the 3d of March, 1849, a deputy in the National Assembly, by 8982
votes, being nearly one thousand ahead of seven other candidates elected
at the same time, consequently at the top of the poll. On the 31st of the
same month, the dissolution of the Executive Committee was decreed by the
Constituent Assembly, and the government of the republic appointed to be
intrusted to a Triumvirate, "with unlimited powers." The citizens chosen
for this important office were Carlo Armellini, Giuseppe Mazzini, and
Aurelio Saffi. How wisely, temperately, and benevolently they acquitted
themselves of the task assigned them, under the most complicated and
trying circumstances that ever legislators had to struggle with, is known
to all. The contrast of their conduct with that of the Cardinal
Triumvirate that succeeded them, will live in the page of impartial
history, to the honor of the representatives of the People, the disgrace
of the representatives of the Church.

It is needless to say that on the entrance of the French into Rome,
Mazzini, with his illustrious colleagues, and many other distinguished
patriots, prepared to quit it. Again he found an asylum in England, and
again he betook himself to the furtherance of the cause to which all his
faculties are devoted, to the emancipation of Italy. "Twenty years," he
says, in the preliminary note to his pamphlet recently published,
entitled, "The Charge of Terrorism in Rome, during the Government of the
Republic, refuted by Facts and Documents"--"Twenty years, attended with the
usual amount of cares, woes, and deceptions, have rolled around me since
my first step in the career. But my soul is as calm, my hands are as pure,
my faith is as unshaken, and bright with hope for my awakened country, as
in my young years. With these gifts one may well endure with a smile such
little annoyances as may arise from such writers as Mr. Cochrane, and Mr.
Macfarlane." We should think so!

The first publication of Mazzini's that attracted notice after his return
to England, was his "Letter to Messrs. De Tocqueville and De Falloux,
Ministers of France." It excited universal interest. The simple truth of
its statements, which no sophistry of the parties to whom it was addressed
could deny, the justice of its reproaches, the manly sentiments it set
forth, gained it the sympathy of all persons of candor and liberal views,
and added a deeper tinge of shame on the conduct, if not on the cheek, of
the President,