Will you ask why?
Here's a special address enclosed.
I have just heard from what seems excellent authority (_F.P._ Zanetti has been here) that a French company is to be withdrawn from Rome to-day, and that _all_ the troops will be immediately withdrawn from the R.S., except Rome and Civita Vecchia.

The French generals, however, were not aware of this yesterday morning, though prepared for much, and thus I can't help a certain scepticism.

There is an impression in French quarters, that the delay arises from a fear of a '_coup_' on the part of Austria, if she didn't see France hereabouts.

But Gorgon means to try to get away before the crisis, which isn't in his tastes at all.

De Noue has gone--went yesterday.
I heard yesterday of Sir John Bowring telling somebody that _the time_ had resolved itself now into an affair of _days_.