An attempt to overset monarchy in Italy by a rising
in several cities at once has failed. In Pavia and Piacenza blood was shed, and there is reason to believe that the Modena Brigade had been tampered with, as several non-commissioned officers fled. The Times fastens the insurrection on Mazzini, and produces a letter in which he announced himself pleased with the " manly promises" of the party of action. We doubt if it is well for Italy to break with the House of Savoy before it has acquired Rome, and detest these crude outbreaks, but we do not exactly see what Mazzini has done that Prim did not do. Prim went himself ? So did Mazzini, as long as he could be of any service in the field. The Times says, "Mazzini is a conspirator, and nothing else." Do people die for conspirators, and dying bless them ?—because these Italians do. Mazzini is wrong, but to call the old Red prophet a mere conspirator only is like calling Louis Napoleon a mere King.
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