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zel, Boussingault and Johnston, have never been opened by them. 

 Take away their knowledge of irrigation, and they are a long 

 ways behind the agricultural classes of the same rank in the 

 British Isles on the w^estern part of the European continent. 



Not a lesson in an Italian University is given on Rural Econo- 

 my, nor any associations established to promote the object. 

 The cultivator of the soil knows little or nothing of animal econo- 

 my or vegetable chemistry. Italy demands a free press and a 

 diffusion of popular education among the masses. 



CcEsar's household ought to be cleansed, and those that minister 

 at the altar should move in their own appropriate sphere and not 

 soil their holy vestments with the things of time. And the eye 

 of beauty instead of languishing in the lonely cell ought to come 

 forth from captivity and be the sprightly mother of a joyful 

 family, and thus fulfil her destined mission on earth. The pres- 

 ent unnatural state of society in this ill-fated land is the source 

 of all its misfortunes. Priests tinkering with governments, and 

 men and women taught to lead a life of sloth, and that feats of 

 gallantry and the more ferocious crimes of murder and robbery 

 are venal, and that feeble and sinful man can wipe out the foul 

 spots is the canker which is gnawing one of the most interesting 

 lands to be found in Christendom. But we believe the school- 

 master is over here teaching the rising generation. Railroads and 

 Telegraphic lines are opening regions of cruelty and blood, and 

 that the present race that dwell where once were acted those 

 most wonderful scenes, that are the admiration of posterity, will 

 rise and shake off the present incubus, and Italy will become the 

 abode of comfort and the home of the free. 



