Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-20 00:00:00

NATIQL,EQNI:BI\II;IN ITALY,

.....0E- course)lV'reniiiiii -to' sbetraithat Louis
Italyi after he has completely
rescued it, as he is in a fair way of ;wry soon doing,
:from .the domination of Austria. He purposes to
have no ulterior, and ne,-sinister objects in view—
nothing beyond the liberation of the Italians from
what lie designates as their oppreqsion. And yet it
seems_ incredible: that he can makp such enormous
sacrifices of the life and treasure of his country, as
he.-;_has already4one?ig the war -.he-;has provoked,
in furtherance of his, views, without obtaining for
his country, thus drained of its vital resources, any
national advantage. But even supposing his per-.
sonal ambition can be restrained, and his luSt of
conquest can be repressed., where is the assurance
that Italy will, after all, be benefittecl. by the war ?
Lord MALMESBURY and'. his late colleagues would.
sApplto have had their doubts about it. , "No one,"
said the late- Foreign'• Secretary, writing to:- Lord
Cowes; fooking on the state of Italy, can doubt
that many. causes of just discontent are to be foupd,
in the:general administration of the country, and
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her Majesty's GOvel•nment, sympathiSing; as they
Uitlifelgtrofi'ably do, with the sufferings: of the It
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population, would gladly lend their best efforts to

pradiice existing-- state of
thing; -`huh' the -ad!: I.oiat sztch anzeliordarn cen
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.72Eliti'; be effectedit.teithETOireertainty of permatienty,
by wqr. : It may produces change of masters, but it
will not Confer independence : it may, perhaps, con -
tribute to; the elevation of some fortunate individuals,
but it will ensure the disorganisation of the whole
social system, and itifflefinfteliiTretard.. the`-material
improvement of P.Ancli so
are we thoroughly persuaded: They' die not, there-
fore, the best friends of. Italy who are; the Abettpus
of such a wax—and more especially in such hands..
Beiides, it was quite possible to have effected the
iainelipration,of Italy without; going to war. No one
can impartially read the correspondence which Lord
IVIALINIttRY
,has produCed, and' not arrive at that
conclusion. ,See, for instance, whatLouis-NAPoLEON

himself proposed -to consider ;requisite.- The Em-'
. :peror, is of opinionr,Wrote Lord COWLEY to the
Foreign Secretary, " that it will be desirable . to
obtain_ the following ;points The abrogation of the
separate treatieS which Austria has .:with•
.Naples,
Tuscany, and the pnchies: The a.doption iey; all, the
t_States of. Italy of a systeni - of government wtiCh
would adinit of the taxes being voted by an assembly•
of some sort r The separate administration of the
Lglations by a Roman Prince named by the, Pope, the
seat of GOVernifient, being Bologna (Count WALEw-
ru, howgvey,,,iviis4d,it to be understood that tinder
, nofhircumstance Wiwi:mid the French Government force
the hands of the Pope): -Pecuniary aid from all the
Roman Catholie- states, to the POPa :for ;religious
-:purposesf-and.the consequent reduction of the taxes
levied in the-Papal States.' These were the
which Lord. 7 Covet v was instructed, with; the
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sanction of the-French Emperor, to submit to the
Austrian Cabinet, on, the occasion. of his mission to
V4enna, in February; and they were not found to
be impossible to be: assented to by Austria and
they prbbably gronld have been- assenfed to, had not
France and Sardinia persisted in. advancing their
threatening and formidable.• arinaments to the
Austrian frontiers, there manifesting a settled deter-
mination to make it an affair of horrid war, and not
of peaceful diplomacy.
~ One of the most features in the case,
:.as it is presented in the Official Correspondence; is the
apParentincredulity of Lord COWLEY all along, as
to the warlike designs of LOUTS NAPOLEON.
,` You lordship is aware/' he says, writing to Lord