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FRANCE.

PARIS, Tuesday, Aug. 9.

Sham fights have been executed by order of the
Emperor at the Camp of Chalons. wherein 40,00 n [nen
were engaged. They were intended to represent an
episode of the battle of Solferiuo.
The Pays asserts that General Fleury is to be raised
to the rank of t:eneral of Division.
The Emperor is to return to the camp in September
to take the command of the manceuvrea
Prince Napoleon returned to Pans on Monday. The
Etneeror is gone to Plombieres, and was to be beck in
Pans on Wednesday.

PARIS, Thursday, Aug. 11.

The .Voiliteiir of this morning contain.. a list of nomi-
nations to the Legion of Homier of those soldiers who
di4inguished themselves at Solferino.
The Multileur says, farther, the Emperor returned
yestenlay, at 7 p.m., from Plouibieres, after having
visi.ed the caves which have been constructed there.

Tin EMPEROR NArotgox.—The Paris correspondent
of the Allftemiselte ammo says :—" After the Emperor
obeli have aotkomplished his triumphal entry into Paris
at the head of the Italian army, on the 15th of .kugust,
he will pay • accond vimit to London. In England he
will meet the Grand Duke Constantine."

SWITZERLAND.
THE CONFERENCE.

ZURICH, Monday Evening, Aug. R.
The Conference held • formal sitting to-day, at which
the Sardinian Plenipotentiaries &wasted.
TUF-SDAY, Aug. 9.
To-day the second sitting of the Conference took
Place.
Yesterday the chief of the Government of Zurich paid
a visit to the members of the Conference, who assured
him that they fully appreciated the strict neutrality
Switzerland had obaerved.

ITALY.
PAnua, Aug. S.
The Sardinian Commissary has informed the inunici-
pility of his departure, leaving bin secretary, M. Mai.
ftsidi, charged with sovereign powers of government in
the name of the people.

A despatch, dated seven or eight days ago, was sent by
Count Walewski to the French Minister at Turin, with
directions to read it to the Sardinian Minister for Foreign
affain, and leave him a copy. Its tendency and object
were analogous to those of Count Reisect's mission,
and its consequence was the withdrawal, with which you
are already acquainted, of the Sardinian Commissioner
or Governor of Parma, the French Government desiring
to remove all impedimenta to the return of the Duchess.
The solemn entry of King Victor Emmanuel into
Milan took place on Sunday. Ile was accompanied by
his Ministers and the members of the Sardinian Cham-
ber. The Milanese are said to have shown great enthu-
siasm on the omission. The King has promised to reside
alternately in Turin and Milan, the latter to be his
winter residence.

The inrit4tod state of Savoy continues. There seem
to be three parties in the province—one favourable to
annexation to France, the second favourable to annexa-
tion to Switzerland, and the third faithful to Victor
Emmanuel's Government.

The election of Sardinian deputies, in consequence of
the change of Ministry have been nearly all Ministerial.
M. Ratassi has been re-elected at Alossandria, and Gene-
ral Garibaldi has been nominated at Strad°lla. There is
a rumour that Ratassi proposes to have an army of
100,000 men before the present year is over. This will
be the force of Sardinia in time of peace.
Antonelli goes to the wall, and the Code Napoleon
has, we are positively told, been accepted at the Vatican,
with the single exception of its legislation OD 121MTDIge.

A PLAN FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF ITALT.—The ht.
slipendesife of Turin of the sth of August contains the
following :—" ;he Sardinian Government should profit
by the favourable disposition of her powerful ally the
Emperor Napoleon, and the good feeling entertained
by !twigs and England, to obtain a scrupulous pro-
muse that there shall be no intervention in the affairs
of Tuscany, the Lhichies, or the Legations ; the convo-
cation of a European Congress within a short time
that Modena, Parma, and Piatiensa shall continue to
respect their fusion with Piedmont, which was voted
in 1848, and unanimously conferred with so much
ardour; that Tuscany shall be left free to propose to
the European Congress • list of Princes, among whom
should be chosen one to succeed the Lorraine dynasty,
which it will be impossible to maintain in future ; that
the Legations shall be endowed with laws and institutions
in harmony with the civilisation of the 5g.; that the
administration of Venetia shall be especially adapted to
the national Italian character; that all foreign armies
shall be rigorously excluded from Italian territory,
whatever may be the reason of their proposed intro-
duction or maintenance ; that all the Governments of
the peninsula shall be led to adopt those political reforms
which will become indispensably lICOMIIII7, in order to
prevent the conflicts which would otherwise arise each
instant, in consequence of the different institutions of
the various States. These conditions are in accord-
ance with the preliminaries of Villafranca, And the
subsequent declarations of the Emperor of the French.
Thssy are consequently possible."