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London, England, 1860-01-06 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 6.

Tee relation in which the English Government
has until now stood to the project of • Congress
has from the first bees so well defined and indepen-
dent, and moreover has been based on principle, re
obvious and intelligible, that the perpiexitiies. em-
barrassments, and failures in which some of our
neighbours are involved, leave England and English
policy scarcely at all affected. It is quite un-
necessary to recall the very unpleasant memories
of last March, when a bewildered Administra-
tion began by lecturing all parties to the quarrel,
was disregarded by all, and took an odd revenge by
ostentatiously proclaiming its own nullity in Europe.
By an effort of rigour the nation has emancipated
itself from the most dreary condition of those days.
The .Ministry which came in last July was pledged
to a liberal foreign policy. There remained only
the question of menus. A European Congress has
been tor the last four or five months the expedient to
which Europe has looked for determining these
Italian questions which it was not competent to the
belligerents to settle, but it was never much in
favour in this country. Engli-hmen cannot help
associating the thought of a Congress with usurpa-
tions of national independence or limitations of na-
tional rights; here therefore the intelligence of the
indefinite postponement of the Paris Congress has
been received with the least possible regret.
The failure of the scheme of a Congress, assuming
that, as daily becomes more probable, that assembly
will n meet, absolves us from taking part in
council with powers radically opposed to principles
which to us are as the vital air. It gives us back
• part of our liberty. A fortnight ago we were
going, at the cost of some inconvenience, to take our
place in the councils of Europe and discharge
• duty to the world and to ourselves.
The opportunity has suddenly disappeared,
but the same work remains to be performed
whene CT • fair opening present■ itself. In what
form the influence of P.ngland in favour of the libe-
ration of Italy may be best exerted under present
circumstances we shall not pretend to say; but we
are quite sure we tripess the mind of the great
body of our countrymen when we say that this is
mot a time for Greet Britain to withdraw herself
from •cones where her character and voice can con-
tribute to confirm peace and consolidate freedom.
We sr* qui'', suns that nothing is further from the
temper of the nation than a spirit of sullen and ob-
etructiee reserve. Isolation may be at times • duty,
►et England has never yet reno•seed her place as a
greet power. Wean adopt • highly initiative
policy of positive action in Europe, but when rights
precious to the world are concerned we are not and
cannot be indifferent.
It is. of course, impossible to dismiss Italian
stairs and the relations we stand in to them without
Meuse• to Loris NA 11,LtON ; but it is on. this'
to dose. and another to degrade them to a mere per-
usal question turning upon the position of the
French Fweatioa. In the same way it was at-
temi..., . not without • certain measure of success,
to divert from the Italians the natural and just sym-
pathy we alt in their cause during the war. It is
argued that, the Hrtrt•oe having been brought

over to Eoeuth rums so far uto brook with
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he may get out of his difficulties er, wen as he eon.
And this is what mess for polyp This worse
than girlish Vite is what roe brat to the ends of
the world as the express's= of the wisdom and dig-
nity of England. If tkis great Italian difficulty oould
be degraded to a pr, al quarrel, if the Emperor
of the Irxxsca ware not in too commanding pal-
med= of the ti eld, instead of being in these feigned

embarrammer.ts, we should seriously doubt whether
the present. moment, when, by the course he has
taken ay. the Roman question, he has ventured to
throw away one of hie most powerful weapons
spinet us, is just the time for us to play into the
har.ds of the I.ltremontanists and BOURBONS, who
watch for his overthrow.

This nation has made great efforts to recover its
just influence in Europe. Those efforts have not
been in vain. We suss respected, we are strong.
The time for fretful impotence is put. We shall
follow no one's lead, but we are free to co-operate as
we judge best in securing respect for those rights,
respect for which is neesseary for public and inter-
national tranquillity. It is pretended that because
we refused to make war ws ought to thank Heaven
if we can escape from the work of making pesos.
To state this sophistry it plain English is to expose
it sufficiently. Whether we ought to act with France
or to stand aloof from her in the affairs of Italy
depends on what she may propose to do and
bow she may propose to do it, and upon
nothing else. It may suit disappointed statesmen to
find in a congenial newspaper an organ for their
inveterate animosity to a foreign sovereign, but such
persons are mistaken if they expect to find the
opinion of England at their service. hat as vain are
the hopes built on factious combination, in Parlia-
ment. The House of Commons will see through, as
the country sees through, the attempt to sacrifice a
great European cause to personal antagonism.
Nobody supposes that the English Government
will under any circumstances do more for
Italy than exert itself to secure the inde-
pendence and free action of the several States.
No true Englishman desires that it should
do lees, and in doing so by the best means that offer
it will be strongly supported by the nation. The
assertion that, with this object before it, it should go
out of its way to inform every enemy of liberty that
he need look for no effective opposition from this
country, is too absurd to be listened to. We are
quite certain that any Government which should ex-
hibit England in an attitude so imbecile and ridi-
culous would be driven from office amidst general
contempt.