It is pretty clear that though Italy will not intervene
alone between France and Germany, the feeling there is exceedingly strong for a joint intervention, which Italy would strongly sup- port. This day week, in the assembly of deputies, four members of entirely different parties, all expressed the warmest sympathy for France, and asked for explanations of the conduct of the Ad- ministration. Signor Visconti Venosta declared in answer, that it was impossible for Italy to interfere alone, that impediments existed to prevent a joint intervention, but that the firmest inten- tion existed to seize the earliest opportunity for mediation in con- junction with other Powers. It seems that the public feeling is one of great disappointment that French sympathy was not more authoritatively expressed. Will there be even four members in the English House of Commons to apply pressure to the Govern- ment on the same side ? Doubtless our debts to France are not so deep, but neither are our dangers from Germany half so great.
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