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> " j . s ; . ^ I ^^ M ^ M ^ ^^^^^™'" - ' ~ SUBSCRIPTION TO " THE LEADER . " ONE GUINEA PER YEAR , UNSTAMPED , PREPAID . ( DELIVERED GRATIS . ) NOTICES TO COR 11 ESPONDKNTS . No notice can be taken of anonymous eorrespoaideiusc . Whatever is intended for iusertion nuist be au . tnetiticat . eq by the name aad address of the writ « r -, not nuc « fltiartly for publication , but as a guarantee of his good fnitli . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letthvs we receive . Their insertion is ofloiidolaycd , owin ? to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is freo , nejitly fpoiti reasons quite independent of the merits ot the communica tion . . .. V 7 e cannot uhdertake to return rejected communications . OFFICE , NO . 18 , CATHERINE-STREET , STRAKD , "W . C .
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SETTLING ITALY . Wje have--assumed that the letter ' of the French Emperor to the Sardinian King was not written with the evil purpose which some writers have attributed to it . It offered a foreign solution of a domestic question , and practically invited the parties concerned to do better if they could ; and the Governments of Central Italy have responded by electing the Prince of Carignan , the cousin of Victor Emmanuel , ' to the temporary office of Recent . This is a very judicious step , beenuse it positively rejects the most objectionable couse-. quences of the Villafranoa peace , and , at the same time , avoids placing Victor Emmanuel in a position which he-could not , at present , hold without compromising his friendship with France . Ro man is bound to do that which is impossible , or can only be accomplished by criminal means , and Louis iSTapoleon now stands absolved from any promises to reserve the alleged rights of the deposed potentates . Their people have , in the most formal and orderly way , declared that they have no rights to reserve , and the monarch who i > roclaims to Europe that he rests upon universal suffrage , must either accept their decision or forfeiting own best ohiim to rule . lie may be anxious for tho fut . uvc , ami may foresee a train of coiuplications suOieiently entangled to tax both military and civil skill , but we will not believe he is disappointed or regrets that the Italians have evinced a disposition to be 1 misters of their own affairs . To have Italy in chronic convulsions is to keep Europe in continued alarm , and experionco has demonstrated the folly . and wickedness of one nation , or a congress of nations , Bottling the internal Affairs of another . Italy will , therefore , render the world great servioo if phe will settle h <> m > lf . In attempting this who must expect further collisions , for tho Tope , tho Emperor of Austria and tho King of Naples seem determined to constitute a malefic triad , and oppose either overt or insidious obstacles to every moremen t for national emancipation . Tho portion of Italy already readied from the invader ennuot remain invincible to tho ' wrongs which thoir less fortunate brethren still sutler ; and it ia to Garilmldl and his soldiers tliut not only Italian patriots mid English LiberulN , but oven Tories , like Lord Kllenborough , look Tor fresh movements and further success . It is gratifying to find an Kiigllah peer ottering his subscription to the Gn . ribnkli fiind , and declaring , " there is one man in Italy "who has at once a head to direct am } a hand to < execute , and a heart to toll him what is right , i That man is tinribaldi . Lot tho Italians follow i when ho leads ; the / will , at least , acquire iho <
> honour which has been so long unknown to them as a people . " . Af ter exhibiting some jealousy of France , which we think neither just or expedient , his lordship , speaking of the Italians , exclaims , " At least let Us , sympathising with them in cir" cumstances which were orice our own , place in their hands the arms , by which alone ^ under Proj vidence , their redemption can be achieved . " This is bold , honest language , which , coming . f tom a man who has held high office , and may hold s it again ,. cannot fail to have weight both here and ; abroad . It tells Austria that those Tories , who are capable of learning anything from past experience or current events , have abandoned her as an . Italian . power , and although she has dismissed Gyulai , the ready minister <> f her vengeance and the apt instrument of her disgrace , she cannot erase the victories in which Italian valour was as worthily conspicuous as that of the French ; nor can she dream of renewed hostilities without feeling that the sword of Magenta is still suspended over her head . Looking to the condition of Austrian finances , t ] ie delimit tone of Hungary , and the astounding fatuity of dc .-repit despotism which characterises . the Austrian Court , the Venetians jriay be sure that if they watch patiently they will discover an opportunity for ' ¦ liberation , " and if Koine be for ¦ the present left quiet the inhabitants of the Papal States cannot too soon be on the move to st ^ v -rt their brethren of Bologna . The time for a congress has not yet arrived . One of the old Vienna sort , impiously undertaking to . deal with nations like droves of caltle , will not do now , and until ' the Italians have done more to adjust their Own affairs they will not bg in a position to call upon other countries - to recognise ' their work . We are glad to hear from Sir G . C . Lewis , who represented the premier and Lord John Russell at the Mansion I louse dinner , " that no formal invitation- re-pectins * the affairs of Italy lias as yet been addressed ' to Her Majesty ' s ' . 