We criticise elsewhere the measures adopted by the Italian Government
for the restoration of order in Sicily, where the Maffia, the secret organisation of criminals, has recently reduced public justice to a farce, but we must add here that no system can be fully successful until the agrarian laws have been reformed. The land is held in enormous blocks, fettered by entails, and worked through bailiffs instead of tenants, the wretched labourers herding M the towns. There are not even villages near their work for them to live in, and they are dependent on absentee landlords to an extent which no Southern labourer will endure. They are therefore friends of the brigands, even when they do not join them, and will remain friends until entails are abolished, tenant- right established, and the purchase of land made at all events remotely possible. All these things could be done without in the slighest degree diminishing the incomes of the landowners, who do not want to live on their estates, but spend their great re- venues in the cities, sometimes well, sometimes badly, but always
ar. Objects which do not benefit the labourer. It is from this - side, the wants of the labourets without lend, and not from the ideas of the artialtakti, that revoItitioe in 'tells to be aprehende&
