The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-23 00:00:00

towards us the hostilities of

toman Catholic Europe. We

and pledged to

id order, where we find

lurch of Ron

3 in revolt, the people in arms

gains

temporal power of the head of their
ovets the Papal territo-
and

1. Where one Stat

omething like importance
another to make her powerful. Where all, in fact,
is disorder, ana all that is being done, is declared
to be unlawful !

to giVe he:

To get England into such a labunth of imminent

angers is this, scarcely re
Our su

uired any very extra

rior abilities and good

ommon sense

yed in keeping out
can do nothing for Italy

been di

of such turmoils

t with the sword ; and by pursuing a: course

which the French Government would he the first
to resist, and Austria to forbid. England can do
none of those things in the Roman dominions
that her people desire ; and yet we are to be
mixed up in the unfathomable troubles of the
Holy See. We believe with Mr. DISRAELI that:—

" Time, the great reformer, will save Italy; but if
" there can be anything that will throw her back
"in her career—anything that will baffle her

" advancing destinies—it will be the intrigues of
" politicians who are not Italians, and who, for the
sake of getting an impulse and support which

otherwise they might not command, trifle with

" the fate of a great people, pander to the lusts of
" secret societies, pretend to sympathy they do not
" feel, and, for the 1

we of popular applause and a

" momentary success, compromise the destiny of a
`• great and gifted nation." Here we have the
secret of that interference in the affairs of the
Italian States which threatens disgrace and

bloodshed. We are one day entering into treaties
with one state, and on the next expressing our

sympathy with its rivals. The POPE seeks td
regain possession of the territories Austria has
usurped. Piedmont wishes to lay her hands on

them, and while we would rather see the reigons

a given to either of them, in preference

sing FRANCIS JOSEPH'S

3 ente

r into

eing the independence of th

trian Empire, including, of course, her Italian

inquests

Vhether such a system of dealing

with foreign

ier becoming or safe for this country

a leave the public voice to decide. We

all know what the wretched Italians have suffered

and what they are now enduring, at the hands of
their foreign and domestic oppressors. A true
recital of the afflictions they have endured for the
last four years would make humanity blush. But
are we going to release the ROMAN prisoner from
his dungeon, to drive out the foreign invader, and

vil and religious freedom ?
Nothing of the kind ! The Autocrat of Austria
engrosses the entire sympathy of the French
and British Cabinets. Sardinia may hold
her own, but whatever is done with the POPE
and his people, it will be in the interest of Austria
France has no liberty, and England no freedom,
to bestow on the Romans. If Austria_ should be

e her people to

ldueed to withdraw her
‘troops from the Italian

soil, it will be because she has exhausted it, and
can no longer support an army of occupation ; and
to heal the wound her conquest and tyranny have
left behind them, it is rumoured that she is to
retain possession of the most valuable portion of
our ally, the SULTAN'S, dominions—the Principali-

ties, the very territories we went to war to
secure to the. Ottomans ! Such are the facts,
which history will probably reveal' to us in a few
short months or years.

We may live to see the Austrian eagle waving
along the banks of the Danube, from Vienna to
Galatz, and the trade and commercial intercourse
of Western Europe proscribed as sternly as
it has ever been on the waters of that despotic
Power. Not a word is said .in any quarter
about the withdrawal of the Austrian troops from
the Turkish provinces. Such a thing was never
thought of, and if it should take place, it will be
owing to some marked expression of public
opinion in France and England on the subject.
And taking all these intrigues and their bitter
fruits into consideration, what, we ask, must those
nations, whoare watching our acts and words, think
of the policy Great Britain has followed, and is
pursuing at the present moment ? Is it manly'
open, honest, or English ? Have we a right to inter'
fere if we do not intend to help the oppressed?

Are we justified in trifling with the woes of those

whose anguish we have no intention to assuage?
Are our staunch Allies to be plundered, in order

to prop up treacherous friends

? Our course, if

sh to retain the reputation of being a straight

is to leave

to time those re

which we have not the power nor desire to carry