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(:",ITUR474Y, M. 4 7 14, 1859,

THE DAYS NAPS.

Our yesterday's paper announod the arrival of
the Emperor Napoleon at Genoa, awl the telegraph
informs us since► that his first act was to
issue an order to the army of Italy
in which he says :—" Soldiers, I come .to plus
myself at your head, to conduct you to the eambat

`We are about to second the struggles of a people now
vindicating its independence, and to rescue- it from
foreign oppression ! This is a sacred cause, whith
has the sympathies of the civilised world.
I need not stimulate your ttrzlowt, —every
step will remind yOu of a victory ! In
the Via Sabra Ancient Rorie inscriptions
were chiselled upon the marbk, reminding the
people of their exalted &leas is the same to-day
In passing Iktondov, Marengo, Lodi, Castagloni,
Arcole, ana. Rivoli, you will in the midst of 'those
glorious recollections be marching in another Via
Sacre.. Preserve that Strict discipline that is the
honeur of the army:; here forget it net. There
ate other enemies than those 'ivho fight
againA you in battle. Remain compact abandon
not your ranks !to hasten forward. Beware
of too great enthusiasm, which is the only
thing I fear. The new arms zit precision are
dangerous only' at a distance. They *will not prevent
the bayonet from being what it has hitherto been
the terrible 'weapon of the French infantry. Soldiers;
let us all do our duty, and put our confidence in God.
Our country- expects much from ydia. From one end of
France to the other the folio-wing words of happy

augury

reecho : The new army of Italy will be
worthy of 4her elder sister."' The 21foniteur of yes-

ter4y morning published a telegram. from Genoa
.announcing the enthusiastic reception which wel--
corned' the Emperor on his arrival at that town
The 'Puiis correspondent of the
Thursde-

?Nees, WT

Ung on

there is not much substantial difference in the
country, the platitudes about neutrality and the.
necessity of increasing itienal defences might
as well have been spared as solemn protestations of
the respective belief of the, candidates in the Coper-
`nitiin system and the Ten Commandments. • All the I
heroes of the old cries, crotchets, and crazes reappear ,
as regularly as the clown and his brethren iii the
Christmas pantomime. ' Few have been ostracised I
for their politiCal virtues —still fewer, have been.
discarded for their political worthiness." Thus
writes our eleyer contemporary, . ,the , .Saturday
_Review,— in this instance, however, " too clever
by half" for his subject. The question: he has stated
may now be in every Month ; but there are not
many ,mouths, we are persuaded, that will give
such an answer to it as he has here presented.
In the first place, the "small numerical reinforcer
ment"f which Lord DERBY has received, may turn
out to be,-at least, mlatiirely great. Let us see what
The total Ministerial gains now ascertained
are, We believe; correctly calculated at forty-four,
the Liberal gains at seventeen ; and the subtraction
of the latter Trona the ftirmer 'ilitntier,-leares 'the
nett Ministerial gains, er Liberal loss, at twenty-
seven. At least three more setts are still confi-
dently- expected to be .gained Ib7 the Government,!
which. will make their gains thirty. And This, in
a division, will Cotitt as sixty votes., The majority
against them in the division, from the :adverse issue
of which arose the necessity of the D'isolution, was
thirty-iiine. So That, taking that division as a test
of strength, they have turned the majority el thirtY-

nine Against them, into a majority of 'twentyont
in their favour:- That is to say, if 1116 y Teintrodiide
their Reform !!Bill, or any Bill wAstantially of ',the
same character, they would now :have a majority of
probably a score of votes, or Cnereabeuts: for its
second' reading, .and kir -it's gtiing into Committee.
Here, therefore, in the very outset:of the considera-
tion of this question 'of " What :is 'gained ?" it is

evident that the conclusion is an.ereneous'orte, that
" there is nothing to be expected from -the new
Parliaritent which could not 4u-we been got' from the
old." the second reading df the AEnisterial Reform
Bill wnald be to ;be expected &cm it. As to the
" could not or woald not;" Abatis another matter.
It was because the old Parliament too-util not allow
the lt4form Bill to be Teed.

second time, not

because it could not, that it 1-,ras sent" about its

business. The men, or a majority of. Clem, would
not cloo it ; and -now their successors are'' ;o be taken
as men " more likely tonaehieye it."

ItTst even is it stridiy true, that "It3forrn stands

exettly where iit did." :There hns,not;tonly been no

faltering on the part cif those:to whom the QUEEN'S
appeal
.was made, on -this question, tut there has
I. been an advance , made. The country has at least
ainly and strongly, on the great

spoken out

t every hustings-it .has been a prorni-
.
,ttent topic. But for*the importance 'uf the question
of Peace just now, it would have-been the promizent
topic in every constituency, 'whether County or

Question

Borough

Bat Peace hae generally been coupled

with Progress,--and Progress means Reform. And
I,eeveral Ministerial candidates, •not only' reiterated
ti their adherence to the cause of Parliamentary Reform,
taut declared themselves in favour of a Wider eaten-
ion of the franchise than was ;proposed in the
Government Bill. It•-can scarcelyiae said, therefore,
that even " Reform stands exactly were it did." It
stands, we think, in a nathe •advantageous position
Ahan it did, even on. the Ministerial side.• And on'
,the other side, it certainly stands in a still more
advantageous position, since the seventeen Liberal

14 gins have all.,raore or.less involved the question di-
Reform, —that is to -say, the seventeen seats have
been, snatched by thorough Reformers from those
who were not ,deemed sufficiently decided as Re-
formers, or else were suspected_to be not Reformers
,at all. '

But the question,-" What iagained, and what is
lost 9" to be answered with any degree of certainty.
must be considered in a more _comprehensive point
:of view. We must•see.whitt is, the prevailing com
,plazion of the new House of Commons. And it is
indisputable, we believe, ..that ,notwithstanding the
.Ministerial gains in, the, _General Election, the
Opposition will still haire a Majority of upwards of
.fifty votes. Of course every thing will depend, at
.ill events for some time to come, on the opportunity
.which . may arise for calling into adverse action
the Liberal majority' And' yet, according to
accounts, such an opportunity is likely, to be.
,4pecially provided, immediately on the new Par-
liament being ready to proceed to business:" "It is
not possible to imagine," said the Sear, a day or two
since, " that Lord PALMERSTON and his friends,*can
be at rest at a time when European politics are so
.exciting, and .it .is not surprising to hear that they
contemplate an attack upon the DERBY Administra-
tion as soon as the House of Commons has assembled.
But we can scarcely make up our minds to believe,"
it is added, " that this attack will be founded upon
the policy of dissolving the late Parliament. No

doubt the expressed opinions of Sir JAMES GRAHAM
and vLord JOHN RUSSELL on that subject might
lead Lord PALMERSTON to infer that an amendment
to the Address, in answer' to the .Speech from the
Throne, condemnatory of the Dissolution on account
of the state of Foreign Affairs, would haye,a good
ehanee of being carried, and would thereby be the

means of his own restoration to power. But Lord
PALamitsa'oN cannot be ignorant that many Liberal
members :of Parliament, who sit with him on the
same side of the House, are of opinion that a
Dissolution can, under no circumstances, be an evil,
and that in the present case it will be found to be
productive of much good. Without the support of
these honourable gentlemen, the rumoured amend-
ment to which we allude would be a failure ; and if
Lord PALIitEKSTON does not foresee that such would
be the case, we may respectfully take this oppor-
tunity of advising him to re-consider his intentions."