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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC. OURNALS.

FROM THIS MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

TIMES.—When the French Government selected a
cavalry officer of no previous reputation in war or in '
politics to take the command of the Roman expedition,
they gave a very strong proof that their invasion of the
Papal States was not expected to assume the character
it has since acquired, or to call for any great amount of
military skill or resolution. General Oudinot was chosen
for this deny because he was the son of one of Napo-
'eon's Marshals, and a man of good connexions in
French society. No sooner, however, had he landed at
Civita Vecchia and launched three or four contradictory
proclamations, than everything turned out the very re-
verse of what had been anticipated. The little demon-
stration which was to procure for the French Republic
about e,0,000/. worth of glory led to a siege of two
months' duration, and an expenditure of men and
money the amount of which is still wholly unknown.
Rome resisted; that is to say, the bands of adventurers
from the barricades of Paris and the banks of the River
Plate, from the shores of Sicily and the forts of Genoa,
succeeded for two months in keeping a powerful French
army outside the Papal bastions and the walls of Belt-
sarius and Aurelian. The engineering skill with which
the defence was conducted and the ordnance pointed
from the walls would of itself demonstrate that the
city was in the hands of very different warriors from the
enervated soldiers or subjects of the Pope. The French
Commander-in-Chief was in every way embarrassed.
His own army was irritated to the verge ofinsubor-
dination by the prolixity of the scientific operations
of the engineers against a place which has ever been
regarded as an open city, defended on this occasion by
no regular forces. His diplomatic coadjutor made a
bold attempt to betray the whole expedition to the Tri-
umvirate. and cause the recognition of the Roman
Republic. France looked.en with surprise at the slow
progress of her arinss an doubts as to the cause she
had espoused in defianeAf the principles of her own
revolution. Europe looked on with disgust at an act of
war for which no just or necessary cause could be as-
signed. The army itself was afraid to purchase success
by means which would have stamped their exploits with
the infamy of Vandalism, and accordingly abstained
from the strongest measures of war. Yet many of the
foreign Consuls, with Mr. Freeborn at their head,
thought fit to protest against acts which seem, by the
faithful report of our own correspondent, not to have
been committed. At last, the French Government,
wearied by expecting intelligence that never came,
induced General Bedeau to repair to Rome, with
powers to act as the occasion seemed to require.
Before, however, that distinguished officer could
have quitted France, the telegraph brought the news
published in our second edition of yesterday, that
on the 30th of June the Roman Assembly had resolved
to desist from an impracticable resistance. It must be
acknowledged that the Triumvirate lays down its arms
with all the honours of war, and that the tone and sub-
stance of its declarations have been very superior to
those of its adversaries ; on the other hand, this spon-
taneous capitulation deprives the French army of the little
credit which might have attached to successful military
operations, -and it leaves M. de Corcelles to deal with a
Roman Government which has not yet abdicated, and
which is not yet overthrown. An entry into the Eternal
City has thus been effected for the French army, but,
politically speaking, these forces are marching into a
cul de sac. By what means, and on what occasion, are
they to be withdrawn? It is high time that the French
Government, having accomplished its military object,
should forthwith inform the Italian Powers and the rest
of Europe what is the precise use which it intends to
make of its present position. At present these intentions
of France are so imperfectly known that we can only
reason upon conjectures. To give her the benefit of one
hypothesis we will assume that the desire of the French
Ministers is to restore Pius IX. to Rome as the head of the
Catholic Church and as Sovereign of the Papal States,
taking the liberal concessions of last year as the basis of
his secular administration, and lending him the pro-
tection of a foreign garrison. Has the consent of the
Pope to these conditions been obtained? Has the Pope
not already declared that he has seen enough of the
consequences of liberal concessions, and too much of
the consequences of French intervention? Will he
trust the assurances of a Power so uncertain and so for-
midable as France? Will he not rather say that if any
political intervention is to take place in his behalf, it
must obviously be that of all the Catholic Powers, and
not the exclusive, arbitrary, and dictatorial intervention
of any one of them? Will he, in a word, consent to
fling himself into the arms of France, after that Repub-
lic has already eluded the semi-engagements which
were supposed to have been entered into at Gaeta? It
is, to say the least of it, highly probable that in the true
spirit of the power he holds, Pius IX. will reject pro
posals tendered in such a form, and will prefer to fall
back on the more congenial assistance of Austria,
Naples, and Spain. The Popo is still in their
hands, and principally swayed by their counsels,
united to those of his own advisers, but
Rome is in the hands of the French, and if the ques-
tion of the Pontificate be th more important. that of
the condition of the city is the more immediate. We
assume from the whole tenour of the declarations of
the French Government and its agents, that they are
.resolved neither to recognise the Roman Republic nor
to tolerate the presence of the foreigners who have
crowded to Rome. They will, therefore, be constrained
to establish a temporary military Government, and
whether they adopt the name of the Pontiff ur not, we
all know that Pius has delegated to them no portion of
his authority. Yet it is only as his auxiliaries that they
can pretend to be tt ere at all, and to hoist the tricolour
on the public buildings of Rome would be as incon-
sistent with good faith and policy as it would have been
for the Duke of Wellington or Blucher to hoist their
respective colours, in 1815, on Notre Dame or the Tui-
leries. The first act of such a Government must be to
purge the city of the foreign garrison, and in that garri-
son will be found several hundred of the bravest and
most daring of the Parisian Garde Mobile and the com-
batants of June, who have shifted their quarters to
fire on the flag of their country. What is to be
done with them? To what dismal shore is the refuse of
Europe to be consigned? But when Rome is delivered
from this incursion of the predatory bands who have fled
from other revolutionary conflicts, her people will de-
mend with equal right to be delivered from the ancient
and intolerable abuses of that clerical Government which
this convulsion has overthrown. Impoverished by the
excess of its own corruption, though still possessing large
resources—ignorant and inhuman, though vested iu a
class of men on whom learning and humanity ought to
have had peculiar claims—despicable, though claiming
an ecclesiastical supremacy above all temporal Powers,
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existence of a Roman Republic in the hands of such men
as Mazzini, surrounded by the outlaws and fanatics of the
rest of Italy and of Europe, would Ise incompatible with
the existence of monarchy and public order in Piedmont.
Tuscany, or the Two Sicilies, for his avowed object has
been to make Rome the centre of a huge revolutionary
movement destined to swallow up and destroy all exist-
ing institutions. But the existence of a purely ecclesi-
astical Government in Rome is scarcely less inconsistent
with the welfare of Italy. If the French had acted on
any definite plan, sanctioned by the Pope and assented
to by Europe, it might now be possible to effect a com-
promise. But from the innumerable shifts and equivo-
cations which they have resorted to in addressing diffe-
rent Powers at different times, we can only infer that
they had no definite plan at all when they commenced
the expedition. They have been living throughout this
business from hand to mouth, until the current of tho
events they had set in motion alone directed their course.
More able and energetic men are now in office; and
although the difficulties of the case have not diminished,
we await the use they may make of a somewhat improved
position. Nor can we forget that although the occur-
rence of these events has justly excited the indignation
of the rest of Europe, yet the principal interest of the
world is to avert the more serious collisions which may
arise from the presence of a French army of 50,000 men
in the heart of Italy within a few marches of the Aus-
trian, Neapolitan, and Spanish outposts.
HERALD.—The news forwarded to us yesterday by
our Paris correspondent, which we published in second
and third editions—and which we again re-publish to-day
—is of the highest possible importance. At the express
desire, it appears, of the Roman Constituent Assembly,
from which has emanated the Triumvirate, hostilities
have been suspended, and a deputation has waited on
General Oudinut—we presume with a view to treat—we
will not say to submit—for submission under the circum-
stances is out of the question, and ought not to be thought
of or pressed. The war—for war it has been on the part
of the French, without any declaration of hostilities—
has been unjust, unprincipled, iniquitous, and as yet
wholly unsuccessful. The right of making war—it can-
not be too often laid down—belongs to nations no further
than is necessary for their own defence, and for the
maintenance of their rights. The only justificatory
reasons for war are—that an injury has been received,
or so far threatened as to authorise a prevention of
it by arms. Applying this test to the proceedings
of the French, we must say that they have
neither been threatened with injury, nor received
injury, from the Romans. This being so, and all the
incentives to offensive and defensive warfare being want-
ing—every justificatory, and every commendable motive
of action being absent—the French proceeding before
Rome must be characterised as vicious, as wanton, as
unjustifiable, as tyrannous. It is a heinous outrage on
the principlea of national equity—on the principles of the
public law of nations—and on the independence of a
small and unprotected state. A nation, or a people, who
act as the French Government have acted in this busi.
ness can have no rights whatever; for every act of hos-
tility they commit is an act of injustice. All the horrors
of war—all the effusion of blood—all the miseries in the
train of hostilities, must be laid to their charge. These
opinions having been widely spread as to the French
proceedings—net merely in France, but in England—the
moral force of the
expedition is altogether pa-
ralysed, even supposing it to have been mate-
rially successful. But. as the siege itself has been
far from successful—as in truth, for all effective pur-
p'oses, it must be considered a present failure—all
that the French now can require is that their
mili:sery honour—somewhat the worse for the
events of the last eight weeks--shall be treated as ten-

