, 1866-09-25

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and Baron Ricasoli is just the man to
he is convinced that the proper moment
has arrived. The intention of the Go
vernmentis said to be to reduce the army to
less than 1000 men, and such a force
would..amply suffice, for all Italy requires
in the way of troops is garrisons for a
few fortresses and a certain number OF
battalions 10 keep down the b~rigandage-
a suppression which, when the Roman
question shall have been settled, may
probably be left to gendarmes and police.
There is no danger Of internal disturbances
in Italy, and, as there Is now no chance
of a foreign war, a very small army and
navy may suffice. Italy's navy will be
more strengthened by the extension of
her commerce., which will give her good
sailors, than by keeping up a large fleet
and spending enormous sums in ironcIads.
The unlucky Affondatore is said to have
cost more than 400 ,000L
1t is said that Victor Emmanuel will
make a progress of some duration through
Eastern Vcnetia before entering Venice
itself, and one letter says that, after
visiting Vicenza and other places, he will
return to Florence before visiting the
capital Of his newly-acquircd province.
No reason is given for this arrangement.
The Venetians will be impatient TO greet
their new Monarch. 1t is reported that,
on signing the peace, Austria will recog-
nize the Kingdom Of Italy and at once
send an Ambassador to Florence. Ac-
cording to recent accounts, the cholera
was rather on the increase at Genoa, and
some apprehension was felt at Florence,
where the heat during the last two or
three weeksis described as l%nsupporta->
BILE. The Arno is very low, ana the emu
via it gives out are neither fragrant nor
salutary. The Minister of Public Works
is ~endeavouring to assist the railway
companies, and the convention with the
Roman lines was expected TO be signed
to-day. Thanks TO The prospects OF
peace and to the energetic management
of the Alta-Italy lines, the trains between
Lombardy and Venetia are again running.
They go to Peschiera, and are then in i'm
mediate correspondence with the Vene-
tian railways.
Spain, after for a moment afford
ing hopes of revival and improvement,
has again sunk into such apwretched
state Of degradation that few take an in
terest in her. But it is right briefly to
record the atrocities now perpetrated by
the Government, whose leading mem
bers are Narvaez and Gonzales Brave :
"Daily," a Spanish friend writes TO
me, 'the Saladero Ohe Madrid PRISON.
is filled, and on the morrow more room
is made by sending the Liberals in scores
to the Philippines, to Fernando Pc, and
Annabon. 1t is useless to tell you all
that is now going on in this unhappy
Spain, for you would not believe it.
O'Donnell, in his latter days of power,
and Narvaez ever since he entered Office
this time, have shown themselves wor-
thy rivals of Mauravieff This may go
on for a time, but it must have IN end,
and 1 greatly fear it will be a very
bloody one"
Of late we have had abortive attempts at
revolution, but those who made them
have not been discouraged by failure, and
we may expect fresh instructions, of
which at last one will be successful, and
then, most assuredly, it is not a Ministry,
but a dynasty will go down.
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