19 DECEMBER 1863, Page 3

The Venetian Secret Committee have issued an order warning all

their supporters to be ready for action in March. The exiles appear to believe that this warning is bond fide, and report that Garibaldi is collecting muskets, which is true, and that the Emperor of the French is favourable to the scheme, which may be true, but about which nobody can know anything. If Victor Emanuel is ready the movement may be wise, but if not, Mazzini will incur an awful responsibility by flinging unorganized men on the Croatian bayonets. Manin, we strongly suspect, would have waited for European war.