NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE King left Rome on Thursday on his way to Paris. His reception in Rome has not only been magnificent, but marked by a quite unusual cordiality, the different public bodies vying with one another in honorific addresses, and the Press dwelling on the services which England has constantly rendered to Italy, a country which was once, as they repeatedly remark, possessed of an Empire as wide as that of which Great Britain is now the head. The Avanti, the Socialist newspaper, is especially warm in its con- gratulations, and speaks of the cordial understanding between this country, France, and Italy as a guarantee for the security of the last-named State. The speeches reported are not of any special political interest, but in none of them is any artificiality to be detected, and it is pleasant to note our King's reference to the liberal institutions and the love of liberty which are the common heritage of Italy and Britain. In Italy, no more than in Britain or America, is an officer allowed to cut down a civilian whom he imagines to have insulted his sacred cloth. Italy is in every way a fitting political associate for this country. The Italians are in no way annoyed by the visit paid to the Pope, which they think only a natural courtesy to be paid by a Sovereign who has so many millions of Roman Catholic subjects.
