaged whom
otherwise it would not have suspected their oxid-
ises. It le bard to sit still when we 'have incurred
expense and put ourselves to trouble to get ready to
fight. The vast munitions, the expecting battalions,
the noble ships and gallant °runt lila"
their authors for some justifioation eiiitetice,

and reproach the intention which would condemn
them to a purposeless and vain existenoe, while more-
over the conscious power which attends the control of
large means of warfare invites and is in itself a tempta-
tion to their employment. A practical people hays
no business with speculative armaments. And
say considerable additions to our bellige-
rent forces at this time would be essentially

speculative. The fact that Austria and Francs
contend on the Po is not an aggravation bat a dimi-
nution of our former liability to attack, whatever
that may have been. The full occupation, in a great
war, of the only maritime power which could threaten
our shores or distant possession is aothing leas than
an additional annrance of the safety of both.
We must, however, do Lord Dauer the justice to
observe that he did not attempt by any insidious
. . .

arguments to justify the armaments which he
announced. lie expressly said that we must
arm, in order to take ao part in the war

What part Minister felt inclined to take
last Monday is not doubtful. Mr. Disatam'e
most unfair statement against Sardinia, which drew
upon him the correction of Mr. GLADSTONE ; the
tame silence with which he passed over the insolent

demands of Count Bum, in his published despatch—
& despatch more dishonouring to England than to
Sudinia ; and the adulatory and unwarranted lan-
_ . . . .

gauge he used in speaking of Austrian policy during
the last four mouths, showed a strong and impatient
desire to adopt the cause of Austria in her contro-
versy with Piedmont. To the same purpose were
Lord DERBY'S words in the Hamm of Lords. While
he talked of the side on which the honour and inte-
rest of England might be as something doubtful, he
showed that he bad indeed already espoused the
cause of Austria. Language more fierce and
minatory than that with which he concluded his
speech has never been heard in the House of Lords,
and although the Pam= abstained from directly
applying it, yet the earlier portions of his address
disclosed so strong an Austrian bias that his words
were no wooer known at Paris and Turin than it
was felt that the kind of the English Government
had expressed himself with the bitterest hostility to
France and Sardinia. After the speeches of Maio-
ten on Monday evening, we conceive the Times was
fully entitled to say that " England has assumed an
" attitude already passively hostile; and is " tending
" towards a state of even active coercion" towards
Franco. How far these speeches—which in any
case we must call disastrous, because disgraceful—
have actually confirmed Austria in her obstinacy,
and influenced her to precipitate the crisis, we do
not know, and shall not conjecture. The public,
which knows how soon the violence of Lord
DERBY and the partisan advocacy of Mr. DISRAELI
were followed by the aggregates action of Austria,
will estimate the probable connexion between the two.
At any rate, the PREMIER'S words engaged and com-
promised the opinion of England, and threw the moral
force of this wintry into the male of Austria.
The question is whether the nation is con-
tent to sit silent under this representation of its
opinions and feelings. It is now directly interro-
gated on this point by the dissolution. In the royal
message delivered last Tuesday her MAJESTY
declared by her Ministers that she bad been in-
dead to " dissolve Parliament with a view to
" enable her people to express their opinion on
" the state of public affairs." If there is anything
in the state of public affairs more urgent thee the
foreign *ley of the country at this moment, it
would be well if the organs of the Government would
point it out. Thu question is, whether we shall re-
turn to the ruinous old system of plunging into con-
tinental wars in which we have no real con-
cern, or preserve a strict neutrality which leaves
the country free to throw its moral weight
into the scale on the side of truth and right. Lord
Defter has himself invited the tenantry to declare its
mind on this question, in claiming its opinion on his
side, as ha did last Monday. Near the close of his
speech, having unfolded his views at length, and laid
down the necessity of an armed neutrality prelimi-
nary to an intervention, he said, " Such is the course
" which I hope the Government will be supported in
"taking by the unanimous opinion of Parliament
" and the country ; for such, I am certain, is the
" only sound and rational policy which we can put-
" one." Public opinion is now, therefore, fairly chal-
lenged. If the electors of the United Kingdom wish
to bring the immense force of English opinion to bear
against Sardinia and her constitutional Xing in
this struggle for tree government in Italy they will
support at the hustings the Administration in which
Mr. Disisxm is Chancellor of the Exchequer. If
they want to see the forces of England prepared and
by and by employed against those who are in arms
to destroy the Austrian regime of the rod, the rack,
and the sword in Italy, they will rally round the
Government of which Lord DERBY is the head. But
if they desire neutrality and peace, a position which
will leave them at liberty to sympathise with the
soldiers of freedom without being unpatriotic, let
them now consider that this is the time to make
their wishes known, and support none whose sym-
pathies are with the oppressor of Italy and the
disturber of the peace of Europe.

