The total result of the Italian elections, as tested by
the party votes on the election of the officers of the Chamber, does not give the Government an assured majority without the support of the Extreme Left. They have not a clear balance of ten votes. It was reported, therefore, that negotiations had been opened with S. Nicotera and S. Crispi to receive them into the Cabinet, but they appear as yet to have failed. The Dissidents, as they call themselves, are strongly excited ; they have induced Garibaldi to write a letter accusing the "Savoyard Monarchy" of "trampling on the rights of the people, and reducing them to misery ; " and they markedly abstained from applauding the King's speech. That speech, delivered on the 26th inst., was of the ordinary kind, but makes serious points of the extension of the suffrage, which is now inevitable, if Governments in Italy are to have any per- manence; and of the King's hope that "before all, the pacifica- tion of the countries bordering upon Montenegro may avert the misfortune of a conflict." That is a noticeable admission of the deep interest which Italy supposes herself to have in the Albanian question.
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