We would call the attention of our readers to a
paper printed elsewhere, on the "Colonisation in South America." It is heavy with facts and gritty with figures ; but it describes in detail two of the great movements of the world now going on— one of them scarcely noticed by Englishmen. It shows the intensity of the forces which are urging Germans abroad at such a rate, and which are far stronger than even the dislike of military service, which in Saxony helps to produce the unexampled rate of suicide. It also shows the importance of the Italian emigra- tion, which is already subduing the Argentine Republic, and may yet change the entire future of South America. The Republic will in twenty years become an Italian State. We are told by witnesses on the spot that while the English are slowly monopolising the estates which yield fortunes, the Italians are engrossing small agriculture, the petit commerce, and most positions of minor trust. The Spanish half-castes cannot com- pete with them at all, and they become acclimatised even more easily than pure Spaniards. Already, when a Roman or a Neapolitan speaks of "America," he intends the Valley of the Plate, and an "Americanised Italian" means one who has made his fortune in the South. Twenty millions of Italians in South America would materially alter the prospects of that glorious division of the world.
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