The King of Italy, after desperate efforts to induce the
Liberal groups to support either S. Cairoli, 3. Parini, or S. Sella, has at last formed a Ministry of Affairs, headed by SS. Depretis • and Mancini. It is believed they will be supported for a time until a new electoral law can be carried through, and possibly until the Government has taken some foreign action. There is a whisper going about that Italy thinks herself entitled to Tripoli, and may possibly make her claim felt. Prince Bismarck advises that course, the Italian Ambassador at Constantinople is pressing some claims very sharply, and the Sultan is sending troops and then-of-war to Tripoli. At the same moment, the Spanish papers are proclaiming the necessity of an occupation of Morocco, and the idea in some powerful quarter evidently is that all Northern Africa should be annexed by Europe at once.
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