The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-08 00:00:00

THE SPEECH OF M. RICASOLI.

The following is the text of M. Ricasoli's speech
in the Italian Parliament on the bill relating to the
lean :

Gentlemen,—The King's Government is happy
whenever an occasion presents itself for renewing
within these walls explicit declarations concerning
its internal and external policy. It regards such de-
clarations as a means of improving its relations and
its understanding with the Parliament, thus increas-
ing the strength of bath, and rendering the desti-
nies of the nation more stable. I will first express
the ideas of the Government on the administrative
organisation of the kingdom, which, of course, must
he founded on the elective representation of all
lawful interests; for by this means all citizens are
able to take part in managing their own affairs,
which is the fundamental principle of all liberty.
The commune, the first natural group of interests
in human society, must be constituted with its pro-
per franchises. Next come the department and the
province, which must also have its own administra-
tion, and form another centre to which all provincial
interests will converge. The communal and provin-
cial interests may be summarily reduced to three
categories—administration, public instruction, and
public assistance, By this series of representations
the country will be organised internally, and be con-
nected with the Government, which, by means of
the Parliament, will secure political and admini-
stative unity to the whole nation. If the public
administration has for its object to conciliate the
interests of individuals with the whole nation, and
those of the whole nation with individuals, we may
by this means obtain the political result desired.
The Government will cease to be an administrative
machine; it will become a centre of direction and
wise supervision, enlightened by the remonstrances
of the interested, and restrained by the control of
Parliament. By thus giving a legal representation
to local interests, the inhabitants will become more
attached to their native places, where they are
known and respected. Private life in the provinces
will afford opportunity for the exercise of civil vir-
tues as a preparation for public life in Parliament.
Political education will thus be adapted to the times
and founded on free institutions. Such is the course
the Government intends to follow, in order to attain
the greatest possible administrative decentralisation,
by means of communal and provincial liberties,
without impairing the efficacy of governmental ac-
tion, which will always preserve its unity in the
central power. In realising this governmental or-
ganisation the Ministry will not for one moment
neglect the difficult task of legislation, and, in ac-
cord with Parliament, it will proceed gradually
towards the unification, amelioration, and comple-
tion of that legislation, so that the new and urgent
wants of the nation may find full satisfaction in the
new organic laws, and the great principles of poli-
tical, civil, and commercial liberty may be fully ap-
plied. Thus, the State being well organised and
well administered, endowed with wise laws and
provident institutions, good roads and new ports,
all which projects the Government intends to carry
out with steadfast perseverance, the State will
lead a new, vigorous, and prosperous life. The
people, enjoying liberty and security, will devote
themselves to labour and industry, will recover
their former commerce by sea and land ; they
will give greater extension, and, actively de-
veloping all the elements of wealth with which
Providence has favoured Italy, they will render
the nation rich and flourishing. The vast resources
of our soil justify the brightest hopes for the future,
and there is good reason to believe that even in
manufactures Italy will not remain behind other
nations. The riches to be thus acquired will amply
compensate for the sacrifices now made by our citi-
zens for the defence and liberty of the country.
And it is precisely to that defence that the Govern-
ment intends continually to devote its attention,
and it is with that object that it means actively to
carry on the national armament. If arms are
always the force and necessity of nations, they are
particularly so at the present supreme moment—
they are, in fact, for Italy, a condition of life or
death. We arm not only for the defence of the
