Dear Mr.Ruskin, England has done terribly ill, ignobly ill, which is worse.
That men of all parties should have spoken as they have, proves a state of public morals lamentable to admit.

What--not even our poets with clean hands?
Alfred Tennyson abetting Lord Derby?
That to me was the heaviest blow of all.
Meanwhile we shall have a free Italy at least, for everything goes well here.

Massimo d' Azeglio came to see us in Rome, and he said then, 'It is '48 with matured actors.' Indeed, there is a wonderful unanimity, calm, and resolution everywhere in Italy.

All parties are broken up into the one great national party.

The feeling of the people is magnificent.