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Show LIKENS ITALY TO MESSALINA. The "Corriere della Sera," the leading Liberal paper of Italy, comments severely on the disgraceful disgrace-ful posters plastered on the walls of every Italian city, and the horribly blasphemous and obscene novels and papers exhibited on the newsstands throughout the country. It concludes its articlc-with articlc-with 1he following words: To such a pass have we fallen in Italy at the present time that one is apt to believe, and wi th some reason, that instead in-stead of the great and illuminating Italy which everybody hoped would arise fro mthe chaos which was "the natural result of the revolution through .vhich we have pasred, another Italy has been substituted, sub-stituted, which we can only liken to a Messalin.i bent upon corrupiing and ruining her own off spring- |