The Italian Ministry led by the veteran Signor Bosch was
de- feated in the Chamber on Thursday week by 314 votes to 96, and resigned. Its fall occurred on the morrow of the greet enemy offensive on the Isonzo, but was in no way connected with that disastrous episode. The Ministry as a whole had ceased to inspire confidence, though some of its members, and especially Baron. Sonnino, the Foreign Minister, are highly popular. Signor Orlando,
who has been Minister of the Interior since last year, speedily farmed a new Cabinet, in which he and Baron Sonnino retain their old poets, while Signor Nitti has replaced Signor Carcano at the Treasury, and Signor Bissolati, hitherto a Minister without port. folio, has taken the Ministry of Public Assistance and Pensions. In the face of the peril in Venetia, all parties have rallied round the Government, except the advanced Socialists, who, as in Russia and elsewhere, have no sense of patriotism.
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