The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-29

| There is world Of matter for reflection 10 the
extracts which we published yesterday from the
official correspondence between Lord Malues-
| bury, the late Brtish Minister for Foreign AZ
fairs, ard the representatives Of England at tue
courts Of Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Turin aud
Rome.
| They chow how completely the Derby Cabi
net permitted dare not to wait upon would,
and, binding themselves to the true position Of
affairs in Europe. aud particularly in Italy, ST
fered it to drift into the present war As early
as the beginning OF December Lord Malnes-
bury says be communicated on two occasions to
the Austrian Minister the apprhensions OF the
British government that war was approaching;
so that the speech of Louis Napoleon to
| Baron Hubner on New Years day could not
have taken them by surprise. On the Sd day
| of January Sir j. Hudson writes from Turin o
| Lord Malmesbury that affairs ia Lombardy have
not improved-that Northern Italy is ripe
for insurrection-ttat "the national Italian
party has, during the last three years, absorbed
the Carbonari and the greater part Of the
republicans; that an outbreak ia Lombardy or
in the Legations might extend in a very short
space Of time over the whole peninsula, aud
that be bad told the King on the 3lst of Decem.
Der, shat Great Britain would see with dis
pleasure the peace Of Europe disturbed; that
she would respect existing treaties, aud would
require the other co-signatures to respect them
too" Sir J. Hudson did not venture to say this
to the King of Sardinia without positive instruo.
tons from his government to do 30; and that
this menace should have been made to Victor
Emanuel in view Of the fact that not be- but
Austrian despotsm, was the true cause of that
agitation in Italy which threatened to involve
that peninsula, and ultimately the whole OF
Europe, in revolution, is very singular.
Whether Lord Derby's Cabinet was naturally
or wilfully blind to the true causes Of agitation
is of little moment. They could not have been
ignorant of them after the clear and explic,,
letter of Sir J. Hudson which we have quoted
above. Yet Immediately after the receipt Off
Lord Malmesbuft writes the most curious letters
to the British Ministers at Paris, Turin,
Vienna and Rome. We take them ia the
order of their dates. On the 10th OF
January he writes to Lord Cowley at Paris, to
seize an early occasion to urge upon the Empe
TOR the paramount Importance of preserving the
peace of Europe; to remind him of his promises
in 1852 to observe and maintain the treaties
which were then the law of Europe; that in the
evident i'll humor between France and Austria
no great national question oc interest was in
vOlyed, inasmuch as no commercial privileges
had been denied and no point of honor was a.
stake; that the two States were ON the verge OF
collision because of mutual faults of temper, and
neither party was disposed to make sacrifices
that war if begun would expand into war OF
opinions, "of which those of q republican hue
will not be the faintest;" that if Italy is rege-
nerated the treaties of 1915 will be effaced,
(which in the opinion Of her Majesty's govern
ment still answer their original purposes" and
that "the just discomfort which affects a large
portion Of the Italian populations" will not be
assuaged by change of masters This harsh
and anything but soothing letter winds up with
a proposition that France and Austria shall come
to an understanding as to what eno'. - 49,
Co., ,r.aual ,rn,-evoment Of the condition of the
Italians" without embedding the spiritual autho-
rity Of the Pope.
On the 18th Of January Lord Malmesbury
writes to Lord Lotus, at Vienna, in quite
different tone from the letter to the British Minis
ter at Paris. He deprecates all ofIcious inter
ference with Austrian affairs; iRstructs him to
say to Count Buol that there are no questions
Of territorial claim, commercial injury "or dis
regarded rights" to be alleged on either side;
that it seems to her Majesty that neither party
evinces disposition to come to frank under
standing, or to make sacrifices "however unim-
portant;" that she has q sincere desire to see
Austria prosper, as one of the most important
members Of the European family; that her Ma
jesty's government "with sincere pleasure, pays
just tribute to Austria by admitting that the
government of her Italian provinces has been
conducted with great ability, in spirit of con-
Citation and liberality; that the sympathies of
England in favor Of the italian nationalities
would not be reused to any active form against
AUSTRIA" reiterates the disagreable things that
had been said to Louis Napoleon, and winds up
| with the same oil and water proposition about
| France and Austria coming to an understanding
as to what should be done for Italy.
On the same day copies Of these letters are
sent to Sir J. Hudson at Turin, with some further
and peculiarly English tory ideas. Judging the
rest Of the world by the standard that has always
guided England, Lord Malmesbury says that in
a war Sardinia would play very secondary
part, for powerful ally never consults the in.
terests of small State, and insists that Sardinia
and Lombardy never can unite. He also writes
to the British Minister at Rome, limiting at the
discomfort Of large proportion of the Italian
people, and the faithlessness Of their govern.
ments, which "must always be source Of dis
quietude to all the Powers interested in the
maintenance Of general peace" This is the
only allusion to the true causes of the presen,
perturbation of Europe in the correspondence
After such smiles from England and sour faces
to France, there is little cause to wonder that
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