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The march of the 80th Regiment of the Line from Milan by way of Sum, and that of the 2nd by way of Nice, implies at least a military occupation of the two provinces, however it may be connected with the evacuation of Lombardy. We must suppose it was in order to set his auditors at ease in their anomalous position as subjects of another monarch that Loris NarotaOlt informed them that the annexation of Savoy and Nice had been resolved on, since for any other purpose the amurence was quite unnecessary. It would have been as well if he had stopped therm The transfer of Savoy and Nice is a business which should be got over am quietly as possible. From a French point of view the ElOll2Ol, had a perfect right to speak of it as a " rectileation of " the frontier," since it augments the territory of the Empire, opens the great Simplon road to Francs, and, better still, gives her *hat he has himself described as "la libertil des Alpes, et en cas de " guerre un magnifique champ de bataille pour " une lutte offensive et dicfensive." In any other sense the transfer of Upper Savoy by France is no more a " rectification" than would be the sruiexa bun of the department of the Lower Alps to Pied mont. It is the advancement of the French border into a country separated from France as much by geography as by interest, and will require the annexation of Western Switzerland to make it either regular or rational. But this violent de rangement of territory having been resolved on, and the assent of Piedmont having been by whatever means acquired, the Esirmion should in common decency have abstained from pretending that be was about to take possession of those territories with the smut of the populations. If this were s..—if the Savoyards and Nizards were anxious or even willing to become French, or the &MMUS had shown the slightest regard for their opinions and sentiments in the matter—all that would now remit would be to the interests Switzerland. But nothing undone right el being heard The Piedmonteee hoped to be able ' wad Nies by ea appeal well known that the announcement of an intention of that kind in Count Civoca's published circu- , lar brought down on the Cabinet of Turin amani festation of Imperial displeasure. M. Tnoovemr.r.'s despatch and its intimation, "The Earinos " requests the regulation of the question of Savoy " by a ample cession, to be settled by mutual " consent and without recourse to universal saffrage." is too recent to be forgotten. The Immo' had good reason to fear a reference to the wishes of the inhabitants either at Savoy or Nice. We appeal to facts. In the early part of February the following de claration was circulated among the towns, villages, amid hamlets of Faucigny, Chableia, and Ginevoia: We, the andenigned, *Labe•bitant• . . anxious about the current rumours, wording to which Savoy would eerie to form a part of the date' of his Banlinian Majesty, do baby wish to express our loyalty to our Bing, sad our ' Arise to see no change be our allegiance to the Sardinian aliliarchy. But, on tbr other hand, and in came political EMMY about which sea do not presume to give an opinion obeedd seder separatism' 'writable, we feel persuaded that ow wow*, will not Magma of his faithful subject• with. out porseitting ae M super our wishes on • subject so im portant be sew Mow seadition. Conseqoastly, and not• withoWsillog lhogyupsthies due to • pest and glorious empleq w id& topeclaim our desire to be united to the Swiss Owledsradsr, to which we are wedded by common latoessb as well as by the close friendship which has always exited between as. Nothing could be more moderate than this peti tion in every respect. The petitioners express their wish to remain faithful to their legitimate sovereign, but they demand that they should be consulted respecting their own fate, should this sovereign be called upon to separate himself from them. This petition was on no account the work of • party. It was the spontaneous work of the national Savoyard'. The federal and central Swiss Governments carefully abstained from taking any part in the movement. The Swiss press limited itself to an expression of sympathy. Up to the 13th inst. the signatures of the elec tors attached to the above declaration reached ten thousand three hundred and seventeen. These figures were carefully certified and verified by • Central Committee, called "des In " "terPta Savoisiens," composed of strictly honour able and well known men of the three districts. This is not the first time that Northern Savoy has seed to be united to the Swiss Confederation. In 1648, at the Congress of Westphalia, it was then proposed. It was renewed in 1713, and mein at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 ; and lastly in 1814, two Savoyard magistrates went to Zurich to ask, in the name of the three provinces, repre sented by 577 signatures (nearly the whole oleo torsi body of that period), that they might be united to Switzerland as the twentieth canton. We may easily understand the desire of the people of Northern Savoy to be united to Switzerland. Both their political and