1 JULY 1865, Page 3

The public is a little too hasty in assuming that

the Vegezzi mission to Rome has failed. It has been broken off chiefly by the difficulties connected with the oath of allegiance, and the Papal demand of independence in the management of Church property, but both the Pope and the King are sincerely anxious that negotiations should be resumed. The King does not like his position of religious isolation, and the Pope is honestly afraid that North Italy will learn to regard Bishops as ornamental super- fluities—a calamity almost as great as the loss of the States of the -Church.