Three French regiments have already left Rome for Civita Vecchia,
and it is reported that the remainder are to follow, and the city be left entirely to the Papal Zouaves. The object of this movement appears to be to relieve Victor Emanuel's Government in meeting Parliament, with which object also General Garibaldi has been released and sent to Caprera, but there are no signs of the evacuation of the Peninsula. Civita Vecchia is still strongly held, and while it is held French troops can enter Italy with impunity, and advance on Rome from a secure base. Italy, it is constantly affirmed, is arming ; but an eye-witness states that the " army of observation " at Pisa consists as yet only of General Cialdini and his staff. Parliament meets on the 6th of December,
The Ethics of English Imperial- and it begins to be believed that Government will have a small The Irish Land Question 13.52 majority, the electors thinking that their humiliation was inevit-
able,—not a satisfactory, though it may be a prudent tone of mind.
