The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-28 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.-.SUN OFFICE, APRIL 28, 1360,

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
51—highest since noon yesterday.
36—lowest this morning and during the night.
49—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-30.35, still rising.
WIND, Northerly and Westerly, moderate; with cloudy
weather and sunshine occasionally.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 6h. 25m.—Afternoon, 6h. 56m,
To-monnow.-Morning, i 7h. 31m.—Afternoon, Bh. 18m,

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1860.

Her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary made last
evening in the House of Commons some very im-
portant statements. They were elicited by the in-
quiries addressed to the noble lord by the hon.
gentleman the member for Horsham as to the
course which it was in any way likely might
be pursued by the English Ministry with a view
to the preservation of the liberties of those
provinces of Savoy immediately contiguous
to Switzerland ! Provinces, the neutralization, or
comparative independence of which, in certain con-
tingencies, was, so to speak, formally guaranteed
by the 92d article of the Treaty of Vienna, solemnly
entered into, in 1814-1815, by the eight chief
powers of Christendom. The circumstance of this
arrangement to the carrying into effect of which
those Great Powers solemnly pledged themselves,
forty-five years ago, is now—as all Europe knows
—laughed to scorn by the imperial French
Government ! That Government conspicuous
among the rest of the leading States of the
orld, as the ene which alone goes
to war for an idea—only, however, ex-
plaining the nature of the idea really
battled for, at the close of a campaign by means
of a new treaty expanding the frontiers of the
magnanimous champion of nationalities at the ex-
pense of the ally deluded into a belief in his Im-
perial Majesty's unselfish magnanimity ! Such art
the superb " ideas" far which France now makes
war whenever it suits her pleasure and convenience.
These are, we presume, the veritable—ldees Na-
poleonnes ! The latest elucidation of the
mystery to which we have been reverting
has been that wonderful Macchiavellian " do"
Perpetrated upon the King of SARDINIA—
Whereby his august and imperial ally bats
adroitly filched from his Majesty :VicTolt
EmmANum, the pride and glory of his ancestral
dominions. England, that has bad no hand what-
ever in the warlike conflict of last year upon the
plains of Lombardy, has, in her character of spec
tator, awakened at last only when too late to ob-
serve how cleverly the magnanimous Liberator of
Italy (not yet, by the way, quite liberated !) has—in
the instance of his conduct towards Savoy_. stolen
a precious diadem and put it in his pocket!" The
consummate cleverness with which this transfer
has been nmnaged by the French EMPEROR, in
spite of the wily CAVOUR and the chi-
valrous VICTOR EMMANUEL-might almost ex-
tort our applause, in spite of our indignation
on beholding it--but that there comes in instantly
as a painful afterthought, the situation of those
provinces of Savoy that ought to be neutralised—
the provinces impAediately contiguous to Switzer-