their national interests point to this union. In becoming one of the Swiss Cantons the Savoyard' would belong to themselves, and be called to form a distinct State, with its own laws and its own government. In bacons* Swiss, the Savoyard' would partake of all the privileges to the fullest extent of that precious and honourable neu trality for which Switzerland is envied by so many minor States. With the Federal banner full liberty of thought, of speech, of the press, of com merce, of industry, would enter the remotest valleys. Who will deny that this prospect is worth as much u the barren satidaction of becom ing the 87th department of a military Empire 1 Let us glance at the material advantages. It has been calculated that the taxes levied by the cen tral government reach 265. per head in Sardinia and 38a. in France. In Switzerland they only amount to 6s. per head for the federal, and to 15s. for the cantonal taxes. The French debt amounts to 111. per head ; that of Sardinia amounted before the last war to 6/. Bs. Switzerland has no public debt. The conscription, which has been called the "blood tax," exists in Savoy as in France, and keeps nearly 2,000 young men of Chablais and Faucigny under arms and away from their homes. In Switzerland conscription is unknown ; there is no standing army—merely a militia. The annexation of the neutral territory to Switzerland would cause an immediate consi derable increase in the value of land, and conse quently an improvement in the general condition of the people. The French Estruunt intimates that s feeling of friandahip for Switssrland had led him to think of eensenting to an arrangement of this kind. He —not the King of Saannua and Duke of Savor, but he—had contemplated a maim of part of Savoy to Switzerland, and had " almost pro "mimed " it, bat his desire to protect the intermits of Switzerland was defeated. "As soon as it was " known that the population infused that Savoy " should be dismembered Franoe renounced the " cession." He had intended to renounce the territory, but the Savoyard& compelled him to do violence to himself and renounce instead the Cellalofl. Surely the Earazoa's story is the perfection of cynical contempt for the understanding and con science of mankind. A people whose nationality is aboutto disappear and be absorbed in that of Pianos is represented as sticking out for the preservation of its integrity. The self-will 6f a people who are snatched into the pale of French empire as if they were no more than mere mouton& browsing upon lee versants Prenspois des Afpes are to bear the re proach of a violation of those rights of Switzerland which they would much rather uphold. Loos Narotzox may fancy that he is practising on the credulity of mankind ; but he is only trying erpe meets on the patience of the world—an ezperi riment that bee often been tried before, but which has never succeeded in the long run. MIAOWING AND DYNAN° WONIA BILL —ll/01 following 30 inemben voted against Hr. Crook's tal yenta. day afternoon —Hr. & Mambas, BirW. Athena, Hoene. C. Bailey, W. & "hater, T. ashy, & Beale, 0. & Bee aeft, J. W. WO. Seed. J. body, Mr H. K. 01111714, lbw& G. Cies, X. C. Clem% T. Cosolly, H. L. Corp, Z. H. J. Cooked, J. am* H. reenriek, Coked lord% M. W. 0. Feder, J. Oreeso, Mk* Heathees, Many de al Hortiostes, Lard It SiD, lbw& T. B. Hargial, W. Hoek Sir J. C. Arnim, Tajo, C. Lock limn. W. & Liadmay, J. Haiti; C. book Miami Palumbo" Mesas. 3. H. ReLeesd. G. Ithasy, F. W. avasell, it Tomes, Genera Uptea, Sr W. Terser, Moms. H. W. Width," H. Woode.—Tellere, ' Xmas. Itlehardbon sad Tinier. The Ayes MOP 'minded nesebers of all shades A political opinion, the liberals Wag in the majority. Hr. Brigid was anent. TAX Vora ox TB. EN DOWIID BcuooLa BILL..—. Hd. Werra's bill yesterday &Stemma received the votes et Maws. Z. HO, C. alley, W. H. Ore ary (toneervatives) ; sad of C. Oliple (Secretary to the Peor.law Board), sad W. N. Wary fChairmsa of CaminutWes). The Noes madded elms* ezakeively of the supporters of the bile mesereettee pereminset. We And, however, amoogst the list theorise, at Sr James Orshash sod two Irish Roman eathobss, Deady and Mr. J. Pope Hennessy. The Wait Mlaktaie Imre almest. Leopold, the Priamnise Mina, Lanka. end Beatrice, left Osborne at a quirter wiles ecioth ye try morning, at tended by the Mardian= of By, Hon. Hands Stopford, Major-General the Hon. Orrin Grey, Lord Alfred Paget, Colohel the Hon. A. Ilardinge, the Ifseter of the House hold, Major Cowell, B.R, and Major Flphinstone, R.R., embarked at Osborne pier on the Fairy royal steam yacht, crowed to Portsmouth Dockyard, end left by a special train on the Direct Portsmouth Railway. The royal party proceeded from the private station at Vann. hall of the South Western Railway in several of her Majesty's carriage. and escorted by a detachment of Light Dragoons to Buckligham Palace, where the Queen and Prince arrived at 25 minutes before 3 o'clock, and were received by Vimount Sydney, the Marquis of Atlas bury, Viscount Castle Roam, Lord Cremorne, Lord Water park, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C.B. The Queen held a court in the