At 11 o'clock on Thursday night Queen Elena of Italy
was safely delivered of a son in the Royal Palace of Racconigi. The baby has received the name of Humbert, Prince of Piedmont, and the Queen and her son are both doing well. The news, so gratifying to the King and Queen of Italy and the Italian people—the Salle law prevails in Italy, and there- fore till Thursday the Heir-Presumptive to the throne was a cousin—will be received here also with much pleasure. Not only have the English people a deep sympathy with the Italian nation, and an intense desire that the State should be stable, happy, and prosperous, but the Italian Sovereigns are both personally popular. The house of Savoy, almost alone of Continental reigning families, understands the position and duties of a constitutional Monarchy.
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