Our poor Garibaldi, hero as he is, and an honest hero, is in truth the weakest and most malleable of men, and had become at last the mere mouthpiece of the Mazzinians.

If the Bourbons' fall had not been a little delayed, north and south Italy would have broken in two.

So I was assured by my friend, who gave reasons and showed facts.
That the Neapolitans are not equal to the other Italians is too plain; and if corrupt governments did not corrupt the government they would be less hateful to all of us, of course.

But a little time will give smoothness to the affairs of Italy, and none of my old hopes are in the meanwhile disturbed.
The design as to Rome seems to be to starve out the Pope by the financial question; to let the rotten fruit fall at last as much by its own fault as possible, and by the gentlest shake of the tree.

I hear of those who doubted most in the Emperor's designs beginning to confess that he can't mean ill by Italy.
Possibly you and dear Mr.Martin think more just now of America than of this country, which I can understand.