With one exception we have had no authentic information from
Italy this week, and amongst the mass of reports there is comparatively little which bears an appearance even of probable authenticity. The probable part is limited to a statement in the Nord, that the Government at Turin has partially responded to that of -Naples, making counter-propositions. Piedmont, it is said, demands guarantees of reforms, a policy aiming at the complete independence of Italy, total rupture with Austria, and such counsel as shall make Rome accept the situation provided for her.
Meanwhile the capital of -Naples itself has bee niggling with a partial attempt at revolt links. "state of siege," hich has since been removed ; tho constitution ot 1848 has been pro- claimed, the press laws of the same period are revived, the Na- tional Guard is provisionally established, and the Parliament is summoned for the 1st of September. Splendid promises !
The question of Sicily still remains a mystery.
The most positive information comes from Rome. It amounts to a disclosure that, under the patronage of the Government, and comprising several members of the Government, is a sort of spe- cial Committee, manned by the leaders of the tiltramontane party. The names of the committee are given ; and amongst them is Cardinal de Merode, a relative of whom has been a sort of provveditore over Lamoriciere. This committee is designed to promote the object of the high clerical party in Italy ; we may also safely presume that it is allied with the dispossessed Legiti- mist party in most of the Italian states, and even, it would ap- pear, in France ; where its agents, lay or clerical, are said to be
engaged in active operations against the Government. These simple facts imply a more distinct taking of sides, the clerical
and high Legitimist party in Italy growing more desperate, and not only breaking with France, not only seeking to destroy her as an enemy, but letting her see the design!
