30 JANUARY 1892, Page 31

ITALIAN MAYORS.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—As an appropriate illustration of a passage in the article on " Lord Rosebery and the County Council," in the Spectator of January 16th, you may like to know that the present Mayor of Genoa is the Marquis G. Doria, who is not only eminent as a cultivator and patron of science, but is also the representative of the illustrious family so intimately associated with the history of the "superb city" in the Middle Ages.—I am, Sir, &c.,