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"law which would apply to this case; "but I declare positively that the 66 government will look to the interest "of this class of our fellow-citizens who "have deserved well of their country."

It is not surprising that this speech (the personal allusions in which it would take too long for me to explain here) should have led to a bitter and rambling discussion. The Mazzinian triumvirate at Rome, the Nicotera demonstration at Leghorn, the private character of Signor Cernuschi, and the question how far Brofferio was justified in talking of the conquest of Sicily by Garibaldi, were all dragged into discussion. Perhaps, if I were describing the debate alone, these incidents in it would be what I should dwell on most; but for meand I think for my readers also-all in those days' debate in which Cavour took no part has ceased to have any interest. It is enough to notice these two facts. Several members of the right supported the minister, but without ability; and even then I was struck with what now strikes me still more painfully-how completely the discussion was, not between the right and the left, but between the opposition and Cavour alone. It is pleasanter to me to remember how, when Brofferio having implied that Ricasoli had broken his faith to Nicotera, the ex-ruler of Tuscany rose and said, "His simple

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answer was that, throughout his life, "he had never to his knowledge "failed either in his word, or in his "honour!" Thereupon, the house cheered the words of the present Premier of Italy, as of one in whose mouth that proud answer was no empty boast.

The afternoon was getting on, and the debate becoming more personal as it continued, when Bixio that strange fire-brand peace-maker-sprang up, and, saying that the house was getting all to sea, proposed as a compromise a general resolution," that all who had fought for "the national independence deserved "well of their country." Logically Logically speaking, the conclusion was impotent enough. Happily for themselves, the Italians are not much troubled with logical difficulties. Bixio's motion was

a fortunate escape from a discussion which was touching on dangerous ground; and, after Cavour had supported it with the words, "Till our foreign "relations are settled, we must stifle all party disputes; when that is done

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things will be different; the best act "therefore of conciliation we can per"form is to vote for General Bixio's "order of the day," the motion was carried by a large majority, the opposition for the most part abstaining from voting at all.

These were the last words which Count Cavour spoke in the Italian Parliament. He very shortly left the house, never to return there again; and, after some little formal business, the house itself adjourned also. The next day was the great national feast of the "Corpus Christi ;" and, though-from the refusal of the higher clergy to celebrate the approaching feast of the "Statuto "the Assembly took no official part in the religious festival, yet on that day there was no meeting of the chambers. On that evening, having seen all I wanted to see, I left Turin. For the next few days, I heard little and thought but little of Italian affairs. I saw indeed a chance notice in the papers of Cavour's illness; but I attached little importance to it. So many times in Sicily and Naples I had been told that Cavour was dying or dead. At Rome, it was such a common 66 'ruse "of the priestparty to spread a report of Cavour's death, that it had become almost a joke there, when no other news was stirring, to say that the only news was that Cavour was dead. In fact I had heard "Wolf" cried so often that I had ceased to believe in the existence of the danger. It was just a week after I had heard Cavour speak that, in an obscure part of London, my eyes were caught by the placard of a penny paper pasted on the wall, announcing "The "death of Count Cavour;" and then, standing there, I had no need of reports to tell me of the mourning in Turin, where every shop was closed, with the words written across the barred shutters, "Pel lutto nazionale."

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