Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-03-27
From the London Times.
FRANCE AND SARDINIA.

1t is only four days since we
published and briefly remarked upon the
French minister's declaration of the policy
which his master had at last resolved upon
with regard to Italy. After long delay Ma.
poleon III. had made up his mind, and Sar-
DINA was warned to restrict her ambition to
the north of Italy. The emperor had sudden.
ly come to the conclusion that France could
not possibly allow the rights of the Holy
Church to be inertered with, and that Austria
had difficulties about Tuscany which ought to
be respected. Moreover, universal suffrage
was too sacred a thing to be taken in vain.
Therefore Sardinia was exhorted to content
herself with LomDardy and the Duchies and
with the Vicariat Of the Romagna and to keep
her hands off Tuscany. Quick upon this de-
claration comes the answer of the Piedmontese
minister, which was published to-day. Count
Cavour has lost no time While the wave of
sound is yet undulating, and before mems
minds had settled down to any formed opinion,
this minister, who undertakes to represent in
himself the principle of Italian unity, comes
forward to oppose in the face of the world the
arguments which had been advanced for keep
ing ltaty dismembered and disunited Count
Cavour admits that if no more should be OBJ
tanned at this moment than that which the
emperor of the French is prepared to gllaran-
tee, great deal will have been accomplished
for Italy. He tells the emperor that some short
time since the proposition now made would
have been possible, and even satisfactory But
that time, according to Count Cavour. is now
past. Victor Emanuel has, while acting nnder
the counsels Of the emperor of the French,
been suffered to drift into position that iden-
titles him with that Italian party which will
accept no compromise with tie principles
OF all the States of Northern and Central
It1IV If iC far
ing over these matters at PARIS, and at
the head of an irresistible army, to balance
eXpedlencies, and to issue his commands that
victor Emanuel should proceed thus far and
there stop. But the leader Of great insurrec-
ton has his necessities as well as his opportun.
tiles. Count Cavour declares that what is now
demanded of Sardinia is an impossibility. He
says that If he were to attempt to give effect
to this policy, he would Immediately lose his
power as minister; nay he even AYERS that
Il the KING, his master, were to espouse this
French scheme, and were to attempt to consol-
ldate his Kingdom upon the plan proposed to
MN, nc would cease at once to be the chosen
king OF the Italian people, and would thence.
forward be only tyrant reigning by force
such is the position taken up by Count Ca
YOUR AS to the Nicarat over the ROmagna
he OBJECTS that 1t would be satisfactory neither
to the people of the Romagna nor to the king
OF Sardinia, nor to the pope. AS to the ques-
lon OF Savoy, he says not a word, reserYing it
Tor separate treatment, and perhaps for make
weight at some later crisis But as to Tus-
cany, he states the policy of Victor Emanuel
as decidedly as NJ. Th0uvenal had stated that
OF Napoleon Ill. Undeterred by the threat
of France to withdraw from the contest. and
to leave Sardinia alone to contend against Aus
tria and Naples, Count Cavour, on behalf of
his country, boldly accepts the position, and
declares that if the Tuscans should persist in
their desire to annex themselves to Piedmont
the king OF Sardinia is now resolved to accept
them as his subjects. In the face of NJ. Thou
venaI's dispatch, the count says that che ac-
cepts beforehand the contingency of annexa-
ton" That both Tuscany and the Romagna
will abide by their resolution there can be no
doubt. The promise contained in this paper
is precise, to the effect that the king of Sardn.
ia awaits only a repetition of the offer of annex
alton, to accept it. The next phase, therefore,
in this strangely shifting question, promises to
be, that Northern and Central Italy will con-
stitute themselves a single power, in the face
OF the express or tact dlsapproval of every one
OF the great powers, except only England.
This is bold defiance, and one which may
require very brave deeds to Justify it. 1t an
plies not only to Tuscany but also to the Ro-
magma, and it involves, therefore, not only the
lOIleituIe OF inc freDcn alliance and the active
resentment Of Austria and Naples but also the
decided hostility of all the Roman Catholic
party throughout Europe. We cannot suppose
that a minister who has had so much expert.
ence as Count Cavour, who can remember the
events OF 1913, and who through the hazy
glory Of Solferino can still look back to that
stern lesson taught at Novara would take such
step as this without having maturely counted
its cost, or without having some very good
reason to believe that the danger he Processes
himself so ready to confront is never likely TO
arise. 1t is, of course, not impossible that
Count Cavour may think he is justified in
counting that the Emperor OF the French has
not yet spoken his last word. He may be pos
sibly able to read M. Thouvenal's dispatcI bv
lights which are not vouchsafed to us. He
may think there is in that dispatch no actual
threat Of Withdrawing the French garrison.
lie may believe that when war has once been
rekinded, Napoleon III may not be sorry to
shake himself free Of Villairanca and Zurich
TO gather new laures in the quadriIateral and
Venetia, and to complete his original enter.
prise OF setting Italy free from the Alps TO the
Adrialic Either he must think this or he
must mean nothing by this long dispatch. We
VIII not propose third alternaliye-that he is
deliberately resolved to set all that has been
gained upon the hazard OF n war, wherein Sar.
DINA, at the head of northern and central Ito
y, shall stand unsupported against Austria.
Naples, and the Pope. Sardinia may depend