The Express. — 1851-10-23 (London, England)

PALMEUSTON.  GERMANY.  ENNA, Orr. 18.  Very great stress is laid by the whole Austrian press, whether governmental or not,upon the railway treaty recently concluded with the Italian States, Modena, Parma, Tuscany, and the Pupal States. It is in fact a measure to which too much importance can hardly be attached. It is another link in the chain by which the Austrian government is fettering Italy to the throne of the empire. Austrian soldiers keep under and in fact rule in every one of the states in question, excepting the Roman, though in each the farce of separate and independent civil administration is maintained. Postal treaties have placed the letter traffic, railway treaties the goods and passenger traffic in the hands, or at least under the controlling influence of Austria; and negotiations arc in progress for the fmnation of au Italian commercial league, composed of the same states, with Austria at their head. The triumphant tone of the governmental organs of the empire is therefore well founded. As the Oestreichlache Corrotponden: very truly says : " As far as the traffic of the South of Italy with the North and East of Europe is concerned, it must proceed in the paths provided by Austria." The truth of this statement is undeniable; not so, however, the reasoning which Mows in the article from which the above sentence is extracted. The government organ considers, that under the circumstances alluded to, the well known  project for carrying a line of railway from the heart of Piedmont through Switzerland will, of necessity, be abandoned. In this sentence there is put forth another, and perhaps one of the chief reasons which have actuated the Austrian government in pursuing this policy of uniting Italy. Every ono of the treaties is directed against Sardinia. The constitutional government of that country must either bo cajoled into the union, and thereby deprived of its independence, and the liberties of tho Sardinian people be crushed, or by exclusion front the advantages, which so facilitated and greatly improved system of communication affords, be driven to commit political suicide. The Oestreichimehe Curreapmden: WIN too plainly what the motives of the Austrian government really are, and while the agents of the latter arc hard at work in Turin, striving to affect the royal mind of Victor Emmanuel, other agencies are also used, and that most unsparingly. Even the opposition press of Vienna is blinded by ' the fallacy of national glory and prosperity into recommending Sardinia to join the railway, postal, and commercial unions Mate Austrian government. The fears of the Sardinian government arc kept on the alert by constant allusions to the Italian emigration; its hopes arc weakened by frequent recurrence to the distance of England, and the small prospect of steady or material support from Lord Palmerston, and its complications with Rom held up as irremediable, unless the assistance of Austria be applied for, assistance which the Sardinian government is reminded has resulted in a most favour. able concordat for Tuscany. The weakness, insubordination, and inefficiency of the Sardinian army is not forgotten. If the king of Sardinia and his ministers really were inclined to unite with Austria, , they would indeed find more motives for doing so in the Austrian press than they could ever have ima pined to exist. It is to be hoped that they will find I at home an easily sufficient motive for remaining without the Austro-Italian railway, postal, and consmercial league.