As to peculation, read _Gil Blas_, and that will give you a faint sketch of the customs and habits of all _impiegati_ [civil servants] in this part of Italy.

I do not believe that the Southern Italians, taken as a body, know what honesty is." [All that he says is true to the present day.

But the distinction which he makes between the Southern Italians and those of the other provinces is most just, and must be remembered.] "But that is the fault of the horrid system of tyranny under which they have so long lived.

I do not say that the old system must be reformed, it must be totally changed.
Solomon might make laws, but so corrupt are all the _impiegati_, that I doubt if he could get them carried out.

Poor Garibaldi is made a tool of by a set of designing intriguers, who will sacrifice him at any moment.