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London, England, 1868-07-07 00:00:00

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ITALY.

Born the gm weeks' war restored Venice
to the Venetians, and effaced the last footprints of
"the Stranger" in the Peninsula, Italy has ceased
to be the spoilt child of Liberal Europe, whose
faults were easily forgiven and whose virtues were
exaggerated by affection. For forty years all the
poets and prose writers of Liberal Europe had
taken the woes and wrongs of Italy under their
especial patronage, and made her the favourite
martyr of the cause of oppressed nationali-
ties. Now that her liberation is accom-
plished, and she has taken her place among
the states and governments of Europe, Italy is
treated no longer as an object of pure sympathy,
with no responsibilities of her own, but as one
who has attained the years of discretion, and
to all the rights and duties of an estate.
Europe, even Liberal Europe, criticises sharply the
conduct of the Italian people and the policy of
the Cabinet of Florence; and, in the character
of a creditor, demands a atrirt account of the
transactions and disbursements of the Italian trea-
sury. We all—that is all the friends of Italy in
her days of trouble and distress—look to her to
take her part in the political civilization of the
age as an independent, self-existent, self-sup-
porting Power, neither subsisting on the favour
and indulgence of any neighbour, nor sub-
servient to any foreign influence, but living
her own life, paying her own way, develop-
ing her own moral and material forces, in a
word, possessing herself in confidence and in
strength. Italians have been often reminded of

late that it is time for them to put away childish

things, and to address themselves to the serious
task of earning au honest livelihood. Revolu-
tionary- movements and patriotic demonstrations
' • have had their day, and done their work. There
has been more than enough of Festas and
illuminations, and processions, in honour of eman-

eipateil Italy. The follies of the night are past:
the sober morning of work has come. It is
satisfactory to believe that Italian statesmen and
deputies are beginning to be convinced of the
necessity of nuking the two ends of a budget