The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-13 00:00:00

NAPLES AND PIEDMONT.

A Turin letter states that at a meeting of
Neapolitan refugees, held on April 8, it was re-
solved, by a majority of 80 against 4, that the
annexation of the kingdom of Naples to the con-
stitutional government of Victor Emmanuel was a
proposition deserving of support. A committee
was at once appointed to further the views of the
meeting. Among the members are MM. Poerio,
Dufacca, Mancini; and Conforto, members of the
new Italian parliament, Le Farina, president of
Italian National Safety, Pinia, and Interdonato.
Among the Neapolitans who voted with the
majority were M. Platino, a man of large fortune,
who has lived in Rome ever since 1848, La MAAR,
an eminent military writer, Pornasi, a well-known
medical professor, and the poet Miraglia.

FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND.
MEMORANDUM OF THE FRENCH
GOVERNMENT.
PARE, FRIDAY, Aran,l3.

It is stated that the cabinet of the Tuileries is
about to address a memorandum to the powers who
signed the final act of Vienna.

The aim of this memorandum is said to be to
establish, by strategical considerations, the
unimpeachable proof that, if Frame ever had
an intention of menacing the neutrality of
Switzerland, she could do so notwithstanding
all the guarantees stipulated in the treaties of
18lb, since the military road leading from Franco
to Germany through Switzerland now no longer
exists, neither in the territory of Faucigny nor of
Chablais, but at another point not included in the
neutralised districts. The Cabinet of the Tuileries
hopes by that to show that the annexation of Savoy
to France does not virtually deprive Switzerland of
her strategical position, neither does it involve any
of the dangers put forward beforehand by the
Federal Council of Berne.

The Independence Belge ha the following :

It becomes more and more probable that no Congress will
be held on the Savoy neutrality question, and that the
difference will be terminated by a direct arrangement be•
tween the two states more particularly interested. Various
combinations are reported. They tend to maintain intact
the cession made by Sardinia to France, giving, however, •
guarantee for the safety of Swiss neutrality. That
guarantee would consist in the concession of a strategical
frontier, which, without granting to Switweland all
she now claims, would nevertheless be of a nature to
offer her certain satisfaction, apart from all idea of terri-
torial aggrandisement. It is proposed to give her up all
the shores of the Lake of Geneva, and the slopes of the
mountains which separate the contested provinces from the
Valais, to cover the passage of the Tate Noire and another
important defile, in • strategical point of view.
A letter from Berne, dated the 9th, says :

The Federal Council held two sittings to-day, which
never occurs except on very urgent business ; and which is
consequently a symptom of the gravity of the situation.
The greatest anxiety is felt as to how the Great POW(121
really will act, es it is known that England, Austria, Russia,
and Prussia are agreed to recognise the rights of Switzer.
land, while, on the other hand, it is also known that the
idea of a conference, demanded in the circular note of the
sth of April, is not equally relished by all. Great activity
is displayed in the military department.

GENERAL GARIBALDI AND THE CESSION
OF NICE.
TURIN, Ann. 12.

General Garibaldi, in an interpellation made
in to-day's sitting in the Chamber of Deputies,
affirmed that the voting of Nice will be effected
under French pressure. He censured the action of
the provisional government of Nice as attacking
the liberty of the vote, and concluding by proposing
the adjournment of the vote in that province.

After the rejection of several orders of the day,
implying disapprobation of the government, the
following order of the day was adopted by a great
majority :—" The Chamber, hoping that govern-
ment will maintain the constitutional guarantees,
and efficaciously provide for the liberty of the vote
in Savoy, passes to the order of the day."