The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-20 00:00:00

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proaching. Each post brings news is hourly
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more momentous
than the last. Reports are believed in .Paris of
a
serious insurrection in the city
of Naples, o n the Bth
and it is even said that the Neapolitan King
was • '
the power of the insurgents. In the Papal
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Tuscany, Lucca, and the dominions of the King of Sardinia, the excitement increases, and the resolution
of the people grows more determined. A Bonaparte
(the Prince of Canino, son of Lucien) has made him-
self conapicnous in Rome, by leading the citizens, in
the mission e( the Roman civic guard, to compliment
the Ambassadors of Sardinia and Tuscany with ac-
clamations and serenades. Throughout the dominions
of the glorious Pius IX. nothing can equal the cou-
rage of the population except its admirable order.
The Grand Duke of Tuscany, though an Arch-Duke
of Austria, has th."own aside the Austrian cockade,
and adopted the natsonal colours. In the Austrian
part of Italy, as we Seared, great tumults are mo-
mently apprehended, especially in Milan, although
garrisoned by 18,000 Aastrians. It is even expected
that the liberal states of Italy, and the cantons of
Switzerland, will not be restrained from assisting the
revolters against the Austrians. If so, the whole of
Italy will be plunged int o instant war, the only
choice being to permit the population of Lombardy
and the Venetian States tc, be massacred by their
foreign tyrants, or to take u p the gauntlet in their
defence. Louis Ph.ll. is
i ippe i represented by the news
from l'ari Fs as declining to interfere, although Lord
Norman b y has positively declar, that England will
not permit Austria to coerce the independent Italian
States; while other accounts frol-n Italy itself state
that France will concur with Eng land in occupying
Ancona and Civita Vecchia. That England must
interpose is beyond all question, if we are to believe
the announcement, to us almost in -edible, even of
Austrian fatuity and insolence, that in every city of
Italy, in which a National Guard is organised,
Austria is determined to have a garrison. This must
bring the contest to the issue of arms, if some acci-
dental collision have not done so already where all
parties are eager to engage. The affairs, of Spain,
important as they would be at any other time, are
principally of consequence now, as they serve to com-
plicate the great contest which is raging in Italy
between liberty and slavery, between the rights of
separate races and the wrongs of foreign masters
to whom the infamous Holy Alliance consigned
them. Narvaez is said to have received un-
limited supplies of money from ;Paais, with
equally unlimited authority to dispense orders and
honours, and, as the army is reported still to be
under his influence, he is expected to re-establish
his dictatorship as Lieutenant for Louis Phfllippe, by
an armed rising. That Louis Philippe should be
eager to add this crime to his long catalogue is not
surprising, inasmuch as the fruits of all his previous
misdeeds are escaping from him. The Solic Law
may probably be re-established by the Cortes, and
the female succession to Queen Isabella, by which
her sister, the Duchess de Montpensier would reign,
would thus be cut off. Louis Philippe is, of course,
looking to the dynasty, instead of the interests and
feelings of France, and although the army in the
south of his dominions is reinforced under the plea of
watching Italy and Spain alike, there can be no
doubt as to the side on which its march will be di-
rected under the Citizen-King's orders. Abd-el-
Kader too is giving the French further employment,
and their monarch, therefore, another excuse for
inaction in. Italy, by effecting the conduct of Mo-
rocco, and threatening the most formidable war on
the frontiers of Algiers. The quantity and necessity
of these events leaves us but one word for
comment. England cannot remain neutral in a
contest in which another nation is to be, without
pretence of right, utterly crushed and for ever
abandoned to slavery, to the demoralization of
misrule. England must save Italy, and the
more speedily and decidedly she acts, the more
cheaply, easily, and effectually she will succeed.
Daring is often the most solid prudence. If we
speak, we must be ready to strike ; and if we strike,
the blow must be such as to be felt. This is mercy
as well as sense. No one will accuse the writers in
the Dispatch of a love for war. We curse before-
hand the unprincipled villainy that forces us to think
of resorting to it. But if we do fight, let it he for a
good purpose. Let us strike in the lever deep enough
till the fulcrum on which it rests is the independence
of all races, and the rational freedom of all people.
We have seen this war of opinion coming, and no
other or less cause is worth a war—can plead pallia-
tion for its atrocious horrors, or will carry it to a
successful issue. The whole mischiefs of the despotic
settlements of 1815 must be undone. A new
balance of power must be erected, and its basis must
be the right of every people to rule its own land.
All compromise of this will leave the seed of further
strife ; this only can be the final adjustment of
Europe. Independence in Spain, Italy, Germany—
possibly, if Russian or Prussian despotism be mad
enough to come to the rescue of Austrian crime and
folly, even in Poland. A great, a fearful, an awful
era is approaching. God carry Britain through
it with integrity, courage, and honour l— Weekly
Dispatch.