The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-22 00:00:00

illustrates all the votes expressed by you.
" Published by all the fore'gu journals, it has
brought our cause before the tribunal of public
opinion. To the great astonishment of all, this
document has hitherto remained without an answer
from our adversaries. They have kept silent before
the evidence of the facts; they have had recourse

to mendacity. To all the accusations the Govern-
ment has opposed the contradictory proofs and
official documents. Impartial history will register
in its pages that no party ever more dishonoured
itself by calumnies than the clerical party has in
1859.

" If reasons of high policy, if the respect due to
international rights have prevented the King from
immediately complying with our votes, ou our side
we ought not to uuffer ourselves to be conquered
by the difficulties or the dangers. We ought to
march resolutely onwards. Our Government claims
the initiative of the measures taken for the union
of the four States of Central Italy. It has not hesi-
tated to declare that partial self-government must
at once cease if the Governments wish our coun-
tries to await calmly and resignedly the meeting
of a Congress.
" This fact is now going to be accomplished, and
we congratulate ourselves that, your vote has sanc-
tioned the line of conduct pursued by us.
" At home our aovernment had specially three
duties to observe—to maintain order, to assimilate
our, laws to those of Piedmont, and prepare the
elements of a vigorous defence.
" Order has not been disturbed ; the good
sense and prudence of our population have
triumphed over the incessant provocations
of a party which, if it has, not dared to
combat openly against its adversaries, has
endeavoured to strike them by covert means and
insidiously. Nevertheless, the line of conduct pur-
sued by us has been moderate, for the moderation
of this movement forms its main strength, its glory,
and compels our enemies to descend to falsehood
for their weapons. While respecting and honour-
ing the priest in the discharge of his sublime mis-
sion, we have not permitted the pulpit to be trans-
formed into the orator's tribune, or words of anger
to proceed from a spot whence only words of peace
should issue.

"In a circular note juit drawn up we have ex-

plained to civilised Europe the acts of impartial
justice that wo have been induced to adopt against
all those. /who endeavour secretly to prepare in our
countries the only intervention to be feared by us
—that of anarchy.
"Notwithstanding the deeds of violence, the
arbitrary acts, the acts of vengeance, perpetrated
by the Pontifical Government when the Austrian
arms had, in 1849, re-established its authority over
these provinces, we have only had recourse to
moderation; oblivion, justice.
" While the Government did not hesitate to ac-
knowledge the part of the Pontifical debt assigned
to us for the past, to the advantage of the religious
corporations and pious establishments, we have
prepared a law that secures to the:officials dismissed
in 1849 for political acts, a just compensation for
the sufferings they have endured.
"At home the Administrations have been re-
gularly carried on. The municipalities and the
National Guard have been organised. The laws
affecting our shipping and police have been re-
formed, the supplies of the ports for the protection
of commerce have been raised, and a commissariat
appointed; four new telegraphic stations have
been opened; a contract has been concluded for
demolition of the fortress of Ferrara, that reminds
us of the outrages we have suffered from during
the Austrian sway.
" We have established on the same bases as those
in Piedmont the University studies, both primary
and secondary; increased the number of professor-
ships in the University of Bologna; and freed by
new laws the Italian mind from the bonds that re-
pressed, its development. We have obtained with-
out violence or party rage the transfer of non-
ecclesiastical causes to the secular tribunal.
" The
,new laws decreed are all in unison with

the Piedmontese laws. The acts are drawn up in
the King's name; justice is also administered in his
name ; the royal arms figure over the public build-
ings ; all our blazonings have been placed under the
Savoy flag.
The postal charges have been made alike between
Central Italy and Piedmont ; we have also done
the same for the telegraphs, the coinage, weights
and measures. .

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" An important fact of union has bean accom-
plished. The industry and trade of our countries
have derived great advantage from the enlarge-
ment of the territory, and the principles of a wise
commercial liberty have reopened the source of the
public wealth.
" To-day, from the frontiers of the Rhone to the
Cattolica, we are only the provinces of one and the
same kingdom in an industrial and commercial
sense. The union is there.
" Passports in the interior have been abolished,
the traveller now journeys freely and without hin-
drances through his regenerated native land.

The army, which the resolution to compel sol-
diers to serve 18 months had raised in all parts,
now counts 15,000 men in its ranks and 783 horses.
The flying columns have been transferred into a
permanent army,

" The treasury has amply provided for every
military requirement. .
" In the accounts that will be laid before you
you will see that the expenses of the army for the
last three months are estimated at 818,000 crowns.
We have bought munitionE, horses, muskets, and
cannon.

" Notwithstanding this outlay and the expendi

tare. required by the commonwealth in several
branches of the budget of payments made, the re-
sult of the first four months leaves us a surplus in
hand of 304,000 crowns. During the last quarter
the receipts have surpassed the outgoings by 218,000
crowns, and this without the laying on of fresh
taxes, without resorting to any exceptional mea-
sures, and even with the diminution of certain
charges. _ _

"Nevertheless, a few experimental essays had I
been made with a view to procure some extraordi-
nary resources for the Government. The Govern-
ment would not have hesitated to ask the country
to make sacrifices, because it knows that the latter
is ready to do so with a good. grace for the sake of
securing its independence. But we are happy to
announce our firm hope that the King's 11tinistry