The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-05 00:00:00

" XV.

" What is to be done. Are we to bow to the veto of
Vienna ? Are we to discard it ? Are we to appeal to
force or to public opinion to overcome this resistance, and
effect a solution desired by the general interest ?
" This is the last question we have to resolve.
"XVI.

"The treaties which bind Governments are the interna-
tional laws of peoples, and would be only invariable if the
world was immoveable. If the treaties which are to protect
the security-of Europe place it in danger, it is because they
no longer answer to the necessities or to the wants which
dictated them. Political prudence counsels to substitute
something else for them. A Power which would entrench
itself behind treaties in order to resist modifications de-
manded by general feeling would have, no doubt, for her an
acquired right, but she would have against her moral right
and universal conscience. If, then, it be demonstrated that
the situation of the Italian States is not only a cause of
suffering for the country, but even a cause of uneasiness,
and perhaps of nvolution in Europe, the letter of treaties
would be invoked in vain—it could not hold against the
necessity of politics and the interest of European order.
What, therefore, is to be done ? To appeal to force ? May
Providence keep such an extremity from us I We must ap-
peal to public opinion. When the true situation of Italy
shall be known throughout Europe, and that everybody
shall be convinced that there is in the midst of the most
enlightened States on the globe, on that land from which
civilisation sprung, a. focus of disturbance, disorder, and
profound perturbation, which might so readily become a
focus of light and of noble activity, then public opinion
may judge, and perhaps impose itself as the pacific justice
of right. We have composed this work in order that public
opinion may have the means of
.pronouncing its judgment.
We have no hostility to Austria. The question of Italy is
the only difficulty which can exist between her and France.
" We respect its situation in Germany; which has nothing
to fear from us on the Rhine. The solution of the Italian
question would have for result to effiice between Franco
and Austria all subject of dissension. These two Powers
can approach each other by many common interests, and
the union of all the great Governments of Europe is not too
much to prevent future complications. It is in order to
combine their views and efforts in a general interest, that
we would remove all present difficulties, and resolve one of
the most urgent and most considerable questions of the
moment.

" To govern is to foresee. The best manner of securing
peace is to outstrip complications capable of producing war.
There are dangers in Italy—we indicate them ; on this side
there arc guarantees to give to fundamental Interests—WO
demand them. There arc causes which cannot succumb in
the world ; this is of the number, Weans() it is neither
selfish nor exclusive. It is the cause of the nationality of
a living people, of the equilibrium of Europe, and per-
haps of the independence of the Papacy, which France has
always defended. God would doubtless reserve a noble
portion of human glory to those who would support this
struggle. Glory does not. tempt us ; we have had enough
of it in the history of the past as in contemporaneous
events, to have no need of it. We therefore ardently desire
that diplomacy should do on the eve of a struggle what it
should do on the morrow of a victory. Let Europe ener-
getically unite for this cause of justice and of peace 1 It
ought to be with us, because we shall be always with her
to defend her honour, her equilibrium, and her security 1"

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS ETENING win be performed THE BUSYBODY.
Messrs. Buckstone, Farren, &c. ; Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam and
Miss Reynolds.
After which, a new grand Combo Pantomime, entitled
U&DINE ; or, Harlequin and the Spirit of the Waters.