'Government , " and still more to find the cabinet true to the principle of national right . "If at any future time , " ¦ said the same speaker , " such an invitation should be addressed to up , it will be our duty todeliberate on the maiter with a view to the maintenance of that principle which we consider sound—namely , that no force shall be used " for the purpose of dictating to the Italian nation the choice of its rulers , or for the purpose of coercing its people with regard to the Government they may alter mature deliberation prefer . " This is the true tone for a British minister to take , and the " loud cheers " the Mansion House will find their response in every town and in every home to which the press curries the intelligence . It is worth v of remark that nothing has occurred which ' leads to a doubt that England and France may agree in the broad features of an Italian policy ; and , while we thoroughly approve of the activity displayed in our dockyards and arsenals , we cuiinot look at similar preparations on the part of our neighbours-as necessarily involving hostile intentions . " We have reason to believe that the French Government was not without alarm when it determined to attack Austria in Italy , that , through German intrigue and Tory folly , it might be suddenly involved in a quarrol with this country , and find its naval base of operations destroyed . This fear cannot exist whilo tho present Cabinet stands ; but , as we observed last week , that is too ticklish a speculation to net upon , and tho country has , up to the present , been unaccountably silent and apathetic upon the . Italian cause . Ho fur frdiyi looking nt the present crisis as one which ought to damage our alliance with France , we regard it as . affording an admirable opportunity for ' making it more firm nnd durable . M . Chovnliur is right in pointing out the folly of mutual animosity , and in his opinion , "that closely united with England France has no coalition to bo further apprehensive of , sjneo every coalition from which England shall be absent will bo by that ; < voVy absoncjo rendered powerless . On her , side , 1 being closely united to France , Englaiid lias no I longer anything to fear iVom tho " Continent ; and traiKMiil ns to tho froedoin of her movements on i the scan , who breathes with expanded lungs , ox- J tends her commerce , hows in full repose her 1 1 colonies growing up , prorogating her frouius ; « nd t peopling the universe with industrious , intelligent , £ nnd iVeo won . " Those are woida of wisdom , u » d , i ought on both sides of the Channel to prevail . I ' « of it » is . r- in o- 1 O . ? 2 ! , „ •_ ^ [ a '¦ a „„ > r i ~ I s £ - " 11 > r » " *¦ - IS ' * n e - ¦ fc " ¦ - ¦ " d ' * ' ¦ > - * " ¦ - t 3 . I i ; i . . i 1 , ; , ; ' = ' 1 " -
: i | OUR PROTECTORATE A W OF MOROCCO , Lord John Russeli- says , iii his despatch of Sept . 22 j to Mr . Buchanan , published in the Gazette of Tuesday , " that her Majesty's Government consider the permanent occupation of Tangier by the Spaniards as inconsistent -with the safety of Gibraltar . " He says further , in his despatch to the same diplomatist , of October 15 th , that " her Majesty ' s Government earnestly desire that there may be no change of possession on the Moorish coast of the Straits . The importance they attach to this object cannot be overrated ; and it would be impossible . for them , or indeed for any other maritime Power , to see with hidifference the permanent occupation by Spain of such a position on that coast as-would enable her to impede the passage of the Straits to ships frequentino- the Mediterranean for commercial or any other purposes . We have read these passages with considerable regret . A more barbarous state than Morocco do s not exist out of Africa ; and in Africa it is scarcely surpassed by Dahorny . To tell the world that the safety of Gibraltar depends oa the power of this barbarous State being maintained over Tangier , is to make the safety : of that fortrsss in our possession objectionable to Christian and civilised Europe . If-England cannot keep Gibraltar without . preserving entire , against all foreign , ' and' especially European conquest , the empire of Morocco , Christian . Europe will probably conclude with the -Spaniards , that the sooner she gives it up the better . We _ demur to the statement . We do not believe that the safety of Gibraltar in our possession . depends on . the Emperor of Morocco retaining possession-of Tangier , and on tliat place riot . b-eing occupied by the Spaniards . As long as they be not at \ var with us they will as readily carry-on trade with Gibraltar from Tangier , were it in their possession , as they iuj . w carry oil trade with Qibraltar from Malagar and Cadiz . Were Spain and England to be at war , the possession by Spain of Tangier and the south coast of the Straits of Gibraltar mi ^ h-t increase our difficulty of retaining and defending it , but could only compromise its safety were her Majesty ' s'Government , by persis ting in its feudal treatment of seamen , to saorifice ' for ever its attachment of the seamen and naval superiority of the State . To describe the safe possession of Gibraltar by ns ns dependent on " the preservation of the Mahoinedau empire of Morocco , is to make that possession the opprobrium of Christianity and of civilisation . Then the ' noble lord is alarmed ' at the possibility of trade to the Mediterranean being impeded by Spain occupying the Moorish coast of the Straits . England possesses Gibraltar , and uses it rather to" facilitate than impede vessels passing to and fro between the Mediterranean and tho rest of the world . To l-. avo the' connnunication interrupted or impeded would be a calamity , but Europe generally will think si . ch an intermotionless probable with tho south coast ot the Straits in tho possession of Spain than in the possession ' of Morocco . * For centuries the Spaniards have given up piracy ; for centuries Spain has formed one of the nations of Europe which acknow-Judge its punlic law , whilo tho Moors are pirates to This day , mid Morocco Uprises tho public law of Europe . Other nations may again say , as they haVe said before , that ^ "g la ud has no objection to ft piiW . which '' a'asses the trade of little States , and . « lavo not touch the . SS . CSS oWA . tt ^ that no permanent occupation of . any part of Eocbo shouRl tuko place by Spam , seo . ns to m almost as objectionable iui his argument about the safutv of Gibraltar . The tone of tho noble lord ' s uoftpMoliu * » rt inoro worthy of ft pr » l . e « stiohir » t staitesin . vu ol . tuo X iteiuth than li lhu > ini . lo minister of , tho iiinotocnth oontury . Spain has M luiiah "Merest in trade as other countries , and id much nuu-u hkely , year after year , to promote it ais far as she can Smninpedcflt . Suoli hu . guago i . s no > y s . ngularly nippro » riato , sinco Fnfneo oocumun « "J * " lar ^ o part of tho south count ' of tho ModitornmJun , uul ha- o « mpW it thirty years , mvatly to the advantage ot Europe , and certainly not to tho disadvantago of MnglnuU . Tho noWo lord ' s polioy > vould have boon auitabla enough in
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 12, 1859, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12111859/page/13/
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