12 MARCH 1870, Page 3

The Telegraph mentions a story for which we have seen

no other authority, that the Italian Government have engaged the services of Baron Haussmann to build a completely new capital for Italy, to be called Nueva Roma. The idea is a bold one ; but where is the money to come from ? and what is to become of Florence? and where is the new site to be? and since when has Italy surrendered the idea of Rome for its capital ? and why such a bathetic name as New Rome, worthy only of Illinois? &c., &c., of endless interrogatories. We suppose M. Haussmann has been consulted as to some Florentine improvements, and only trust he will not plant a Rue Rivoli on the Arno.