" Turin, 4pri/ 4. "Garibaldi has arrived here yesterday to
take his seat in the grand Par- liament as Member of Nice. His presence has at once caused a change in the feelings with regard to the loss of the maritime province ; already eighty- five deputies are secured to vote againet the French annexation. The va- lorous general, I need hardly say, is not much in love with the yieldingpo- hey of the Ministers' and he and a few others believe in the possibility of at least neutralizing Nice. But I think hopes and efforts come by tar too late. The Nice affair will of course be the first discussed, and any debate that may ensue, will I am afraid only prove a barren dies irae. I must tell you that the King's speech at the opening of Parliament, which met here with such approval, was penned Farini, and to his exertions is also owing that judicious regulation by which the military and civil officers in Central Italy are all maintained in their ranks and places. "As a curiosity, I maymention that a female antagonist has appeared in the field against M. Cavour in the person of the Countess de Is 'Torre. This enthusiasticand enlightened lady, who has already written against Papal power, has 111W issued a brochure in which she rather sharply takes to task the Minister for his so easily parting with Savoy and Nice. Copies of the excommunication oirculate here freely ; it is a most amusing model of super- annuated composition; every thing falls under the fatal curse of the Holy Father ; the stomach, the backbone, the bowels, the digestive faculties, the knees, and a great many other things appertaining and forming part of the rebels all are cursed and excommunicated. Ten years ago it would have filled the hearts of thousands with reverential horror !"
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