Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-14 00:00:00

Despatches from Sir J. Hudson and Lord A. Loftus elicit

It should be stated that from the first his lordsh
the•nolica. of Sardinia

p censures

On February 12, he " earnestly

' the cabinet of Turin to patise in its "" headlong
areer." He says, "It may be still within its power to
avert the danger which it has so rashly courted ; it may
still be able to control the passions which it has so injudici-
ously excited ; it may still, with.courtesy, retract the appli-

cgi(ins which it has ralde for for
still come to such a common and

i,zn support

and• it -may

tanding with Austria as

to admit

hat power, re-as

any sinister de-

n§§ on the part of Sardinia,-abstaining from any demon-
Ition of force on the frontier of Lombardy, calculated to

Turin. Her Majesty's g-overn

nt hay(

no reason to suppose that Austria courts an Italian war ;
but, on the other hand, it cannot be supposed that Austria
will submit without a struggle to the invasion of the. terri-
tories which she holds under the united sanction of the
powers of Europe, or allow a foreign state to hold out
encouragement to the disaffected within the Lombardo-

kingdom."

ils of conversations with the foreign ministers of their

respected courts are reported by our representatives at

Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and Turin

The negotiations which preceded and accompanied the
mission of Earl Cowley to Vienna, and the Russian pro P-
osition of a congreSs .as well as the question of a previous
disarmament, occupy a considerable share of the correspon-
dence. The failure of these negotiations was complete on
the 27th of April, when Lord Malmesbury wrote Sir J.
Crampton :—" I have to instruct you to inform Prince
hakoff that the cabinet of Vienna having declined to
accept the

6pecific part of the proposals offered by her
Majesty's government for the adoption of their allies on the
18th instant, which contemplated the admission to the con-
gress of the representatives of the Italian states on the same
footing on which they were admitted to the congress of
Laybach, her Majesty's government have considered that,
consistently with the dignity of this country, no other course
remained for them to pursue than to abandon all further
attempts at assembling a congress of the five great powers
on the affairs of Italy ; and they will accordingly decline to
take part in any such meeting, even if any further proposal
were made to them to do so."

The sole mediation of England was subsequently refused
• the French Government. Under these circumstances,"

says Earl Malmesbury (April 29), " Her Majesty's Govern-
ment have no but to abandon, for the present,
any further attempt to stay the outbreak of war; but they
will, nevertheless, be at all times ready and anxious, during
the progress of the war, to lend their best efforts to promote
the reconciliation of the contending parties, and they will
take advantage of every favourable opportunity that may
offer for effecting that object."

The " hostile" character (towards Austria) of Russian
neutrality is commented upon as early as the 15th February,
by Sir J . Crampton, the English Minister at St. Petersburgh.
In April instructions were given by the Earl of Malmesbury
to our representatives at Paris and St. Petersburgh to make
inquiries about the alleged secret treaty between France and
Russia. The French reply is found in the following

(Translation.)
_ "Paris, April 26, 1859