derly as possible by the Romans. The French are not
in a position to require more, and they would hardly be
content with less. It is true that if the Romans be res-
tive 20,000 or 25 000 additional men will be sent, under
the command of Bedeau, to Italy, and that the French
force, coute qui coute, will ultimately endeavour to make
themselves masters of the Eternal City, and will pro-
bably succeed in doing so. It is therefore under such
circumstances that we would counsel the Romans to a
compromise by which their honour and the military
glory—or vanity, if you will—of their enemies the
French may be conciliated. If the bases of such a com-
promise be fairly and equitaqy agreed on, though the
injustice of French aggression cannot be wiped away
mcb
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be the most desirable consequence. Nothing can have
been more noble and heroic than the conduct of the Ro-
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Constituent Assembly, freely elected, shall determine,
and this concession once made by the French Plenipo-
tentiary, the French troops might then be allowed
to enter into Rome, and thus spare the citizens the mi-
sery of a bombardment. But if the French—departing
from this moderate tone of compromise—seek to enter
Rome as victors—seek to come with a view to restore
the Pope, the cardinals, and priestly government, and
absolute sacerdotal domination, and to force them on the
reluctant Roman people, then we should advise the Ro-
man people to resist to the death, and to allow even
their wonderful city to be bombarded and reduced to
ashes, rather than to submit to the tyranny. If -the
French take this tone in their intercourse with the Ro-
man deputation, let them accept the consequences, and
assume the dreadful responsibility. The immortal in-
famy that will follow the act in history, though it must
dedicate the name of French soldier to eternal execration,
will be feeble in its consequence compared with the po-
litical results. If Rome tall by these means and in this
manner, the law, not of nations, but of brute force, will
reign before twelve months in Europe—and the French
Republic itself and its first President will infallibly, ere
1850 shall roll over our heads, pass away and perish—
we may say deservedly perish—" unwept, unhonoured,
and unsung." We are not, we confess, disposed to
countenance Governments in their interference in the
11 concerns of :other nations; but it does certainly amaze
us that the English people—and, above all, that the Eng-
lish House of Commons—have exhibited such an in-
difference to the outs age on the law of nations which, for
the last eight or nine weeks, has been perpetrated at
Rome. The only words of indignant protest—of elo-
quent, generous, and manly indignation, that have been
heard, have been beard—not in the Commons—not in
the public streets and forum, but in the House of Lords.
It is gratifying to us, more especially, to know that these
words have proceeded from such men as a Stanley and
an Ellenborough, and that they have been echoed by so
accomplished and independent a peer as Lord Beaumont.
But in the Commons—with the exception of a single
question by Joseph Hume (and we need not say the sub-
ject must suffer in such incompetent hands)—there has
not been a word uttered against the flagitious proceed-
ing of the French. An eloquent an able man, who has,
however, passed a considerable time in Rome, has re-
cently broken the ominous and disgraceful silence that
has too long prevailed in England, and from the ultima
Thule of Ireland, Mr. Whiteside, in a work which we
received late last night, thus speaks of the French pro-
ceedings:—
". The French strive to excel in ferocity the Vandal
and the Goth; beyond dispute their army, their general,
and their President, will earn by the perpetration of this
crime immortal infamy. There can be no unconcerned
spectator of so flagitious an offence against the law of
nations. Unless that law be sufficient to repress acts of
cruelty and wickedness, such as Frenchmen, by the
authority of their Government, now commit in Italy, the
boasted civiliziticn of our age is at an end, and brute
force, unrestrained by human or Divine authority, must
henceforth rule the world. That an unoffending people,
who possessed of political power wielded it with mode-
ration, with a becoming respect for personal liberty, for
property, and even for religion, should be killed by
French Revolutionists, because they desired to escape
from the enormous evils inflicted on them by an absurd
political system, might be expected to have raised an
universal shout of indignation. But we have suffered
this shameful transaction to proceed with remarkable
composure, although murder on a small scale is revolting
to our feelings. I cannot help believing that much of
the indifference with which this outrage against the law
of nations has been regarded in England arises from the
misconception still entertained by many persons as to the
state of feeling prevalent in the States of the Church on
the subject of Papal Government."
The fact is that Viscount Palmerston has fallen into
the error of MM. Barrot and Falloux and the French
Government. Not only the majority but the whole mass
of the population in Rome and through the Papal States
(and the fact is confirmed by Mr. Whiteside, and by
better authority still, the accomplished and- learned-
"Fa.her Prout," arrived within a few days from the
scene of action at Rome), are decidedly averse to the
civil government of the priest. It is not merely that
they dislike this government, but they loathe it, and
hold it in abhorrenc;. A member of the Upper House,
who knows nothing of Rome or the Romans, and no-
thing whatever of foreign politics, talked of the duress
exercised by demagogues on the people. But, with all
alleged, but unproved, oppression of demagogues, is it
not odd that none of the people have deserted to the
French—and that no party whatever has appeared for
the Pope or Cardinals? The fact is, that the mass of
men in Rome, and throughout the Papal States, repeat
in eestacy the ode of Rosetti, prohibited, and put in the
index Expurgalorius by Pius IX. :
" Cada, cada l'anfibia potenza,
Ch'e dei mali feconde gemanza,
E la legge del verbo di Dio
Ch'ella appana di nebbia d'error ;
Radiante del lume natro,
Rimariti la mente col cor
Finche quel servo culto,
Che all' uom, the a Dio fa insulto
Dal sozzo altar nefando
A terra non cadre,
Queriam, queriam snl brando,
0 morte! 'o liberta !"
Had there been an eloquent voice raised in the House of
Commons ten weeks ago against the .French invasion—
or had Viscount Palmerston then written a strong and
vigorous dispatch, the French career of devastation and
destruction might have been at once stayed. But no—
not a word of cheering or encouragement was given to
the Roman people when they .evinced a readiness to
shake off a soul-debasing, sacerdotal despotism. The
press of London, with two exceptions—and politicians,
with two or three exceptions, were silent; and now,
when the Romans have proved their fitness for liberty—
have proved their courage—have proved their energy
and their resolve, not a word is uttered in their praise
—not a word is said against forcing back at the point of
the bayonet the Pope and his priestly cardinals. If
Rome, however, be again destined to such slavery,
Europe will rue it when too late, for the sucess of the
cardinal and the priest on the banks of the Tiber will
only be the assured prelude to the success of the
Cossack and the Muscovite on the Rhine and on the
Seine.

