29 JUNE 1895, Page 31

THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN CHAMBER.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—The Spectator of June 22nd contains a material error in "The News of the Week" from Rome. The President of the Italian Chamber is not, as you suppose, the Duke of Sermoneta, who was an unsuccessful candidate for that office, but Signor Villa. The inherent difficulties of the situation are thought to have been aggravated by the action of Signor Villa, who, although himself the Ministerial nominee for the Presidency, refused to appoint the whole of the Ministerial list on the elections Committee, and actually ventured to put on that Committee Signor Cavallotti, the Radical who persists in bringing accusations of personal corruption against Signor