The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-19 00:00:00

THE ALLIANCE WITH PIEDMONT.

The 'Mats publishes, from the pen of M. S. de
Sacy, the following statement respecting the conven-
tion betwoom PEISOGO, England, and Piedmont:

It has been stated, and some journals have repeated the
statement, that the Cabinets of Paris and London asked that
of Piedmont to accede to the treaty of December 2. They
are mistaken ; there never was any question of Piedmont's
direct intervention in the alliance recently concluded by
France, Austria, and Great Britain. Such an overture
could not have been made to the Cabinet of Turin, and
this Cabinet could not have accepted ft. We do
not find in the treaty of December 2 any gene-
ral reservation like that which is inserted in the

convention of April 10. The reservation contained
in the 6th article of the December treaty is specially meant
for Prussia, and rightly so, since this treaty is represented
as being in consequence of the protocols laid down on the
9th of April and the 23rd of May, and of the notes on the
Bth of August, which express the idea and the intentions
common to the four courts redreeented at the conference of
Vienna. Besides, the susceptibility of Piedmont would
have been alarmed, if a direct alliance with Austria had
been proposed to her.
The accession to the convention signed at London on the
10th of April, gives rise to no embarrassment. In the
main, the result is the same. By acceding to the conven-
tion of April 10, Piedmont has contracted an alliance with
France and Great Britain, and has engaged like them to
keep up, according to the necessities of the war, to be esti-
mated by joint agreement, sufficient forces for meeting the
exigencies of the case.
On their side, France and Great Britain, wishing to tes-
tify their satisfaction to Piedmont, have promised to lend
her their good offices, and to continue for her their
benevolent mediation with the Cabinet of Vienna, in order
to obtain from the latter the release of the sequestrated
estates. The Cabinets of London and Paris will to this
end represent and urge the good service which the Pied-
mottne government has continuously rendered to the
cause of order for more than five years past, by
using with as much skill as moderation its undoubted
influence over all Italy ; an influence justly ac-
quired by its generous devotion to Italian nationality.
They will remind Austria that the Piedmontese govern-
ment has alway_s behaved with as much prudence as loyalty,
and that it would be wrong to impute to it any ambitious
designs or revolutionary tendencies, since it contests, ener-
getically, against the fatal ideas dispersed around it. At
Turin, we are told, they depend greatly on these
favourable dispositions of the two courts ; they find
in them precious advantages for the present sir
cumstances ; they think the government will find
in the support of its allies a great strength, which will
assist it in surmounting the obstacles of every kind now op-
posed to it by its enemies, and in overcoming the resistance
of extreme parties, which, is kept up and excited by the
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active malevolence of a mall number of foreign minlaii

The treaty of January 10 will be followed by •
military convention, determining the quality, nuur
hers, and destination of the land forces which
Piedmont has to furnish and keep up. Ws convention
will shortly be signed, the Dues of it being nearly settled.
Piedmontese troops will be sent to the Crimea ; they will
be conveyed thither by France and England, at their joint
expense; their departure will take place directly after the
exchange of the ratifications; they will form • carps of
15,000 at least, and 20,000 at most, the command of which
will be given to a Piedwntese GeneraL The expeditionary

corps will be stationed in a camp apart, though on its arrival
it will be placed under the superior command of Lord
Raglan.

The treaty of Turin was signed by M. de Cavour, who is
the Minister of Finance and President of the Council. He
was invested for this occasion with the functions of a
Minister of Foreign Affairs, in place of Gen. Dabormida,
whose resignation the King considered it right to accept.
Much sensation has boon raised by the retirement of the
general, who for several years conducted with dis-
tinction that very important and difficult department of
Foreign Affairs. Nothing, however, was more simple.
A. we op:planed further back, the quarrel that took place
between the cabinets of Vienna and Turin, on account of
the sequestrated estates, was the chief obstacle to Pied-
' mont's adhesion. M. Dabormida had maintained his
country's rights with much vigour and perseverance; he,
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did ;cot Wish to make any concession to Austria,
and he had successfully pleaded the cause of
his government before Europe in his memorandum
of 1863, still remembered by statesmen. 31. Debar-
mida was therefore personally engaged, and deeply
too, in that contest, and be thought it did not become him
to sign the treaty that unites, for one and the pate object

and cause, the efforts of Piedmont to those of Austria, end
to those of France and England. This feeling of deliesey
which no one can blame, dictated the conduct of X Ds;
bormida, who retired, although he unreservedly appreest
the conditions of the treaty of alliance. The ff.
tirement of M. Dabormida would be a subject of
regret to the friends of Piedmont, if the hope use not enter.
tained of seeing him soon return to the councils of the
government. It is said that General de la blarmora, t
Minister of War, will be appointed to command the ez.
peditionary corps to the Bast. In that case t►e we
portfolio might be given to General Daborraida. Mee
wontedly the King could not entrust it to firmer or tares
worthy hands.