New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-06

The Constitutional Government Of SsIdinia cer
tanly gives her a claim on English sympathy, and
perbsps, too, q claim on the ,ympathies OF the
French people; but how that motive can operate
on the mind Of the French Emperor We are at
los, TO guess. What sympathy can he have Tor
Sardinia on the score Of constitute ns which be has
60 thoroughly suppressed in France
The above statement Of the misconduct of Aus
tria and the merits Of Sardinia was put forward in
the French dispatch not merely as justification to
France for supporting Sardinia, but as furnishing
reasons ALSO why England should come to an under
standing with France for the attainment Of an OBJ
ject in which both nations since the Emperor ex-
pressly disclaimed all ambitious yisws-might be
assumed to have a common interest.
Lord Malmesbury replied on the 5th of May, IN
dispatch addressed to Lord Cowley, at Paris, and
French Government. He agrees that it was never
intended, in recognizing the Lombardo Venetian
Kingdom as belonging to Austria, to recognize as
appurtensnt to it, any right on her part to extend
her oral or msteral sway oil the rest of the
peninsula He admits that the system on which
Austria had acted, had an inevitable tendency to
render her unpopular, and sooner or later to pro-
woke both var in Italy and foreign Intervention. AT
the same time it is denied that Sardinia, had she
been content with the development of her own In
ternal resources, and the carrying out within her
own limits of her own liberal system OF government,
was in any danger of being molested by Austria
1t is charged upon her that under the influence OF
ambitious desires, and in the hope Of territorial ag
grandizement she had provoked the hostility OF
Austria by violating her treaties of eItraditon by
fostering deseItion from the Austrian army by raj
lying in Piedmont the dscontented spirits of Italy,
by menacing speeches against the Austrian Govern
ment, by cstentatious declarations of her resdi-
ness to do battle as the champion of Italy against
Austria-tbus making herself largely responsible
for the commencement Of war, the frat effect of
which has been the suspension of her own consti-
tutionsl Governments suggestion intended, we
suppose, by way of an answer to NapOeOns appeal
to English sympathies for Sardinia, on the score of
her free institutions.
The dispatch next recounts the efforts made by
England to bring about an understanding between
France ard Austria the subject of Italian affairs,
not without decided utmation that in these efforts
she had not received from France all the cO0pera-
ton she could have desired To the offer made on
the Both of January, of the cooperation of the
English Government with France and Austria TO
bring about an improvement in the social state OF
Italy, Count Walewski had replied, to the great
regret of the English Government that he did not
think the moment favorable one for that object.
Not discouraged by this coldness on the part OF
France-the dispatch implies this, though 1t does
not say 1.-THE English Government, having OBJ
tanned through Lord Cowley ga full knowledge OF
&" the wishes and objects of the French Emperor,
dispatched that noblemsn, with the Emperors con-
currence, to Vienna, to ascertain whether an un-
derstanding could not be established between the
two Courts as to the affairs of Italy. That VISIT ls
alleged TO have resulted in ascertainng precisely
by what mutual course Of action the relations be-
tween France and Austria might be reestabhshed,
and the condition Of Italy improved; but at TINS
moment Russia (Which, when appealed to by En-
gland to Join her in the effort to promote good un-
derstanding between France and Austria, had de-
clined 10 give any advice which was not solicited by
the parties nteryened-as it subsequently appeared
at the request of France-with the proposal OF
Congress. England acceded at once TO that pro-
posal. which was accepted also by the other Powers,
and the information obtained by Lord COwley was
made the basis Of plan for its deliberations by
England, which also took the leading part In the
other preliminary arrangements. 1t is conceded
that the arrangements for this Congress were
interrupted by the refusal of Austria to admit the
italian States to the Congress, and by her pre-
cipitation in calling on Sardinia to dlsarm at once,
under pain of INVASION AT the same time the belief
is distinctly stated that if the protesaons which, at
the commencement Of the year, were addressed by
the English to the Sandman Government against
the policy Sardinia was pursuing, had been second
ed by the French Government, from the influence
pos.essed BY France over Sardinia, a warning from
her as to the danger of that po;y might have pre-
vented those complications, which IN virtue of
promises made to Sardinia, had led TO the march
of French army into Italy. The course which
France considered herself bound to pursue at
this crisis involved question of honor upon her
part as TO which the EDglish Government
did rot assume to constitute itself q Judge;
but they do not conceal the opinion that the apps
rent indifference on the part Of France to any re-
Cancellation with Austria, exhibited in the reply to
the EDgli,h suggestions of the 10th of January,
had raised in Sardinia the expectation of military
assistance from France, not only in maintaining
the independence Of the Italian States, but in her
ong-cherished object Of driving the Austrisns out
of Italy
Though expressed in the most delicate terms,
the substance of this part Of the dispatch seems to