afternoon et Buckingham Palace ; Vice-Admiral Van Dockum had aa audienoe, and delivered to her Mateety his letters of recall se the Danish ndniater at the British court. Mr. Thorben de Rille had his first manage at the Queen, emd delivered to her Majesty his eradiation am javoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary tram his Majesty the King of Denmark. Their Excellencies were introduced by Lord John Bum% the Queen's principal Secretary of State for Foreirm'Affairs. Lord Cremona was the Lord in Welting. Lord Creutorne and Lieutenant-Colonel Eingsoote have eneeseded Viscount Torrington 'and Sir Edward Bowater as the Lard and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. A Cabinet Council wee held yeaterda_ yat the • residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Pahniestory the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newest* the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Kx chequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner (Moon, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. C. Y. Villiers, and the Right Hon. K Card well A deputation from the Windsor Local Board of Health. consisting of Alderman Blunt, Aitiarvms Adrara, Ur. Coun cillor Minim, and Mr. Charles Want Verdes (clerk), had an interview with the Right Hon. W. P. Cowper, at her Ma jesty's 011 lire of Works, Whitehall-plaoe, with reference to the crown roads through the park. The deputation was introduced by the borough member, Mr. W. Vansittart and Mr. 0. W. Hope. Mr. Whitel;e sd, Comadesioner of the Mexican bond holders, transacted business at the Foreiga•cifice, yesterday. Dispatches were sent pelesday fres the Colonial-06os to the Governor of Canada. IHE EXPRESS, THURSDAY E . • to adjust the new etas trbir COM is of Europe, and yof But it is notorious tigg. left y , to deprive these ,podMprso of tt"" m " w " .unet , tiu ur r, eard in their own mum 146 ; 11 =r ad % a ' 01 ), n tese Government for a moment l da u m geed a k w orm co , " y. . 11 ! ale to cover its surrender of Savoy H. Majesty the Qum sad Mass Osesert,Msoomanied a appeal to the people, and it is by ths Moms Mies, Priam Alfred, Wass Arthur, Prime _ _ _ DEPARTURE OP THE COURT PROM OSBORNE. PORTSMOUTH. MARCH 21. Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highnees the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prinoess Alice, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and the Princesses Hikes, Lades, and Beatrice, left Osborne Have this monsiegat 10.45 a.m. The royal party embarked on hoard the screw yacht Fairy, and arrived at Portsmouth Dockyard, ander the customary royal salutes, at IL4O. Her Majesty was received at the dockyard jetty by Vie. Admiral H. W. Gruen, oommanderinchief at this pert; Major General the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scariest, LOB., Bear-Admiral the Hon. G. Grey, Colonel Somerset, 0.1, Colonel Conolly, Captain Coots, of the Victory, Tows Major Breton, do. Guards of honour were furnished from the Bilk Brigade and the Staffordshire Militia. Bit Majesty proceeded by the dockyard railway to the Lasidport station, and proceeded thence, for the first time, by the London and Portsmouth Direct Railway. Their Royal itighnesees the Duke and Dachas d'Anmale honoured Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Wedshonee Chime with their mammy et dinner on T* day het, at their residence in Hyde-park-street. A select circle were invited to meet their royal highnesses. His Royal Rigkiiees the Duke of Cambridge honoured Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild by his company at dinner last evening, at Kingston House, Knights. bridge. A distisignished party were invited to meet the The Duchess of Wellington has issued cards for aireniblies on tleturday next, and on Wednesday, the 28th inst. The Marquis of Lansdowne had a select party Let evening at Lansdowne House. . . The Earl of Home has bought • mansion in Groe- - . The Marquis and Marehioneaa of Normanby have taken Holcrofes-hall, Fulham, the late residence of Mr. Laurie, M.P. . . The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his eighth parliameateu7 dinner yeatenlay evening to the following members of the lower home:—Lord Lifted Churchill, Viscount Raynham, Lord Edwin Hill, Hon. Frederick Calthorpe, Hon. W. L Duziocenbe, Sir John Villiers Shelley, Sir William Scott, Sir Thomas Winnington, Sir Francis Goldsmid, Admiral Sir Henry Leeke, Colonel Peers Williams, Colonel Fargernon Davie, Major Edwards, Captain Gordon, Mr. Adam, Mr. Maxwell Close, Mr. Oonolly, Mr. Davey, Mr. Dundee, Mr. Gard, Mr. Garnett, Mr. Lawson, Mr. R. P. Long, Mr. Mackinnon, jun., Mr. Martin (Tewkesbury), Mr. Marry, Mr. Pugh (Carmarthen), Mr. Robertson (Berwick), Mr. Steel, Mr. Sutton Western, Mr. Aphford Wise, and Mr. Erskine Welwyn. Ths Hat Georp Waldegrave and the Rev. Henry Dewy lied the hosier of joininirthe peaty. There was a Privy Council held' at Dublin Castle on Tassdar, at 'chick the . Earl of Carlisle presided. At the annual ball in Inksour of IL Patrick, given in. the evening, his EzcseHency was not present, owing to the death of Lady Dover. To this drawback to the