Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-15 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1859

tin undertaking so well as Lord CoWLEY has done,
beeatse, perhaps, there could not have been
found one who had enjoyed equal opportu-
nities ofknown: g the mind of him who was
the master-spirit of the whole proceeding that had
brought matters to the verge of war. This media-
tion on the part of 'England has had no object in
view but the public interest of Europe. True, Eng-
land herself has a large participation in that interest.
But this circumstance can in no wise detract from
the merit of her prudent and successful intervention.
Her true policy is that of peace. And her own best
interests will ever be safest in the hands of those
who are the most anxious to pursue that policy.
That Austria was resolutely bent on resisting the
aggression, in the most formidable, that it might be
the most effectual manner, which France and Sar-
dinia were on the point of making, is evident from
the magnitude of the preparations which have been
going on up to within the last day or two—if they
are not yet going on, since the dispute is still only in
course of adjustment. Late advices have repeated
the assurance, that all along the Austrian frontier
the military continues to be silently and steadily
augmented ; warlike stores were being collected, and
a new and more stringent system of police regula-
tions has been introduced. it is conjectured that
about 35,000 or 40,000 men are at this moment con-
centrated in the neighbourhood of Milan. This main
body is under the orders of General GUYLAI,
while the entire army of Italy receives for
its Commander-in-Chief, General, or now, Field-
Marshal HESS the latter an appointment
indicating the great care that has been
taken to ensure efficiency, as Hass is not only a
skilful general, but one who is acquainted with
every inch of ground in Italy. Among other
precautions which Austria has taken, is that of a
new order of police, requiring all foreigners, whether
domiciled or on a visit only, in the Lombard capital,
and all Austrian subjects not being natives of Lom-
bardy, to present themselves on fixed days before the
police authorities, in order that their passports may
be examined, and if satisfactory to receive the official
visto. The object of this measure is, of course, to
have an eye on the strangers in Milan, to examine
their credentials, and to ascertain whether they are
there for bona-fide objects. Austria, therefore, it is
evident, wag seriously in earnest ; and though the
odds would have been as two to one against her, yet
with the force she could take into the field, and her
admirable miltary system, " the tug of war " that
must have ensued, had hostilities once broken out,
could not fail to be formidable and desperate in the
highest degree.

But let us hope that all this is now put aside.
One thing especially is needful now to restore and to
make permanent a good understanding,—the acknow-
ledgement on the part of Turin that there is nothing
in the Italian question to constitute a casus belli, and
that the improvement of the condition of Italy is to
be prosecuted by diplomatic means, and devoid of all
threats or ideas of war to enforce compliance with
either French or Sardinian wishes. This is the
proper Policy of Peace ; and it is that which Louis
NAPOLEON must adopt, if it be true that "the
Empire is Peace."

but because their disappointMent will bring to their
minds the fact- which they are so apt, and so ready
to forget, and even. when they don't forget it, to
deny, that our coivttry, no less than theirs, is at all
times a secure refuge for the oppressed—a certain
shelter for liberty and peace to all who come to it in
trouble —to whom, not only is 1,.48 protection, but its
succour ever extended, in a spirit of liberality and
charity. The Americans, we say, are toll much in
the habit of having it believed that we are 'lot in
a position to do anything of the kind,—that we are
ourselves too much oppressed • and tyrannised
over to be able to show any hospitality, or guarantee
any safety, to political exiles such as these ; and that
therefore they must needs ask it at their hands, as
the only really free people in the wide world. This,
we say, is a prevalent idea among the American
people; and it is rather desirable, therefore, that
they should be set right about it. Much to their
honour, however, they would unquestionably have
given, as we are doing instead, a hospitable reception
to these ill-treated exiles. But their hospitality has
been forestalled. And we are not, we repeat,
sorry for their disappointment on this occasion,
but rather glad that it has occurred, since it will
have the effect of bringing home to the American
mind a fact of which they are sometimes only too