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      * VTAPLES declines to accommodate the Moderate J 3 I party in Europe . An account of the official note in reply to the Western Powers has been published ; and we find that no previous descriptions of it had done justice to its insane insolence . The King declares that he is an independent

      Power , and he will not permit the Western Governments to dictate to him . His system is " necessary , " for there are committees in Italy which preach the right to assassinate him as a " monster . " His system is successful , for his people are " tranquil . " What would England say , if Naples were to recommend to her more liberal views in Ireland or India ? How can

      France venture to disturb the peace of the Continent , by encouraging revolutionary movements ? Naples , in short , shames England for being as bad as King Fjsrdinand , and France for taking part with the revolutionists , whom its Emperor dreads ; and he warns them , that if they proceed from counsel to force , he shall oppose to them his brave army and his faithful subjects ! It is even

      reported that he has replied to the advice of Austria with a threat that , if pressed , he will join with Piedmont " to drive the Stranger from Italy ! " Thia , however , is purely incredible . King Fbbdinand is an animal without the capacity for understanding his own interest ; but he is equally without the capacity for the practical Avit of joining the one Moderate native state against Fkancis Joseph .

      Still it is manifest that matters cannot remain in Italy much longer as they arc . Whatever may be the " ultimatum" sent by the Western Powers , the course of conduct adopted by King Ferdinand must so completely place him beyond the range of their defence , that his subjects will readily perceive the increasing facility of removing the nuisance . Although the story discovered by Gabibaljh of the assassination of Cjckkuacciiio

      his two sons , and four friends , while they were flying unarmed , and were surprised by an Austrian troop , —although this story , wo say , belongs to the past , it will newly arouse public indignation against the state whose soldiery committed the crime , and whose officials have conowiled it . Signer Fakini , the independent member of the Moderate party in the ricdmonteso Chamber , has publicly declared that , while Austria urro . rutos to

      herself the right of interfering in states beyond her own boundary , Piedmont has a similar right . The Oj ) inione has published a systematic declaration of measures especially wanted in Naples , and in all parts of the Peninsula . The natives can feel nothin" but irritation at the manner in which the Western Powers compel them to keep waiting , in order to see if Naples intends to be reasonable , and Austria will deign to take the lead in reforms .

      As to the ci'owned powers of the Continent , nobody at present knows what they are doing . We have simply one fact to report . There have been conferences at Vienna , whence strange reports respecting the disposition of Russia still further to infringe the Treaty of Paris . There is a gathering in Moscow to celebrate the coronation of the Czar , and to arrange other little matters . There have been conferences at Berlin , between French and other statesmen , under the eye of the mild Prussian eagle . But the only fact which has been authentically stated is , that the Kin" - of Prussia has bestowed the colonelev of a

      regiment , vacated by the death of the Emperor Nicholas , upon that " puissant Princess , " " particularly deai-ly beloved sister , " the Empress Dowager of Russia . We know nothing of what those crowned persons and their diplomatic agents intend to do with the Russian encroachment upon Norway and Sweden ; with the Sound dues , and the rights of

      Sehleswig Holstein ; with the Danubian Principalities , which Austria threatens to undermine , it Russia be not before her ; with Italy ; with Spain : for all these things , the peoples of the Continent , like the people of England , await the fiat of the crowned persons ; as if they were really a second Providence upon earth , whose way .- * are inscrutable , and irresistible .

      Recent injunctions in the J \ foiv / i ) i

      There is , at all events , one part of the globe where the officials of the European Powers in Conference assembled at Paris are not permitted to dictate . At that Conference , a declaration was adopted comprising a platitude against paper blockades ; two rules respecting the vessels and goods of neutrals , which have met with general acceptance ; and an announcement that " privateerine- is and remains abolished . "

      Privateering has not recently been used , because there has been no necessity for it ; but everybody has foreseen that if any European power with a large navy were to attack the United States , that republic could find a ready-made marine force only amongst its merchant ships , and would have to keep ofF the enemy ' s by such means , while it was constructing a navy commensurate with its strength . This was so palpable , that nobody

      expected the UnitedTStates to fall in with the Paris declaration ; and Mr . Mabct has formally notified that his Government declines to do so . The notification is important ; first , as effectually stopping the adoption of the rule for Europe , on the pretence of passing a law for the civilized world while America dissents ; and it is also important as one of the first stops to the system of collecting all the military force of the civilized world into the hands of the Executive

      Government . The United States at least will not tolerate that system on the water any more than on land . While , ' then , we have by no means a settled promise of tranquillity East or West , North or South , the clouding of our skies has somewhat disturbed our anticipation of a plentiful harvest . It is possible that the sun may yet redeem the liana done , but it id possible also the other way .

      If so , we shall depend for corn upon our late enemy , and upon our ally whom we have been wanting to brave ; and the necessity for importing corn with the consequent disturbance of our money-market , our commerce , and our industrial system , might somewhat hamper us in going to war , especially if the Government should undertake such warfare as would not bo heartily supported by tho public at home .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 23, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23081856/page/1/