festivities was to be added the great inclemency of the weather, the equinoctial plea being at their height. At the Privy Council Mr. Justice Fitzgerald took his seat for the first time. . _ - There is a rumour current (Rays the North British Daily Mail), which is stated to be correct, that the two youngest was of the Duke of Bueclencle have followed their nestarnal relative, sad gone over to the Church of Rome. Yesterday evening Dr. Lankestes concluded his worse of lectures on food, at the South Kensington Museum, with a lecture on the adulteratioas to which most articles of food are subjected. The spring exhibition of plante and flowern at the gardens of the Royal Botanic Society, tried het year, proved 0 attractive that the mime determined as a repetition of the show. All the plants which graced the inhibition bat year had their representatives in yesterday's show, and there were not • few novelties. New heaths attracted ouch attentioa, so also did • collection of hyseirthm arm wield were variant plants of mew aril liesatiful colones. Ore called the Argus, of deep bine with a white eye, was especially admired. The Snowball, white of course, is re markable for the breadth of he petals ; the Lord Clyde., • beautiful kind of purple red, also attracted each attention. Colonel Dunne will ask the Secretary of State for POMO Affairs tomorrow whether be is aware of the in- Mudd edemeoe cl the Spark army on Tangiers, and what piesatiso be has received from the government of that eareery that there will not be • permanent or men pro truded occupation of • place so essential for the supply ef Mee fortress of Gibraltar. To-morrow evening Sir Stafford Northoote will ask the fiecretry of State for the Home Department whet cruse be propose. to take with regard to the introduction at a bill for authorising the reissue next year ; and whether he era any objection to the appointment of a select com mittee to consider the but mode of procuring such informa tion in connexion with the census as may be thought tle. sbsible The will of the late James Murphy, Eeq., son of the celebrated Irish cattle ealeansater, has been paned. The personal Wale ►ea been swore under 150,0001. The balk of the property ie left to Roman catholic " parpooes" sod eharitiea Mr. Basset, of Tehidy, was the purchaser of the two best of Count Batthyani's barowehe hones, "Rapid Rheas" and "Unicorn," *old at Tattersall'. on Monday bat. Very high priced were realised for moat of the animas is the seat's stud. LATIIST IIiTELLIGEMP. FRANCIS AND SAVOY. • , DESPATOOH OF K THOUFEHIL THE SWISS PROTEIN. pmaS, WIDNISDAY. The Emperor received the deputation from Savoy at half-past 2 this afternoon. The deputation presented the addresses. The Emperor expressed his pleasure in receiving the deputation, and the following is said to be the sense of his Majesty's speech : " The reunion of Savoy and Nice to France has been resolved upon in principle. The assent of Piedmont and the populations has been ob tained to this rectification of the frontiers, and the negotiations with the powers who signed the treaty of 1815 permit the hope of a favourable examination of the question by the greater part of them. Friendship for Switzerland had almost caused a cession of territory to be promised, which he believed would not be contrary to the wishes of Savoy ; but as soon as it was known that the popu lation refused that Savoy should be dismembered, France renounced this cession, although wishing to protect the interests of Switzerland." On Saturday the deputation will dine at the Tuileries. PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING. The Moniteur of this morning contains the speech which the Emperor addressed yesterday to the de putation from Savoy, the tenour of which agrees with that of the message sent last night. His Majesty said, besides :—" Everybody in Europe, who does not yield to the spirit of antago nism of another epoch, considers this annexation of territory as natural and equitable." The ifoniteur also contains the circular note of M. Thouvenel of the 13th of March, explaining to the powers who signed the treaties of Vienna, that the aggrandisement of Sardinia renders it necessary for France to obtain more important (serieuses) frontiers. France, be says, does not pursue this annexation in the name of nationalities, bat only as a guarantee for a better frontier. The Moniteur also contains a despatch of M. Thouvenel, addressed to M. de Turgot, and reply ing to the protest of Switzerland. M. Thouvenel expresses his astonishment at the steps taken by Switzerland, and says that Switzerland, who has received so many proofs of the friendship of the Emperor ought to have placed her confidence in France. M. Thou venal then examines the question of right, and says that the neutralisation of Chablaia and Faucigny was made in favour of Savoy. The Federal Council interferes without any legitimate masons in the arrangements which France and Sar dinia are about to conclude. Thouvenel acknowledges that the powers could examine the stipulations of the treaties of 1815, and does not hesitate to say that France is disposed to adopt any medium