The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-14 00:00:00

SARDINIA.

Inn on MC= OORIMPONDIMIT.)
TURIN, Ann. 10.

Our first parliamentary struggle is going to take
place to-day. As no poet has been given in the
present ministry to Doctor Lanza, formerly minis-
ter of public instruction, it is generally thought
that Count Cavour offered him the presidency of
the House of Deputies in order to propitiate him.
As the moment of the election is at hand, Lanza
claims the presidency ' • the ministry support him,
but not a few of the deputies including some de.
voted to the ministers, prefer Buoncompagni, who,
besides being more popular personally, is a
learned and accomplished man. In the mean-
time, 'some belonging to the most independent
sections of the Chamber, looking chiefly to capacity
for guiding with a firmi hand the parliamentary
debate', think of electing Rattazzi ; others, who
fear to displease a popular minister by upholding
the election of a man who is already regarded as
the future leader of the opposition, would rather
have Tecchio, whose election to the presidential
chair would have beside a particular political cig.
nifiaince, he being from Vicenza. Buoncompao
has, however, declined the candidateship, is
order not to divide the majority. Teochio
will obtain scarcely any votes. The contest
will be, therefore, between Lanza and Rat-
testi. But as soon as the name of the late premier
was put forth, the busy-bodies cried out that
Rattaszi's election would be tantamount to a vote
of want of confidence, and some even state that
the ministry have made it a cabinet question. This,
indeed, appears to me simply absurd, for it would
be in flat contradiction to the noble and conciliatory
appeal to all, even the extreme parties, in Victor
reel's speech. Nevertheless all the chances
are in favour of the election of the ministerial
candidate, Lanza.
On Sunday evening, as I wrote to you yesterday,
after the funeral of General Quaglia, Gari-
baldi was the object of an ovation from which
he endeavoured to escape. But yesterday even-
ing the baud of the National Guard went
and cheered the valiant general under the windows
of his hotel, and an immense crowd, with extraor-
dinary enthusiasm, cried " Long life to Garibaldi
and to Italian Nice." Garibaldi at last presented
himself at a window, thanked the crowd, and spoke
to nearly the following effect :—" This is a proof
that the population of the capital of Italy holds in
abhorrence a flagrant act of disloyalty. This de-
monstration of a great people shows the mutual
connexion of all the provinces. In the name of my
poor country, in the name of all Italy, in the name
of humanity, I thank the citizens of this Italian me-
tropolis for their visiting with deserved reprobation
the disloyal and immoral act which is now being
accomplished." Why, however, the immoral act
should be accomplished, if Garibaldi's fellow-citizens
are but true to themselves, and vote to a man, or
at least by a great majority, for remaining Italians,
is more than I can understand. Supposing the
vote of the people of Nice to be what it ought, will
Napoleon cast • slur on the origin of his own
power will Victor Emmanuel betray his promises
by handing the poor Nizards, tied hand and foi,„•
over to France I Will the Italian parliament, will
free England, will all Europe disgrace themselves,
by sanctioning such an unholy sacrifice, such an
iniquitous bargain
I have reason to believe that to-morrow, after
the election of the vice-presidents, secretaries,
and questora, General Garibaldi will again put the
question about Nice, which, as you are already
swam was not answered by Count Cavour on
Saturday last, so that there is likely to be a rather
stormy sitting.

(BOY ANOTHER CORREPIPONDENT.)
TURIN, APRIL 10.
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The crowded state of the galleries in the gilded
hall of the Carignano Palace, and the eagerness with
which those who have succeeded iu getting a ticket of
admission rush up the narrow staircase, set&
cientlj show that the Chambers have to-day to
decide some question of importance. A notice
stuck on a column in the lobby says that the
Chambers begin to sit at one o'clock, but half an
hour beyond the appointed time has already peened,
and still the red velvet seats of the deputies are
almost empty ; punctuality, as it seems, is not an
Italian virtue. Not one of the ministers as yet at
his place behind that narrow elliptical table covered
with green, in front of the chair of the President
and of the clerks of the Secretaries. The fact is,
that the last verifications of the elections have to
be reported and approved of before the election of
the President of the Chamber can be proceeded
with. The President pro km.' Zauolini, now rings
the bell, a gentleman reads a report, but his
weak voice is drowned in the murmur of the con-
versation which is going on in the body of the
house and in the galleries. At last he has
done, and Laurenti Robandi rims to explain
his own position. His election at Nice, he
says, has not yet been ratified, since the record
of the election has not yet reached the Chamber;
though he has a letter from the mayor affirming
that the election was regular and unanimous,
and that the return had been posted in proper time.
He wants to know what his pueition in the Chum-
her should be, and the Chamber at once admits
him as member in spite of the informality. The
'reason of this somewhat informal proceeding wee
evidently the fact that Rubandi represents a die-
trict towards which, at the present time, everybody
wishes to show some kindness. That question of the
annexation of Nice is certainly a most painful one;
still Shylock requires the pound of flesh, and the
Italians know that it must be paid. The price of
the French blood shed at Magenta and &Henn°
cannot be withheld from the French Emperor, the
less so since he has the power to exact even more
than that. Still the cession gives a handle to the
opposition against the present government, and the
election of the President of the Chamber is to be
a trial of strength between the parties. Lanza,
the ministerial candidate, seems not to be very
popular in the Chamber, and whilst the opposition
are united in support of Rattazzi, many of
the minieterialists prefer the courteous Chevalier
Buoncompagni to Lanza, and stick to hint, though
the Chevalier declared to-tiny, iu the papers, that
he declines to be a candidate for the presidential
chair.
Before the Chamber proceeded to the election,
the temporary chairman asked the Chamber whether
they would be content with two vice-presidents,
four secretaries, and two questors, as formerly, in
the Sardinian Chamber, or prefer to increase the
number of these officers The question, which
shows how new constant' al life is in Italy, having
no established traditions even ou such questions
as the constitution of the Chamber, was
soon disposed of, the Chamber remnining content
with the number of vice-presidents and secretaries,
but desiring an increase in the number of quest
tors. The act of election was now to follow, but
matters are not managed here as in England. No
member rose to propose either Lanza or Rattazzi
the usher silently brought in a basket, uarrow at
the top and lined throughout with sink milk, anti
placed it on the centre of a entail table ; the
secretary called the roll of the members, and one
after another the remittent came down the steps of
the amphitheatre and depueited their secret vide,
written on a folded paper, in the bucket. At last the
tedious proceeding was finished, and the basket
brought to the President, who, having counted
the number of the folded ;opera, by throwing
them from one basket into another, declared the
numbers to be :—Lanza, 94 ; Rattazzi, 68 ; Bute-
compagni, 44. Now, the sufficient majority not
having been obtained, a new ballot became neces-
sary, and it resulted in the election of Lanza by 122
votes, against 67 fur Rattazzi, anti 20 for Rum.
compagni. This result shows the relative strength
of parties in the remelt Chamber as it is now
constituted, unless the new elections for the mem-
bers rejected or elected in different places should
change the position. The government can safely
count upon about 150 votes, but the Opposition
will muster on the question of Nice more strongly
than to-day. To-morrow we shall probably have
the first interpellation on that subject. Garibaldi
has already got the promise of 86 vows ; still it cam
not be doubted that the first Italian parliament will
vote the ratification of the treaty which cuts off for
ever one limb of the Italian family.