New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-11
ITALY AND RUSSIA.

ITALY AND RUSSIA.
The preseryers of Italian tyraDny-thc Papil
See the Hapsturgs, ard the DOurbOns-in de-
SPAR at The appearance of The note OF Lord John
Russell, still snatch ray of consolation from the
recall of tie Russian Legation from Turin, and
no cessation of diplomatic intercourse between
DO two Governments. But even this vanishes
before semi-oifcial explanation published in
the journals of st. Petersburg. The tone of
those papers clecrly and positively establishes the
fact ihat Russia will in no way whatever assume
q hostile attitude TO the unity OF Italy, and to
destinies of Piedmont and indicates the probable
final recognition by the Government Of the new
kingdom. They do not hesitate to declare that
The interests of Russia can in no way be jeop-
arded by liberal settlement of Italian affairs;
and that the loss of Venetia to Austria is
matter of entire indifference both to Russia and
Prussia.
II is to be presumed that the arguments of the
ST. Petersburg journals prepared under the III
spration of the Department of Foreign Affairs, or
rather of its Chief and Minister. Prince Gorcha-
koff, who, in assuming the duties of Minister in
herited the mistakes, the entanglements, the blum
ders and the confusion accumulated under the ultra
absolutist policy of Count NesselrOde and bis
German retnue. 1t requires all the tact and
talent, all the courage and caution the new Min
lister can command to disentangle the sken with
out breaking its threads-tO purify the policy OF
the Government as well as to change it, without
any violent shock either at home or abroad. 1t
is necessary and proper to respect the feeling
of natural gratitude entertained by the Imperial
family toward a sovereign who, in the hour OF
need, at the time of the Crimean war, alone
stood firm in his friendship to Nicholas, undaunt-
ed by the entreaties of Austria and the me-
naces of France and of England. Ferdi-
nand of Naples, father of the fugitive
Francis H., maintained his alliance with Rus
STA during that trying period, and prohibited
the expectation of any kind of provisions or cat
tie for the allied troops in the Black Sea. When
Francis III. ascended the throne, the Grand Duke
Constantine the soul of the more liberal party
of Russia, and recognized as such throughout
Europe, in his own name, and that OF his
brother the Gear, advised the King to change
the odiOus system of his predecessor, and by
sttutional rule, become the rival of Victor
Emanuel, and thus preserve the crown of Ma
pies. This generous advice was received with
great coolDcss. The recall of the Legation from
Turin is the last offering laid on the altar
of gratitude. Ii was not for Russia to
acknowledge by a diplomatic act a fact not
yet fully accomplished, and the silence Of Rus
sia at such a moment could not have been
otherwise interpreted by Francis III. RecOgniz-
ing the unity of Italy, the Cabinet of st. Peters
burgh will show not only that its sympathies are
with all that is right and just, but that, at the
same time, it respects its own national history
and traditions.
Russia was once subdiyided into numerous
small dukedoms, and this subdivision made her
conquest by the Tartars and their domination
for $50 years an easy task. But that dOmna-
ton was far less cruel and oppressive than that
which Austria exercises at this moment over
Venetia, or of that in Naples during the last
twelve years. The Grand Dukes of Moscow la
bored for the unity of Russia and accomplished
it by various means more or less cruel,
and more or less similar to those by which the
Idpets, thc WHO'S aCcohPhsHeu u sIHlhdI "oIh
in France. What was good for France and
Russia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is
good for Italy now. The method may change,
according to the times and the exigenccs of the
occasion. That which done in the closets
of princes, and by secret and violent means, and
to suit the purposes Of individual potentates, is
now accomplished, and in behalf of the liberty of
the people, in the broad light of day.