course suggested either for the general interest or, above all, for the interest of Switzerland. The Moniteur publishes s decree fixing the in terests of the Bons de Trevor at 2 and 2} per cent. The Nord of to-day says : "The reply of the English government to the &posh of M. Thouvenel has arrived in Paris. If we may believe what we hear, the English govern ment has not renounced all hope of preventing the annexation of Savoy, or at least of re ducing it to proportions which would make it a constant source of difficulty and embarrassment to Francs. The Foreign-office has replied that it waits until the populations have pronounced their wishes. Switzerland has been less patient, and the municipality of Nice, it is said, has not stopped to be asked. As the Sardinian chambers may inter vene in the act of cession, perhaps England hopes that they will save her the trouble. In any case we shall not have so long to wait as was supposed, for the Sardinian government has altered its decision to adjourn the opening of tho session until the 12th. The opening will take place on the 2nd of April, and one of the first measures submitted to the chamber will be that of the ces goo of Savoy and Nioe to France." VIENNA, WIMNICIIDAT BVIIIIIIIO. M. Steiger, the Swiss Chase d'Affaires at this Court, has presented a Circular note to Count Rechberg, in which the Federal Council protests to the powers who guaranteed the treaties of Vienna against any measure having for its object the incor poration of Chablais and Faucigny with the French empire. Count Rechberg replied that Austria re serves her definitive reply until she has ascertained the disposition of Europe, but he reminded M. Steiger that last year, when the French troops were con veyed by railroad from Carlos to Chambery, the Austrian cabinet in vain represented to Switzerland, as well as to the great powers, that the neutrality of that part of Savoy should be respected. By thrL ,passage of the French troops, that nentralitn was openly violated, contrary to the treatimi of 1816. *. TURIN, ILtaca M. A depOtation from the Ilioristy of the " Unions Liberate " has paid a visit to the deputation from Nice. The Chevalier Buonoompagni, as president of the society, expremed the sympathies of Italy in the cause of Nioe, and encouraged the deputies in their efforts, wishing also the inhabitants of Nice a complete emcees. Signori Verani and Magnin returned their thanks. DEPARTURE OF THE FRENCH TROOPS FROM ITALY. The Constitutionnel publishes an article signed by M. Grandguillot, of which the following is a sum mary: _ _ _ The withdrawal of the French troops from Italy must not be considered a sign of 000lnas be- , tween Frame., and Sardinia. Franoe leaved Lam beady became the independence of Italy is irrevoca bly wand. Austria only intends to act in defence el the frontiers of Venetia. The loyalty of the Preach policy could not occasion her any embar rassment on this subject. The withdrawal of our army from Italy is therefore a sign of an approach ing solution of the question of Italy, and not • signal of complications, which the wisdom as well es well as the interest of Piedmont will know how to prevent. MILAN, WIDTItaDAY. The French army has to-day commenced its re turn movement to France. The 80th Regiment of tie line by way of Suaa, one company per day. The 2nd Regiment of the line by way of Nice, one battalion departing daily. THE ROMAGNA. The prise de possession by Sardinia of the annexed provinces, so far as the Papal Legations, and the two minor duchies are concerned, has taken place, for on the morning of the 17th an express train tarried to Bologna the 9th Regiment of the 13ardinian line. The troops were immensely cheered on their way from the station to the barracks. k Safil and Father Gavarsi have published declarations, giving in their entire adhesion to the ip eja=o Piedmont. The former, it is Inn %SKIM, is One of the most intimate friends and a clam political adimeent at K Martini. TURIN, Yams 21. •it is asserted that Count Cavour will take the portfolio of the Marine. The Opinions states that Prince Carignan will leave for Florence on the 26th inst. THE PENINSULAR. lIAILS. SOUTHAMPTON. Tetrassay. The Peninanlaz and Oriental Company's steamer Ewcine, Captain Babot, with the shove walk, have arrived. Her dates are—Lisbon, 17 ; Vigo, 18 ; and Oporto, 18. She bring!' 16 passengers, 34 packages of specie, also 687 half-chesta of oranges, 532 packages of sundries, and 558 boxes of eggs, At Lbiceu, her Majesty's ships Royal Albert, Edgar, Aboukir, Queen, Donegal, Mars, Algiers, her Majesty's frigate Melpcaiene, and two Dutch frigates. The Ministsr of Marine, Manricio Ferreri, when speaking on the loos of the brig-of-war Mondego, in the Chamber, war attached with a paralytic stroke, and died on the 14th in He we. buried with all honours attending a minister of the crown at sunset on the 115th inst. The Mondego was lost in the Indian Conn. She sailed from Singapore = Dec. 20, and foundered Jan. 22, with forty-four heads on board. Sixty-six were saved on board the American ship Uriel,which took them to the Manrithut The Milford Haven steamer Brasil, from Rio, when fifty miles N. of Cape St. Vincent, was obliged to make for lowa Bay on the 14th, having sustained damage to her machinery and want of fueL She has eighty passengers, and left Rio on the sth of February. The steamer Athognia wu sent on the 15th to render assistance. limb= Exchange, quoted thirty days, 53k; sixty days, 534 ; ninety days, 533 ; Three per Cent. Rental, 47 to 474; Coupons, 46 to 46i. CANADA. LIVERPOOL, THMtBDAY. The screw steamer Edinburgh, which touched at Queenstown yesterday, hu arrived here. The Canadian parliament has voted 8,000 dollars per voyage to Canadian mail steamers, and 10,000 dollars a year for a telegraph to Belleisle. