The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-28 00:00:00

lONDON. MONDAY. NOV. 28.

Actiefim still demure. For several weeks the
French Government has been •mi;aously employed
in the endeavour to persuade the Court of Vienna to
leave the arbitration of Italian affairs tom Euro-
peon Congress. The reluctance shows by the
Emperor FRABots Icemen and his advisers was
not perhaps unnatural. If foreign faros was not to be
used to impose a regime of restoration and reaction,
what would it avail to have each a d'yirns for the
Duchies and Legation diplomatically enjoined ?
Yet resort to force had been so plainly and expli-
citly repudiated by Francs, and its specific renun-
ciation by all foreign States was so explicitly in-
sisted on as an indispensable preliminary by
England, that it was hopeless to think
of it a. • means of carrying into effect
any resolution or advice which the dynas-
tic map-tnakers of Europe might be per-
suaded to offer. Then there was the question of
who should be invited to •mist in the proposed deli-
berations—a question not easily freed from difficul-
ties, from whatever point of view contemplated.
Should all the signitaries to the fraudulent compact
0(1816 be asked to participate in its revision 2 And
if not, where was the line of omission
to be drawn' In rain Austria applied to other
powers to sustain tier views as to the bases of the
proposed Coignes. It was not as on former am-
SKIMP, when all felt • deep interest in coming to an
agreement and enforcing • determination. More
than one of the more influential states have in the
present instance taken eseret pains to conceal their
indifference se to whether any Congress at all took
place or not. Malik and France had gone to war
in spite of their counsel and remonstrance ;
and, however neutrals ia the quarrel might differ
in their wishes as to its eventual results, none of
than sff•ctsd any particular anxiety to undertake
the collective task proposed to them. At length,
however, by dint of eoefidential assurances per-
severingly administered by M. Waczwsu, the
Mimosa Haemostat was brought, or was supposed
to have bees brought, to the point desired.
The form of levitation was publicly declared to have
been agreed upon, and io terms all but identical the
other leading Pierer. of Europe were to have been
requested to aid in the general consultation which
Austria by way of compliment to her vanquisher was
to propose should be held at Park. Notpithstanding,
at the oureath hour, new delays are known to have
mime, and new difficulties to have been made. The
mime assigned ie earreetly alleged to bare been the
neminstioa of M. BoNcolgrmisi to the liermsey
tut este►., of Central Italy, an appointment by wishes
it was Grated, the whole question at Mese, sanely,
the legaliiy of the representative set of the people
tandenog ;their allegiance to whom they wale',
was virtually prejudged. Nobody perhaps be-
lieved thit this was pat forward as the solo or rob-
'testis' came of recaleitratios at the last moment
es the part of the Holy Apostolic Empire. The
events that have occurred daring the last fortnight
M Italy, especially the withdrawal of 0411111tALDI
from ens poet be had previously held in the army el
Central hely, me known to have revived hopes and
pretensions that were flickering apparently their
last at Home. In the chilled and trembling bosom
of the Seared Conclave, the warm pulse of returning
courage throbs again. Anticipations of dishearten-
ment and disorganisation among the Volunteer
troops, and discord, capable of being assiduously
augmented, if proper means be used, into open dis-
ruption among the actual rulers of the hitherto
united States, occupy the thoughts of the Vatican.
Already the meek and virtuous ANTONELLI dreams
of reconquest and revenge. Vienna is now besought
to hold her hand, eschew all compromise, and await
the course of events. Les agetas provocateurs are
known to be ready to act in the cause of impatient
liberty, whenever the signal shall be given; and
everything, as in 1448, may be ►oped from partial
outbreaks, divided councils, and the combined
monies of retrogression of the Governments not
yet overthrown, if France will only now,
am then, limit her sympathy to vows in
favour of order, and command her soldiers to main-
tain it el Rot/ pri.r. We need hardly say how
illusory we deem these hopes of evil; but they
are not the less vivid or the less likely to prove is-
Gentle) Weenie they are incapable of justification
in the realities of the can as it stands. GARIBALDI
bra neither seceded in milk because he has not dud
his own way, nor is he lees ready than at any former
time to lead the van of the still deferred up-rising
of ell Italy to assert nationhood and freedom be.
cause, in deference to the resaoninge of others, he
bee temporarily withdraws from his troops the daily

szeiteaseut of ►ia proems. Neither Rome nor
Vienna aaa understood the moral necessity which,
mere t►ea all his ewe pains and daring, has in-
vested him with the power they dread. Whether
his decision of last week be right or wrong as •
matter of palsy signifies comparatively little. AU
Italy (that is Italian) feels that he has acted na-
eallisidy sad acted for the best. The generous lay-
ing dews of military command by a popular leader
in the midst of a popular straggle, when his
motives are unquestioned sad his fidelity undoubted,
sever yet diminished his poetical influence, but, on
the contrary, has generally tended to augment IL
We have little doubt that it will be so with the
pliant chief in question. Nor do we see any cause
far titmice's should Austria determine on refusing
to nod the required invitation for a Congress, or
111111111 sneering to it such conditions aa must lead Is
be indefinite postponement, or to the eventual PEP
fuel of England and other Powers. The game et
time is after all, as things actually stand, no bad
game for Italy. Every day that passes pointing".
' badly of fusion and freedom throughout the Dodd=
sad Legations is a great fact, and one that cannot be
effaced from the COMCIONSCIANI of men. NAPOLEON
Tn. is not a man on whom treachery and tergiver-
maim, in requital for conspicuous forbearance and
generosity, are likely to be lost. Whatever be the
depths of his character as a political strategist, he
cannot sea man be insensible to the difference between
the too relying fidelity of the King of SARDINIA
and the unfathomable fatuity and falsity of the Court
of Vienna. Nor can he, as a monarch whose threes
nets on universal suffrage, be indifferent to the cane
sequences of securing peace, contentment, and fuse•
dom to the nation he undertook to liberate by arms,
even though the tenure of those blessinp be for the
present but tenancy at will. If Rome will ace
reform and Austria will not confer, w►y should he
incur the thankless odium of trying to effect a cam.
promise of interacts in the Peninsula? England,
Prussia, and Russia will be oaly too glad to be
saved the trouble of a Congress. To keep hie word,
unfortunately pledged at Villainess, he has thus far
deemed himself bound to try and bring about such
• compromise ; but if those for whose sake he
has already incurred infinite trouble and solicitude
should think fit to thwart his efforts he has but to
leave them to the enjoyment of sucoess in their
own conceits, and to permit the union of the whole
of Central Italy to subsist provisionally and peace-
ably under its present rulers. If be values popu-
larity at bocce, nothing can contribute to it more
effectually—for even the ultramontane priesthood
will have nothing whereof to accuse him; and if ba
valise the goodwill of the people of this country,
no act which he could perform, however striking or
brilliant, could more certainly tend to propitiate their
goodwill. What might possibly come of a Congress
we know not ; bat what is tolerably certain to ensue
were the project abandoned we think we can very
clearly see.