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sculptor, who only month ago founded q
new republican society iu Rome entitled
"The Rights of Man." and who more re-
Gently modelled the bust of Voltaire for
the celebration of the centenary of that
philosopher. Republican newspapers are
freely published, and writings inculcatiug &
open hostility to monarchy are circulated
without impedimeut. In Rome the Dovere
was recently established as the organ of
the democracy in general. And in Naples
the democracy militant" has just estab
lished special organ ubder the title of
FieramoSoa. The first article of the first
number of this Organo della democrasiG
Dgilit6pte, contains the following words ::
''To thee, ideal, to thee, we are coneecra-
ted to thee, the revolution, the eternal
youth of the world. And now that we are
| in the saddle, the reins given to the wind,
| you will doubtless ask us what are the
colors of our ladies. We reply: The pur-
| pie sash which girds our loins and breaks
the aomb bre hue of our armour. tells you
| that the lady of our hearts is the Republic
For her always, for her only, we will con =
| quer or die"
The power of the democracy is felt with
in the councils of the Crown and within the
| walls of Parliament. 1t was the democracy
| which made King Humbert consent to
place his fathers remains in the Pantheon,
far from the sepulchre of his ancestors.
The democracy has carried, in Montecito
rio, the abolition of the n,acindto, that op-
| pressiye gTist tax, the burden of which fell
most severely on the poorer and labor
ing classes. The gradual abolition of that
tax was doubtless desirable, but the meas
ure just passed by the Chamber of Deputies
has been not unfairly termed leap in the
dark, for on the produce of that tax de-
pended to great extent the forthcoming
of supplies to meet the necessary expenses
of the country. Prudence woQld have die.
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new way of replenishiDg the national ex-
chs quer before abolshipg the old source of
revenue. Signor Sella and other financiers
pointed out clearly and earnestly the perIls
of hasty aud hazardous Legislation, but
they failed to curb the impetuosity of the
democratic majority. The measure was
passed by the Deputies and sent up to the
Senate, and because the Senate seems re-
solved to examine leisurely and, if neces-
sary, to modify the Abolition Bill, and at
all events to delay it's acceptance by the
Upper House for some months, the organs
of the democracy are enraged and already
cry out for the abolition OF the Senate as
a useless incumbrance and clog to legisla-
tion.
The democracy is now clamoring for the
annexation to Italy of the Trent district
and Istris, and seems disposed to seize
those provinces by force of arms. 1t not
likely therefore that abolition of the army
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cratic programme. How then are the ex-
penses of the Government to be met when
the ndcindto shall have been abolished
Viua la ,reuoLutione sociale ia the watch
word placarded on the walls of Leghorn, and
discomfort is loudly proclaimed in many
cities of Italy. The bankruptcy of Flor
ence foreshadows tt 9 lot of Naples and of
other once thriving cities. In Sicily many
municipal corporations have signed remon
strances against the fiscal expressions
under which they groau. Thousands of the
Inhabitants of Marsala declare themselves
ready to emigrate to Australia to escape
the injquitous exactatioDs of the Italian
tax collectors. From one extremity of the
peninsular to the other proceed.cries of dis
satisfaction and ill humor. The Congress
of Berlin, which has prevented. war be-
tween England and Russia. seems to haze
provoked in Italy murn uring and com
plaint. General Garibal6i, Signor Guiesepe
Avezzana. Signor Count Aure,io Saffi, and
Siguor Frederico Campanella, the four
noted leaders of the extreme republican
party, have signed a manifesto to all Ital
laus calling them to unite for the rescue
of f"unredeemed Italy" "The-e are still
so says this manifesto-Italian provinces
wherein it is crime to pronounce the |
name of Italy, wherein men expiate with
prolonged tortures the most legitim ate
and most noble sentiment which ennobles
man upon earth. the sentiment namely of
Patri0tisn. AND among these provinces
may be named Trieste and Trent which
remain in the power of the oldest and most
hated of our oppressors. The sons of
these Italian provinces were prodigal in
spending their lives in the struggle for our
The manifesto proceeds
to infame the passions of the Itaians
against Austria, and to excite enmity
against the government which has betrayed,
80 it is sa:6, the iutRrests of italy. By a
newspaper eTtitled Lacifer 1t ID announced
that Republican Congress-, or rather n
Republican Parliament, was held on the
10Th of June in Ancona, at which twenty
i've Tepu ubiican associations were repre-
'ented. By this Republican Parliament
,hree resolutions were voted. The first
was vote of thanks to the Corporation of
2imini for refusing to assist in the erec.
ion of a monument to Victor Emmanuel.
The second was protest against the con-
iuct of the Prime Minister, Carroll, and Of
lis fellow ministers for annulling the decree {
'f the Corporation of Genoa which ordered {
he abolition of religious instruction in the
nm njcipal achOOla- And tha third reso1n- | ,