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom mai owe PARIS, WiDNEIDAY Ewaxa. The Savoy deputation was received by the Em peror to-day. His Majesty made a speech, which you will receive by telegraph, and invited the mem bers to dine with him at the Tuileries on Saturday. It is very positively asserted that the French army has eommenced the evacuation of Lombardy, and that it will return to France by Mont Cenia and the Corniche, establishing garrisons at Cham bery and Nice. Yesterday evening I was riding in an omnibus when two soldiers of the 2nd Regiment of the Line jumped in, and asked to be taken to the Lyons Railway. They were in a state of great excitement, and from their conversation I collected that they had received sudden orders to join their regiment, and expected to be in Nice in two days' time. To day I find, by a Turin telegram, that their regi ment, now in Italy, is on the march for Nice. These soldiers, whose barrack gossip must not of course be taken as authentic, were impressed with the idea that great events were before them. One of them, • corporal, said to his comrade, " What wonderful things are railways I Here to-day we are in Paris, to-morrow morning we shall be in Lyons, the next day we shall be in Nice, and perhaps this day fortnight on the battle-field. I am very sorry, however, that we got the route so suddenly, for my uncle would certainly have given me twenty francs next week" The Preset, which yesterday threw doubts upon the statement of its correspondent, that a Pope's bull excommunicating the King of Sardinia had been received at Turin, gives tie news as positive to-day in its leading column. The Pays, however, says there is no truth in it, and I am inclined to think that the Prase mistakes the second " warning" that has been spoken of for excommunication. K Thouvenel, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, was elected on Sunday last a member of the Coun cil-General of the Meuse by a majority approach ing to an amount which, if any further evidenee ' were necessary, would be remarkable, as showing the perfect and perpetual harmony between univer sal suffrage and the present constitution of France. The Bourse, after opening with considerable firmness, became depressed at the close, upon the rumour of a Russian loan and other reports of a disquieting character. The Rente, after having been quoted at 68fr. and 68fr. bc., dropped to 67fr. 85c. and 67fr. 80c., with a fall from yesterday of 10c. Mobilier fell XL 50c. Railways are with out any material variation. Marshal Prince Jerome, whose strength of con stitution at his age, and after repeated attacks of acute illness, is extraordinary, took advantage of the first breath of spring, with which we were fa voured yesterday, to go out in his carriage. An unusual number of heti have been made this Oar about the famous cheenut-tree in the Tuileries, whish is said never to have failed; since 1815, to show' a leaf on March 20. I cannot say posi tively whether the wagers were lost or won, but I can attest that the issue between the backJ wardness of the season and the traditional precocity of this tree was most closely con tested. I examined the tree carefully on the 12th, and then there were on it only round buds—nothing like a leaf. On the 20th I was not able to renew my visit ; but to-day, the 21st, many of the buds have burst, and there are unmistakeable leaves to be seen. The general impression, how ever, is that the tree has lost caste, that there was no leaf sufficiently developed to swear by on the 20th, and that the miscarriage is to be attri buted to the troubled state of the world, and per haps to the wrath of the Pope. 211INISTEILIAL CHANGER tx Ronan..—The appoint ment of Count Famine, Minister of Justice, to the Presi dency of the Commission for the Emancipation of the Peasantry is regarded by the liberal party as an omen of a serious change of policy on the part of the Emperor. Coast Amine represent" the absolutist and oligarchical party, and his melodious is considered to forebode a return to the syskat of the Emperor Nicholas. The sudden "indisliosition" of Prince Gortechakoff, rendering probable his retirement trees the iiiisistry at Foreign Affairs, would appear to herald a recasaclliatioa with Austria. On the other hand, it is con jectured that the Rawl= government is not disinclined to take advantage of the French polity annexation, and even to better the instruction by panning, at a convenient opportunity and