Allele bee the apse* at the yams in her own hands; her
hews may swarm mom the frontier river; she may per-
haps deetroy at diapers, the Italian army; A. may drive
the Wan thameata into the three great Sardinian facto
ar up ithethe pewee of the Weaken Alpe ; she may cover
the ape conafry; she may inflict upon Sardinia the meta&
Mho of eonapyieg her capital; and she may teeth the laha•
tibitte of Turin what are the bathed antheings of the inlet-
bitaate of Lombardy. Bat is this an f Is this all that it is
nemenry for Auntie to actompligif Not so. She will,
tablet all this has been done, have only girth the signal for
the real conflict. She will have done an act of stupid force.
She will not only have pat herself Son the wrong with the
omarvahve powers of Bemis bat she will have destroyed
the only grenade upon which they could have gives her
maistanee. With General Graf at Tar* where thin are
the bathe of 1816? With Audits in poemenion of
Sardinia, the Bonepattes, who eves now paaaively repudiate
the deeds of the megrim of Vienna, will re-enter into the full
rilliztid belligerents. What right shell we chambray to my to
Sardinia sad her allies, t' Thom tar stall yegoaad no farther?"
The Brat Austrian picket that pima the Thaw will Mee the
seals from ell those treatise under which Austria now holds
her Italian provinces; the lost Austrian cannon that booms
upon Sardinian soil will salute the freedom of the Italian
Pesimula. This le not a veer that an be decided by a bail
Mirk Weever pasmailg succestiful. What Austria holds
is Italy she owes to the mutual jealouelee of European
powers operating at Vienna la 1815; by crowing the Ticino
the will destroy this her only title, and throw all chances of
Austrian power In Italy upon the fortune of arms.
(From the loot.)
We'h,vellow the officialAnnounoemeot from the
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f• the =swag
a— t erne, we

Lars, dated the 19th—the day of our own ministerial ex-
planations, the day on which Mr. Dian& in the House of
Commons puling Austria for her dignified ooncaliatke,"
the dance which Lord Derby, is the Hones of Lords,

ralatlmated thi
that &Zoo.

oar,

declarations—nu ft bosom the tegegraphio won,
Bashing to 'Vienna intelligenos of the speeches of oar
Irdniatars, had given tenfold strength to the conviction that
'Austria might count on England—woe it but the] natant
iessnit of this Derby-Disraeli " pronenchunento," that Am-
ide toe of thasaask ? it is, at least, a most nalbetemate
hialasidoses et dates. And sow " scared," ask well way
pm:Zted,the snarl basil Ito nab," and Oa dente Y boa
oar eabiast he. treamitted as sanstie protest
the Austria' goverment. This, et least, is step in the
lts,mg, Weed. le too late; bat, herrn
Or the best, we are ready, beim learaiag ths worst, to m-
aim" better late than never." As Obi that ecosegaires
h rittsrri

of Austria's false move Mae
isolated trout all the other powers. num.,' equally

with England and ROM* hen protested. TheOroteet
Pamela la the mom important, from the fact that no efforts
appear to have been neglected by that power to Impress the
Austrian government with a sees, of the difficulties mid
dangers in which it ran the risk of entangling itself by any
asperate mt. This day the Emperor Napoison will give to
the maid the eatement of his own policy. We may anticipate
that the poaltioa of the Preach goverment towards
Austria and Italy will ha delasd with an the
parity, dignity, and temperance beemsiag this snotor
tor grain On this towalag aim Ind Denby will
hem another opportunity .61 setting kith, at the Manisa
Ream, his views at Sardinian tealinem and Austrian War-
rants. As It wen at 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon that Ibis.
ultimatum was delivered at Twin by the two Ananias
camatieslosen, the delay accorded would expire at the mak
hear next laseday, Our Para corrapoodeat easeesses tier
belief that an attack on the part of the Ammane might itte
expected the following day. This is Wily probable. Oa
the expleag off the term it Is probable that 'Moralities'
would Set be forwarded to Vienna. In the Loa of the
yroteite of all the other European powers, it is at least
pcatible that the orders to 'damn may sat be unocalli-
tactually mafirmed, so that the °banes exists of a few days'
further breathing time bong allowed to the Sardinian limey.

