The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-03
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

Lord Malmesburys history OF the negotiations, de-
livered as was with hesitation that marked how
conscious the speaker felt Of the perous importance Of
accurate choice OF terms in mmnent cras adds little
70 our previous knowledge, and enables us 70 amend
have already put FORTH The information that prn
cpe of disarmament had been admitted by all the parties
10 the Congress- but that the details Of precedence and of
the process Of eecting tho hopeless obstacles
TO any further progress had also time since ceased
to be State secret Lord Mslmesbury's statement
was only what coronation is 70 accession--a
solemn recognition Of widely known fact. One novelty
indeed there was, and that was Of which would
willingly have remained ignorant. appears that when
Austria had made it q condition her 70 10 into
Congress that Sardinia should first disar Lord Mames-
bury struck by the manifest unreaeonabeness of snch
CONDITION had diseountenanced the pretension and had
offered IN exchange, protect the integrity Of Sardinia
against Austria by all the forces Of England France had
acceded 10 this expedent and If the proposition
effect, England and France would be bound in an
alliance for the protection of Sardinia against Austria
obepcd To- be- ,hGs medageS and the u ss
suggestion Of Lord Malmesbury fell without effect
1t Is only worthy Of being now noted because
Lord Mamesbury has himself made mention Of il in
his speech and because this fotoss escape from fatal
e,aan9iemt' shoes how dangerous the poi'e upon oich
hang, and hoao ecessary is TO keep caixual
rulers involve these continental
Qdrres reasonable view OF this question Of dis
aImamcn: was 5,ey Lord Palmerston in the Com.
Sardinia, full ntted the Congress-, should dis
arm before mesfS-sn to which che was in effect
party and Lord " ndon undoubtedly touched the prac-
teal key Of the Sandman position when he said that aoy
amptto disarm while the rest of Europe remained in
An ingenious dramatist has invented position in which
every of his characters has bus weapon engaged
that draw back without tainty OF beng
least wounded and the only escape from the position
Simultaneous casting down Of all their swords and
daggers upon SUMMONS in the Queens name. This
dispute about the precedence OF disarmament almost
realizes, in sober and most grave fact the eat OF the
dramatst Austria, armed to the teeth and sepa-
rated from France also armed the teeth by Sardinia
requires the first preluce negotiating with France
that Sardinia should disarm herself The demand in
itself an avowal Of bad faith. It was a most over.
haat tnha andan
cuded from the negotiations, and IL In effect q
iequest to France to demoish her outworks and
reduce her forces before she began 10 enter into
goation that might end either in peace or war; II was
Cofenty remarked by Lord Clarendon that Austria when
she put forward preepson utterly nadmissble could
not have meant TO 60 into Congress- or must have been
seeking pretsnces for delay. France evidently no
less hollow than Austria in her professions Of desire 70
go into Congress where nothing Ia be decided as a
Of action where the only force be moral
susson and where the topics which exciting TO
the population standing outside the doors Of the Congress
are mott seouously excluded from the consideration of
the assembled Powers.
Whatever minor differences Of opinion may be evoked by
future discussions the explanations Of night that
all parties in England at least agreed to
take their stand upon the treaties Of 1915,
and to require OF Austria to keep strictly within
the limits OF those treaties Some attempts have been
very recently made TO defend those treaties by
which Austria claims power OF Intervention put
any stiuonal innovation popular movement in
any Italian State and who claim TO speak
in the name OF liberal party, would convince that
Austria s more merciful tyrant than native Italian
most odous and tyrannica governments of Italy
foreign but Italian governments. We have been told
that the PaIacy in tsef model Of msrue, and uniting
all that s at once hateful and contemplate in decrept
desposm is essentially Italian. We have been reminded
that the execrabe crueltes which tried the forttude
OF Poerio and his brethren IN captivity were
the. deeds Of Italians their fellow .countrymen,
and that government which has existed eouth Of
the APPS has found any want Of Italians to be the nstru
ments OF misgovernmant and oppression This however
but reproduction OF the places that have In
all ages been used by the apoogas Of despotsm. The
up aCnid0 nj and nj (rnao,
and OF many other peoples among whom sentiment
nationality survives the existence Of nation Even in
Ireland, in those times almost within recollec
ton when England was 30 ladvsed TO treat Irshmen
as subject race there homely proverb constantly
repeated IN that island, that "f England wanted TO
roast an 1risbman there would always be second
Hlshman ready 70 turn the spit" Among every
subject people come degenerate natives will be
found ready 70 do the work Of the foreign
master In the pamiest days Of Grecian freedom there
could always be found ambitious tyrant lean up
on the power Of neighborDg State 70 call in the force
to attribute the Italian peopN the crimes of their
oppressors and TO cite in favor OF foreign dominion the
foreigner What the conditions Of Italian princes
yesterday showed wnen describing the treaties by which
they are bound What are Modena and Parma, Tuscany
and Naples but little satrapes Of the great German PoweP
What are their rulers but petty yrants who work their
will within their small dominons released from those per-
sopa fears which bind the sovereign 10 moderation even
II the circumstances Of this debate offer slender hopes
OF peaceful adjustment, and if the ministers spoke With
true orebodng OF the result Of the proposal to Sardinia
which, az the telegraph has just informed has been re-
1ected, our despair Is by occasioned by the
gravity OF the matters In difference The danger not In
the ayowed grievances, but in the unavowed designs. It
IN the homogeneous character Of the declared objects Of
France and Russia when viewed In relation TO the posi-
on OF the Powers who put forward those objects that the
difficulty lies. II s In vain attempt 10 clear away diff
cuines IN path in which the hating traveller has
ne PSs
Power has proposed 10 another despouc Power that by
means Of Congress third despotc Power shall pave the
tvI Tale to