25 NOVEMBER 1865, Page 2

Victor Emanuel opened Parliament for the first time in Flo-

rence on the 18th inst. His speech contained little remarkable except a promise that the Convention of September should be maintained, a belief that a community of interests was spring- ing up between the Latin and German races, and an announce- ment of new taxes, and of measures to separate Church and State and suppress the religious corporations. It was exceedingly well received, but was of importance only as indicating what the main work of the session will be—the revision of taxation and the seizure of ecclesiastical property. Administrative reform, which is more necessary than either, must we fear wait, unless forced on by a popular refusal to bear a tax upon flour.