--Of the successor of
Cavour in the
Sardinian Ministry, the Turin correspondent of the London Times writes as follows:
‘
Ricasoli is decidedly the best man to sit at the head of the
Government.
He is a grand seigneur by right of birth, wealth, habit and principle.
It is impossible to reconcile the patriot and the conservative to greater perfection.
He is one of the many in
Italy anxious to dissociate national from social revolution; one of those Italians who wanted to conquer their country that they might constitute it, not disorganize it. Precisely because the
Baron is the man of order and discipline, he is hated and dreaded by the out-and-out revolutionary party, even more than his great predecessor.
The rage with which the journals of Guerrazi and
Mazzini fell foul of him, even before
Cavour's clay was cold, shows the wisdom of the
King's and the nation's choice.
Ricasoli is the man, as the anarchists well know, to curb and chastise them.
There is something in his cold grey eyes, in his deeply-furrowed face, in his spare, dried up, somewhat gaunt frame, that speaks of undaunted courage and unswerving resolution.
He somewhat reminds one of
Gen. Jackson, the man whose character the
Americans summed up in the single appellation of ‘"Old Hickory."’
’