The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-12 00:00:00

FIANCE AND ITALY.

The following is the full text of the analysis of
M. Drouyn de Lhuys' despatch to the French
Minister at Turin, a telegraphic summary of which
has already appeared in our columns :

La France says:—
" An Italian journal (the Armonia) has published inexact
informati n respecting the despatch addressed by M. Drouyn
de Lhuys to our representative at the Court of Turin, which
has been copied into different French journals. One of our
correspondents at Turin, whose position allows him to have
seen that document, sends us the following analysis of it,
which is evidently conformable to the true direction of
French policy in Italy :
"M. Drouyn de Lhuys says in his despatch that the
French Cabinet has confined itself to declining all discussion
on the circular of General Durando, declaring in precise
terms that it could not serve as a basis for a negotiation,
and that it was in opposition to the constant tradition of
French policy in Italy.
"A rapid glance at the events of 1848 will suffice to bring
that oppositicn into relief. In fact, when the Pontifical
Government was upset in 1848 by an anarchical movement,
France intervened with a view to restore it and support it
in the name of an interest of a superior and universal•order.
Circumstances have rendered necessary the maintenance of
a corps d'armee at Rome to guarantee the safety and inde-
pendence of the Sovereign Pontiff.
"The Sardinian Government, then under the Gioberti
Ministry, showed itself favourable to that policy; and gave
its consent.
" Since then France has rendered signal services to Pied-
mont in particular and to Italy in general. The remem-
brance and beneficial results of the campaign of 1859 loudly
attest it.
"But after the conclusion of peace, and when at Zurich
an attempt was made to organise the new state of things,
the Government of the Emperor, at the same time that
it gave the most manifest proofs of its sympathy for Italy,
never ceased to make the Cabinet of Turin understand that
it did not mean to relinguish the protection it had given to
the Pontifical States, and that it should maintain its troops

at Rome.
" Shortly afterwards I taly lost a statesman of rare eleva-
tion of mind. France, understanding the extent of that
loss for a young State that stood in need of that firm and
skilful hand in the difficult task of its organisation, resolved
_to r.o.ma to-tha asaistance of the new Kingdom, and officially

recognised it.
but that recognition was accompanied with the formal
declaration that nothing was changed insomuch as the oc-
cupation of Rome was concerned.
" When a violent invasion deprived the Holy See of
some of its provinces, the French Cabinet did not hesitate
severely to blame that act, and broke off its diplomatic rela-
tions u ith the Turin Cabinet.

" The Imperial Cabinet has, therefore, constantly ex-
pressed its firm resolution to preserve Rome against all
aggression, and to protect there the independence and the
sovereignty of the Pope.
"Recently a daring enterprise seemed to menace the
States of the Holy See. France would not have allowed a
rebel to violate the Pontifical territory. She would have
known how to extend her protecting hand to put aside that
danger. The Italian Government itself had the wisdom
to stop that revolutionary movement. _

" France applauded that act of energy. But it would be
an error to suppose that, to recompense the moderation and
the energy of the Turin Cabinet, the French Government
must (doit) deviate from its policy and evacuate Rome.

"It is evident that General Durando's circular was
written under the influence of this error. The French Cabinet
cannot admit it as a starting point of negotiation. At no
period has it ever held out the hope, either to Piedmont or
Italy, that it would sacrifice to them Rome and the
Papacy.
"The policy of the Emperor's Government is therefore
characterised by all the antecedents which M. Drouyn de
Lhuys enumerates in his despatch, That policy has always
been guided in a spirit of conciliation, which does not sepa-
rate the interests of Italy from the rights of the Papacy.
It is that conciliation which France has always followed
up, and to which the Minister makes a new appeal."
" Our correspondent," concludes La France,
"in sending us the above analysis, adds that the
note of M. Drouyn de Lhuys is imbued with the
most perfect moderation, and with deep sympathy
for the future of Italy."

THE NEW _RAPE OF THE LOCK.

(From Fun.)
" Rape of the lock !" I hear the reader say,
" What is the creature thinking of to-day ?
I wonder what on earth this scribbler means,
Who weekly some new text for rhyming gleams
From M.P.'s poisoners, lords, and crinolines I "
To show in fitting parallel, I hope,
The work of chaplains, and the works of POPE,
He showered his polished satires on the mind,
They loose rough satyrs upon human kind;
He order did " as heaven's first law " receive,
Their order is the ticket, hight of leave;
He weighed e'en virtue with a balance nice,
They plump their folly in the scale of vice.
those deep solitudes and awful cells,
Where heavenly-pensive contemplation dwells,"
Where SYIC.ES'S reformation is a fact,
Because he asks the chaplain for a tract;
Where FAGAN'S counted to repent his crimes,
Because he never nods at sermon times ;
Where Artful Dodgers, reckoned full of grace,
Heave the deep sigh and pull the dismal face;
There, as Belinda was sylph-tended erst,
By chaplains is the dangerous felon nursed I
With fond self-flattery, proud of skilful care,
About him still they hover every where,
This gives the greasy curl a saintlier twist,
That eases the steel-gyves upon the wrist,
One wipes the dust from off the mocking knees,
Another makes the couch a bed of ease ;
One's laden with good books to wile away
The watch of night, the tedium of the day.
Another, leaving him to fill the head,
Makes it his care to see the rogue well fed :
Then when the rogue adopts the penitent feint,
Each loves the force of the reform to paint,
And of a sinner thinks he's made a saint,
Proud of his skill in the persuasive arts,
And his converting powers on ruffian hearts ?
Who fatten up in strength, and skill, and health,
The rogues who take our lives as well as wealth ?
Who make the peaceful 'citizens take arms,
Because day's dangerous, night replete with arms ?
Who loose the ruffians with the mask and knife,
To cut a shutter or to take a life ?
Who heed the arm that dealt the jagged gash,
Or clove the skull with that tremendous crash ?
Who upon Fordingbridge a monster thrust,
Trained up to marder, violence, and lust ?
Who from the brutal hand the fetters smote,
Which grasped the hapless Mary Corbett's throat ?
Who turns upon the world this whelming flood
Of rapine, robbery; and thirst for blood ?
The chaplains of the gaol, fooled, luckless elves,
Half by the felons—half, too, by themselves !
Let's meet the point I And from their powers dissever
Tickets-of-leave for ever and for ever.

A new pamphlet, by M. Prondhon, is announced
under the name of "Les Iscariotes," written in reply to
his contradictors.