The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-12 00:00:00

WHAT WILL FRANCE DO?

The independence states, in very positive terms,
that Marshal Vaillent has received orders to return
home with the army of Lombardy the moment
the annexation of Tuscany and the Romagna* to
Piedmont shall be officially proclaimed. It goes so
far as to say that Marshal Valliant communicated
this order to the King of Sardinia through M.
d'Aseglio, the governor of Milan, and that after •
cabinet council, held on the 6th or 6th of March,
for the express purpose of taking this serious
announcement into consideration, Victor Emmanuel
and his ministers deliberately resolved to persevere
in their national policy, whatever might be the con-
sequences. On the other hand it is observed that
the Turin journals bring news quite opposed to that
of the Independence—they say that the French

armyis about to concentrate itself in the neighbour-
hood of Pavia. The Opinion Nationale, which haa
all along shown an unreserved sympathy for Italy,
now expresses a hope that even if the French army
should be really coming home the consequences will
not be so serious as might at first be thought, because
Napoleon 111. would still maintain the principle of
non-intervention, and Austria would think twice
before undertaking a second campaign which might
malt in the loss of Venetia.

The Military Gazette of Turin states that the
whole army of Sardinia is ordered to be upon
a war footing by the let of April. The
same journal says that Piedmont is about
to secure a quantity of rise barrels from Eng-
lish arsenals, and that Colonel Marabatto is about to
visit London in connection with the purchase.

TURIN, MARCH 11.

Baron Talleyrand has remitted to Count Gavotte
another despatch of M. Thonvenel, which replies to
Count Cavonr's despatches of the lit and 3rd Much.
M. Thouvenel points out die essential difference
which exists between the question of the annexation

of Tuscany to Piedmont and that of the annexation
of Savoy to France, and says that the principal
difficulty which opposes the first is to obtain its re-
cognition by Europe, which has guaranteed the
possession of Tummy to the dynasty of Lorraine.
In the latter this difficulty disappears in pressmen of
the arrangement between France and Sardinia rela-
tive to the spontaneous cession of Savoy, oonse-
quently the Emperor of the French requests the
regulation of the question of Savoy by a simple
cession to be settled by mutest consent, and without
having recourse to universal suffrage. M. Thou-
easel thinks that to become acquainted with the
wish of the country it world suffice to consult the
municipalities of Savoy.
As regards the annexation of Tuscany, M. Thou-
vessel repeats that France could not follow Piedmont
in a perilous course. If Kiog Victor Emmanuel
secopts the annexation of Tuscany he would neces-
sarily remain exposed to the risks of such a policy
without being able to reckon upon the support of
France.

SARDINIA.

MILAN, MAzcz 10.

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The municipality have unanimously adopted an
address to the King, expressing the devotion of the
country to his Majesty, and their confidence in the
national line of policy penned by the government of
the King in reference to Central Italy. In the
address the municipality further state their resole-
tion to support such a policy, and ea a token of them
firm resolution they offer to the King 3,000,000 f. L
The municipality of Lodi are preparing to take*
similar resolution. Other adhesions are expected.

SAVOY.
AMBBILY, MARca 10.

Proclamations of the Government of Savoy have
been posted in all the parishes of that country noti-
fying that the inhabitants will be called upon to vote
for the maintenance of the union with the monarchy
of Sardinia or Sc, annexation to France, according
to the form prescribed by parliament.

CHAMBER'S, MONDAY.

The Courrier des Alpe* publishes a supplement,
annouumng, upon information obtained from an offi-
cial source, that Savoy will not be dismembered, but
will form two departments, and will preserve the
Court of Appeal at Charabery.

THE PAPAL STATE&-THE POPES REPLY.
PARIS, 8011 DAT, MACH It.

The reply of the Holy Bee to the last proposals of
France las arrived here. The Pope declines the
proposition to confine within an exclusively political
compass a question which, as it concerns the inte-
grity of the patrimony of St. Peter, is intimately
bound up with the independence of the church.
Although decidedly rejecting the proposition to
create a vicariate of the Romagna in favour of •
foreign sovereign, his Holiness shows himself dis-
posed to enter into the path of reform on condition
that the integrity of the States of the Church is I
guaranteed.