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London, England, 1861-10-08 00:00:00

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TUB King of Mumma is at Compi4ne upon a
very obvious and • very natural errand. That
potentate, it is known, had determined on march-
ing an army towards the Rhine, when the Peace
of Villafr.inea seasonably intervened. Since that
time Prussia has declared that, although attacks by
Italians upon Venetia did not interest and should
not move “crinany, nevertheless such aggression
on the part of Italy, if promoted or supported by
France, was a menace and a danger which ought
to be repelled by (Germany in arms.
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Such being the position taken by Prussia, a
solemn appeal has been recently made to it by
Austria. M. vo. So iimeatiNo represented to the
K IN,f4 t;overnment that the question of Rome
was approaching a solution. France, he said,
however &sirens of not offending the Church,
could not oppose it without forfeiting the grati-
tude and alliance of the Italian people and go-
vernment. The surrender of Rome to a Sardinian
garrison was, therefore, to be expected, the ne-
cowry consequence of which would be an attack
upon Venetia in the spring. This, he added, was
so completely pro-arranged and known, that the
Hungarians had acted with a full confidence in
its fulfilment, bad resisted all the proffers of
Austria in consequence, and maintained a passive
attitude in expectation of the seasonable time for
an uprising. In this concerted policy, these well-
weighed moves, the simplest eye, he suggested,
must see the agency of France. And the Austrian I
Minister accordingly summoned the Prussian Go-
vernment to fulfil its promises, and not only be
ready to march in the spring to the support of Aus-
tria, but at once declare its determination to do so.
It may be, as report adds, that Austria accom-
panied this summons by the most tempting offers
to Berlin, such as that of ceding to it the supreme
influence and precedence in German councils;
but on that point our infoi.nation is less sure.
Prussia, before returning an answer to so
serious a demand, naturally desired to sound the
intentions of the French Emreaoa. In the mean-
time, as Smatter of decorum, Count BICHNSTORYP
withheld the recognition of the kingdom of Italy
which had been arranged by his predecessor.
France replied to Prussian interrogatories that a
personal interview between the Sovereigns would
be the best and surest mode of removing ambi-
guities and incertitudes—mid FIZOINICi WlLLtais
is at Compiii,me.

There is mingled good and evil in these per-
sonal
interviews of Sovereigns, as the Emperor o:
Allirais has so fully experienced. Had Favicis
Alerts accepted the first proposition of NAYO-
LISON 111. for an amicable interview—had not
Austrian pride rejected it—the probability is that
CAVOU II would have been disappointed, and the
Lombard campaign have never taken place. Yet
when Is.ANcis Joesru did accept the interview of
Villafranca, it is evident that, whilst he thought
he was safe-guarding the poisonous of his famly
in Italy, he, in reality, was abandoning them
altogether. In the present conjuncture the pro-
testations of Naroinow 111. will be such as
Feeneatee WILLIAM can neither question nor
resist. Indeed, if the French Sovereign was not
prepared to make them, and the German monarch
to be satisfied, the interview would have been
evaded by one or by the other ; and it is very na-
tural to conceive that the Austrians are much mor-
tified by its taking place at all.
But all than protestations, this confidence, and
this accord, cannot have the power to stop the
march of events in Italy. There, it is evident,
Rome must undergo or accept the fortunes of the
Peninsula ; and the French cannot continue to up-
hold Papal exactions and executions without the
relations of France and Italy degenerating into
enmity. Rome must go. Venetia must follow.
And the gnat movement which has liberated the
Italian Peninsula will be continued through the
East of Europe. The insurrection of Hungary
will be accompanied by that of Poland. And it
is for the Sovereign of Petnists especially to deter-
mine what part he will take with respect to the
great cataclysm.

That such grave and serious contingencies, be-
longing to the future rather than to the present,
should be &wafted in all their possible con-.
sequences between Sovereigns is unlikely. They
may be hinted at, however, and it may be
remarked that such events do not really menace
Germany, unless Germany chooses to meddle with
them: that if Fa e or a ire Wit.niam chooees to put back
his policy a century, and rejoin the Holy Alliance
of Russia and Austria to crush the movement of
Sclavonian reorganization, then the ttame of re-
volution will not only reach Germany, but burn!
there even morn fiercely than on the Vistula or the
Danube. But that if the King of l'acesia would
imitate his brother of France, act where action is
indispensable, but otherwise be content to look on
at the course of events developing themselves, his
dynasty would be found in the lapse of years at the '
bead of the North of Germany at least, whilst Poland
would have recovered its crown, the Austrian em-
pire meanwhile, under a different name and with
altered spirit, having merely moved lower down the
Danube. These are dreams that must seem
visionary to the practical politician. But are they
more so than a free and united Italy was six years
back 1

In a pamphlet just published in Paris, "Iw
" Rhin et le Vutule," to which some importance