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Show , o - Many Titles Withdrawn. ? Kor somo months tho Italian her- ' nldlc ofllco has heon overhauling the rolls of nobility and every claim of horeditnry rank haB been carefully scrutinized by experts. Tho result has been a great slaughter of titles, I a largo number of counts, marquises ; nnd oven princes having received no- f tlco that thoy aro merely commoners. Tho cntlro "black" nobility thoso which owo their rank to tho popes havo been struck from tho lists! llko- wUo tho largo number created by tho kings of Naples. Another class which suffered Is that which owed rank to tho deposed and fugltlvo nourhon sovereigns, whoso titles ara now legally oxtlnct. |