In compliance with his last promise, Englefield writes of the happenings in Italy. Italy is courting Prussia and Russia on one side and Austria and France on the other. It is apparent that Bismarck has afforded Garibaldi the means by which a revolt might take place in the Papal States. It is thought that the strong friendship of Mazzini with the nobles throughout Italy will force the crown to accept the alliance with Prussia. There is serious shortage of grains as well as of olives and grapes, and in southern Italy, brigandage has prevented the people from working the land and should famine succeed to cholera, that area would be in a most pitiable state of desolation. There is ample proof that corrupt government officials are in positions of responsibility. The prime minister Ratazzi has sent to Paris to get a fresh supply of gold for the Bank, a preliminary measure to increasing the issue of paper money with which they think they can carry on a war. Thus is shown the impossibility under which Italy seeks to wage war, because of her state of low finances, the wretched condition of her commerce and agriculture and heavy taxation. Italy at this time presents the spectacle of another Mexico, as it labors under many difficulties at home and is threatened externally by her many enemies. In the papers of James Alphonsus McMaster :: I-1-n. A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo. 2pp. 12vo.