CHRONICLE.—By English politicians the affairs of
Germany cannot but be viewed in close connexion with the
momentous contest which has just commenced on the
plains of Hungary. Upon the issue of that contest de-
pend the destinies of eastern Europe ; and a considera-
tion of the contingencies to which it may give rise must
materially affect cur view of the politics of the west.
We are deeply sensible of the prejudicial consequences
which must in any event flow from the Russian interven-
tion, and of the added strength and fresh opportunities
of aggrandizement which it will lend, if successful, to the
Court of St. Petersburgh ; and we can well understand
the jealousy with which many persons are disposed to re-
gard the struggle for power, which, amidst all her dif-
ficulties, Austria still maintains in Germany and in
Italy—a struggle we must, nevertheless, observe,
strictly in accordance with the traditional policy of an
empire which has always aimed at compensating, by
extended influence abroad, for want of compactness at
home. But we must pause before concurring in the
hasty conclusion that the temporary vassalage of Austria
to her gigantic neighbour will be necessarily or even
probably perpetual; nor are we such ardent votaries of
the " system of balance" as to overlook the criminal and
unjustifiable invasion of the Roman States on the
ground that the presence of General Oudinot in the
Castle of St. Angelo is required as a counterpoise to
that of Prince Paskievicz on the southern slope of the
Carpathians. The capture of Rome, consummated,
as we learnt yesterday, after a siege of four
weeks' duration, is not, in oar opinion, to
be excused or palliated by the prospective advance of a
Russian army upon Presburg and Pesth. Yet in the
meanwhile, we rejoice to observe in the wise and tem-
perate language recently held by the French Govern-
ment—in the moderate and rational tone now gaining
ground in Germany—and (let us in fairness add) in the
attitude hitherto preserved by Russia herself, satisfac-
tory indications that the prospect of a general war,
which no European power has an interest in provoking,
is more remote perhaps than ever; and we confidently
hope that the Court of St. Petersburgh itself, whatever
form the German Confederation may ultimately as-
sume, may find in its re construction an additional gua-
rantee for the maintenance of peace, and the progress of
constitutional liberty in Europe.

PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—A fatal accident had very
nearly occurred yesterday afternoon to the son of the
Rev. Mr. Plow, of Purbrook, whilst bathing off the
beach, Soutbsea. The youth incautiously ventured too
far out of his depth, and his companions were too young
to render him any assistance. Re had twice sunk, when
scitureicnkuloyus
as ef ft. rte'
possible,
dto roach
narget2adwe hueipisMolhilisalalpirirstiihgviall
providentially a boat from the convict-ship Stirling
Castle passed, the men in which bigreat exertions st.T.
seeded in grasping the almost sinking youth by
it
nh the. heal
uncle,,
of his head, before he disappeared for the third time.
.
the sufferer was immediately placed in a hot bath, and
TwohrethmenHollings-
worth's
bathsni adaes
every means resorted to which skill and humanity could
suggest; after four hours of extreme suffering he wan
able to be removed in a fly to the house of
who resides in Grove-road. Ho is now under the care'
of Dr. Rolpb, and, we believe,
Guardian.

[PRICE SD•

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
MIDLAND.
The adjourned meeting of this company (the second
adjournment), appointed to be held pro forma at Derby
yesterday, for the purpose of receiving and considering
the report of the investigation conaraitt;:e, was again ad-
journed until the 22d of August, in consequence of the
accountants' report not being prepared.