, 1866-01-06

Marriage Of Prince TEufubcrt Likely
TO Fail-Meyerbeer'A Great Opera
<sTbe AfrIcnn.'-Adcllnn Patt1-CrIn1-
, 1nnl Statistics, dc. !
From Our Own Corrcspondent]
FLORENCE, Italy. Dec. II, 1866 !
The election Of Speaker of the Chamber Of
Deputies resulted, as predicted last wcck, ;
in the triumph Of the Ministry, through the,
discords In the Liberal camp. NJ. Mari Was
elected over VI, Mordini by 14a votes to 1871,
There arc hints that this was elected By;
combinations looking to ss notifications
OF the cabinet" which means that, TO get
their Moderate friends into power, certain
moderate Liberals voted With the Govern
ment. IL is new proof OF the personal char
acter of our politics.
The ballot was preceded by m evolution OF
three parties on the stage, the middle one be-
ing known as the Lett Centre and voting for
N. Ratozzi, to whose personal fortunes about
oue-fourth Of the Chsmber. zeems to be de-
voted. The novel thing Is that wo-thlrds Of
this party arc called Liberals, although Ra-
tozzi is more odlous to the mass Of tic Lib
era1 party than my other man.
The fictitious nature Of the majority IN the
election IL proved by the fact that In the
choice of tho vice preaidents the Liberals
elected ma5oltty.
The vote shows that about one-thlrd OF the
era1 members, 1ike Gnribaldl, who never at
lend. II may be well enough to give the her
nit of Caprefa scat he never occnpIes. His
exalted services distinguish him from all other
men.
But the principle Is fatal to tha representa-
tive system, and handtHhe Government orer
to men who seek after their Own 1ntercsts and
those Of their friends rather than the public
good, and perpetuate the political disorders
In which ne hare lived for i've years. These
perpetual notifications of mIntstrfes-we
hnye some new man In the cabinet every three
tnonths-arc largely the nrnlt OF absentceism
In the Chamber.
The root Of this matter lies In un unpaid
Chamber. An honest man cannot afford TO
spend his time At Florence unless he be rich.
In this point the Italinns hare Initiated the
English system, from which, indeed, they
have contrived 10 borrow almost all that Is
for nothing il, IN this acc. tho worst Of biun-
ders, 8nd neither IL England nor Italy can
the people govern uoler that policy. It Is
a short way Of pespetuatIng power In the
hands ofthe rich under the forms Of popular
government.
roblyin in the verillcniiou of powers. All c]ec-
tions have 1seen declared void when the
subaltcln agents Of the Ministry had exerted q
pressure on thu electors Or violated the miuu-
lest forms Of tue Constitution. The three
Deputies Of Genoa, though friends Of the
Ministry, and though Mazzint had been one of
the opposing candidates, were rejected on
slight informalities. There are about one
hundred Deputies 70, be elected over agnin
some lime this month. -.
tits rumeseA thst the ma1riage of Prince
uumhert with the Princess of LeuGhtenberg
will fail through . divergence on q point Of
1t-f, 1..f K II. e I Il
Of the Gar Of Russia, must worship accord
lug to the rites OF tho Greek Church, and 1t Ia
enid that Victor Emanuel will not tolerate
Greek priests in his Court ut Florence. Pas-
haps be has too many priests already.
Meycrbere's:g opera-'',The African
has been represented at Bologna, and the last
n'ght came OF ysstfsday. Il hs1 besn Eseat T. :
The orchestra was led BY Afariani Of Genoa,
our first man In that department. The
E1ima donna Was Caroline Ferni, whose his
tory !. a marvel. She once p1ayed The violin
In our cafes. Later she gave concerts on the
violin. Some musician discovered that she
was both an actress and 3 singer, and set hel
| to learning opera music. The result u that,
! in Ave years, she has mounted to the Gfst
| place as d singer. have heard hef
| sing for three seasons successfully to the
same audience with over Increasing applause
Adelfna Patti, Who has made reputation
outside Of Italy, Is now trying to make ont
! ut home. doubt whether she will DO very
successful. An artist who comes to ns Will
habits acquired among colder people, Is like,
ly TO Lack the warmth and passion essentia
to Success here. .-.......
I have before me some criminal statistics
| recently published by The Ministry Of Justice
i They embrace MI arrests made for crime dur
i ing the last quarter. There were 2, 9,o6 per
sons accused Of crime, Of whom only 1886
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