22 APRIL 1865, Page 2

Pio Nono has abandoned the rt5le of suffering angel which

he has played so long, and has made the first advances towards reconciliation with Italy. He has addressed a letter to Victor Emanuel, requesting him in courteous, almost kindly terms, to send a plenipotentiary to Rome able to decide with His Holiness on the measures required by the Church. We publish in another place a history of the transaction, and need only add here that the King has accepted the olive-branch, and that his representa- tive has arrived in Rome. The step, which has caused great consternation among the Neri, was taken by the Pope without consultation with any of his official advisers.