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It is reported—truly or falsely—that Lord Stanley, immediately on the

receipt of M. Rouherls speech, telegraphed to the British Embassy to say, that such being the Imperial programme, Her Majesty's Government definitively .declined to enter the Con- ference. The Moniteur continues to speak of this project as a

reality, but the statement is almost an imbecility. Imagine Prussia, England, and Italy formally authorizing Napoleon. to remain for ever at Civita Vecchia,—formally annexing the Roman States to France !