The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-21 00:00:00

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Tue King of NAPLES has proved himself • good
friend to the DERBY Ministry. He has brought them
out of the Cagliari affair with flying colours. It; not
only Parliament, and the press, and the public that
institute comparisons between the part which the
present Government has played in that affair and
the part played by their predecessors, every way
favourable to the former. Even the Whig journals—
the Times, the Observer, &c.—arc loud in their praise
of Lord MALRESSURT. The FOREIGN SECRETARY
has " won the wise who frowned before to smile
"at last." In so far as Lord MALMESBCRY LS con-
cerned, we have no objection to this sadden conver-
sion of the PALMERSTON-CLARENDON organs. It
does, indeed, suggest a suspicion that MAL-
SIESRURY may have given pledges of his inten-
tion to walk, in so far as Austria and Italy are
concerned, in the footsteps of CLARENDON. We
will not, however, prejudge him. We have from
the beginning admitted that he and his colleagues
have acted in the Cagliari affair with more tact and
energy than the Ministers whom they have super-
seded. Bat while doing them this simple justice we
must warn the public not to run away with the
idea that the difficulties of the Italian question are
at an end—that the policy of the English Govern-
ment as regards Italy is certain to be such in future
as is consistent with the honour of England and the
interests of Europe.
It must not be forgotten that the Cagliari affair
is a mere episode in our relations with Naples, and
that our relations with Naples are merely a enbeedi-
nate part of our relations with Italy and the eon-
atitutimal party on the Continent. The English
and French Ministers were withdrawn from Naples
before the affair of the Cagliari occurred. A satis-
factory settlement of the questions arising out of the
seizure of the Cagliari would not warrant a re-
sumption of the diplomatic intercourse between
England and France on the one part and Naples, oa
the other. And a resumption of diplomatic inter-
amine between the two Great Western Powers and
Naples would not of itself be sufficient to plaoe the
affairs*: Italy on a safe and sati-factory basis. The
vital and perilous question raised by the Sardinian
Note in the first Congress of Paris would still
remain unsolved ; and so long as it re-
mains in this unsatisfactory position we have no
guarantee for the pesos of Europe—not even a dim
and equivocal prospect for the liberties of Italy.
The representation made by the Sardinian Pleni-
potentiaries, in the first Congress of Paris, was
nearly as follows :—That the misgovernment and
oppression of all the other Sovereigns of Italy kept
their subjects in • state of chronic sad justifiable
conspiracy and insurrection ; that this condition of
the rest of the Italian peninsula was incompatible
with the tranquillity and security of constitutional
Piedmont ; that it was equally incompatible
with the permanent security and peace of
Europe. The truth of these representations
was admitted by the Plenipotentiaries for
France and England, who, in the name of their
respective Governments, promised to me their good
offices with the various Italian Sovereigns, with a
view to prevail upon them to adopt • mom wise and
humane policy. The only step that has been takes
in consequence of these promises is the withdrawal
of the French and English Ministers from Naples.
As might have been foreseen, this pro forme: inter-
ruption of diplomatic relations has been contemptu-
ously laughed at by the Neapolitan Government.
The conduct of the King of Nartes and his Coun-
sellors has ever since been, if possible, more wan-
tonly and senselessly oppressive than before. Not
even an attempt has been made by the two great
Western Powers to promote that increase of the
secular element in the government of the States of
the Church which was declared to be indispensable
to their better and more humane administration. As
for Austria, the worst canker of all in the social and
civil constitution of Italy, it is but fair to admit that
no hopes were held out by the French and English
Governments that they would m aster courage to preach
reason and humanity to the Cabinet of Vienna. The
result of this retrospect is that, since the close of the
first Parisian Conferences, literally nothing has
been done to better the condition of Italy.
The gleam of hope which dawned upon the mo-
derate, rational, constitutional Italian patriots,
has again faded away, and a darker midnight of
despair his settled down upon them. With the
exception of the Piedmont/se territories, the whole
of Italy is filled with oppressors and conspirators.
The free state of Piedmont—the only Goshen amid
this worm than Egyptian darkness-6 bated sod
threatened by the oppressors, as a mirror which
shows the ugliness of their own features; and it is
in danger of being again hated by the patriots of
the rest of Italy with the hatred of envy. The
actual state of Italy is bed ; but unless something be
done to arrest the natural current of events this bad
will only be the prelude to a worse. If things are
left to go on as they have been, Sardinia must either
break with the neighbouring tyrants, or succumb
to them. Either event will render an explosion in
Italy inevitable, which will shake all the rest of
Europe.

Nov, if Lord Dutar's Government We prepared
to nuke the whole of their Italian policy contrast as
favourably with that of their predecessors in office's
Lard MA LEIREDURY'N partially successful activity in the
affair of the Cagliari contrasts with the unprincipled
and apathetic inaction of Lord CLARENDON, woo
will be more reedy to do them justice than
we. But if their partial success in the affair
of the Cagliari is merely to be turned to
account for obtaining a party triumph, and
the policy of Englind as regards Italy is
to coutinue as discreditable u heretofore, they
must take the consequences. We say their " partial' I
success, for fall justice has not yet been obtained at
the hand, of the King of NA PLLS. Compensation has
been obtained for the English subjects who suffered
from the lawless endemic.' proceedings of the Neapo-
litan Government iu the case of the Cagliari ; com-