The Press.
London, England, 1856-05-17 00:00:00

ITALY AND SARDINIA.

General Dabarmida, formerly Minister, is about to
start for St. Petersburg on a special mission. He
will bear the answer of King Victor Emmanuel to
the notification of the accession of the Emperor
Alexander 11.

M. Manin has addressed a letter to the Doritto of
Turin. The ex-dictator declares his confidence in
the Piedmontese Government to effect the liberation
of Italy, and be remarks particularly that Sardinia,
at the late Congress, made no concessions to the
"eternal enemies of Italy—Austria and the Pope."
M. Mania concludes :

No, the l'iedmontese Gov-e•rnment has not abandoned
the cause of Italy ; it has not been unfaithful to its national
mission. Its titles to the gratitude and confidence of the
national Italian party are increased, and its moral import-
ance, its influence, and consequently its force, in Italy and
outside Italy, have become enlarged. It has taken • new
step in a line in which, sustained, and, if necessary, im-
pelled by the opinion of the country it governs, and by the

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applause, the sympathy, and the gratitude of the other
Italian provinces, it will be easy for it to progress, and
from which (as 1 hope and believe) it will be impossible
to draw back-
The debate in the Chamber of Deputies upon the
treaty of peace was concluded on the dth. Count
Mamiami supported the policy of the Govern-
ment. M. Brofferio denied the benefits of
the Anglo-French alliance, and pointed to the treaty
of the 15th of April to show that I'iedmont by her
exclusion from that treaty could not consider herself
safe. Count Cavour replied that England, France,
and Austria had determined to make any act of ag-
gression against Turkey in Europe, Asia, or Africa a
ensue beUi, but Sardinia had not thought proper to
go that length, and voluntarily abstained from signing
the treaty.
M. Cadorna then asked Count Cavour if he had
any objection to read the "note" communicated by
him to the Governments of France and England,
dated April 16, 1856 ; and also questioned him as to
the truth of the reports in circulation as to a con-
cordat being negotiated with the Court of Rome by
the Sardinian Government.
Count Cavour answered the first question by reading
the "note." As to the second, he declared that under
present circumstances it would be impossible to enter
into fresh negotiations. Some years back, he said,
the Government had been recommended by exalted
personages (i.e., the Emperor of the French; to en-
deavour to reconcile its differences with the Court of
Rome ; but now those same personages, seeing the
tendency of the Austrian Concordat to revive media-
val institutions, had altered their opinion, and en-
couraged the Sardinian Government in preserving
the rights of the civil power.
Finally, M. Cadorna proposed to the Chamber to
declare its approval of the Ministerial foreign policy,
and express a wish that it should persevere in the
same track. This motion was supported by Count
de Revel and M. Moia (the former the leader of
the Right, and the latter a member of the Left), and,
on the motion being put to the vote by those in favour
standing up, the whole house rose en masse, with the
exception of Count Della Margherita and some half-
dozen members of the extreme Right. The result
was received with loud and repeated cheers from
both the galleries and the body of the house. A fur-
ther discussion took place on the 10th, in which M.
Cavour observed that, though France and England
bad not yet officially replied to the note of the 16th
of April, they supported the position maintained by
Sardinia. They did not wish to reply until sure of
the effect of their words. " When two great powers,"
observed M. Cavour, " declared their opinion, that
opinion could not remain without results."
AMERICA.

By the drag° we have dates to the 3rd instant. A
cruel outrage upon, and murder of, several passengers
had occurred at Panama.

Central American affairs were absorbing the at-
tention of the Senate at Washington. Mr. Weller
offered a resolution calling on the President for all
correspondence regarding the recognition of the new
Government of Nicaragua.
In the late contests between'Walker and the Costa
Ricans some important correspondence between the
Costa Ricans and the English Government had been
captured.
A series of conflagrations had occurred in Phila-
delphia, destroying between forty and fifty buildings
and their contents, of the value of at least 2,000,000
dollars.

The Presidential election was causing some ex.
citement. Mr. Buchanan's reception everywhere had
been enthusiastic.