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London, England, 1867-04-17 00:00:00

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SPEECH OF SIGN OR RATAdt.
yesterday afternoon's FsiLttoinnEgNocfE,thAepri 12.
At
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of Deputies, Signor Ratazzi made the following
speech :—Gentlemen,—ln presenting ourselves be-
fore you we are deeply impressed with the gravity
and difficulty of our position. Now that the in-
dependence of the nation is happily secured
the time has arrived when we ought seriously
and resolutely to occupy ourselves with our situation
at home, and apply remedies to evils which cannot
be attributed to any person's fault, but which are a
necessary and inevitable consequence of the great
events that have been crowded into the short period
of a small number of years. We must provide the
settlement of our finances and the reorganisation of
the army. We ought to provide for them promptly,
with a firm hand, and without any hesitation.
Every delay would be fatal—any hesitation might
compromise our future. Towards this object, gen-
tlemen, and to the part incumbent upon the Go-
vernment in this difficult tas4, our cares and our
efforts will. be principally directed, and we shall
be all the better able to devote ourselves to its
execution, because, being free and independent of
any sort of engagement abroad or at home, we may
occupy ourselves exclusively with the necessity
arising out of our domestic position. It is
not my intention to explain to you now, in
detail, all the measures the new administration in-
tends to introduce or to submit for your approval,
in order to attain this object within the shortest
possible delay. Such a detailed account can neither
be prepared nor brought forward within a few hours.
We are also of opinion it is better to act than to
promise. We do not hesitate, however, to declare
at once that in the measures we shall successively -
propose, we shall take as a basis the rules laid down
a few days ago in the august words uttered by his
Majesty, and received by the nation with general
satisfaction. We shall take note of the bills that
were brought in during the preceding Parliament
upon divers very important subjects, such as the
system of public accounts, the organisation of the
central administration, and the system of collecting
of taxes; then, profiting by the profound and con-
scientious examination these measures have rela-
tively undergone in the bureaux and in committees,
we shall hasten to bring them again beforo Parlia-
ment with suitable modifications. In proposing to
you these latter, We shall keep essentially in view
the object of simplifying administration, of better
securing the collection of the taxes by rendering it
still less expensive, and of more efficaciously guaran-
teeing the future of public officials, whose position
appears to us the more deserving of being secured
because we have now decided upon requiring from
them the exact and strict accomplishment of tl:eir
duties. Another bill, already prepared, and which
will soon be laid before you, is that relating to the
organisation of our army. It will be the more in-
dispensable and urgent that Parliament should
hasten to take this bill into consideration, because
upon its approval may depend not only the future
and the strength of an institution which is no less a
guarantee than a glory for our country, but also chiefly
the means of determining how far shall be carried
the reduction and savings to be introduced into mili-
tary estimates. For our part, we engage henceforth
that in the examination and discussion of this bill we
will introduce and admit all modifications calculated
to render expenses less heavy, without compromis-
ing the efficiency of the army and the safety of the
state. An administrative committee is considering
the organisation of the provinces and communes. A
bill will be laid beforo you upon this subject in the
course of the session. I need not say that it will be
inspired by principles of the widest decentralisation,
and by the idea of giving the communes and pro-
vinces their full autonomy by emancipating them
from all governmental interference, while subject-
ing them to legislative arrangements calculated to
guarantee the interests of the governed from all abuse.
The Government has already promised to bring in
the budget for 1868 before the close of next month.
We have firmly resolved loyally to keep this engage-
ment. As for the estimates for the current year, now
under examination by a committee elected by your-
selves, while expressing upon our parts the most
ardent wishes that it may terminate its labours as
soon as possible, we feel confident that with regard
to reforms it may deem opportune and may think of
proposing, it will call us to its aid, in order that
we may examine and discuss them together. Like
the committee, we are imbued with the necessity of
introducing the utmost and strictest economy, and
we shall willingly consent to every saving reconcil-
able with the inevitable exigencies of the public ser-
vice. The debate upon the budget in Parliament
may thus be made easier and more simple, and the
rules. observed in that for the present year may be
found applicable to the budget of 18G8. If it
were possible to obtain the approval of the two bud-
gets almost simultaneously, a desire we have strongly
at heart would be fulfilled, of the wish, namely, of
at last entering upon the normal path, and of avoid-
ing the very serious inconveniences to which the ad-
ministration is subjected when it is compelled to
operate with provisional budgets. The approval of
the budgets alone will no doubt not be all that is re-
quired to meet our financial wants ; other measures
are also indispensable. It is impossible for us to
state these at present, but they will shortly be laid
before you with the greatest care by the Govern-
ment. A prominent place among them will be occu-
pied by bills referring to the liquidation of ecclesias-
tical property, to a system of regularising the great
public works guaranteed by the State, and to credit
institutions—all objects of considerable importance
intimately connected by essential conditions, a set-
tlement of which will impart an energetic impulse
to the activity and economic prosperity of the coun-
try. The rapid picture I have just traced of the
measures indispensable to us, and which ought to be
sanctioned without delay, displays but too well
all the difficulty of the undertaking for which we
prepare. The consciousness of these difficulties
might have caused us to hesitate, but their very exis-
tence strengthens us, and gives us courage in face of
the hard trial we have to surmount. It strengthens us,
because we are persuaded that in the presence of the
needs of the nation, and when it is required to provide
for the wants of the,country, all party differences
will always vanish from among us, and our deli-
berations will be inspired by one sole and general
thought--love and devotion to Italy. Therefore,
gentlemen, we reckon for the accomplishment of
this task upon your frank, loyal, and efficacious co-
operation. We feel confident that, thanks to your
assistance, many difficulties will not fail to dis-
appear, and that we shall find it possible to attain
the aim we have in view. We shall thus show
Europe that the Italians not only know how to
conquer their independence by constituting them-
selves a nation, but that they also understand how
to preserve and consolidate it by providing for their
organisation at home."

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FIRE AT MANCIIESTEIL—An extensive cotton
waste store, five stories high, in Primrose-street, Man-
chester, belonging to Mr. Whalley, was discovered to be on
fire yesterday morning. The fire broke out in the third
story, and before the lire brigade could extinguish it that
and the floors above were destroyed. The stock altogether
was valued at nearly £3,000, and the damage is estimated
at £1.,500.
By a minute of the 3d of April the Lords of the
Treasury have sanctioned a change in the examina-
tion of the baggage of passengers arriving from the
Continent, which it is hoped will much reduce the
inconvenience, and at the same time preserve a
sufficient protection to the interests of the revenue.
On the arrival of the train in London all the tliro
ugh
luggage having been sorted as usual, one of the sur-
veyors of customs will select, a certain_ proportion of
the registered numbers, and the luggage thus indi-
cated will be alone examined, all the rest being
per-
mitted to be removed at once.
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