Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-06-20

| LIoHespOnuence LJHuon Illles'J
| TURIN, June 1.-Count Cavour was bled
70 + times within three days The complain
| is congestion OF the brain, arising from in
tense occupation, want of bodily exercise, al
either too strong an appetite, or else excessive
| Indulgence in the pleasures othis well appointed
| table. Periodical bleeding has become with
him, as with too many OF his countrymen, a
matter of necessity Ii is only when the great
man is temporarily laid low that the people
seem to realize to lis full extent the power of
lls ruling genius Then yOu hear surmises
and conjecturcs, in an under breath, as to what
might happen were the phebotomist'S lancet
10 arrive only Two minutes too late. There is
| II Providence TO take care OF insane and drunk.
en- men, says the English proverb; and there
is Il Providence to watch over the desinies of
Il nation IN a state OF transition Count Ca
YOUR Is neither the heal ut a majority nor of
minority so tar as the head Of the admins
tratiOn is concerned, Italy cannot be, strictly
speaking, called a constitutional country as,
Tor a certain period OF time, a ministerial crisis
is an lmpossibility.
Since in 1854 or shortly before, Count Ca
YOUR undertook to "mal<e Italy Ctr PItdlid as
the phrase is here), he engaged 10 be kept in
harness till L ally was made. He cannot think
OF Withdrawing; no man can even dream Of
unsvatlng HIM. For the last seven or eight
years he has not only been at the head of the
king S cabinet, holding now two, now three
now even four portfolios he has been the min,
lister. 1t mattcred not who was called by him
10 SIT III the council, or 10 seem to share his
responsibility. 1t nattered not whom he
chose 10 discard with whom he was compelled
TO quarrel whose able corporation he thought
tit TO Ienounce. 1t did not even matter into
whose hands he, Tor Il short respite, resigned
power. The master mind in Italy was always
one and the same. Even La Marnora's head
was not hard enough 10 butt against Cavours,
nor was even RaszzIs temper sufficiently soft
to avoid all collision. One alter another all
Cavours associates fell from or are hurled
from him; he alone stands iorever-torever,
that is, so long as he wills, and so long as tie
surgeons lancet saves him from himself
Should Cavour be removed by death-for
10 man i'll Italy is absurd enough to think of
any other contlngency-we should in all prob
ability have a Ricasoli ministry. Cavour's
only possible successor is Enthusiastically point
ed out by public opinion. lie would bring
high principles, a most unblemished character
a strong good sense, and stern will, into the
kings councils; but for vastness OF intelli-
gence, Tor extent OF resources, few even OF his
friends give him credit. | am sorry to have
to add that Count Cavour has had a restless
night; he has lost a great deal of blood, owing
to The loosening OF the bandages at his arm,
yet had 10 be bed again in the course of this
morning. This relapse is only owing to the
counts imprudence in summoning his col
leagues 10 his bedside, yesterday, on the first
symptoms of Improvement, and holding with
them a long conference, for, which his exhaus-
ton hardly fitted the great Slntpsnan