The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-30 00:00:00

COWF CA YOUR IN PARIS.

The
effilal announcement in the Piechnontese
• Gazette Of Count Cavour's nomination as represen-
tative
of Sardinia in the approaching Congress
' coincides lith the publication of the remarkable
PainPhletin the Papacy, and confirms the belief to
which itsip_ pearance has given rise, that the corn-
, meleemet of the year 1860 will be marked by a
joint actin of the French and Sardinian Govern-
ments °'behalf of the Italian people, not dissimilar
to that Ihich signalised the commencement of the
year 18§. Count Cavour's retirement from office was
caused by his unqualified disapproval
notoriouy_
of the inditions of the peace of Villafranca; and
the lan, age. by no means measured, in which that
disaPlbval was communicated to his Sovereign
"erne; during a short period, likely to convert the
politic' difference between King Victor Emmanuel
and Is Minister into a personal quarrel. The
franl fearless honesty of the Sovereign, and
tho elf- sacrificing patriotism of the statesman,
hav(been evinced in the speedy termination of a
Pnliteal separation which, on Lord Normanby's
thety of political separations, " ought to have
bect eternal." It is not only in the country of
Lei Palmerston and Lord John Russell that the
• duly of all public spirit is revealed in the willing-
' 11% of public men, at a great national, crisis, to
84nee and stifle their private animosity. The
Ndemic of mutual forgiveness has too evidently
tended to Piedmont. There is even a probability
hat its ravages may be felt in Paris ; and that
thatever bitterness was at first occasioned by the
bnditions announced at Villafranca will disappear
'efore the open avowal that the fulfilment of those
'conditions has been found quite impossible--that
Prance will not restore by an armed intervention
the authority of the Pope and the dethroned Arch-
dukes_ over Central Italy, and that still less can she
allow Austria to perform the task from which she
recoils. _

It is the decided, unequivocal, unmistakable
character of these declarations in the pamphlet
which explain and justify the nomination of Count
Cavour as Sardinian representative. We cannot
for one moment imagine him quitting his retire-
ment and lending his great talents and European
reputation to carry out a policy whieh he has so
energetically condemned. The presence of Count
Cavour at Paris means simply the continuation of
that diplomatic war which Sardinia, during the last
10 years, has successfully waged with Austria and
Rome—a war of which the successes were, in their
way, quite as brilliant and scarcely less decisive tnan
the military achievements of this year's campaign.
To Count Cavour it was mainly owing that Aus-
tria was merely vanquished in the public opinion
of all Europe before she even crossed the
Ticino. But his great political tact has been chiefly
exhibited in the skill with which, whilst resisting
the pretensions of the Court of Rome, he has yet
been able to prevent the opposition of the Sardinian
bishops and clergy from creating disturbance, or
exciting discontent, in the dominions of King
Victor mmanuel. Thoroughly acquainted with
all the intrigues and manoeuvres, with all the
audacity and craft, of the Papal agents, his pre-
sence at the same council board with Cardinal
Antonelli (if indeed his eminence is to honour the
council board with his presence) will furnish a
guarantee that the Papal phase of the Italian
question will receive full justice in the discus-
sions of the Congress. If in these discussions any
clerical or lay defender of the Pope's temporal
sovereignty should venture on the statements which
find a ready credence at meetings of the Irish
Catholics—statements to the effect that the revolt
of the Romagna is the mere work of a small
but audacious minority—we know the answer
which such statements will call down from the well-
stored memory and well-trained logic of Count
Cavour. Nor is it the least merit of the Sardinian
statesman, nor his least qualification for the duties
he must discharge at the Congress, that whilst at
home beyond all other Italians in every detail re-
specting the policy and the administration of the
separate Italian States, he is not less familiar with
the modes of thinking and reasoning of other
European politics. Count Cavour is emphatically
a European statesman, He has often been termed
the Robert Peel of Piedmont. His first distinction
as a political writer was acquired through his
familiarity with English principles of constitu-
tional government, and English views of commer-
cial legislation—principles and views which he
endeavoured to transplant and acclimatise in his
own country. Of his influence at the Court of
France, of the influence which he has exor-
cised over the mind of the French Emperor
since the commencement of this Italian question,
it would almost be superfluous to speak. It was
Count Cavour, not Count Walewski, whose counsels
determined the Italian war. And the reappearance
of Count Cavour in Paris must, we repeat, be viewed
as the strongest proof that the same policy which led
the armies of France to the Lombard plains is once
more in the ascendant, and that not many weeks are
likely to elapse before France and Sardinia will be
found presenting the same combined front toAustria
in the coming diplomatic warfare, which they exhi-
bited amidst the shock of battle and the clash of
arms.—Morning Post.

At the meeting of the Canada Onnpanv, held
yesterday, the receipts for the year wort:, stated at X 51,488,
being £13,958 over those of 1609. Out of the available
balance a dividend of £1 per ftliare, free of income tax, was
declared, leaving about 41,000 to be carried forward.
Mr. C. GILPIN, M.P.—We regret to learn that
this gentleman remains in a precarious state. He has re-
turned to town after a stay of some weeks at Folkestone,
from which, however, he derived little or no benefit. The
nature of his disorder being such ai to prevent his swallow-
ing more than the smallest possible quantity of nourish-
ment, his strength is of course much reduced. His atten-
tion to business of any kind whatever is strictly forbidden
by Sir 13. &odic and his 9ther medical advisers.