11 DECEMBER 1869, Page 3

S. Lanza has failed to form a Ministry in Italy.

He wanted reductions in the Army, to which the King would not consent, and General Cialdini was applied to. He could not induce the politicians to work with him, and as a last resource S. Sella was sent for. This gentleman's programme involves very great reduc- tions, sufficient to make the Treasury solvent, and if he accepts, it may be understood that the King has yielded. We doubt, how- -ever, if he is yet convinced of the necessity of abolishing the great Army commands and revising the Civil List, and suspect that the end of it all will be a Rattazzi Ministry, with a programme of economy everywhere except in the Palace.