The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 20.

Ir should be the destiny of regenerated
Italy to become a considerable maritime Power,
and in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic Seas
a maritime Power " second to none." Italy
will confirm and consolidate her unity and
independence by resolutely living her own life,
pursuing her own course, consulting her own inte-
rests, and developing her own strength, according
to the means and resources which she possesses in
herself by the bounty of nature, by her geogra-
phical position and configuration, by the bent of her
genius, and by the opportunities of fortune. A
country which produces corn, wine and oil,
and silk, in almost spontaneous abundance;
where forests spring up like weeds ; whose soil,
where it is rich and friable, is only half
reclaimed by the plough, and where it is poor
and thankless on the surface teems with unex-
plored mineral treasures ; whose mountains are of
marble, and whose morasses are rice and may be
cotton fields ; whose valleys and hill-sides are vast
dairy farms ; whose plains are prairies for unnum-
bered cattle--such a countryas this is or might be,
washed by two famous inland seas, and studded
with harbours ample and secure ; inhabited by a
people of rare intelligence and various aptitudes
—a people who twice in the history of the past
have been the traders, manufacturers, merchants,
venturers, soldiers, sailors, and diplomatists
of the world, has an indisputable right and a
clear duty to become a commercial and maritime
Power of the first order in an age of industry and
peace.

Will Italy fulfil the promise of her natural
destinies ? That is the question which many
of her sincerest friends are anxiously
asking at this moment. Looking at the
paralysis and confusion which prevail in her
domestic policy, the want of firmness and self-
reliance in the conduct of her foreign relations,
the laxity and inefficiency in all the departments
of her administration, the factions self-seeking and
place-hunting of her professional politicians, the
indolent, impracticable temper of the Parlia-
ment, the want of energy and enterprise in the
middle claases, the provincial jealousies, the dis-
position even of the few pure and unselfish patriots
who might set an example of laborious devotion
to the interests of the State, to shun the sober
duties and the serious discipline of public life at
home, and to rush into romantic crusading adven-
tures abroad, while Italy is perishing piecemeal
like a pauper in the midst of plenty ; look-
ing, we say, at all this waste, all this
sterility, all this rashness, all this irritable
apathy and noiry negligence, where eco-
nomy, labour, quiet energy, prudence, united
effort and enterprise are urgently demanded to
restore the damaged credit of the kingdom by
at once reducing the expenditure and increasing
the revenues, to open new sources of produc-
tion, to relieve agriculture from absurd and
intolerable disabilities, to create new markets,
abolish brigandage in the mountains, and find
new pursuits for the populations of the cities—
looking at all that is and at all that ought to be,
some of the heartiest friends of Italy are sadly
asking themselves whether the suddenness of her
recovery from the palsy of three centuries of ser-
vitude, and the means by which her liberation
from that long decline was effected, have not ag-
gravated and prolonged the perils of her precarious
convalescence. No Italian pretends to deny that
the liberation of the Peninsula from foreign
tyrannies, and the ultimate completion of her
independent nationality, are due in a very
great degree to the Emperor of the FRENCH
rather than to France, which regards the unity and
independence of any continental neighbour as an
insult and injury, and considers itself equally
duped by the results of the Italian war of '59, in