THE KING’S ADDRESS TO HIS NEW SUBJECTS

benefit is this for our country and for civilisation : but in order that it may bear good fruit it is necessary to persévéré in the virtue of which you hâve given such a wonderful example ; and above ail must be cultivated the firm readiness to make sacrifices, without which great enterprises are ill-accomplished and badly secured.

I place in you that faith which, not in vain, you hâve placed in me. The condition which binds us indissolubly is, honour towards our common country, and universal civilisation. I hâve not in the past had any other ambition than to hazard my life for the independence of Italy, and to give the people an example of loyalty which, restoring the public morale, united with liberty, should give a solid foundation to the State. I hâve now the ambition to procure to myself and to my family, from the people just united, that devoted affection for which the Subalpines are celebrated ; I am ambitions to fortify the Italians in those noble sentiments by which is formed the strong tempérament of peoples who know how to bear adversity and préparé for good fortune.

Victor Emmanuel.

Turin, March 25, 1860.

The élections took place on the same day, amidst great excitement, and ovations for those who had been most active in the work of uniting the provinces. Count Cavour was elected in no less than eight constituencies, Farini and Ricasoli in several. AU the most

gifted and distinguished men in Italy were sent to that Parliament in Turin, and were received by the Subalpines with an enthusiastic and brotherly welcome ; and the robber king congratulated himself and his accomplices on the great work of spoliation successfully accomplished.