26 OCTOBER 1861, Page 2

Neg.—It seems certain that M. Ricasoli must go out of

office. M. Benedetti, the French Minister, has arrived at Turin, and brings with him the reply of the Emperor Napoleon. His Majesty does not reject or even disapprove the Italian propositions. He simply considers them inopportune. France is not prepared at the moment to deal with so difficult a question as the evacuation of Rome might produce. This answer is final for the present, though M. Ratazzi, the next Italian Premier, has gone to Compiegne, and Ricasoli, who promised the Parliament Rome before the end of November, must go out. He will probably be succeeded by M. Ratazzi, with a Cabinet which will include some of the party of action. Parliament opens on November 15, and it is rumoured that the session will be a short one. The re- presentatives, when they meet, will not, however, it is remarked, be so willing to abandon their control over affairs. The recent division of the Secretaryship to the Ministry of the Interior into four, and the appointment of General Marmora as Civil and Military Lieu- tenant in Naples, are severely commented on, and evidently Rica- soli's popularity is on the wane. Victor Emanuel has ordered a diamond necklace, modelled after that of the order of the Annunciate, to be made for St. Januarius. All is quiet at Naples. The papers are full of accounts of the Exhibition at Florence. In manufactured goods, velvets, embroidery, and other artist work ex- cepted, Italy has yet to make a beginning, but the show of cottons from Lombardy and Tuscany, of straw work from Tuscany, and woollen stuffs from several provinces, is promising. Inventiveness, too, always the Italian forte, is still marked, and we extract a remark- able account of the newest and most perfect telegraph :

" Caselli's pantelegraph, as it is generally known, is intended for the transmission of messages immediately from the hand of the writer, conveying a fac-simile of every word and syllable, and bearing. the full authenticity of the hand and signature. A banker at Paris or London may thus, hereafter, draw a cheque upon Turin or Florence, which his correspondent will honour at sight, being as sure of the identity of the document as if he had the very paper on which it is written. I have looked on for some time on the working of this apparently magic machine, and have seen it write under my inspec- tion now three, now four lines of Dante in the very handwriting with 'which the correspondent was at that very moment tracing them on the prepared paper in Leghorn. Presently a lineal drawing of a portrait of Dante, which was being delineated at Leghorn, came into life before me, line by line, shade by shade. Anon, again, it was a pattern design for a lady's embroidery. In one word, it is the repro- duction, at a distance, of anything that pen or pencil can produce. A small point, somewhat like the hand of a watch runs semicircularly, moved by a very simple machine, upon a chemically prepared paper,

tracing almost invisible lines, the aggregate of which soon embodies the words, line by line, or the various parts of the design, till the whole stands before us. The action is so rapid that the average trans- mission is of twelve words in a minute, being somewhat quicker than the usual mode of telegraphic communication, with the avoidance of all possible mistake or equivocation. Caselli has exhibited his in- vention before the French Emperor, who assured him the pautele- graph did great honour to Italy, and was a discovery of which France herself might be proud.' A communication between Florence and Paris is soon to be established."