The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-29 00:00:00

Fl4l GLAND AND THE PEACE.

(From the Nonconformist.)
The easist course for Great Britain to pursig
under present circumstances would be, no doubt,
st
say to the two Emperors—" We protested aga'°„f
your going to war ; we now wash our hands !.
your peace." Mr. Disraeli recommends this cola;
as most consistent with our dignity. We are 11.1
sure that he is right. It may suit our nation
pride. It would be one way of showing something
i
like pique and resentment towards the Emperor 1:
the French for not having waited to hear our lit
vice. But we are not sure that when a man, bi
following his own headstrong determination in
and
saying 01):A
l himself
i
e cnotunnas el s
mess,w at may
once
embarrassingha v e tend e r
dangerous to others, true digniti,
displayed by turning our back uP°P
hpoimsi,tigoents to awith supercilious self-esteenr;
I told you how it would be—you may 11°1
his toi
mhtierna
and
be
f
reap what you have sown—thank Heaven,
have nothing to do with it, and, please Pies' '—
t
Ido not mean to have." Would it not
better, more dignified, more disinterested, to sOrno
" What is done cannot be undone—but is there;(l
way by which We can neutralise the evil of it, ,
is
expand the good ? Cannot we help to mend
unhappy business ?" We are told that NapewL
wishes the neutral Powers to give as full a 11r7;
tical development as possible to his preliinil,°'''of
bases. Now, if the bases are such as to odta",or
this expansion, and if it be a fact that the
really desires us to breath into his work a life wir
may beautify and utilise it, we are not quite °,°.tio
vinced that we should act either a noble or a Po',ao
part to withhold that advice and moral help toscaio
relieving Italy from foreign oppression, which
wei e ready enough to give before the comnie°co.
ment of the war.
The preliminaries of peace signed at Villafraa nco
are not positively and necessarily antagonistic t,
Napoleon's programme. The annexation of Loin
of
bardy to Sardinia contains at least a gerni•co
Italian nationality in it. An Italian confedera.tleo
under the presidency of the Pope presents the id
of unity, although in an impossible shape. Neit'of
the Pope, nor Victor Emmanuel, nor the Kinea,
Naples, will consent to this realisation of the 1u,,,.0
The sovereigns of Tuscany, Modena and Parnia7o
to be restored to their thrones—but who undertallea
to conduct them back in opposition to the armed
protest of their respective peoples ? Austria,
..
course, will not be allowed to do that for &jut
which she was summoned to so bloody an accost'
France, as we are told will not. Meanwhile
de facto governments of these states, in concurretwO,
with the wishes of their people, persist in clairaill
to be ruled by Victor Emmanuel. If Napoleon cloy:
not intend to overawe them as his friends very CO
ght not the neutral Powers unit,
mmioment, in persuading the bew,
at
tthe fidently
presentasse assert—might
gerents to leave the solution to the Italians them,
selves ? Might not a treaty, based upon the Villa
franca preliminaries, really secure Italy from either
Austrian or French intervention ? If it "040
ascertained that four out of the five great PeW;it
were favourable to the framing of a permao!..
arrangement to this effect, and that the fifth
in no position to resist, would it be wise--eeor
tinly it would not be magnanimous—to refuse eiit
aid in effecting such a settlement ? For 111.11 0,,
would be its result ? In Italy, the central state
98
to their own political disposition, would rell.
themselves under Victor Emmanuel, receive eellstr.
tutional government, and enjoy freedom of Ocig
science. Here would be at once an effectual the
put upon revolution, and Italy left to herself w°l3.
not be unlikely to become a strong nation. Europap,
thus relieved from a perennial source of irritatlm,
would be all the more disposed to a general :/;er
armament—and, as Mr. Bright suggested the eli'.l,o
night, liberal fiscal arrangements might wee
ties between Great Britain and Fri,
e--iot
which would be the best possible guarantee agtl,l7,ti
future war, and most effectually destroy our lialw"
1
to invasion panics.
to the
It seems to us that the way is vet open tbe
neutral powers, if they are so agreed, to makei,po"o.
Peace of Villafranca substantially all that NaPt-Oft
set forth as the object of the war. They can -fore
do what they may have desired to be done be';
Austria crossed the Ticino. And if the Emperor of
French really wishes their moral help in °;08,
cil, or in congress, in order that it may be one,
surely our national pride ought not to stand iutria
way. It is significant that the friends of All,snola
are now most urgent in their advice that we sirdoeS
stand aloof from, this peace. Austria herself spr
not wish tl consult us. There is something t 3111,013.
cious in this sudden change. It looks very much
as though, regardless of the woes of Italy, our 100
statesmen would be glad to enable Austria to re ible
to the status quo, and profit as largely as P°ssti
by the capricious and mistaken policy of Nap°iee

The Judgeship of the Court of Record for fir,-Hundred of Salford, vacated on the appointment °L
id stt
Segar to the office a Judge of the County Court hiie",,,ca
Preston, has been conferred by the Chancellor of tll2efi
of Lancaster on Mr. Stianforcl Ratles, of the I`4°.`""
Circuit.
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MURDER.—At the Lincoln Assizes, Yes--„,:r,gettt
Henry, Carew, aged 24, labourer, and William hs"„rde
aged 20, a boatman, were charged with the wilful Zirebl,/
of William Stevenson, at Stickney, on the 17th 001'
1859. The jury found both guilty, They were sate
to be hung in the usual words,