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, . ; _ ¦ . ^ ¦ THE events of the week have been such as might well keep Europe in a state of moral ferment . The feverish alternation of hope and fear , as to the result of the Austrian demands upon Piedmont , was rudely ended by the news of Thursday morning . We were then informed that the Austrian threat of proceeding to extremities , in case of Victqr Emmanuel ' s refusal to disarm his soldiers , and disband his volunteers , had been acted upon , that , on the night of Tuesday , 120 , QOO white coats had crossed the Ticino , and were on their road to Turin . The latter part of the intelligence was subsequently found to be incorrect , but , in the main , the facts had been correctly stated . Telegram has followed telegram with almost bewildering haste , but , checked by the slower and surer postal communications , we are enabled to form a tolerably clear notion of the course of late events . Three hours , before the expiration of the three days' grace allowed by Austria , "Victor Emmanuel issued a proclamation , in which he declared the Austrian demand to be an outrage upon himself and nation , and that he had repelled it with disdain . In doing so , he appealed to the valour and patriotism of his people , tried in the battle-field , under the eyes of his " illustrious father ; " and on the banks of the Tchernaya , in company with the . allies who were at that moment hurrying forward to protect them , jfle called upon them to adopt for their war-cry , ** Independence of Italy . " An act of the Piedmontese Parliament had previously invested him with absolute power , and the national enthusiasm was boundless . The news of Thursday morning told its that the French wore not only landing at Genoa , but that , by way of Mont Conis , they had reached Turin . The Emperor Napoleon , as might have been expected , has ridden over the difficulty of having to cross the track of neutral ground that lay between-him and his threatened friends in Piedmont , and it must bo noted that the Swiss population , so far from showing any alarm or anger at the invasion of their territory , cheered lustily the passage of the . French troops , regiment after regiment . The good Swiss are inclined to believe , that their French neighbours are going to fight simply fox * the emancipation of I , taly from the Austrian yoke ; and Italy itself is growing trustftil . Tuscany , aoting under the impulse given by the loader of its little army Qf 15 , 000 men , hns formally linked its fortunes -with those of Piedmont ; the Grand Duke Leopold preferring to bo escorted by
a guard of honour to Bologna , rather than to abdicate , or to conclude an alliance with Sardinia . Further , we learn that the populations of Massa and Carrara have revolted , and established a provisional government ; and in Palermo there have been disturbances , followed by hundreds of arrests . These are the more immediate signs of the revolution a ry fire which is presently to blaze forth , and to repress which , says the Austrian Correspondence , " Austria must draw the sword . " Meanwhile , we have to do with the preparations for the coming struggle . The part of France is now clearly defined . Whatever her ulterior objects may be , she is now evidently determined to take the field in earnest against the pretensions of Austria in Italy . A new loan of 500 , 000 , 000 francs , or . £ 20 , 000 , 000 sterling , bears witness to the reality of the French interference ; and we have a further evidence in the unanimity with which the Legislative Assembly voted the increased contingent of 140 , 000 men . In the speech delivered to the Assembly by Count Walewski , by direction of the Emperor , an expose of the course of the negotiations , previous to the presentation of the Austrian ultimatum , appears to show that outwardly , at least , the French Government has acted with moderation . Appealed to by Sardinia for protection against an invading araiy , France has poured her troops into Piedmont , and even the British and Prussian Governments admit that , under the circumstances , the French Emperor has done nothing more than he has the right to do At the eleventh hour the light of a last ray of hope pierces the gathering war-clouds . England has made one more appeal to Austria , and , if we may trust to rumour , in the absence of direct intelligence , Austria has , at least , refrained from pushing tin her army to the attack of Turin . France , it is said , has not refused to entertain this last friendly office of diplomacy . But too much must not be expected of any attempt at renewing negooiations ; the Prussian Minister , addressing the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday , frankly stated his belief that the hope of any successful result of the present attempt was extremely small . Still , hostilities are for the moment delayed , and in delay there is hope . The most important political consequences at present apparent , as arising out of the state of affairs in Italy , ore , the alliance of France with Russia , which was first announced in the postcript of the Spectator , on Saturday last ; and the alliance , oftensive and defensive , between France and Denmark , These alliances put an end to the old arrangements under which the " balance of power" in Europe was settled ; and they will furnish the ground of no end of diplomatic doubts , jealousies , and suspicions . Russia nas a quarrel to settles with Austria , beside other ends to serve in forming this league with Franco , and she is giving signs of her intention to make l > er co-operation immediately effective . She is to move four corps ( V armee on the frontiers of Austria and Prussia , and already wo learn that she has sent 00 , 000 men across thoDnoiper , thereby threatening the Galibian frontier of the former power . The treaty with
Denmark suggests the wide-spreading dangers of a war such as Europe is now threatened -with . Without some such alliance , what , indeed , has Denmark to hope at the hands of the Germanic Confederation , in the event of the war becoming general . For the moment , there appears to . be ground for hope that England may be enabled to maintain a neutral position . The demand for this neutrality is becoming daily more positive throughout the country . The influence t > f the present conditioni of affairs upon our funds and best securities is of itself enough to enlist the feelings and interest of the majority of thinking men on the side of peaces Upon the Stock Exchange there has been , throughout the week , something very like , if not absolute panic , and the timid and reckless speculators have gone to the wall , as must happen ia such times of trial . These " failures" really need not alarm the country , and the resolution of the Bank Directors to raise their rate of discount from 2 £ to 3 £ per cent ., if rightly appreciated , will give confidence , to the prosecution of all legitimate business operations , preventing as it will any undue and dangerous demand for money , ah occurrence so likely to take place at moments like the present . In the midst of these serious divisions there would be great danger of the business of the general election being neglected by the constituencies , if the feeling of the country were not , fortunately , tolerably decided as to the importance of the proceeding . The results of the elections , as far as they are known , are such as the Liberal side were prepared for ; out of twenty-six persons elected up to the middle of yesterday , twenty-three were Liberals , In fact , as far as we are aware , there is no chance of any important , seat being wrested from the Liberals , while there will be several important accessions to their side of the Houses Richard Cobden , as the representative of Rochdale , being the most important . The movement in favour of Lord Stanley , first in the City of London and then the borough of Marylebone , we look upon as a gross liberty taken with a man whom the country greatly would regret to see unreturned ( supposing such on event to hp possible ) , but who has no claims upon the political sympathies of such constituencies as hjs ovqr-ofncioua friends have clumsily attempted to throwupon him . It must not be forgotten that Lord Stanley , in both cases , entirel y repudiated the acts of these too zealous friends . The only news of interest brought by the Calcutta and China mail is that the river Pearl , in Southern China , had been explored by a party of the British to the distance of 195 miles . The expedition was everywhere well received ; but found that , under the attacks of the " rebels , " almost the whole of the native trade had ceased . fJut the Emperor has lately published a proclamation , in whioli ho expresses himself strongly in favour of carrying out his late treaty engagements ; and it is possible , therefore , that our acquaintance with Southern China may at a future time be more satisfactory . The commercial community of India nro in excitement at the now imposts levied by tho'Governor-Ggnoral { and thj ? feeling is gcneml in ' India that Lor < 1 Canning ' s scheme for regenerating tlio finances of the , country is a , great mistake as it stands .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 30, 1859, page 547, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2292/page/3/
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