with new accomplices, its own ulterior ob jects in the East of Europe. " The musical soirks at the Tuileries," says the Sport, " have great success. The Empress, who is very food of music, hes organised private parties, in which the guests are snowed to sing—some in chorus, under the direc tion of M. Jenard, others in solos. The Princess Chkreinska has obtained brilliant success in one of these assemblies, and Count de Prado, Mdme. Oonneau, M. 0. Amide, and N. de Micard, the latter a tenor, have also been much ap ' pleaded. A duo between Count de Redo and Mdme. Caw emu, at a meant seirie, drew forth marks of the most flat tering approbatine, In the last concert the honours were carried off by the Countew de Graodval, Mdme. Comeau, cad M. d e Kinard, and a chorus from the Madre was admi rably exemetial by all the dilemma/0 ITALY. CENTRAL ITALY. ITALY. (noM OUR SPECIAL CORRIESPONDIRIT.) BOLOGNA, Mesa] 16. I was not mistaken when, in my yesterday's letter, I anticipated that the result of the voting in Tuscany would prove as satisfactory as that of the "Emilian provinoes. As I have already informed you by te legraph, the population of the former duchy amounts to 1,806,940 souls. The number of voters having been 386,446, it follows that more than a fifth of the Timms exercised their political rights. Out of this number only 14,925 voted for a separate state. Amongst the supporters of the principle of separation are the adherents of the Lorraine dynasty, a part of the clergy, and some of those poverty-stricken peasants who are under their. hence of the priesthood. The bulk of the educated and well-to-do classes has, however, declared itself for the former alternative by an overwhelm ing majority. Now, when we consider that out of a population of 3,934,045, 813,967 citi zens of Central Italy have voted, and that 792,377 of them have voted for the annexation, leaving a minority of 16,681, we may safely in fer that such is the real wish of the population. !Diplomacy may deplore this result, for it interferes with its projects, but it must yield to it notwithstanding. The significance of the Central Italian vote is en hanced by the fact that it has been given in spite of all the intrigues of priests and codini. In the Romagna the ruactionists not only urged upon the country people to abstain from voting, but they told them that the decree of excommunication against Victor Emmanuel was ready at the Quirinal Palace. It seems that this was not a mere threat, because from what I have heard this morning in well-informed quarters the bull of excommunica tion will really be published either at the end of next week or at the beginning of the week after. On the authority of a letter written to a nobleman of this city by a Roman Mousignore I have been told that the excommunication which Pius LX. will issue on this occasion will be of the first degree—that is to say, that it will not be a regular interdetto, like that which the Court of Rome thundered against Venice in the times of the Monk Sarpi, when churches were ordered to be shut up and sacra ments to be denied to the subjects of the most serene republic. Whatever may be the effect, how ever, of the threatened excommunication in Italy— and I fancy spiritual weapons have lost something of their sharpness—it is certain that the priests have brought to bear the whole of their influence in order to secure, if not the triumph of their cause, at last the relative discomfiture of the national one. I could quote numerous instances of the factious spirit of the Roman catholic clergy an this occasion. At Omens., not one priest could be found who would Ray a mass on the birthday of Victor Emmanuel last Wednesday. It was necessary to have recourse to a lisranciscan friar, who, as a punish ment, was afterwards rusticated from his convent. In this city, as well as in those of Forli and Cessna, some of the noblest and wealthiest families, large landed proprietors, who own from 20,000 to 40,000 acres or more, threatened their peasants with evic tion, unless they abstained from voting. In spite of these intrigues, the great battle has been won, and the annexation of Central Italy to Sardinia proclaimed by the free wishes of an intelligent, orderly people, left at liberty to vote for either alternative. The result arrived at by the universal vote is thus the beet answer M. de Thouvenel can give to the ridiculous, mendacious, and impudent despatch addressed by Cardinal Antonelli to the Papal Nuncio at Paris. I really think that such an amount of false statement has been seldom recorded even in the annals of papal diplomacy. To say that the political movement which overthrew the govern ment of Pius IX. in these provinces was but the doing of a small party, and that the revolution was only brought about by Marquis Pepoli and a few of his Piniontese friends, is such a shameless un truth that it beats all former exploits of the worthy cardinal in this line. The day before yesterday we had a grand review of the garrison and of the national guard, which by. the-bye is one of the finest I have seen in Central Italy. The Tuscan division, which, according to a Vienna