The Express. — 1860-09-04 (London, England)

LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 4.  TM. letter which we publish to-day from our corresponslent at Turin (whose infonnation, as our readers are by this time aware, is seldom at fault) will be read with anxious interest by every friend of Italy in is country where the fnends of Italy sue the public. We have for several days past abstained (non any passing continent upon the rapid succf ...ion of events ui the South of the Peninsula, which even the telegraph has been obliged to report intermittently, between sullen fits of oil •race and nislignsuit puffs of rumour. It was hardly worth while to shake the rotten fruit from a tree noildifig to its fall. In truth, in any grand catastrophe there is something that demands respect ; even in the retributive agility of the wretch who suffered fur his crime this morning there is an appeal to human pity, and the headlong ruin of a dynasty steeped in cruelties and scarred with perjuries astonishes and saddens by the very force of contrast. The triumphant march of II eel BALCI to the capital of the Neapolitan kingdom is ,-noligh to persuade tyrants of the living presence of Divine justice in this world ; it is not only the collapse of an infamous throne, but the •aikeunig of an entire people to national life. This is not an ordinary political revolution, a riot unrel•n•.scd, a Snvere-gn put to flight, a Government dismissed ;it is more like the break-tip of a pack of :re in the stillness of an Arctic winter; it is dissolution, disruption ; • rumbling, a crash, a o*eisinig here and there, an upheaviug all around; one moment an icy prison, the next a bursting and buoyant numenaity of waters, hurrying all relentlessly away. Count Csvot.e, who for the last six months has been the second best abused man in Europe, has once more vindicated the rare acuteness and foresight of his statesmanship, by seizing at • glance the fuoinent for vigorous and decisive action. Battled and battered by diplomatic warnings on one aide, and by factions excesses on the other ; assailed for his caution by irresponsible patriots, and for his revolutionary sympathies by despotic Powers ; unwilling to sacrifice his country or his cause to alien exigencies ; unwilling to compromise Isith by suffering rashness to prevail, the PRIMA 31INIKTLit of the Italian kingdom has held his prudent and unswerving course right on against calumny, menace, and intrigue ; heedless of the idle breath of popular applause, tenacious of his purpose, confident and calm in his resolves. To take the happy metaphor sent us from Turin, Count Csvide has navigated the State committed to Ins care through a channel strewed with wrecks, and choked with sunken rocks, without for • moment losing his presence of mind. True, be has had to throw overboard a precious part of a sabiable cargo to save the rest ; but it was in dire extremity, no other aid at hand. It were an injustice, from which this pest Minister may securely appeal to history, ti forget that it is to his masterly policy that Italy owes her life to-day ; to the Minister who sent • Piedmontese contingent to the Crimea, and represented Italy in the Cosigreas of Paria, it is des that Italy Muse% and has her being as a nation, with an anuy, a navy, • parliament, a flag, a constitution, a throne, and a tiaataW.l. For if • C.% VOCK had not built up an Italy ion the North, there would now be nu Italy in the South to tight for. Honour to the stainless patriot hero ! Iliinour to the highhearted and strong-willed statesman ! Let the sectaries remember that disunion is a bad earnest (.4 unty, and that tie it strife is a pour weapun aganist the women envilly. The ammo of intien inset which the Cabinet of Tutus is now entering has the double merit of sew:mess and opportunity. The position of the Piednimitese Goveniment, though it could scarcely hail' lii .is alfallacil with safety a alt.lllCat simmer, was lieeonting almost as intoh i.alile in its own eyes as 111 the eyes of other Powers. An alliance with the Hiss maw* dynasty at Naples would have been simple suicide ; a positive rejection of that alliance would hare looked newe like raps, ity than selfdenial. Common s•anw and the well-cousidered inter•ste of Italy alike mime:faded Count C %sot a to wait. But when the Two :a.•ilies had the dared for Eats, Vst LL 111 the pc min of his heroic Lieutenant, to sLauilini N Oise for a single day to the liar•r& of a military insurnetios, or to the Raunchy of factious, would iw to pale the way for [ensign intereention. Now the very terms on which Famous 11. had awl prayed for the friendship of Piedmont tassel toe catechism of 31irrra:k ice in which