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and in some instaners surpaaied';:tle*eaaf Pi fet eia— .4
(hear)—and it was not much friather thanFraueaa-4,;
tThr g--them. Therefore, a -: natiaaklEa.kpapaaal
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keepers, they might look to the Itahins figiekig
an immense deal of what we wanted. But It`aly,
they must recollect, was not a manufacturing
country. She again, therefore, would take our
manufactures--(applause)—in return for tao pro-
duce which we should take from her. That, cs
as nation of shopkeepers, Englishmen had a right
to look to. Talking about education in Italy he
would give them another instance, and that was
with respect to the Government which was sup-
posed to be the most paternal in the Peninsula, He
alluded to that of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
He (the Duke) was a good old sleepy man. He aid
what the Austrians told him ; but never did any-
thing for himself. His Government was euppoed
to be the-best in the Peninsula. (Oh !) , The head
of the college at Pisa sent in a memorial, to Go-
vernment proposing that Government ehotild edu-
cate men according to the respective talent :they
displayed. They thought that if a man displayed
any particular talent for painting, sculpture, &c,
just as his natural talent seemed to point out, that
he should be so trained. (Hear.) This memorial
was sent in through the Minieter to the Grand
Duke. Well, the Grand Duke sent back an
answer to say that " the Grand Duke was asto-
nished to hear that any officer of the Government
should propose for a moment that the people were
to be educated beyond their sphere !" Therefore,
according to the Grand Duke's theory of man, it
was that he should remain in precisely the same
situation in which he was born, and, althOugh he
might be the son Of a goatherd or a shepherd, yet
he must still continue a goatherd or a shepherd,
though he might have the genius for painting of a
Giotto. (Oh!) It was thought by some it was a
great pity that the Italians did not at once get
Venetia—that they had not yet got the Venetian
territory. He held it a great thing for Italy that
she had not yet gOt Venice. He looked at it very
much in the light of the injunction that was given
to the Israelites of old, that they should not at
once drive the Canaanites out of the Promised
Land. (Hear.) Having the enemy before them
they were not likely to be identified among them.
Colonel Peard then referred to Villafranca and Sol-
ferino, and the effect of the Villafranca Treaty. For
two many years Italy had been split up into petty
States. It had always been the policy of her mas-
ters to keep her divided. He held it as the great
safety of Italy for the nest three or four years
that they should not get the Venetian terri-
tory. They did not like it, of course—(cheers)
—nor would the) —(No)—to have half of Eng-
land, say, from the West of the Thames, overrun
by foreign invaders, and the rest free. (Cheers.)
Still he firmly believed that that country being in
the hands of the Austrians was one great means
they had of consolidating the kingdom• of Italy.
(Cheers.) They did not want at present to fight.
That was not the object of Italy. They wanted
peace, that they might organise. They wanted, as
he said, to have schools, to have roads, that they
might communicate, to make the people acquainted
with each other. They wanted to develope the
resources of the country. They (the Government)
wanted to improve the people by bringing forward
and carrying into effect good measures. (Applause.)
After a few further observations the gallant Colonel
thanked them for the patience with which they had
listened to him—(loud cries of "Go on")—and for
the honour which they had done him. He wished
them all health and happiness. (Colonel Peard then
resumed his seat amid fresh demonstrations of ap-
plause, a loud, hearty cheer being given for Italy.)

DUBLIN, TUESDAY.

There was a spceial meeting of the Municipal
Council yesterday for the purpose of preparing a
loyal and dutiful address to be presented to the
Queen on her arrival in Dublin. A letter to the
Lord Mayor from General Sir Thos. Larcom, Under
Secretary, stating that the Lord Lieutenant had
"received her Majesty's pleasure relative to the
address from the corporation, which is tht.t the,
Queen cannot receive it in state on the throne, as it
is understood an address from the Lord Mayor and
Corporation of Dublin is entit:ed to be received,
because her Majesty's visit on this occasion is strictly
private." The address, he added, might be sent to
;he Secretary of State, by whom it would be deli-
vered, or the Lord Mayor himself might wait per-
sonally on the Queen, and her Maj,sty would re-
ceive the address from him either at Kingstown or
at the Viceregal Lodge. A committee was appointed
to prepare an address—namely, the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen Reynolds, Maylan, Campbell, Roe, and
Carroll, and Councillors Gray, Graham, Pilkington,
Price, and Chambers. It was moved that it be an
instruction to the committee to add a clause to the
address, requesting the Queen to use her a-tthority
with the Government to restore the Galway subsidy.
It is to be hoped that the committee will have the
good sense and good taste to disregard that instruc-
tion. It was unanimously agreed that the prepara-
tion of an address to the Prince Consort should be
included in the duties of the committee.