New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-03

into the hands Of France the key OF that passage
to the Orient, and would enable her to lock i!
in the face Of England. II would not be long
that Britannia would continue to rule the waves
with such an advantage possessed by q rival
ruler Of the same And it can never be conceded
without fight. The morsel Of Savoy was per-
United grudgingly enough to be swallowed, as not
OF European Importance; but if Sardinia next
disappears in the nav of the modern Polypho-
mus, it must be plain to England that she has
nothing left her but the Ulyssean privilege OF
being devoured the last.
At this time, the intention of the annexation is
distinctly denied; but the watchfuness Of En-
gland will not be relaxed for all that 1t is only
the grOwl Of the British Lion that hos deferred
immediate acton. Mr. Punch lately synbOIyzed
the situation in one of his cartoons BY the said
lion, dressed o. policeman, arreStisg the hand
of Louis Napoleon as he ia laying it on box of
SardiRes in an Italian warehouse, but dscaimiug
| all felOnious intentions "upon his honor" That
such brilliant ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of his Empire
had never entered into the willy head OF the
French potentate is un pea trop fort-a little too
| tough to DO believed. That such French papers
| (the Rerue Contemporaries for example) as speak
always by the boob, have been busy in showing
the greater affinity Of the Sardiniaus for the
French than for the Italians complaining Of Ri
casOlis interfe ence with its having its free
course and affirming that the Frencs Emperor
would not refuse the offer if it wns resOlately
aud unanimously made, shows that ut any rate
| these suggestions are not occasions for warning
or suppression. And the fact that 81. ThOuveDel
! addressed q note Of rebuke TO II. RcasOli for
his reputation Of the idea of further cessOns OF
Italian territory, must in some measure qualify
our sense of that minister's indignant denial Of
Any purpose of Sandman annexation. LOEd
! John Russell declared in Parliament, hs
Foreign Secretary, that no such annexa-
ton could take place without putting 90
end at once to oil alliance between Eu
| gland and France. Aud in the view Of such Q
4 consequence, he did not believe that the attempt
| would be made. As became Minister Of State
! speaking of one Of another nation, he affirmed hi;
confidence in the good faith of the denial by ~
1hOuyenel but admitted that il would be the hight
Of folly in England TO diminish her armaments in
the presence Of the mighty preparations of France,
and with the knowledge Of the possibility of the
French Emperor being forced TO change his policy
By the pressure Of the army Of the Chambers. II
ia very armed state Of peace and friendship that
now exists between England and France full Of
jealOusies, and suspicious, and breads. 1t is not
likely that England at least will think it wise to
incur quarrel with US, her best customer and her
mnn pureyor when her continental relations are
in their present tcklish condition. And it is more
probable that Bonaparte viii lie perdu waiting
events, to sec whether possible hostile state Of a
fairs between England and America, arising out OF
cotton hunger. may not afford him the happy mo-
ment for laying hold Of Sardinia, thnn that no
should enter upon our scene. But it is the more
incumbent upon US not TO be slothfu in the business
we are about, that these temptations Us well as our
own, may be the lees.