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• The intelligence from Italy requires little notice. Although .he

diplomatic body and the Qneen have quitted Gaeta, Francis II. 'still holds his Court there, and prodigally dispenses the order zilf St. Januarius. The Italian army is busy in making roads up Also rugged hills whereon its batteries must be placed. Anxious to defend the Patrimony of St. Peter which he holds, General Goyon has occupied Terracina. The Pope, deprived of power, and almost deprived of revenue, sits in Rome, an imaginary sovereign, "half prisoner" as he says, but still free to go—to Avignon or somewhere else, not in Austria. The Germans gather in Venetia and the Tyrol, and Garibaldi keeps watch from the rock of Caprera.

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