telegram, had called on General Stefianelli to take it back to Florence, defiled before that general, shouting out, "Long live Victor Emmanuel our King!" "Lung live the annexation!" Yon see that all political demonstrations converge to the same result, for citizens, national guard, and troops are all united in the same bond of devotion and loyalty to the Sardinian monarch and their country. Lord Normanby may, therefore, give himself the pleasure of talking of Tuscan errorisin as much as he likes, but nobody will believe him. The arrest of Count Tassinari, of which his lordship spoke in one of his last speeches, was ordered by Baron Ricasoli because the count was one of the meet imprudent conspirators, the ring-leader of all anti-national demonstrations intended to disturb the peace of the country. The baron may have been wrong in not having the former commander of the Grand Duke's noble guard brought before his natural judges, but something must be allowed to the government of a country in such an excep- tional and unsettled political condition. ITALIAN FEELING IN NICE. NICE, MARCH 14. Should the sacrifice be consummated, and this pretty little pearl of the Sardinian crown be tore away by grasping ambition to enrich another that needs it not — should Nice lose her nationality, and at this hopeful No meet for Central Italy, it wood indent be cruel, meet cruel, for Nice is as eeentially Italian in heart u in climate and all the sympathi es , all the affections, of her true citizens are for Italy, 111111 for the free and happy mkt of the consti tutional King to whose dynasty she hes been attached for centuries. No dee could doubt this feeling who was present, ea I was, at thespontaneouis outburst of loyalty and patriotism at the Italian Theatre on the evening of the 2nd of this month. It being the anniversary of the proclanistion of the constitution, the curtain drew up at the end of the first act of Verdi's Attic, and the whole operatic company appeared, Mollie waving boomers of the national tricolour, to stn` a patriotic hymn. The words " Viva it Re ! " in the chorus were greeted with an enthusiasm which defies de scription. The hymn was encored seems times, amid as uproar of applause and a shower of bouquets to the Ringers, and copies rained down into the pit of some fervent verses in patois by a NO.tobt poet. The " Marche Royale" was then played by the orchestra awl ro-deteanded again, and again, and again, the whole bumper audience, from the el& gent hulas in the boxes, to the wiaitinen in the paradiso, making • Impromptu accompeniment by imanimmolyelappiaddisir bands in time with the mtwic ; then the waving of hand kerchiefo, the shout* d " Viva il Re !" "Viva Nizm Its liana!" and other enthusisetic cries. Among them I die Unlashed " Viye la Rehm Victoria!"—the support of Eq. land—freedoneloving England—being ever one of the great hopes of the impresses', or those threatened with oppree• mon. It was in truth a spirit-"timing scene. Not ha so was the equally moving, if low vehement, demonstration Supday last. In the afternoon there was a /anecdote, cs proceasimi of thousands of the inhabitants, with flap d the national odours. This manifestation of the prpular will was succeeded by au ininienne assemblage on the Plea des Phoceeno, where the blind of the National Guard pleved at the universal demand the " Marche Royale," amid &dea -1 leg acclamations. The National Hymn was then called fur, and would have heels played, and 'rained the enthuoiesin to I its height, but for the ill-judged interposition of the audio. r Atka, at the request, it is slid, of the French coml. Bat the most affecting scene 1,11,, the mans celebrated in the morning at the iglu. de Vista, for the purpose of prsyurS God to avert from Nice the new tempest which managed ber—s pest mere dreaded than even the plague and the cholera, from which who hes been preserved of yore. TII 4 sanctity of the allot forlaile any noiey demonstration rave one Ithani mil 'lout od " Viva El Re !"—but the atteuilanoe ! of from eight to ten thiamin! 'arsine, either in the c hurch or on the square before it, "poke volumes. Among I how , preaeot at the religious ceremony was the daughter of that boast of Nice, the illuotrimis Garibaldi. And Pll.ll Ins compatriots, *hall the doicendante of Catherine Segumme cease to be Rename! Heaven forfend ! E. 1). The Sport mentions a report that Prince Sso poleon and the Prince*. Clothidde are shout to pay a viit to Victor Etnnuinuel. adismoai ways :—" Two carriages came into vioa lent collision the day before yeaterday, uear the Arc de Trionfphe, and cue then, in which wa.. a larly,wm meet. The Emperor, who happened to he pealing at the moment in an open marriage, immediately alighted and mired the lady, who WM Mame. de Whet ; hut the latter, having foisted from emotion, c ould, when the r e co vered, acarcelY thank his Majesty." • 4. at • .a• • 17 • ft • 14 • T • ' •• • 1 • • • d 1111 • 01 • o os • s• NI • 111 • • • • a 0 • • • 44 • 0 • a • U • V • • 6 lit • 11. A • TS • ST • Id • i • U • 0 0 0 0 Colic Com anal whi acco feeli pera the I of ti Put nobi whi( ?t u n( expi awl well tie for duo Nei r. r 1