The crisis in Italy has been terminated by the formation
of a new Cabinet, in which General Pelloux remains Premier and Minister of the Interior, and eight outgoing Re elical Ministers are replaced by Extreme or Moderate Comm irvatives. That General Pelloux should, within a fortnight from .being President of a Cabinet of the Left, have become head of a Ministry drawn almost entirely from the Right, may seem o, a the face of it a strange and indefensible somersault to thc me unacquainted with the workings of the group system. Jit is pointed out, however, that General Pelloux has all along' been a King's man rather than a party politician, and that the. new combination augurs well for the development of a homo geneous Conserva- tive party. The most notable features of tb le new Administra- tion are the accession of the veteran Marqa us Visconti Venosta —who first held office nearly forty yeans ago—and the con- spicuous absence of Baron Sonnino, who is on all hands admitted to have engineered the coalitilon, formed the new Cabinet, and to control the Parliamentaa-3; support which can alone keep it in power. There seems to be, however, no reason to doubt his loyalty.
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