New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-13

the course of this letter sire very specially airms
that tho Duke had absolutely determined not to on
terrain the proposal of putting himself OF the head
of company for the working of the railways. Now,
if the lady Is accurate in her statements. 1t would
follow either that the late Duke disguised his purpose
in this respect from the Cabinet, which is extremely
mprohabe or that tbs Ministry, II they did not de-
ceve the country this point, suffered II to deceive
itsolf. and 10 1.-Two in fools paradise regards
matter on which 1t is above all others anxious-
Accordingly, day OF two ago the Diritto. which is
the principal organ OF the Ministry. published
little article declaring that tho statements of the
duchess were not altogether accurate. Now l
thought proper to telegraph these circumstances TO
London adding that probably the Diritfo alluded
30 the declaration OF the Duchess that her late h's
band had decided not TO have anything to do WIN
the projected company for the working OF the rail-
waysr Aud tho Minister Of the Interior cut out
this remark from my telegram, afioriiDg thereby
very convincing proof that the D;r'to did alude to
the statement in question. and that the Ministers
did feel themselves to be attacked by the assertion
that whereas the country had been for months past
believing that the Duke of Gallcra was about 10
undertake the railways. he had all the time deelaIcd
that he would do nothing OF the sort
This mention of kilograms leads ne to speak OF an
excellent measure of improvement which it seems
probable Chat the present Ministry aboHt to con
fer on as The Cabinet, 1t would seem, about 10
reiinoush The right which the law has hitherto
given them of forbiddiug kilograms to be- forwarded
at their discretion Aud II must be admitted tbat
| such an act OF abncgation will imply specially
meritorious exercise of solldenial on the part Oh
Baron Ncotcra our present Minister or the Interior
and censor OF kilograms. notwithstanding the s'o
outcry which the " Liberal party nave ever niahe
against this supervision of telegTaTs, VIXEN 'hoS
were in opposition, sooner had they come mo
power than more kilograms were stopped than h'u
ever been the case under the former regime. Dur
ing three years of the reign of the "Modcratcs," 1t
happened to me- TO have one telegram stopped once
But that misfortune had happened to De iliree times
! before the Liberals had been in power one tort
| night And MY fate in this respect was not harder
than that of others. In fact the change VIII III al
] probability he due to the great outcrJ which has
been caused by SgDor Ncoteras despotlo ana eNc's-
sivc abuse of the power given to him by tho law
| Nevertheless it must be owned that the present
| " hhersln Ministry are doing some good things
They have as yet had no opposition whatever 10
| contend with. Their advcrSarics are giving them
rope enough" But III all fairness it must be con-
fessed that as yet they have not used IT for the ad
bic PURPOSE for which il has been glven 10 thch'
Among other activities in the way OF Improvements
is scheme FOR tho amclioration Of the mode OF pro-
1
and will in oil probability lie carried, to abandon
| the system of "Ufizi or Burcaux," which was
initiated from the French practice and adopt the
Fnrlish system Of first second and third reedncoi
a bill The present plan, practiced here wastes
an infnity of tme and the economy IN that
precious commodity which will rcGult from the sya-
fem of doing the real work of examining ana DIS
cussing measures in detail ut second reading IN
Lee of the whole house will be very great i'll
| deed
| The new President of the Chamber Francisco
Crip radical Of the radicals hss also anRiiitcd +
system which il is 10 he hoped viii DC
rect an evil which has of late years been increasing
in the Italian Parliament til 1t had become we'll
nigh intoleTable mean the absence OF members
from, no other reason than that they preferred 70 he
amusing themselves on attending TO their own aiialTs
instead of to those of the nation Che Of which
had been, al their own seeking, intrusted to them
NV their fellow ctizans. Sgnor Crsnis remedy for
an evil, which his predecessor, Signor Blanchi,
wes always complaining Of Is to cause every sitting
IN commence with roll rall of the members and T."
Layo the lame of ever, absentee without leave pub
,hcd in the official gazette. Ii is TO be hoped that
it Will not occur To any honorable member to ash,
as the traditional Irish member. with undesirable
| inpidpnco is said TO have asked OF the English
| Sneaker Manners Sutton, who had Threatened,
when he would not obey a call TO order tn name
! him" Sc And phase. Mr. SPEAKER what VIII happen II
Won do name me ?" Manners Sutton Is SAID 10 have
reTljed IN a voice If awful solemniiy, hohn@ ZIP ms
| hands and with uplifted cyt,5. God only knows !"
am afraid that Ci1spi would be reduced In q some
what similar answer. Nevertheless, the teTroI' oil
the black list may operate among less hardened
| sinners.
Another question, which is just at present mnrh
exercising the minds of rcforuer here, IS the mode
If amendment of the mayors of the towns and
r1Ir,l continues Are they to be elected by those
whose affairs they are to administer, voting 7i y
more Or less extended system cf electoral Franchise,
or are they 10 lie nominated BY the Government :
he liberal" Ministry are, Ivy virtue Of thoT
PARTY appollaion yluch disposed toward the former
! syste,a. Bui il j. admitted Oh ali hands that the
| twofod capacity Of the may0T-or 1Sndio. rs he IL
| Called hcre-he Icng IN one character The admins
! traitor Of the affairs Of the commune, and IN the
| other the medium OF communicating brtWcch no
| central government and the poniAiioils-lnakcS II
difficult for the central anIhoiiiy to reilnquSh al
| control over iie appointment Of him. An l.uglisi-
| mans solution Of the question, when would b" 10
let the communicating between me H9Neihineht
AID the populations snft Tor It?rl, II tieie w'I'
! ever any need of such cGnnuniclton-winc the
| Enclishman would not quite adnnt-such q So
luton as tins would lac utterly abh"Trent ana III
decd uuiItelligibic 10 the Latin minds oi the iphabIi
ants Of tho peninsula. Ii T. impossible for them TO
| conceive that the social machinery OF coinmu"'ty
| can work satisfactorily without the existence OF
means ready al hand for the Government 10 pOk"
finger INTO every social pie And there IL little hope
| that they should be able TO conceive the ldoA OF
| leaving people TO govern themselves after the
| hnrlo-Saxon fashion at any rate for many yeTer-
alton to come But IT rnlght. one would have
| tbnurlt have been found not impossible Ia make
| Inc Prefcct discharge all the governmental admin
i,trative functions which the central authority ind
| II lppossible 10 relinquish
Assuredly the present regime has not worked sat
is(artOriiv especially III several of the larger and
| uor, important cities which all, with the eXcep-
| lion tiiiIk Of Turin, almost hOpelessly in debt.
TIN, condition of the COnGmunes IS subject of very
! grave prpoccupatiou and uiicasiness here, and /