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Tit' Sardinian army is nobly distinguishing itself
under the personal command of its brave and most
chivalrous KING. We are no admirers of mere
military success. We, civilians as we eve, want the
fortitude to contemplate slaughter and wounds from
the technical and artistic point of view, and to
admire the cleverness with which the army is routed
if the people are theteby undone. According
to our way of thinking, the most victorious
sword most needs to be justified and en-
nobled by the cause in which it is wielded; but
when the liberty of a nation and the interests of
human progress are bound up with that cause, we
should be ashamed if we did not heartily rejoice in
every victory which contributed to its success, count-
ing that blood not spilt in vain which had flowed
to make a people free. Together with a genuice
and humane sense of the calamities of war, we
base lately been compelled to hear and read a great
deal of rant about the wickednem of fighting. We
had men ore day calling heaven and earth to wit-
ness against patriots for the wantonness of drawing
the sword for their country and freedom, and the
next striving with might end main to influence our
warlike passions and political jealousies against
our nearest neighbour.. It is time to lay
said. professions which deceive nobody, not
even ourselves. We are tenderly and wisely
alive not only to our rights but to oar honour, and
should Hy to avenge either if they were invaded, as
the alacrity in which we are combining to form rifle
corps shows. Let us, then, upon the principles of
common sense, allow that others may, with at least
equal reason, fight for deliverance from a giant
oppressor. We are a proud and free nation, but our
love of liberty is not like the miter's love of his
gold, a sordid, selfish passion ; we love it for the
noble things it has enabled us to do; and because it
can do as much for other', we must needs love to
see it extended.

It is not uncommon to hear the war discussed
with reference to some imagined dangers that would
result from French suneas. The obstinacy of the
combats which have taken place hitherto does not
promise that sudden and overwhelming overthrow
of the Austrian domination which some people fear,
nor will the victories of the Allies be so exclusively
French se is implied in the apprehension referred to.
But we know of some casualties which would
happen if, unfortunately, Austria should corns tri-
uniphantly out of this war. If we now call atten-
tion only to one of them, it is simply because that
one has not hitherto acquired the prominence it de-
serves in public regard. The success of Austria
would ensure at least the triumph of Ca►dinal Alt-
Tostt.rt and the system of religions servitude which
he represents. Among the first-fruits of the Sar-
dinian constitution were the statutes which made
the clergy of the monarchy amenable to the
general law ads, land—a measure which the Pori
told Count SICCARDI was " a stab at his heart"—sad
the permission given to the Vaudois to build richness'&
in Turio. This toleration, this reduction of the
inordinate prerogative of the ltomi.h Church ha
made the rove, the unrelenting enemy of Sardinia.
Muy of our readers hare not forgotten how the last
sacraments of the Church were refused to the minister
Si'. r t ItosA because he would not retract on his
death-bed the share he had had as a statesman in
promulgating those laws ; nor how the dyin,c man
raising his eyes toll invoked tit rnal Jetties to
witness that it was demanded of him to do violence
to hie eeoeciiroce, and asked pardon for rejecting the
saisistratiaos of the Church on such term,. While
Sardinia, braving excommunications in which eve*
the KING was included, maintained her spiritual
iadependence, allowed the members of the free
Italian Church libertyof wor►hip, end permitted the
erection of Protestant Cnurches at Nice and Genoa,
Austria fanned the closest alliance with the
Put e. FR iNUIS JOSEPH, by the Coneordat,bronght
the arm of the Church into every department of
society, and even into the sanctuary of families, and
the Clergy cow enjoy in Lombardy and Verna,
greater influence and more ext. osiers privi-
leges than in any other country in Italy,
the Papal Stated excepted. The Clergy,
in return, write catechisms inculcating the must
despotie principles of government, and teach them to
the children of the people. Nor is it only in her own
dorcialans that Austria has repaid the POPS for hie
support. In Tuscany her influence was employed
to obtain from the Sovereign, in apposition to the
ad% ice of Lie Ministers, • Concordat which seriously
diminished the chartered libertieset the people, sad
which it was one of the first acts of the sew Oc-
vernment in Tui.esny to fling to the minds, seta-
bliahing religious filen, in its stead. Should tare
All.es succeed, t►e liberty of teaching and worship
enjoyed in Piedmont will be shared by Lombardy,
Venice, and Central Italy, as they are already by
Tuscany; but the success of Austria would be the
return and perpetuation of Egyptian darkiiess.
We are told by the friends of Austria and the
Pura. that, boast as we may of our neutrality,'
we shall fieht in spite of ourselves on their side.
The organs of our High Church party tell us
that while " war is in the air we are not our own
" masters. We may resolve what we please, but
'• our centrality is iii the keeping of others as well
"as our own. It is at the mercy of accident.; it is
" in a measure subordinate to tire interest of those
" engaged in the war or desirous to join in it." We
saw the other day what a strong Protestant sup-
porter of Lied DERBY had to say in explanation of
the Pw•a's attachment to the present Govern. ,
meat—the PitrmiLa's tenure of mike contributed
to the stability of the Papal chair. The adherents of
the Pore de net conceal their hope, and already