The Express.
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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 15.

Those who are curious in such matters have
just now an opportunity of observing the process
by which a people may fritter away the immense
moral influence they have acquired bythe displayof
high qualities and the occupation of a great posi-
tion. For years past this country has been re-
garded by the Italians as their warm and faithful
friend, and our good opinion and counsel have
been highly esteemed throughout the Peninsula.
But our correspondent at Florence, always calm
and judicial, assures us that there is at the pre-
sent time considerable irritation in Italy against
this country, owing to the tone of the English
press when treating of the expected war. When
we conic to inquire more particularly what is re-
ferred to, we find that, as commonly happens in
like cases, strict justice has not been done to us.
The Italians, overlooking the expressions of good-
will towards them which are the rule of our press,
have been strongly affected by the exceptional
language in which their attitude towards Venetia
is condemned. That in their situation they should
be more sensitive to the blame which they did not
fear than to the sympathy which they thought
was their due, is so natural that no one
would think of complaining of it. But the
reproach they address to us is a very
severe one, and cannot be said to be alto-
gether unmerited. It is substantially that in the
affected character of friends we arc giving them
counsel calculated entirely on the basis of our
own interests, to the disregard of the necessities of
their position. Supposing that we had done so con-
sciously this would be to be guilty of what man-
kind have agreed to call baseness. The Italians
are only saying what every people of Europe
have said of us truly or untruly at ore time or
another. They all allege that we are morally
incapable of entering into and comprehending the
situation of other nations, but persistently
look at all foreign questions from our own
point of view. This is the sum of the criticisms
which our correspondent at Florence has collected
and so forcibly reproduced. We are charged
with not considering what conduct is natural and
reasonable under the circumstances of any parti-
cular nation, but how the line of conduct which
that nation is likely to pursue would suit our
interests. Of course this disposition is the
very essence of illiberality, and the imputation of
it can never be anything but a painful reproach.
It would be a mitigation of the charge if, suppos-
ing it to be well grounded, we could account for
the fact by the imperfection of our knowledge.
But our Italian correspondent, after quoting the
remark of the Saturday Review that it is difficult
to decide whether in the coming war Austria, or
Prussia, or Italy will have the least claim to the
sympathy of bystanders, observes that it has been
read with amazement and indignation, for "it is
" felt that the amount of ignorance which alone
" could excuse such a statement is impossible ;
" and that it can only proceed from a heart and
" brain utterly dead to any nobler motive of
" policy than the selfish desire of material pros-
" perity—for oneself, and not even that for
" others." These reproaches are partly just and
partly unjust. The censures complained of by
Italy proceed, after all, from a very small portion
of the English press. There is in all old societies
a class of persons who systematically suppress
all the generous emotions, cultivate a selfish
cynicism as the truest wisdom, and are ever ready
to fulminate their wrath against those who, in
however sacred a cause, would disturb the tran-
quil current of the world's affairs. The Italians
cannot be surprised that such person' exist in
England, but they ought to know better than to
take them as the representatives of English opi-
nion. We can assure our Italian friends that if
they will take Venetia after a short and sharp war,
they will have the satisfaction of finding those who
now admonish therh as culprits not only swelling
the chorus of the world's applause, but claiming
for themselves such credit as may be due to san-
guine abettors of the exploit. As a nation, we

certainly shall lose a considerable sum, at least in
the first instance, by an Italian war. Already the
depreciation of Italian securities of every kind is se-
verely felt here, where they have long been in favour
as an investment. But, on the other hand, it is to
be acknowledged that everybody who lent money
to Italy must have known well that the country
was politically in a transition state, and that with-
out possession of Venetia the kingdom could not
be considered finally constituted. In fact, a
glance at the price at which Italian securities have
been issued shows that this consideration was pre-
sent to the mind both of the borrower and
the lender. Europe is now expiating in
the apprehensions of a threatened war the
sanction which she has so long given to a