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London, England, 1857-12-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECINBER 19.

Ii any doubts existed, either in Italy or elsewhere,
as to the effect which the late elections in Piedmont
were likely to have upon the policy of its present
rules, those doubts have been summarily dispelled by
the teak and unfaltering sposchof the KDIO. Vicroa
EXANALL has uniformly received, because he hoe
uniformly deserved, during the ten years he has
occupied the throne, the cordial and respectful
greeting of his subjects on all public occasions. In
days of hopefulness his appearance has usually been
welcomed with joy. la days of gloom his pre-
sence has been recognised without suspicion or dis-
trust. At all times there was a generous confidence
reposed in the unpretending monarch, that what-
ever he said he would do, and that whatever he
did undertake ha would accomplish to the best
of his abilities and resources. Standing in the
position—let us own it candidly, the difficult and
sometimes dangerous position—of chief of a newly
emancipated people, this character for genuineneis
has proved of inestimable value. It has steadied the
ship of state as nothing else could do. It has prac-
tically taught an imaginative and impatient race
that there is great sad solid good in constitutional
government, even when its action is retarded by
circumstances it cannot overcome, or its policy is
one of slow and occasionally intermittent program.
It has given the habit of national confidence time to
grow—to grow strong and rooted in the destiny of
a glorious land to be eventually freed from bondage
—in the impossibility of the tide of time being
forced back in its liberating coax. It has
gone far to cleanse the Italian bosom of that
perilous stuff, compounded of precipitancy and
despair, that weighed upon the country's heart.
The King of SARDINIA has in this done more real
@orrice to the canes of national regeneration than
by all the great works of domestic improvement
and all the trophies of foreign glory that have
marked his reign. Ile has made every friend and
every enemy of his horses believe that when he
speaks he speaks deliberately, that what he says he
wishes to he remembered, and that he is emphatically
a man of his word.

But he has shown that he has the soar age and
the noble ambition to do more on fit occasion. lie
hie altered words within the last few days which to
every palpitatiag heart in the Peninanla seem to
say, " Whenever I am able I shall be found better
" thee my word." There is not a sentence or
• syllable in the Royal Address which
can legitimately be cc-wanted into a breach of the
urbane impartiality of jostles to all chaos sad
elisions within his own immediate realm, or late a
menace of aggression upon those legally osendlada
authorities in the midst of which him owe 'O&M.
There is net a hard word towards say party at home
or any power shoved. But there is throatiest a
opurtioue end courageous tone of notice to all men,
be they who they may, that Vic-roa Eicirrrn.
knows his duty, compreheeds his position, and will
matt the part he has undertaken to play as a we-
stitsticmal King in Italy. At a moment when a
powerful party lx his dominions, avowedly leagued
with the Courts of Rome and Sienna, boast of having
filched a portion of the representative powers of the
State from popular control, and that they are
stroll% enough to compel the adoption of • 1
teactiooary policy, the Sovereign, in their presence,
sakonnly invoker the spirit of his father as the
Mader of Piedimintase freedom ; declares that the
same mind vale animated him to give popular
rights to his ormatry is 1847 is in kis essi to-day i
ismunde hem all the amatory sad derides wire ler-
resod kiss prompt sad kiyal aid in farther fortifying
and extending the siril and religious rights now
enjoyed by the people; end unmistakeably proclaims
that epee the principles of Liberal/ kris govern-
Salt is imaiatably boded. We may imagine, bet
we who live in an old land of liberty can never fully
knew, the feelings which each words as these excited
la the breasts of those who heard them. Contrary to
thessagenofreepeet,barsta of emotion interrupted the
king as be read frown the throne the well-weighed
term of this noble confession of faith in freedom.
Surprised and silesee-strieken, the members of the
Sacerdotal Party betrayed only by their looks what
they felt at the Royal declaration of "No
surrender." They had persuaded themselves, and
had tried to persuade others, both at home and
abroad, that apes the assembling of the new
Chambers °seat CATOUII and his Whey= would
try to deprecate their hostility by seems predbmies
of ultra. moderation, if not by IMO umenres of sear
session towards the Church. They wen somewhat
divided, indeed, amongst themselves at the coarse
to be pursued, and the leader under whom they
should manduil their forces. The more fanatical section
were all for commencing retrograde operation seance
under theguidemesofthe nochanged and aaebsageable
apologist of all that isobsolete— DELLA )(slot AJUTA
while the worldlier and wiser portion of their body
were for waiting until Giant Itrtrt should be pre-
pared, se their head, to negotiate for a compromise or
to attempt the formation of a Ministerial coalition.
They did sot dream of what has now occurred—
namely, that they must prepare for a struggle, not
for administrative power, but for legislative ormider-
atim ; sot foe the resuscitation el the rid abuses sad
issivitions in Church and State they talked at at
the hustings, but for the emoting et semetitedimal
Minas in their " farther development," as fore-
shadowed in the spereh from the Throne. The tables
sse sempletely turned ; and one malt in the