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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 19.

FILBRVAIY 18, 1861, will be long and freshly
remembered as an epoch in the life of New Italy.
It was 011 that day that the Kixu Elect of Italy
met the tint Italian Parliament, which had as-
sembled around his throne for the last time in
the capital of a little Sub-Alpine kingdom. It
was a great occasion, and though the familiarity
of circumstance obscures from us the wonder and
the grandeur of the event, it will loss nothing of
its significance when it is withdrawn from the
vulgar glance of the passing hour to be contemplated
from a distance in the broad relief of History. It
is not in the nature of Royal Speeches to rise
to the height of any great argument ; perhaps
because they seldom have any great argument to
rise to. King Vievoit EMMA:a:ILL has set an ex-
ample in this, as in many other respects, which
few, we fear, of his brother monarchs on the Con-
tinent are likely to follow. Chief of a Royal
House than which Europe cannot show one more
ancient or more illustrious, he occupies a posi-
tion as a monarch which many Sovereigns
must envy rather than approve. A KING
beloved and courted by his subjects, throned
in their hearts and rising with their destinies,
taking a royal share of all their risks and dangers,
personifying all their hopes and aspirations, one with
his people in heart, will, and strength ; a Knee
who has kept his honour unstained, his good faith
uncorrupted ; who has vindicated the memory
of a martyred father by his gallantry in hard-
fought battles and his unwavering honesty in the

Council—this is a Kim; who has done more for
the cause of Constitutional Monarchy in the
nineteenth century than a million of bayonets
could ever do for the right divine of perjury and
bloodshed. It seems: to be the new destiny of
Italy to be once more the teacher of political Eu-
rope, and to regain at a bound the foremast rank
in civilising freedom. It is not only her ancient
promise% war, but her consummate statesman-
ship, her organizing power, her skill, activity,
and prudence, her singular sagacity in the adapta-
tion of means to ends, her mingled suppleness
and decision, her patient temper, her sober judg-
ment, and her steadfast co-operation, that
have surprised the most incredulous observers,
and the least indulgent critics into admiration and
sympathy. Not lees by her confident equanimity
and determined moderation in crises of discou-
ragement than by her heroic ardour and boldness
in the mastery of opportunities, has New Italy
shamed into unite surprise the Courts and Cabinets
of many old established States. The recent Italian
elections, by their orderly conduct, their public-
spirited independence of choice, and their patriotic
discernment, might put the electoral bodies of
England to the blush, if an English constituency
were still capable of self-respect. An English
Speech from the Throne is not susceptible of com-
parison with the most suocessful of imitations, for, on
the principle that happy is the country that has no
history, the admirable quality of an English royal
speech is, that it has nothing to say. It is no idle
compliment, however, to the constitutional ad-
visers of the King of ITALY to acknowledge that
they have put into their Sovereign's mouth a
masterpiece of kingly dignity, manly eloquence,
and strong simplicity. Tres, it is sot every King
in our days who could address his people in these
ringing tones. Imagine a Fitaxem Jussra, or
even a Wittieu 1., not to speak of • Bavarian
or Saxon Prince, speaking a language so
frank, cordial, firm, and full of trust. A
King must have staked his life and Crown for hie
country, or at least have kept his word like a gen-
tleman, to be so completely unembarrassed in his
talk by the transcendental jargon of ordinary King-
craft. No man understands how to manage the
sisifi.,r dr roi in these latter days better than
Vona Emmen-Et, but the trumpery old trade-
mark is not to be found on any of his pro-
ductions. In his speech we find a smack
of the hero of l'akstro, more than • taste of
Geateat.ot, and a good deal of the country sports-
man, who is more at home in the field than in the
palace. But all these racy characteristics are finely
and subtly mixed and qualified by the finished art
of • Minister who is without a competitor in skill
or in fortune in any Cabinet of our day. The
Kinn Elect of Italy remind, his Parliament that
they are in some sort a Constituent Assembly,
since it falls to their lot to establish the political
organisation of the common country. The fullest
amount of administrative liberty compatible with
perfect political unity is the problem to be solved ;
and, happily, to be solved by an Assembly unsur-
passed in qualifications for such a task. With •
justifiable pride and an admirable instinct
the KING takes credit for the support'
which public opinion in the most power-
ful and enlightened states has given to his
government. The French Government, it is true,
has protested against what it deemed an excess,
by recalling the Imperial Envoy ; but France
is still the friend in need of Italy, and no
trifling difference, can efface the immense debt of
gratitude due to the conquerors of Magenta and
solferino. England, too, though she had not
fought for Italy, had cast her moral influence into
the balance, and the moral influence of " the an-
" dent home of liberty" is one of those living
forces that move the world. Gratitude like this
is not only good in policy, but wise in statesman-
ship : and while it is not the part of Englishmen
to say how much of it England deserves, we may

frankly and heartily own that France, thanks to
the Emmen, deserves it all. The mention of
General LA MAILMORA'S mission to Berlin, to
testify to the Km) "our sympathy for his person
" and for the Gennan nation," is a generous re-
sponse to M. DE VINCLE'S motion, and is equally
unexceptionable in taste and in policy.
The immediate duty of the constituents of the
first Italian Parliament is very plainly and broadly
laid down by the Kola. Italy must, in the first
place, " complete her armaments." But these
armaments are not to compromise the safety or to
" risk the existence " and the fate of the nation
on rash adventures. The Italian army and navy,
" and the Volunteers," have won a renown at
Ancona and at Gaeta which "gives the country a
" just confidence in itself." Italy, therefore, can
wait without yielding or waiving ono jot of her
possessions or pretensions. The Kiwi, with
a noble reticence, speaks sparingly of the
capture of a formidable fortress. FRANCIS IL
was the last of a lino of sovereigns, he was allied
in blood to the House of Savoy,—he has fallen.
There were motives enough for this generous re-
serve of VICTOR EMMANUEL. The continental
adherents of FRANCIS 11. are not so cautious in
their admiration. It may be well, therefore,
once for all, and for the last time, to examine
the title of that predestined monarch to
public sympathy. The plain truth is that
the heroic resolution of Faxxi•ts il. to .do or
die at Gaeta exhausted itaelf as soon as General
Claming, was free to operate with full effect
on the fortress, and General MK:teens Cs heavy
siege guns were in a position to concentrate
their line of tire. The end was never doubtful
from the first ; though all the horrors of the final
bombardment might have been spared but for the
humane interference of the French fleet, which for
three months and more was insufficient to persuade
the victim of a cruel destiny that its only mission
was to bear him away from the rocky promontory
in which he had resolved that " the monarchical
"principle " should be interred with his bones.

When GARIBALDI stepped ashore at Mar-
sala, the Rovases monarchy was struck to
death ; when he " blew a blast" at Reggio
it vanished like a deadly night-mist. The
decisive campaign of Piedmont in Umbria and
the Marches trampled out the conspiracy
which Austria and the widow of FERDINAND,
the Duke of Moolms, the Grand Duke of Tug-
esxv, and General LANORICIRRE had elaborately
organized. True to his appointed fate, Fasmcis 11.
turned at last, and faced his pursuing doom—too
late, except to consecrate for the last time the
hereditary treachery of his House in blood. No one
not a slave at heart will feel a moment's pity for
Fasiscis 11. Nor is it as worshippers of success
that Englishmen will congratulate the Sardinian
Government on the complete suppression of a civil
war on the eve of the meeting of the first Parlia-
ment of Italy.

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1861.

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