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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 



generation," which subject, he thought, will be yet more fully dis- 

 cussed in England, as it has been for some years on the Continent. 



He next noticed the Report of the Explorers of Kent's Cavern 

 at Torquay, where this last year a flint flake had been found 

 associated with the teeth of the Cave Bear, in a position that demon- 

 strated that the flint was much anterior to the period in which the 

 Cave Lion and Mammoth were living, thus carrying back the an- 

 tiquity of man in England to a date far earlier than geologists had 

 previously thought probable. 



After drawing attention to Mr. Phillips's memoir, on *'The Feasi- 

 bility and Advisability of Holding Industrial and Art Exhibitions 

 at the Annual Meetings of the Devonshire Association," the 

 President concluded with a short notice of the removal by death of 

 two of the oldest members of the Institution — Mr. Charles Prideaux 

 and Dr. Cook worthy, — and of the departure of Dr. Weymouth 

 from the neighbourhood. 



A Paper will be read on October l^th on 



COUNT CAVOUH: The Italian Statesman. 



By Mr. Edward Spender. 

 Communicated by Mr. A. P. Prowse. 



PROGRAMME. 



CoNTEAST between Cavour and Pitt — Ancestry and Early Years of 

 Cavour — A Page at the Court of Charles Albert — Palis into the 

 disfavour of the King — Throws up the Army in disgust. Youthful 

 ambition and anticipation of fame — Young Italy — The Eevolution 

 of 1830: Cavour's disappointment — Travels through Europe and 

 to England — A Man of Fashion and Pleasure— A Country Gentle- 

 man A Writer — The Eevolution of 1848: the Disaster of No vara 



Election to the Sardinian Parliament, and entrance into official 



life The Eussian War and the Sardinian Contingent — The Orsini 



Plot The Plombieres Interview — The Campaign of 1859 — The 



Treaty of Yillafranca: Cavour's disgust — The Political Chess- 

 board: Cavour v. Napoleon — Annexation of the Duchies — Garibaldi 



Annexation of the Two Sicilies — Illness — ''A Eree Church in a 



Free State "—Death. 