(From the Herald.)

At this crisis in the Wain of Europe the public
will do well to be upon their guard against false t eports and
Tumours of all bind. Thew are fabricated for various ra-
yons and originate in very diff.rent quarters. During the
I
ag few days nuturrous *lewd statements have been not
oaly circulated but actually credited, and It la unnecessary to
state that an& rnmours have a wen prejudice' effect. Ia
spits of all that has been Reid to the contrary, peace may yet
be t preserved. The Austria ultimatum, couched in
comforts terms, was delivered to Count Career at
, Turin in the afternoon d Saturday ; comeeptently
the three days Bud bra by the Amnesia gereentment
Ida sot anise until Tuesday. The aaaweir undo by Sere
Shin is to the effect that, at the request of Great
Truro, sad Tame, eke gave her mama to the
pima dleannentsw, and that ceasectently she hes nothing
fustier I. say. As the Auslizienpvernmest were *want
ef this important fact at the Buse they decided upon takiog
Ain hostile step, we trest that they will be madded with the
ugly. Then can be ne Ream why Mat& should not
eseept this moderate *newer to her mum. If, owing
to her extensive pteparatioes, Austria wee actually
anise to death, and her government felt firmly
=evinced that Fleece intended war, some excuse may be ad-
mined for the precipitancy with which they have acted, but
there nen be no poseible rasa why they should not be satis-
lied with the reply which we hare reason to believe Sardinia
ha. ere this returned to the ultimatum. The Trench troops
await the final order, end everything is in • gate of suspense
until the determination of Austria is known. The question
of pesos or war retro at this ntemer.t with Austria. and if she
voluntarily becomes the aggressor she must be prepared for
the consequences. Everything bee been arranged for an
amicable adjustment of the differences that exist between
Austria, Fringe, and Sardinia with reference to the Italian
question, and it Is only by the obstinacy or ambition of one
of the rivals that a wake as be provoked.
(From the Advertiser.)

Lord Malmesbury has intimated to the Austrian
ambassador that the ft clings of the Boglieh government
were wholly &aimed In reticules) to Austria. This does
net, of coulee, imply that the government of this country
aro to swam as attitude of heetiliny towards Austria.
The respect due to recognised and, undoubtedly, binding
beano may went that; but the penile of Ruglase
have a right to toped that, having already had so
striking a proof of the treachery and Malncerity of
Austria, we shell, at ell meets, n.d commit ourselves by
material acts to bar caws. It is providential that the Derby
government has thus early had practical covariance of the
hollowness, the bypocriey, sad the gross perfidy of the Court
of Vienna, became there was too much reason to believe
that Lord Derby hit • diaroaltion to take pot with Austria,
should wobecomsatglinvolved be the impending strife. What
we have to do at present is to me that Sardinia be not sacrifice I.
Let France and Aalot,La fight as long sodas desperately as
they like. If they both expire of exhaustion in the conflict, the
world will redoice. Ia the meantime, let the oonatitneocies
everywhere lead pledges from the candidates who solicit
their suffrages., that England shall, es long as It is posaib'e,
keep aloof from ratagling actively in the fray, atd that all
our synipathhs shall be upraised, and our moral support be
gtvel, to the cense of Sardirda. That is our obvious come
and it is for the coastituencies, doting the prompt and th;
mientng week, to compel the Derby government to adopt it,
by exacting pledges to that effect from the various can&
dates.

