The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-12 00:00:00

ITALY AND THE ENGLISH PRESS.

The following address of the students of the
University of Turin to the conductors of the Eng-
i•sh press has just reached this country
Gentlemen,--We, the undersigned students of the
University of Turin, would wish to convey to you, gen-
tlemen of the English press, the feelings of our high re-
spect and gratitude.
The lively interest and earnest zeal with which you
have advocated and developed the principles set forth
by the Sardinian Minister at the Paris Conferences have
laid us under a deep sense of obligation, and we speak
in our own name and in that of our fellow-students of
all the Italian states and provinces to whose thoughts
and feelings no utterance is allowed.
Gentlemen, the principles announced by Count Cavour
at Paris are the same to which so many of our best and
bravest countrymen have fallen victims. Till very
lately they were but simple though warm aspirations of a
certain party, frowned at and scouted by the powers and
even by the nations of Europe, who deemed them fraug',t
with danger to the general peace and security. But
those, principles have now found an open and a legal
utterance ; they are embodied in a free and yet orderly
and peaceful state— an Italian state ; they are allowed
by a lawful King ; they go forth into the world under
an acknowledged and a respected standard.
That standard, gentlemen, our national standard, the
only hope of Italy, reared aloft, and held up by the con-
stancy and loyalty of our true-hearted King—has waved,
not without honour, beside those of England and
France on the shores of the Tauric peninsula. It has at
last brought together, and joined all the hearts, the
wants, and interests—the longing of all Italians—and
breathed into them a confident hope that the hour is at
hand when, by unanimity and valour, they may make
their country their own.
To hasten that hour, gentlemen, powerful aid has
been yielded by all the free European press, and by the
freest of all—the English. That press has strenuously
brought the cause of Italy before the court of public
opinion—it has maintained in the face of Europe that
our national aspirations were not the wild schemes of
hairbrained youths or the plot of obscure fanatics, but
that they were shared alike by all men who understood
the real, presiding, irresistible wants of a divided and
oppressive country panting for union, for freedom, for a
manly reclamation of its birthright. That press has
shown that Italy is r,ot to be governed by gaols and
scaffolds, that the feeling which is now abroad in the
country is not to he quenched in blood, but is only
strengthened by it. That press will now, we have no
doubt, follow up its sacred mission, and when the day
comes for a renewal of our national contest it will have
enlisted in our behalf the good wishes and sympathy of
the friends of freedom and progress throughout the
world.

Thanks to you, then, gentlemen, who have exhibited
generous and chivalrous feelings for the cause of the
oppressed. We are mere youths, and can do no more
than give you this slight token of our regard and grati-
tude ; but the duty is, perhaps, at hand when the Ita-
lian youth, matured by age, may yet stand by old Eng-
land, and fight out the cause of political and religious
freedom all the world over, and s`low themselves worthy
of the esteem of the free men of .England of all parties.
We have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obliged
servants, in the name of the students of the University
of Turin,

RONCHIETTI GIAONNI,
NIGRA MICHELA.N4ELO,
FsItRABIX CARLOW
Gran. DOM. of Foroari,

Tub; Juno 24,1856,