The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-18 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Opinione of Turin, of the 13th, notices in a
leader an assertion made some time ago by the
Univers, to the effect that the demagogues of all
countries, but more especially those of Italy, side
with Russia at the present moment, in the hope
that that power will ultimately encourage their
views, in order to create embarassments for Austria
and the Western Powers. To this the Opinioile
replies that the Uhivers unfairly confounds the
Italian constitutionalists with the Mazziniaus ;
that not being in the secrets of the latter, it (the
Opinione) cannot say whether they incline to Russia
or not ; but that Mazzini and his followers are but
individuals without any hold on the opinion of the
country, while the constitutionalists of Italy,
forming the majority of the country, are .heart and
soul for the Western Powers, and against Russia.

executed by Mr. Wentland alone. His office was
another king's private counsel. All citizens who
,had affairs to settle were obliged to appeal to it.
There were to be seen waiting every day in order
to obtain audience, senators, deputies, ministers,
and officials of every rank and degree. It was there
that all those who were seeking the favour of the
Government took refuge. Finally, it was there
where ministers, ranks, honours, and all the boun-
ties of Government were distributed. It was there
that Parliamentary combinations were agreed upon,
and the election of deputies resolved. It was there
that the list for new senators was composed. It
was there that a mystical and private correspondence
was held and incessantly entertained with some of
the provincial hirelings, who were honoured with
the appellation of devotees, because they wrote
twice or thrice a week long reports full of false
intelligence and calumny, always connected with
the salt of flattery and the most contemptible low-
ness. There, day and night, a few persons bad a
free access, at whatever time, that they might
bring tidings and receive orders. There characters
were sounded and disciplined to meekness and:
obedience. There were taken as security the adults
of future servility. There the Ministers solicited
for the reception of their proposals. There, in a
word, was recapitulated the policy of the country,
and the Ministry were constantly eclipsed by the
influence of this extraordinary power. Nothing
throughout Greece and its more distant parts
equalled the renown and the power of Mr. Went-
land.

" This thing is not worth any further develop-
ment, because all of us, thank God, know it.
Every one saw that the existence of such a between-
wall was very prejudicial to the advantage and dig-
nity of royalty, as well as of the nation. Royalty
was unworthily lowered from its high, station, the
nation was trampled down, and its Government
was no more than a blind tool of ,foreign will, and
was only suffered to exist under the conditions of
being such. The barrier forming the third power
between the Government and the people ought,
therefore, to disappear. It was not a question re-
specting a private secretary confined to the duties.
of the private service of the Court,, for, if it had
been thus, it would of course have been tole-
rated. But the individual in question unlawfully
formed a whole system of political responsi-
bility, holding in the State itself the most eminent
political stature, which was not acknowledged by
law, which exercised in obscurity an immense in-
ternal and external influence, enacted without any
restraint of competency in an individual in whom
all government affairs, both great and small, were
concentrated, and on whom all depended, from the
Minister to the meanest official, and from the
deputy and senator to the last citizen, whilst he
did neither, filled up any ministerial station, nor
was he enumerated among the officials, nor invested
with the public character of a statesman.
"It was necessary to, counteract this evil, for
every one fully understands that his existence
would have paralysed the whole. This obstacle
was to be removed, and it has been removed. The
Ministers proposed and his Majesty accepted the
proposal, in consequence of which Mr. Wentland
was dismissed from the Palace, and departs from
Greece next Friday."