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LONDON, TUESDAY, /Pin IS.

Tee Lou, Msrea's Easter dialler has pwswersel
for the country the advantage of a public end edemas
etatement ea the highest suthocityrespectisi the
great subject which sow occupics dr rind of
every &whirlers. I•til the last irrevocable
step has been taken, until the taloa' of die
Austrian doehle-berled eagle are eetaelly reading

the limbs of Piedosoae, a kindly instinct impels ye to
cherish nide whatever difEcoltiee the blips. that
in some way pewee may yet be peessreed. Only a
week has pared since Ministers made their ex-
planation in Parliament, and ye, so rapid has been
the stimession of events that we seem separated by

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a long puled fran the situation they described.
At the eleventh hour, when we detect our

solves involuntarily bending to catch the
report of the Ant hostile discharge, the
First Ntisister of ths Omura eseceives it to be
his duty to take his essetry to 'tritons that he, sad
the nation in whose aims he speaks, are gadder

of the blood that nay be spilt in this wiz.
The Part I as uedertesk Wien the LOAD MATOI sad

the company easetabled at the Maaaioe-Sew yawls,
day, " what we have done, what we are dein. sad
o what we think it right to do," with Wanes, to the

present troubles is Europe. On the first pallet his
lordship bad little that was new to tell. He ex-
planned, much as be hsd done a week before, the
canoes which had led to the interniption of Lod
Cowt.se's mediation, Lad assumed almost thetas* of
an wearier when he spoke of the intervention of
Russia with the proposal to substitute a Congress
foe the mediation of a single State. This
is not the first time that members of the
present Cabinet hays held a similar language, one of
many signs of their disposition to depreciate sr seen
ignore the real question at isese, the unnatural and
illegal situation of Italy, and to see in the present
complications merely a foolish quarrel betimes
Austria end France. English statesmanship has robe-
graded very much within the last three yon, if it cow
not see that there is a veritableltalian quietism grow-
ing up and increasing in difficulty year by year, which
the moral forced all lb, Great Towers et Europe Is
not too great to settle. It is natural that Lard
Rear v should indulge the belief that Lad Cowurts
minims, had it not been crossed, wield bawl Rd
to a peaceful solution of penes; tfillimddiss
but the public 'only knows just so musk of It
as it can infer from the " four points" laid dawn la
concert with the Austrian Foreign Minister ea a
basis for an agreement between Austria sod hums.
As Lord DIIIIBT revived those points last night, sad
spoke of them with warmth as a precious asquid.
hoc, now, alas! lost for ever, we are compelled to

express our deliberate and sincere conviction that a
more rotten and treacherous teas of negotiations
than those four points wes never contomplatod by any
statesman, Russia, far from doing us disservice, has
preserved us from contempt and mockery in clearing
away those delusive and empty propositions. Lord
Dater laid stress as the fact that the difficulties
which have since arisen have all been of a formal cha-
racter ; they have not related to the tares of peace,
but to the terms of negotiation. But he forgot to
mention that those difficulties, artificial as they were,
were invented by Austria; that they were met in a
spirit of °oscillation by France sod Sardinia ; and
that both those power* were making ommiderable
concessions at the moment when the Emperor
FRAICCIS JOSEPH suddenly resolved to withdraw his
Italian policy from the cognisance of European
diplomacy, and to obtain his point by dealing singly
with Sardinia. The arbitrary conduct of Austria
disappoints Lord DWI', bat we ask those who
remember the insulting alterations which Coast
BVOL made in the English proposals which
were to serve se a basis for asediatioo, whether
the Mistrials Government wee not then actuated
by the very me* swimmers spirit which she
sow displays—the spirit, in fact, which has
for forty years animated her is dealing with Italian
Stake—and wheeler there is the least reason to
believe that aerstiatioes mommeneed on her pat by
• imam! ler the disarmament of Sardinia, and
seessatiose agaiast her mit she, sod not Austria,
wen the violator of the public law of Europe
would or maid have mom is gest ? Bet, saving
the pest and its questions to leery, let se hear
what Lord Dense has to say et tie presset.
The public has already lees fielleserai of the pro-
test—the solemn sad emphatic protest. as Lord
Deur deseribee it—wkisk OW Government sent off
to Vienna Si soca Is it lewd of the summer
ailetreseed by the Assize. Gemorel to the Sardines r
Cabinet. That protest, simparted as it wee by
stealer reametraisees ham giber Omer, hal hided*
bees ineffectual. Yesterday was the lee[ day before
the expiry of the terms appointed by Austria, eat
the English Government, undeterred by Nam
failures, determieed to make one last Oat
Within the last twelve hourar said Lord Mat ,
"we have transmitted a pesperal to Pads awl
• Vienna offering to settle the pests t, dlepas
mediation spun Gee of Giese two eseiltises
s. either the immediate diesemement et the them
• Peewee, Austria, Prams, led lisseek, se es
" agreement that etch army eball remain in its pem
" east polities in • state of trete, if not of rear,
" pending the mediation."
Sash is the last endeavour made by England intim
eau •of pesos. We shall set disease that which •
few hours will decide, the chance of its aceeptaass
by the belligerents. By ow telegraphic despatch it
will be seen that the Frisch Hertaos Footrest
yesterday the ememanication he had publicly pro-
posed to make to the Legislative Body, sod it may
be that this delay was resolved on in order that a
diplomatic arrangement of the present difficulty may
be made impossible by the public annoaseemeat