national territory as it is now constituted, but also
to complete it, and to give it its natural and legiti-
mate limits. (Approbation.) On this point, gen-
tlemen, the policy of the Government is nothing
else than the right of the nation. The Govern-
ment knows no other limit—it will not stop at any
other confines than those which right itself has
marked out. It is for the double object of gaining
back and defending the national territory that all
naval and military preparations are being made,
and this is proved by the bills which you have
already voted and by those which are now before
you. It belongs to you, gentlemen, to supply the
Government with the means of persevering in that
path. A nation, generous and strong, is never
without friends, and the truth of that declaration
is shown every day by the state of our foreign re-
lations. With the exception of Austria, the Go-
vernment is happy to announce that its relations
with the principal Powers of Europe are friendly
and satisfactory. The Italian cause excites general
sympathy, and may count on again having allies.
( Bravo !) The recognition of England, Sweden,
Denmark, Switzerland, and Portugal is already a
solemn proof of the confidence we inspire, and is for
us a political fact of great importance. These noble
examples, we have reason to believe, will soon be
imitated. Civilized Europe, thanks to the great prin •
ciple of non-intervention, will very shortly be un-
animous in its solemn affirmation of our nationality,
and in the recognition of our incontestable right to
complete our independence. (Sensation.) I have
heard speak of a cession of territory, but permit me,
gentlemen, to repel with profound disdain the idea
of such a thing. (This was spoken with great
energy, and drew forth cries of ' bravo.') The
King's Government does not know an inch of
Italian ground which can be ceded ; it will not cede
one—no, absolutely no! (Loud applause.) The
King's Government sees a national territory to
defend and to recover. (Applause.) It sees Rome
—it sees Venice. And towards that Eternal city
and that Queen of the Adriatic, it directs all the
wishes, all the hopes, and the projects of the nation.
(Applause.) The Government understands the
grave task which devolves on it, and is resolved,
with the grace of God, to accomplish that task. An
evenuality which is being prepared, and which will
come in due time, will open the road to Venice. In
the meantime, let us think of Rome ! Yes, we will
go to Rome! (Marks of attention.) Rome, poli-
tically separated from the rest of Italy, would re-
main a centre of intrigues and conspiracies—a per-
manent menace to public order. Therefore, to go
to Rome is for the Italians not only a right, but an
inexorable necessity. (Approbation.) But how
can we go there ? The King's Government on this
point, more than on any other, will be frank and
precise. (Profound silence.) We will not go to
Rome by insurrection, untimely-, rash, and insen-
sate means, which might place in peril what has
been acquired, and compromise the national
enterprise. We will go to Rome in concert
with France. You declared that yourselves, in
the memorable sitting of the 27th of March, and
the Government cannot separate itself from the
decision of Parliament. We will go to Rome
not to destroy, but to construct to offer
to the Church the means of reforming itself
—se give it the liberty and independence which
will stimulate it to seek regeneration in the purity
qtf religious sentiment, in the simplicity of manners,
in the severity of discipline, in all the virtues
-which, to the great honour and immortal glory of
the pontificate, rendered its lire+. centuries distin-
guished and venerated—to regenerate itself, in a
word, by the frank and honest abandonment of
that power which is contrary to the great object of
its institution, which object is entirely spiritual.
(Applause.) Gentlemen, the Government does not
consider this easy, but it derives confidence and
grandeur of
courage in the
the enterprise and in
the force of the
public conscience. (Bravo,) The
Italian revolution is a great one, because it opens
a new era. Italy has enjoyed the good fortune of
preparing the bases, not only of its own future b t
of all humanity. (Applause.) The justice , u
and the
sanctity of our cause, common sense, prudence in
waiting, boldness in action at an opportune mo-
ment, and firmness and perseverance in our designs,
have conducted us in that path, and have aided us