(From the aroniele )
If Lord Idahnesbury has throughout dealt more
eourteoualy with Angles then torbspe her conduct merited,
could he, so a mediator, hove done less? If be bad at the
(From the Times.) cadet became an open parttime of Sardinia, would the nego-
If Austria stands ready to strike, Sardinia no Ices ttsUone have been brought so near to the desired Issue, se
datinthealy offers herself to the blow. No sooner was it that nothlog loos than an oct of snicalsl madness by Austria
known ht Turin that the Aide-de-Cemp of General Gyulai mii 4.6"7 I" Ward c't P"°.? 14" I Milmsburfs
bed onsvered to the court the summons to disarm under the holletkile7 sal maistatiee have pot Austr:s so utterly In
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of ignigia. .tic, ..1 gover. mg, that ty. power
li elm Ire &atheist* Weigel A 'mope, all Europa will look
resistance nay be concentreted, ea absolute dictator. """"a by "V" UI" Immit.l" "'dam"
ship VIM created. Th.,. was we
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log is the (*Wiwi of the Ikediese Clambers, aid there le Moat five weeks ago the Emperor of Airdrie, not
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se !diehard of submis•ioa ea the part of the J. boning that rhombus, for • megrim olskilde,

sempesting Prance of a design to pntraot the negotiation'
with the sole view of preparing herself more affsetnally to 1
comment* the attach a inns Mtn, sent ceders to
General Gyulai to require Piedmont, in compli-
ance with plain treaties and Buropesa pato law,
to ezpal from the calks of her army all Arnim deserters,
sod the replutionery element which formed the nucleus of
her volunteer fonts. General Gyulai Wag portly astonished
at receiviag such a communisation from the imperial °Albion,
applied by telegraph to the Ilinfrear of War at
Vienna for more oomplate instroations. After a
council of Wanton, of whose proceedings I have
no dotard kaowlege, the ceder was suspended.
But within the Mat law dap, whether yielding to a
panne of public opinion—whether, ea I em asenred,
!meanie of an invincible repersmanes on the pert of the Aus-
trim government to re its plenipotentiary sitting side by
side with a representative of flardnia—or for sane other
reams which mast son be known, the order was spin sent
off to General Gyulai, with directions to forward the demand
to Turin, and to require ea "seer withht three days. Those
hots cons to me from a source which leaves no doubt what-
ever on my mind as to their authenticity.

Lord Shaftesbury has Weaned the following
latter to the editor of Sks leant:

ttfilir,—fiardinta having accepted the propositions made te
her by England and Primly the mediating powers, sad
having exhibited her full willingness for the maintenance of
peace, is to be basely and cruelly attacked by the Emperor of
Austria.

"On whioh side should be the hopes end prayers of the
Bride people there an be little question. Sardinia has
declared and proved herald( to be the defender of civil ad
religious Liberty in Italy. She has raised the Waldenses
from degradation and suffering, and planted their church in
the pros pal places of Genoa and Turin ; she permits the
tea presoldag of God's Word is public and in private; sad
whin es the Contisent Is the circulation of the Scriptures
a open, en wide, so onstanneed by the authorities of the
state? Her policy Is to nee the seeroaameab of the
church of Rome; nay, further, it Is to seek, by all kgitl-
mate means, the total abolition ot the molar power of the
Pawl.
..Meseta, es the centery, is opposed to everything greet
and good for the beset of Italy. If there be ens thing
that she hates son than soother, it is civil and religious
Party. What human being or what eared prindes is as
now endeavouring to resew from degradation and suffering?
She is the chief—perhapa, in fact, the eon support of Papal
tyranny and misgovernment in Central Italy. The protes-
tant* in Hsogsry and other parts of her domlniona con 'Peet
the bigotry of her rule; while her rigorous prohibition to
admit the Scriptures, and her despotic minus of whelp
deals in 1863, and the tranaportattaa of their contents
beyond the frontier ' amidst, as the report says, the
?unveiling tsars and sighs of test of thousands of the
?people,' show that she hse no cleim whatever on the 'yr
pathise d the British rhos.
' "Is the deplorable &brace ot the houses of parliament,
there shirt* no szprestion of the public voice. But let na
in, deity or nnitiedly, wherever and whenever we cas
implore Almighty Got that the nascent cams at ' Trod;
'ha irdos, religion end piety,' may, by His blears
hpertly and severally prevail in lands so long in Sushi=
tdreerse esd epieseston.—" I am, air, your sheave
rrva6; Snarruseter."