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Belgium, which will speedily be extended to
England, and also to the rights of hospitality,
which we have hitherto afforded to the political
exiles from every nation, and the principle of
" occupation" and the coercion of Peoples strug-
gling for a better form of government, and then
subjugation by brute force virtually recognised.

That we shall have a renewal of the contest at
no distant period seems more than probable ; and
the blow aimed at our naval power seems to show
that the intention has been rather to restrain
England than Russia. It supplies the key to the
whole proceeding—the clue that will enable us to
discover the secret paths of the intricate labyrinth.
As the Leviathan, with too great candour, recently
explained, Russia may yet be wanting. Her aid
might yet be required in some future contest.
But it will not be by England ! It is rather to
control and check the operations of the Islanders.
Had the Baltic fleet been destroyed, as it might
and ought to have been, the British navy would
have been paramount on the ocean.
Britannia would indeed have ruled the waves,
and the combined Fleets of the World could not
have disputed her power ; and the " Campaign
in the Baltic," to use the French phrase, would
undoubtedly have effected this object; and hence
it was necessary for other parties to avert the
catastrophe at any price. Hence the acceptance
of most inadequate terms, when, as the Foreign
Minister informed us, Britain did not stand
alone, and was compelled to consult others.
Hence the sacrifice of our incontestible
rights in a matter in which America,
who is not, and will not be, bound by
these improvident conditions, must henceforth take
the lead and obtain predominance, which was
once our proudest boast. We have been basely
betrayed, and, if those who should have stood
forward as champions have disregarded the sacred
trusts confided to their charge, the People must
seek others more energetic and more faithful, who
will struggle to the last, and contest every point
to the utmost. It is not for Whig or Tory, Con-
servative or Radical, that they are required to
struggle. All that is required is a truly English
Administration, who will not bow down before
Germanism, or surrender our time-honoured insti-
tutions to foreign and unconstitutional influences.

What neither jastice, mercy, nor shame could
effect in the Two Sicilies, is likely, it would seem,
to be brought about by coward fear. Austria,
awake to the danger of the representations about
to be made at the Court of Naples, by England
and France, being followed by the appearance of
an Anglo-French fleet, in the Bay of Naples, has,
it would appear, intimated to King BOMm the
propriety of concession before it was too late.
Nothing more was needed to make that wretched
tyrant and tool, alarmed beforehand, consent to
the publication of an amnesty. Such advice from
Austria was absolute proof that the game was up,
and it was no longer safe to perpetuate the
" desert " state of his " fertile " dominions. SJ
the gaolers of his crowded prisons are to " open
locks" to a number of political prisoners, and his
hosts of spies and cut-throats are to have rest in
their vocation till the storm be past. While so
execrable a tyrant possesses the power to oppress—
there will be no holiday of any lengthened dura-
tion for them. His reign is a fraud on hu-
manity—there need be no wonder at his playing
the trickster, more especially after having been
so successful.

The interference of Austria, and the success
which has attended it, only confirms us in our opi-
nion—that the root of Italian misgovernment is to
be sought in Vienna.- If we were asked to desig-
nate by one word the curse that converts one of
the fairest countries in the world into a desert,
blights therein the entire social system, and turns
forth the best and noblest as a prey to the vilest
and worst, we should unhesitatingly answer—
Austria. Austria, with her unholy grasp of Lom-
bardy ; Austria, in occupation of the Papal lega-
tions and of Parma ; Austria, with her unscrupu-
lous tools and everlasting chicane at every Italian
court, and with the ear of every Italian tyrant
and police minister ! The patriot is mulcted, im-
prisoned, assassinated at Naples—no man's life or
liberty is safe. The tyrant looks to Austria for
protection against revolt, knowing that Austria,
to serve her own purposes, will willingly afford it.
The Papal States are wretchedly misgoverned ;
property is everywhere insecure ; the people are
weighed down with taxation ; the exchequer is
almost bankrupt ; the prisons are crowded with
honest men, the highways and streets infested
with robbers and murderers ; all Christendom is
ashamed of their condition. Austria, that has con
nived at it, sees no reason to have it altered ;
and, relying on Austria, the work of misgovern-
ment goes on unimpeded. Tuscany is a prison,
her rulers gaolers, their support the assurance of
Austrian intervention to put down, any rising of
the people. Parma is at last cpenly governed by
Austria, and her military governor, emulating
the worst excesses of the first French Revolution,
has the citizens arrested on mere suspicion.
Teaching tyranny, stimulating to tyranny, support:.
ing tyranny, trampling down liberty, butchering
free men, never vindicating the rights of man er
GOD, her support of the priesthood, notwithstand-
ing Austrian influence, is everywhere paramount
in Italy, and for the condition of that unhappy
country Austria is morally responsible. The pre-
sence of her troops and her influence withdrawn,
the people would speedily right themselves, if her
tyrants did not at once abate their pretensions,
and concede what they might no longer with
safety deny. The French EMPEROR, conscious of
the blunder he committed as President, wants
,only a plausible pretext to withdraw his troops.

If this be the case—and a fair consideration of
all that has been revealed of late years with regard
to the internal condition of Italy can hardly lead
to any other conclusion—the only wise policy to
be pursued is not so much to intimidate her petty
tyrants as to fasten on Austria the responsibility
of their misdoings, and resolutely insist on her
evacuation of Lombardy, as well as of Parma and
the Papal Legations. The adoption of this policy,
however, if not too much to ask of our rulers, is
more than experience and present circumstances
warrant us to expect. France is shadowed by a
cradle, and England by a German (genealogical)
tree. May the nursery rhyme not prove pro-
phetic, for assuredly the tempest is gathering.

The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh and Lady Susan
In nel Kerr have arrived at the Clarendon, from Floors
Castle, Kelso, N.B.
The Earl and Countess of Gainsborough have arrived
at Claridge's Hotel.
The Earl of Southeak has also arrived at Claridge's
Hotel.
The Countess of Longford and Lady Louisa Paken-
ham have arrived at their residence, in Bruton-street,
from Ireland.
The Earl and Countess of Portsmouth have arrived at
Howehin's Hotel, St. James's-street, for the Beast-n:1.
Lord and Las
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The following officers are named in Crimean General
Orders as about to embark for England :—Capt. Gould,
63d Regiment Lieut. Wood, 13th Light Dragoons
19th Regiment, on medical
and Surg,-on Lougmore,
certificate:
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