The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-28 00:00:00

SARDINIA.

TURIN, MARCH 23.
Yesterday afternoon Count Pa ar officially commu-
nicated to the Minister for roreign Affairs here, the
instructions received by him from his governMent,
that he should at once demand his passports and
withdraw, with all the personnel of his mission, from
a Court which had refused to satisfy the demands
of the Austrian Government. He at the same time
informed Count Cavour that the Prussian Legation
would undertake the duties of viseing passports,
and the protection of Austrian subjects, &c., on his
departure,
This measure has been so long and so autherita,
tively announced that no one has been surprised
at it, but people tatikrally ask what does it mean—
what is it to lead to? The Philo Austrians answer
that it is a condemnation of the Sardinian system
of Government expressed in the same manner as
France and England have Shown their disapproval
of the Neapolitan Government ; and that Count
Buol, in his late circular to Austrian diplomatic
agents, explained that the Imperial Government
round the note of Count Cavour; of the 20th nit ,
Unsatisfactory in every point eteept with regard to
the Lorribardthonument (and even on that subject
he seems to think it rather equivocal), and, there-
fore, the Austrian Government deems it ineoneis
tent with its dignity to maintain a representative
here any longer.
There is no necessity to combat the parallel at-
, tempted to be established by such arguments, be-
cause the difference between the cases is patent to
every one, but it may be allowed to ask, what, in
the name of common sense, did Count Buol expect
the Sardinian Government to do on the receipt
of his note of the 10th of February ? Did he
believe the Sardinian Government would do away
with the liberty of the press at his request, or did
he anticipate such a reply as he received from
Count Cavour? One or other of these results he
must have calculated on as the probable effect of
his note. It is reasonable to suppose, therefore,
that the rupture of diplomatic relations with
Sardinia is neither a hasty nor an inconsidered
step on the part of the Austrian Government,
for it is impossible to imagine that Vienna
statesmen really expected the Government of
this country to alter its fundamental principles
of internal policy on the demand of a foreign Go-
vernment, and so it becomes a question of the
highest interest for people not only here, but else-
where, to know what the Austrian Government
means to do next, and how it proposes by such
measures to vanquish its bete noire the Sardinian
press. Count Buol says that it would not be
in keeping with the dignity of the Austrian Govern-
ment were its representative here to undertake
the prosecution of every newspaper that published
libellous articles against his master ; hut the fact is,

;hat since the law of February, 1852, ou the sub

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ject, the representative of a foreign Power in this
country who conceives his Sovereign to have been
libelled by a Sardinian paper need only lay the
case before the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and
the law officers of the Sardinian Government take
all the trouble and responsibility of prosecuting
the editor of the offending journal. In this way
there have been no less than ten condemnations
of newspaper editors here for offences against
foreign sovereigns since the law came in force,
seven of which were at the instance of the French
Minister, two at the instance of the representative
of Spain, and one at the instance of Count Paar
himself.

The Sardinian Government has, of course,
ordered the immediate withdrawal of its Charge
d'Affairs from Vienna, and I understand that
Count Cavour has addressed a circular to the
Sardinian diplomatic agents at foreign Courts,
justifying this step, and casting all the blame
and responsibility of the present rupture,
and its possible consequences, on the Aus-
trian Government. On the retirement of the
Marquis Cantono from Vienna the business of the
Sardinian Legation there Nv ill be committed to the
French Embassy.
Count Paar will leave this on Friday next, it is
said, and he will take with him the regrets and good
wishes of all here who have in any way been brought
into contact with him. It is rare indeed to find any
one connected with the Austrian Government po-
pular in Italy, and yet for three years and a half,
during which he has been Charge d'Affaires here—
often under the most difficult circumstances—he has
managed, by his good tact and good taste, to give
such universal satisfaction that personally his
departure is a subject of general regret in Turin
The latest accounts from Modena. are to the
20th instant, when, according to the bulletin
issued by the Court physicians, the malady or his
Highness the Duke of Modena was somewhat
diminished.
The Parnza Gazette announces that the health
of the Duke Robert was much improved on the
21st.
His Royal Highness Prince Charles of Prussia
is expected at Nice to-day or to-morrow on a visit
to his sister the Empress Dowager of Russia.
The Grand Duke Constantine landed at Genoa
this morning, and visited the arsenal and other
places of interest in the town.