And the statistics of books and pamphlets published and circulated in France on the Italian question this year are in most prodigious disaccord with such a conclusion.

Compare them with the same statistics in England, and then judge.
Besides, the English, to do them justice, can be active and generous in any cause in which they are really interested, and it is a fact that we could not get up a subscription in England even for Garibaldi's muskets lately, while France is always giving.
Not that there are not, and have not been, many English of generous sympathies towards Italy.

That I well know.

But it is a small, protesting minority.

Lord John has done very well, as far as words can go, but it has been simply in giving effect to the intentions of France, who wanted much a respectable conservative Power like England to endorse her bill of revolution with the retrograde European Governments.
I will spare what I think of the treatment in England of the Savoy question.