NEWS OF THE WEEK.
mliE Roman Question has been the grand, almost the sole, topic of the week, and so contradictory are the telegrams, so perplexed is the action of the fean great parties to the struggle, that it is nearly impossible to frame a consistent narrative. It is necessary, first of all, to give the main facts, with their dates. On the 25th October, General Cialdini gave up the idea of forming a Ministry, and after a day of negotiation with Rattazzi the King summoned General Menabrea, once Member of the Right, now said to be Moderate, who on the 27th formed a Ministry of administrators, and on the evening of the same day countersigned a Royal proclamation ordering all Italian Volunteers to "retire behind the line of the Royal troops." This was intended to arrest Garibaldi, who, having escaped from Caprera, visited Florence on the 22nd, was not arrested, and in the afternoon, after a passionate speech to the multitude, left the capital by special train to invade the Papal States. In this he succeeded, overthrowing the Papal Zouaves at Monte. Rotondo on the 26th, and reaching a point just outside Rome on or about the 30th October. Meanwhile, the Emperor of the French, on the 24th, while Cialdini was still negotiating, ordered the re-embarkation of the Polhes Brigade at Toulon ; on the 26th the French squadron left the harbour, on the 29th it arrived at Civita Vecchia, on the 30th the Moniteur announced that the flag of France was flying over the port, and on-the same day, at 11 a.m., four divisions of the Italian Army, under the general command of Cialdini, crossed the Roman frontier. Up to the evening of Friday no certain intelligence had been received of French troops reaching Rome.
