The expulsion of M.Gallenga, the _Times_ correspondent, was in reality no exception to this policy.

It was not as the correspondent of an English newspaper, but as an ex-Mazzinian revolutionist and the author of _Fra Dolcino_, that this gentleman was obnoxious to the Papal authorities.

Though a naturalized English subject, he had not ceased to be an Italian, and his personal influence amongst Roman society might have been considerable, though the effect of his English correspondence, however able, would have been next to nothing.
From all these causes it is very hard to learn anything at Rome, and harder yet to learn anything with accuracy.

It is only by a process of elimination you ever arrive at the truth.

Out of a dozen stories and reports you have to take one, or rather part of one, and to reject the eleven and odd remaining.