Excerpt from A History of Italian Unity, Being a Political History of Italy From 1814 to 1871, Vol. 2 He, less deferential to them than of old, appealed to the country, the ministerial majority was returned, almost un impaired (december). In spite indeed of the dearth, the prosperity of the country had made a solid advance. In the five, years from 1850 to 185 5 the imports nearly trebled, the exports increased by one half. The railways were being rapidly extended, and early in 18 54 the line from Turin to Genoa, then unrivalled in Europe for moun tain engineering, was opened. And notwithstanding distress and taxation and the never ceasing intrigues of the priests, the government stood stronger than ever in the country and in parliament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.