to arrive at the position we occupy ; and I am con-
fident that they will also aid us to attain our object.
(Applause, both from the Chamber and the gal-
leries.)"

THE SUN, LONDON MONDAY E trgNING, JULY 9, 18614

Green's Blackwall fleet), Captain Daniels, arrived
at Spithead yesterday morning from India with the
head-quarters of the Ist battalion sth Regiment of
Foot (Northumberland Fusiliers) on board. They
consist of Col. P. M. N. Guy, C.B. ; Capts. A. Scott
(Brevet-Major), G. Carden, and H. Walpole ; Lieuts.
E. J. Tyyler (M. 1.), J. M. Toppin, C. J. Miles, W.
Enderley, H. S. B. Holt (sick), and J. Hartley ;
Ensigns A. Nicols, F. A. Forsyth, and W. C. Or-
mond; Quartermaster F. Drake, and Assist.-Surg.
C. H. Leet, 31 sergeants, 22 corporals, 9 drummers,
244 privates, 15 servants to officers, 23 bandsmen,
8 pioneers, 8 sick in hospital, 8 women, and 15 chil-
dren. The ship is ordered into Portsmouth harbour,
where the troops will disembark alongside the dock-
yard, and take up the quarters vacated by the 2d
battalion llth Regiment, in the Anglesea Barracks,
Portsea. The Weimer Castle sailed from Calcutta
on the 12th of March, and from St. Helena on the
9th of May.
It has been decided to form an artillery depot at
Warley, at the barracks formerly occupied by the
troops of the East India Company. The following
officers have been appointed to act in connexion
with the depot :—Brevet Col. J. T. Leslie, C. 8.,
Lieut.-Col. E. F. Hay, retired from the Indian
service; Adjutant, Major F. Tower, retired from
the Indian service ; Paymaster, Lieut.-Col. S. J.
Stevens, C. 8., retired from the Indian service ;
Assist.-Surg. Nayler, Indian Medical Depart-
ment. A surgeon and quartermaster have still to
be nominated. The officers of the Indian service
have been granted local rank while employed at the
depot and attached to the Royal Artillery.
The present strength of the camp at Colchester
is 52 officers and 2,269 men, including 144 in hos-
pital. There are besides 230 women and 292 chil-
dren in the camp. The draughts from the 34th,
• 54th, and 97th Regiments are expected to embark
on Thursday in the Holmesdale. Major Brown, of
the 88th, and Capt. Paget, of the 34th, have arrived
at the camp to take charge of their respective
depots.
The detachment of officers and men of the Royal
and Indian Artillery that have been for some time
under instruction at Shoeburyness in the use of the
Armstrong guns will rejoin the depot brigade at
at Sheerness this morning, when an equal number
of officers and men will proceed from Sheerness to
the school of gunnery to go through a similar course
of instruction.

Lieut.-Col. S. Westmacott, Royal Engineers, has
completed a course of instruction in engineering,
sapping and mining, and fortification at the Royal
engineering establishment, Chatham, and will suc-
ceed Col. R. J. Nelson, as commanding Royal
Engineer at Nova Scotia. Lieut.-Col. Westmacott
was formerly attached to the department of the In-
spector-General of Fortifications.
Mr. Naylar, the Government contractor, of Ro-
chester, has commenced the erection of an extensive
range of buildings at Sheerness, for the separate ac-
commodation of the married non-commissioned offi-
cers and men of the Royal Artillery and their fami-
lies. The new buildings will embrace in their con-
struction all the most recent improvements intro-
duced from time to time to rectify the existing de-
fects in our barrack system, which have been pro-
ductive of so many evils.

Orders;have been received from the Horse Guards
to hold 500 non-commissioned cfficers and men of
the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, now stationed
at Sheerness, in readiness to proceed to India ;
they were medically inspected on 'Wednesday last,
and are to leave for Woolwich for embarkation on
Wednesday, the 10th inst.

An official notification has been received at the
Royal Artillery depot brigade, Sheerness, that the
following vessels have been chartered to convey the
Royal Artillery to Calcuttta and Madras, and will
sail from Woolwich on the subjoined dates, viz.:—
The St. Lawrence, July 10, 100 men ; the Syden-
ham, July 12, 400 men ; the Adamant, July 12,
300 men ; and the Hydaspes, screw steamer, July
13, 350 men. Of the above number 500 non-com-
missioned officers and men have been selected for
embarkation from the brigades at Sheerness, under
the command of Lieut.-Col. Talbot. By direction
of the authorities none but the most experienced
gunners will be allowed to embark. Every facility
is to be given to married men for taking their
wives and families with them.