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

s-de-camp

koff; and one which occupies upwards of four pag
Earl Malmesbnry to Lord Cowley. This dispatc

s, from

;h seta forth

the foreign policy of the Derby administration in the fol-

lowing terms

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"Viewing impartially the conduct of both Austria and
Sardinia in regard to Italy, and lamenting most deeply the
spirit by which both have been actuated, her Majesty's
'government can, nevertheless, have no doubt as to the
course which it befits, them to pursue in the present emer-
gency. The British government have always recognised
as a sacred rule of international obligation, that no country
has a right authoritatively to interfere in the internal
affairs of a foreign state, or, with a sound policy, long with-
hold its acknowledgment of any new form of government
which may be adopted and established, without territorial
usurpation or absorption, by the spontaneous wish of its
people. The British government have shown, for a long
series of years, how steadily they have observed these prin-
ciples, and they certainly cannot depart from them on the
present occasion, however earnest may be their desire to
secure the freedom of the Italian people, and to maintain
the
_treaties which confirmed the independence of
their respective states. The government of the
Emperor of the French appears to anticipate
that, notwithstanding the abhorrence with which
her Majesty's government contemplate the coming war, and
the value which they httach to the principle of non-inter-
ference, they will yet be brought to co-operate with France
on the present occasion. The imperial government has had
too many proofs of late years of the anxiety of the British
government to act together with them in all measures cal-
culated to lead to the general advantage of nations, to sup-
pose that it is otherwise than with sincere regret that her
Majesty's government feel themselves precluded, by every
consideration, from associating themselves with France in
the present struggle. They believe that the struggle will be
productive of misery and ruin to Italy, and, so far from
accelerating the development of freedom in that country,
will impose upon it a heavier burden of present ruin and
future taxation. They feel that the war, on whatever princi-
pleS it may be commenced, and whatever obj
contemplate, will infallibly become a v

it may

of extreme
,t hut dread

political passions ana opinions. "Hey uaLotui,
that the events in Italy may react on othe

ations,

and that, at an early Say, all Europe will b
in the conflict. Your Excellency, who 'has taken so
active a part in the efforts of her Majesty's government
to avert these results, will, more easily than any one,
understand the bitter disappointment of her Majesty's
government that all those efforts have proved unavailing.
Nevertheless, your Excellency will assure the French govern-
ment that her Majesty's ministers will not be deterred by
difficulties, past or future, from entertaining hereafter any
overture which may be made to them by either of the
contending parties, indicating a disposition to avail them-
selves of the good offices of -England. Nay, more ; her
Majesty's government will watch with the utmost attention
the various phases of the war; and if an opportunity should
present itself for pleading the cause of peace and reconcilia-
tion, they will not wait to be invited, but will at once tender
themselves as mediators, in the sincere hope that their offer
may be accepted, and lead to peace. They will do so with
the fixed determination to carry out such a mediation in a
spirit of fairness and impartiality, and with an earnest
desire to establish and secure a well-balanced and real
independence of the Italian states and a general improvement
of the administrations throughout the Peninsula of Italy.
The Emperor of the French may be assured that if this
opportunity should present itself, her Majesty's government
will zealously eo-operate with his imperial Majesty, and
will rejoice most sincerely at again finding themselves placed
on the same line with a most valued ally, by acting cordially
-with France in every work of peace and civilisation."

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