The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-12

terials fer great Union victory.
| Perhaps the general issue may yet work out
some such third party as this, and who can doubt
that such party would AT once walk into the
occupation of the government
|
| English Ministerial Views In Regard TO
| Itsl.-The Reconsideration Kingdom
Lost % Austria.
| We copy this morning from the London Post,
Lord Palmerston's organ, what may be consid-
| cred An authoritative exposition of the views Of
| his administration in reference to the Italian
| question They are no more than what were to
be expected from Ministry embracing all sec
-ioDs Of the English liberals, or than were to be
! looked for ss the logical conclusions of Lord
Palnerstop's declarations in 184S. In that year,
| it will be reoollected, his lordship in reply to
| the offers Of Austria to compromise her then
difficulty with the Lombards by giving them in
dependence under one Of her archdukes, and re.
tanning the Adige as her boundary, expressed it
az his opinion that such an arrangement could
never detnitively settle the questions at issue,
and that to the fortunes Of war would have to be
left their decision. There opinions are reiterated
by the Post with still greater positiveness Of sp-
piicatiop. The ministerial organ ridicules the
idea Of negotiation on the part of Prussia ut the
present moment, and says that 1t is idle to sup
poec that she can now step in to arrest the
Allies at the Mincio, and save some portion
Of her Italian kingdom for Austria Sar.
dina. it thinks, will only have her
due in obtaining Lombardy and Venice,
whilst at the same time it pays France the just
compliment of saying that she is fighting honestly
for the independence of Italy, and for the i'm.
mense moral influence which such an achieve.
meDt will give her in Europe
The important influence which these semi
official declarations on the part Of the Pal.
ruerston Cabinet are likely to exercise ia Ger.
many must be evident to every Que who has
watched the course Of recent events. 1t is now
generally acknowledged that II Lord Malmes.
bury had spoken out with similar promptnesa
and eXplicitness, compromise might have been
long since arrived at, and an immense amoun.
OF bloodsbed sverted. Fortunately for the l:ber.
ties of Italy, the men who had the then direction
OF English affairs took less comprehensive aad
decided view of the exigencies OF the crisis. Pie
",
Court influences and party Vaccinations, forced
into the only line of policy compatible with her
interests as great constitutional and CONNER
cial country.
We believe that 70 unequivocal manifesto
ton Of the opinions Of the British government
as is contained in the article to which we refer
cannot but exercise an immediate influence in
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in the secondary States Of Germany to identify
themselves with Austria and 80 provoke gene
raj war. With regard to Prussia, it ia on all
hands admitted that up to the present time her
course has been marked by the greatest pro-
dence and moderation. Still, the Prince Regent
| and his advisers were liable at any moment to
be coerced by the etiervescence of the German
national feeling into steps of which their better
judgment might disapprove. The proposed at
tempt at mediation, coupled with the mebiliza-
ton or the Prussian army, indicated we think,
that the Berlin Cabinet had at length felt il ne
cessary to do something in deierence to the
views expressed by the other members of The
| Confederation. At a moment when pressure
| from these quarters might have induced the
Prince Regen. to compromise himself by
some indscreet step, it happens opportunity that
the declarations Of the new British Ministry ar
rive to forlify his previous determinations Their
effect on the public sentiment Of Prussia cannot
| fail to be such as to strengthen the government
in its desire to steer clear Of Austrian interests
| On Francis Joseph himself it is to be hoped
that Lord Palmerston's counsels will have q
similarly wholesome effect. lie is by this time
wiser man than be was at the beginning of the
campaign, and after he is driven cut of his line
of defences on the Mincio he will probably be
convinced that it is better Tor him not to tempt
the French on to fresh triurrphs on Austrian soil,
with the additional danger Of Hungarian insur
rection to complicate his position. If the ex-
perience of the last few weeks has produced on
his mind the same Impressions which it has made
upon those of disinterested spectators, he viii be
glad to compound for the integrity of his legit-
mate territories by abandoning his pretensions
over those which have ever proved a source Of
weakness to his empire. With the capture
Of Verona, then, and The three other great
| fortresses which constitute the last bull
warks of Austrian power in Italy,
it is not improbable that tho efforts at mediation
which will be made by England, in conjunction
with the other great Powers, will prove sue.
cessful.
With the termination of the war, however, we
must not suppose that the embarrassm ents at
tending it viii end Italy viii still have to be
settled, and the form Of its institutions and ter
litcrial distribution decided upon. Louis Napo-
leon is a man Of too much sagacity not to have
already foreseen and provided for the difficulties
ny which be will be surrounded as soon as be is
called upon to become the arbi.er Of these ques
tons lie has TO preserve bis consistency before
Europe by maintaining inviolate the pledges
9Th which be entered into the war If gives